The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Columbus has $4,000 spindles in sight, |
and is pretty certain of $1,000.
THE New York Legislature has settled
the weight of eggson sale, by enactment.
One dozen must weigh a pound.
In 1901 Great Britain had 10, 600, 900
people, Ireland 100000. Now the |
former has 27,OOO,O 900, the latter {, $780,
600.
RUssIA's public debt is about 81, $780,
OOO, 900 and is able to contract loans.
Turkey, with debt of only $3.50, ,00O,-
900, has no credit.
THE cost of the production of cotton
in the South is greatest in Mississippi
and Louisiana, while it is least in Texas,
South Carolina and Georgia.
The English navy consists of sixty
eight iron-clads, three hundred steamers,
and hundred and seventy sailing ships,
available for actual service in war.
A BILL has passed the Illinois Legisla-
ture authorizing railroad conductors to
stop trains and put off everybody play
ing cards for money or using obscene
language.
The girls of Cashmere can make shawls
worth thirty thousand dollars piece,
that will show three hundred distinct
colors which we cannot make nor dis
tinguish.
BUSH fires have been raging north and
west of the Ottawa Mountains. Around
Bennington, VT, they were one sheet of
flames, while the forest fires lighted up
North Conway and Upper Bartlett, N. H.
The rays of the sun, shining through
an ordinary stereoscope, set fire to a
newspaper lying upon table in house
in Maine, few days ago. An early dis
covery prevented the destruction of the
building.
NEBRASKA farmers are attempting the
I domestication of the buffalo. Half and
quarter breeds are very hardy, and in the
Weld of milk from COWS raised of mixed
stock give even more than the average OF
rich milk.
THE anti-Russian demonstration in
Hyde Park, London, on Sunday, num-
bered about three thousand. The speak
ers included no one of note. The crowd
finally overturned the platform and dis
persed in disorder.
The name of Logansport was given to
the survey of that town in 1928 by Col.
J. B. Duret, who won the right to name
the place at a shooting match. He
named it in honor of the services Of
Captain Logan, the Shawnee chief.
A FIvE:YEAR OLD son of Reuben Hall
farmer at Y York Station, Cleveland, San
dusky and Cincinnati Railroad, while
asleep on the railroad track at San
dusky, was run over by the accommoda
ton train, having his head cut off.
) In 1859 Russia borrowed s5, 1853, 900
in 1862, e15.00O,OOO in 1864, e5,53s,
600; in 1866, e5, ,920, 1874; in 1867, e22,
9Os coo; in 1870, Ell, 1862, $50; in 1871
ELL 1852, $50; iii 1872, e14, 969 900, ant
!. in 1873, ELS 900, 900, making a gran
l tatol of s1OS, 5l4,9 ,934
+ GERMANY furnishes annually 10000
fox skins, 10000 pine martens, 5000
stone martens, 100000 pole cats, 500
= offers, 5000 badgers, and $4,000 har
:: skins In rabbit skins she sends out onl
), 3OO,O 900, to Frances 5000 600. The lis
u u closes with 100000 domestic cat skin
}, AN immensely tall silk hat supporte
= by twelve-inch collar, insulted a lad
q q on the street in Memphis. A momer
e later and the police were carrying ths
J hat and collar away on shutter in
y fearfully mutilated condition, and picl
:, ing up the fragments of a heavy paras'
9 scattered around.
n IN the Turkish navy are in all abol
e $4,000 sailors, equally divided betwee
), branches of the service. In time
If peace not more than 5000 to 5000 sal
h ors are actively engaged. There a
y twenty-three iron clad ships, carryir
d. from two to seventeen guns; four iro
is cased batteries, of two guns each seve
" teen screw steamers, carrying an aggr
r gate of six hundred and forty guns; al
about eighty other steamers; making
&c &c total of one hundred and fifteen stear
y, ers and one thousand six hundred gur
ID Kerro,U RoadsUays.
ir In his paper on Village Improy
n ment Associations" (Scribner), Color
ed Waring advocates narrow roadways. ]
he says;
Is; The great expense of Macadamizing
er Telfordizing puts these systems out
ne the reach of small communities. VIII
ia, ha ever the original expense can be bor
i'm the subsequent cost of maintenance v
be SO slight, and the result generally v
be so satisfactory as to make it alway
,re good investment. The circumslan
he under which these costly forms of c
eI M struction may be adopted will be grea
is extended if we can overcome the pr
Ole alent American prejudice in favor
led scide roads. Against wide streets ther
ere as a rule no objection, though exceptio
w. narrow and well-shaded lanes hav
nd rural charm that will always CONNIE
les them to persons OF taste. A wide str,
IN IN that is, broad spaces between fences,
no means implies broad roadway.
!, we need in the principal thoroughfar'
49,. a Dusy Vlllage Is sucn Wlutn as
tho ~ allow of the easy passing of vehicle
Wv Wv the middle of the road, and the stand
~ of one vehicle at rest on each side. Z
~ will be accomplished even in the BUSH
az street of village by width of road
o., thirty feet. Under most other circ
ep' stances twenty feet Of roadway
oi be ample. This will allow of the n
en :, ing of three vehicles side by side
me .n will give a leeway of six feet betV
'.,,s .,I two vehicles passing each other.
'ni, i, In the island of Jersey, there are n,
uio excellent roads only six feet wide. T
nei are provided with frequent little bay
nor turn-outs to allow teams to pass I
'i'n other. Although such extremely nal
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