The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-30

\ new style OF passenger vehicle some
thing between the street car and the
stage, has been tried in Chicago. The
body, which is about the size Of the one
, horse car run on our cross town lines,
hangs low between the hind wheels
The forward wheels are small and close
together, allowing short turns 50 as to
get close to the sidewalks, from which
passengers step directly into side doors.
The emigration from Italy to this
country is increasing rapidly. In 1872
the number who left Italy for our shores
was over twenty thousand; in 1878 it
was over twenty-six thousand, and this
/ year it promises to exceed thirty thou
sand. This great drain upon Italy is
due mostly to the great increase in
taxation and the intolerance of the gov
ernmenfof all political opposition.
"What has become of your monkey"
inquired well known but slightly in
ebriated politician of an organ-grinder
on Pennsylvania avenue. "He has gone
to your State to run for Congress" was
the prompt reply. The 5. p moved Of
by the left flank with lively entomo-
logical specimen in his larboard auricu-
lar.
Farmers and stock raisers have fire.
quently told us that they baYe seen very
good results from giving Sheridan's
Cavalry Condition Powders to cows and
swine before and after they drop their
young. The powders put them in good
condition, and give them strength to
oare and provide for the sucklings.
The Detroit Free Press describes in
very plain language the result of a pro-
hibition policy of twenty years in that
State. During all that time, il says,
there have been spread upon the statute
books most stringent enactments for pre-
venting the sale of splrituous liquors as
beverage, and the punishment of those
dealing therein. And it is the concur
rent testimony of friends and foes of the
prohibitory policy that prohibition has
been an utter failure, and that intem-
perance instead of diminishing has been
steadily on the increase. Occasionally
there may have been times when in the
smaller subdivisions of the State the
trafc in ardent spirits seemed for A brief
period to be checked, but the fact was
evident that the people would have been
just as temperate without the law.
"'Waters' Concerto Parlor Organ
possesses a beautiful and peculiarly soft
tone. The Concerto Stop Is, without
doubt, the best ever placed in any organ.
1t is produced by an extra set of reeds,
peculiarly voiced, from which the effect
is most charming, and its imitation Of
the human voice is superb. For sweet
ness of tone and orchestral effects it has
no equal .',-[Y. y. Times.
Poor young thing! She tainted away
at the wash-tub, and her pretty nose
went kerslop into the soapsuds. Some
said it was overwork; others, however,
whispered that her bean had peeped over
the back fence and called out: "HulIo,
there, Bridget, Is Miss Alice at homer
Somebody ingeniously calculates that
in planting and garnering twenty acres
of corn a farmer must travel at least
nine hundred miles in the corn-fdl
alone, II have" he says, "a twenty
acre field, forty by eighty rods. To break
this up would take 160 miles; narrowing
it about 40 miles; furrowjng out, 80
miles; planting, 45 miles, if with plan
ter, and if dropped and then covered,
80 miles; and for each plowing of two
burrows in a row, 90 miles, or, five
plowings, 45O miles. Thus you will see
it takes about eight or nine hundred
miles of travel to raise twenty acres of
corn, not counting going to and return
ing from the field. Besides there is al
ways some replanting, thinning, rolling,
etc"