The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-27
GENERAL NOTES.

there's anything mean about me? He
was a square boy, and amt going to
squeal on him"
The young lady who whistles defends
herself in the Christian at Work, as foll-
ows "Let no one deny me the privilege
of whistling when sitting alone at my
sewing If I am compelled to
walk the street alone at night, l never
fear danger at an approaching footstep
if it is accom- panied with the music Of
whistling. 1 do not believe a person
can whistle who is intent on evil"
There came up in England the other
day a case in which the enforcement of
the law for compulsory education would
have condemned family TO starvation.
Louise May lon, widow, the only support
of four small children, nearly in a state
of starvation, goes out to days work
when she can get it and leaves her old
est child, a boy aged nine, to take care
| of the others, and the school authorities
| brought her up to compel her to send
this boy to school, though if she did this
she could not go out to the little work
she is able to get. The Judge refused to
enforce the law.
The Emperor of Germany has con-
ferred medal on William latham, of
Philadelphia, for rescuing fellow
students life at the risk of his own, of
! L. CoAool
An English court has held railroad
company for damage to a passenger,
caused by want of punetuality in start
ing a train.
In 1873 the California Fish Commiss-
toners, placed seven Holsters, all that re.
manned of hundred shipped from New
York thither, in the bay of San Francis
co, and now the bay is reported to con-
tain millions of little ones, which prom
ise to furnish bountiful supply for fu-
ture consumption.
A newly organized company in Wash
ington, D. C., propose securing land near
Alexandria, Va, and establishing there
on a village, the site of which will be
divided into ten, fifteen and twenty acre
vineyards. Experienced vine growers
will be invited from Europe, to whom
the land will be sold on long credit.
At a recent New York funeral, where
the deceased was young and beautiful
girl, over $1,000 worth of flowers were
distributed in and around the coffin. A
chorus was sung by hired vocalists. On
either side of the coffin stood four young
girls dressed in white, each holding in
her hand a wreath of flowers. While
the minister prayed, bell was tolled in
the hallway, and chant sung by the
hired vocalists. The lady friends of the
deceased thought the entertainment
perfectly elegant"
One of the largest factories in the
world for the manufacture of artifcia
! butter is situated at Hamilton, Ontario
This factory has capacity for making
) eight or ten thousand pounds a day
) All the appointments, says New Yorl
, paper, are convenient, nothing could b
f sweeter or cleaner than the rooms, th'
y walls being well made and painted will
} shellac varnish. Tanks, churns ant
presses are in separte rooms. Great cart
+ is exercised in the selection of fat. Tht
difficulties of securing good color anC
l grain" remain to be overcome. The
! proprietors use about fifty pounds of tn,
r very best milk to every two HUNDRED
r pounds of suet oil, and churn it sn houl
| by steam power; it is afterward cooled il
! watts, and then worked by single lave
J until all the milk is removed and thu
salt is worked in, when it is packed will
: ladies in tubs. The butter thus made
sells at from sixteen to twenty Ugh
cents pound wholesale.
1t is a singular fact, but one we'll au
thenticated, that an Indian neve
dreams. He slumbers away like horse
and he doesn't know what it is to dream
that he is riding out to spelling schoo
with his arm around the waist of til:
handsomest girl in town.
A Louisville papa did not seriously
r object to the proposed elopement of hi
S daughter with. a dry goods clerk. Hap
l pening to get wind of the plan, he merely
: lay in wait for Augustus, and sent hin
: away with the impression that a remark
: ably healthy young mule had played .
4 tattoo with his heels under his coat-tails
!. An aged backwoodsman was reprovet
by the clergyman for allowing his sons t.
$ go hunting on the Sabbath. "You ough
to bring up your Children in the fear o
the Lord, said the minister. Fear o
4 the Lord?" said the old man. rs jis
! what I've done. Don't one O. them boy
E dare g'wout doors Sunday thout double
barrel gum
+ A country paper tells this story of .
new boy in one of the Sunday schools
"The precious youth was asked whC
made the beautiful hills about there
and replied that he did not know, as hi.
parents only moved into town the day
before"
, When dead man is spoken of as 9TH.
late Mr.. Smith," the inference is that ht
did not die early enough.
p At fifteen the average boys sing
gaily, "I want to be an angel" At thir
I ty he wants to live as long as he can.
| 1t is considered safe plan for a younl
/ man never to trife with the affections o
] a woman who whistles.
According to an Auburn paper, the,
, are going to put up in that city an addi
tion to their seminary, "to accomodat'
eighty-six students 200 feet long.
e A Western paper chronicles marri
E age in this suggestive style "The coup
lie resolved themselves into a committe,
t of two, with power to add their mum
ber."
e A popular clergyman says it is inter