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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
Ringing for the Waiter Boy.

A good one is told of verdant one
who was passenger in a railroad ex-
press train, and became thirsty.
"Where's that ere boy with the water
can?" he queried of his next neighbor.
"He has gone forward to the baggage
car. suppose" was the reply.
"Wall, dye 'spose l kin git him back
here again?"
Certainly" said the other "you have
TO ring for him." and he nodded toward
the bell line that ran above their beads.
No sooner said than done. Before
anyone could prevent it, Rusticus had
seized the line and given it tremen
drous ting. The consequences were at
once obvious; three shrill whistles were
heard, half dozen brakemen ran to
their posts, and the train came to a
stand-still with suddenness that start
led helf the passengers with astonish-
ment, and caused every man next to q
window to hoist it and look out to see
what was the matter.
In few minutes the conductor, red
and excited, came running IN the car to
see what was the matter.
In few minutes the conductor, red
and excited, came running in the car
to know who pulled that bell rope
"Here mister, this way; I'm the man."
shouted the offender, drawing all eyes
upon him,
"You" said the conductor, "and what
did you do it for?"
"Cos wanted some water"
"Wahted some water?"
''Sartin; wanted the water boy, and
my pardner here in the seat said had
hetter ring for him, as we do at the ho-
tel, an so | yanked the bell rope. Will
he be along soon? An by the by, what
in thunder be You stopping for?'
The shout of laughter that greeted this
honest confession was too much for the
conductor, and he had to wait till he
had got his train under way again be-
fore he explained the mysteries of the
bell rope to his verdant customer.- Bos-
ton Commercial Bulletin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

New York to Hamburg, Paris, Lisbon,
and Washington in the space of six
days. The whole vessel will weigh 3.
800 pounds, and it is thought that in ad-
dition TO the carriage of postal matter,
fourteen passengers can be transported
in il.
The inventor is thirty-eight years of
age, having been born in 1887, in the
Kingdom of Hanover. During the
Crimean war, when seventeen years of
age, he was appointed Lieutenant in the
British service, and at the end of the
war went with the British Army to
Africa, and took part in various engage
ments with the natives at the Cape OF
Good Hope. Tn 1858 he emigrated to
America, entered the Union Army dur
ing the late war, and made number OF
trips in the balloon Saratoga" with La
Mountain. After the war he travelled
through South America. For the last
three years he had been working at the
invention for which he now possesses a
patent
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
The Practical Man and the TheOrist.

That looks very pretty and plausi.
BILE on paper" farmer Jenes remarks, as
he lays down his agricultural Journal.
after reading one of Professor Browns
well-written articles on rotation of crops.
at looks we'll, but I'd like to see the
Professor try TO carry ont his ideas on
the cotton plantation. l reckon he'd
find out the difference between theory
and practice" Well, suppose Professor
Brown should attempt to carry ont his
ideas in the field, and should make a
failure? Would that prove his theory
false? BY no means. II takes some
thing more than correct theory To make
a erop-good general management and
an experimental knowledge of the de-
tails of field work. Perhaps farmer
Jones himself, working on the same
plan, would attain the highest success.
An inventor may devise machine
which is to revolntionize the industry
of the world. vet he may not be able, on
account of deficient mechanical skill, to
construct his machine in snch a way
that it will work. The practical man
the mechanic-comes to his assistance,
and the work is done. So it is in every
department. The man of ideas has the
force to move the world, but he needs
the man of practical common sense and
skill to help him in putting his ideas
into working shape. Farmer Jones
should not jump to any such conclusions
as his remarks seem TO indicate Rural
Carolinian.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
A New Field for Travellers.

The lovers of the marvellous should
hasten to make trip to New Gninea,
in the East Indies. In the first place it
is almost terra incognita, and therefore
a comparatively virgin field for ex plora-
tion; and, secondly, its productions are
so wonderful character that hyperbole
and exaggeration can only family do
justice TO the subject Muuchansen was
a prodigious liar, but if he had visited
New Guinea his resources in the art in
which he excelled would have failed in
the presence of realities more incredible
than his most ingenious fabrications. A
book on this remarkable region. by Capt
Lawson, describes, among other things,
butterflies whose wings expand foot a.
cross, scorpions and spiders thirteen
inches long, apes over FIVE feet high,
snakes forty feet long, trees 337 feet high,
and, to crown al, cataract 900 fl. wide,
with fall Of 179 feet, and a mountain
overtopping by more than 5000 feet the
giant Mount EyerRet in the Himalayas,
hitherto the highest known mountain in
the world d.-Intelligencer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
The Law OF Storms.

A book that will interest scientific peo-
pie will shortly be issued by Philadel-
phia house, THE Law of Storms" by
Professor Blasius. The main hypothe-
sis Of the book is that all storms result
from a tendency to restore an equilibri-
um in the atmosphere which has been
disturbed by change of temperature,
and that this tendency is manifested in
two directions, first by currents perpen-
dicnlarly from the surface, and secondly
by currents in a horizontal direction
from the equator to the poles and rice
rersa The following classification of
storms and their characteristic clouds
illustrates the Professors theory:
l. Local or Vertical Storms.-Station-
ary Centripetal. Produced by ten
dency of the atmosphere to re-establish
in vertical direction and equilibrium
that has been disturbed. Characteristic
Cloud-Cumulu lus.
2. Progressive or Lateral Storms
Travelling. Produced by tendency of
the atmosphere 10 re-establish in later
al direction an equilibrium that has been
disturbed. They are of two kinds:
(d) Equatorial or Northeast Storms.
Winter storms. Produced by warm
current displacing a cool one to supply
deficiency toward the poles. Temper
atnre changing from cool to warm. Di-
rection to the northeastern quadrant
Characteristic Cloud-Stratus.
~ Polar OF Southeast and Southwest
Storms.-Summer storms. Produced by
cool current displacing a warm one to
supply deficiency toward the equator.
Temperature changing from warm to
cool. Direction to the southern SEMI
cle.-Characteristic Cloud--Cumulo-
Stratus.
8. Loco-Progressive or Diagonal
Storms. - Travelling locally. Rptary
(tornadoes, hail-storms, sand-storms,
water spouts, &c. Produced by ten
deney of the atmosphere to re-eetablish
the equilibrium of a polar storm which
has been disturbed in the plane of meet
ing by peculiar eonfguration of the
ground. Direction, the diagonal of the
two opposing currents transversely
through the polar storm.--Characteris-
tic Cloud-Cirrus.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
Sheep Arc Safe.

One great advantage sheep have over
other stock is they need not die of con-
tagious diseases which they contract.
They get the scab or footrot or some
thing else, and ifunchecked it gets them
in bad condition, and would ultimately,
perhaps, kill them. But the very worst
contagious disease to which sheep are
subject gives the owner ample time to
treat the affected animals, and the diseas-
es are generally of character which
yield rapidly TO treatment. But man
may have lot of hogs and feed them
hundreds of bushels of corn daily, and
about the time the bottom of the cribs
are being neared and he ia thinking of
selling, some disease breaks out among
them-no one knows what il is or what
to do for it-one animal after another,
following in rapid succession, is affected
and the greater portion of them die. We
have known farmers to be we'll nigh ru.
ined by the appearance of a contagious
disease of this character. Sheep are
happily exempt from such rapid and
fearful mortality. Besides when sheep
dies-and they do die sometines-its pelt
is sufficient TO pay for its keeping from
the last shearIng to its death. It makes
no difference when it dies, or what kills
1t, the sheep never dies in debt.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
To Avoid Being Swindled.

From the Western Rural
We expect to read this year the usual
number of notices of farmers and
others being swindled by patent
| right men, by the vendels of wonderful
secrets, by travelling agents, by men sell
ling goods by sample, etc. Simply
learning how to avoid one trick is uniln-
portant. There are. however, general
principles which will, if borne in mind
and acted upon, almost always protect
one from loss. They may be briefly
stated thus:
Never listen to any proposition which
is commended to you as giving eppor-
tunities, or by selling an article for much
proposes to have you delraud others, will
cheat you if he has good opportunity.
Asa rule, ifa stranger proposes to sell
you any article at very much less than
its value, it is safe to decline buying,
unless you are a good judge of the arti-
Gle.
Never make a purchase or a contract
with a stranger when his assurance is
the only evidence you have of the val
lie.
Never sign a paper presented by a
stranger without reading it and being
sure you understand its character.
AS rule avoid engaging in any en-
terprises however attractive they may
appear, if entirely outside your usual
business.
Buy of and sell to men whom you
know personally, or who are. en-
gagged in regular, permanent bu siness,
whenever this can be done.
Other things being equal, buy and
sell in the karket nearest home.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

GENTLEMAN FARMING.-A city far
mer reports to the Country Gentleman
that his little farm of twenty five acres
worked entirely by hired labor under
his direction, has paid him clear pro
fit of thousand dollars per year. l.
gives him all the fruit, vegetables. milk,
cream, eggs, and poultry, for family
of five persons, besides servants; also,
the use of horses for pleasure or
business driving, and a driver when
needed: all of which would cost him a
thousand dollars if bought The cash
sales pay all the expenses Of running 4
farm. He wonders that more city peo-
pie do not do as he has done, especially
when they are in search Of health for
themselves or their families; go into the
country and learn to love flowers, pota-
toes and cabbaRes, fruit, hens and chick
ems, and own the land they live on.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
The Utah Massacre.

BEAVER, UTAH, July 20.-In Court
for Dame, said that he had found fatal
defect in the Indictment which he had
intended to overlook and go to trial mp
on it, but finding that Lees case would
he first tried and Danes not reached
this term, he asked that the Indictment
be quashed on the ground that the crime
was not alleged to have been committed
in this Territory or district, nor in any
county, but simply in Mountain Meadow
Valley without any other designation.
Whereupon Mr.. Carr rose and presented
a new indictment, which charges Dame,
Elliott, Wilder, VIM C. Stewart, George
Adair, J. r. John, NJ. Higbee, Isaac c.
Haight, Samuel Jakes, and Philip
Klingin Smith with conspiracy with In
dians to kill those emigrants, and that
in pursuance to that conspiracy they did
kill them. The indictment will not be
made pnblic till tomorrow morning, at
which time Lee will be arraigned and
plead to IT.
The substance of John D. Lees con-
fession is that thirty MOrmons, with
the assistance of large number of In
dians, decoyed the emigrants from their
intrenchments by flag of truce; that
all were murdered except seventeen chill
dren; that the deed was done under or
ders OF the leaders of the Mormon
Church; that he took the news of the
massacre to Brigham Young, who de-
pl0red the transaction, and said it wonld
bring disaster on the Mormon people.
only confirms previous reports in regard
to tho
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

EAST LIBERTY July 21.-Receipts OF
Cattle to-day 1873 head, making 2,l76
head for two days past; arrivals 10 day
all for sale here; market has been lively
and demand good, but prices off fully Sc
all round; quality ranging from good,
to common best 6a@7}c, medium 10 good
5S@63c. common to fair 4lM52c; Bulls
2S64!c. Texas 3C94c. Receipts Of Hogs
to-day 2.025 head, making 2. $50 head for
two days past; best 81 60fN7 75, common
81 40Ia7 80. Receipts Of Sheep to-day
$500 head, mixing 13,200 head for 2
days; selling at "a 25(95 SO.
CINCINNATI, July 2I.-Cattle-rhe
supply of common grades liberal, and
market for such dull, with offeriAg In
excess Of the demand. Good qualities
are in moderate supply. and mRrket for
snch firm though qniet. Prlaea range
"a follows: Common grHdes 2}(933c,
fair to medium 3i@4lc, and good 5l@
6lc.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
Seribner for August.

The publishers of Scribner call atten-
tion to the series of articles by Colonel
WarIng, now being published in that
magazine, under the title of"A Farmers
Vacation" These papers are claimed to
be among the most amusing as well as
practically valuable illustrated articles
which haveappeared for some time past.
Col. Waring is we'll known as an engi-
neer and farmer, as we'll as graceful
and entertaining writer. In his recent
European travels he was naturely at
tracted not only by picturesque phases,
quaint scenes quaint people,-but also
by various agricultural customs and de-
vices. His'article in the August num-
Der describes the pretty isle of Guernsey,
and tells great deal about the famous
so-called Alderney Cow, which is here
cat home" "a MILDLY in Manila" is a
rollicking little illustrated sketch, which
reads very like familiar letter to some
old "chum, at home. Albert Rhodes's
paper, "Along the Seine" is timely
through its summer quality. George
w. Cable, of New Orleans, has story
entitled madame Delicieuse," which is
thought by some to be his best work. 1t
will have a very foreign smack to North
ern readers, but they will find it rome
less graphic, witty and charming for
that. DR.. Holland, in this number of
"Sevenoaks," celebrates a wedding in
that rural neighborhood. Then there is
a solid essay by G.. F. Magoun. on ed
ucation and Free Thought" also "a
Word of Encouragement for Timid
LinguIsts," 'The Stone Period of the
Antilles" containing some matters not
hitherto made public,) "An Englewood
Mystery" "How to Treat the Indians"
by an Indian Agent, an illustrated paper
on "Ice," more of 1.-The Mysterious Is
land" and verses by poets of note, ard
poets not of note. Tn the Topics of the
TIme," by DR.. J. G. Holland, "The
Old Cabinet" "Home and Society" :"
"Bric-a- Brac," "The Worlds Work, !"
ETC., the usual variety is maintained.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
The Barn-yard.

The barn-yard, says an agricultural
writer, may be taken as the index to the
character of the farmer. As is the
barn-yard, so is the farm and farmer
likely to be; for the profits of the farm
and the prosperity of the farmer depend
very largely upon it. 1t is in the barn
yard and the barn that the produce of
the farm that is not sold outright is
converted into beef, pork, mutton, wool,
or milk and butter-articles that may
be more proftably sold. It is in the
barn-yard, also, that the manure is made
and kept. In short, the barn ana barn
yard constitute the manufaetory-the
great work shop-of the farm, and il
they are not arranged with a view to
economy, a waste results that reduces
the farmers profits. The majority of
farmers in this country, from necessity,
begin business with small means, and
have to do the best they can with the
material they possess. But the ex-
cellence of farm buildings does not con-
sist 40 much in the materials of which
they are built as in the Use made of
those materials-useful buildings NAV
be made of logs, or any other available
material. The main points are warmth,
dryness-and ventilation, for food is vast
ed when an animal shivers in his stable,
or when his health is injured by damp
ness, or bad air. The farmer who is
thoughtful about these things may be
at once set down as a thrifty farmer,
who, ere long, will be able to build
whatever kind of barn he may wish
who, in fact, will soon have 'to tear
down and build greater"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

HONOR TO THE Honor
also TO the inventors whose genius have
emancipated the face of women from the
drndgsry of the needle. Honor above
all to n firm which like the Wilson Sew
ing Machine Company, distributes it's
machines broadcast throughout the land
at prices that even the poor and humble
can afford to pay. first-claRs machine
for fifty dOllarsl This il the proclama-
tion Of the Wilson Sewing Com
pany to the people. Machines will be
delivered at any Railroad Station in
this county, free of transportation
charges, if ordered through the Com
pany'e Branch HOnse at 327 and 329
Superior Street, Cleveland. Ohio.
They send an elegant catalogue and
chrome circular, free on application.
This Company want few more good
agents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
The Harvest in Dakota Territory.

YANKToS, d. T., July 19.-The cut
ting Of barley and wheat will commence
in earnest this week, and crops will be
exceedingly heavy and abundant. a
large amount Of rain has fallen during
the season, and the Rrasshoppers have
done no injury. The yield Of wheat
will be fully twenty-five bushels to the
acre. or about Z,0oo, 600 bushels in the
Territory This will lie over $50 bush
els TO each inhahitant. The OATS and
corn crops are also large, and promise
finely, as well as potatoes ard other
veoetabl,ss
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

A man of Fort street, going home al
late hour in the night, saw the occu-
pants of house standing flush with thu
street had left a window up, and he deci
ded to warn them and prevent burglary
Putting his head INTO the window he
called ont: "HelloI good peop-!" Thai
was all he said. A pail full of water
struck him in the face, and as he stagger-
ed back woman shrieked out: "Didn't
/ tell you what you'd git if you wasn't
home by nine o'clock?"-[ Detroit Free
Press.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

A new and highly original play was
recently produced in one of the Chinese
theatres of San Francisco. The first
act was given in matinee commencing at
z a. m. and closed at p. M. ten minutes,
it is presumed, being allowed for re-
freshments. The second act was to
commence at 7:10 and to conclude about
daylight, but the audience of two thous-
and, who had become intensely interest
ed, refused to go out and allow the even
ing audience to come in. The theatre
was finally cleared by the police who
were called in. The might performance
was omitted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

Mr.. Geo. Paffenbarger, who lives
near town, has grwoing, on his place a
head Of cabbage, which measures, forty
six inches across by accurate measure
ment, having been measured across the
center in two places. Mr.. P. chal-
lsnges the county TO produce Its equal
Vinton Record.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

The Milwaukee Wisconsin thinks it a
moderate estimate to say that the proba-
bic yield of wheat in Wisconsin will be
at least 30,000,000 bushels. Reserving
100000 for home consumption and
seed, the farmers will have surplus of
100000 bushels, and the prospect now
is that they will get at least 81 per bush.
el for their wheat. If so. this would
distribute $25, 900, 900 for the single crop
of wheat.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23
Great Offer.
NUMBER FOUR.

Fated to be Free, Jean Ingelow's
great Story. price, in book form, $l.75.
Twenty short stories, rich variety OF
miscellaneous reading; over sixty large
pages splendidly illustrated.
Ten steel productions, fac-similes of
famous pictures; original engravings
worth $1,000.
All the above sent post paid with
Hearth and Home, the great Illustrated
weekly magazine, two months on trial,
tor only so cents. Object; to introduce
the paper To new subscribers. Price re-
duced to only $3.50 per year. Single
number, six cents-none free. At news
stands or by mail. Great inducements
to agents and clubs. The Graphic
Company, Publishers, 39-4l Park Place,
New York. Please state in what paper
Won saw this advertisement.
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Notice to Builders.

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received until
= u o. lock noon Of Monday, August q, 1875,
erset, Perry county, Ohio, according to the
plans and specifications which can be seen af-
ter the 2Sth of July, at the office of the Clerk
of the Board of Education in said town. All
persons or parties making proposals will be re-
quired to furnish the Board satisfactory refer
ences as TO responsibility and skill. The Board
reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
By order If the Board.
E. A. HEssE, Clerk.
July %. 1875. l5w5
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The Centennial's Magnitude,

The Philadelphia Ledger says: 1t
has been said, with some truth, that no
one can form just conception of the
magnitude of the preparations for the
Centennial Exhibition without making
a personal examination of the buildings
But it is equally trne that even this ex-
animation will give but an inadequate
idea of the space covered by the FIVE
principal buildings. Men experienced
in estimating dimensions frequently
made ridiculous "guesses" as to the size
of parts of the buildings now under roof
The five chief buildings cover 1878, 140
square feet of ground. If all the
churches, chapels, meeting houses and
halls used for religious purposes in
Philadelphia would average each 40 by
80 feet, every one of them could be slowed
away in the Centennial Buildings, and
500 out Of the 528 could be put into the
three larger bnilding-the Main Build
ing, Machinery Hall and Agricultural
Hall. 1t is quite possible that all the
churches in Philadelphia and New
York could be put into the buildings.
for the dimensions assumed are reached
by very few of them, the greater number
being chapels and small churches.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-23

One praiseworthey feature in the man.
agement of the Baltimore anil Ohio
Railroad Company, ia that they never
let mp on their defaulting officers until
complete restitution is made Some
months ago their agent at Columbus de-
camped leaving deficient in his ac
counts of come $1,000 or $4,000. He
was followed to San Francisco, arrested
and brought back to Columbus, where
be confessed he had lost the missing
money at faro playing, and gave the
names ofthe winners. The gamblers, all
but one, gave mp the amount of their
winnings from the agent. The one who
held on to his swag is an ex- County Au-
ditor, and Secretary of the Home Insur-
ance Company, named Baker The lat
ter has been arrested and his property
attached. The railroad officials will
"Push things" until restitution is COM
plete.