The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
NE WS AND NOTES.
TEE sting of bees is pronounced cure

NE WS AMI NOIES.
TEE sting of bees is pronounced cure
Sor rheumatism.
Some Waterbury men Clipped in and
bought of its owner an obnoxious dog, |
and had him killed. The owner found
the carcass and got dollar bounty for
it, with which he bought another dog.
The shaving cup used by George
Washington is now the property of
relative of Gen. Wade Hampton. The
cup is of silver and is ornamented with
the figures of various animals of the
chase.
IT is estimated that nearly $4,000, 900
annually are sunk in the United States,
in the vain and frantic efforts to estab-
lish newspapers where they are not
needed by the legitimate demands of
the community.
GEOLOGY has proved the existence and
located the position of ancient lakes
that are now absolutely dry, while the
artesian wells teach us that there are vast
collections of fresh water in the solid
crust of the earth.
1t is stated that within the past three
months Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois have sent thirty thousand
people to settle in Kansas. They have
probably taken with them capital
amounting to 100000
on of cinnamon is regarded as a
specific for cholera by DIR. T. D. Atkins,
who writes to the London Lancet that he
tried it in an outbreak on board an In
dian emigrant ship, with the result of
saving every case.
THE arithmetic has been changed
down at Eminence, Ind. 1tused to take
eight furlongs to make one mile" 1t
should now read one furlong. "Mar-
ried-Mr. J. z. Miles to Miss Jane Fur
long" Inter Ocean.
JOHN WBILIDIN, out at Nevada City,
entered bar-room, drew his gun, and
said, "Pd like to kill somebody, or get
killed myself" Twelve pistols popped,
and John didn't live long enough to re-
gret that he made his proposition too
broad.
A TRAMP in Massachusetts, recently
accomplished the unparalleled feat of
walking from Boston to Manchester, a
distance of one hundred and fifty miles,
in seven and half days. His business
was that of book agent and lightning
rod peddler.
A FRENcHMAN living in Brush
Prairie, New Madrid County, named
Leroy Prewett, recently killed sixty
pigeons in two shots. The pigeons were
flying directly over his head when hi
shot. This is a cunning event unpar
alleled.
THE appetite of a ten-year-old boy
named Christian Benring, in Dubuque
, Iowa, is wonderful, and his eatin,
capacities astonishing. He recently at
: seven pounds of beef and about on
pound of bread, besides other eatables
, at one meal.
! THE paste pot used by Horace Greele
t is owned by gentleman living in Belle
p vile who prizes it very highly. 1t
!, said that this paste pot was given to
a friend of Greeley's by Gen. Lafayette
= who had bought it from Japanese, !
is very unique in design.
e A CATFISH was recently caught in th
il Mississippi River at New Orleans, whic
l. when opened was found to contain th
n skeleton of baby and box of she
rs blacking. The box was open but whe
d the blacking was tried it was found
1t be as good as when first bought.
IL A NEWSPAPER correspondent latel
y discovered burning lake of sulphu
< near Tahlequah, in the Indian Territor
le He describes the country for mil
i. around the lake as cracked and breke
I'd and the vegetation as stunted in grow
ID and showing evident signs of shriveli1
ut from heat.
es THE giant Capt. Bates is mite
70 70 comparison with an eighteen year-o
as as girl living in Florida who is nine and
as as half feet tall lacking a quarter of :
VI inch, and weighs six hundred and fort
II. three pounds. Her father has become
ng bankrupt through his endeavors to pr
e. vide her with food.
. A GENTLEMAN Just back from NJ
- York speaks enthusiastically of t
ho rapid-transit elevated lines of railway
no .oo the east and west sides of New Yol
eJ which are nearing completion. Fo
on long cars full Of passengers he si
cd whirled along over the heads of those
90 the street.
ats THERE is fsh-pond mania in Ke
,ut lucky, and many persons who o.
no swamps traversed by small streams, {
;he digging them out, dammihg them, a
,he creating artificial sheets of water viii
ion they are stocking with fish, principa
nj with trout, procured from Mr.. Will,
rd- Griffith, the Fish Commissioner at Lou
lif- vile.
The Berlin Hereis, Sur Geaoerbeleiss
'ed awarded prize to Prof. r. Weber
ing his investigations into the causes of n
[oi- fires. He has shown that all sorts
OK -four in dust clouds are inhammable, a
md he confirms the results obtained by
be- Galloway, that some of the explosi'
son in coal mines, supposed to be due
nj fire-damp, have really been caused
len clouds Of coal dust.
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