The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-01

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tivaled by thiriy-two owners, every one
OF whom is unmarried
None of the new postal cards have
vet been issued, and no issue will be
made until all the old stock on hand,
about million cards are disposed Of.
Baltimore expects to pack 100000
cans Of peaches this season. There are
between forty and fifty houses engaged
in this business and these employ between
$4,000 and 10000 hands. mainly women
and girls.
It is reported that the old silver mine
in Wilton is now being reopened by
firm in New York. This mine was
worked prior to the Revolution by Eng
lishmen-the ore being shipped to Eng
land for reduction.
A good housewife in Baltimore COM
plains in the Sun that the school chill
dren rub their slate pencils on her door
steps, to her great annoyance. And the
Sun consoles her by gravely admitting
that this is a very reprehensble practice
and gives much. trouble unnecessarily.
There is a complete dearth Of small
coins in the South and southwest, moth
ir less than eve cent pieces being cur
rent. So scarce are the copper coins
that Georgia paper, which recently
reduced its price to three cents, was OBJ
liged to import lot Of pennies to make
change.
A lady leaving one of the summer re-
sort hotels last week was charged for an
entire china toilet set, only one piece of
which she had broken. She paid the
bill, and pleading the excuse of having
forgotten something, returned to the
room and broke each and every article
of the set for which she had paid.
A lady in Paris is introducing new
fashion in regard to furniture. She is
having all her chairs, sofas, and even
her carriages, stuffed with aromatic
herbs, which fill the air with an agree
able but not too powerful perfume The
fashion is derived from the Eastern ma
tions, and prevails extensively over a
considerable part Of Asia.
A curious invention is reported from
Cologne. A professor there is able to
initiate the human voice by an ingen-
ious invention, to which the ambitious
name Of ror humana is given. All the
vowels sound and the labials can be
rendered with perfect accuracy; it also
gives some Of the gutturals, but as yet
the instrument has not succeeded in rem
dering the kissing of the deeper laryn-
geal sounds.
AT the banquet of the veterans of the
Mexican war in San Francisco, one oi
the speakers said that General Taylor
did not say, "a little more grape, Captain
Bragg" but, Captain Bragg, it is better
to lose battery than a battle" This
was ipreply when General Bragg dash
ed hurriedly up, saluted the General
and reported: General. ] shall have to
fall back with m, battery or lose it."
The story published in the Londor
Army and Navy Gazette that Prince
Bismarck $ father served in the army
of the King Of Wurtemburg is denieC
by Baron Won Eisendecher. He say
that the Gen. Bismarck referred to wai
cousin of the Princes father, the lat
ter never having served in the army.
One of President Grants objects il
going West at the present time is Il
make some change in the management
of his farm near St. Lonis, which hai
not been source of profit to him, til,
ontgoes overbalancing the income by
about S9, 600 year. EIe will dispose o
all his stock this week, and then decide
whether to lease or manage the farm
himself.
One of the remarkable men Of the Ala
bama Constitutional Convention is Col
onel Bethea- He is a LAWYER, bnt ha
had only one case in his life. 1t wa
his first aud his last The case involvet
a large amount of property, and his fe,
depended upon his success. FIe won
his fee was 100000, and with this h,
gracefully retired from the bar. A lega
career so brief and so brilliant has pro
badly been the lot Of no other man sine
litigation began.
The world has seen FIVE irst-class war
during the past twenty years; tn
Crimean war of 1886, between Grea
Britain, France, Sardinia, and Turke,
on the one side and Rnssia on the 9th
er, the Franco. Austrian war of 1855
the American civil war of 1861-5; tn
Prusso- Austrian war of 1856; and tn
Franco-German war of 1870.
Many reasons exist for supposing tina
The Western Continent, as an abode 70
animal life, is older than the Eastern
so that the New World is a geological
misnomer. However this may be, th
proofs are constantly Increasing tha
America was ages ago the seat of
civilization which has now perishe,
from the earth. Long before the Indi
ans came the West was the home @
races which cultivated the arts and lei
vestiges Of their superiority in thei
architecture. The Hayden Survey ha
been fortunate in exploring the cavern
and ruins in Arizona.
The success which recent A frican ex
piorers have achieved is due in grea
measure, to the fact that they entere
Africa from the east coast or by way G
the Nile valley. So long as efforts I
penetrate into the interior were made oil
the west coast, the mortality among tn
brave explorers was appalling. it wa
necessary for them to first pass tbrongl
the deadly swamps of the lowland, an,
then to scale the western side Of tn
great Central African plateau, were tn
rivers become impossible cataracts anr
the natives have been brutalized by tn
slave trade,
A Confidence man has been arreste