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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-08-13

One Of the most interesting species Of
frogs that have been described is the
one discovered by Mr.. Wallace in Bor-
neo a number Of years ago. It has been
popularity called the flying frog, from
the fact that it has toes of great length,
and these are fully webbed to the tips
If the animal wishes to descend from
the top Of q high tree, it has only to
make the leap. and by spreading out its
toes it converts its feet into four veri.
table parachutes, and thus this little
aerial batrachian reaches terra firlna in
safety. Among the most curious types
are the tree frogs, and Gibson says these
"are readily distinguished from all 9TH
ers by having the ends Of their toes di-
lated into knobs or disks generally pro-
vided with sticky secretion. by means
Of which they can cling to the leaves
and branches Of trees They are small,
elegant and exceedingly active creatures,
the males possessing loud voices, Of
which they make copious use during the
breeding season and on the approach Of
rain. Popular Science Monthly.
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1hs osswsA = - rlnoss gnlls.
a pruminent uanicure, who he's DE-
voted many yeafs 10 the study Of the
subject, statea - the result Of his OBJ
servstions, that the finger nails Of the
human species grow more rapidly in
children than In adults, and that the
growth 10 slowest with the aged His
observations, however, do not stop At
this. for he finds that both in childhood
and age they grow faster in summer
than in winter. In one instance nail
that required 1879 days to renew in win.
ter renewed in summer In exactly lie
days During both seasons the patient
upon whom this experiment was made
enjoyed normal health. The method Of
testing this growth was in each instance
the same. The nail was pared close and
slightly notohed at the quick Both
the right and left hands were studied,
with the result that he affirms that the
growth Of the finger nails is more rapid
on the right hand than on the left.
One popularity Of the growth Of fin
ger nails. in addition to those stated,
il that the period Of renewal differs pro-
portionately with the length Of the fin
gers Thus it is more rapid in the mid
die fingers than any other. In the fn-
gers on either si3S Of the middle finger
the period Of renewal is about equal and
slower. It is even more slow in the lit
tie finger, and the slowest Of all in the
thumb. Comparing the same fingers
with the different hands, the person
who discovered these curious phases Of
growth states that on an average the
nails ON the left hand fingers require 80
days longer to renew than those Of the
right hand. In one particular, the
growth Of the nails and hair and beard
is governed by the same law-that Of
growing more rapidly in summer than
in winter. New York Ledger.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-08-13

EAST MONROE.
August II, 1896

0usuoe - Aooo
Misses Lizzie and Angelina Hamp.
shire, Of Columbus, former residents of
this place, are visiting among old &C.
quaintances in this vicinity.
Master Fred Reader, of Washington
@. H., is spending few days with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. J. Reed,
of this place.
Worthingtop's grove is engaged for
three days this month. The annual
reunion of the Worthington family will
be held August Goth. Fairfield Town
ship Sunday School Association will
meet there August 22d for an sll.day
picnic. Wilstack Lodge, No. 1858 l. o.
F. F., will be addressed by one of the
State officers at the grove August 81.
Mrs. John Cahill spent Saturday and
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Pearl
Deheart, of Ross county.
Miss Grace Worthington, of Sabina,
who has been spending the summer
with her grandparents here, is visiting
her cousin, Miss Ada Reader, of Wash
ington G. H., this week.
Miss @. s. Burnett, of Warren, o.
national lecturer and organizer of the
w. G. T. u, visited our town Saturday,
in the interest of the society. In the
afternoon she spoke on the origin and
methods of work of the society, and in
the evening gave temperance address
in which she explained the need of more
thorough organization, and especially Of
more work for the young. The audi.
ence was large and appreciative. Sew
eral new members were added to the
society and the older ones encouraged.
Miss Burnett is very earnest worker
and will do much good.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-08-13

General Harrison discusses ''ImpNech-
ment" in his "This Country Of Ours"
article in Ladies' Home Journal He
presents the constitutional provisions
for the impeachment Of high officials,
and recalls that the process has been put
into operation but seven timea Will
liam Blount, q senator from Tennessee,
was the first official to be tried ON i'm
peachment proceedings His trial o.
curred in 1897. The others were: John
Pickering, q United States district
judge for New Hampshire, in 1908 ;
Justice Samuel Chase Of the United
States supreme court, about the same
time; James n Peck, judge Of the
United States district court for the dis
trict Of Missouri, in 1880; Judge Hum
phEeys Of the United States district
court for the district Of Tennessee, in
1859; President Andrew johnson, in
1888; William w. Belknap, secretary
Of war, in 1875. There were but two
oonvictious-Judge Pickering and Judge
Humphreys
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On the night Of OCT z, 1887, the tree
worshipers Of Ceylon met with an ir-
reparable calamity. During one Of the
worst storms that ever ragged on the H.
land their sacred bo tree was thrown to
the ground The oldest written descrip-
ticn Of this wonderful tree known to
exist u that By Fs Ham, Chinese his
toeian and traveller, who visited the tree
IN the year 4l4 A. D. According to the
learned Chinaman, it was then 709 years
old. haviug been planted by King Do
vinipiatissa In the year 266 before our
era began y the above data be correct.
and there u no reason foe doubting IT. the
bo tTee W. more than 9.l7b years old
when ~ sooem sndsd ~ caseee On the
d. msssioasd abcva-ek L0sis ~
p2hlia
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as August 10, 1885.
Miss Gertrude Redkey has returned
from Lebanon.
Miss Mable Beck was visiting friends
in Sabina and attending camp NEE ting
for few days.
Master Howard Corwin, OF Lebanon,
is visiting friends here.
Miss Sallie Cohn, in company with
her aunt, Mrs. Rice, of Cincinnati, spent
Friday with friends at Hillsboro.
The public missionary meeting held at
the M. f. Church, Sunday evening, was
very interesting.
Sam Clark and wife, of Greenfield,
visited Alston Clark and wife, Sunday.
Charles Cadamy is in the Queen City,
on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bradley are
happy over the advent OF little daugh.
ter.
The Republicans of New Lexington
met Saturday night and organized q Nc
Kinley and Hobart Club with member.
ship of sixty.four to commence. The
following officers we're chosen: Pres
dent, D. s. Ferguson Vice President,
E. M. johnson Secretary, Jas. Earl !;
Treasurer, Peter Adams. Before the
campaign closes the membership will
reach one hundred if the same enthusi.
asm is kept up.
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NEW MARKET.
August 10, 1896.

august lO, 1886.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Delaney, of Lynch.
burg, passed through this place the
first of the week, and stopped with j..
D. Van Wrinkle and family.
Walter Purdy and wife have returned
from few days visit with friends in
Greenfield.
Rev. R. A. M. johnson, of the 9. U.
Church, has finished his Council year
here, having filled his last appointment,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Carr, of Blan.
chester, have been visiting Mr.. Carr's
brother.
Mrs. M. H. Eyler, is spending couple
of weeks with her sister, Mrs. Quinton
Dick, Of Marshall.
Miss Edith Letherman entertained q
number of her frienGs, Tuesday even.
ing, in honor Of Miss Eta Pence, of
Danville.
]. G. Dick, was called to his home at
Marshall, by the illness of his mother.
Rev. G. @. Peale will preach his last
sermon of this Conference year two
weeks from last Sunday night.
Misses Agnes and Edna Nickeson, of
Hillsboro, spent Saturday evening and
Sunday with DR.. J. w. Letherman and
family.
Mr.. John McRenolds, who is erecting
Q dwelling for his son, Frank, in Blan.
chester, came up to visit his family a
few days, and was accompanied by his
little grandson, Forest.
Miss Louella Arnett and her brother,
Horatio, who have been teaching in the
West, are at home to spend vacation.
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rHe sILvaalrr oArrcNIsM,

H 81 1tN =. .-,47i s. &, W d
IN whioh Frss Csinass rhssriss A.
rlAinl, ssstsa.
What L. money? Something made out
Of nothing by government.
IL there any limit to the amount Of
money which government can make9
Only the capacity Of the printing
presses of the country.
What kind Of money is the best?
That which has the least value.
What does "cheap money" mean?
Money that will buy very little wealth.
Why are some people poor? Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products OF their labor will buy q
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich?
BY stamping so cents worth of silver
zone dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is capitalist? A wicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved up a
little property.
What is patriot? A man who covets
his neighbor's property and wants to
get hold of it by law.
What does "repudiation" mean? tits
a simple scheme for readjusting the in
equalities between the men who worked
and the men who have not
What Is the golden rule of the silver
ties? Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by 'thonr
esty" and good faith between men ?"
That creditors are to be cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever the
debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating all the claims of creditors?
That will come later. The public must
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is creditor? A fisnd in human
shape who loaned 100 cent4dollars and
doesn't want to be paid in dollars worth
so cents.
How will free silver help the farm
ers? BY causing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis of industry, stagnaticn
Of commerce and idleness of millions Of
workers who now buy farm products.
How will the sixteen to one scheme
benefit the working classes? BY maxi
ing them pay twice as much for every
thing they buy, while giving them little
or no increase in wages. It will also
confiscate half of their savings bank
deposits.
What is silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish citizen, who doesn't
want higher prices of silver so that he
will get rich, but simply because he
loves his fellow man.
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor? Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things. Be-
sides he doesn't have to.
What is sound currency? Dollars
with so cents worth of silver and so
cents worth Of fat or paper dollars all
fat.
What is the chief duty of good citi-
zen? To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meekly swal-
low all the nostrums of the cheap money
Office seekers.
How can the people be made prosper
ous? By setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital;
contracting the currency by running
employers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system
Whidden Graham.
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The Issue In Pure silver.

Stop bothering your head about the
figures sixteen to one. leave the gold
standard out Of the question, for there
II no direct Issue upon It, and consider
the real issue, silver. A lump Of sill
ver OF certain size, 371N grains in
weight = to-day worth So cents. The
Bryan proposition II that the govern
ment shan stamp It dollar. That
would be das money-malxing Of tho sams
sort e. the governments setting it,
printing presses to work and turning
out without limit dollars of paper. It
Il fiat Dishonesty. II - pregnant with
trouble for every man, laborer or cspi-
tafst. who lives By industry, end Il
would laevs - ~ und&d etatas ths
hurt Of lasdag imistsust IN ths mind of
every industrial investor and laader.
A1nasican o. fosuign. BeaE II - lie
American voter bset ~ pepa1btD sour
yemD aGo-by ~ = -
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Cheap Home seekers Excursion.

On August IS, September l, Is and 20.
October 9th and 23d, the Missouri Pa.
ci6c Railway and Iron Mountain Route
will have on sale from st. Louis, round
trip home seekers tickets to points in
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,
Utah, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. at
rate Of one fare, plus $500, tickets good
twenty.one days from date of sale, with
privilege Of stopping on the going trip
10 inspect lands. Maps, land pamphlets
and full particulars mailed on spplica.
tion. Address N. r. Warwick, Agt., 3l7
Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-08-13

Have They Cornered the Copper Cent?
a majority of the letters from the
working men in your columns claim that
gold has appreciated in value since 1873
and that this appreciation has been
caused 0y the wicked bankers who have
corneled all the gold. Has anyone sug-
gested that these wicked bankers have
cornered all the cents? In 1873 It re-
quired 1cs cents to purchase only one
ounce Of silver. To-day it requires only
60 cents to purchase this same one
ounce Of silver. In 1879 it required 125
cents to purchase one bushel of wheat
To-day SO cents will purchase one bush-
ea of wheat. And yet 100 cents viii pur-
chase the same amount of gold to-day a.
IT. could in 1873. Clearly, then, II II
this bad little copper cent that has
caused all our hard times and not the
gold. Let US compel all of our creditors
to accept I've mills instead Of ten for
one cent.-Common Sense, in N. Y.
World.
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Honest Gen, jackson.

In Gen. Jackson's time man who had
16 ounces of silver could sell them in,
the market for one ounce of gold, and
SO Gen. Jackson, who was q square
dealing man, approved the coinage ratio,
putting 16 times as much silver into q
coined silver dollar as was required of
gold for q gold dollar. But the large
quantities OF silver produced of late
years and the improved and cheapened
process Of mining it and extracting the
pure metal from the ore have so reduced
its value that 1T now requires 80 ounces
of silver to buy an ounce Of gold. II
Gen. jackson were alive, he would not
be caught in the company of the cheap
money advocates who wish to put so
cents worth of silver into dollar and
pay 100 cents Of debt with it He ad-
justed his ratio to intrinsic value, 60
that all the dollars in the hands Of the
people should be real dollars, worth as
much after they were melted by fire az
they were before meltiug.-Philadel-
phia Record.
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One Of the silver delegates called at Q
business Office in Chicago ON business.
At the Office was . Chicago citizen. On
learning that the stranger was . dele.
gate. he said: II suppose. sir, that you
are Democrat 2" ayes, cir; m," was
the promp reply. Then, suppose,
cir, you are free silverite," safd the
Chicago man. The new conner frowned,
then smiled, waited . moment and then
said With peculiar emphasis; sNo, Ill; |;
! don't owe anybody"
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There will be grand Republican raj
sColumbus, on Saturday. Mckinley,
sherman and Foraker will be among
ths speakers who will open the Repub.
lican Presidential campaign. From this
- thsyeIl bs lovely fighting all along
The line.
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DzsrAsrs OF THE SKIN.

II Ths intense itching and smarting incl
~ 70 eczema, tslsel, salt-rhsun., and other
lieoases q the skin & instantly silayed by
applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Qnlmenk Many very bad cases have been
1egnanently cured By It. II Il equally
>1kkenl lor' itching piles and favorite rem
~ los sos nippIss chappsd hands, chill.
80 = - = : 3 osss pss bon:
1PyDI. Cnlyb Csaditiss PewdsvA thsy
ju1 vhat hone rod when in had condt.
- Tonic, blood pusilss and vermifuoe.
h lid BY Garrett 4 Ayrsx.
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For the best buggy for .he money call
on w. H. Ballentine, over Ervin's livery
stable.
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Won't it be little presumptious to
stamp I'm God We trust" on the white
silver lies
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Why don't our silver friends stop tell
ing what il going to happen II they
have their wsy and content themselves
by learning what did happen when other
nations had q similar epidemic of silver
luDacy such as now lbeuaces US? Their
prophecies won't accasuplish anything.
because they wish it. but stern reality
will repeat the disasters with w that Il
inflicted ON others il we presist in our
willful blindneas.-George Cans.
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Cheap and trashy money in which
70 pay wages; high prices for every kind
Of goods which labor buys-thsse are
the "i~se'p~soi free silver fps the Ames-
lean workingmeu.
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Common Pleas Judicial Ticket.
Common Pleas Judicial Ticket
For Common Pleas Judge,
CYRUS NEWLY,
OF Highland county.
Congressional Ticket.
For Congress,
SETH w. BROWN,
OF Warren county.

County Ticket.
For Probate Judge,
J. FRANK WILSON,
For Recorder,
J. w. ROGERS.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
IBVIN Med. SMITH.
For Commissioner,
ALFRED j. CRAMTON.
For Surveyor,
DANIEL MURPHY.
For Infirmary Director,
G. T. MULLENIX.
For Coroner,
J. @. LARKIN.
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Judicial Ticket, Fourth District.

For Circuit Judge,
HIRAM SIBLEY,
OF Washington county.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05
The Grent Cocker.

Glancing through a pile of ancient cop,
books and letter writer, says Good Words
one dimly realizes what an awful thing il
used to be to compose and put on paper a
thoroughly correct epistle. 1t was not an
affair to be lightly taken in hand any more
than matrimony. No, not even If one had
learned penmanship from the immortal
Cocker himself in his house in "Paul's
churchyard, betwixt the Signes of the Sugar
Loaf and the Naked Boy and Shears"
Cookers fame rests on his arithmetic now
obsolete. The worthy man, besides being a
ready reckoner, was also a mighty penman.
Doubtless many a seventeenth century youth
toiled along with inky fingers under his di-
rection Hearken to what the master says
to him: Let not your breast lie on the
desk you write on, nor your nose on the
paper, but sit in as majestical a posture as
you can; with practice you may do brave
things"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05
VETERANS PICNIC Ar ELMwooD
Exercises Were of IL Purely Informal
Character.


| Emwood park. in the far west end of the
city near the state fair grounds, furnished a
delightful spot for an outing and hundreds
of people disported themselves upon the hill
sides and in charming glens, and even on
the treeless meadows which fill the tract. A
strong, cool breeze direct from the praires
swept along through the hollows with all
| the refreshing vigor that only long journey
over the country could give it.
Very near the entrance on one of the little
mounds that dot the hillside was planted a
big American flag which fluttered and waved
all day. 1t marked the camping ground of
George Crook post No. 262, Grand Army of
the Republic. Scattered beneath the trees
round about were men and women and chill
dren, lunch baskets and tables and all the
| paraphernalia that marks a picncking
ground.
The vets and their families and friends
reached the park as early as $3.50 o'clock
They gathered together at the post hall in
the city and then marched to the street car
line that leads to the park. Two trains were
required to transport the early crowd. The
number was augmented the day advanced
by others, until there were several hundred
gathered beneath the trees.
The day was spent almost all picnics
ere spent. The morning was used up in the
pleasure of lounging about in the grass,
in talking and in thinking that there was
| nothing to doe all the day but loaf At noon
the lunch baskets were opened and the con-
| tents eaten. Then during the afternoon there
were impromptu games by the younger and
even some of the older folks, war talks and
some remarks by grizzled veterans upon the
meaning of the day, for the delectation of the
younger crowd.
The picnic was held under the auspices of
George Crook post The posts at South
| Omaha and Papillion, however, had been in
vited to attend and a goodly number of the
members Of both bodies responded There
were altogether several hundred present dur
ing the day.
Right beside the veterans was grouped
| all the day another band of picnickers It
consisted of the school children of the Sun
| day schools OF the two colored Baptist
churches of the city, Mount Zion and Mount
| Pisgah, and of the Council Bluffs colored
| Baptist church. There were also a few from
| the colored Baptist church in South Omaha
| The joint outing brought out about $50 chill
dren and some of their elders. They spent
the day in play. with the exception of the
time that was consumed in eating and also
little portion in listening to remarks from
E. n. Hall and e. w. Woody
The children were carried to the grounds
| in two special moter trains. They arrived
about o'clock and remained until late in
the afternoon.