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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

In an inland town of Califor-
mia is an individual who claims TO have
a secret cure for diphtheria, to the sale
of which he devotes his energies. The
man has lately become religious(?). At
Il church meeting he is reported to have
made a speech as follows: 81 have made
up my mind to give my property to the
service of the Lord. have several
thousand dollars in money, all of which
bestow on the church. / have some
fine blooded stock, especially some
Blackhawk horses, all Of which l give
to the Church. have also lot of
grain and farm produce, which IN like
manner l give to the Church. There is
but one thing in all my possessions
which reserve for myself, and that IL
my celebrated medicine for the cure of
diphtheria, which l will continue to
sell as heretofore for the moderate price
of two dollars n bottle"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

AMERICAN FARMERs-The Artisan
says: eve hazard the assertion that no
class of equal average means, live so
we'll as American farmers. One of these
possessing farm and buildings, worth
ten thousand dollars, will gather about
him and enjoy more real comfort, than
could be obtained from the income of
one hundred thousand dollars in New
York. He may live in a more commodi
GUS dwelling than metropolitan citizen
having ten thousand dollars annual in
come. He may have his carriage and
horses. His table may be supplied with
everything fresh in its season. His la
boris less wearing than the toll of the
counting room and Office and he hasmor
leisure.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
Hard and Soft Water.

There is a notion quite prevalent in
the minds of the people that the drink
ing of hard water is injurious to the
health, and most physicians have warn
ed as far as possible to avoid the prac-
tice. But DIR. Letherby, an English
physician, who has devoted much time
to investigate the subject, finds, as the
result of his observation, that hard wa
ter is not only clearer, colder, and more
free from air, and more agreeable to the
taste than soft, but that it is less liable
to the absorbtlon of organic matter and
TO the sustenance of the life of zymotic
organisms or to exert solvent
properties upon salts of iron or upon
laeden conducting pipes. And he claims
that the lime-salts exert beneficial in
huence 1t is stated that practical test
of the truth of this new theory is to be
had in the case of the residents of noun
famous districts, where the water is al
most invariably hard, and where the
inhabitants exhibit the best physical de-
velopment. He claims that water con-
tanning six grains of carbonate of lime
to the gallon is suitable for use IN all
household purposes, for such water Of
fers the necessary. amount of carbonate
of lime for the support of life in the SIM
plest and most digestible form.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

Three brothers bearing a remarkable
resemblance to one another, are in the
habit of shaving at the same BARRIERS
shop in New York. Not long ago one
of the brothers entered the shop early in
morning, and was shaved by a German,
who had been at work in the shop only
for day or two. About noon another
brother came in, and underwent SINH
lar operation at the hands of the same
barber. In the evening the third broth
er made his appearance, when the Ger
man dropped his razor, in astonishment,
and exclaimed, 'Vel. mine Gott! dat
man has the fastest beard l never sawl
1 shaves him dis mornin, shaves him at
dinner-times, and he comes back now
nit his beard SO long as it never vashp'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
The Dencon,s SMin.Rnrrel.

Just outside Of the house stood father,
the deacon, tugging away at a big lump
Of ice in the swill-barrel
"Bad business, that" said ], resting
my hands on my knees.
"Not half so bad as it might have
been" ," was the reply, as he lifted the
cake of ice out by a stout stick that had
frozen up in the swill. "Many an many
a barl has busted for me that wouldn't
If this knowledge had only come to me
sooner" said he. .
"You see, when this cold snap came
on suddenly, thought 6f the swill bari
away in the night and / said
"Well, it can't be helped now" It
happened. however, that the stick
stir with was left poked down in the
swill, and that was all that saved il. A
barl or a tub, or q pail, may freeze MP
solid, and If a stick has been put down
in the water the vessel can't bust. But
it took me good while to find it out
never knew it till last winter, lived
seventy years before I knew IT," and
his eyes twinkled knowingly.-[ Arthur's
Home Magazine.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

UNGRATEFUL.-This is what happen
ed the other night when it rained so,
and just before this last snow. Our in
formant thought it was too good to keep,
but his heart wasn't too full for utterance
and he told us all about it. 1t runs
something like this: Sitting chatting
with Amanda Jane, his sweet heart, they
did not notice the fight of time till
three o'clock in the morning, when he
arose and proposed to walk to his home,
two miles distant. The rain was falling
fast, and that he might not get wet,
Amanda prevailed on her lover to re-
main and sleep with her brother, sym
pathetic cherub of three years. In the
morning, as he was departing, he reach
ed out his hand full length for fare
farewell grasp, and in subdued voice
said: Amanda, darling, l thank you
for your hospitality, but I would have
been dryer to have gone home in the
rain."---[ Tiffin Star.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
A Heroine by Mistake.
[From the Lexington (Ky,) Gazette.

lFrom the Lexington (Ky,) Gazette.l
One dark night not long ago, burg
lar entered a private residence on Broad
way. On ascending one flight of stairs
he observed light in a chamber, and
while deliberating what doa large wo-
man suddenly descended upon him,
seized him by the throat, pushed him
down through the hall and forced him
into the street before he had time to
think. "Heroic Repulse of a Burglar
by a Woman" was the way the story
was told next day. But when friends
called and congratulated her upon her
courage, she exclaimed, "Good gracious,
l didn't know it was a burglar. If 1
had should have been frightened to
death. / thought it was my husband
come home drunk, and was determin-
ed he shouldn't stay in the house in that,
condition"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
st. Louis Curiosity.

A curiosity in the possession of NJ. S.
Mepham of this city, says the St. Louis
Republican, is deserving of more than
passing observation. The article in
question is specimen of the kind of
safe used twelve hundred years ago. For
centuries it laid in a monastery and
when feudalism became thing of the
past it came into the hands of German
baronial family, who handed it down
from father to sor until it found its way
to the New World and the heart of the
Mississippi valley. A safe-but not the
cumbrous, heavy, thick. walled articles
now used; only circular iron box made
Of strips welded together about foot long
and perhaps a half foot in diameter,
looking altogether something like
cove-oyster barrel. The great curiosity
about it is the lock, which is a master
piece in its way and burglar-proof as it
was found a few days ago when, the key
being mislaid, it defed all attempts to
pick it, even from expert safe-makers.
Four springs are connected with the
lock, and although the box may be ta-
ken apart it can only be put together
with each screw in the place assigned for
it. 1t is supposed to have been hung up
in 4 monastery and TO have been in its
day a sort of poor-box, a slit in the top
showing where the coins should be put
in. 1t was placed in Mr.. Mepham's
hands by Mrs. NJ. Huff, in whose fami-
ly the box has been for over two hundred
years. A Latin inscription on the the
top gives paobably clue to its origin,
but could not be deciphered by the Re
publican reporter, except the words "a.
D. 1922"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

A correspondent writing from Scran-
ton, Pa, says. The destitution is very
great numbers of persons being without
the common necessaries of life. II is
only a short time ago that grocery and
provision store was broken open and
robbed by mob of men and women
rendered desperate by starvation. The
entire number ofminers and other work
men engaged in the various departments
of coal mining now ont Of work is be-
tween 10000 and 10000 Besides these,
there are 10000 puddlers and other
workers in iron also unemployed in the
adjoining producing and manufac-
turing country making altogether an
army Of 10000 idle men in this part Of
Pennsylvania.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
A teacher in Sunday school in R

A teacher in Sunday school in R
was examining class of little boys from
a Scripture catechism. The first ques-
ton was: "Who stoned Stephen?'
"The Jews" Second question: "Where
did they stone him?" Beyond the linn
its of the city" Third question: "Why
did they take him beyond the limits of
the city," was not in the book, and
proved poser to the whole class; it
passed from head to foot without an an
swer being attempted. At length lit
tie fellow, who had been scratching his
head all the while, looked up and said
"Well, ! don't know, unless it was to
get fair fling at him!"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

The Californians are opening the Yo-
semitic Valley, the year round. A par
ty of New Englanders were taken in the
middle of December, when there was
not a particle of snow in the valley.
The six feet of snow which fell, a few
weeks previous, had melted away. Yo-
se.nite fall was heavy with pendant
icicles, but its volume of water was
small. While they were admiring the
beautiful prismatic hues in its icy chain,
the ice of the fall suddenly broke and
thundered down into the valley, and, as
the ice fell away, the water increased in
volume,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

Parson Brownlow tells good story
of an old Presbyterian bachelor preach
er, known almost as a woman-h -hater un-
til he was so years old, when he mar
ried and settled somewhere among the
mountains of South Carolina. The
parson SAYS: "Our bachelor friend was
preaching on the sinners excuses, Il
have bought piece of ground and wish
to go and see it, said one. Here is
want of inclination to attend to divine
things, said the preacher. Another
said, 4 have bought five. yoke of oxen,
and must needs go and prove them
This seems case of necessity. A third
said, 4 have married wife, and there
fore cannot come Here is a case of
natural impossibility, from which We
may infer continued our bachelor
preacher, that one woman will pull a
man farther from the Lord than ten
steers
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

A Missouri legislator hearing that a
number of his constituents were about
to present him with 500 worth of plate,
was so conscientious and high minded
as to refuse the gift in letter conclud-
ing as follows; az am, and always have
been opposed to public displays to OFF,
cials in the way of presents, addresses,
&c. If you have concluded to do any
thing of the kind give it to my wife"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

The supply Of black walnut lumber
is reported to be greatly diminished. A
Cleveland, Ohio, paper says: Kentucky
has quite stock of good walnut, and
much that is very inferior on account of
its gray color and tough, hard texture.
Missouri also has some of rather infer
ior quality. Western Ohio claims good
walnut, but that of Eastern Ohio and
West Virginia is poor in quality. The
whole stock of the States is not equal
to full demand for ten years TO come.
Furniture manufactures do not u.s. it as
lavishly as they did five years ago. 9th
er woods are substituted when possible,
and 1000 feet of walnut are made to go
as far again as it did few years ago.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

Az IMMENSE HoTEL.--The Palace,
in San Francisco, which is to be ready
for occupancy by September is an inn
mense establishment. Il is seven stories
high, built Of brick, iron and Stone
Twenty-six hundred tons of iron were
used in its construction and 100000
brick. There are 757 rooms for guests
in the hotel, and it Is intended to furnish
accommodations for 1900 persons. The
ventilation embraces 2,042 distinct Aues,
laid in the walls and ascending 10 the
roof Thirteen hundred persons were
employed on the building at one time,
1000 gas lights being required FOR the
night force. The hotel WAS erected by
Mr.. c. w. Ralston, president Of the
Bank Of California, and Mr.. Sharon, the
Republican nominee for Senator Of Ne
vada. The cost for the ground, build
lug and furniture is S3,25O,0O0.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

There is a whole agricultural sermon
in the following: Pure sweet milk and
butter. fresh and perfectly ripened fruit;
horses and carriage, roomy door-yards,
the lovely society of birds, pure air and
the quiet retirement of country life, are
looked upon as luxuries by every class
of people except farmers, who accept
them as a matter of course, and forget
to feel thankful for them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
POETRY.
A NIDwINTER sERENADE.

The winter winds are cold, love,
The snow untIodden lies;
The song sing is old, love,
Under the listening skies
Yet to me and to you its theme is new
Under the star-gemmed skies
The window is curtained with frost, love,
And closed thy beautiful eyes
The song / sing may he lost, love,
Under the needless skies
Yet perchance one strain may thy heart retain,
Like a star in the far-of skies
NV love Isl pure as the snow, sw ct,
That over the brown earth lies,
And free as the winds that blow, sweet,
And deep as the fathomless skies,
And shall live for aye, though the pOle-star die
And pass from the azure skies.
A light to thy easement moves, sweet;
Thanks for this lad surprisei
Summer has come to the groves, sweet,
And warmth to the winIry skies,
oh, love can light the darkest night,
An brighten the dullest skies
- From The Aldine for February.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05
The Carapa Tree.

The attention of commerce has been
lately attracted to the Carapa tree Ca
rapa Guianeusis,) on account Of the oil
which it produces. The tree abounds
in French Guiana, especially in the Dis
trict of Cachipoar, where it forms vast
forests. 1t grows TO n large size, and has
beautiful, glossy pinnate leaves, with
many leaflets. The oil Is yielded by
the seeds, which are inclosed in n cap
sule. These from February to June,
and are so abundant as TO cover the
ground to a depth Of several iEchea. If
collected during this period, the seeds
yield about 80 per cent. of an oil that is
thick, bitter, and anthelmintic. Il is
said TO be particularly useful in guarding
against rust, and is much used in lamps
The natives also rub it over their bod
les to protect them form insects, which
find its bitterness obnoxious. The price
of the article at Cayenne is from $25
TO $50 per ton. A tree of the same genus
(Carapa Guineenis,) and Of nearly iden-
tical habits, grows in Africa, where the
negroes use its oil for making soap and
amounting their bodies for the same pur-
pose as do the Eatives of South America.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

1t is hard winter, but the price of
ostrich tips continues panicy-or, rather,
there is always panic in the house that
cherishes desire for them without re-
alizing from 1t. When the question
comes up "Bread or feathers?" it is
good deal as it was with the boy when
asked which of his demands was the
most imperative-"Never mind the
shoes, dad" he replied, 81 must have
the breast-pin!"- Norwich Aurora.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

"a Man sent word to me last night" /"
said the Hon. Sheridan Shook, yester-
pay, "that he wanted to see me private
ly. | came out of the theater and took
him into my office. 'Yon have lost your
watch said he. Yes said |. There
it is said he, hand it TO me. Any ex-
penses? said /. None said he. will
you explainY said /. No. said he,
'you have the watch, and that's enough. "
I New York Sun.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

Not many years ago the marriags ola
Long Island clergyman, aged seventy
three, 10 wealthy aud stately dame ot
eighty-five, afforded good deal Of food
for Rosstd in the sleepy vicinity of Oya-
Ter Bav. IL was nobody business but
their own, however, nor should the goss-
ip make merry over the announcement
that the aged lady died last week, after
brief honeymoon Of two months, leaving
her fortune Of half millionor or 20
TO the care Of her husband.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

a genteel farmer in Massachusetts,, a
retired Bostonian, didn't know how TO
take wagon wheel off to grease the
axle, and so he bored holes through the
hub and poured in the grease.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-05

"Where is Chicago?" plaintively asks
the Rochester Democrat. Ask the in
surance companies.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-16

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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-16
msrn,mx Star and Catholic messenger.
HHW oRLRAAs, SUNDAY. MAY 10 '-15.
from the Pittsburg Catholic
MOTE AND BEAM.
BIT W. II. BABBER.

mote is but tiny speck lodge within ones ego
Which folks not looking out for it, would h0'
descryi
But many IN this world there arc VINO qu''A
detect,
And magnify with tongue the trivial deiee'
xs.,xbI. the uponstrous beam in theirs by them 10
quite ignored
piece of sad hypocrisy that's much to be depio'a
But that all objects dstors on which their optics
fall,
Thew of. zee oes in others syes when there none
at all
ouoth Mrs Brown to Mrs Jones-"Pray have you seen
That upstart Mrs Smith that hold high her empty
You know her origin Was low, and that she's very
plain
Yet ne or saw 1 n woman half arrogant and vain'
Now MIRA. Brown. although she goes most pioualy to
church,
Delights her neishbors characters to darken and De-
smirch,
And is herssIf most strange say of pride and tef
conceit
Astub-f srieve 70 tell it-as an egg Is full Of meat
Saith Robinson to Tompkins--"In inclined 10 think
that Brooks
1spet h. air deslngs quite ~ honest as he looks
fear that transacton was not altogether square
rare =,
Yet despite this harsh suspicion, Brooks is nothing
more than shrewdi
His taots- 5iso-ted into fraud because it's wrongly
viewed. ~ 60, 49,.
While Robhsou his censor to detraction not averse,
tricky and pnserppuops, and something worse
Those whose anxious gaze is fixed on others eyes
alone,
Outlines see NOTES hat are in fact. reflections from
their own
When of theee same motes they view SO PPnstron
does IT seem
That shoe ed At its enormity, they quick cry out "A
beam
The truly good 10 bemishes IN Others seek TO find
Their hoer aim is charity TO live with all mankind.
Seightsous Pha rsees they who point with pious
To fAiings of their with which they shOnd
havo borne.
Oh let us look into souls and purge of all sin
Ere to judge neishbors' faults presumptuousy
begin;
There shall We ind such ample work that shall
dream
OF pluckng from Others eyes but from own
the beam.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-16
Manners in Boston.

Mr.. Wendell Phillips has disturbed the calm
serenity of high life on Beacon street and amid
the classic groves of Harvard by bursting
forth in the columns of a local journal with
the distressing conundrum: g. Is Boston society
poiitef" That any one could have the faulty
to raise such question is a matter of profound
surprise to the high class Boston mind. But
the veteran iconoolast not only raises it, but
argues, or rather We should say, vituperates
vigorously IN the negative. He appeals to
history-that is to say, his recollection of his
torS. He recalls a scene which occurred during
n certain royal visit to Cambridge fifteen years
ago. Harvard received the Prince of Wales
and lunched him. Among the Thousand DIS
tiuguished CHESTS who we're bidGe to the feed
there was none among them notable and so
worthy of homage as Massachusetts, great
Senator, Mr. sumner. Yet, governors ana
governors, mayors and eX-luay OTIS and college
officials were provided with seats at the lunch
table, and the great Senator WAS left standing.
He was indeed cnnspicuonsly sighted by
President FELTON, Speaking of the indignity,
in after years, to NJ: Phillips, Mr. Sumner said
that "he would have left the hall but tor the
foreign guests" r
Again Mr.. Phillips draws on the past The
Prluce de JoiuvIlIe was entertaiued by the
historical Society. All Beacon street was
there. The local invited guest who nked
fist officially was the Governor of Massachn-
sets, aud by courtesy his wife was first among
she ladies. According to the etiquette which
obtains in polite circles elseyhere in the civil
lied world;' the Prince. should have led Mrs.
Banks to supper aud Governor Banks should
have follow with the next most distinguish
ed lady, But what did these high class Bos-
tonians do when the doors of the banquetipg
halt were 6pened+ They rushed pell NELL,
higgledy- pggledy into I'll t; room aud proceeded
to devour the FEAST without further ado.
Mean hJbS Luhe ,GoEsrn6r and Mrs. Banks
were left standing atotIe at the head OF tue
reception hall without even an invitation To
follow.
1t need not be supposed that these antique
instances Of Bostonian bootishness have pro-
voked Mr. Phillips to,rush into print in these
later days. Not at all. HIS grievance is of
modern birth. lie cites the Sumner and Banks
| examples by way of preface TO what he is
going To tell of fragrant impoliteness on the
occasion of the Concord Centennial celebration.
The Committse on Invitations deliberately re-
fused to invite Collector Simmons t''poor boy''
Smmons) TO- be- present because he was a
friend of General Butler. This " az an insult
to. Butler. Phillips is q friend to Butler, there
fore this was an insult to Phillips. Summons
was er-o9icio-(being the representative Fede
raj officer in Massachusetts) "a member of the
suite of President Grant; therefore this slight
to Simmons was an insult to Grant. In short
this case caps the climax of evidence 'ha
the Bostonians of the upper orders are coarse
ill-bred and shockingly provincial.