The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

Up to 1929 there have been twenty-five
Popes.
Grows have been known to live one
hundred years.
THE way to wear linen duster is to
wear it all over.
THE Latin translation of the New
Testament was made by Jerome in 405.
THE plague of 1346 is said to have
destroyed in Christendom 23,S40,OOO
persons.
SEVERAL members of Harvard's class
of II lost their degrees through i'm
morality.
| A CARDINAL wears a red soutanne, a
rocket, short purple mantle, and since
1243 red hat.
1t is calculated that every billiard
player loses one weeks time out of a year |
in chalking his cue.
In 1888 a toad was found in Sweden |
nearly twenty feet deep in quarry, in
the middle of block.
THE tortoise and crocodile often ex-
ceed a hundred, and the lamprey has
been known to live for sixty years.
A NEW fruit has been discovered in
Queenland, combining the flavor of the
pineapple and the pear. 1t is thought to
be of Mexican origin.
PAPER trunks are the newest. They
are very strong and have no seams, and
can be tossed any distance by baggage
smashers and not Injured. They come in
all colors, and are quite handsome.
SOME of the Spanish papers are advo-
eating the suppression of the bull fights,
and are asking that it may be declared
illegal to allow horses to take part in
them. There are one hundred bull rings
in Spain.
In India the elephant is made ser
: viceable before a gigantic plow. The
r implement is guarded by two men, and
: turns up huge ridge and forms a fur
row three feet deep by four and half
feet wide at the top.
A MIssoURIAN is trying to prove that
: Marshal Ney never was executed, but es-
capped to America, settling in North
e Carolina. It is not the same Missourian
l that undertook to establish that Lord
). Bacon was Shakespeare. He got discour-
S aged.
TEXAS has fifty wheat producing coun-
) ties one-ffth of which, if fully culti-
Il waited, would produce S6,000,000 bushels
of grain. 1t has also IS, 120,0 900 cotton
y y yielding acres, which, if taxed to the ex-
= = tent of their productiveness, would yield
X X 6,962,000 bales of cotton.
i THERE are now ninety-two papers in
4 the State of Mississippi-feur of which
q are daily, eighty-six weekly, and two
e tri-weekly. The combined circulation
u of these papers is estimated at sixty
=. thousand two hundred and twenty-three.
= This is one copy to every thirteen of the
* population.
. JACOB HUNTINGTON, of Mt. Pulaski
m Illinois, committed suicide July 9 by
"a shooting himself with a revolver. He
10 was one of the first settlers of Chicago
and man well known and identified
N with the early history of Illinois. HI
re was at one time considered one of tht
w wealthiest men in the State, but lost hi
u ,r fortune by bad investment.
ID THE war in the East has doubled thu
price of canary bird seeds. Asiati'
at Turkey supplies large quantities of thi
a bird provender, but since that territor,
or has become the theater of war the sup
a. ply has been cut Off The import of tn
seeds amounts to about four hundred
~ tons per annum. The little warblers will
ar have to change their diet until the East
ern question is settled.
CINCINNATI has lost her third an,
last white whale, killed by too much eS
to citement in thunderstorm. He
re, stomach was opened and found to col
ID, tain about two quarts of small roun
nv stones, the bottom of glass tumblera an
We a small piece of stick. Nothing else ws
les found in the stomach, though she ha
he been fed some two or three thousand mil
Mt, nows, chubs and sinners on the night b.
er. fore her death.
Iy- AN Impractical eye generally makes
an mistake when assuring height. Tw
ca. men, while crossing the East River, /
I'm Gently, in one of the Fulton ferry boat
to we're estimating the height of the Broo1
be- lyn bridge piers ''They are abol
Wo thirty feet high" said one of the mel
'o0 Thirty feetv' exclaimed the other, sa
ese castically, they are fully sixty" The
ad height above high-water mark is tN
nd hundred and seventy-seven feet.
o1 A CLOUDBURsT may be a serious thi1
bio in the Cheyenne region, where Il
M ~. streams run down from the mountain
~ Recently there was sudden and uncor
ta,. monty heavy fall of rain there. Almo
,on without any warning wave seven fe
'en high rolled down the Chugwater. A
"a tachment of the Third Cavalry encampt
ea' e near the bank was overwhelmed by Il
s. flood. The dry bed of the creek, on whit
oe no water had flowed for six years, su
,1o aoo denly became a river fifteen feet deep.
up- A PERSONAL friend of Jefferson Dav
an. | who has lately arrived in Washingto
, to says that Mr.. Davis is busily engaged
ba. the completion of his work on the wa
uc- 1t will be put to press in the fall. NJ
eet Davis will criticise very severely Il
$ is policy and plans of General Joseph
ON Johnston as Confederate chieftain, al
Dad will charge ON him the full responsible
igh for the non-pursuit of the Federal fore
md into Washington on the occasion of t
ich battle of Bull Run, in July, 1861.
nts THERE are 81 colleges in the NJ
by England States. Maine has 4, with 4
the students; New Hampshire 1, with "a
re Vermont 8, with 172; Massachusetts
lzid with 1913; Rhode Island 1, with q
and Connecticut 8, with 1,037, maxi
'ap- a sum total of 4,197. Of all these G.
'lti, leges Harvard has the largest numl
the (1,370) of students. There are 20 WON
cry students at Harvard in the SUNNI
han schools of chemistry and botany, and
mil at Yale in the school of arts.
.alu IT is related of Mr. Peter Harvey,
4, 4h, Boston, who died a few days since, tt
.I .ho when the Washington medals once OWL
san slre by Mr.. Webster were pledged by a me
s.an' saa Der of his family, Mr.. Harvey redeem
go go them, as he had redeemed the Webs
wv Vase years before, and placed them
charge of the Massachusetts, Histori
Society. To the preparation of
memoirs of Mr.. Webster the later ye
eV- of Mr.. Harvey's life were devoted, an
nogs few days ago, while upon his death b
9een he signed the preface to volume, VIII
men will be published during the com
laVe autumn.
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