The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
NE VS. AND NOTES.


GRACE is to the body what good sense
is to the mind.
EUGENE SUE, French novelist, died
August 8, 1857.
WATER saturated with carbonic acid
will dissolve iron.
THE docks and basins of Liverpool
cover over two hundred acres.
XERXEs I, King of Persia, was MUIR
dered by Artabanus August 5, 464 B. G.
THOMAS PAINE edited the Pennsyl-
vania Magazine, printed in Philadelphia
in 1775.
MOUNT SINAI is eight thousand five
hundred and ninety-three feet above the
sea level.
THE earth, per day, moves 1,601 900 |
miles in its orbit, 66,746 per hour, and
l, ,112 miles per minute.
MAHoMET was twenty-three years of
age and had been Sultan two years
when he took Constantinople, May %,
1853
IRON wire conducts electricity four
hundred million times better than water,
and four million times better than sea
water.
THE river Po carries out the land two
hundred and twenty-eight feet per an
mum, and the city of Adrea, which two
thousand five hundred years ago was
upon the sea, is now nearly twenty miles
| from it.
! HERsCHEL, an authority in astronomy,
states that the spots in the sun are
mountains on its surface. In 1779 he
measured spot in the sun which was
fifty thousand miles in diameter.
MoHAMMED ALI in 1919 made a canal
in Egypt in two months, of forty-eight
miles long and ninety feet wide, on which
he employed at one time two hundred
and fifty thousand workmen.
ONE hundred thousand pounds at the
equator would weigh 100,315 pounds at
London, since the same pendulum which
| vibrates sc, 400 times in day at the
equator vibrates 86,535 in latitude 81
degrees, 80 seconds, and the effect is as
their squares.
IT may possibly interest the reader to
hear that the monument mentioned by
Thucydides as having been erected by
Pisistratus, son of Hippias, in the Tenn
pie of Apollo Pythius, has been found,
"lying neglected on the right bank of
the Ilissus, southwest of the Temple of
) Jupiter Olympus"
The asbestos found in the valley of
Aosto is being converted in the Tivoli
paper mills into fire-proof fabric which
can be sold very cheaply, and which is
expected to be largely utilized in build
ings, such as theaters and churches,
where fire may cause great loss OF
life.
In the cemetery of Pere La Chaise, ir
Paris, there is grave from which rises
l woman's arm, beautifully chiseled il
. marble. The hand is clasped by an
= other, evidently mans, that comes from
Il an adjoining grave. 1t was the fancy O.
. a young husband who did not long sur
), vive his bride.
4 MORE than 100000 cans of corn ar
a now packed in Maine, annually, and solt
in every part of the world, yielding
n business to that State of about 81 ,250
q 600, and giving profitable employment t.
= from 5000 to 10000 people during tn
n packing season.
CoNsTANTINoPLE has a circumfer
ence of about thirteen miles. Its harbol
the " Golden Horn," is long capaciou
inlet of the Bosphorus running along tn
-. northeast side of the city, with sufficien
uCpGu lOT Ul1c ldIScSG VESSELS anu Cd pdUl
of receiving one thousand two hundre
sail of the line.
The correspondent of the Londo
Times at Pera, July 25, estimated tn
army of Suleiman Pasha at 1000; tn
army of Osman Pasha at 65, 900, and tn
+, army of Mehemet Ali, at Shumla, 120
'd 900. Besides these armies, probabl
IN larger than any of the Turkish office
We are able to handle, there are several owe
oe grown garrisons.
~ ~ THE woods which are heavier tina
VI VI water are Dutch box, Indian ceda
a. as ebony, ignum vitae, mahogany, heart
~ oak, pomegranate, vine. Lignum Wit
it 70 is one-third heavier, pomegranate ratht
~ more. On the other hand, cork havin
Il Il aspecific gravity of "a, and poplar .3S
IL are the lightest woody products.
a a AT Detroit, Mich, a few morning
Of since, the passenger train coming in q
an the D. and n. Road, struck wagon col
I'd tanning a man and boy at the stree
+ crossing. The shock smashed the vehicl
ge threw the horses over fence into
g wood-shed, the man over the smoke-stao
ID of the locomotive upon the roof of tt
he baggage-car, and the boy was hurle
as through window upon table Just s.
.;r for breakfast. Neither man, boy n,
50 horses were disabled, but in five minut
OF were gathering up the remains of tt
Id wrecked wagon.