The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
THEacreage under wheatin Great Brit
an is 8, ,16S, $40 acres.
THE largest naval guns now in use
weigh one hundred tons, which throws
proiectile of no less than two thousands
pounds.
The rumor of Tilden's engagement
1t is said that the marriage will soon
take place.
THE highest inhabited place on the
earth is farm on the Andes, two miles
four and half furlongs above the level
of the sea.
EPITAPH UPON MILKMAN.
Put away his short quart measure
And the COW with iron tail;
q Mi-ilk! he yells at morning
He has kicked the golden pail.
THE grounds surrounding the war
monument at Berlin are to be paved |
with stones from the several battle-felds |
of the Franco-Prussian war.
A GREAT many men pretend they
have got the hay-fever, so that they can
get away lIOul tlleII WIVES anu nave a
high old time in the mountains.
TIRNovA is built in such steep place
that they say when a peasant wants his
COW to come in from the suburbs he
goes to his chimney and looks up for
her.
A CORRESPONDENT writes that the
Russian army is officered exclusively bv
men of royal blood. Even great many
of the non-commissioned officers are
Czargents.
THE salary of Marshal McMahon as
President of the French Republic is
10000 francs. He receives, in addition,
his pay and perquisites as Marshal of
France.
EXPERIMENTS in a mine in Corn
wall, England with the telephone, point
to the probability of its being employed
in conveying signals from the deep mines
to the surface.
ENGLAND's war-debt is nearly eight
hundred million pounds sterling! Her
former acars now cost the people nearly
thirty million annually! besides the
current cost of the army and navy.
WEST VIRGINIA has between eight
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timber in which is valued at 75, 900 as it
stands. The oak, walnut, cherry, ash,
poplar, maple, elm, sycamore and locust
attain great size.
RECENTLY twelve of the multitude of
destitute men in the Black Hills offered
to draw loaded wagon from Deadwood
to Bismarck on condition of being fed on
the way, and their proposition was ac-
cepted by the teamster.
EPHRAIM MARTIN, an eccentric citizen
of Sutton, New Hampshire, who died
not long ago, bequeathed to his daughter
four hedgehogs, to his oldest son five
dollars, to his second son $4,000 and to
his third $4,000.
ISAAC DEsMoRE died few days age
in Oswego while sitting in a barroom
talking with some friends. After time
he dropped out of the conversation, and
not aswering when spoken to, they found
him stone dead.
Mrs. JAMES ST. CLAIR and her two
children were poisoned at Cleveland
by eating toad-stools, mistaken for mush
rooms. The children died on Sunday
evening, and at last accounts Mrs. st
Clair was not expected to live.
A BEAUTIFUL marble has been foun6
in California on the line of the newly
built Southern Pacific Railroad. 1t il
of snowy color and exquisitely
threaded with amber-colored veins
Italian experts have pronounced it equa
to the finest marbles known.
The Russian National debt, it is esti
mated, will be on January l, 1878, 81,
$4,000, Holland guilders (about $35,
600, 0,00O, s100, 81 $40, (about $500, 900,
000), 567, ,923, 100 francs 1854, ,6GO)
and 1888, 3,S69,956 roubles ($955, ,O95,
964.)
WILLIAM @. BRYANT will be eighty
, four years on the Sd of November Hi
, paper, the New York Evening Post, is il
, its seventysixth year, and has had bu
5 two chief editors. The first was William
Coleman, who occupied the post fo
} twenty-six years; and the Second MI
Bryant.
A GENTLEMAN of Bombay, name,
{ Adams, has inventeda solar battery con
| sisting of two hundred small mirrors S
arranged that they focus the suns ray
l upon small copper boiler and general
steam in it in twenty minutes. MI
= AudIuS COuIeuuS G1dG he CAL Dv I'll
t same means, generate steam enoug
to drive the largest spinning-mill i
e Bombay.
4 ! A TRAMP got ride from Hornells
: vile, n. Y, to Binghampton, n. Y, b
. ! passing himself off as the owner of
i valuable team of horses, and riding wit
e them in their car. The deception wa
} discovered when the owner who ha
: made the trip in the palace car, wa
y presented with bill of three dollar
! ! and sixty cents for his own transports
u u ton.
d JEWISH Messenger: Alexander of Ru
sia evidently believes in the eficienc
d of prayer. In the synagogue Lublil
l. placards were recently placed, informin
It the Jews that their dwellings would /
n set on fire, if they did not pray oftent
J. for the success of the Russian army
IS And they were further commanded
n chant the Russian hymn in the syn
e gogue, and to contribute more none
N for the support of the Russian pauper
This is a specimen of that civilizatio
s. of which the Russians are, according
IS Mr.. Gladstone, the standard-bearers.