The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-08-10
CURRENT NOTES.

That was a bright child who in
CURED "Ma, when COWS die, do they
go to the milky waypn
An Iowa woman put vitriol on
her head to remove dandruff. TWAS
very thorough in its operations.
A Buffalo woman was let off with
a fine ofs3O, for throwing pepper into
the eyes of another woman.
The Gatling Gun Company, of
Hartford, has nearly finished forty
large guns for the Chinese govern
ment.
"The earth is the Lords" Lots
40x60 for 250," were the adjoining
inscriptions at the Sea Cliffs camp
meeting grounds.
The Democracy are on the fence,
this year, and don't know whether to
pray Good Lord" or Good Devil"
They had better stick to the latter.
He's nearest home to them
Keep sober and then you can talk
straight. One of our druggists was
quite surprised the other day to hear
a fellow inquire if be had any ofMrs.
Soothlow's Winsling Slyr'p.
One of the editors of the Cincinna-
ii Inquirer recently saved the cook
of a canal boat from drowning, and
has received a letter from the girls
father saying, "You have saved the
gal, and she's your'n." No cards.
So says a floating paragraph.
"That dog of yours flew at me this
morning and bit me on the leg, and
l notify you that l intend to shoot it
the first time | see it." "The dog is
not mad" 81 know he's not mad
What has he got to be mad about +?
It's me that's mad"
A special dispatch to the Louis
vile Courier Journal says one
stroke of lightning killed six persons
in Woodford county, KY, on Satur
day night, viz: Mr. Murdy and wife,
Mr.. Block, wife and daughter, and q
colored man living in the same house.
During the same storm the lightning
struck many points in central Ken
lucky.
On Saturday the 25th ult there
we're floods in various parts of Cali
fornia, occasioned by the bursting Of
"water-spouts." At Carson City,
Nevada, there was great destruction
of property, but no lives were lost.
A portion of the town of Eureka,
California, was swept away, and a
number of the inhabitants persisted.
Fourteen dead bodies have been re-
covered.
The Palace Hotel, which is now
being built in San Francisco, it is
claimed will be the largest in the
world, 350x275 feet, and will contain
700 rooms. There will be 800 bath
rooms, and 374 bay windows. Ac-
eommodations will be furnished for
l,2Oe guests. The hotel is to be
completed in August, 1875, and will
cost altogether, 81, $50, 600. OF this
amount 81, 200, 900 will be the s Of
the lot, 81, 250.00 of the building,
and $500, 900 of the furniture.
A little girl in the infant class of a
Brooklyn Sunday school appreciated
better the difference between being
good from choice and necessity than
many elders. At the close of a re-
cent session the teacher said to her
=" Beckie, my dear, you were a very
good little girl to-day. "Yes'm.
couldn't help bein' good. | got a Tiff
neck" the youthful Beckie replied,
with a perfect seriousness.
There was o dust spout at Central
Falls, Il. J., the other day. \ dense
volume Of dust was seen to suddenly
rise into the air, and, assuming con-
zeal shape, was borne to q very high
altitude-so high, indeed, that the
top of it seemed to dwindle to Il mere
speck against the clouds. The sight
is described by those who witnessed
it as wonderful, although of short
duration, the cloud or spont being
soon broken and falling in showers
Of dust in the vicinity. 1t was pro-
duced by the same peculiar rotary
motion Of the air that produces water
spouts.
There is a young nan in a West
ern town who will know just what
to do next time. Seeing a good
chance to kiss a pretty girl Of his ac-
quaintance, he did not allow her I'M
willingness to interfere with his os-
culatory intent, but stole the kiss,
and thought perhaps that it was Il
knowing fellow who declared that
stolen kisses are sweetest Every
rose has its thorn. however, and the
young man fonnd it so by having to
pay a fine of $40. But after all there
came healing, for the day after his
trial he received . note from the
young lady enclosing the amount Of.
the fine, and telling him "the next
time be kissed her to be less rough
about it, and to be careful to "do it