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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-19

DR.. Bull's Cough Syrup should be kept
in every family. A slight cough, il un-
checked, Is often the forerunner OF Cons
sumption, and timely dose OF this won-
dertnl medicine has rescued many from
an early grave.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-19

A kind-hearted, peace-loying Balti-
more man painted his front steps twen-
ty-three times, trying to get o color to
suit his wife, and then she decided that
the first color was the best.
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Doubtful--It is said that $4,000, 900 III
counterfeit greenbacks we're recently
burned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard per
order OF the Government.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-19

A thousand-pound chunk OF brIm-
stone, from Nevada. will be exhibited at
the Centennial, 70 give hope TO the
wicked.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-19

A bad sign-A forged signature.
Where to look for the music of barrel
In the chime. An old salt--Lot's wife.
A sound article--A- newly born infant.
s.The light Of other days"-rallow can.
dies. A friction matck--An unhappy
marriage. Dealers in brass = Book
aOants
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RAILROAD rImE-rABLE.


DAYTON sHoRr-LINR AND COLUMBUS.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
A Foolish Feat.

If there is one occupation more wick
edly foolish than another, it is that of
the professional walker, as shown on
the stage of Goodrich Hall, Pittsfeld,
Mass, last week. Waters literally drag
ged out his apparently useless existence
during the last two or three days of his
one hundred hours walk without rest,
lifting his tired and swollen feet with
such difficulty and moderation that it
seemed to the by-standers as if he were
pulling mp hundred pounds with each
effort. During the day, Saturday, he
frequently became crazy, and once he
leaped the ropes on the edge of the stage
and rushed about the room as though
his limbs were as we'll and plant as ever
He was seized by one of his trainers,
who was very fearful that he would
throw his ankles out of joint and, being
placed on the stage again, he soon came
to his senses. He kept in good spirits,
when rational, but expressed himself as
being in great agony. The pain he en-
dured in his feet, every time his
weight came upon them, he declared
was worse than the most violent tooth
ache. If the most desperate criminal
in our prisons were obliged TO perform
this feat as punishment, it would stir
the sympathies of every heart in the
land, and it is question whether man
ought to be allowed to do it Voluntarily
If it is true, as Waters said, that he was
walking on a wager of $500 with pri-
vate citizen of Pittsfeld, then the pri-
vate citizen of Pittsfield is out of pock-
ct, for the young man braved it out and
finished his one hundred hours Satur-
day night at eleven o'clock, having been
steadily on foot since Tuesday evening
at seven, amid the cheers of the crowd
gathered in the hall to witness the close
of the performance. As soon as he had
finished he was treated in the usual way;
being taken to his room, he was
thoroughly rubbed and put to bed near
hot fire. After sleeping fifteen minu-
tes, he was awakened by main force,
rubbed again, and allowed to sleep half
an hour. The process was continued,
giving him a quarter of an hour more
sleep each time, until all danger was
passed. He had not slept minute dur
ing the previous four days and nights,
and probably found yesterday verify a
day of rest.-[Springfield Republican,
January 25th.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
Disinterment Of the Coliseum.

A correspondent of the Times has
written singularly interesting account
of what may fairly be called the disen-
terment of the Coliseum, now proceed
ing under the direction of Signor Rosa:
and the picture which it presents of the
engineering ingenuity, as we'll as arch
itectural splendor, which the Romans
devoted to their truculent sports is rath-
laid bare part of the Arena, which is
proved to have been a solid floor, paved
with herring bone work, and not a moy-
able platform. Upon the arena con-
verged a number of large, tunnel shap-
ed corridors, having series of lateral
chambers, vast enough to accommodate
scores of animals, and with an adjust
ment Of gates such that, without danger
to the keepers, even the hundred lions,
recorded by Vospicus as having bound
ed on its floor together, might be admit
ed to the view of the 81 900 lords of
creation in the amphitheater. A magni-
fcent corridor, not yet perfectly cleared,
but having evidently no lateral galleries
doubtless represents the passage through
which the gladiator emerged to his duel
and the martyr to his cross. Through
it, too, it would seem, were removed the
slaughtered corpses and carcasses, while
the applause of the audience and the
believing Of the other beasts waiting for
their gate to swing round, must have
made terrible harmonies.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
Fast Oxen.

A now agricultural idea has dawned
in regard to oxen. 1t has been discov-
cred in this age Of railways that oxen
are too slow, and that they can be taught
to go fast. "In India, the oldest coun-
try in the world, oxen take the place
Of horses. and they make as good time"
Therefore, why not train them to travel
fast in our own beloved land? The
way to do this is to put on the whip,
hurry them up, and make them co.
When an OK gets into a corn-feld, and
the dogs take after him, he can gallop
almost as fast a. a deer; and when run
ming away on his own account he shuf-
fes as lively as a dog. But il will be
necessary to abandon the yoke, which
is clumsy at best, and put on harness, as
is done in North Carolina; and, beside,
the rattling Of the yoke, and the jing-
ling of the drawn chain would not sound
well as one drives up to church on Sum
day morning at a round trot. Further,
to guide them with precision while going
atsa fast gate TO town, "whoa, hnw and
gee" must be dropped and bits be used;
then one can make his buggy wheel
Craze another buggy wheel and
no harm will be done. Next year
agricultural societies should offer pre-
miums for fast oxen, and there could be
no greater attraction than OK races; for
as the exhibition will be purely agricul-
tural, no immortality can attach
Breeding oxen for speed few years, we
would be likely to have a different race
of COWS. By all means.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
Righting a Wrong.

theoretically, a man has right to
leave his property to whom he will;
practically, he can do nothing of the
kind, provided those whom the world re-
CARDS as his natural heirs present their
claims properly. Society holds it to be
his duty to take care of his family, even
to the extent of providing for aged and
INDECENT parents, and the law enforces
that duty, to the end that they may not
become public charge. And rightly
enough. this obligation is extended after
his death to his property, as we see ev-
cry day in the case of persons who die,
leaving their earthly treasures to strang-
ers by blood and cutting off their i'm
mediate kin "with a shilling" as the
saying is. In such cases the plea usual
ly is that undue influence" has been
used on the testator, or that he was mot
of sound mind" and it is rare indeed
that trial on either ground results al
together unfavorably to the heirs, for the
sympathy of humanity as well as the in
tent of the law is on their side, as the
wife and family of Samuel Thompson,
who died recently at Haverhill, Mass,
will probably find. Thompson was a
miser, who had long since left his fami-
ly and taken up his residence with Miss
Bertha Sythes, TO whom he willed all his
property, valued at 5000 leaving his
wife and family one dollar apiece, to re-
mind them of his "ruling passion strong
in death" They naturally look for
some more substantial memento of the
departed husband and father, and unless
it be shown that their treatment of him
has been specially reprehensible, it is
likely that Miss Bertha Sythes will be
called on to divide, if not relinquish the
whole of her easily earned inheritance.
Apart, however, from anything which
judge or jury may do to soften the spite
ful remembrance which Samuel Thomp-
son left as a sweet legacy to his relatives
there is one thing he should have re-
membered, and that is, tha; Mira
Thompson has dover right of one-third
in the rents, issues and profits of his
property, which dover right cannot be
alienated by will or otherwise without
consent. 1t is only woman who can
bequeath her husband zone dollar and
her forgiveness"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
In a Tight Place.

A man in Baltimore, while under the
influence of liquor, a few days since,
climbed out upon his roof, and amused
himself by jumping thence to the ad
joining house, and thence to the next,
till his antics had attracted quite
crowd of persons in the street below.
Seized with a sudden idea that the spec
tators were going to shoot him, he
sought refuge in a chimney, and slid
down to within few feet of the frst
floor, where he became wedged in be-
yond the power of extrication.
At about the same moment, the inhab-
itants of that story, unaware that the
draught was choked by a human body,
lighted a fire. The unearthly noises
which proceeded from the chimney were
attributed to some agency similar to that
which recently caused the mysterious
bell-ringing in the same city; and it was
not till two police officers entered the
room and made an attack upon the fire.
place, that the scorched inebriate was
rescued from his perilous position.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
HumOr and Sarcasm.

II is not everybody who knows where
to joke, or when, or how; and whoever
is ignorant of these conditions had bet
ter not joke at all. A gentleman never
attempts to be humorous at the attempts
to be humorous at the expense Of peo-
pie with whom he Is but slightly nc
quainted. In fact, il is neither good
manners nor wise policy to joke at any
body's expense; that is 10 say, to make
anybody uncomfortable merely to raise
a laugh Old Esop, who was doubtless
the subject Of many jibe on account Of
his hump back, tells the whole story
in his fable of"The Boys and the Frogs"
What was fun to the youngsters was
death to the croakcrs. A jest may cut
deeper than a curse. Some men are 80
constituted that they cannot take
friendly joke in the same light coin, and
will requiie it with contumely and in
snlt. Never banter one of this class. or
he will brood over your badinage long
after you have forgotten it, and it is not
prudent To incur any ones enmity for
the sake Of uttering a smart double en-
tendre or a tart repartee. Ridicule, at
best, is a perilous weapon. Satire, how
ever, when leyelled at social foibles and
political evils, is not only legitimate,
but commendable. It has shamed down
more abuses than were ever abolished
by force Of logic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

said: No, sir; to, sir. do not wish to
pray. had no land in coming into
this world. / have failed in all have
ever seriously attempted or desired
whilst in it. l shall make no arrange
ment for my departure, nor for another
existence. If God has managed the
matter SO far, | shall permit him TO con-
tinue it as best pleases Him" He dis
missed the subject and referred to it no
more. After remaining silent for some
time, as IL mnsing, he said: "Well, well,
this is the end. Tom Marshall is dying,
dying, not having suit of clothes in
which to be buried; dying upon borrow
ed bed, covered with a borrowed sheet,
in house built by charity. Well, well,
it is meet and proper After an hour
or more he looked through the open win
dow, and calling the attention Of those
around him to solitary tree standing
in the middle of large open pasture,
he said, When ] am dead bury me
beneath that tree in the middle of the
field; have been crowded all my life.
and l do not wish to be crowded after
death" He said no more, but after time
quietly ceased to breathe. He was placed
beneath the tree, but no stone nor mark
tells the passing Traveller who rests be-
low.
"As the years pass away, and time and
distance soften all things, his faults, his
vices and his misfortunes are forgotten.
He is remmbered as a brilliant wit,
most accomplished and fascinating law
yer. Let no one suppose that his was
dash at fame, that he gained only tenn
pOrary notoriety, or that he drew inspir-
alton from liquor while he abused the
prodigal gifts of nature. That would be
far from the truth. Mr.. Marshall was
all his life patient and diligent student.
He gained success only when entirely
free from drink, and after Iaborious
study. Every great attempt, made with
out preparation or when under the in
huence Of his master passion, was more
or less failure. He, like all the sons of
men, had no roy al road to fame, and on
ly found the pearls of wisdom after
diligent search, or enjoyed the fruits Of
victory after a well-fought contest.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
Pooling a Car Driver.

( The other night, as the last car or
+ the Michigan avenue route was turning
around on the table at the corner OF
/ Woodward and Jefferson avenues, two
young men who had fixed up a straw
man in good shape, helped him aboard
and seated him at the end furthest from
the driver. The dummy" man had his
hat pulled low, his arms down, and was
so braced up against the end of the car
that he looked as much like a passen-
ger as any one. The car moved off, af-
ter 4 while, and as it turned Michigan
avenue, an old lady got aboard. She
paid her fare, the two yound men fol-
lowed suit, and the car moved on again
the driver keeping his eye on the dunn
my and wondered if he was going to
try to beat his fare.
At First street the driver jingled his
bill of fare, and the two young men and
the old lady looked over at the straw
man. The car moved up to Third street,
and the driver looked through his win
dow and yelled "fare" and jingled the
opened the door and called out to the
straw man:
Say You! 1ou want to pay your fareP
There was no answer and after going
half block he shouted out again:
You man, there-wake up here and
pay your farep
One Of the young men sat opposite
dummy, and he squalled out IN reply.
Drive on the old hearsep
What? What's that?' shouted the
driver, pushing the door clear open.
'Oh. hire a hallp was the reply.
See here, mister, you've got to pay
your fare or get Off exclaimed the
driver, winding the lines around the
brake
'Grashus me! If there is going to be
fight let me OFF, shouted the old lady,
and she rushed down the car and made
a clean jump to the door.
Now, then, are you going to pay your
fare? said the driver as he entered the
car.
'Paybe-hanged,' was the muttered re-
ply.
You'd better look out for him; he's
ugly whispered the other young man to
the driver.
4 don't care if he's as ugly as John
Jacob Astor, he's got to pay his fare or
off he goes
The driver slid down to the end of
the car, spit on his hands and continued.
Well, here you comeP and grabbed
dummy by the shoulders. His object
was to jerk the fellow out of doors, and
expecting a struggle he put forth all his
strength in a mighty effort. 1t was very
successful. The driver went out of the
car heels over head, with the straw man
on top of him, and the young men leap
ed of the front end of the car Just as
the victim was trying to get his thumb
in the straw mans eyes-[ Detroit Free
Press
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

The Reading Pa Times thus refers
to the death of local giant: On We'd
nesday morning Mr.. William Kupp,
aged 2l years, residing near Douglas
Vile, and celebrated throughout. that
section for his remarkable weight, died
suddenly. Mr.. KupP WAS n wonderfully
framed man, weighed 450 pounds, and
some idea OF his immense size may be
gathered from the fact that the calf Of
his right leg measured % inches in cir
cumference. lie was five feet eight inch
es in height, and was, without doubt,
the heaviest man in the United States
lie was said TO have been n singularly
handsome man, and his unusual size did
not seem to detract from his personal
comeliness
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
VOLUME 2.
MISCELLANY.
TFron the New York Times, 2sth.
What Will She Do with 1t!

There is at preseut stored in this city
for safekeeping-we need no: say where
"a diamond necklace of sach splendor
and value that it would be worthy of
public notice, even were it not on other
considerations. 1t is double necklace,
and each of these consists of three rows
of diamonds, any one of which any lady
might with pleasure see upon her finger.
But in each necklace, both inner and
outer, there is, at intervals Of about an
inch and half, large diamond, so
large that no lady could wear it on her
finger, and of size that very few of the
fair venture-even if they can afford
to wear as solitaire earrings. In the
middle of the inner necklace is stone
of great size, the worth of which must
be fully ten thousand dollars, and from
the outer one depend seven pear-shaped
stones of very unusual size, the middle
one, which hangs just below the large
one os the inner necklace, being of even
greater size and value than that. The
necklace is not alone. 1t Is accompani-
ed by earrings of corresponding value
and design-a union Of round stones
above with pear-shaped pendants below,
all within borders of smaller stones
which, however, are small only by com
parison with the great ones to which
Il .otoIl,,o. This
decoration, the value of which can not
be less than one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, and which, if all the stones
were Of the very first water, would com
mand more nearly two hundred thous-
and, is merely an addition to the long
lis: of rich presents received by Miss
Sherman OF her marriage. 1t is a com
pliment from the Khedive of Egypt to
the soldier who made the great march to
the sea.
We believe that General Sherman
could not accept this present, but his
daughter, as she holds no office of profit
OF trust under the United States, may
do so, although the fact that her hus-
band is in the Federal service might, at
least on some old fashioned grounds, be
held to preclude her from receiving such
a very valuable gift from a foreign po-
tentate But apart from this considera-
ton, the question presents itself, What
will she do with it? What does any lady
who does not wear a crown, or at least
coronet, when she is in full dress, do
with such stupendous ornament as this?
She may keep it locked up, and on prop
er and rare occasions feast her eyes by
looking at it, or provoke the envy other
dearest friends by exhibiting it to them
But think of the anxiety accompanying
such possession! A guard ought to be
set over it night and day. As to wear
ing it, the owner would, if she had any
taste or sense of congruity, be utterly at
a loss to find any good reason for 40 do
ing. We have no occasions here when
such ornaments are in place. Even in
Europe they are worn very rarely-only
on state occasions or at some very grand
festivity. The notion that the noble
women-the "female Markisses," and
such like,-of the Old World go about
blazing with diamonds, in the evening,
is absurd
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
POWhatan's Palace.

A correspondent of the Richmond
Wing writes: "a short time ago I had
the pleasure of visiting what remains of
the royal palace of the princely Pow
hatan, in this county. A huge stone
chimney, built in the most substantial
manner, with broad fire place, on
which logs fore feet long can be put,
marks the place SO replete with interest
to the Virginia archeologist. 1t is sit
uated on the York, at the mouth of
what is now called Timberneek creek,
but the king of the forests called it Wer-
owocomico, on the farm owned by Mr..
J. H. Seawell. A rude cabin has been
built to the chimney, and now, around
the same hearth where his Majesty, the
King of Pamaunkee, and their highness,
the princes and princesses, gathered to
smoke their native weed, son of Africa,
with his broken -stemmed chalk pipe,
gathers his sable brood, all uncoscious
that royal feet have stood where he
stands, and royal forms have lain where
he now lies. Here that event which
doubtless saved the colonies ia said to
have occurred-the rescue of Captain
Smith by Pocahontas This old chin
ney, known as 'Powhatan's chimney is
one of the few reminders left us by time
of the great Indian king"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
scribner's Monthly for February.

The most notable contributions 20
scribnsr'z Monthly for February, are
Major Powclls sirikingly illustrated
Colorado paper; Stedman on some ofth
latter-day British Poets; Blauyelts es-
say, "Christ's Supernaturalism, Scienu-
Gcally Considercd;" and a sketch, with
portrait, Of Theodore Thomas and his
art work, by j. Il. G. H1ssand. There
additional chapters Of DR.. Holland r
"Story Of Sevenoaks" are given; jules
Verne's Mysterious Island' is continu-
ed; and SAKE Holm's MY Tourmaline'
Is concluded. Noah Brooks tells about
Miss Patty Gibson's Strange Adven-
'ture;" there is another installment Of
Some Old Letters" through which we
have glimpses Of London society OF for
~ years ago and Mr.. Fairfield con-
cludes his essay on Spiritualisnl, with
some references to the phenomenon Of
naturalization" This number opens
with poem by Louise Chandler Moul-
ton, illustrated by Mary A. Hallock.
There are poems, also, by +. W. Bour-
dillon, Mary l.. Ritter, James Maurice
Thompson, and others.
In Topics Of the Time" DIR. Holland
discusses "Theaters and Thcater going"
Temporal and Spiritual" f" and Reform
in High Places" The Old Cabinet has
to do with "Thc Modern Quality in An
cient Verse" and "The Distinction be-
tween Prose and Poetry" In addition
to these, the editorial departments have
n number Of brief practical and critical
papers, and Il marked feature Of "Etch-
ings" is the reproduction Of several Of
Thackeray's rcccclly published pencil
sketches.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

THE FRENCH METER.-Sir Edmund
Beckett is true Englishman, and does
not love the French measure. He says:
"The polar axis is estimated at z 7,8994
miles, or 500 millions of inches a thous
andth part longer than our present
standard inch, which probably only
came by accident to be what it was when
the standard was taken, and might just
as well be a thouss ndth more: True,
the other European nations have inches
too, and some of them are rather longer
than ours. The French meter 1881
inches, is the worst measure in the world
because it is inconsistent with any natur-
al one, whereas our yard is the long
stride of man of good height, and the
natural length of his walking stick, and
half his height, or half the stretch of his
arms; and the meter is not even what it
pretends to be, the 40 millionth of a
meridian of the earth, for the measure
taken was erroneous, and if it were, such
a standard is of no more real value than
the distance of the moon. Yet there are
people who have engaged in the crusade
of trying to force on us this bad, erron-
eous, arbitrary, and revolutionary mea-
sure of nation which tried also to
abolish the week and make new one of
ten days, and whose language is declin-
ing over the world, while ours already
prevails over more regions of the world
than any other, and is evidently destin-
ed to advance more and more"
Sir Edward, we think, is about right.
The good old yard stick is better mea-
sure than the meter.