The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-16
GENERA INTELLIGENCE

The Spitz dog keeps on biting Ne,
Workers.
1T costs S2,700,000 per annum to keeI
up the pavements of Paris.
BLUE glass is becoming popular. n
well-regulated window should be withou
it.
BUFFALO has 21,SOs pupils in it
schools registered average attendance
1926; teachers, S53. This gives tn,
Buffalo teachers an average number o
Al pupils.
The London Standards dispatch from
Vienna announces that the Hungarian
Ministers have rendered their resignation
because of a failure to affect an agree
ment with Austria on the bank question
It y doubtful whether the Emperor ha
accepted the resignation,
The bark Adept, drawing nineteer
feet, was put to sea through the jetty
| channel without moments detention
Colonel Anderson says there is now q
good straight channel through the shoal
at the head of South Pass, with mini
mum depth of twenty-five feet.
WHEN the bill prohibiting the selling
of pools, lotteries, and other gambling
devices was before the Maine Legislature,
| an amendment was offered to allow
churches to indulge in ring-cakes, grab.
bags, 6sh-ponds, and other benevolent
devices at their fairs, but was defeated,
and the bill passed.
AT meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, in Manchester, England, lately,
the President stated that the exports Of
Manchester goods to the United States,
which formerly afforded an excellent
market, were now MI, and that there
is considerable trade in Manchester in
cotton fabrics manufactured in America.
NEARLY twenty thousand alligator
skins are yearly used by the boot and
shoe manufactures in the United States.
Only portion of the hides are servicea-
BILE. These are packed in barrels, in
strong brine, and shipped to the Northern
tanner, who keeps them under treatment
for from six to eight months, when they
are ready for use.
A FEW years ago Australia imported a
cargo of rabbits for the purpose of free
ing the pastures from noxious weeds and
frightening mischevious animals from
the grain fields. 1t is now importing
weasels for the discussion of the rabbits,
with a tolerably fair hope of having
some day to import rattlesnskes to ex-
hort the weasels.
A LITTLE tavern has been dug out at
Pompeii. 1t contains table used for
the drinkers, and surrounded with
mugs of earthenware. The walls show
representations of drinking scenes, in
which the participants sit on wooden
benches, assuming all sorts of hilarious
postures and expressions. Several in
scriptions describe with sufficient
minuteness what is going on.
The walls of Sedan are in course Of
demolition, the fortress being worse than
useless for purposes of defense. The oc.
casion has been improved for the com
parison of different kind of explosives,
and it is understood that an explosive
gum, the invention of M. Nobel, has
taken the lead. 1t is a compact gelatine,
having nitro-glycerine for its base; its
power is twice that of dynamite; it is
handled with safety, and is impervious
to wet.
ZADKIEL's Almanac for 1877 predicts
year of discords and dangers of war and
woe for England unless her people are pre-.
pared and prudent. The heavenly bodies
hardly pay as much attention to the
United States as might be desired, bat
in June, Cancer, who presides over the
destinies of the city, is benignant, and
trade is to receive great impetus in
July. Mexico is to be happier, but at
the close Of the year physical and politi.
cal convulsions will affect South Americs
NOTABLY Patagonia.
BUT two millions of spices of land
and water animals and plants are be-
lieved to exist. There are at least 100,
900 species of plants, and 100000 of in
sects only. The species in the seas are
believed to be still more numerous. The
number of polypi exceeds that of othel
insects, and the infusorie are numbered
nor are the parasitic tribes. The species
of the whole may even be five millions
If an old species became extinct, and &
new one were evolved once a week, The
whole would last 100000 years.