The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-29
CURRENT NoYEs.
Miehigan's wool clip this year will
amount to 5000, 600 pounds.

Miehigan's wool clip this year wil
amount to 5000, 600 pounds.
An eight year old Lancaster girl is
said to weigh one hundred and thirty
pounds,
Maryland is becoming Republican
lied. Twenty out Of twenty-seven
districts in that State have just given
majorities against the sale Of liquor.
The Governor of Kentucky IS i'm
portuned to convene the Legislature
in extra session to pass a stay law.
Reason: The distress resulting from
drought.
A Western paper speaks Of The re-
moval of "a wolf-tooth from the
mouth of a horse which measured
over three inches in length, but it
omits to give the length Of the tooth.
An old iron mine ia Salisbury Con-
necticut, which has been worked
over one hundred and fifty years,
recently declared an annual dividend
of one hundred and fifteen per cent
The Angora goat, the most valua-
bic Of all the goat family, is now be-
ing raised extensively in the Pacific
States for its long, silky fleece, and
is likely to prove an important indus
try.
Land can be bought in Florida fer
FIVE cents an acre, and anybody buy
ing in lots Of two or more acres is cx-
pected to treat. This understanding
raises the price to such . degree that
there is scarcely a purchaser to be
found.
Two of the Methodist bodies Of
Canada haze agreed upon a basis If
union. The first general conference
of the united body win meet in To-
ronto in September. The united
Church will number about one hun
dred thousand.
The Chicago Times warns me-
chanics In other parts Of the country
to keep out of that city for the pres
ent. There are already many more
laborers there than can find employ
ment, even should building in the
burnt district progress favorably, and
the Times says that to multiply them
is simply to augment the army Of
A bridegroom seldom renders his
mother-inIaw speechless, but here is
an interesting case: 4 selfpossossed
young man called at a house in Alto
na, Ga, q few mornings ago, and
asked to see his wife. She is not
here, y replied the mistress Of the
house. "There is no one here bat
the members of my own family. ?
q Well, he replied, cts enc Of them
| want to see, | married your old
EST daughter last night
The average value Of each immi-
grant arriving in this country has
been frequently estimated by writer's
On political economy, but 70 two of
them agree on this question. This Z
value varies from $3.50, according to ;
he lowest estimate, to about $1,000 7
the highest; but in either ease it a
IS evident that in q more restricted 2
material sense it is cheaper to i'm
port our population than to produce
/ ourselves. Assuming each child
If fifteen to have cost $1,000, and
hat the money thus expended J
would have been otherwise saved,
We find that the man who has raised :
family of five children and remain
d poor might have accumulated a
ium sufficient for the wants of old !
lge had he not been subjected to this
r
An inquest was held at Liverpool
'ecently on the body of q little girl
whose death was the direct result Of
her ears pierced. The medi-
al testimony adduced at the inquest
vas, without exception, strongly op-
to the inAiction of such punct-
Tres. \ ring thrust through the car
of the nose would, following Al
he augment used in favor Of ear g
be a great addition TO female
,eauty. At their best they are the =
emains of barbarism and uniting \
he present age of civilization. 1t is
My fair to admit that the ear-pieFc-
ng practice was not the invention of
woman. The Mohammedan tradt
ion of its origin is that Abraham be q
ran it. Sarah, in one Of her fits Of
ealousy regarding Hagar, vowed
hat she would not rest until she had
tipped her hands in Hagar's blood. 4,
n order to quiet Sarah and at the m
anne time allow her to fulfill Der Il
,ow, Abraham pierced Hagar's ears b
While she slept, amounting Sarah's !.
ands with the blood, and Their in u
memory of it placed rings in Hagar's "
ars. Gu