The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-13
NE VS. AND NOTES.
MICHIGAN is assessed this year at
$630,0O0,OOO.

NE tTS AMI NOIES.
MICHIGAN is assessed this year at
$63O,0O0,OOO.
THE earth, per day, moves 1,601, 300
miles in its orbit, 66, 746 per hour, and
Lip miles per minute.
WITHIN the last ten years the United
States has sold $43,O00,0GO worth of
arms and ammunitions of war to Europe
In two recent attempts to sound the
Northern Ocean with lines one mile and
a half in length, no bottom could be
found.
Iowa has four hundred and twenty
seven baseball clubs. Now we under
stand why the last Assembly appropriated
100000 for a new insane asylum.
THE country has $3.50, 900, 900 invested
in 10000, 900 milch cows whose annual
product is worth 1915, 142, ,2S5, while the
last cotton crop was worth only 5000, 900
FROM the sixth to the thirteenth GEN.
turies many bishops could not read, and
kings were hardly able to sign their
names. Hence the use of seals and seal
ing.
The cotton manufactures of the
world run total of 65,000,000 cotton
spindles. Of the spindles 35,O00,O 900, or
more than one-half, are operated in
England.
THE English sparrows are turning from
the diet of worms to feed on the grain
fields and on crumbs from tables. The
change in taste is not highly appreciated
by farmers.
ONE firm in New York, engaged in the
manufacture of matches, consumes per
annum zoo, 1000 feet of white pine lum-
Der, 1OO,00 pounds of sulphur, and $50
tons of straw board for boxes.
THE population of Russia is set down
as 100000, and Turkey $4,000, 900.
or, Egypt, Tunis, and Tripoli are ex-
cluded, 26,00O,O00. Seven millions of
the 87,000,000 of Russia must be
credited to Asiatic Russia.
In the past seventy-two years, of 1858
persons condemned to death in Austria,
only 500 were executed, the reigning
sovereigns have been averse to capital
punishment, and having pardoned or
committed the sentences of the others.
IT is estimated that 10000 oil wells
have thus far been dug in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, at an aggregate cost
of $192,O00,000. They have yielded
about 8S,0OO,O 900 barrels of oil, valued
at the wells at 100000, 900, or 100000
900 at the seaboard.
| SINCE the year 1871 the butter produc-
| ton of France has increased from 49,
1SO, 900 to $1S,60O,O 600 in 1876, and the
egg interest in the same period from 81,
5Sj, 900 to $9,35O,0OO This year the lat
ter has had an inormous increase on the
product of last year.
The startling announcement is made
that there are twenty-five thousand more
| Indians to-day in the United States than
| when the whites first settled in the coun-
| try. In other words, there are three
hundred and ten thousand in all, and
they are increasing annually at the rate
of seven-tenths of one per cent.
SIR THOMAS Roe, British ambassador
of Constantinople in 1922, said in one
of his dispatches: Turkey has become
like an old body, crazed through many
vices, which remain when the youth and
hundred and fifty five years ago, and still
the invalid takes solid victuals.
IT is said that the walls and iron
columns of the Cooper Institute, New
York, rest upon nothing but sand for a
foundation, although they have to sup
port fire-proof structure one hundred
feet high above the sidewalk. Although
the building is some twenty years old, it
has shown no signs of settling.
JOHN TAYLOR INNEs has an article in
the Popular Science Monthly on the trial
of Jesus Christ before Pontius Plate.
He subjects it to searching analysis in
the light of what is known of Hebrew
and Roman criminal jurisprudence, and
concludes that the proceedings were ir-
regular and illegal from beginning to
end.
A SINGULAR lawsuit is being prosecu.
ted in Rensselaer, County. A landslide
in the town of Schodack filled up a
creek and turned the water in different
direction. The owner of the mill fur
ther down sues the farmer who owns the
land on which the slide occurred, to com.
pei him to restore the stream to its
| former condition,
Two little edible dogs from China
have been received at the Acclimatiza
tion Garden in Paris. These interesting
CANNES have heads like pugs are very
small and fat and short legged, and are
eaten usually when two months old, after
being fed exclusively on rice and milk
They are eaten roasted, and served il
cuts with soy.