The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-15
CURRENT NOTES.

minister, keep me humble and poor.
20, Lord, If Thou will keep him hum
ble," said the deacon who next pray
ed, eve will keep him poor"
A new style of boys trowsers ha.
been invented in Boston, with a cop
per seat, sheet-iron knees, riviteC
down the seams, and waterproof.
pockets, to hold broken eggs.
Out in Wisconsin a horse kicked
and killed a book agent, whereupor
the citizens made a donation party
for the horse, and he now has oats
enough to last him q full horse life
time.
Secretary Bristow has declined q
present Of a carriage and pair o.
horses for his wife, offered by a per.
sonal friend. He probably does not
wish to have any appearance Of a
laudaulet about his establishment.
A Paterson, n. j., man who had
placed several lightning-rods on his
house was delighted, during a recent
storm, at seeing it struck in two
places, while the house of his heigh-
Dor, who was too mean to pay for a
lightning-rod, was not struck at all.
A Boston correspondent to the
Courier journal says that if two
Boston women stop to kiss each
other on the street, the sidewalk is
blocked for a mile, and everybody
shouts Butler" because that states
mai is supposed to be the source of
all woe.
Boston Corbett, who shot Wilkes
Booth, is living in Camden, New
Jersey, and on week days follows
the profession of halter in Philadel-
phia. He breaches every Sunday in
the Independent Methodist Church
in Camden, where he is very popu-
lar.
A naughty little boy, blubbering
because his mother wouldn't let him
go down to the river on the Sabbath,
upon being admonished, said: IL
didn't want to go q swimmin' with
'em, ma l only wanted to go down
and see the bad little boys drown for
going in a swimmin' on Sunday"
Mrs. j. r. Carson, of Toledo, Ohio,
the distinction of the first lady
who has ever occupied the position
of superintendent Of a railroad. Mrs.
Carson is superintendent of the Tole-
do, Wabash and Western railroad,
with which she has been connected
in various capacities almost from its
infancy.
A farmer in Assyria, Mich, while
blowing through a mound recently,
took off in one furrow the heads Of
seven buried skeletons. On excaTa-
ting, the remains Of twenty-five indi-
viduals were found buried in a sit
ting posture, with numerous silver
ornaments bearing inscriptions in I'M
characters.
A California paper says twenty
years ago 6 Senator of that Common
remarked II would not give
six bits for all the agricultural land
in California This year the state
will harvest wheat enough to load a
thousand ships, each of a thousand
IONS burden, and have enough left for
home consumption.
General G.. 2. Il. Beauregard has
received the appointment of Chief
Engineer Of the Argentine Republic,
with a salary of $4,000 in gold per
lnnum, and he will sail for South
America within a few days He will
nave charge of the defensive works,
md will also s%usperintend the explo-
alton Of the Platte river.
A London dispatch announces the
Of a professor while attempt
ng to fly from a balloon to the earth.
rising a short distance the
professor was lowered, and hung sus-
from the balloon by a rope,
With the wings of a flying machine
extended. The balloon assembled to
considerable height, and at a signal
he rope was cut, when the professor
descended with fearful velocity to the
,rQqnd and was instantly killed.
4 priest the other day, who was
a confirmation class in the
south of Ireland, asked the question:
What is the sacrament of matrimo-
W" A little girl at the head of the
lass answered, "Tis a state of tor
lent into which sowls enter to pre-
are them for another and better
Being" said the priest,
the answer for purgatory." "Put
er down. says the egrate, put her
own to the fut of the class" Lave
err alone" said the priest, efor any
hing you or | know to the contrary
be may be parictly right"
The Rev. Mr.. Parks objected to
ating his picnic dinner at Moro, ,
AL, remarking that "that rag ]
trough which be had put many a !
ullet hole disturbed his enjoyment.p {
the f%olloing Sunday, as Mr. Parks !
'ok his place in the pulpit, be found
\ American flag hanging from it.
lie was about to pull it down, when
IT. Miller, who placed it there, after
caring his nnlOyal speech at the pic
%, quietly roae ana presented Q pis
j, advising him to go on With his :
reaching and let the flag alone.
Liller sat on the front seat with his 6
lger on the trigger, ready for any .
fusion derogatoFy to the flag. At B
conclusion Of the sermon Mr.. 2
illar made n mofinn that tho. chnroh a