The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-29
Brief Mention.

1t would take a train of cars 800
miles long to load the 1873 wheat crop
of Minnesota.
Some of the finest monuments in En-
gland have been built by penny sub
scriptions-
1t viii startle some people to know
that the parasol of the season contains
a dagger in the handle.
The yearly crop of sponges may be
estimated at $500 600, of which the Uni
ten States sponges one-half.
The number of hares and rabbits pro-
duced annually in Great Britain is said
to be $4,000 zoo, supplying 10000 tons
of food
Tkese are the days in which she says,
''I sSont care; wish was dead"' and
he synpathetically sy rejoins, "Hang the
bonnet! YOURS never satisfied
Icelanders are beginning to seek homes
IN the United States. They resemble
the Scotch in appearance, and are
bright, cleanly, healthy-looking class.
A deed was recorded in Blue Earth
county, Mimi on the 18th ult., the gran
tor of which, Catherine Mayotte, is said
to be one hundred and eighteen years
old.
Many of the new railroads in Europe
have not proved so profitable as their
projectors ANTICIPATED, and new railway
enterprises are meeting with but little
favor from capitalists.
Few know the great value of the cheese
sent TO England by the United States.
During three months ending March 81
the value of the cheese receiving from
America was S2,61O, ,230-a gain over
the corresponding quarter of last year
of more than 100000.
Fathers of families may be interested
in the fact that the importation of South
African diamonds in this country has
averaged five millions year for the
last three years. At present diamonds
are cheaper than they have been for ten
years, and pearls are dearcr.
"Plant trees, plant trees, Messrs.
Grangers, and farmers in general" says
the st. Louis Democrat, land many of
your grievances will vanish of them
selves. Your lands will become more
fertile, your districts more salubrious,
your landscapes more picturesque, and
your pocket. books and bank-bnoks more
interesting inside"
The Government botanist, who is sur
veying in Australia, mentions, in an
official dispatch, fig-tree which in size
far surpasses the far-famed trees in the
Yosemite country. Tins tree three feet
from the ground measures $50 feet in
circumference, and at 55 feet-where it
sends forth giant branches-the trunk
measures so feet round.
A Milwaukee boy has swallowed half
a dozen steel buttons, and his mother
doesn't have to scream for him when he
is ont on the street playing with those
Cluckerson boys. She just brings mag
net to the door, and he flies to it like a
needle to the pole.
| Fair damsel quitting on new gloves
-"Too tight! o, no, auntie, not at all;
besides, like them a little tight" +"
Troublesome brother.-"Feelsa as fsome-
body was squeezing her hand; don't you
see, auntie?"
/ To see how eagerly human being
| will catch at straw, it ia not necessary
| to witness a drowning. The phenome-
non is now manifest chiefly within sa-
| looms, where one end of the straw is i'm
mersed in a tumbler.
| Late investigations have completely
disproved the formerly-received geneal-
ogy of the Wasningtons, which derived
/ them from the north of England baro-
nets of the name, and the Father of his
Country is as entirely without pedi-
gree az the obscurest Democrats among
us.
The Journal of Chemistry thinks that
the potato is deteriorating, and that a
person should be detailed by Congress
to go to South America and select speci-
mems from the wild potato vines, bring
them by good cultivation to proper
degree of perfection in their native
habitat, then import them to. this coun-
try, SO that Ameriean agricuiturists
may obtain seedlings OF original health
and vigor of constitution.
The enormous increase of railway cas-
ualties IN England has become a subject
of Parliamentary inquiry. The Mar
quis of Salisbury, railway director,
said the only thing that could be done by
law to prevent railway accidents was to
make want of punctuality in the arrival
and departure of trains punishable by
heavy fines The fact is that the rail-
ways need more rails, while their small
dividends of four per cent. would not
justify the outlay.
The tide of immigration, which has
been at low ebb for many months, is
now swelling, the number of foreigners
who landed at Castle Garden, New York,
on Monday last being 4,062. The cur
rent that has set in from Italy is so
strong that there are now Thousands of
Italian laborers in streets of New York
who are anxious to work ten hours day
for a dollar and half. The Irish pop
ulation do not relish competition with
such cheap labor and there have been
riotous demonstrations.
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