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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
Meat That Is Poisoned.

II am going to tell you one thing that
is very important, and that is that every
pain which any animal suffers just be-
fore dying poisons the meat" said George
Z. Angel, president for the Massachu-
sets Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals, in an address to the chill
dren of the Boston public schools and
published in Our Dumb Animals.
eff you wound bird and don't kill it,
every minute it's meat is growing worse.
"If you catch an animal in steel trap,
every minute it stays there its meat is
growing worse.
"Some hunters will not eat the meat of
a deer that has bee,, run and worried by
dogs, but only of those which have been
killed by what is called still hunting
that is, which are shot and killed, and
80 don't suffer much before they die.
And SO it is in transportation and
slaughtering suffering just before
death poisons the meat"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

A park policeman remarked recently
that the winter has had no effect on TIE
pet enemy of his comfort. The howl
ing wind and the falling snow" he said,
"have no terrors for the venturesouie
small boy He is out here in all kinds
of weather. As coon as thin coating
of ice begins to form on the lakes he
wants to test it. He races across the
lawns, climbs trees and is up to no end
of mischief all day long. OF course we
are constantly on the lookout TO prevent
the boys from doing harm and from
coming to grief through their pranks,
but they are active and feet Of foot, and
can usually get away from us. They
are like locusts. They swarm all over
the park at once and invent mischief as
easily as they breathe. The other day a
little chap who had been wandering
around finally brought up at the menag-
erie and handed baseball bat to Tip,
the elephant. Tip took fancy to it, and
his keeper was nearly three hours get
ting it away from him. He narrowly
escaped with whole head at that
New York Sun.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
Something Like a Suit Of Cloth es.

! Henry Zang, of Toledo, was in De-
troit day or two ago, carrying con-
cealed about his person one of the larg-
est stories of the season. II have just
had great load taken OFF my mind"
he said. "Our firm has just completed
what is probably the most extensive suit
of clothes ever made. The suit was for
John Craig, farmer living near Mill
vile, Ind, who claims to be the largest
and heaviest man in the world. He is
not . museum freak, but quiet, law
abiding citizen. His weight is 6O7
pounds. and forty-one single yards Of
cloth were required for his suit. The
pantaloons took five yards. Mr.. Craig's
hip measures 8 feet 8 inches; waist
measure "a inches. He weighed only
thirteen pounds at birth, but when 4
months old his avoirdupois had increased
to 200 pounds. He is 85 years old and
married. his wife weighing only 1870
pounda-Detroit Free Press.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
The Laugh.

IF the eyes are the windows Of the
soul then its door must be the laugh,
which gives u very good view of the
private character every new aud then.
There are men the latch string of whose
laughter is always out. They have wide
open, generous laughs, which show a
hearty, whole soulel disposition, with
out affectatious and q readiness to offer
good fellowship to the stranger. Then
there is laugh which reminds one of
those new tangled doors to which a
chain is attached, permitting an open
ing just wide enough to allow very
meager glimpse Of the person behind the
door. This is the guarded laugh. 1t be-
trays the cool, calculating man, who
makes molsy faster than he makes
friends.
Sometimes one runs across a door
which flies open with the slightest pro-
vocation. It's catch is defective. Some
people laugh that way. Their laughter
is frequently described as gig.le. The
intellectual furnishings OF the character
behind such a laugh are hardly worth
the looking at, although il is the easiest
matter in the world to see them They
are meager, and invariably have dis
tressing air Of newness which indicates
that they are not often used. Buffalo
Express.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
THE INDIANS MUSTANG.

Horses Were introduced In America by
tho Spnniards and Some Escaped.
7 The Indian horses of the mountain
ard plains tribes were originally OF that
wild stock once found in vast herds ell
over the intracontinent region, and
which had their beginning from those
that strayed from the Spaniards in old
Mexico, as there were no animals of
that character on the continent until
the Spanish conquest, if we except an
extinct species found only as fossil on
the plains Of Kansas. These were geo
logical specimens long before the ad-
vent of the Indian, and Of such a re-
mote age as to bewilder the mind in it's
contemplation.
Even until the middle of the
eighteenth century the Indians of the
country east Of the Mississippi used to
laugh at the white man, who could not
walk but must ride horse. The In
dian thought nothing OF keeping up a
"dog trot" all day, making his fifty and
sixty miles during that time.
The wild horses OF the American con-
tinent once roamed from the border Of
old Mexico as far north as Lake Win
nipeg, says writer in the Kansas
City Star. TwenY-three years ago
there were great many wandering
over the broad, grassy bottoms of the
Gmarron, in southwestern Kansas; per-
haps they are not ell extinct yet. All
the wild horses that / have ever seen
were OF q small staturc-pony built in
every instance-but possessing won
derful amount Of endurance; a tough,
hardy animal, will fitted to perform the
peculiar duties the Indians demanded
of him. The savages are very hard on
their animals, and unless their horses
were constituted to 'sive on cactus and
drink the green slime Of the buffalo
wallows" they would have become cx-
tinct probably long ago. When caught
young they are easily broken, but IL
taken at an advanced age they are per-
fectly incorrigible.
remember one that used to do duty
on the old stage line between Ellis
worth and Sterling, about seventeen
years ago. He was the most vicious
brute it has ever been my fortune to
see. Whenever it became necessary to
shoe him he had to be knocked down
with an ak, and before he recovered his
senses tied, and only in that condition
would the blacksmith dare approach
him. His endurance was something
marvellous; his driver, the only man that
could do anything with him ut all, tried
for years to wear him out, but with
out success, and he succumbed at last
only to old age. have ridden behind
him many time, but in momentary
expectation OF having my brains
kicked out or dashed to pieces when
ever he started down hill. His bones
lie bleaching somewhere on the divide
between the Smoky Hill and the Ar
kansas.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
snoilad the Murder

J A murderous melodrama held tho
boards at Jacobs theatre last week.
There was sprinkling Of comedy. how
ever, through the third act on Saturday
evening that set the audience agog.
The hero Of the play had just described
to the soubrette how himself and the
boys had been down at the blac',smith's
"shoeing" geese. He cracked weak
joke In explaining how the geese gath
cred round q pool of water near the old
forge, and how the boys amused them
selves by shaking their hats at them,
shouting "Shoo, shoo" The gallery
boys caught on at once, and every time
the villain unfolded one Of his horrible
plots on the lives of the hero and heroine
the "gods" completely drowned him out
with their "shoos."
1t was at very serious situation in
the performance. The life of an unpro-
tected young heiress was about to be
taken by the interruptions scoundrel.
The sea rolled heavily and the storm
ragged fiercely; while the desperate deed
awaited execution. "Hai she comes:
she'll never see him againr' He was
within arms reach of her now. He held
bloody knife in his right hand. In a
moment he would plunge it into her
body, but in the weirdest and most hair
standing tones from among the 'angels"
came, ''Shoo, shoe, shoo" in rapid sue
cession.
The awful scene was broken. The vii
lain jumped three feet in the air and
forgot hi. lines. The heroine forgot her
self, and looked her wouldbe murderer
straight in the face with horror at the
thought of a breakdown, but Of coursa
didn't see him. Whether by an act of
providence, to save the villain from his
nervous plight, or through the effect of
inclement weather on the electric wires,
every light in the house went out in
stantly. Affairs were righted after a
time. New York Telegram.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
A Lawyer Surprised.

It is not often that lawyer receives
other recognition of his services in be-
half of client than a retainer and fee.
The feeling of most when they get
through with member Of the legal fra
ternity il more akin to sorrow than
gratitude. A Court street attorney has
had a contrary experience. One of his
clients, an Irish woman, who had been
indicted several times, but never con-
victed, dropped in on him with pres
ent. It was handsome silk muffier.
"But you've already paid me, Mary"
said the lawyer. "Nivir mind, sor," she
replied, "but tuck it around your foine
throat an kape your tongue glib, for I
may made thin agin. Boston Traveller.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
rESSIMiSN.


Along thu clisclscred 70 Jtworn road Of life
A youth FIJI Traveller wends his onward way;
Now viewing uuuoncernel some scene Of strife,
Or loiterag near where happy children play;
Unmindful he of others hopes and fears
Careless he wanders on the lcssening years.
When sunbsams clothe In beauty all the earth,
Changing to tiny stars the grassy dew,
And wake the fragrant flowers to instant birth,
Painting each petal with a rainbow hue;
Beneath some shade the youth. reposing lies
And dreams that ali the worlds paradise
Warm in his feelings generous in thought,
Eo greets his fellowmen with kindly grace;
Suspec no wrong, believes in all he's taught
And sees friend in every smiling face;
Inagines truth within the fatterers breast
And thinks that virtue lives IN all the rest
But soon the pathway narrows rough and steep,
The gathering clouds thick brooding darkness
shed;
The liglltnings Cash. the winds around him sweep,
Aud rcndng thunders crash above his head;
Painting before the blast he breathes a curse
And thinks a tyraut rules the universe.
Alas! how rude the shock experience brings;
How sad the loss of iajtl in human kindl
The gllilceSs notes that only memory sings
But wake the wish that Fate has left us blind:
The youth discovers truth to be o part,
And virtues forms but specimens OF art.
J. NJ. Stewart IN New York Tribune.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
Creased Trousers Not Fashionable.


The creased trousers have had their
day. The lesser swells have just begun
to emulate this fashion as it goes out of
favor with the tip-toppers. The fact
that various plebeian devices were re-
sorted to to secure an imitation of the
correctly creased effect, as for instance
by pressing the neither garments over
night between the mattresses, bereft the
fad Of it's exclusiveness to the minds Of
the swagger set. and when it latterly be-
came noised about that one object of the
crease fold was that the trousers would
hold their shape longer, this was the
final straw-for true swell can never
be at comfort when abroad with badge
Of economy in his makeup. 1t is Curl
GUS fact that this peculiar tangent Of
fashion never was made manifest in the
trousers of full dress!-Clothier and
Furnisher.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
Successful Home Surgery.

! The little 3-year-old daughter of Mr..
Macon Gillian, of Farmville, got grain
Of corn lodged in the nose, and physi-
clans, after faithful endeavors to dis
lodge it. despaired and gave up further
attempts. The anxious parents were
preparing to take her abroad for treat
ment, but while the little sufferer was
asleep the mother succeeded in getting
the corn out after eight attempts by
blowing through the child's mouth, as
suggested recently by a correspondent
from Amelia. Richmond Dispatch.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
AFRICAN hAIR.pRessINe.


70 Is Often Very Elaborate involving
Much Time In the Work.
A limited wardrobe, such as bciits the
climate, may in brief manner be
stated ss the general characteristic OF
African dress, says Peoples OF the
World. What little they wear is, how
ever, in many cases peculiar enough to
merit O few words, and Is sometimes
combined with an extraordinary furor
for improving on nature by disturbing
their otherwise not particularly hand
some countenances. Among the Man
ganjas, for example, it is the head upon
which the greatest elaboration is be-
slowed. The most favorite form OF
dressing the hair is to take couple of
pieces of wet, pliable hide, and shape
them into the form of OK or buffalo
horns, after which they are allowed to
dry. They are then fastened to each
side of the forehead and the hair trained
over them and plastered into position
by means of grease and clay. Two
horns are the favorite ornament, but
sometimes only one Is used; in the latter
case the wearer looks like black BIZ
pedal unicorn.
Others vary this style of hair-dressing
by twisting up a number of locks all
over the head into the shape of minia-
ture horns, SO as to cause q porcupine-
like appearance in the practicer of this
extraordinary style of head dress. Pig
tails, SO far as their short wool" will
allow, are also in vogue among some Of
this tribe. The women, as might be ex-
pected, are also by no means without
fastidiousness in dressing and ornament
ing their hair, but this is quite over
shadowed by another effort at beautify-
ing In which they excel, namely, in
wearing the "pelele'' or ring of ivory,
metal, or bamboo, which is Of consider
able size, in their upper lip, the orifice
for it's reception being gradually en-
larged from early girlhood until it can
receive the full-sized ring, which, among
the Mangania bellies, constitutes the
acme of female loveliness made perfect.
The wearing of this hideous ornament
alters the whole appearance of the face
and renders it impossible for the women
to pronounce the labial letters. Hence
woman in this tribe speaks differently
from the men. Some of the women
even tattoo, bnt owing to the darkness
of their skin this mode Of decoration
cannot get shown to advantage and is
not very popular 1t is not pleasant to
record of nation SO fond of dress that
they seemed to be entirely unconscious
that in civilized eyes cleanliness ia q
| virtue which ranks even higher than tat
| tooing. They are filthy in the extreme.
| One old man denied that it was true
that he had ever washed himself; he had
| really done SO once, but it was SO long
| ago that he could not trust his memory
to say how many years had elapsed
since that notable event. 1t is almost
superfuous to add that skin diseases
are, in consequence common among
them and exhibit most persistent and
! virulent forms.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
J qH4 5 . 8 . . .
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
1t Was Mince Pie.

A social club in Boston organized
forty-six years ago never had any dis
agreements on politics, religion, the cur
rency, the Indian question, love, mar
riage, or the hereafter, but when asked
to test and report on batch of mince
pies hot dispute arose, an open rupture
followed and the club disbanded to meet
no more.-Detroit Free Press.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
Perfumsd for . Thousand Years.

The mosque of 81. Sophia, in Constan-
tinople, is always fragrant with the
odor of muslk, and has been SO for hum
dreds Of years, ever since 1t was rebuilt
In the ninth century, the curious part OF
It being that nothing is done to keep it
perfumed. The solution to the seeming
mystery lies In tho faot that when built,
oser one Thousand years ago, the stones
and bricks were Laid In mortar MIXED
with . solution Of musk.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
DON'T Go swimming There.

The deepest lake in the world is Lake
Baikal, in Siberia. Its area Of over 5000
square miles makes it about equal to
Erie ia superficial extent; its enormous
depth of between 1000 and 4,500 feet
makes the volume Of its waters almost
equal to that of Lake Superior. Al
though its surface is 1850 feet above the
sea level its bottom is nearly 5000 feet
below it.-Exchange.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

The method of treating wine by cleo
tricity, devised in France, destroys the
fermentation. 1t is thought that light
wines that cannot be exported, owing to
being ruined by fermentation, can by
this process be sent abroad without dan
0Qr
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

At an afternoon wedding, even when
the bride wears white, the groom should
not wear dress suit, but instead a
black frock coat, black vest, colored
striped trousers and pearl colored gloves.
The groom also wears white flowers in
his buttonhole. The newly married pair
can leave the guests in the dining room
while they get ready for their journey.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

In Caracas, dogs, cats and jerboas are
often noticed to get nervously active
just before shock, and Immediately
before the Riviera earthquake of 1887
horses were repeatedly noticed to lay
their ears back and refuse to be quieted.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
The Calls OF Society,

! Charles" said Boston business man
to his Office boy recently, "you act today
as If you were asleep. What is the mat
ter with your
"Well. the fact is, Mr.. Blank, I went
TO full dress ball last night, and it tires
a man awfully," answered the blass
youth, over whose head the fifteenth win
ter \ passlne. Boston Transcript.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

Queen Victoria's favorite dish for din
ner is well done beef, with which she
usually taheG glass Of champagne. Her
ordinary breakfast consists Of coffee or
COCOA and mullins, Of which she \ very
fond.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
Heart Beat. After DecapItation.

In . criminal lately beheaded in
France the beats Of the heart We're noted
during more than six minutes, and ex-
periments were made to demonstrate the
independence Of the ventricular and
articular contractions. This is the first
time such observations were ever made
on man. Current Literature.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

The o. & NJ. R'y transports ninety out Of every
to St. Louis beyond.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19
LOWEST RATES, QUICKEST TIME,
BEST ACCOS. Nc UDATl OSs

r,ckets sold and baggage checked through TO
destination.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-19

a Through Trains to Louisville. This road is
conceded to be the best route between Gin
clnnati and Louisville. Netunnels or short curves.
8 Hours and 16 Minutes the fastest time between
Cincinnati and Louisville.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
Sand Run

Carbon Hill is to be incorporated
1 think Sand Run will be incorpor-
ated after while with about four
saloons.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Jacoby, a boy.
The Daughters of Rebecca Lodge
is progressing finely at Carbon
Hill. 1t has a fair membership
and large attendance. On the
night of the %, of July they initi-
ated nine candidates.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Nc
Caully, of Greendale, boy.
Harvey Nixon has built an addi-
tion to his dwelling house which
looks fine.
If the corn keeps on growing it
will have to be gathered with a
step ladder.
Some one had a fine hog killed
near here on the railroad the other
day. WE No.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
The Normal.

The second lecture on the sub
ject of Physiology was delivered
by DR.. Dollison last Friday after
noon.
Miss Sadie McCray left Monday
on the excursion for Detroit.
The subjects of fractions, proper
tion, percentage and interest, in
arithmetic, have been thoroughly
passed over. This work has not
been confined to any particular
book, but problems are given from
various sources; thus, giving not
only a greater amount of material
for work, but conveying to the stu
dents some knowledge of other
authors than those they are accus-
toned to use.
The review in Grammar is not
only important and highly benefi =
cial for the book work, but for the
great number of good questions
taken from various sources.
The work in Geography has of
necessity been somewhat general.
In the first place an outline upon
the earth was discussed; then the
Continents and their Grand Divis =
ions. Our own State will soon be
the topic to be considered.
One of the chief features in Or
biography is the analysis of words
History and Physiology alike,
are rather lengthy for the amount
of time to be given them; yet, this
review refreshes the memory and
brings to light new thoughts.
A STUDENT.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
Marion.

Here we are again after a pro-
tracted silence, but find news very
scarce. Our gossips must have
moved out and our liars choked.
The threshing machine is heard
in our midst again. The Polling
brothers with their traction engine
are doing excellent work. The
crop in quantity and quality is
claimed to be one of the best for
many years.
All growing crops promise an
abundant yield, except the squirrel
crop. The boys come in empty
handed and report it failure.
The forests and hedges in this
locality contain an unusual number
of owls that make night hideous
with their wierd cries. Dan Pal
mer thinks it will materially retard
his matrimonial calculations by
preventing him making evening
calls.
The blackberry trade of Need
more is not as active as it has been
in past seasons. We are puzzled
as to the cause, unless it is the fu-
ture prospect of change of Gov
ermental administration.
The infant child of Edward Po-
ling living at Colfax, was inferred
at Mt. Zion Cemetery Wednesday
The health of this locality is very
good and DR.. Rutter is soliciting
contributions for the 114th Regi-
mental reunion.
DR.. McUne who has been very
sick, we learn is rapidly recovering
VIXoN.