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What is High Farming.

An American farmer OF note, after
visiting England and examining with
the critical eye ofa practical and e1per-
fenced agriculturiSt the Systern Pur"ued
there, says:
am thoroughly confirmed In my old
faith that the only good farmer Of our
future is TO be the "high farmer" There
is widely prevailing antipathy among
the common farmers Of our country
against not only the practice Of high
farming. but against the use q the phrase
b. agricultural writers. This l. all
wrong and should ~ once be correctsd.
Through some plisccneeption - thr
meaning Of the phrase, and also Of H.
application, they have come 20 baliefs
il synonymous with theoretical @book
farming" "new tangled notions" boast.
ed progress, followed by disappointment
and final fsilurs. This is all an error.
High farming simply means thorough
cultivation, liberal manuring, bountiiul
crops, good feed, aud paying profits
therefrom. II is not strange that mis-
conceptions have arisen In the minds OF
doubling farmers who have been eye
witnesses to some Of the spread eagle eG-
perlments Of enthusiastic farmers, bet
ter supplied with money obtained in a
business they know how to manage thau
with practical eHperients on the farm.
Bountiful crops and paying profits Of
course are what all farmers who are de-
pending upon the farm for an income
are striving to obtain; and every year us
it passes is recon6rming the opinion that
the profits are small, and will grow
"beautiful less" where high farming il
not practiced.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14
Paris and Its People.

The Journal des EcoRomisies for July
gives us some curious statistics concern
ing the city of Paris, based on the mu-
nicipal census of 1872. In spite of the
Germans and the Commune the popula-
tion of that great city has kept on in
creasing, though the ratio Of increase
was grievously affected by the dreadful
events of 1870 and 1871. From 1875
PA in 1866 the population had risen to
to .S5I ,792 in 1872. OF these no more
than 81, ,624 are set down as not belong
ing TO the Catholic Church. The Pro-
testants of the old Huguenot way of be-
lief numbered only 19,423. The Israel
ties were more numerous, counting 3d.
434. There were in Paris in 1872 63. 569
houses, giving shelter and home 10 6S2,-
10 families, making 80 lilo inhabitants
and IL 10 families to each house. But
the domestic architecture of Paris, We
need hardly say, is of a more monumen-
taI ch l-l,ter than that Of London or
New York. and families occupying small
houses, which are the rule here. were the
exception there. MIST of these isolated
families we're English and 4 merican, and
they were to be found chiefly at Auteuil
and Passy 1t was especially noticeable
hat the Parisians proper were in de-
cided minority IN their own city. The
native Parisian- numbered 642,7S1, or
but 35 per cent. of the total. The whole
lumber Of Frerch citizens was l,715,-
59l, leaving 140,20l foreigners divided
y follows: 1854 Germans, 32.912 Bel
giana, I2,400 Swiss, $3.50 Italians, 1852
Dutch. : 400 English, 4,12o Americans,
2.723 spaniards, 2,4sl Poles, 1903 Aus
'ra- Hnngarians, l,09l Russians, 704
Turks and Greeks, 4T2 ScandinaviaIls,
1O7 Chinese, Hindoos, ect. It is curious
enough 10 learn that Of the II ,35+ Ger
mans no few than 31,615 are Alsatians
and Lorrainers, who, though living in
PaFls, chose TO be registered as Germansl
There were $3.50 of these people in
Paris, so that not quite a majority OF
them deliberately elected the German
nationality in the capital of France.
Possibly the questions OF taxes and OF
proprietorship in the ceded provinces
may have something to do with this
fact. which is rather startling in the face
of all that we have heard about the pas
sionate devotion of Alsace and Lorraine
TO the French flag. How are we to ac-
count, too, for the circumstance that
19.02q Alsatian men and only 17,047
Alsatian women stood by the tricolor at
the critical moment when they were
called 10 decide upon their nationality.
That Paris is the "Paradise of women
il obviously the belief of the fair sex all
the world over. There were 4, $50 Eng
iish woman and only 2.9O1 Englishmen
among the residents of the New Baby
lon," 2,101 American women, and only
1.039 male Yankees; S,455 German wo-
men of the original German nationality,
and only 1924 German men. Yet in the
total population the women are in a
minority-832. $50 against s63, ,252 men.
Perhaps this is an essential of feminine
felicity. Massachusetts,, where quite the
reverse IS true, must be recognized, we
suppose, a. the Hades of women.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14
The sympathy OF Mature.

How could it be that everything va
living still, now that she was Eone7 Tell
me not that nature can console; Hgainai
actual pain, against real loss, nature can
do nothing. When you have been pin-
ing in your chamber, mortified by the
treachery, unkindnesA, or deceit Of thoss
around you, 90 out and breathe the fsoe
fresh air Of the pastures and the WoOes
and you shall soon regain your Peaeofal.
ness; the malicious mischief o. the alan.
derous can harm you not amidst the pare
and unsullied charms Of nature but
when the bitter stroke ef bgFeaqamenl
has fallen on your lie, and yUug wife IA
taken from your Raaa, then nmltheg GRoa,
nor stream, nor hogefs, nor hlue eAys nor
music Of the birds can avail 70 alleviate
your woe; thess thinga aAA belong 70 .
different sphere, and have no vcloe cl
solace for the mourner aa me- bewaila hls
loss.--- Walfredi @ IFaAsafioa fre7 ~
German.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14
A Curl.n.M Nan.


For the pact das or two there has been
in this city colored man who presents
in himself a qneer physiological freak,
he is thirty-four years Of age, thick sei.
of medium height, Of fair intelligence.
and was horn in Manchester, England.
He gains his livelihood By exhibitinw
himself to physicians. His abdomen is
naturally full, but at will, without tbs
use Of his hands, he gives It waye-lIks
motion, and it gradually sinks ~ IS "
being wound up, until il apparently raeus
close against the backbone, and he pges
sent the appearance Of q man with nv
abdomen, and then In the SANE mannaa
he rolls Il our 10 its original form. n
hen drops from under bis ribs dlblis
cate set Of ribs, with brunWt-bono, whun
the original ribs and duplicates can ha
distinctly felt and counted, and the uhoi-.
front Of the body is, os il were, iron-cIad.
Or, as will, he apparently drops his hears
from its natural position some twelve
inches, puts il back and sends it TO the
lower part Of the body on she right side,
thus putting II in four positions. Dur
ing these changes tho sounds Of the hears
can be distinctly heard in either Of she
new positions, and not whore ihay usn.
ally are heard. It seems to be necena-
~, however, that after each ehargs Il
Thould 20 back where it belongs bUfore
being sent to a new quarter. he flgo
has the power to stop the beating of hls
heart from FIVE TO ten seconds az time,
the pulse stopping at the same time. He
seems to have considerable strength, easi-
ly bending by blow ON thg asEti heayy
iron cane which he carries Several Of
our prominent physicians have ezumln-
ed him, from one Of whom we have OBJ
tanned these facts, and pronounce him 70
be the greatest curiosity in physloloEy
they have ever seen or heard oE--Pregi.
denes Journal
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14
The Valley OF Death.

In the northwest corner of San Ber-
nardino county, lying partly also in Inyo
county, and, by the newly surveyed line,
partly also ia the State Of Nevada, is 4
region paralleled by few other spots up
on the face of the earth. We say the
world is instinct with life. Here, IL the
phraseology may be pardoned, is q place
instinct with death. A huge basin,
whose rim is the ancient hills, stricken
with tire barrennesss of eternal Gesola-
ton, whose bosom, the blasted waste Of
the desert-treeless, shrubless, and wa-
terless, save few bitter pools like the
lye of potash water; surrounded by
mountains that tower thousaRds Of feet
above the sea level, itself lying three
hundred feet below the sea. 1t is a
very 'Gehenna"-a place of death and
bones. Birds 90 not fly over it. Ami
mails do not enter it. Vegetation can
not exist in it. The broad sands absorb
the heat, the bare mountains reflect it,
the unclouded sun daily adds to it.
Ninety degrees in the shade (artifcial
shade, there is no other means winter.
One hundred and thirty and one hundrt d
and forty degrees, that is summer.
The hot air grows hotter, wavers,
trembles with heat, until nature, goad-
ed to madness, can endure no more; and
then the burning blast rouses itself
rouses in its might; rouses as an angry
beast, with hoarse, ominous roar;
sweeps mile after mile, on, ever on, over
the broad reach of the desert, bearing
in its black, whirling bosom-black as
the midnight-dust, sand, alkali, and
death. Sometimes q murky, cloud
gathers upon the mountains above; then
there is a rnsh-a warning sigh on the
winds--a low rnmbling IN the air; the
hills culver, the earth trembIes, and tor
rent, half water, half mud, bounds from
the hills, leaps into the desert, plowing
The clouds scatter, the sun comes again,
the eternal thirst of the desert is not
quenched. The raging river vas only
| a dream.
In the year 1S49, a party of emigrantf
entered the basin. Day after day they
toiled on-thirsting dying. The pitile IS
mountains walled them in; no escaI
One by one they dropped and died. A
few, abandoning everything, scaled the
mountains and escaped. The others lie
as they fell, dried to mummies-no birds
even to devour their flesh, no beast to
prey upon them. Wagon-tires unrusted
gun barrels bright, untarnished. Such
is the place Mile after mile silence
reigns; silence-and death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

A district schoolmRster in one Of the
upper counties of Michigan, was asked
what algebra he preferred, and he repli-
ed: "oh, ain't ParticulAri most any
kind that will jus; peel the hide when
you strike"
When . stranger stands on public
square in Denver, spits on his hands and
cries out: "Climb on to me by thousandsv'
even the postmaster pulls of his coat
and goes ont to make the response sue
cess.
The Detroit Free Pres profesSPs to
have discovered young lady who blush.
es, goes to bed at nine, eata heartily
speaks plain English, respects her moth
or, doesn't want TO marry lord, nnd
knows how 70 cook.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

The leading farmers in the principal
wheat point in the St. Croix valley, says
the Hudson, Wis, Star and Times, are to
have warehouse of their own at Ham
mond, and buy, store and ship for them
selves and so demonstrate by their own
experience whether heretofore they had
been treated fairly or not. If the Ham
mond enterprise proves successful, simi-
lar ones will be inaugurated elsewhere,
until farmers will have the handling as
well as the raising of the wheat crop.
Horses now wear bonnets. The Sum.
mer style Is worn with long floating scar.
let strings which tie under the chin, and
are trimmed with black lace and edged
with chinelle fringe. The crown of this
bonnet is shirred traversely, and it is
trimmed with dainty putting of ribbon
and white muslin futing, edged with
Valenciennes lace. The effect is "paw.
fectly chawming," but 1t makes the ami
NAL too lacey.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14
Another # the BrOwniOWS.

From the Nashville Union IN American, Au-
gust Z.
Senator William @. Brownlow is not
the only original in that family. He has
brother who, until Yesterday, WAS a
candidate for Register in Washington
county, and the way that brother ap-
pealed TO the sympathies of the sover-
eigns would have drawn saltwater from
the optics of a Government mule. We
make some "choice extracts" from his
electionee-ing circular, as quoted by a
correspondent Of the Memphis Ava
lanche:
II am Tennesseean by birth, and all
that this word implies. I am fifty nine
years old, and have been living in the
State and in the county thirty five years,
laboring in your midst as an humble
mechanic, until 1 am broke down. Some
seven years ago / lost my wife; she left
me with Eve orphan children to take
care OF. I married the second wife, and
she is weakly. Ny friend, Mr.. Jarvis,
is man of ofproperty. He owns two farms
on the Cherokee, and has had this little
Office twelve months, and during that
time he has been keeping school at Bells
school house, and hired Mr.. Chas. Dos
ser to attend TO his business in this Office.
He has FIVE more months to teach at
Bells in order to make out his school,
and now he has one Vinete Zine, of in
dex notorietv, as his deputy, and will
continue said Zine if elected. Now,
felIow-citizens, is it fair for this man
Jarvis; 20 grab it all?''
But the stupendous style in which he
disposez Of his competitors and their
claims is simply unapproachsble:
''Snn, stand thou on Mount Gideon
high in the heavens, and thou, moon, in
the Valley Of Agalon, and witnesa, if
you please, the entire annihilation and
everlasting destruction Of all who may
dare oppose those modern Joshuas on
their onward march to this little office.
Be ashamed, and get out of the old
mans way, and give it to me for one
term, and then you may Sight over it
hereafter"
And il Calvin Jones could have re-
sisted this, we would rot care about
taking his chances in the hereafter:
"Now, Calvin Jones, take seat and
sit down, cross your legs, and don't be
uneasy. You came ont for this Office
two months after l did; why are you SO
anxious for me to quit and let you run?
SIT still, you know that | can beat you
two TO one In an even race. Now, Mr..
Jones, this office would be an injury to
you; you are worth three or four thous-
and dollars, first-rate farm in the
Greasy Cove, and good farm on the
Cherokee. You had better be breaking
up vour ground for wheat"
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NUMBER Is.

commercial interests. 4. She for grain 1
the Chicago Of the East, and for sugal
and tobacco the New Orleans Of tn,
North. o. well as being on q par witt
other cities AZ TO nearly every staple in
the market; her streets are crooked and
unplessantiy narrow, her buildings mag.
ni6cent and tall, her inhabitants hospit.
able ard Intelligent, numbering about
10000 souls; but the soil like that
around Washington, is "too thin" and
from her ports and depots must come the
bulk Of all that which renders her sus-
tenance, traffic and of 80 much CONNER.
cial importance.
AUGUST 9th.
I, to-day in looking up our genealogi.
cal items passed through 'Druidhili
Park" within the northern limits of the
city containing about 1000 acres of land
with fine lot OF natural timber and
trees as they were planted by the muni-
fcent hand of nature. Here in q beau
tiful little lake Of clear fresh waler is a
splendid fountain with Jet Of water six
inches in diameter throwing a stream
over 100 feet high. This Is said 70 be
the largest known, and it'wss Just put in
operation to-day, and Is matter of unu-
sual notice amongst the natives, who feel
proud of this achievement in the art,
and do not fail to call the attention of
strangers to it as among the first things
Of note in the city. / have visited, or
rather passed, three monuments, viz
Washington, Battle and Guy; but my
time is SO preOceupied thas will not
attempt description now, and in fact
my letters seem to assume too much
length, and | will for the present close,
and say ''good night"
&c. CUREAN.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

SILVER IN MIgNEaOTA.--1he Nal
waukee Evening Wiseoastn statea that
veins Of silver quartz have lately been
discovered on Snake and CrindsioneE Eiv-
ers, tributaries Of the Sc. CrOix, near
ChengwatoRna and Rush City, Minn,i
which experts pronounee verg rich nl
the openinga, while ProphoayinF stih
better underneath, Specimens have been
forwarded 70 81. Paul, Chieago and De-
troit, and the region "a being thcrouEhly
explored. These dimcoverleg are hoogt
the southwest termlnua q sho r9oH
Formation which tBcioaea Lake Superior,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

The Law OF LoNGEvITY-A writer
recently attempted to give the rrasons
why some men live longer than others
the law of longevity, in fact. He goes
into an elaborate argument and explana-
ton. He treats of Inheritance and har-
mony of function-respiration, diges-
tion, circulation, assimilation and secre-
tion-mental hygienes, and temperance
and regularity. 1t almost appears, be
fore we are through, thar no man should
die at all who starts with q good consti-
tuition and takes care of himself. Theo-
rists may speculate as much as they
choose, but they have most conflicting
data to reconcile. 1t seems as if people
live to old age just for the child's reason.
"because they do" Some are temperate
and some use liquor freely; many lead an
open-air life, and others pass most Of
their time in store or house or Office.
Vigorous exercise or confirmed indo-
lence; Graham bread and fruit, or pork
and beans and cabbage; tobacco or the
adherence of a pipe; mental labor or
mental vacuity-all have their centen-
arians.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

1t is something unaccountable how
these sober and sedate old fellows, as
soon as their families have gone to the
country to spend the heated term, COM
mence to wear their Sunday clothes ev.
cry day, and to argue that four hours
sleep is all that the human frame re.
quires to he heslthy.-Dstroit Free Ress.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

A Michigan lady writes to the Wo-
mans Journal to say that the women in
her neighborhood are so benlghted that
they care nothing about voting, and all
that sort of thing, but just keep at their
house-work like mere machines. She
adds: "We have no lecturers or speakers
and meetings of no kind have al yet been
hinted at in this locality or for twenty
miles around, 80 far as I can learn"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14
To Free Cabbage From the CabbaI

To Free Cabbage From the Cabbage
Worm.-It has been recommended by
one who asserts that he has practiced il
thirty years to examine the eabbags be-
fore they head, and il the web ofthe
caterpiller is found, or holes in the
leaves of the bud, put tablespoonful ol
wheat bran in the head. II hard rains
fellow you may have TO repeat. The
cure Is said to be efTectual, the worms
becoming mired in the shorts made wet
with the dew. They seldom attack the
cabbage after they are headed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

A want has been felt and expressed by
physicians for a safe and reliable purga-
tive. Such want is now supplied in
Parsons Purgative Pills.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

Henry K. Bond, of Jefferson, Maine,
was cured of spitting blood, soreness and
weakness of ,he stomach, by the use of
Johuson's Anodype Linimenti internally.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

An Iowa circus drew big crowd by
advertising that Schuyler Colfax would
enter the ring on bet of $500 that he
could ride the trick mule
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

When a women bushes and weeps'
car she be said 70 raise hue and ery7
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-14

The balloon ascents recently made in
France by NJ. Croce Spir ELI aud NJ.
SIvel have demonstrated that the color
of the sky, at great heights, is in fact
blue, ard not of that sombre hue which
other aeronauts have attributed to it.,
probably in consequence of their fatigue
caused by the rarefaction of the air.
These gentleman carried with them u
mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, which
II e. inhaled from the vessels containing
it whenever they experienced any sense
of physical or mental weakness. In each
instance after these inhalations the som
bre color of the sky was replaced by its
normal blue.
The Dubuque TINS tells romantic
little story about the marriage of Mr.. n.
L. Alden, of Dubuque, and Mrs. Abbie
NJ. Orcutt' of Boston, which took place
there on tbs 22d ult. The bride and
groom became acquainted thirty yeaas
ago, and two years later were engaged to
| be married An unfortunate occurrence
caused rupture and they separated
she remaining in Boston and he going
to the West. Each was married without
the others knowledge, and both had
Children, he five and she three. About
five years ago her husband died, and ov.
err year ago his wife passed away
Last June the former lovers met in Du-
buque, make it all up, and the marriage
| bells rang again.
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"Old John Browns body
Lies naouldering in the tomb.

Here we should like to have stopped
nd feasted our eyes for few hours but
on GO fnot Riehmond) but Baltimore we
naust 80, passing through Washington
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-13

The FIRST TEST VoTE ON The GRANGE
QUESTION resolution OF Mr.. Smith of
Ohio, offered in the National House of Rep
resentatives. Monday. upon the subject of
asserting the government power to control
railroads crossing State lines and engaged
in commerce between States was the first
test vote had in the House upon any of the
issues raised by the grangers. 1t was I'M
derstood on both sides of the House to be
such a test, and the Democrats, with a very
few Republicans, at once attempted by mo-
ton to adjourn to avoid vote. But all
attempts to dodge the question or delay
present action were voted down by a nearly
unanimous Republican vote, and the resolu-
ton was fnally agreed to by an almost
strictly party vote. Unless the Democracy
are enabled to do something to neutralize
the effect of to-dav's work it is agreed on
all hands that there cannot in the future be
much in common between themselves and
the CHANGERS, while the Republicans thus
far have not opposed them in any of their
main ideas.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-13

\ SPECIAL COURT TOR ALIENs.-Ihe Pres
ident in his annual message recommended
legislation to create special court TO hear
all claims of aliens upon the United States
..rising out Of acts committed against their
D .rsons OF property during the rebellion.
Tie recent Alabama claims treaty only re-
lat, d to claims Of British subjects between
App j. Is6I. and June, 1863. Citizens of
other nations have claims, and those Of
British subjects since June, lo65. are not
proyii. j Iir. \ court of alien claims in
favor o. \ american ana other citizens has
been e,ta nli-hel in Prussia, Hanover, Baya-
ria. Sutherland, Holland, the Netherlands,
Hanseatic province, Hamburg France, Spain
Belgium nd Italy. Our government has
generally provided for allowing claims
against it by commissions, as the present
Mexican mix ID commission and the British
mixed commi sion These have been tedious
and expensive. \ court Is recommended by
the President as less expensive and more
speedy than commissions would generally
be. And such a tribunal would require an
experience and knowledge of international
law which would give weight and character
to its decisions. Judge Lawrence of Ohio
has introduced a bill, which meets approval
at the State department, that provides for
a tribunal of thre 2 judges to hear all claims
of foreign companies, corporations or in
dividuals arising out of acts committed
against their persons or property during
the period of reco, ;nized war, to continue
only when business required, upon the call
of the President. 1t is the expectation of
the State department that the tribunal will
in time be entrusted with the decision OF
controversies between nations, and become
useful to promote peace. This bill proposes
an appeal to the Supreme Court. 50 as to
give the complete remedy which removes
Questions from diplomatic discussion.