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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-05-18
TITLES IN CHINA.
There Are Marked Distinctions which Are
Kigidly Observed.

Kigidly Observed.
Each of the nine degrees Of nobility,
the first five of which are subdivided
into three classes, are hereditary the
first from the first to the twenty-sixth
generation, the last being only con-
fined to one, says the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. The honorable titles given
to the state officers are also divided
into nine classes, with subdivision of
each of these. These titles are entered
in all the family records, death no.
tices, ancestral trees and tombstones.
In many instances they are inscribed
on wooden tablets which are suspend
ed over the entrance of the house. The
patents OF nobility are written on long
silver rolls with five different colors,
with detailed record of the bestowal
of the honor in the Mandschu or Chi
nese tongue.
The Chinese kingdom has also quite
a number of decorations for its favorite
sons. The highest honor for military
services is the yellow riding coat
which can only be worn in the pres
ence of the emperor 1t bestows upon
its lucky possessor the privilege of
riding within the imperial precincts
Gen. Gordon, who suppressed the
TAPPING insurrection, was permitted to
wear the yellow coat. The feather is
the usual form of distinction given to
meritorous government officers. Only
noblemcn of the highest rnl; and
great generals are accorded the three
eyed peacock feather. The double-
eyed feather is reserved for second-rate
officers, while the one-eyed plume is
given for any kind of public service.
The blue crows feather is worn by
every member of the imperial guard
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OHIO STATE NEWS.
sCorCh-lRiSH CONGRESS-

Prof. Morse Not the Original Inventor Of
the Telegraph to One Of the
opeakers, Joseph Henry Was the First
Discoverer.
sPRINGFrELp, o., May 1S.-The trains
Thursday night and Friday morn
ing brought In q large additional num-
Der OF people to attend the Scotch-Irish
congress. Among the most distinguished
was DR.. John Hall, the eminent Presby-
terrain divine Of New York city.
Calvin $. Brice is- among the wsh-.
known American citizens Just elected
to membership In the congress.
At the session of the congress- Friday
morning, Prof. McCloskie, Of Prinos.
ton, read paper on Joseph Henry.
whom he pronounced the greatest
scientists America has ever produced.
Henry, he stated, was Scotch-rrish.
He told of Henry's various great inven.
tions, and how he refused to bother
with patenting his inventions, prefer
ring, instead, to give his genius for the
benefit of the human race.
He suggested that Edison would add
to his greatness if he should do the
same. He claimed that Henry had
really solved the problem of electric
telegraphy nine year before Prof.
Morse. Henry was the father of the in
vention and Morse the nurse. In 1S47
Henry resigned his professorship and
orga nized the Smithsonian institution
presidency of Princeton twice. but both
times refused II. He was the founder
of ths present bureau of information
on the weather and the light.
house signaling at sea. Hia
discovery of the best lluminant saved
the government St00,OO0 per year.
Henry grandmother was born in Scot.
land and his grandfather in Ireland,
thus making him full ScotchIrish in
descent
The next address was by DR.. D. O.
Kelly, of Tennessee. DR.. Kelly handled!
his subject of 'Naval Heroes" with rare
skill He showed how much the SCOTCH
Irish blood has contributed to the naval
history of the republic The morning
session closed with some remarks by
Henry Wallace, Of Des Moines, Ia,
where it is desired to hold the next
congress He paid a glowing tribute
to the Ohio man, admitting that he
"gets there" upon all occasions.
Incidental to the congress meeting.
Is to be held in the interests of the
mountain whites of the south Saturday
afternoon, in the First Presbyterian
church, at which DR.. John Hall will
preside. The number of new members
proposed and elected TO membership in
the society during the present sessions
has been very large. The congress closes
Saturday night, but DIR. John Hall is
to preach in the city han Sunday after
noon. At the meeting Friday night
the following was the programme:
Prayer by Rev. Lucas; address, DR..
John s. Mcintosh, "Franoes McKamie;"
extemporaneous address, DR.. John Hall,
Condition of Ireland" address, Judge
J.. Q. Miller, of Springfield, scotch
Irish of Clark County"
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years previous to commencing the use of
Elv's Cream Balm. 1t has done for me
what other so.ealled cures have failed to
do-cured me. The effect OF the Balm
seemed magical.-Clarence L. Huff
Biddeford, Me.
After trying many remedies for catarrh
during past twelve years, l tried Ely's
Cream Balm with complete success. 1t
is over one year since I stopped using it
ard have had no return of catarrh. |
recommend it to all my friends.-Milton
T. Palm, Reading, Pa.
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AFTER THE FLOOD.
Beautiful Pen Picture Of Early Morning
on the Mississippi.

Beautiful Pen Picture Of Early Morning
on the Mississippi.
Mary Hartwell Catherwood, in the
conclusion of her story, "Old Kaskas-
kia, in the Atlantic, thus writes of the
morning after the great food:
Early summer dawn was breaking
over that deluged world, a winter
light than moonshine giving increas-
ang distinctness to every object. This
mint of day gave rest to the tired ring
ers In church tower and convent bel
fry. The bells died away, and still
ness brooded on the water plain.
Hoarse roaring Of the yellow current
became mere monotonous back
ground for other sounds. A breath
stole from the east, bringing the scent
of rain-washed earth and foliage and
sweet mints. There was no other
wind and the boat shot easily on it's
course alongside thicket made by or
chard treetops. Some birds, maybe
proprietors of drowned nests, were al
ready complaining over these, or top
pling experimentally down on branch
tips
Kaskaskia had become strong half
town, cut off around it's middle 1t af-
fected one like man standing on his
armpits. The capital of the territory
was composed chiefly of roofs and DOR
mer windows, of squatty wooden is
lands in boundless sea. The church
of the immaculate conception was
laughable tent Of masonry, top heavy
with it's square tower. As for culti-
vated fields and the pastures where
the cattle grazed, such vanished real
tiles were forgotten. And what was
washing over the marble tombs and
slate crosses in the churchyard?
The flood strangely lifted and forced
slsyward the plane of life, yet lowered
all life's functions An open and lib
eral sky, dappling with promise from
the east, bent over and Knocked para
lyzed humanity
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QUEER MIRRORS OF OLD.
Polished Metal Plates Used by Orientals--
The Looking Glasses of To-day.

Polished Metal Plates Used by Orientals--
The Looking Glasses of To-day.
Looking-glasses of old were highly
polished metal plates. They were
small and provided with . handle.
Grand ladies intrusted their mirrors to
the care Of = female slave, whose duty
IL was to keep them clean and free from
stain or rust, and hand them to her
mistress when the latter required them.
The Chinese and Japanese formerly
used mirrors made Of simple metallic
plate. The Japanese had a story of
the invention of the mirror. The sun
goddess, they said, once upon time
got into great rage about something,
and retired to cavern, vowing that
she would never come out again. AS
she was the mother of light her retire
ment put the whole earth in darkness.
The other gods and goddesses did all
they could in order to persuade her to
come out again, and finally invented
mirror, which they placed at the en-
trance of the cave. The angry goddess
looked at it, and seeing, as she thought,
another goddess whose beauty was
equal to her own, emerged, mad with
jealousy, from her retreat, and the
land was once again illumina ated by the
light of the sun.
Glass mirrors, says the Chicago Her
aid, are supposed to have been first
used in Sidon. Like almost everything
else, they were very dear for long
time after their introduction. We read
in letter written in 1878 by Colbert to
hof L. \
been manufactured in France at that
time, nobody but the king would have
been rich enough to buy one. The an
nual manufacture in Europe at the
present time, according to the latest
statistics we have been able to get, is
something like one million eight hun
dred and fifty thousand square yards of
looking glass.
In the mirrors Of to-day the light is
reflected by layer of silver or an ANAL
gam of tin, but proportion of light is
lost in the process of reflection and the
image Is less luminous than the orig
inal. The value of looking glass is
usually estimated by the thickness of
the glass, because the thicker they are
the stronger they must be; but, speak
ing scientifically, thick glasses are de-
fective, because the outlines of the i'm
age reflected are less clearly defined.
There are really three reflections, and
consequently three images, in every
glass mirror; one from the upper sur
face of the glass, the second from the
lower surface and the third from the
metallic layer at the back. An ideal
mirror is one with a perfectly fiat, sur
face, but it is only possible to obtain
this result in comparatively small
glasses. The larger glasses do not re-
fleet true image because it is not pos
sible to make them quite fiat.
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Reduced Rates TO Washington. ID. G.,
via the Picturesque Ii. 4 Il.

The l05th General Assembly OF the
Presbyterian Church U. S. A. will meet
at Washington, D. c., May 18th to June
I'd, 1898.
The B & o. r. R. has arranged to carry
ministers at half rate and lay delegates
and visitors to the Assembly at rate OF a
fare and one-third for the round trip.
To secure the latter rate parties must
purchase first-class limited tickets to
Washington via B. & o. Road, take
receipt therefor and upon presentation
OF this receipt, endorsed by proper
officer OF the Assembly, return tickets
will be sold from Washington at one.
third frst-class limited fare.
The "B. & o. Southwestern Limited
leaving Cincinnati 7;20 p. m. daily, has
all the modern conveniences for the
comfort Of patrons. The New York Elk
press leaves Cincinnati S:l5 a. IN. daily
Both these trains are yestibuled through
out and no extra fare is charged.
An illustrated guide to Washington
and complete time table and map OF the
line will be furnished upon application
For through tickets, sleeping car birthi
and other information inquire of ticke
agents throughout the country or ad
dress f. L. Patton, Travelling Passengel
Agent, Chillicothe, o. -.
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AN INTELLIGENT eEETIE.
Would Come at the sound OF Its Captor's
Voice and Caress Her,

Would Come ut the Sound OF Its Captor's
Voice and Caress Her.
Something over . year since young
lady of my acquaintance. says writer
in Science, had an experience with a
beetle which I think showed very
marked degree of intelligence in the
insect, and as suchinstances are some
what rare venture to send you an ac-
count of it.
This beetle was specimen of Pelid-
nota punctata Linn, which was given
to her in September. At first she kept
it in small box, feeding it with grass,
leaves and small pieces of fruits, such
as peaches, pears, etc. Occasionally
she would give it drop of water to
sip. 1t would sometimes bite little
out of leaf, would eat the fruits and
would take water eagerly.
From the first she would take the in
sect in her fingers several times day
and stroke or caress it, also putting it
to her lips and talking to it all the
while she handled it. When she put it
on her lips it would brush its antenn@
over them with gentle, caressing mo-
tion.
When she left her room she would
shut the "buggie" up in its box. One
day about two weeks after she re-
ceived it she was called out suddenly
and neglected this precaution. She
was absent a considerable length of
time, and when she returned the in
sect was not in its box or anywhere to
be seen. Fearing that she might in
jure it she stood still and called:
''Buggie. buggie!'' when it came crawl
ing from its retreat toward her.
After this she would frequently leave
it free in the room when she went out,
and when she returned, if the insect
was not in sight, she would call it and
it would crawl or fly to her. As this
was continued it would more and more
frequently fly to her instead of crawl
ing, until at last it flew nearly
every time it was called. When it
came in this way she would put it to
her lips or to her nose, and the insect
would appear to be pleased, moving it's
antenne gently over her lips or taking
the end of her nose between them and
touching it with patting motion.
She kept it in her room in this way,
at the hotel where she was spending
the summer, until about the 1st of No
vember. She then returned to her
home, some three hundred miles fur
ther south, taking the insect with her.
Here she at. first kept it in her cham
ber, but the nights being sometimes
very cool it would become torpid, and
not get lively again until afternoon.
Thinking 1t too cool for "buggie" there
she removed it to the kitchen. As it
still appeared more or less dormant
she put it on cloth above the hot
water boiler. Here it revived some
what, but was not very lively, nor did
1t eat very much.
About the middle of December it fell
to the floor accidentally, by which fall
it was evidently injured, as after that
time it would eat nothing, and no
longer recognized the young lady.
About week later it died.
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Counting Gold Coin.

The counting of money in the vaults
of the treasury at Washington is not
,so troublesome or tedious a task as
might be imagined. In counting
twenty-dollar gold pieces experience
has shown them to be SO uniform that
only one pile Is counted, and the rest
Of the money is stacked and measured
by this pile, until the last pile IL
reached. when that also is counted.
In this way the counting proceeds
rapidly. Gold In small er denomina-
tions 10 always counted or weighed.
Silver IL much more 'troublssoms to
count than gold
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Woman Fatally CIubbed.

SPRINGFiELD, O., May 1S.,Mrs. Mary
Miller, of East Columbia street, is lying
at her home in critical condition
from assault by burly colored man,
who beat her with club because she
refused to submit to his wishes. She
was picking greens on the Northside,
and he made his escape through the
woods after being shot at.
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Distressing Accident to y Child.

CANTON, o., May 13,-As Adabelle Cox
was passing Parks clearinghouse on
a bicycle. little Helen Park, aged 4,
asked for a ride and was allowed to
stand on the coasters. Some one called
her, and she looked back, losing her
equilibrium and falling into ditch be-
low. She struck a large bowlder and
fractured her skull. Her condition is
critical
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School RpDOrtS,

COLUMBUS, o., May 12.-The state
commissioner of common schools is
mailing circular that is intended to
facilitate reports of school boards un-
der the Boxwell and Beebe laws re-
Gently enacted. 1t is the opinion of the
commissioner that complete reports can
not be secured until after the annual
commandments. and. holding this
view, he is sending with the circular
a postal with blanks to be filed as
partial report. The Beebe law requires
uniform questions for examinations
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Geographical Names.

Staten Island has its double at the
southern extremity of South America,
and the name. like that of our own
island, is manifestly Of Dutch origin.
for its near neighbor is Cape Horn.
more properly Hoorn. named for q VIZ
iage on the zuyder Zee. and not far
away are the Straits of MsgelIau q, not
OF Irish but of Dutch discovery, and
properly spelled Ma~alhssus
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Dorothy Maddox gives some hints on

Dorothy Maddox gives some hints on
how to be beautiful to the feminine read
ers OF the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a
part OF her advice is Love moderately,
cry moderately, scold moderately, laugh
moderately, eat moderately, and you
will ward off wrinkles until old age, with
its sill Yer hairs, comes to refine and
beautify your features.
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COUNTERFEIT EGGS.
A Woman Has Been Selling Them to the
Clevclanders.

Clevclsnders.
CLEVELAND, o., May 1a.-Food In
spector Mellor was treated to a brand
new experience. He has been called
upon to analyze nearly everything en-
tering into the diet of man in these
days of food adulteration, but never
before encountered the artificial ma
chine-made egg. The complainant said
an honest-appearing woman had been
furnishing his wife with eggs alleged
to come fresh from the poultry yard
At first they were satisfactory, but re-
Gently suspicious have been aroused,
and samples were submitted to DR.;
Mellor. Close examination showed that
they had been made at factory Dr.
Mellor will investigate their compost
tiOu
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Worms in Children.

Mother Gray, a nurse in the Children's s
Home in New york, has for years treated
children successfully with aremedy, now
prepared and placed in the drug stores,
called Mother Gray's Sweet Worm Pow.
ders. They remove all worms, are harm.
less az milk, pleasant to take and never
fail. Valuable for feverishness, consti.
patton and headache, even if no worms
are present. Ask your druggists.
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HILLSBORO


Is tantalalizing admonition to those
who at this season feel all tired out,
weak, without appetite and discouraged.
But the way in which Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla builds up the tired frame and gives
a good appetite, is really wonderful. So
we say, "Take Hoods and it will brace
you nm ~
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Cincinnati wants the Convention.

CINCINNATI May l3. The local demo.
cracy will make determined effort to
secure the democratic state convention
for this city, and it is stated on good
authority that $1,000 has already been
subscribed as a guarantee fund for the
purpose. Cincinnati has tried num-
Der of times lately to capture state con-
ventions of both parties, but without
success.
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A plague OF caterpillars has invested
he neighborbood of Clarkton, N. G. En-
gineers of the Carolina Central railroad
state that the caterpillars are two inches
deep on the track for Il distance of ten
miles.
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bad OIL Fire.

LIMA, O., May 12.-At the Standard
oil refinery still containing 5000 gal
Ions of oil sprung a leak and the escap-
ing fluid ignited from the furnace. So
intense was the heat from the burning
stuff that it melted the still, and its en-
tire contents were consumed.
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CoNvoY,. o., May ls.-The Farmers
bank, Of Convoy, O., closed its doors
Friday, caused by its relations with the
Columbia national bank, Of Chicago.
No statement of the banks condition
has been made. A card ON the door
states '"This bank has suspended"
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Pope Leo XIII. spends most of his
mornings in the vatican gardens catching
birds with nets, a sport which he prac-
ticed when bishop Of Perugia, and of
which he is particularly fond. Humid.
reds of birds are caught every morning
and distributed among the hospitals and
and the poor,
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A company is said to be in operation
at Savannah, Ga, which manufactures
cotton seed oil by a secret process into
rubber.
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Take Simmons Liver Regulator You
can eat as much and whatever you
please without injury.
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KRAM Err HOUSE
PHILIP KRAMER,

The best known landlord in Southern
Ohio, is still in charge Of this popular
hotel. Step and see him when you come
to Hillsboro.
u~Livery and Sale Stable attached.
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II you are all run down, tagged out,
take Simmons Liver Regulator and be
spry.
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Miles Nerve and LiyerSPills.

Act on new principle--regulating
the liver, stomach and bowels through the
nerres. A new discovery. DIR. Miles
Pills speedily cure biliousness, bad taste,
torpid liver, piles, constipation. Un-
equaled for men, women, children.
Smallest, mildest, surest! so doses 25
cents. Samples free at Seybert & Co. g
The peach was originally poisoned
almond. Its fruity parts were used to
poison arrows and for that purpose were
introduced into Persia. Transplantation
and cultivation have not only removed
its poisonous qualities, but turned it in.
to the delicious fruits we now enjoy.
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u you wsn, 10 pss cured tsks Manners psubIs Er-
tsci ssrsaperiIiA- Ne tks bssl IN Il 10 esals.
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For a general family cathartic we con-
fidently recommend Hoods Pills.

you up
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Professional Cards.

c,.ds inserted Undsrthis Head asfoliows:
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kinch, per '''.'''''''''''
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-01
AUDITORS NOTICE.
Estate or Ribeooa Breish, Deceased.

The undersigned. auditor appointed by the
Orphans Court OF Columbia County TO pass up
on the exceptions fled TO the Executors ac-
found to be in said Executors hands, TO and
among the parties entitled thereto viii attend
TO the duties OF his appointment at his onice In
the town OF Bloomsbury. In said county, on
Saturday. September Q, 1893, at 10 O'Clock In the
forenoon, when and where all persons interest
ed are required 70 appear as 10 the matter OF
said exceptions: and also, all persons having
claims against the estate OF said deceased are
required 10 appear and present their Claim D :
fore such auditor, or be debarred from comirg
In for a share OF such balance, or fund OF estate
Bloomsbury, Pa, CHARLES g. BARKLEY.
Aug. 18th, lsy3-3t. Aucitor.
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Strength & Health.

If you are not feeling strong and
healthy, try Electric Bitters. If La
Gripp" has left you weak and weary,
use Electric Bitters. This remedy
acts directly on Liver, Stomach and
Kidneys, gently aiding those organs to
perform their functions. If you are
afflicted with Sick Headache, you will
find speedy and permanent relief by
taking Electric Bitters One trial will
convince you that this Is the remedy
you need. Large bottles only soc. at
&. A. Xleim's Drug Store.