The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-03
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Banker Drcxcl's three daughters win
inherit about S6OOO, 900 each.
The Comtc de- Paris wants five years
moro to complete his History of the
| Civil War
It is said of Nictoricn Sardou that he
still has ict-black hair. though his face
is like parchment,
The Indians at DEVILS Lake Agency,
in Dakota, have raised $4,000 bushels
of wheat this year.
A parrot, said to be niucty-twO years
old, is owned by an Orlando, Fla, man
who has refused $500 for IT,
There are four brothers in PottstOwn,
Pa.-the Mossrs Gilbarl-whose united
weight is fully l,lOO pounds.
Mr. George w. Cable intends to edu-
cate his children in Massachusetts, and
will live at or near Northampton.
Seven thousand persons, saints and
sinners, all told. have been buried by
Grayediggcr Mcnamara, of StHuntOu,
Va.
Seven out of every ten swell English
men who visit this country manage to
beat New York or Boston tailor out
/ Of q suit of clothes.
A rough statue of q man wearing q
/ tall hat and bearing the date 1910 was
/ found recently in the ruins of the old
/ fort at Pemaquid, Me.
a cheap slipper made of wool and
bound in imitation fur. with the sole
three in thicknesses Of white felt, is
new thing in England.
General Sherman once dropped
81. 600 in a Wall street speculation, and
he has since devoted the bulk of his
leisure to school commencement
Louisville COUriCr-JOtyWU
Some time next year the veteran
manager aud conductor, Maurice Stra-
kosch, will publish his personal me-
moirs, covering many "reminiscences of
well-kuOwn Americans and Europeans.
Conscripts for the Russian army are
rejected if their chests do not measure
au least half as much as their stature.
| Severe starvation is resOrted to by the
peasants to reduce themselves to avoid
COnscripton.
Mr.. j. w. Buggins writes from Lon
| don to the New Orleans PtcuytHe that
Lord Coleridgc would have been a
| single man to-day if his present wife
mother had not been an eminent busi-
ness woman
If igniting by detonatiOn or cOncus-
| sion can be prevented, chemists assert
| that shells can be charged with an cN-
plosive so potent that one of them,
| bursting alongside an irOnclad. would
| shatter the strongest aTmOr uHOat.
it is reported that the chair in which
Bismarck sat while negotiating with
! Napoleon III. after the battle of Sept.
] 2, 1870, has just been presented to him
| by an admirer, who has taken the
| trouble Of securing that interesting
relic.
The first time that VI. Pasteur APP
| piled his method of curing hydrOphObia
| to human being was the treatment of
a little Alsatian boy 9 years old. The
| boy had been bitten in both thighs, both
| legs, and in the hand, and NJ. Pasteur's s
| cure was efieClual
The skins of Young ostriches make
| beautiful robes. winch are very highly
| priced and difficult to obtain, as only
| the soft short feathers of the breasts Of
r,,,rayeni2s tha sIgngbrar nf from fftooD
to twenty young birds.
The only red date palms in the United
2l1ye' D al are s.''u 10 DC I'D racer OOuuly'
al ne ..'e '7 3" u"l''e Oh Cnlna'
ana 1l inc IiulS .s Is "IsmL1'l P'IHeu ny Ine
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~ ~ - 1nolI"s, Oh Aloanl' n. u is
'alu 10 own In' I"ISrs. m's.H ID the
"o'Iu' his "''''s is senators MS age
/ is Is months. weight, 100 pounds;
/ height. 35I inches over the wuthers:
! length from tip OF nose to end Of tail,
I feet mch.s: and be is valued at
! $1,000,
/ Il is estimated that every wear about
| so. .OOO. OOO OO0 letters are posted in the
world. America leads. with about
! 2, 500. OOO.OJU and England follows,
| with 7OO,OJO,OOJ Ja1an. watch cstab-
! Ished postal srrvi .. ONLY ten years
AGO, now mails annually gj. 900. 900 let
| ters.
Miss Arrnu,a Hill of yorfl,mptoD
Mass. yno +. nv.r 80 rrrrnrfaJ tIgt
her ace and iu.rmiry prevented her
from going to- tine Hayerhill Academy
reunion OF WhiGar's -chool-fellows,
but she sent to him pleasantreminder
| rhat she recalled him us ga younr man
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