The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-09


the system to operate on small sums of
money. Copies sent free to any address.
All wishing information concerning
railroad stocks should write to them.
1t is a notable fact that the loss of the
Schiller occurred on the anniversary of
the death Of her illustrious namesake,
which happened May Q, 1905.
A Lady on the Cape has in her flower
garden two peony plants, on one of
which there are pa full buds and blos-
SONS, and on the other 161.
Now look out for horned cattle, as the
late Mr.. Greeley used to call the newly
Aedged college graduate. The woods
are full of 'em.
In Burgundy they have grain crops
and vintages whose like has never been
seen, and their barns, wine vanlts, pres
ses and barrels can never hold all if no
accident occurs to blast present appear
ances.
Forney's Press calls the independent
voter a nominis umbra, which may be
interpreted to mean that individual is
keeping in the shade until he knows
which side is going to win Worcester
Press.
The estate of the late Mr.. Charles NJ. ..
Barras, the author ofthe BLACK Crook, !"
is large enough to leave none of his
brothers in an M-Barrass-ed condition.
Mr. Thomas Dewitt, Virginia State
officer of prominence, blew his brains
out in Richmond the other day. De-
preston caused him to Dewitt.
| Nevada papers say that propositions
of marriage out there are written on pos
tai cards, and the answer comes by re-
turn mail: "Come on with your preach
err'
The devil has got a story afioat that
up in Floyd county, Iowa, the boys who
were converted in the revivals last win
ter are already prospecting the orchards.
At Middletown, Delaware, an immense
peach refrigerator is to be built, capable
of holding two hundred thousand bas-
kets Of fruit, which the protector guar
antees to keep by peculiar freezing pro-
cess for six months.
A child was lost in the woods near
Blooming Grove, Pike County, Pa, a few
days ago. For three days and nights
parties searched the woods. When the
child was found he was unconscious and
lying in rattlesnake's den. Four OF
the snakes had to be killed by the rescuei
before the child could be toucned. This
is regarded as one of the most wonderful
escapes ever recorded.
Eccentric outbursts of prtriotism are
becoming common. Among the --latest
is one of a Boston man who sent box
filled with the sacred soil of Bunker
Hill, in which were buried twelve hatch
cts, to citizens of Georgia, to be used il
the celebrations yesterday. Whether
the Ratchet of the late George Washing
ton was among the number we are no
informed.
The New Orleans Times pays Wendell
Phillips this handsome compliment
'fHe was brought up on the bottle. Fol
the first week the bottle was filled OF
crah-apple cider, but after that sulphur
ic acid was substituted. On this diet h
grew up fine healthy child, with Wig
orous stomach His nurse always stood
him on his head at night to sleep
whereby he acquired the habit of seein:
everything upside down.
In Connecticut there has been con
siderable agitation to secure the aboli
tion of capital punishment. In tn,
Legislature the subject was referred tt
the Judiciary Committee, which body
after mature deliberation, has reported
against abolition. In order to obviat
some proper objections to it, however
the Committee recommend changes il
law which shall hereafter prevent exc
cutions from being objects of mere vul
gar curiosity, and, by making then
> more private, cease to contribute to tn
: qualification of depraved taste.
PRoDIGIoUs FORCE OF NITRO GLY
: CERINE.-The interesting statement
y made by NJ. Champion, the wellknow
= French chemist, that the heat develope
:, by given quantity of nitro-glycerin
: when exploded, is capable of exertint
b. on being converted into motion, a max
mum energy fully five times that pre-
duced by the explosion of guhpowde
and three thousand times more tha
that caused through the combustion {
an equal quantity of coal. So small
quantity as single quart of nitro-gly
cerine has, it is asserted the immens
potential energy of $500 horse powe
es working during ten hours. This bein
l. the case, no wonder that inventors al
l. turning their attention to some means
Al utilizing such prodigious force as pra,
m tical motor.
r EDUCATION A CENTURY AGo.--SuC
in language as this from the Governor
e, Virginia is calculated to make though
ie ful Eatriots weep: 81 thank God that '
have no free schools nor printing presst
and ! hope we shall not have any for
n hundred years; for learning has broug
Isl disobedience and heresy, and sects in
%. the world, and printing. has divulg'
r them and libeled governments. G.
It. keep us from bothw 1t ia due, howev'
e. to say that it was used by Govern
Berke!y in 1875.