The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04

Don't tell an editor how to run a
newspaper. Let the poor fool find it out
himself.
A Milwaukee woman's bonnet cotss,
upon average, about fifteen dollars, but
she has the bill made out for thirty or
forty dollars, In order to show it to the
woman next door.
A bed of petri6ed oyster SHELLS and re-
mains of salt water reptiles and fish, all
in state of petrification were unearth-
ed recently at Chattanooga.
Cleaveland, Ohio, is going back to the
primitive customs of an earlier era.
The congregation of one of the Presby-
terian churches got mp an old fashioned
spelling school" the other evening, in
which young and old Joined, and great
hilarity prevailed.
A sensational religious event in San
Francisco was the participation by
Presbyterian, Unitarian, and Congre-
gationalist clergyman and a Jewish
rabbi in the installation of Universal
list pastor. Several of the sectarian
newspapers think that liberality was car
ried too far.
1t is said that new reservoir now be-
ing constructed to supply Paris with
water, will be covered over with by an
artificial garden, with sufficient depth of
soil to allow of plants being cultivated
on it. The idea is to protect the water
from the suns rays in summer and from
frost in winter
Gladstone has taken to wood. chop
ping, like Horace Greeley.
A Chicago clergyman astonished his
congregation the other Sunday by the
following business-like speech: al
should like to continue as your pastor
another year, and will stav if you will
pay me $4,000. 7 cannot stay for less,
and would like an answer right away"
He was engaged.
The California law provides that &C
cused parties may be present at the Sc
lection of a grand jury, and may chal-
lenge persons who are drawn, for cause.
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
this provision has given rise to "board
of grand jury brokers" in that city, who
will undertake to shape any grand jury
to suit the views of their employers.
There is queer railroad trouble in In
diana. A road being in debt for $4,000
worth of unpaid taxes, the Sheriff of the
town where they are due is trying to at
tach locomotive. The law does not
allow him to take the locomotive of a
mail train, and now the freight trains
do not stop at that town, but run slowly
through, all hands deriding the Sheriff
who sees no way to secure his locomo-
tive.
An exchange gives the following
statistics Boston has an average of one
arrest for drunkenness to every Is Of hel
inhabitants Providence has one in %
New York has one in 27 San Francisco
has one in %; Louisville has one in %
Rochester has one in 81 Washington
has one in 80: Detroit has one in "a st
Louis has one in AZ; Cleveland has on,
in AZ; Brooklyn has one in "a Cincin
natl has one in Sc.
They had a great time at the Marthi
Washington tea party, Brooklyn, New
York, the other evening. The Court o
the First President was grandly repre-
sented. As to the satellites of Georg'
Washington, who were supposed to be il
the court dress of 1776, they looked a
unlike General Grants courtiers as posi-
BILE. Their sheeny velvet coats witt
brass buttons, lily-white satin vest
trimmed with gold lace, knee breeche'
top boots and old fashioned perukes
cooked hats and red plumes would hav
looked very funny at General Grant
cottage in Long Branch, says the Hel
aid