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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-02
TOMB OF A ROMANTIC PAST.
Venice No Longer . Living City, But
Merely vast Museum.

Vontco NO kon00Y . LtvtnR Cley, Bus
Merely Vast Museum.
Venetian hfs In the large old sense
has since come TO an end, and the o.
sential present character of the most
melancholy Of cities resides simply in
its being the most beautiful of tombs,
says Scribner's. Nowhere else has the
past been laid to rest with such tender.
ness, such sadness Of resignation and
remembrance. Nowhere else is the
present 80 alien, 30 discontinuous, 90
like crowd in a cemetery without
garlands for the graves. 1t has no
flowers in its hands, but as a compensa-
ton, perhaps-and the thing is doubt
less more to the point-it has money
and little red books. The everlasting
shuttle, in the piazza, Of these irrespon-
sible visitors is contemporary Venetian
life. Everything else Is only a rever.
beration of that. The vast mausoleum
has turnstile at the door, and func-
tionary in a shabby uniform let's you
in, as per tariff, to see how dead it is.
From this consultation, this cold curl.
osity, proceed all the industry, the
prosperity, the vitality of the place.
The shopkeepers and gondoliers, the
beggars and tba models, depend upon
It for a living; they are the custodians
and the ushers of the great museum
they are even themselves to certain
extent the objects on exhibition. It is
in the wide vestibule Of the square that
the polyglot pilgrims gather most
densely; Piazza San Marco is like the
lobby of the opera in the intervals of
the performance. The present fortune
of Venice, the lamentable difference, is
most easily measured there, and that is
why, in the effort to resist our pessim-
ism, we must turn away both from the
purchasers and from the venders of
ricordi
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A Friendly Settlement.

Maj. Campion, in his book ION the
Frontier" describes deer hunt. in the
course Of which he found his dog
astride the dead body Of deer, while
an Indian stood little way off, bow
and arrow in hand. By signs he made
the white man understand that he had
wounded the deer and the dog pulled It
down. Then he cut up the deer, tied
the fore half of it up in the skin and
placed 1t on one side. The other half
he laid at Maj. Campion's feet, deliver
ing himself Of speech in the Ute Ian
guage. The white man understood his
meaning, but not q word of his address.
The Indian and the dog had killed the
deer together, and the dogs owner was
entitled to half the game. The major
was equal to the emergency. He rose
and delivered in full the classical
defamation: "My name is NorvAl." !"
with appropriate gestures. just as he
had many times given II at school.
Nothing could have been better. The
Indian and the white man shook hands
with effusion and each with his share
of the venison rode away.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-02
A SHOWER OF SLACK RAIN.
examination Proved IL to Have . Fetid
Smell and Bad Taste.

Examination Proved IL to Have . Fetid
Smell and Bad Taste.
The meteorological records of the
world chronicle several incontestible
instances of black rainfal,s, to say moth
ing of the more startling phenomena of
''sho yers of blood, blue snows," etc.
Prof. Barker in April, 1s45, laid before
the Royal society of Dublin some OBJ
servations on q shower of black rain
which fell around Carlaw and Kilkenny,
extending altogether over an area of
about four hundred square miles.
During the course of his lecture Prof.
Barker exhibited to the society speci-
men of this uncanny shower which had
been sent him by friend. The speci-
men shown In the vial was of uniform
black color, much resembling common
black writing fluid. DR.. Barker found,
however, that, after allowing it to stand
for short period, the black coloring
matter separated from the water with
which it had mixed, rendering the color
of the rainwater much lighter, but still
dark enough to be called "black rain"
The shower, which was in broad day
light, was preceded by a darkness 80
dense as to make it impossible for one
to read without the aid of candle.
After this darkness had continued for
some time, hailstorm set in, attended
with vivid lightning, but without the
least semblance of thunder. When this
hailstorm was over the black rain be-
gan to fall.
On examination of the rain immedi-
ately after the storm was over it was
found to have an extremely fetid smell,
as well as very disagreeable taste. All
light colored animals and all articles OF
clothing exposed bore dark spots and
stains, and cattle refused to drink the
water or eat the grass until after a
shower of real rain" had washed of
the black, poisoning matter
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ANECDOTE OF JAY GOULD.
He Was = Newspaper Correspondent -
Well as Surveyor.

He Was Newspaper Correspondent -
We'll as Surveyor.
The papers of late have been we'll
filled with all sorts Of talk, some true
and some false, about Jay Gould and
family. Old John Gould, of Roxbury,
jays father, is spoken of as very poor,
which, according to the Detroit Free
Press, is not true. He was sturdy,
well-read, intelligent farmer, in good
circumstances. At the time Of the
anti-rent war in the county he stood up
boldly for the laws until better ones
could be made. When ordered by the
Big Thunder not to have the dinner
horn blown to call the men to meals he
went right on as usual One day the
horn was blown and in less than an
hour body of disguised men appeared
to call him to account, Big Thunder in
command. He told him his family
would do as they pleased. and he was
threatened. Jay stood by and said:
81 know who you are, Big Thunder;
you are Dan Squires, and you dare not
kill my father" Here is the keynote
to the whole career Of Jay Gould-a4
independent audacity that never failed
him. When mapping the county end
making up his history Of Delawsrs
county he was correspondent for the
Franklin Visitor, and its prospeetus was
published In tho history IN full. His
letters to the Visitor were always spicy
and interesting and were kept up until
he built the tannery in Wayne county.
He then advised mo to ask his sister
Betty to write for the paper, and I
found her ono Of tho best correspond
ents ever had. She became Mrs. DR..
Palen, of a well-known medical firm of
Philadelphia, and has her homo in Cam
den, N. j., opposite that city.
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Old Coins from Old Mints.

The mint house" in Boston existed
about thirty-four years. All the coins
issued from it bore the dates 1852 or
1862, the same dies being used probably,
throughout the thirty-four years Of
coinage. Some coins had been made in
Bermuda for the use of the Virginia
colony as early as 1914. Copper coins
bearing the figure of an elephant were
struck in England for the Carolinas and
New England in 1894. Coins We're also
struck for Maryland bearing the effigy
of Lord Baltimore. A mint was estab-
lished in Rupert, VT, by legislative
authority in 1885, whence copper cents
were issued, bearing on one side plow
and sun rising from behind hills, and
on the other radiated eye surrounded
by thirteen stars.
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Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special
mention. All who have used Electric
Bitters sing the same song of praise. A
purer medicine does not exist and it is
guaranteed to do all that is claimed.
Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of
the liver and kidneys, will remove PIN
Piles, boils, salt rheum and other affect
ions caused by impure blood. Will drive
malaria from the system and prevent as
we'll as cure all malarial fevers. For
cure of headache, constipation and indi.
gestion try Electric Bitters. Entire sat
isfaction guaranteed, or money refunded
Price so cents and 81 per bottle at Sey.
bert & Co.'s drug store.
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A group of seven mounds, containing
relics of great antiquity, are reported to
have been found near Huron, Ind.

The senior proprietor OF this paper
has been subject to frequent colds for
some years, which were sure to lay him
up if not doctored at once. He finds
that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
reliable. 1t opens the secretions, re-
lieve. the lungs and restores the system
to healthy condition. If freely used as
soon as the cold has been contracted,
and before it has become settled in the
system, it greatly lessons the attack and
often cures in single day what would
otherwise have been severe cold.-
Northwestern Hotel Reporter, Des Moines,
Iowa. 25 and so cent bottles for sale by
Seybert & Co.
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SURVIVORS OF. BALAKLAvA.
Twenty-seven of the Veterans Gathered
at . Banquet in London.

Twenty-seven of the Veterans Gathered
at Banquet in London.
The survivors of the immortal charge
Sin the valley of death" thirty-eight
years ago sat down together the other
afternoon, small company of grizzled,
bemedaled veterans, to banquet in
the banqueting room of st. James hall,
says London paper of recent date. In
the chair was Sergt. Herbert of the
Fourth Light dragons, while Lieut..
Wightman of the Seventeenth lancers
occupied the vice chair. The commit
tee by whom the banquet was organ
lied searched the United Kingdom for
survivors, and the result was the ap-
pearance of twenty-seven men only. As
they met hearty grasps were given,
and the old familiar names called out
Jimmy" Pete" Harry" "Bill,"-
answered to the old call, and as hands
were wrung one gray-haired veteran
would say to another: "Good old chum,
we managed to wriggle together for
many year" The medals which were
worn spoke of service in India during
thetmutlny as we'll as in the Crimea, and
though the veterans, with one excep-
ton, wore plain clothes, on every breast
the medals were conspicuously dis
played. There were over thirty guests
present, noncommissioned officers in
the old regiments, SO that the old and
the new life mingled together and COM
radeship was cemented in good nut
brown ale.
Of those present in the charge there
were nine of the Eleventh hussars, nine
of the Seventeenth lancers, eight of the
Fourth light dragons, one of the
Scots Greys and two of the Eighth
Royal Irish hussars. The single sur
vivor who wore his uniform, and prob
ably the finest man in the company,
was Sergt. Fawke, who stood six feet
in height and measured forty-four
inches around the chest. He was twen-
ty-two years of age when he rode with
the Scots Greys in the famous charge
immortalized by the dead laureate.
There is not a white hair to be seen in
his closely cut black crop; his cheeks
are clean shaven, and his black mus
tache is pointed la militaire. This
man of sixty not only stands erect and
firm upon his legs, but rejoices in his
strength, and in proof thereof he cut
bars of lead through with one sweep OF
his sword, and played with forty.
pound club in a way to astonish every
one. The gallant sergeant wears upon
his breast the Crimean medal, with
three clasps for Balaklava, Inkerman
and Sevastopol, and also the Turkish
medal, and his forehead and cheeks
show now the marks of sword cut and
bullet wounds. There were seven
wounds in all received by Fawke On the
eventful day, three of which were OF
his legs. Sergt. Fswke rode in the
lord mayors show last year and earns q
livelihood as teacher of physical sx
ercises in colleges and schools.
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1t Should be in Every House.

J. B. Wilson, 81 Clay Street, Sharps-
burg, p, says he will not be without DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, that it cured his wife
who was threatened with Pneumonia
after an attack of "La Grippe" when
various other remedies and several phys
icians had done her no good. Robert
Barber, of Cooksport, Pa, claims DR..
Kings New Discovery has done him
more good than anything he ever used
for Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. Free
Trial Bottles at Seybert & Co.'s drug
store. Large bottles, SOC. and $lOO.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-02
Queer History Of Some Words.

Speaking of the strange, eventful his
tory OF words, the Hartford Courant
notes that queen" originally meant
simply woman, but now designates
the most glittering place which the
earth can bestow, while with the slight
ly different spelling of "quean" 1t
stands for woman Of different sort;
so, too, ''knave" at the start meant
only boy, as in the German form,
"knabe;" but as boys go wrong some
times the word in time obtained an un-
pleasant meaning. The word limp"
might have been added as having very
much the same history of ''knave," for,
meaning, first, scion or shoot, it next
stood for child, and now it means an
inferior devil. Lord Bacon spoke of
''those most virtuous and goodly young
imps, the duke Of Suffolk and his
brother"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-02
swAGGER IS OUT OF STYLE.

Even the High and Mighty Nn AdnirarA
Air II Considsred Bad Fern.
For tho moment, at any rate, swag-
ger II not the fashion, says tho London
Spectator. The most obvious and disa-
rcsable form Of self-assertion, which
consists in making other people con-
scious Of their inferiority BY intensely
unpleasant and supercilious behavior,
has, of course, been dead and done with,
Is social claim, for half generation.
Tho high-born and wealthy heroes Of
the old novelists, who were too great to
speak at tho breakfast table, and
turned to fling a morsel to their dogs
with an air of high-bred nonchalance," !"
exist no longer in fiction, and very rare
ly in life. Mr.. Grandcourt was, per-
haps, the last Of them. But swagger in
its minor and more amusing manifesto
tions is also dying.
One Of the later forms of swagger,
much affected by men of the bachelor
leisure class, and especially by the
much-abused ''lotus-eaters" of club
land, was the nil admirari attitude. It
had quite vogue for time, and in
addition to conveying an impression Of
superiority, it saved great deal Of
trouble. Older men who had seen life
were spared the effort Of hearing about
it again, and young men who had not
were enabled to convey the impression
that they had. This form Of swagger
is still in use as q weapon against the
bore, but as fashionable cult it exists
NO longer. The leisure class, as such,
does not assert itself by any explicit
form Of swagger, and would seem for
the moment to get before it the ideal of
the "plain man" in it's dealings with
the world. Probably the strongest
guarantee for the continued decline Of
swagger is the growth Of frankness.
Formerly, to refer to money as a con-
sideration In action was considered ILL
bred. That form of swaPger is certain
ly thing Of the past. Nothing is more
common than to hear the remark: 81
wish I could afford it," or ~ can't af-
ford it,"
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YOUNG MEN-Who have become victims of soli-
tary vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
which annually sweeps to an untimely grave thous-
ands of young men OF exalted talent and brilliant
intellect, may call with confidence.
DRS. FRANCE AND 0TTMAN, after years OF ex-
perience, have discovered the greatest cure known
for weakness in the back and limbs involuntary dis
charges, impotency, general debility, nervousness
languor, confusion of ideas, papitaton of the hear
tmidity, trembling, dimness of sight, or giddiness,
diseases of the head, throat, nose, skin, afec-
tons Of the liver, lungs, stomach, or bowels-those
terrib BILE disorders arising from the solitary vice of
youth-and secret practices, blightng their most
radiant hopes or antcipa,icns, rendering marriage
impossible. Take one candid thought before it is
late. A week or month may place your case beyond
the reach Of hope Our method OF treatment will
speedily and permanently cure the most obstinate
case, and absolutely restore perfect manhood.
TO Ml0DlE-AGED mEN.-There many from
the age of 30 to CD who are troubled with frequent
excavations Of the bladder, often accompanied by a
slight burning smarting sensation, weak ening the
system in manner the patient cannot account for.
On examination of the urinary deposits, a ropy
sediment will be found, the color will be a thin or
milkish hue. There are many men who die Of this
difficulty, ignorant Of the cause, which is second
stage Of seminal weakness We will guarantee a
perfect cure in all such cases, and healthy
restoration Of the genito-urinary organs.
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Sunday schools at tho World. Fair.

The Sunday-schools Of the United
States are to have special building at
Chicago, costing $1,000. 1t is to be of
brick, and located just outside the ex-
position grounds. 1t will contain full
and instructive exhibit of the past
history and the best modern methods of
Sundayschool work, in this country
and Canada; with books, maps, lesson
helps, and every appliance that has
been approved by those best acquainted
with the subject The auditorium will
seat a'bout two thousand persons. AL
together it will be new and remark-
able development of the effort toward
religious education for the young.
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The Bitter Bitten.

A Jewish junk dealer in Winnipeg
imposed an old muzzle-loading musket
on q green English immigrant few
days ago, along with thrilling anec-
dotes about Injun incidents. Tho
greenhorn found the barrel plugged up
with what seemed to be wads. he
took 1t to . gunsmith to be cleaned.
and the smith poked out Of the barrel
seven hundred and Ave dolisrs In good
Canadian bank notes. At latest 90
counts the junkman wss being closely
watched BY his friends.
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ON A COMET.
That IL Whore o Scientist Believes Hades
Will He Located.

That IL Where o Scientist Believes Hades
Will he Located.
What do you think of the idea Of hell,
the future abode of the wicked, being
situated in the nucleus of some gigantic
cometP This opinion, says the st.
Louis Republic, odd as it may seem to
those who have given comets and the
future state of the dead but little at
tention, has been entertained by many
really eminent scientists and philoso-
piers, among them the learned DIR.
Winston, the friend and sometimes ad-
wiser of the great Sir Isaac Newton.
In answer to the inquiries of a friend,
who wrote to ask the doctor for some
tangible proof on the subject, the fol-
lowing unique theories were ad-
vanced: ''. According to my
calculations and deductions, this theory,
which you rightly say must belong to
me and me alone does locate hell, the
awful prison house Of the damned, In
the fiery nucleus of some (perhaps yet
undiseovered) comet Of unthinlsable
size.
I'm this wide circling chariot OF fire
they will be whirled In the twinkling
Of aa eve from the intolerable heat OF
the surface Of tho sun back into space
hundreds and hundreds Of millions Of
miles hom the great torch-beerer o< our
system.
"Thus instantly the wretched tenants
will DO given two undesirable extremes.
ono Of cold and the other Of heat; this
to continue through the endless ages Of
eternity, while tho Almighty Is dispens-
ing the sevcrities Of Justice" Did NOR
tai man over harbor . more horrible
idea than this?
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A street Of Vienna will be ono of the
attractions Of midway plaisance. It is
to be reproduction of ancient Vienna
at the time Of Maria Therese, built in
the gothic and renaissance style, with
shops where the typical viennese work.
ers In metal, leather, amber, meer-
schsum, ETC., will be reproduced and
sold TO visitors. The street will also
have Vienna cafe and concert garden,
with q military band of SIXTY men.
viennese singera will appear daily.
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WHY WOMEN ARE NOT BALD.

Natural Selection Protects Them from
tho Prevailing Tendency.
If the unsatisfactory statistics that I
have been able to collect can be relied
on, the proportion of badness in boys
and girls under twenty is about eighty
to seven, says Miss e. F. Andrews in
the Popular Science Monthly. As the
majority Of girls at the age under consid-
GRAFTON wear their hair loose, or In sim
pie Marguerite braids, so that there
Is little likelihood of deception, while
unwholesome headgear or other indi-
vidual practices can hardly, as yet, have
had time to produce any material effect
upon either sex, we may regard the diff
ference indicated by the figures as prac-
tically due to the working Of heredity
alone.
Now, there is no apparent reason why
girls should not inherit tendency to
badness as we'll as boys, unless that
tendency is checked by some other fac
tor. Such factor is sexual selection;
for presume 1t is hardly necessary to
argue here that q bald-headed woman
would not stand much chance of "sur-
vival" in the struggle for matrimonial
honors. AS men have always practi-
cally done the selecting" and will
probably continue to do SO more and
more as the conditions OF modern life
render the competition for husbands
more severe, the woman's voice in the
matter, when she has any, being limit
ed to simple negative, 1t is not likely
that the state of badness to which the
human race is said to be tending will
ever affect the feminine half of it.
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English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft, or calloused Jumps and blem-
ishes from horses, blood spavils, cnrbs,
splints, sweeney, ring-bone, stiles,
sprains, all swoolen throats, coughs, etc.
Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted
che most wonderful Blemish Cure ever
known. Sold by w. R. Smith 4 Co.,
druggists, Hillsboro. Ohio.
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jay Gould's Retort.

The day after Black Friday Mr..
Gould's old partner, Henry N. Smith,
shaking his finger in Mr.. Gould's face,
shouted: 'I'll live to see the day, sir,
when you have to earn living by 60
ing around this street with hand
organ and a monkey" maybe you
will, Henry; maybe You WILL" was the
soothing response; "and whom want .
monkey. Henry, I'll send for you"
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School Examiners.

THE Board Of School Examiners of High.
J. land county give notice that examine.
tiOns Of Applicants for Certificates will take
place in the Hillsboro Main street school
building on the nrst Saturday of every
month, and on the third Saturday of Janu.
September. The Examination fee prescribed
by law Is so cents.
By ordef of the Board
HENRY q. WILLIAMS. Clerk. s
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Many New Ideas

In the home cure of diseases, accidents,
and how to treat them, and many hints
of value to the sick will be found in DIR.
Kaufmann's great Medical Work; ele-
CANT illustrations. Send three 2cent
stamps to A. P. Ordway 4 Co., Boston,
Mass, and receive q copy free.
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Let Me Show You

What saving have made during the
last year by being my own doctor. Last
year paid out $96.25 for doctors and
their medicine this year paid $500
for six bottles of Sulphur Bitters, and
they have kept health in my whole
family. They are the best and purest
medicine ever made.-Charles King, 50
Temple Street, Boston, Mass.
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DO NOT SUFFER ANY LONGER.

Knowing that cough can be checked
in day, and the first stages of con-
sumption broken in week, we hereby
guarantee DIR. Acker's English Cough
Remedy, and will refund the money to
all who buy, take it as per directions,
and do not find our statement correct.