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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

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DR.. A. B. Chaplin, of Flint, Michigan

DR.. A. B. Chaplin, of Flint, Michigan,
was called upon last week to visit a
family who had been suffering num-
Der of days with some strange and
painful sickness. Upon the doctors ar
rival at the house, he found the parties
suffering from violent contortions of the
muscles. The eyelids were markedly
olidous and pulled up, as well as the ex-
tremities, and accompanied with eopious
perspiration. The patients remained in
a crooked or half-bent position, the
thighs and legs cramped and doubled up,
the least movement occasioning the most
excrutiating pains, and the slightest
pressure upon the muscles producing
intense suffering. Withal, there was the
accompaniment of great thirst and diff
Guilty in opening the mouth. These were
the leading symptoms that the doctor
found. Upon being questioned as to
what they had been eating, the doctor
was informed that they had partaken
freely of raw ham a fortnight previous.
An examination of the pork was then
made by the physician, who found it in
fected by trichin@, the lean portions of
the flesh being literally filled with them.
In the family are three children who are
evidently well and healthy, and who
claim not to have eaten of the raw ham,
and this, with other facts attending the
case, thoroughly convince DR.. Chaplin OF
the cause of the trouble. The pork was
purchased fresh last fall, and prepared
for the table by the family. A number
of physicians have examined the pa
tients, and also made an inspection OF
the diseased meat. and all unite in pro-
nouncing it a true case of tsichin9 spirdts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

BARNUM's new Roman Hippodrome"
was opened in New York last week. The
building, which occupies the sites of the
old New Haven and Harlem Railroad
depots, presents in the interior bright
and cheerful appearance, and will ac-
commodate several thousand persons.
On the opening night. three elephants
hurried themselves along In trotting
race, with a ludicrous, trowel-like move
ment of the hind feet that provoked thun-
ders of laughter. Every now and then
one would trumpet out his anger under
the discipline of the goad in hollow
roar. In the race taken part in by three
young ladies in Roman chariots, that of
Miss Mile Kinlble came Into collision
with the inner rail and was brought TO
a stop, but was not injured. A herd of
Texan cattle were let loose in the course
and ran about like deers, pursued by sew
eral mounted Mexicans and Indians,
with lassos and the short-handled stock
whip used on the plains. Some were
lassoed, some were sent rolling over and
over on the ground by horsemen who
caught them by their tails as they DASH
ed past them, and some sought to escape
pursuit by clearing the inside rail with
a single bound and running desperately
about among the fountains and ether
costly adornmcnts in the center of the
course. Twenty-one horses were let loose
and perceptibly shook the earth as they
rushed by, goaded by jangling bells loose
ly attached, SO as to constantly strike
against their sides.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08
Two Kinds Of Maiden Aunts.

No home can be just what it was be-
fore, when it has been entered by third
person, who, without belonging actually
10 its life, is yet TO be its inmate. There
are two pictures of the maiden aunt, and
each equally faithful to its subject. One
is framed beautifully in fiction and song;
the other, the torture acd bane of domes-
tic peace, is rarely portrayed-iti is more
than enough that she lives The maiden
amt of the novel is pale, patient, and
much abused. Her early and only love
has gone to Heaven, where she expects
TO meet him, seraph; and by way Of
preparation, washes the children's faces,
makes and mends their clothes, endures
their naughtiness with the imperturbili-
ty of saint. She accepts the Sights,
seedlings, drudgery, and cast-of cloth
ing of her sister-in-law with the grace of
q Christian and the countenanee of
martyr, or endures the unwilling tolera-
tion of her brother-in-law with the
meekness which in itself is guarantee
of the kingdom of Heaven. But in ac-
tual life how often the maiden aunt who
derives parasitic existence from the
family of another either never had
sover, or lost him through the fault of
her own nature; and for this cause alone
never forgives the woman, whose home
she shares, the fact that she has hus--
band and is the mother of Children
Useful she is, indispensable she may be
in the daily routine of domestic labor,
and yet no less is she a spiritual dis
turber, an actual maker of mischief, the
secret and often unknownssource of mis-
understanding, estrangement, and sorrow
inexpressible. Where one family is
made happier by the fatal third person,
many are made wretched, and not few
are finally -broken up and destroyed
through such an inhuence.-M c. Ames'
1'ro Wires.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

If a'taIlow candle be placed in a gun
and shot at door, it viii go through
without sustaining any injury, and if
musket ball be fred into water, it will
rot only rebound, but be fattened, as If
fired against a solid substance. A mus
ket ball may be fred through pane of
glass, making a hole the size of the
ball, without cracking the glass; if the
glass be suspended by a thread it will
make no difference and the thread will
not even vibrate. In the arctic regions,
when the thermometer is below zero, per-
sons can converse more than mile dis
tant. DIR. Jameson asserts that he heard
every word of a sermon at distance OF
two miles. A mother has been distinct
ly heard talking to her child, on still
day, across water mile wide.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08
Why Barney was Retained.

A firm dealing largely in coal in one
of our Western cities had in their service
an Irisbman named Barney. One day
the head of the firm, irritated beyond en-
dursnce at one of Barney's blunders,
told him to go to the Office and get his
pay, and added: "You are 10 thick-head-
ed, can't teach you anything"
"Begorra," says Barney, "I've lsrnt
oun thing since Pye been wild vel"
"Whats that?" asked his employer
"That siyinteen hundred make ton. "
Barney was retained, or, to use the
phraseology of Southern gentleman
who had just won the heart and hand of
one of New York's most opulent widows,
resumed the primeval conditions of his
former rectitude'
1t is astonishing how rapidly q young
man's emotions will change when lady
relieves her waist from his encircling
arm by inserting about one inch of hair
pin in it, Brooklyn Argus.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08
Three Wives at Once.

The latest marriage ceremony partak-
ing of wholesale character at Brigham
Young's Endowment House." in Salt
Lake City, is thus described by the Tfi-
bune of that City, of the 10Th inst: "The
bridegroom came from the rural dee
stricks' youthful saint, filled to over
flowing with the nurture and admonition
of the Prophet Brigham. His prophetic
soul informed him that it was not good to
be alone, that the dilapidated kingdom
sadly needed building up, that legions of
fugitive spirits were lowering about his
steps. seeking, with tears in their eyes,
earthly tabernacles in which to repose.
So he did the best he could under the cir
cumstanees. He selected three tender
fair ones, and won them for his brides.
Last Monday the quartet got married.
The thrice happy groom conducted his
bevy of brides to the Endowment House,
and the party got sealed on the wholesale
plan. Brother Wells was present at the
interesting ceremony, and the cookies of
his heart warmed toward the well-doing
saint. The President tapped the Bene-
dict upon the shoulder, invoked increase
upon his union, and assured him of Gods
blessing on SO devoted an act. The awk-
wardness of the situation was apparent
when the much-married saint attempted
to seal the nuptial ceremonies with kiss
all round. Each blushing bride persisted
in receiving the first salutation, and the
bobbing of heads was quite lively for q
while, The young man gave it up at last
and issued out into the wicked world
with an expression upon his countenance
which indicated that he had now got
business enough on hand to occupy al
| his leisure moments.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

BENEFIT OF ExPANsIoN.-The ex-
pansionists of the west cite in support of
their demands. for more currency, the
fact that upon three separate occasions
the Bank Of England was in imminent
danger of suspension, viz: in 1927, 1857
andi 1866. On each of these occasions
the Government came to its assistance,
and the relief conferred was BY expansion.
The Privy Council issued orders author
izing the bank to add SIC, ,0oo, 900 ofnotes
more than it was authorized to issue by
its charter-to its circulation, although
the charter authorized an issue Of $7o,-
000, 900 in excess of the gold in the cof-
fers of the bank with which to redeem
its notes
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08
Night Work and Day Work


To those engaged in the work Of get
ting out q daily newspaper, says the
Baltimore AmeTicasa, the question as to the
number of hours that shall constitute
days work is theme in which they feel
no direct interest. They must commence
work when the work is ready for them,
and not stop until it is done. The old
rule of "from sunrise to sunset" would
be glorious relief TO them, and as 10
eight hours constituting a days work,
they would regard themselves as trans
formed to heaven of bliss. There are
few persons engaged in a newspaper Of
fee who work less than from twelve to
sixteen hours per day, and during the
winter season not less than ten of these
hours are by gaslight, closing st 8, 4, and
5 o'clock in the morning While other
people are sleeping soundly in their beds
the editor, with his crops of assistants, Is
busily at work preparing to spread before
his readers at the breakfast table news
from ali parts of the world, with a COM
plete record of the days and nights do
ings in his own locality When ordina-
~ mortals get up in the morning the
newspaper man is just turning in for his
first nap Twenty years ago the Ameri-
eSlN was put to press at 10 O'Clock in the
evening. A few years later IL o'clock
was the hour, and from that time to the
present the closing hour has been extend
ing into the morning, until o'clock is
now about the time for ending the days
work. in the editorial and composing
rooms. Fast presses, equal to the print
ing of 10000 to 1900 copies per hour,
have thus become essential to the rapid
delivery of the paper to the carriers and
news agents by this turning of night into
day. The telegraph, which formerly
closed before midnight, now ticks steadily
on night and day, and the newspaper
people must wait and watch for its tick
ing to the last possible moment. If the
newspapers do not, therefore, go into
spasms over the exciting question of linn
iting days work to a few hours of day
light, it must he attributed to their envy
of those who are blessed with calling
that will permit of such luxuries.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

Prof Palnisri has issued a report to
the following effect; @Affer the great
eruption of the 26th April, 1872, there
remained on the summit of the noun
tain crater Of large dimensions, diyId-
ed into two compartments by kind of
eyclopic wall, composed of huge blocks
of lava, alternated with thin beds of
einders. The medium diameter of these
twin craters Is aboat 500 metres, the
depth ESQ, &nd the measurement might
instIy be calculated at II, ,040, 900 cubic
metres. The upper portions, or lodges,
are composed OF fragments of scorie,
thrown ont during the period of active
eruption, the lower being a compact
mass of the same material From the
edges, however, from time to time, stones
and cinders have fallen into the cavity
in such quantities as nearly to fill it up.
Indeed, the cyclopic wall has now dis
appeared altogether, and the crater in
the absence of eruptive phenomena,
may almost be said to have ceased TO ex-
ist. Internal shocks may have either
caused this wall to erumble TO pieces, or
the cavity has been filed by matter
elected from the intesior of the volcano.
Smoke and the inclsnency of the wealth
er has rendered impossible such an ex-
animation as would perhaps have led TO
the solution of this question. If we ac-
cept the theory that the matter has been
uplifted from the bowels of the mountain,
it is certain that the eruptive element is
still active. If, on the contrary, it is
due to the gradual crumbling TO pieces
of the mural wall, it would have no
eruptive significance whatever. Visitors
who wish to enter within the boundary
of the crater. should do so on the north
west side, where the opening of 1872
will allow them sufficient space in which
to make their explorations" There is
some talk of railway to the crater,
and model has been sent to Rome from
>the Vienna exposition. The sort OF
railroad represented by this model has
been in use about year at Buda and
Vienna. The promoters are anxious to
have Professional opinions as to the appli-
cation of such system to Vesuvius.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08
A Negro Girl's Remarkable Memory.

There is a negro girl in Brucetown
about 9 years of age whose memory is
truly marvellous. Her wonderful powers
were first brought to the notice ofa white
man, who keeps a grocery in that part of
the city, about two weeks ago. He had
been reading aloud in her presence the
day before and accidentally heard her
repeat, word for word, what he had read
from the paper, though twehty-four
hours had interveRed. After this he test
ed her memory frequently, and has found
her capable of repeating thirty or forty
lines from book after hearing it read
over once. Her intellect in other respects
does not seem at all above, if equal to,
the average. Such instances of memory
are not very unusual. Larry Summer
vile tells of an idiot in Edinburgh who
never failed to repeat the sermon, word
for word, after attending the kirk each
Sunday, saying: "Here the minister
coughed;;" "Here he stopped to blow his
nose" She also tells of another whom she
met in the highlands, who knew the BIZ
bic so perfectly that if he was asked where
such a verse was to be found, he could
tell without hesitation, and repeat the
chapter. We remember, also, TO have
read a year or two ago an account of a
man in New York who could read one
side of the New York Herald, and then
repeat it word for word, advertisements
and all. Thirty years ago or there
abouts, there was book-peddler in this
part of Kentucky who had considera-
BILE reputation for his remarkable memo
ry. Old Jimmy Hutchison" sold "Pil-
grim's Progress" "Clelland's Hymns,
Children of the Abbey" SOLITUDE
Sweetened," and was able to repeat whole
pages from almost any part of these
books.-Lerin9ton (Ky.) Gazette.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

The most remarkable object in the
Warren Museum is the largest skeleton
of the Mastodon giganteus ever discov-
cred on the continent. By its side, in
way of contrast, is the frame of the ele-
phant Pizarro, the largest ever brought
to this country. The skeleton of the
Mastodon gigsnteus will not fail to cause
the visitor to start back in awe, and he
will be hardly able to suppress that ad-
jective offools, "Impossible" 1t is twelve
feet high, and thrity-four feet in length,
from the tips of the tusks to the extrem-
ity of its tail. Its trunk is seventeen feet
in length. The animal msst have weigh
ed more than 10000 pounds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

The experiment of cultlvating coffee
from the native plant, SO abundant in
the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, is al
ready begun in earnest. A gentleman
who is already familiar with the coffee
plant, and with its cultivation in Costa
Rica, as any of our horticulturists are
with the apple tree and the cultivation
.ofthe apple, has purchased place con-
tanning large number of coffee shrubs,
and has commenced the work of pruning
and cultivation, and expects to gather
his first crop of coffee next fall.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

Zina Fay Pierce, the daughter of
clergyman in St. Adams, VT, leads de-
parture in the temperance movement.
She has formed society, and written for
it creed. The points of her teaching
are that the milder forms of liquor
should not be classed with the fiery; that
beer drinking and beer gardens should
be countenanced by young ladies; that
women should drink malt liquors instead
of tea, and that the total abstinence
pledge is "a stigma upon the communion,
and direct accusation against the wis
dom and morality of our blessed Savior
himself" Zina is young, eloquent and
pretty Consequently she has many
followers
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

A negro boy was drowned in stoner
creek, near Paris, the other day, and the
Kentuckian gives the following extra
ordinary account of the finding of the
body; "Search was made for the body,
but il was not found until one O'Clock,
Monday. Hooks and drags had been
used without effect, when some one APP
peared among the searchers, and told
them to throw in bundle of oats. A
bundle was procured, thrown in where the
accident occurred, hoated few feet, stop
ped.and commenced spinning around, the
roots of the oats seemeu to be sucked
downward. The men went to the place,
and found the body immediately under
the oats. This ia novel way of finding
drowned bodies, but gentleman who as
sisted in recovering the body gave the
above account, which he assures us Il
strictly true"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

Good Friday, the sailors on board the
Portuguese and South American vessels
lying in the London docks commemor-
ated their annual custom of fogging
Judas Iscariot, the false Apostle.
There was Mrge crowd, principally
composed of seamen from the neighbor-
ing ships, and the ceremony may be de-
scribed as follows: At daybreak block
of wood, roughly carved TO initiate the
betrayer, and clothed in an ordinary sail
or's suit, with red worsted cap on the
head, was hoisted by a rope round the
neck into the forerigging. The crews of
the various vessels then went TO chapel.
On their return, fbout IL A. NJ, amidst
the shouts of the sailors, and with great
jeering and derision, the figure was low
cred from the rigging and cast into the
then hoisted aboard, and after being kick
ed around the deck; was dashed to the
capstan.
The crew, who by this time had work
ed themselves into state of excitement,
then armed themselves with knotted
ropes and proceeded to lash the efigy at
irst as body, and then, told of in pairs
kept up the fogging until every vestige
or clothing had been cut to tatters. Bur-
ing this process the ship bell kept up an
incessant clang, and the captains of the
ships, looking on admiringIy, served out
goes of grog to the executioners. Those
not engaged in the fogging, kept up q
sort of rude chaf, intermingled with ex-
pletiyes-
This proceeding was carried on until
1 o'clock, when the dummy was unlash-
ed and conveyed with much ceremony to
the galley, situated amidships, where il
was burned amid the cheers of the sailors
and the crowd.-From the London Telc-
oTaph
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

The Episcopal Church in DELTA, Mich
agan, was lively with handsomely dress
ed women going in, with organ music
coming out, with all the signs of a we'd
ding. Mrs. Saunders of Detroit, who was
on sort of flying trip through the State
in search of her missing husband, motto
ed the hymenial symptoms and entered.
There she saw the bridegroom Mr.. Saun.
ders, her husband. She did not scream,
nor weep, nor disturb the ceremony in
any way; but the next day she sued for 9
divorce, and Mr.. Saunders went off on
his honeymoon tour unmolested.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

SOUND ADvIcE-Let the winds and
waves of adyersity blow and dash around
you, if they will; but keep on the path
of rectitude, and You will be as firm as
rock. Plant yourself upon principle,
and bid defiance to misfortune. If gos-
sip with her poisoned tongue NEEDLES
with your good name, heed her not.
Carry yourself erect; let your course be
straightforward, and by the serenity of
your countenance and purity of your
life, give the lie to all who would un-
derrate and belittle YOU.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

Nothing" according to Every Satur-
day, debating mutual admiration soci-
eties," "is more contemplate than the
spirit Of praise which is given only for
the sake of a return in kind of the same
base coin. Praise, hoping for nothing
in return; that is the golden rule of true
literary recognition; be quick to discov-
er and own the merit that lies in this or
that venturer, and thereby give him the
land that helps; but grasp his hand,
that he may pull you across to fame,
when You profess to be helping him
send glow through him that he may
turn and give you a like pleasure, and
the best thing in the world becomes q
base counterfeit that every one gladly
nails to the counter with the hard quick
blow Of a contemptuous phrase"
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soiourner Truth is in Washington.

Sojourner Truth is in Washington.-
This aged woman is the historic charac-
ter of whom Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe speaks. She was a slave in New
York State, six miles from Poughkeep-
sic, in her youth, and has always been
remarkable for her witticisms and quaint
expressions. She has always labored for
the welfare of her people, their freedom,
their industry and their virtue, and Is
now nearly ninety years Of age, with a
strong, clear voice, and presenting gen.
uine type Of the African Of the past.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

An interesting story is told of the late
Benjamin Mott of Alburgh, Vermont.
On the 9th of November, 1888, Mott left
his home to join the Canadian rebels un-
der Gagnon Cotes. AS he went out of
the house, his wife, who was unaware Of
his intention, asked him to bring back a
pound of tea. In the battle which oc-
CURED the next day Mott was captured,
conveyed to Montreal, tried, and con-
demned to death. His sentence was
commuted to Punishment to Van Die
mans Land, now Tasmania. Seven
years after his capture he was restored to
liberty, and circumnavigated the globe
eventually reaching home. He brought
his wife the pound of tea.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

"Tape-Worm Charley" and "Appeite
Jim" are the cognomens given a couple
of hotel bummers who had cheated their
landlord in Colorado. On being arrested
and asked to show visible means Of sup
port, each drew out big roll Of green
backs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-05-08

A gentleman was complimenting a
pretty young lady in the presence Of his
wife. "Its lucky / didn't meet Miss
Hopkins before married you, my dear" /"
"Well, yes, il is extremely-for her"
was the dry rejoinder.