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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
PARoDoxES OF SCIENCE.
Strange Conditions Which Exist In Com.
pound Substances.

Strange Conditions Which Exist In Com
pound Substances.
The water which browns us, q fluent
stream, can be walked upon as ice, says
Blackwood's Magazine. The bullet
which, when fred from o musket, car
ries death, will be, harmless If ground
to dust before being fred. The crystal
lied part of the oil Of roses, SO grateful
In it's fragrance-a solid at ordinary
temperature, though readily volatile
Is a compound substance, containing
exactly the same elements and exactly
the Same proportions as the gas with
which we light our streets The tea
which we daily drink with great bene-
at and pleasure, produces palpitations,
nervous tremblings and even paralysis,
It taken In excess; yet the peculiar or
ganic agent called theme, to which tea
owes its qualities, may be taken by
itself (as theme, not as tea) without
any appreciable effect. The water
which will allay our burning thirst aug
pents 1t when CONCEALED into snow; 50
that Is stated by explorers of the Arctic
regions that the natives 'sprefer endur-
ing the utmost extremity Of thirst rath-
er than attempt to remove 1t by eating
snow" Yet, If the snow be melted, Il
becomes drinkable water. Neverthe-
less, although If melted before it enters
the mouth 1t assuages thirst like other
water, when melted in the mouth It has
the opposite effect. To render this por-
adox more striking. we have only to re-
member that Ice, which melts moro
slowly In the mouth. Is very efficient in
allaying thirst
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
a seALsk,N BONANZA. I
How . Poacher Got Away with Ffftcen
Thousand Skins.

How Poacher Got Away with Fffteer
Thousand Skins.
Japan is putting fln into the sealing
business and win have two fms in next
year. Rumors Of Yolzohams's attaining
some position as a sealshin market have
reached here at odd times, says the San
Francisco Examiner.
One of the passengers to arrive BY the
steamer China recently was George A.
Smith, veteran whaler, who has been
cruising in northern waters every year
from the time he was able to 20 to sea.
He was not with the whaling fleet this
year, and when he mingled with his old
companions after getting ashore he told
them tales Of his cruise in the Okhotslr
sea that were more marvellous to sealers
and whalers than any yarns Aladdin
ever concocted about his lamp. Seal
skins formed the basis Of .his narrative,
and he reported his catch az 1900
skins. Il sounded like a flsh story,
but Smith had certain evidences with
him In the shape Of certified checks and
authorizations TO ship an experienced
crew, that back up the story.
Briefly told Smiths story Is that when
he left here last winter for Yokohama
It was TO take command Of the old
bark Nathan s. Perkins, we'll
known In these waters. His en-
ployers were Yokohama capitalists who
had prospected the Siberian coast and
evolved scheme for loading their yes
sci with sealskins. They wanted man
to take command who was familiar
with Russian waters and knew how to
ingratiate himself with the natives, and
Smith Yves selected. Seals were plenti-
full along the upper Japan coast when
he started out, and In hunting the Per
kins did very we'll. But the big killing
came when Smith reached Robin island,
or Robin bank, geographically speak
ing, just inside the Olhotsk sea, q few
miles from Saghalien island and seven
hundred miles from Petropaulovski.
Smith baited for seals with rum, It is
supposed.
The Perkins was disguised as q
whaler, and ostensibly put In at the lit
tie settlement near the rookeries for
water. The Russian officer In charge of
the place was invited to take drink,
and another drink, until he had quite q
program of drinks. The islanders
were also lavishly entertained with the
Perkins rum, and in day or two the
entire population (not very extensive
one), was too happy to care what be-
came Of the seals. This was kept up
for several days, and in the meantime
every knife on the Perkins was kept
busy sl.inning seals. Hundreds were
taken, and when the Perkins finally
sailed 1t was with the biggest returns
for few cases Of rum that were ever
made.
The same game was played at an
other roohery, and when the old bark
finally dropped anchor at Yokohama
she had fifteen thousand skins In her
hold, according to Smiths count, and
the skins averaged between eleven and
twelve dollars apiece.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
Legal Notice.

Jesse JACKSON, of New Hebron, Crav.
Q ford county, Illinois, Jacob Jackson. Of
Calhoun, Rtchland county, Illinois, Asenefi,
Stokes and Samuel Stokes, her husband. ~
C!aremont, Htchland county, Illinois. and
Thomas jackson. of Willow Hill. Jasner
county, Illinois, will fake notice that ntsti.
ton was hied against them and Others On
10th Day Of June, 1890.
In the Common Pleas Court OF Highland
county, Ohio, oy Mary e. Brewer, and ia now
pending In said court, case No. 6,l04. az.
mandtng partition OF the foliowinS real
estate, Situated in Union TOWNSHIP. HieS.
land county, Ohio: Beginning at a stone
9: Q. corner to Mary e. Brewer ;-thence N SsIo
y. W poles to branch Of Turtle CreeE !.
thence up said branch with the mes nders
thefeof TO the line of Lemuel Achor: theisoe
with his line 8. 500 2S e. 252 poles to a cor.
ner OF Rachel Achor; thence with his line
3; = M1 w. 1853 poles 70 Archor's .. ". corner
line n. $50 w. 1882 poles to the beninnin9.
containing 3SH acres of land, more 81 iess
And that at the gsxt term of said court
(February, 1901, said Mary E. Brewer viii
apply for en- order that Partition be made
Said defendants are required to answer
said petition ON or before March 7th. l89I =
Isma Troth, Attorney. ' !" 49,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
ROYAL WHITE MOURNING.
The Revival OF an Old Custom Amonr thu
Mobility,

The Revival Of an Old Custom Among the
Mobility.
The white mourning Of the youthful
Queen of the Netherlands Is o revival Of
an old custom, says London Truth.
Some ancient orders Of nuns, corre-
spending to the Passionist one for men,
used to dress in white. They might be
said to be Good Friday orders, they par
ticularly devoting themselves to COM
memorate the event for the keeping in
mind OF which that fast day was institute
ed-dying with Christ daily. The ladies
OF Port Royal also decided when their
monastery was reformed to wear white
robes only. Mary Of England was the
last French Queen who wore white
mourning; she was known as La Reine
Blanche--perhaps by old people to dis
tinguish her from Catherine de Medici.
who was the first regal widow to dress
IN black. She borrowed her sable
weeds from Italy, which, far back In
antiquity, took black mourning from
the Eleusirian mysteries. Ceres In
search Of Proserpine was in black TO
signify the inter season, when nature
Is most colorless- Catherine de Medici's
widows cap was black. The white
widows cap is now the only survival Of
the ancient white mourning. Mary
Stewart followed her mother-in-law In
wearing black after the death of her
first husband. White is more suitable
for the winter wear Of delicate child
In the harsh Dutch climate than black.
which Is cold in winter, hot in summer.
and only advantageous IN hiding coal
smut and in seemingly reducing The
bulk of stout fgures. 81
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
Executors Sale of Real Es.
tate.

TN PURSUANCE OF an order OF the pro.
i bate Court of Highland county Ohio
saturday, March 9TH, A. ID. 1891.
A.. $780,.
% %nonse IN said cpnnty, the following de-
serapsa real estate situate IN the county OF
81 Liberty and bounded and described ~
follows: Beatpning ut sfene centraiiv ho
tween two whiteoaks, north westerly corner
OF Hognes survey NO. 262l, aud also corner
70 tract OF VI acres, roods and % poles or
iand, part OF said survey, conveyed by John
~. WaiKer ana wife TO said Philip Hans.
Drough on the 18th day OF Septert ber. iS3f
tnence With "a line ct said tract. and said
suavey y no: sSzi. g. IL. 3V Il. 200 s. LOO poles
Eassing stone ana whtteoak north W esterIy
percbes OF land conveyed TO said Hans.
6rough by David Buntain ana wife by DEED,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29

Why suffer with sick headache and
Allowances whsn Simmons Liver Regu-
htor will cure you.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
Business Change Going to Move!

Business Change-GOing to Move!
Having decided to move my business
to Louisville wish to close out all the
goods I can in order not to have them
to move. So if you want to buy goods
at wholesale prices here is your chance.
We offer our entire stock, either heavy or
light weight goods, at just what they
cost US. Our stock consists in part OF
Dress Goods, F!annels, Sateens, Velvet
eens, Velvets, Ginghams, Muslins,
Cantons, Table Linen, Shawls, Cloaks,
Hosiery, Gloves, Ladies' and Gents
Underwear, Neckwear, Umbrellas, Cor
sets, Buttons, Ribbons and everything
usually kept in Dry Goods Stores. Also
a line of Boots and Shoes in heavy and
light weight goods, Mems Women's and
Children's. Also small line of Lamps,
Vases, Glassware, Tinware, Knives,
Plated Spoons, Razors, Brushes and
scores of other articles which all 90 at
regular wholesale prices. We quote
below few prices and will say if you
want to buy you will have to come soon
as they are going fast and can't last
long. We are closing out all our Dress
Goods which sold at
81 for so cents.
At 75 cents for 30 oehts.
At 60 cents for 40 cents.
At 25 cents for 18 cents.
10 cent Ginghams cents.
8 cent Ginghams cents.
Scent Muslin 8 cents.
7cent Muslin 81 cents.
$25 Cloaks $a5.
SIS Cloaks $40.
$40 Cloaxs So.
S. Cloak $3.50.
$3.50 Table Cloths So.
g. Table Cloths Sk6O.
$1.5O Table Cloths $115.
81 Table Closhs so cents.
25 cent Damask Is cents.
40 cent Damask 80 cents.
so cent Damask 3S cents.
10 cent Toweling cents.
Scent Toweling cents.
$1.o5 Underwear 81.
81 Underwear 80 cents.
81 Umbrellas So.
So Umbrellas $225.
/ So Umbrellas $1.6O.
$1.50 Umbrellas $1.25. . |
$1.25 Umbrellas 81.
81 Umbrellas 80 cents.
80 cent Umbrellas 70 cents.
$3.50 Boots $3.50.
$3.50 Boots So.
81 Boots $1.5O.
$3.50 Shoes $3.50.
$3.50 Shoes So.
So Shoes $1.5O. y
$1.50 Shoes $1.15.
Now we haven't room to give prices
on but few of our good but will again
say that everything in the house will be
sold and offered at wholesale prices or,
in other words, at what they cost us and |
that is enough to say to those who know
what saving of 25 per cent. is. Now
don't wait until all is closed out and
then say 1 wish had gone there and !,
bought. But come no,u or you may get !
left. You will find us one door north of !
Frees Clothing Store, just across the
street from the Court House, on High
street. Now don't get us mixed up and
60 somewhere else. Look for the sign |
of The New Store.
&. CHAs. RICHARDS, Proprietor.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
Road Notice.
|OTlCE ID, hereby. given that petition
VIII be presented TO the mmissionerl
I a'sniand eopnty. Ohio, at their next ses
Monday, March I'd, 1891.

Praying for the alteration OF q county road
on on the following line. to-wit: Beginning AZ
!ne crossing OF Hrushcreek where the ROAD
Spring TO Elmyilis near Walnut tres on oia
the west side OF the creek marked thence
running westward along the foot Of the hill
Dill passing 9 walnut tree marked thence
on nearly straight course to . point north
OF stons-ptle thence turning southward
nsiow the spring to walnut tree marked
s9snce aiopg the foot Of the hiil with
~ wMaSon road e short distance thence south
70 walnut tree marked thence to . black
gag on the bank near the branch: thence to
,, ,ntereect tn4 public road thence with or
nranch Just opposite Orep euitors, house !:
thence north Of the branch and north Of the
Ios. Ios1 70 % e crossing OF branch Just opposite
W.s: CoNAwAr AND OTHERS.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29

We pay the highest market price for
ohoice Milling Eheat.
" I'm. BOYD 4 CO.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29

The 0. b M. R'y transports ninety out Of eyeryr
hundred passengers from and through Cincinnati
to St. Louis beyond.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29

n Through Trains TO Louisville. This road is
conceded to be the best route between Gin.
cinnati and Louisville. Ne tunnels or short curves.
Hours and 10 Minutes the fastest time between n
Cincinnati and Louisville.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29
SHORTEST TIME TO SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

Pullman Best Vestibuled Buffet Sleeping Coaches
are run by this line from Cincinnati to
Memphis and New Orleans
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-01-29

THE QUICKEST TIME
From Cincinnati to Memphis is by the O. & M.R'y
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13
FIRE.
Twenty-three Houses Burned and Several
Persons Injured.

MADRID, Oct. 8.-The fire, which ac-
cording to a dispatch sent here at mid
night from Santander, had broken out
in the hospital and had spread with
alarming rapidity, has been extin-
guished, It was at first said that four
houses in Gale Monte were doomed.
This report seems to have been a good
estimate Of the damage likely to be
that twenty-three houses in the two
streets referred to have been destroyed.
the progress of the confiagration.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13
DIR. GATLING's NEW GUN.
He Expects to Repeat in Heavy Ordnance
His Machine-Gun Success.

MARION, Ind, Oct. 8.-Dr. Richard
J. Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling
sun, which is known and is in use
throughout C~hristendom, has invented
a process for the manufacture of heavy
guns, which he believes will be as great
a success as his wonderful machine
gun. To-day he decided to proceed at
once with it's manufacture, a stock
company having been organized here
for that purpose. The capital stock is
to be 81, 900, 600, all of which has been
subscribed except 800, 600, which has
been guaranteed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13
AN IMMENSE FIRE IN LONDON.

LONDON, Oct. 5,-The fire which
broke out at an early hour this morn
ing on Mark Browns wharf, TOoley
street, this city, and which brought
twenty fire engines to the scene, has
subsidized. The flames entirely glutted
the enOrmO four warehouses filled
with colonial produce, such as tea, tai
low and cinnamon. The glare of the
confagration was so great that it
illuminated half Of London.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13

The cheapest pepper IN the South;
See our big offer" on second page and
send us the dollar.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-31
KANSAS RAILROADS.

The charter OF the Kansas & Missouri
railway, with headquarters at Kansas
City, Mo-, has been filed with the sscre-
tary of state. The company proposes
to build road from Boonville, Mo-, to
Topeka, Kan, passing through Cooper,
Pettis, johnson and Jackson counties
in Missouri, and Wyandotte, Leaven-
worth, Jefferson, and a portion of
Shawnee counties in Kansas. The
capital stock of the company is So
100000. The directors for the first
year are: ]. r. Taylor, Il. A. McCreary,
S. II. Pettlbone, and John heller, of
Kansas City; W. r. Taylor and E.
Virgins, OF Wichita, and w. H. Will
kins, of Kansas City, Kan.
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: Confr-
nation was received here yesterday of
the rumor that the Rock Island had
notified the Union Pacific that it could
no longer use its track between Nc
Pherson and Hutchinson, and the latter
road has commenced to notify it's
agents and shippers that it cannot take
shipments for Hutchinson and points
on the Hutchinson & Southern road.
This action leaves the Hutchinson &
Southern useless property to the
Union Pacific. it has It's own track
from Salina to Mcpherson, but in order
to connect with the track of the South
ern it is obliged to run its trains over
the Rock Island tracks to Hutchinson.
The ninety miles of track recently
opened for traffic will be of little good
until the entire matter of Rock Island
contracts is settled. In view of the
new phase which the trouble between
the two roads has taken, it looks very
likely that trouble will occur between
them in regard to the lease of the Union
Pacific tracks between Kansas City and
TOpekA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-31
A Conductors Courteous Action.

So much has been said about the in
solent ways of railroad conductors that
it is about time to say something on the
other side. The conductor has great
deal of humanity in him after all, and
though he does seem to take keen de-
light in loading and unloading his pas
sengers at times, as if he were hand
ling cattle, yet q case of inirmity of
any kind on the part of a passenger
seems to appeal at once to his better ma
ture. The other night an old, blind
colored man boarded Second avenue
elevated train. Hanging about his
neck was string containing an assort-
ment of brushes, which it was his en-
ployment to peddle out. He had a
stick in his hand, and carefully felt his
way as he advanced. The passageways
at the elevated stations are sometimes
puzZling enough to a man who can
see, and they are doubly so to the
blind man. As the train stopped at the
station one of the conductors spied the
man, who heard the noise of the train,
and in his anxiety not to miss it was
advancing, prodding his cane in front
of him in a state of intense agitation.
The conductor was Just about to pull
the bell-rope to start the train, but
when he saw the colored man, he left
the car platform, went to the poor old
fellows assistance, and with gentle
hands guided him into the car, and not
until he had conducted him safely to
seat did he start the train. When they
we're once more in motion he inquired
where the old man wished to get off,
aud on the station named being
reached he tenderly conducted his
charge from the car and placed him in
the care of an official on the platform.
flake care of him till he gets down
to the street." he said to the official;
she's blind. "-Ne,U York Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-31


While walking through the Museum
OF Natural History at Central Park re-
Gently, / saw In one of the glass cases
part of cedar telegraph pole, thickly
perforated with holes. On inquiry, 1
learned that these holes had been dug
in the pole by the California wood
pecker, for the purpose of storing
acorns for Its winter food. Some of
the acorns may still be seen in the pole,
although most of them had been ex-
tracted before it was cut down.
1t has long been known that these
busy workers store acorns in the bark
of standing trees, but the use of tele-
graph pole for this purpose is an en-
tlrely new selection, and while perhaps
the Ieathered gentry find it a very con-
venlent storehouse, their method OF
taking possession is decidedly damag-
ing to the telegraph pole.
There is a cousin of this same bird IN
Mexico, who has discovered that the
stalk of the aloe makes a much better
storehouse than trees or telegraph
poles, Ibesides saving great deal of
labor. The aloe, after Towering, dies,
but the hollow stalk remains standing.
The tiinty texture of the stalk is easily
pierced through TO the center by the
wood-pecker, who then thrusts in On
acorn, then another, and another, until
the hollow space is filed to the level
OF the hole. He then makes q second
opening higher up, and thrusts in more
acorns until the level of that hole is
reached. So he proceeds all the way
up the stalk, until it is completely filed
with acorns. Often aloes thirty miles
distant from the nearest oak tree have
been found stored in this way, involy-
ing "a journey for the birds of sixty
miles for each acorn stored.
All this good work is turned to use
in times of famine, when not only the
woodpeckers, but other birds, and
even animals, live on this preserved
food.
Before I finish I must tell you of
practical joke which the woodpecker
occasionally INDUCES in. Instead of
inserting an acorn in the tree selected
he slyly puts in a small stone; the
wood grows over this in time, and when
the tree is finally taken to the mill the
stones play sad hovoc with the saws.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-31
NIisappIied Grease,

An Englishmau once presented a
party of sayages with some cakes of
soap. They ate part of them, and
strung the rest around their necks. A
Southern correspondent of New York
paper describes another queer example
Of good thing in the wrong place.
I had been looking over the tattle-
fields around Marietta, Ga, and was
five miles from the town, when a
cracker came along with an OK and a
cart and offered me lift. After riding
some distance I realized that both
wheels were sadly in need of grease,
and asked him why he didn't Iubricats.
What fur?" he asked.
"To make the cart draw more easily.
"Shol This yere OK doan' mind.
He-un doan' know"
But it would stop the squeaking."
Eyes, ] reckon, but the squeakin'
doan' hurt.
at would save your Wheels" finally
said.
"Shol this old cawt amt with saw
ing"
did you ever grease it ?" I persisted.
@Once. A Yankee rode to town with
me and bought me box of stuff.
"How did it work."
Mighty slick, but we dun spread it
on hoe-cake and ate it all up in week. !"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-31
Proctor Your Health.

Cold and moisture combined have tor
porlsing effect upon the bodily organs, and
the digestive and secretive processes are apt
to be more tardily performed in winter than
In the fall. The same is true, also, of the
excretory functions. The bowels are often
sluggish, and the pores of the skin throw OF
bu. little waste matter at this season. The
system, therefore, requires opening up lit
tie, and also purifying and regulating, and
the safest, surest and most thorough tonic
and Alternative that can be used for these pur-
poses is HoStetter's Stomach Bitters. Per-
sons who wish to escape the rheumatic
twinges, the dyspeptic agonies, the painful
disturbances of the bowels, the bilious at
tacks, and the nervous visitations, so COM
mon at this time of the year, will do well to
reinforce their systems with this renowned
vegetable stomachic and lnvigorant. Il i'm
proves the appetite, strengthens the stomach,
cheers the spirits and renovates the whole
physique.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-31
A stOryof COngressman Rogers.

1t is related of John Rodgers, the
Arkansas Congressman, that he recently
sat down in BARRIERS chair, when the
barber asked him if he would not take
of his collar.
Certainly" said Rogers pleasantly /;
anything to accommodate" and getting
out of the chair, removed his coat and
vest, let down his suspenders, and be-
gan unbuttoning his shirt.
-Jes' yo' collah, sah," said the aston
ished barber; jes' de collah; that'n be
enough.
Il understand said Dodgers, @Pam
going to take it off, and he reeled his
shirt of over his head.
You see. I have my collar made to
my shirts, he calmly said, as he sat in
his undershirt and enjoyed himself
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