The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
GENERAL NOTES.

over twenty -One years oI age "Ho cdh
neither read nor write.
The Chattanooga Commercial boasts
that the city of Chattanooga is the only
one in the United States that has gone
Republican this year.
Dexter is fed low, according to pre-
vailing ideas of horse diet. He has not,
in Mr.. Bonner's hands, been treated to
more than nine quarts of oats day,
quart or two of bran and few wisps of
hay, given carefully and with great reg
ularity.-
A man on Long Island, famous for his
hogs, was asked what was the secret of
his success He answered: 81 always
choose a good natured pig. Those that
when they eat, are constantly running
from one trough to another and knock
ing their snouts against the next pig,
sell to my neighbors, who don't know
better than to buy such troublesome
animals, while my contented pigs get
fat"
A San Francisco man has invented the
toy of the period. It is called flying
top, and consists of little wheel like a
windmill, fastened on on axle made to
revolve rapidly by pulling string.
The turning of the wheel serves to prop
ell the machine, and it will carry it a
considerable distance, even two hundred
feet up in the air.
"Ten years imprisonment and five
thousand dollars fine" was the sentence
awarded Simpson, the obscene literature
man, by Judge Benedict, yesterday
What pity the rascals couldn't be dis
posed of thus at the rate of a dozen day
until the infamous trade is broken up
| New York Commercial Advertiser.
The New Orleans Picayune describes
a new weapon which consists first of an
ordinary pair of brass knuckIes, rather
sharp, in order to produce telling eff
feet. To one end is attached gimlet
knife, to the other revolver, whose
| trigger forms one of the divisions of the
brass kIuckles.
A New Bedford clergyman amazed hii
congregation last Sunday by suddenly
leaving his pulpit, trotting down the
aisle, and striding off toward home. ThC
choir sang; and then there was an awk
ward, fdgetty waiting. Soon the pastor
shot into the church again, stopping
perspiration from his forehead with hi
handkerchief and read his sermon with
out explanation. He had forgotten hi
manuscript-thatw was all.
A Philadelphia bridegroom gave hi
bride, as a wedding gift, a very large
sized diamond cross. This the blushinl
maiden lost in the church during tn,
ceremony. Last week it was recovered
The sexton of the church found it il
one of the furnaces beneath the lobby
into which it had fallen through larg
register. 1t was uninjured, as there hat
not been fire lighted in the church thi
season. The sections reward was sufi
cient to enable him to buy a new Sun
day coat.
The Atlanta News says that gold or
near Dahlonega, Ga, is said to be yield
ine. the enormous amount of $4,000
ton. The mines are owned by capital
lists, one of them-the Aqueduct-hav
ing been sold to Mr.. Hand. of Ohio, fo
S5OO,OOO.
"Uncle, how do you do? Which woul
you like best, work for wages, or part Q
de crop?' ''Waal, T clar, 1 tink bofe d
best, if you kin only brung 'em togedd
er."
The opinion is being strengthened ev
cry day that the man who first made
shirt to button behind did more for tn
world than one who has discovered fv
comets.
Washington Irving once alluded to
man of superior pomposity as ga grea
man, and, in his own estimation a ma
of great weight. When he goes to tn
west he thinks the east tips up"
A young lady and gentleman, age
respectively II and 13 years, were MAJ
aied at Gouldtown, Mich, last weeE
When last seen, they were quarrelin
over a pound of mixed candies, an
throwing ont vague intimations abou
divorce.
If the times are hard stop your paper
but do not shorten your allowance fo
. whiskey or tobacco. A good paper in
family is a great comfort to the wife an
children, but that is no reason why yo
should provide them with a weekly luz
ury at the expense of daily necessity
A ferryman was asked by timid Ia
dy whether any persons were ever los
in the river over which he rowed. "Ol
f no." said he, ave always find fem tn
next day"
Next to rooster in a rain-storm, or
man with his mother-in-law on his arm
the most wretched-looking thing in til
world is a candidate who has just ovel
: heard some friend wanting to bet thre
J to one that he won't be elected.
A woman in New London, Conn.,, sa
her husband carrying lady's satche
: and she tore the lady's dress off her b.
fore discovering that it was her mothe
who had dropped down on the evenin
train to surprise her. Every husban
in the land who is out evenings shoul
read this little item to his wife and hol
, up the dangers of her becoming susp
! cious without the best of cause.
There is a German in Carbon county
Pa, who is father of thirty three chi
dren. His wife has just rejected an ar
plication of the Commissioners of Char
tiles to put him upon. the retired list
Brooklyn Argus.
Recently telegraph clerk in Franc
refused to transmit message in thes
words, "Third epistle of John, verses l
and A." under the law which forbid
the transmission of dispatches not writ
ten in plain language. Reference to tn
text indicates that the dispatch wa
merely. an economy of words. TIL
text is as follows:-"I have many thing
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