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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11
New Souvenir Spoons.

Crusade spoons,
Christian Endeavor spoons,
Orange spoons,
Ohio spoons,
Hlilsboro spoons, &C., &C.,
At Frank Emmerling's.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11
House For Sale.

Eight.rooni house on East Walnut
street. IN good repair. Large lot, well
watered. For sale cheap, Inquire OF
A. Harman, agent.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11

large Rachant Home base burner
stove, cost new SAT, for SIS, in order TO
move out of the way |. A. FEIBEL.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11

Miss Annie Pfster, of Lynchburg, was
phe guest OF G fifth Jones and wife all
'ast week.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11

Lawn mowers sharpened with emery
and adjusted, made good az new.
THE STAR MFG. Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11
Money to Loan

On real estate at and 7 per cent.
w. l.. MORROW.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

$l.0O will buy the best steel spectacles
at F. EMMERLING's.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11

\ Miss Grace El,ifritz is in Chillicothe
6loiting friends.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11
Brick For Sale.

H. D. Wadiell, Hillsboro, Ohio,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
Two Kinds of Benefits.

zone of the arguments in favor of a
future existence" said a well-known
gentleman of sporting propensities,
who was present at his first prize-fight
when Corbett and Sullivan met at New
Orleans, ais the iniquities of the pres
ent life. When | was in New Orleans
l was piloted around by native who
knew the sporting men all over the
country. A few days after the fight
we were in the street together, when
my attention was attracted by a fine
looking, well-dressed gentleman, who
seemed to be the center of an admir-
ing circle of friends.
"'Who is that finely dressed gentle
man. inquired.
THAT said my friend, "is Corbett,
the puilist. He is always surrounded
by host of friends. as you see him
now. He is very well off; gave him.
self benefit the other night, when he
knocked out John L., and cleared
about $3o,0J0.'
".Indeed he is very fortunate
"'Oh, yes; ranks high in his profess
sion-see?'
"'Who is that white-headed, weary
looking old man close behind the
pu silist and his friends, who is poorly
cladP'
"That is old Text, the minister, a
ves-y learned man; has been a preach
er ali his life, has a large family and
is poor as rat. He had benefit the
other night, too
"'Didn't it net him muchp'
al don't believe it did. You see it
was a kind of surprise. His parish
ioners called upon him in body, ate
up every thing he had in the house and
left him presents to the value of about
So cents. ."-EIchGnQe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
A Unique Pin.

The latest novelty in the scarf-pin
line has just bean brought home from
Europe by young man who picked
up half dozen in Vienna as presents
to his friends. It is an exceedingly
clever enameled representation of
cigarette stump with the ashes on it,
and the length of the whole is about
three-quarters of an inch. The young
man who brought them had good
deal of fun with one in the cafe OF a
fashionable club the other evening by
sticking it on the left breast of his coat
Just below the shoulder. At least .
dozen men reached out at different
times and tried to brush it OF with
some exclamation of excuse. and each
one acknowledged that he had been
completely fooled. ats not very
aesthetic idea in scarf-pins," said its
owner, "but you can have ten times
as much fun with it as a four-leaved
clover or violet with diamond dew
drop on it, And so you can.-Paatd-
de{Dhia Record.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
NIarveIs of Power.

It is difficult foraone to believe the
hundreds of wonderful stories told to
illustrate the power exerted by
sea wave of the regulation size and
strength.
At the time of the high waves on the
north coast of the Shetland islands
gneiss powders of three-ton weight
have been moved upward of 300 feet
in single night.
United Britain. the paper which first
set the stories afloat about the enor-
nous waves at Bishops Rock, England,
declares that it is fact that an iron
column twenty-three feet long and
weighing 6. 900 pounds-part of light
house being erected on the rock, and
which had been chained by means of
eyebolts to two heavy bowlders-was
moved twenty feet in one night and
deposited upon projecting rock eleven
feet and ten inches higher than its
original position.
At the same time a blacksmith's
anvil weighing 200 pounds and sunk
in a pit three and one-haf feet deep
was washed out of the pit and actually
foated and rolled 100 yards from the
site Of The light-heuss.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
An Iron Rain.

Any clear night, if the watcher has
patience he may see one or more
"shooting-stars." or meteors. These
are not stars at all, but often are more
brilliant than aHy star, because they
are so near US that tiIeif s.-;ction
against the earth's atmosphere either
causes them to glow at white
heat or to flame up like torch. Even
a very small meteor, one not much
larger than pinhead, might become
distinctly visible in this way, and seen
against background of consultations,
out-shine the north star.
The whole solar system, astrono-
mers say, is strewn with particles of
matter known as star-dust, while
larger bodies known as meteoroids
chase one another about the sun at
intervals of few miles. Usually when
these meteoroids encounter the earth's
atmosphere they break into small
fragments and fall harmlessly to the
ground. 1t is thought that only six
or seven hundred of these meteoric
stones reach the surface of the earth
unbroken in the course of year, while
the number of small particles which
fall has been estimated at 2, 10000 q
day. If the air did not act as cushion.
no casualty would be more common
than being hit by meteorite.
Meteorites are usually composed of
iron, silican, and oxygen, three ele-
ments which are most common in the
earth. and as no new elements have
been found in these visitors from space,
| it is believed that the solar system,
and perhaps the universe, are made
| out of the same material as the earth.
The motion of falling meteors is very
| curious. One has been known to travel
on a line almost parallel with the
earth's surface, and from sixty to one
hundred miles above it, all the way
from Indian Territory to Central New
York, where it is supposed to have
fallen in fragments. Another passed
from Michigan across New York State
and on out to sea between New York
city and New Haven. These meteors
travel six or seven hundred miles an
hour after they become visible.
Meteors are most common about
August 10th and December 7.h, when
the earth annually encounters long
droves of meteoroids as they journey
around the sun. Once in thirty-thres
years the earth crosses the thin stream
of Leonides which seems to come from
the constellation Leo, and is so long
that six or eight years are required for
this flock of meteors, travelling twen-
ty-six miles second. to pass given
point. When the earth meets this
great torch-light procession there Is
display worth seeing. The next one
will take place in November. 1909.
Where meteors come from is not
knowR Whether they are fragments
of a bursted planet or collected star
dust can only be surmised- Once it
was thought that they kept up the
suns supply of heat by running into
him, but that theory has been aban-
doned. What is certain is that the
planets are becoming somewhat larger
and heavier every year through the
shower of meteors and star-dust that is
constantly falling. Thus it happens
that while it never rains pitchforks,
yet iron enough to make pitchfork
rains upon the earth every day.-Rar-
Oer'S Y0u72Q PeODLe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
Chinese Laundrymen.

The work of the Chinese laundry
men is well known for its perfection.
and elicits frequent inquiry as to the
secret of its excellence. 1t may be
we'll TO say that the true secret of their
fine work is the unwearying patience
with which they attend to every de-
tail. Nothing can induce haste or inn
patience on their part. Hour after
hour, day and night, they stand and
labor at the bench, till the task is COM
pleted. The board which they use for
the bosom is uncovered. Over it the
shirt is adjusted, and Immediately
one-half the bosom and the plait is
gone over with wet cloth-a bit of
Did linen dipped in cold water. With
the heel of his polishing iron, Sam
then goes over the dampened portion,
rubbing hard across till slight polish
is obtained. Then the moisture is ap-
p.ied again, and the iron is rubbed up
and down till that side is sufficiently
polished, when the other half is done
in the same manner. The bosoms are
always entirely dry before the Celes-
Glal begins to operate upon them. and
it will be seen that this method does
not differ very much from our own.-
Good ROuseheepi91Q,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
Too Progressive for Him.

am somethin' of a vet'ran, just a-turnin'
A man that's hale an hearty an stranger tew
all fears;
has made my old head spin,
An IN goin' tew ease my conshuns if l never
speak agn
I've lived my four-score years of life and
never till tew-day
Wuz taken for u jackass or an ign'rant kind
o jay,
lew be stuffed with such burned nonsense
bout them crawlin BUGS an worms
That's KILN human bein's with their ''mikro-
scOpic germs.
They say there's .'mikrobes" all about a-look-
There's nothin pure tew eat nor drink an no
safe place tew stay;
There's "miasmy In the dewfall and ina
larry in the sun;
! 'Tain't safe to be outdoors at noon or when
the day is done.
There's "bactery' in the water and "trikeen y
"Ameeby'' in the atmosphere. "calory" in the
There's ''corpussuls" an pigments" in a
human bein's blood,
An every, other kind o. thing existin' sence
the flood.
Terhacker's full o "nickerteen," whatever
An your mouthll all get puckered with the
"tannin in the tea.
The buffers 'olymargareen"-it never saw a
An things is gittin' wus and wus from what
they be jest now.
Them bugs is all about US, jest a-wattin for
chance
Tew navigate our vitals and nav us off like
plants
There's men that spends a lifetime huntip'
worms just like goose
An tackin Latin names to EN- an lettin' on
EN- loose.
Now don't believe such nonsense an I'm not
a-goIn tew try;
If things has come tew such pass I'm satis-
fed tew die.
III go hang me in the sullar for won't be
such fool
AS to wait until I'm piZened by a s'annymaIIv
COOL"
-Lurans W. Sheldon, in Brooklyn Life.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
THE BEST PLAN FOR OLD ACE.
In Securing a Helpful Circle of Good
Friends Now.

When a man is planning for the COM
fort of his mature and declining years
there are some things that he arranges
for as matter of course. But
there are one or two comforts that he
may miss by not appreciating their
value until it is too late to provide for
them. A particular luxury of this
sort, for which a timely arrangement
must be made if man is to have it at
all, is a periodical meeting with the
men who were young when ne was.
In order to secure this enjoyment it
is necessary, in the first place. to be
Young with considerable number of
persons associated in the pursuit of
some common interest, and to form
more or less intimate relations with
them. They must be the right sort of
people, too; people whom it is not only
edlfving to know while they are young,
but who promise development which
will make a fair proportion of them
good company in their maturity. Hav-
ing formed such acquaintance betimes,
| the habits of renewing it periodically
should be started early and carefully
nursed, the periods growing gradually
| less until they become annual.
The simplest way to accomplish all
this is doubtless to 60 early in life to a
good college and return early to its
commandments. But where that has
not been feasible, the same end is often
otherwise accomplished, as by being q
veteran of the war, and meeting ones
fellow veteran annually at a Grand
| Army encampment or by being an
earnest politician and getting sent
pretty regularly to conventions. The
points that require attention are thai
you must meet old friends who were
young, or comparatively young In
your company. and from whom you
are ordinarily separated. The old
| friends whom you meet every day
won't do. You talk to them when you
see them about what happened yester
day and was in the morning paper
The sight of them does not annihilatt
time for you; your intercourse will
them has been too constantly contem
poraneous for that. But the old &C
quaintances whom you only see once &
year carry you back every time TO the
years when you first knew them
| sScribnPr
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
In response the sweet trembling

In response the sweet trembling
voice sung:
'"We had well, a deep old well,-where the
the spring was never dry,
And the cool drops down FROM the mossy stone
were falling constantly,
And there ne'er was water half so sweet as
that in my little cup,
Drawn from the curb by the rude old sweep
which my fathers hand set up"
"Try Lucille" urged Marie. "In-
duce her to speak her mothers name.
The dear old people must not wait
longer for tidings."
Il have-loyed you allus-Jim-
God will-not be-hard on the weak
"There is no other way. We must
hasten home and return here in the
morning" said Marie, pityingly fold
ing the cold dead hands.
Quite early the next morning a COM
pany of warm hearted pioneer men
and women laid in a nameless grave
in the shadow of the great fiower-eov-
cred mound our tramp. There were
bruises upon the emaciated body that
had been inflicted by cruel and heavy
hands.
I'VE shall never know now," Marie
mourned, as q thorough search in the
hut failed to bring to light even a
slight clew to her identity.
A few weeks later we sat in hotel
parlor, watching with interest the un-
usual hustle and stir in this little far
western hamlet. The Carter Brothers
combination was billel for an after
noon and evening performance.
Before the early dinner Signor Viii
lini, a handsome, low-browed man,
entered the parlor with coarsely
handsome young woman. gaudily at
tired in a rain bow-hued EN- broiiered
gown. Signor Villini was loudly COM
planning that Mademoiselle Trevanion's
private apartment was not in readi-
mess.
"Oh, Lucille, it's Jim and that Great
ure! And our poor prodigal really
loved that scamp!" whispered Marie.
We sought an interview with the
man, meeting instead Mademoiselle
Trevanion, who supercilliously said she
would speak to him.
Incautiously Marie explained:
"We have lately buried his wife and
desire to write to her parents. We
cannot do this until we obtain from
her husband the proper address"
$50 Sal is dead!" exclaimed the wo-
man, complacently smoothing her satin
girdle with a pair of plump hands.
Jim's free to marry whom he pleases.
is heP That'H be good news. You'll
find him somewhere about. I'm not his
keeper-leastwise not yet, you know"
Signor Vallini did not appear during
the afternoon performance, "unexpect-
edly summoned out of town" explain
ed the proprietor of the com mbination.
Marie bewailed her unlucky speech,
saying: "We shall never have another
opportunity to learn that poor Great
ure's name or that of those dear old
people. Perhaps it is a mercy, one of
Gods mysterious boons, that they do
not know the worst; yet it would COM
fort them TO know that she died with
clean hands. having kept her faith and
purity through years q Jim's mislead-
ing."-ErchGi1ge
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
GRANDMOTHER IS DEAD.

In Her Place Sits vivacious Creature
9--=--7 Called "AunGy."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
She Did Keep the Article.

This is a story which came original
ly from Frank Hopkinson Smith, au-
thor of "Col. Carter of Gainesville.
The story is about an old colored wo-
man who kept little store in a small
town in Virginia. One dav huge.
fat negress waddled into he store.
"You amt got no Canton flannel. is
you?" she said The proprietress i'm
mediately got angry. "Who- who
said amt got no Canton fannelP" she
exclaimed. Il amt said you amt got
no Canton flannel" replied the other,
alsv angry. Il jist AK you Is yeu~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
More than He Gould sta nd.

First sweet thing-"An't you type
writing for old Briefs any morep" Sec
ond 3. t.-"No. He had some papers
to make out about partition suit
one day last week, and just because /
asked him if it was anything like 8
divided skirt he got mad and fired me-
l don't care, though; Fm going to gel
married just as soon as Willie gets his
salary raisedsanyhow. ."-Indie'aapott
To,,r,,oI
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
Possibility.

Mrs. Plankington (sorrowfully)-"H
nv husband would only stop playing
poker could have new bonnet like
YOURS" Mrs. Witherby-"f he had
stopped playing with my husband be-
fore they began the last time you
might have had this."-L9e.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
Hit the Hen.

Mrs. Suburb threw a stone at a
hen. and hit it, too.
Mr.. Suburb-With the stone?
Mrs. Suburb-No. but my ring few
off and hit it right square.-M Z.
UoeL.I7j
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-21
AS TO RECIPROCITY.
A Lot OF Trash From the Acting
Secretary,

WASHINGTON, June 20.-The acting
secretary of state today sent TO the SEN
ate voluminous reply to the resolu-
ton passed some weeks ago inquiring
as to the practical effect OF the reel
procity negotiations. The communica-
ton says it is proposed to suggest that
1.-THE practical effect" of these arrange
mentS cannot be measured by the COM
merce of a month or year, for the
result must depend not only upon the
character of the concessions secured by
diplomatic negotiations, but by the
degree TO which they are utilized by
private commercial enterprise. Before
the full result of the reciprocity ar
engagements can be estimated we
must provide the means of trans
acting our own business independent
of the ships and banks and capital of
our commercial rivals. That the adj
vantages are recognized and appreciated
is already apparent 10y the interest that
has been awakened among the indus
trial and commercial communities OF this
country. Although IL Is useless to con-
lecture the results that have or may
come from the advantages afforded by
the reciprocity negotiations, ii is grail
flying TO note that there has already been
Il considerable increase in our exports
ana that there is good reason TO expect
that ii Will continue and be permanent.
Ii is equally noticeable, too, that the eX
ports from Great Britain to the Latin
American countries are falling off with
even greater rapidly, so much 50 as to
excite the apprehension of her CONNER
cial organizations and impel them 10
seek some meanS of protection from the
government
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-21
MINNEAPOLIS.
Chamber Of Commerce.

The receipts of wheat at the primary mar
kets last week were 100000 bu larger aud ex-
ports from the Atlantic coast $4,000 bu
smaller than for the previous week. Reports
stated that the prospects for wheat and rye
in Germany are very favorable. The futures
market was rather quiet. Prices had a small
range and tended downward Trading was
mostly for July. Wheat closed as follows. No
June, 76lsc; July, 76lsc; September, T5tsc: on
track. 7sl2c; No. 2northern. on track, 7Vd5 75c
Fiour-Reeeipts 254 bblS; shipments 80 67S
bbls: quoted at 81. l0@4 40 for first patents;
IS seal. 10 for second patents: 81 l5GD3. 10 for
fancy and export bakers 81 21C12. Is for low
grades in bags, including red dog. There is
no change to note in the flour situation.
Hitherto the millers have been filing con-
tracts made some Time ago. These contracts
are pretty we'll eaten into, and fresh demand
is slack. Some millers contem plate shutting
down, one of whom shuts down tonight.
Prices are held steady
Bran and. ShOrtS-QuOted at 81 500S for
bran, $500 for shorts, and 5000 for mid
dlings. Millstuffs are a little weak but move
freely at these prices.
Corn-Receipts, SO. 120 bu shipments, %, $50
bu; quoted at 3S@142lac for good ury No. 3, 40
@i2c for No 3 yellow and 37@3sc for dry No
4 Corn is Il little stronger, in sym pathy with
the market in futures.
Oats-Receipts, Al, $50 bu: shipments, 5, $50
bu: quoted at 29c for No. white, 2S029c for
NO. 3 white, and 29@30l2c for No. , and No. 3
oats. Oats are in good demand for home
consumption.
Rye-Receipts, 900 blu; shipments, none;
and was quoted nominally at 72@74c for No.
2 f. o. b.
Barley : Receipts, 1850 bu; shipments
none: Barley is very slow, 350l5c; demand
almost entirely ceased. --.7.
Flax-Flax sales are based less freights on
the Chicago market. Chicago flax closed at
81 .03s4.
Feed-Millers held at SIC 50017 per ton;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-21
THE RIVER DEADLOCK.
1t Is Very Firm and May Hold
Several DAYS.

WASHINGTON, June 20.-The con-
ferreeS on the river and harbOr appro-
priation bill are not making progress
towards an agreement. After reaching
an amicable understanding relative to
nearly all of the important DO ints of
disagreement between the two houses,
the conference failed completely to
agree upon the two senate amendments
embOdying the Lake Washington canal
and the Dailes boat railway projects
They reported this disagreement to
their respective houses. and were in
structed to insist upon the disagree
ment. They have carried out this in
struction to the letter, and, indeed, so
! faithfully that the idea of free con-
ference with the intention TO reconcile
the differences seems to have cut no
figure, for the other side was not will
ing to surrender single point. When
the last meeting adjourned the con-
ferrees on the part OF the house were
given TO understand that there would be
no further meetings until they were
prepared to make some concessions.
The house cOnferrees do not feel that
they can do this without violating their
instructions, but the senate conferrees
are determined not to sacrifice the
cardinal principles of free conference,
so the prospect of speedy action upon
the bill is not particularly encouraging.