The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

IHE savings Dallk uepOSltS III the
country are estimated at 1892, 900, 900.
Massachusetts, has nearly a third of the
amount.
PLEvNA contains about II, 600 people,
two churches, ten mosques, nine min
arets; 1,427 houses are inhabited by
Christians, and !, ,627 by Mussulmans.
THE Sioux squaws are fat, short,
stumpy and ungraceful. Their greetings
are stolid and they seldom smile. A
white woman in full dress calls forth a
volley of sarcasm; and side-saddle
makes them scream with laughter.
SUCH is the glut of money on the Lon
don Stock Exchange that any man in
good credit can obtain the loan of almost
any sum for, say a fortnight, at the rate
of one and one-half per cent. per annum.
Yet even on these terms therei is scarcely
any demand.
THE Turkish Minister at Washington
furnishes the following in view of vari
GUS accounts circulating about the origin
of Osman Pasha: "The Turkish Lega-
ton has the honor to inform the press
that the Marshal of that name was born
in Asia Minor, of Mussulman parents"
THE Worcester Spy has a report that
Theirs was descended from the Thayers of
New England. The Chicago Tribune
supposes that Lamartine was really an
affectation of Lem Martin, a wicked
youth who disappeared mysteriously
from Nantucket in the early part of this
century.
GERMANY furnishes annually 100000
fox skins, 10000 pine martens $4,000
stone martens, 2S0,000 polecats, 5000
o+t 000 hol on1 e0 00n hoyo
skins. In rabbit skins she sends out
100000 of France. The list closes with
400, 900 domestic cat skins.
The oldest ex-member of Congress
living is Artemas Hale, who resides in
Bridgewater, Mass. He is ninety-four
years old, and is still interested in pub
lie affairs, being in possession of all his
faculties and physical. He was
in Congress from 1915 to 1S47, and in
1864 was Presidential elector.
A TUNNEL is talked about between
Spain and Africa under the Straits of
Gibraltar. 1t would be about fifteen
miles in length. This, with the tunnel
between Dover and Calais, which is
seriously contemplated, would give an
uninterrupted railroad route from Eng
land to Tangier of about twelve hundred
miles in length.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin says they
have silver-plated lighthouses with
mother-of-pearl doors and tapestry
carpets, at Atlantic City. The beach is
| also covered with oilcloth to keep it
out of the wet, and the hotel clerks
| wear diamonds of such brilliancy that
the lighthouse uses them in turn for
illuminating purposes.
| JOHN TAYLOR, senior Apostle of the
Mormon Church, and by virture thereof
Apostles, now occupies nominally the
three years after Joseph Smiths death.
but merely presiding member of the
the present vested.
| On the night of August II, fight
took place in Santos, Brazil, between the
seamen of the German corvette Vineta
and the police. One policeman and a
seamen were killed, and several on both
sides wounded. German officers took
refuge in the Germania Club, pursued
by the populace. The cause of the
difficulty is unknown. 1t is said the
Germans intend to ask satisfaction, be.
cause the Brazilian authorities invaded
the German Club.
LIszT, says a correspondent who has
seen him recently, looks old and ugly
and at moments even wicked. His is 9
strange face full of power and diabolism
and as nearly all his front teeth are gone
his chin protudes in way that reminds
one irresistibly of the witches il
Macbeth" The resemblance to some
uncanny spirit is increased by his enor
nous hooked nose, strange, eagle-ike
eyes, and the great warts distributed
over his face. His hair is quite white
New YORK Letter: Loungers around
Printing House Square and the City
Hall are now having good look a
Boss Tweed. An aldermanic COMMITTEES
is examining him as to certain transac
tions during the reign of the ring, an6
the loungers who have nothing else t.
do drop in to hear and see. Instead o
being broken-down old man, he looks a
vigorous as he did ten years ago, and i
is only when he is obliged to move abou
and lean heavily on cane for suppor
that he is seen to have undergone con
siderable physical change. No matte
what question is asked, he is ready will
free and easy answer, which is givel
with the utmost sang .froid and the gen
eral air of one who doesn't care cen
whether school keeps or not.