The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-01
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

THINGS past may be repented, but not
recalled.
PREDOMINANT opinions are generally
the opinions of the generation that is
vanishing.
THE farmers in Nebraska have COM
menced the domestication of the buffalo.
In some respects the buffalo is safer for
parlor pet than the Spitz.
WHILE a young lady at a recent
evening party was talking about the
psychological significance of dress, and
maintaining that persons character
could, to considerable extent, be in
ferred from his attire, foppish young
Englishman, wearing blue coat and
brass buttons, inquired, with sdper-
cilious air, what that kind of coat indi-
Gated, to which the young lady instantly
responded, "The blue is indicative of
the wearer's feelings-the brass, of his
manners.
And have loved thee Jessie and have seen
Thy mind and form expanding with thy years,
From timid eight to ravishinG eighteen,
Have shared thy joys thy woes thy hopes thy
fears.
Possessed of all that pleases and ndears
Vert thou and sweet the captive's chain wore,
But now alas that love, thy charms, my tears
OF grief that thou vert wed, alike are o'er,
For thou art seventy and am seventy-four.
-Briea-a-Brac Scribner's Monthly.
The cash system is steadily growing
in favor with nearly every class of trades
people, and it isn't half so hard to refuse
people credit as it used to be, while they
don't dare get mad about it nowadays,
either. Formerly, if lady was told she
could not have goods unless she paid for
them, she would flush up, leave the store,
and not enter it again for six months,
at least. Now she is pretty sure to get
over her anger in twenty-four hours, at
the most, and come back, take the goods,
and pay for them too.
"SALT" was the subject of the speech
of a solemn and spare-faced clergyman
on an anniversary occasion, the text
being, "Ye are the salt of the earth.'
He explained to mis- youthful hearers the
preservative qualities of salt, and es-
pecially its power to keep eatables from
decaying. Then he told them how
Christians. and especially ministers, were
of advantage to the world as purifying
| influence against the corruptions of mod
ern society. Then he asked few ques-
tions. To "What are ministers useful
for in this world ?" a lively youngster
gave the ready answer, "To keep wittles
from spilin'p'
A Boston correspondent tells this
story: Signor Bertolotto is exhibiting
his wonderful educated feas, which a
Canton lady has reason to remember, as
she saw them the other day. While in
tently gazing upon the exhibition she
suddenly gave a scream, which attracted
the attention of all to her. With a
wonderful agility she sprang from her
seat, gave resounding slap exclaiming,
"Signor, here is one of your feasP' Sig
nor Bartolotto seized the insect from
the lady's grasp, gazed upon it for mo-
ment, and then Indignantly returned it
to the lady with. "That is not one OF
mine, madam you must have brougnt II
with you!'
MANY years ago, Scotchman, named
Feyerston, settled among some Germans
in the western part of the State OF New
York. They translated his name by the
sound into the German Feurstein. On
his return to an English neighborhood.
his new acquaintance discovered Feur.
stein in German means Flint in English.
They retranslated his name, and the
family name became Flint. One OF the
grandsons settled on the Arcadian coasl
of the Mississippi, and with the common
fate of his family, his name of Flint be-
came translated by the French info
Pierre-a- Fusil. His son went north, and
the last transformation was retransla'
ton, and Pierre-a-Fusil, his son, became
Peter Gun.