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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03
MISCELLANY.
Some Difference.
Don Piatt.l

Don Piatt.
Mrs. Straw-I heard a good story con.
cerning our friend Mrs., who, you
know, is on the briny deep.
Mrs. SwItchem-do tell US; she was so
free with her laughs on others we enjoy
anything on her.
Mrs. Straw-the story runs that a
dealer in articles of Uertu here had in his
establishment an exquisite statuette in
Parian marble of the Venus of Milo.
Our friend heard of it, and gave it an
inspection one day. After gazing at it
for some time she said:
"Did you select that, Mr.. Delf?"
eyes 'em," he responded.
"Why, you must be a good judge of a
figure. But did you ever see mine ?"
Mr.. Delf responded, blushing, that he
had not.
"Mine," she continued. sis allowed to
be the finest figure in Washington"
"Shouldn't doubt it, num-" responded
Mr.. Deli, shifting uneasily from one foot
to the other.
81 should like to show you my figure" F"
she SAID, earnestly. Delf blushed all
over, "Come up to my house some time.
Better come in the morning, when it
won't be likely for any one to interrupt
u.s."
Poor Deli! he fairly sunk under ta-
BILE, and stammered out something about
being member of church, when our
friend continued:
at cost me S12O in gold; is pure Par
ian marble; ard / would like to have
your opinion, as you are such an admira-
BILE judge"
Light dawned on Deli. She had been
speaking of statuette, and not a cor
pulent, middle-aged lady.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

THE SECRET OF LoNeEvITY.-A
French chemist has just completed a
plan whereby human life may be indef-
initely prolonged. It is well known
that all life is the result of combustion
of carbon in the blood and vital vessels
This process of burning leaves resid-
uum, which, according to his theory, ac-
cumuiating principally about the vessels
of the heart and other large organs, al
most invariably causes death between
the seventy-fifth and the hundredth
year. His discovery is, that Tactic acid
has the power of dissipating the resid1S
Of the combustion, End so of proionging
life to any desired extent. The fluid il
which this acid is most abundantly
found is sour buttermilk. The agree
able inference is, that we have only tC
drink an abundance of sour buttermilk
and, by the action of tactic acid contain
ed therein, to scatter the ashes of the fir
in our veins, and without the least diff
Guilty live to the age of Methuselah, oI
any other of those ancient worthies.-
[Globe Democrat.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

In some of the southern European
countries girls are allowed by the law to
get married at the tender age of twelve,
and boys are authorized to commit the
rash act at fourteen. In Turkey, Greece,
Egypt, Portugal, the precocity of the
sexes is astonishing to Northern men
and women. In Italy the legal mar
riageable age for women is fourteen, and
for men eighteen. Some mothers, while
yet in their youth, think nothing Of turn
ing out bakers dozen of inhabitants,
singly and by the pair. QuadruPlets
are not rare in Sicily, according to sta
t'stical reports forwarded by English
Consuls to their Government, which is
gathering up the foreign practices in or.
der to lower the age of matrimony in
England.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03
Stock on High Priced Land.

The old puzzle-how to get enough
manure-is as far from being answered
as ever; partly perhaps because the more
manure a farmer uses, the more highly
it is priced and the more he wants. In
fact, the good farmer is as avaricious
for manure as the miser is for money,
and neither can ever get "enough." On
high-priced land the difficulty is doubled
for here the necessity of keeping up and
increasing the fertility is greater, while,
If the land is very dear, it can not be so
well afforded for clover as a green ma
nure. Neither can such land be profit
ably kept for pasture. and what then is
the poor farmer, with his too valuable
land, to do, except to sell out and go west,
where land is cheap enough to be profit
ably afforded for any purpose?
The chief difficulty in keeping stock
on such land is summering it. There is
on all grain farms an abundance of
coarse feed, straw and cornstalks, and
this, with roots, if they can be had, and
a little grain, will easily winter stock.
1t is the pasture range in summer that
costs most. To avoid this and still keep
up their manure pile, some of our farm
ers make practice OF buying sheep and
cattle in the fall and fattening through
the winter. There is generally profit
in this, not alone from increase in weight,
but also in an advance in price of fat
sheep or cattle over poor, and this al
ways pays the cost of feed and attendance
and sometimes something besides, leav-
ing the manure as clear gain. This, un-
der the circumstances, is much more
profitable than keeping a large lot of
cattle and sheep the year round and feed
ing only to keep in store condition. The
manure from fattening animals Is richer
than from those that are barely thriving,
and western corn in ordinary years costs
less than grass does on pastures valued
at $3.50 per acre. / expect to see this
movement continue, and after a few
years no cattle of consequence will be
kept the year round within ten miles of
Rochester, excepting COWS, and these, in
summer, will be yarded and soiled very
much the same as in winter.-[Corres
pondeBt Country Gentleman.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03
Bound to Have Her.

An honest-faced stranger called on
Justice Potter the other day, says the
Free Press, and inquired what his Hon.
or's usual fee was for joining a couple in
the holy bonds of wedlock.
"The fee is two dollars in case you
come here" was the reply.
LESS see, unused the man as he hand
ed out roll Of bills; "there's three dol
lars for a bedstead, eight dollars for a
second hand stove. two dollars for dishes,
two dollars to run the house on, and
that's every blamed centp
$50 you are short?" inquired the JUS
tice.
"Ther's the pile," replied the young
man, "but I'll knock the two dollars of
for dishes and give it you, for I'm bound
to be harnessed to my girl this week il
we have to bile 'taters in the teapot"
And in less than an hour the two were
made one.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

In regard to the Nevada silver mines,
a visitor at Virginia City writes: "What-
ever mining may be in other localities,
it is a stupendous reality here, and is
carried on with the same precision and
business sagacity as any legitimate man.
ufacturing business in New England,
New York, or New Jersey. There is no
pretense, no noise, no hustle, no POM
pous manifestation of wealth, no impas-
sable gulf between the four-dollar min
er and the twenty million capitalist. /
have been here two weeks, and not day
has passed during that time in which l
have not visited the mines, and each day
have seen three men each worth moi
less than twenty million of dollars, go.
ing about quietly among the men in the
common garb Of the laborer, with moth
ing to distinguish them from the ordi.
nary mine hand. No diamond studs, nc
big rings, no iashy watch chains, nc
broadclothn
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

then hid ii in one of his boots, and hid
the boot under the bed.
Dreams came to that young man as he
finally slept. The old white horse came
and stood over him with tears in his
eyes, and then turned round and swal-
lowed the watch. Thieves broke in and
stole it. His sisters redheaded baby
bit it square in two. 1t took legs and
ran away from him. At midnight he
awoke, saw that the moon was up, and
as he got into his clothes he said to
himself:
''It's only eight miles home, good 60
ing, and blamed e don't walk right in
on the hull family fore daylightr'
We all differ, you know, in our make
up, and who could blame him?-L"M.
Quad" in N. Y. Graphic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03
A New Rifle for the Austrian Army

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Some experiments at the camp of
Bruck, on the Leitha, with a new re-
peating rife Invented by Captain Kro-
patchek, of the Austrian army, appear
to have produced highly satisfactory re-
suits. This rife" says the Bohemia,
ais described as being far superior to
any small arm hitherto used in the arm
les of Europe. MIME, Dreyse, Chase
pot, Remington, Podewils and all other
systems are thrown into the shade by the
Kropatchek rife. II fires fifteen shots
in ten seconds without being reloaded;
its greatest advantage, however, is not
its rapidity of fire, though that is un-
precedented, but consists IN the circnm-
stance that at certain periods of the bat
tie the soldier may fire from three to four
times as many shots with his repeating
rife as can be fred with any ordinary
rife. Hitherto it has been found i'm
possible to obtain a repeating mechan-
ism which should at the same time be
simple and sure. The Kropatchek rife
unites both qualities. In the widest
tumult of battle all that is necessary is
that the soldier should have sufficient
presence of mind to open and cloae the
lock with two short movements, and the
mechanism is SO simple that it can be
set in motion even by fingers numbed
with cold. Its pre-eminent quality,
therefore, is that it can be relied upon
to do its work at the decisive moment OF
battle"
The Bohemia adds that the rifles at
present used in the Austrian army (the
WerndD may easily be converted into
Kropatchek rifles at cost of about two
fiorins each.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03
An Immense Glass Roof.

The Court of the Palace Hotel at
San Francisco, IA feet long by s4 feet
wide, is covered with glass roof.
The glass roof is supported by i'm
mense iron rafters As feet in length,
meeting ia the center and making one
grand curve of 80 feet from side to side.
The rafters are "a feet apart. Heavy
corrugated glass is used for glazing.
which will admit a softened and sub-
dued light into the court beneath. Each
pane overlaps the one below it like q
shingle. Along the inner side of each
sash or mullion is a groove to drain of
the moisture condensed from the as
cending air, SO that it will not drop into
the court. How to keep this immense
glass surface clean was for long time a
problem. Finally one of the superin-
tending carpenters of the building in
vented "kedge," sort of slender frame
% feet in length and about three feet
high and wide. A light shaft runs
through it, with cog-wheel in the mid
die and beam at each end on which il
wound a 4-inch steel cable. Another
steel cable, half an inch in diameter, is
run up along the side of each rafter.
When not in use the kedge remains in
the inside corridor of the seventh story.
When it is to be used two men get into
it, draw themselves up to the edge Of
the roof, and thence along the wire ca
bles to the peak. One section having
been washed, they lower themselves to
the corridor, roll the kedge on castors to
the next section, raise themselves again,
and repeat the operation. One side be-
ing finished, the kedge is turned to the
other side and worked along that, IN
til the entire roof is cleaned. The ma
chine is ingenious, and will no doubt
uork ua1I
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

UPsETTING UsURY LAws.-An old
farmer living in the State Of Verpont,
was in the habit of loaning money at q
usurious rate. He was. moreover, q
strict church member. One day a neigh
ber called on him for the purpose Of me-
gotiating loan. The old farmer inform
ed him that he could have the monay at
the rate of nine per cent. "Nine per
centp exclaimed the astonished neigh
Dor, "why, that can't agree with your
principles of Christianity. What will
the Lord say when he looks down from
above and sees you charge nine per cent,
when the legal rate is only SIX ?" "Ah
but," exclaimed the farmer, "when the
Lord looks down from above the figures
will be reversed, and the nine will look
just like SIX"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03
Disease Among Cattle in IIIInoIs.

LINCOLN, Ill, August pa disease,
known as the Spanish fever, is creating
havoc among herds Of cattle lately i'm p
ported into this county from Kansas and
the Indian Territory. Pierce & Smith,
Samuel Evans, A. RothSchild, and 9th
era, have suffered severely. The disease
is confined to this class, and is not con-
tagious. Farmers are seriously alarmed
and deferred from shipping more.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

A MELANCHOLY FAcr.-The Dan
bury News says: A meek looking stran-
ger was sitting on the station platform,
reading a newspaper, last evening, when
he suddenly let it fall from his hands,
and burst into tears.
"What is your grief, my dear sir?"
hastily asked an astonished and sym
pathetic bystander.
The afflicted man looked up, with
eyes streaming. stranger" " he grasped
do you known that there hain't sin
gle ex- President alive2' and again he
bowed his head and wept.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

A new National Union party. with
Governor N. p. Banks for President
and L. @. c. Lamar, Of Mississippi, for
Vice President, was organized at Boston
Saturday night, by the appointment OF
State Central Committee and the
adoption Of platform and resolutions.
Banks sent letter saying he was not a
candidate for President.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

A gentlemad of Concord, Mass, re-
ports the profits et one year on his 6ock
of ifty-four hens, "a follows; Cost Of
keeping. $54.64; income from eggs. hens
and chickens sold, and increase of stock
at the end of year, $l45.77; leaving a
balance In his favor of $92.13, or about
S1.70 per hee.-[ Farmers Journal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

IL has long been question what The
Maine tanneries would do for bark when
the hemlock forests should become eK-
hansted, which bids fair 10 occur at no
distant day, but II has now been found
that the sweet fern, which springs up Ia
great quantities where the wooda are re-
moved, posaeNses valuable tanning prop
critics, and measures are being taken ut
Ellsworth and vicinity 70 utilize H.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

A Cambria county farmer experiment
ed upon new method Of growing wheat,
which he has just harvested with the
most satisfactory results. He planted a
half tes-cuPful Of wheat in hills about
eight inches apart, three grains 90 she
hill. From each hill an average of tifty-
four stalks grew, the heading Of these
stalks ranged from i've 20 eight inches
From the half teaoupful peck Of grain
,vma tbraahad
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

LOUISVILLE, August 23.-The Board
Of Directors Of the Christian County
(Ky,) Agricultural and Mechanical As
sociation has invited JeG. Davis 20 de-
liver an address at the eleventh annual
meeting, which commences October 9.
Mr.. Davis was born in Christian Coun-
ty, and likely the desire 70 renew the o.
sociations Of his youth viii 60 Gar 10
wards inducing him TO accept
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

If your girl, or her big brother, comes
along and points q pistol at you, and
tells you to walk down 70 the ministers
and be married, 60 right along and do
il; the marriage will be bogus. That
has recently been decided by the SUI
preme Court Milwaukie News.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

A French astronomer observes that
We are 20 have two months Of rain Jet
the moon showing that the torrents will
come down about the latter part Of Oc-
toher.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

Il IL a characteristics Of the greaieai
men that they love 10 romp aud cut up
with children. Such was the case with
Pitt, Webster and Napoleon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be suro that there " one
rascal lesa In the world.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

Superstition changes q man to o. tame
beast. fanaticism makes him a wild
beast, and despOtism beast Of burden.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

OF all the paths leading 20 womHne
love, pity ia the strainhteat.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

Sorrow turns the stars into mouFneFa
and every wind Of heaven into diFge
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

The Indians Of the up river agencies
won't dispose Of their rights in the
Black Hills.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-09-03

A small piece Of religion WIN make
cloak.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24

DR.. YIN Maxwell, ". AI. of the State
Grange, addressed a meeting Of the ciri-
zens of the county ct She court house on
the 10Th inst In his address he showed
that the grange movement was misundeT-
stood By those who thought it was work
ing IN opposition TO other interests Of SO
ciety. Thas 1t was simply looking to
the advancement Of tae interests and the
prosperity Of the farming class, By which
all other classes would be benefited, as
he was the great producer Of wealth. He
c9nteDdsd that the profits OF farm labor
was small, because tbs former was ur-
taught in the science Of agriculture.
T hat one Of the objects Of the grange
was to educate men more IN this science.
z he reading Of agricultural papers, the
experience reheagaed in the grange, End
cooper alton in effort would result Ia gro
gress. Cooperation was necessary to oil
cailings ard professions. and had brought
about the scientific Advancement we bad
reached in medicine, liw, and the other
professions 10 ihcm bouoe) had led the
way, and showed 10 the farmer the good
which resulted from organization and
cooperation for the advancement Of sci
en,iGo knowledge. The farmer knew
less Of the science Of his ealing, than
any other class. snd beuce experienced
pooer results from bis efforts. This
was the cause of tha Impoverished con.
dition Of the farms, and tie small profits
Of labor.
Why does the farmer in The Northern
States under q less genial climate, obtain
better results froia lis labor tlan we do ?
He farms scientifically. lie BULLS up
| the producing capacity of his lands, By
putting plant food Ia them. TYe take it
cut year after year, and stin expect 10
realize large results. He pIoUs deeper
and uses labor saving Implements We
scratch the surface, and 90 it On the old
bone and muscle plan. We need scien-
tiio teaching, and progress, and we must
cooperate TO bring this about. lie paid
a nigh compliment 70 the mechanic, ana
showed that not only the interest Of the
laborer and mechanic, were intimately
connected, but that all classes were mt
turally dependent upon each other.
He thought all should encourage the far
mer who is the great producer, as all
were interested in the common welfare
Common interest begsts good wiz. ana
cement5 society. Mutual dependence
common interests was the great GENE Mt
Of the American nation. He condemned
the credit system, and said the grange
taught TO pay as you go. Keep out of
debt, be independent, prosperous, and
hence happy. lie asked that all join the
granger5 in bringing about 90 desirable
an end.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24
Meeting TO Form a County Grange
in Hardeman.

IL LII al
Delegates from the following Oranges
duly elected to 90 into the formation CT
County Grange, met Sept. I6tb., in
Bolivar, w NJ, VIM. Maxwell, of the
State Grange present.
/ Bethlehem Grange, No 979, repre-
scented; Granville Grange, No. SIS, rep
resented Lunar Grange, No OH, repre-
scented; Hickory Creek Grange, No
l02S, represented; TiImonsGraDge, 935
represented; MiddleJurg Grange; I045,
represented; New Hope Grange, rep
resented; TOone Station Grange, repre-
scented.
The proper time having arrived, on
motion, an election was held for officers
Of the county grange, and Wm. Caruth-
ers vas elected W. NJ, ". J. Blair was
elected Secretary, but declined serving,
wheEeupOn a new election was ordered,
and brother j, a. Moore was elected
Secretary. The election Of other officers
was deferred until future meeting.
Bros. Carutbers and Moore, were then
duly installed by ". d., Maxwell, in
their respective Offices
On motion a committee was Amounted to
draft bylaws and report next meeting.
Said Committee consisted of Bros. w.
II. Ammons, W. J. Blair, a. Il. Rose,
Sister Mary AmmoDs and Sister e. s.
Crews. On motion, Bros. Caruthers and
Moore were added to committee.
The first meeting Of the county grange
was appointed for the frst Friday in Octo-
Der, at II o'clock a II.
On motion the proceedings Of the meet
ing was requested to be published in the
Bolivar BULLETS. with q request from the
w. h., that all members, and those to
be elected By the subordinate grange,
members of the county grange, be re-
quessed to attend in Bolivar on the first
Friday in October next The following
resolutions we're psesed:
Resolved, By the County Grange, that
we tender our thanks to DR.. Maxwell,
". NJ, Of the Tennessee State Grange,
for his visit to our county, and the or
ganization Of the Hardeman County
Grange. And We respectfully invite
him to.visit US again at as early day as
| Convenient
Resolved, That the Bolivar BULLETIN
be requested TO publish the proceedings
OF the Country Grange, and that q copy
be sent 20 the Y. HI, at his place OF res
idence- c. 4. MOORE, Secgy
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24
Sheriff. SaER-

/ WILL sell at the Court House door,
in the town OF Bolivar, HaTdeman
county, On Thursday, the 30th Of Sep
TENDER next, for cash, one tract Of land,
levied on as the property Of j. n Vim
cent, to satisfy an execu ton issued from
the Circuit Court Of Hardeman, at the
July term, 1875, in favor of u. II. PirtIe,
and bounded as follows. to-wit: On the
north by the land OF Brown & Gordan
and estate Of A. Turner, and on the east
by the land Of the estate Of A. Turner,
on the south by the land Of J. W. + :. II.
Chapman, on the west by land known as
Haynes land, lately owned by the estate
of Henry Duncan, containing about 200
acres. more or less. Sale IN legal hours
J. J. NEELEY,
Sept. 10, 1885,. Sheriff.
prs fS4,00
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24

It is natural for people suffering with
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, or any
arrangements of the digestive organs,
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, HabitGal
Costivensss, Palpitatioa Of the Heart,
Heart Burn, Water>Brash, Gnawing and
Burning Pains at the pit OF the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue, end di5a,
ereeablc tastes in the mouth, coming up of
food after eating, low spirits, etc, to put
off from day to day buying an article
that they know has cured their reigbbor,
friend, or relative, yet they have no
faith in it until it is too late. But if
you will go TO your Druggist, Moore x
Hammer, Bolivar, Tenn; j. G. Powell,
Grand junction, Tenn, and a. Il.
Cousseps, Nashville, Tenn, and get bot
tie Of GREENS AUGUST FLowER your
immediate cure is as certain as you live.
Sample bottles OF this medicine can be
obtained for 10 cents to try its superior
virtue. Regular size IS cents. Try it,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24

Americans are particularly subject to
this disease and it's effects, such as Sour
Stomach, Sick Headache, Habituai Cos
tIYeness, HEARTBURN, Waterobrash, COM
ing up OF food, coated tongue, disagree
able taste IN the mouth, Palpitatatiou OF
the Heart, and all iisea ses of the Stom~
ach and Liver. Two doses Of Green's
August Flower will relieve you at once,
and there positively IS not a case in the
United States it VIII not cure. IF you
doubt this 20 to your druggist, Moore q
Hammer, Bolivar, Tenn. J. G. Powell,
Grand Junction, Tenn, Nashville, Tenn,
aad get samp lie bottle for 10 cents and
try it. Regular size IS cents.