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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
LAID BY THE FABLED ROC.
Important: Discovery in Madagascar of the
Egg OF tho Extinct Gigantic Bird.

Importan: Discovery in Madagascar of the
Egg OF tho Extinct Gigantic Bird.
A large specimen of the egg of the
tabled roc of the Arabian Nights" or
Epyornis, as the extinct gigantic bird
of Madagascar is called, has been Sc
cured by Mr.. j. Proctor, of Tamatave
and Princes square, W., who has
brought the curiosity to London, 1t
twenty miles to the southwark of ST.
Augustine's bay, on the southwest
coast OF Madagascar. 1t was floating
on the calm sea, within twenty yards
of the beach, and is supposed to have
been washed away with the foreshore,
which consists of sand hills, after
hurricane in the early part of the year.
The childlike longshoreman of the
antipodes, opining that the egg had
value, showed the unusual piece of
fotsam about with view to sale, and
it thus came into the hands of Mr..
Proctor. The egg, which is Whitley
brown in color and unbroken, is fine
specimen, 3S1sx2S inches, and an even
higher value is placed upon it than
upon the egg of the great aux, which
lived within the memory of man. The
Brobdignagian proportions of the egg
are better demonstrated by compar-
ison with the eggs of the ostrich and
crocodile. An ostrich's egg is about II
inches by Is inches, and the contents of
six such are only equal to one egg of
the Epyornis The measurements of
the egg of the crocodile are normally
inches by 81 inches. 1t would re-
quire the contents of 16N emu's eggs
to equal the contents of this great egg,
or 14s eggs of the homely fowl, or 8O,-
900 of the humming bird. The last egg
of the kind disposed of in London sold
for e1OO, though cracked.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
Honey Of Figs Is Delicious.

Honey of Figs is the queen of all
cathartics, syrups or pills. One antici-
pates its taking with pleasure. No
other remedy sells so well or gives such
satisfaction. 1t acts gently on inactive
bowels or liver, relieves the kidneys,
cures constipation, colds, fevers, nerv-
GUS headaches, etc., and restores the
beauty of health. Ladies and children
prefer it. Doctors and druggists recon.
mend it. The Fig Honey Co. make it.
Try bottle. Only one cent dose. w
r. Smith q Co. sell il,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
SHIPS AND WHALES.
Vessels snd Cetaceans Collide Sometimes
with Disastrous Effects

C6EAO0ono sometimes
with DISASTROUS Effects
The steamship Petersburg, of the
Russian volunteer feet, had unique
experience near Minicoy, in the South
Indian ocean, says Chambers Journal
A sharp shock was felt by all on board
and she stopped as though gripped in q
wise. The sea was found to be colored
with the life-blood of two huge whales,
which lay floating in their last agony.
One was cut through by the steamers
sharp stem and the other killed by re-
peated blows of the screw propeller.
The German steamship Waesland,
bound from Antwerp to New York,
ran into and killed a sleeping whale.
lided with whale near Sea-
ham harbor and wounded it badly.
The celebrated yacht Genesta narrow
ly avoided collision with dead ceta-
cean during the jubilee race around
our island. In 1889 Shields steam
ship, the James Turpie, nearly cut a
whale in two one starlight night The
schooner O. NJ. Marrett was almost
wrecked by passing whales in the
north Atlantic. Many of the school
struck her repeatedly with such vio-
lence that her whole hull shook and
articles in the officers rooms were
thrown to the floor.
III 1890 small sailing vessel, the
Ocean Spray, bound from Galveston to
England, struck a sleeping whale and
received damage. On the morning of
the nth of July, d whale fifty feet long
made it's appearance close alongside
the steamship Port Adelaide, Capt. G.
M. Hepworth, r. N. r., in az degrees
south, IS degrees east. He followed
the vessel for four days, never more
than seventy yards away, and general
ly close astern, much to the cdification
of numerous passengers. He threw up
the sponge in 41 degrees south, OF de-
| grees east, after travelling nine hun
dred and eighty statute miles, GER
tainly without resting and apparently
fasting
In November the ship Earnock, Capt
| Parson, was under sail in 90 degrees
south, 81 degrees west, when a large
whale lashei the sea into foam with
his tail so near the ship that the CHIEF
officer, who happened to be below for
ward, came quickly ON deck to sec
what had happened. He actually felt
the impact of the water against hel
bows.
In June, 1891, while her majesty's
ship Immortalite was steaming from
Arosa bay to Gibraltar at the rate o.
twelve knots an hour, she stopped
short as though submerged danger
had been located. 1t was presently
found that she had cut deeply into ;
whale, and it became necessary to e
astern in order to get rid of the incum
brance. Four months later the Ancho
line steamship Ethiopia collided will
whale when about eight hundred
miles from New York.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
The Poolah Stone.

Trouble was recently threatened be-
tween the people of Orissa and the
Indian government on account of
the "Poojah stone," which had rested
for ages over the main entrance to the
temple of the Sun. 1t was carved with
symbols of the sun and planet, and
thirty years ago fell from its place
in the temple to become at once a
special object of worship. The gov
ernor of Bengal, being interested in it
as an archaeological treasure, had it re-
moved to the Indian museum, and this
raised such resentment among the ma
tives that the stone has been restored
to them and has been raised again to
It's original place in the temple.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
work Of a Royal Inventor.

The signaling apparatus invented by
Prince Louis OF Battenberg, which is
now on trial in the Royal Sovereign,
has received notices of appreciation
from various competent naval judges,
says London letter. The contriv-
ance consists of sort of collapsible
spheroid, capable of being opened
and shut like an umbrella, visible at
sea for far greater distance than
flags, by which Morse code signals can
be made without difficulty. II Ad-
miral Fairfax and the signaling depart
ment report favorably 1t will probably
be universally adopted, to the satisfac-
tion of the clever inventor, who is said
to have been helped by Capt. Percy
Scott, now employed on signal teess
st the admiralty.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
RUSSIAN EXPLORATIONS.
The Government Is " ell Supplied with
Reliable Maps.

The Government Is veil Supplied With
Reliable Maps.
A vast but fascinating problem con-
fronts Russia on her Chinese frontier
a problem which cannot be disposed of
in one or even two generations No
power, however, knows better how to
wait than Russia. Tire is on her side,
and as the necessary preliminary to ali
wise action is knowledge. the Russian
general staff has been making the full
est use of the opportunities which
treaties afforded to gain accurate in
formation concerning the Chinese ter
ritories and everything appertaining
thereto.
Not a corner of the whole empire,
save what comes within the sphere of
influence" of the French, but las been
intersected by Russian government ex-
plorers and armed expeditions during
the past thirty years.
These explorers, include botanists
and geologists, of course, but the mill
tary expert and the skilled topographer
are the animating soul Of these expe-
ditions.
Occasional glimpses into their pro-
ceedings are allowed to the world, but
every fact of military or political sig
nificance is carefully conserved in the
archives of the Russian intelligence
department.
The minute information concerning
all the northern and western terrific
ries of China, which is now in the pos
session of the Russian staff, is not only
such as no other power possesses, but
is incomparably superior to anything
in the hands of the Chinese govern
ment itself.
Hence it is that whenever question
of boundaries arises Russia is prepared
with elaborate maps of the regions, to
which Cuba has not only nothing to
oppose, but which she is not even able
to criticise.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
FOREIGNERS OWN IA PLATA.
ITS Politics Are Run by Natives, Who
Lenves Business to Outsiders.


The old notion of the Argentine
Republic as essentially stock-raising
country, from which nothing was to
be expected in the way of food exports
but uneatable "charqui," otherwise
"jerked beef" will have to be modi-
fed, says the London News, in the face
of the fact that the crop of wheat this
year is estimated at 1,750,O00 tons, of
which more than a million of tons will
be available for export. Agriculture,
in fact, as distinguished from cattle
raising, has become an important
source of wealth in this part of South
America It has many advantages for
this purpose. among which are it's ex-
cessive flatness, extending over 100000
square miles, and it's remarkable varie-
ty of climate.
Our consul at Buenos Ayres notes the
remarkable circumstance that foreign
ers in the republic practically monop-
olize trade, railways and commercial
undertakings of every kind. They
own a large portion of the country,
and are yearly acquiring more proper
ty of every description. Almost all
the railways belong to English capital
lists, and, if not to English, to foreign
ers 1t has been stated that one-half
of the cultivated portion of the prov
ince of Santa Fe belongs to English
men. Agriculture, it is1added, may be
said to be entirely in the hand of Eu-
ropeans.
The amount of crime all over the
Argentine Republic is stated by our
consul, Mr. Gaskell, to be alarming.
The population is every day becoming
more exclusively foreign, but the gov
ernment is entirely in the hands of the
comparatively small number of pure
! Argentines, rather anomalous posi-
ton, which in the course of years may
alter if the enormous foreign element
should make its power felt and become
decisive factor in politics.
At present all foreigners shun poll
tics and only busy themselves with ac.
quiring wealth commercially.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

Senator j. j. McMaken of this district
has introduced a bill in the Ohio Senate
which provides for the holding of all
primary elections under the Australian
system. This reform has been advocated
for some time Ripley BazoO.
While We favor any practical move
toward the purity OF elections, and were
once enthusiastic for the kangaroo non
descript because we thought it would
effect that result, we find ourself bound
to confess, in the face of indisputable
facts, that the Australian system is no
more fitted to prevent frauds, than a
rail fence is to catch minnows. If we
had our way, any fraud against the
ballot should be punishable as felony,
and the man who successfully prose
cuted the offender should have $500 re,
ward. The fact is, that the man who
attempts to defeat the will of the people
as expressed at the polls, ought, ofright,
to be adjudged guilty of treason and
strung up as high as Haman.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
THE GALA LILY EDIBLE.
1t Tastes and Is to BE Cooked Like the
Potato.

1t Tastes and Is to BE Cooked Like the
Potato.
A new vegetable is about to be in
troduced to the people of the United
States through the department of ag-
riculture. 1t is the root of the Gala
lily, which resembles somewhat in ap-
pearance the Irish tuber, with the adj
dition of few whiskers that have
nothing to do with the qualities of the
article as an esculent, says the Phila-
delphia Times.
1t is more elongated, and when cut
the interior is trifle more viscid. But
section of it is SO potato-like you
would not be likely to distinguish any
difference. In cooking it first has to
be boiled to destroy certain acrid prop
critics, after which it may be fried,
roasted, baked or what not, according
to taste.
Farmers in Florida have begun to
raise these Gala roots for market. The
plants grow rapidly in the swamps,
and so thickly that the yield of a single
flooded acre is enormous. They re-
produce themselves by the multiplica-
ton of their bulbs under ground, so
that the grower has simply to dig up
the offshoots and leave the parents to
propagate anew.
For centuries the Egyptians have
cultivated similar crop during the
season of the Nile overflow, and at the
present time Gala lily bulbs are com
mon vegetable in Japanese markets.
So prolific and palatable are they that
their propagation in many parts of the
United States, where conditions are
favorable, may reasonably be looked
forward to as an agricultural industry
of the future.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

1t is told of Hannah More that she
had good way OF managing tale bear
ers. 1t is said that whenever she was
told anything derogatory to another her
invariable reply was, Come, we will go
and ask if this be true" The effect
was sometimes ludicrously painful. The
tale.bearer was taken aback, stammered
out qualification, or begged that no
notice might be taken of the statement.
But the good lady was inexorable; off
she took the scandsl-monger to the
scandalized to make inquiry and com.
pare accounts. 1t is not likely that any.
body ever second time ventured to re.
peat gossipy story to Hannah More.
One would think her method of treat.
ment would be sure cure for scandal
Harpsr's Basar.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
Hand Made Besutx.

If you see woman in the street cars
occupied with rubbing the tips of her
fingers ,Gand down on her face, don't
imagine that she is crazy or attempt
ing to mesmerize anyone. She Is not.
She has been reading In the woman's
corner of some daily paper that to out
wit time and remove wrinkles woman
should occupy some Of her leisure mas
saying her face gently, to rub the
wrinkles out.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
A case of white eapping is reporte,

A case of white Gaping is reported
from Augusta, KY. George Mcdowell
and his paramour, who is the wife OF
his brother, have been white. capped
The home of the McDowells is at Okla
homa, in the southern portion OF
Bracken county. They were visited at
midnight by fifty masked men, who
dragged them from their room and gave
the man and woman each fifty lashes
with heavy whips, until their backs
were cut and bleeding.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

The issue of Columbian stamps from
January to December 81, 1898, the
period assigned to their distribution is
the subject Of statement which has
been prepared by the Post. Office depart
ment officials. The aggregate number
issued to postmasters was 1899, ,9S3, 200
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

hale old man, Mr.. Jas. Wilson, OF
Aliens Springs, ILL.,, who is over 60 years
of age, says: 81 have in my time tried a
great many medicines, some of excellent
quality but never before did find any
that would so completely do all that is
claimed for it as Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. 1t is
truly wonderful medicine" For sale
by Seybert & Co, Hillsboro, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

"Queer aboutiJ Jaglets having to get a
policeman to take him home last night.
Everything was all turned round to
him." Drunk, eh ?'' Jupiter, no !
He was perfectly sober Il that was athe
trouble. ."-Ckicaoo Inter Ocean.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
Strength and Health.

Ii you are not feeling strong and
healthy, try 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
Seybert & Co.'s drug store.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

Mr.. G. F. Davis, editor of the Bloom.
field, Iowa, Farmer, says: 81 can recon-
mend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to
all sufferers with colds and Group. l
have used it in my family for the past
two years and have found it the best l
ever used for the purposes for which it
is intended. so cent bottles for sale by
Seybert & Co., Hillsboro, o.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

There has been an increase of 157 per
cent in the number of divorces granted
in this country from 1867 to 1886. In the
same time there has been an increase in
the population OF SO per cent
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
DISEASES OF woMEN.-we have special de-

DISEASES OF WOMEN.-we have a special de-
partment, thoroughly organized, and devoted
clusively to the treatment of diseases of women,
Every case consulting our specialists, whether by
letter or in person, is given the most careful and
consdcrate attention. Important cases land we get
few which have not baffled the skill of all the
home physicans) have the benefit Of full council
of skilled specialists. In treatment of diseases
peculiar to females, our success has been marked,
over two-thirds Of our patients being ladies, old
young, married, single, rich and poor. Our method
Is entirely free from Objectionable features OF the
general practitioner, namely, "Locai treatment"
We seldom find it necessary. We prepare reme-
dies, constitutional and local, the demands,
and instruct ladies how to treat themselves.
MARRiAGE.-Married persons, or young men con-
tempating marriage, aware of physical weakness,
loss of provocative powers, impotency, or any other
disqualification, speedily restored.
PRIVATE DISEASES Blood Poison, Venereal
Taint elect, Structure, Seminal Emissions, Loss Of
Sexual Power, Weakness Of Sexual Organs, Want
Of Desire in Male or Female, whether from impru-
dent habits Of youth or sexual habits of mature
years, any that debilitates the sexual func
tions, speedily and permanently cured. Consulta-
ton free and strictly confidential Absolute cures
guaranteed Medicines sent free from observation
to all parts of the United States.
EPILEPSY, OR FiTS-Positively cured by new
and never-failing method. Testimonials Furnished
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

Itch, mango, and scsratche on human
or animals cured in 80 minutes by Wool.
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails.
Sold by w. R. Smith & Co., druggist
Hillsboro.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft, or calloused Jumps and blen
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs.
splints, sweeney, ring-bone, stiles,
sprains, all swoolen throats, coughs, etc.
Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted
the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever
known. Sold by w. R. Smith & Co..
druggists, Hillsboro, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

How would this do for the fair Lii
lisn's card Miss Lillian Russell, nee
Leonard, formerly Mrs. Solomon, and
before that Mrs. Braham, now Mrs.
Perugini--B Buffalo Times.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
Bucklen's Arnica Salye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-.
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Seybert & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
Saxby's Query to IngersOll.

This beautiful song, words and music,
regular sheet music sze,) will be mailed
to anyone enclosing cents in stamps to
D. Edwards, General Passenger Agent:
G. H. & D. R. R., Cincinnati, Ohio
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
Rheumatism Cured i'm a Day.

DHys- MVS"
tic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neural
gia radically cures in l to days. Its
action upon the system is remarkable
and mysterious. 1t removes at once the
cause and'the disease Immediately dis
appears. The first dose greatly benefits.
rs cents. Sold by w. R. Smith & Co.,
druggists, Hillsboro, o.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

Mrs. Mahoney said she thought the
trouble with her husband was patrobes
"Patrobes ?" asked the doctor. "Yis,
sir. Mike O'brien was taken the same
way and the doctor called them Mike.
robes. - Indianapolis Journal.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

John Wheeler, young farmer in
Circleville, Ohio, mashed his thumb
about three weeks ago by letting rail
fall on it. The injury did not heal and
the sufferer died from lockjaw the other
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

Lucinda Bedford, an ex.save, who
died in Nashville, Tenn, last week at
the age of ninety four years, left for
tune of considerably over 100000. Her
old master, William Bedford, who died
before the war, set her free and left her
his fortune of about 100000.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

The weather prophets were as unan,
imous last fall in foretelling hard win,
ter as the Democrats in '92 were in pro.
phesying magical prosperity in the
event of their political success, and
about as reliable.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

The best medical authorities say the
proper way to treat catarrh is to take a
constitutional remedy like Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01

Coughing Leads to CONSUMPTION.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough
ct once.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-24
MITCHELL & BASH.
21o MARKET STREET.
lido YOU WEAR,
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
NO DOUBT THAT YOU DO
= To prove this going to place on sale
the largest best and greatest stock of Mus
lin Underwear shown in Wilmington
having made the largest purchase of these
:. goods ever made by firm in this State.
Goods all made of Fine Muslin or Cam.
brio and sewed on lockstitch machine be.
:; ing perfect in size shape and finish. The
prices have been made so low Greatly
little above cost of materially that you can't
help but buy, if So and you will call around
any day next week, will have window
display, showing prices and style of goods,
: three days previous to sale, which will start
Next "Wednesday,
: JULY 25th 1894,
{ Not piece sold at sale price before that then
WE START THE
GREATEST SALE
ON RECORD,

The goods run in four lots of four prices,
namely: l2Ac, 25c, SOC and 75c lots in.
Guiding all our best pieces of Corset Covers
Skirts, Chemises, Drawers, Night Dresses
and Infants Slips. ......... ............
We have very neat little pamphlet
which we will distribute this week quoting
prices and showing cuts of goods. 5000.