The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

CHIMNEYs were first put to houses in
1896.
GLASS windows were first used for
lights in 11SO.
Two thousand American firms have an
nounced their intention of contributing
to the Paris Exposition.
THE inner channel-ways of the harbor
of Norfolk, Va, which is one of the finest
in the world, are gradually filling up.
THE failures of the last year in the
United States have been far fewer and
smaller in amount than in England or
| Canada.
THE Galveston Neus thinks the next
census will show larger increase in popu-
lation and production in Texas than in
any other State.
A MONUMENT is to be erected to the
memory of the two hundred alumni of
Virginia Military Institute who fell in the
Confederate service.
The manufacture of brier-root pipes,
from laurel root, is carried on in War
rem, Penn. From eight to ten workmen
are employed, and some three hundred
pipes are made daily.
LIGHTNING struck the Columbia Ho-
tel at Chester, Pa, and set it on fire.
Seven persons were stunned, one of
whom, William Appleby, was seriously
injured. The fire was quickly extin-
guished.
A LONDON paper prints the following
"The attendance at the wedding of Mr..
Smart and Miss Jones, yesterday, being
so large, for benefit of the friends unable
to gain admission, the ceremony will be
repeated"
THE Railway Age says that three hun
dred and ninety-fve American locomo-
tives, worth S5, $50, have been ex-
ported in seven years, and that the
reputation of American engines is stead
lily increasing.
COINAGE reports from all the mints in
the United States, except Carson City,
state the aggregate coinage for the fiscal
wear as seventy-one million dollars, show.
ing an increase over the last fiscal year
of fourteen million.
THERE is pecan-tree on the farm OF
Wash. Feasele, in San Saba County,
Texas, the trunk of which is six feet in
diameter, and line drawn across its
branches, the widest place, measures one
hundred and fifty feet.
A POOR woman in Providence found a
pocket-book containing seven hundred
and fifty dollars, and returned it to the
owner, wealthy merchant. He expert
enced fine glow, and gave her twenty
five-cent bottle of cologne.
SUSIE ANDERSON, little colored girl
of indianapolis, and a young daughter OF
farmer Farley, near Fort Wayne, Ind,
were struck by lightning on the same
day, lately. The colored girl died, and
it was thought the other could not re.
cover.
| Two Terre Haute boys, James o. 'Brien
fourteen years, and Robert Osborne, ten
years, left their homes on Saturday morn.
ing and were missing until Sunday even.
ing, when the bodies of both were dis
covered in bayou Just south of the city
where they had gone bathing.
hundred miles long and three hundred
miles broad, on each side of the Nile
and is very fertile. There are on this
island one hundred and ffty-nine vii
lagos and about one hundred thousand
black inhabitants with Hindoo features
| A NATURAL bridge near Pomona, Ill.
is of pure sandstone, one hundred fee
in length on top, and seventy-six fee
| from one abutment to the other. 1t Ii
sixty feet high, and eight feet broad OF
top. The average thickness is nine feet
and a team crosses it in perfect safety
AN invention has been patented
which may produce almost as remark
able an effect as the cotton gin. 1t is
wagon-like machine, called the C Picker,
and when driven through the ripenet
,, fields, picks clean every scrap of cottol
and saves the labor of one hundred
hands.
THE celebrated Casa Granda ruin
Arizona Territory, was discovered by tn
] Spaniards about the year 1880. 1t wa
S then the remains of a colossal structure
2 with eight stories of the main buildin
f in good state of preservation: 1t ha
now melted by the friction of time an
e rain to four stories. Its walls are fro1
r eight to ten feet in thickness.
e A SoNoMA, CAL, man has raised fiv
cork trees, which are now twenty-five
thirty feet in height and from ten t
twelve inches in diameter in the trunE
a One coat of cork, one and one-fourt
inches thick, has been stripped off. Th
j tree resembles the live oak in foliage
5, The seeds were brought from Spai
l. twenty years ago.
e IT is said that the brain of an idit
y contains about one per cent. of pho
1t phoric matter, that Of persons of SCUM
e intelligence two and one-half per cent
IT while that of the maniac is three and on
,r half per cent. If this be so, it woul
D seem that in a maniac the brain appr
If pirates an undue proportion ofphosphor
y matter from the rest of the system
IS whereby the functions are materially in
n paired.
e THERE is a watch in Swiss museu
y only three-sixteenths of an inch in dia1
er eter, inserted in the top of pencil-cas
r Its little dial not only indicates hour
E. minutes and seconds, but also days
=, the month. 1t is a relic of the time VIII,
20 watches were inserted in snuf2boxe
m shirt-studs, breast-pins and fnger-rine
Ill Some were fantastic-oyal, octangula
1e cruciform, or in shape of pearls, melor
&c tulips, etc.
~ ~ THE Porte has published the folio
VI VI ing official dispatch: "The Russian
II denying the rights of humanity al
1u without any military necessity, ha
y completely destroyed the fourishil
ls l town of Rustchuk, which is now nothi
e but a heap of ruins. They spar
" VI neither mosque, churches, hospitals n
~ public buildings. We hereby ma
g known their acts to the justice al
W humanity of Europe"
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VI VI The Easiest Way.
is A certain good-natured old Nermo
no farmer preserved his constant go
ass nature, let what would turn up. o
We day one of his men came in, bringi
~ | the news that one of his red oxen w