The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
SLATE posts for post and rail fences
are something new.
Doors are made on the Pacific coast
with pockets for pistols in their tops.
II is expected that skating will be
revived as a fashionable amusement
this winter.
A PARIS worker of metals finds HIM
self with a head of green hair from
some unknown chemical cause.
At the Lord Mayors dinners the
allowance of green turtle soup is six
pounds live weight for each person.
For three months, ending October,
there were two thousand seven hundred
and fifty-three business failures through
| out the country.
! IL Constantinople it takes three hun
dred and forty seven dollars in Turkish
paper money to buy the equivalent of
one hundred dollars in gold.
WHEN, on visiting public institu-
tions, the Queen of England signs her
name on the autograph register, it is
always at the top of blank page.
/ The latest thief's device is to lasso
shirt-studs from the shirt-fronts of peo-
pie with raw silk lassoes. It is remark
able how much ingenuity men can
display in being dishonest.
A DR.. CAPEL died at Charlottesville,
n. B., recently, VINO had been a prisoner
for fifteen years, because of his refusal
to pay two hundred and fifty dollars a
year to his wife, who had obtained di-
vorce from him.
BARONESS MARY ITULAK ARTYMow-
SKA, twenty-five years of age, and NOV
ing in the best Russian society, has been
bani shed to Siberia for forgery, fraud
and bribery, leaving debts to the amount
of two million roubles.
IN Switzerland, whose population is
less than three million. there were one
hundred and eight persons murdered
last year. There is a loud demand
among the Swiss for the restoration oi
capital punishment.
, ONE hundred years ago, the 25th ot
February next, Vincennes, Ind, then 6
: British post under the command of Col
onel Hamilton, was captured by a de
tatchment Of the American army com
) manded by Colonel George Rogers Clark
e The citizens propose to have a granC
Centennial celebration.
s In Sicily, says correspondent. tn
whole community lives by begging
e The children beg for a pastime, Will
the adults beg to set them an example
1 In the whole country he doubts if ther
: are hundred men who have ever de
o sire to get above broken breeches aut
cheese parings.
l. WHY is it men will scorn a maid
OF thirty-two so,
But if in ape and cap arrayed
Pronounce her cOnRte 1t t1utF
-Ne,c York World.
A question put in such shape
:, The noodle" serves to show;
l. maid in widow cap and Grape
Is never CONNIE il fr,t
-Ffanktort Yeomars
5 The Countess Rosina Mirafore lay
T. elaborate wreaths of flowers, decke
= with ribbons and Grape, on the tomb Q
l, Victor Emanuel, in the Pantheon. Sh
y was beautiful woman in her day, an
- his iilegitimate wife; she is now consic
u erably wrinkled, but wealthy, throug
a the liberality of the late King, who's
Ii debts were contracted mainly on her a,
t, count.
~ LORD WINDSOR, who has Just come
se age and into possession of a vast pro-
y erty, has told his tenants that he dot
Ill not intend to employ keepers to preser1
u. his game, but he hopes they will keep a
u eye on the property to prevent poacI
x ing, 80 that he and his friends may q
II II some shooting. If a tenant desires q
X. occasional days sport he is to apply
81 81 the steward.
III The gross earnings of twenty five raj
81 road companies for the month of N
IN IN vember, 1878, as compared with tt
" corresponding month in 1877, show
y net increase of $94, ,979. The gross ear
W ings of the same lines from January
es To November 80 show net increase,
is- compared with the corresponding tin
as last year, of S., 5,513,9S9. These figur
w do not include any of the great Es
III and West trunk lines.
w W. A CAT that kills rattlesnakes is own
;oI by Charles Baker, Granger, who is
-''i claiming desert land on the Gila, OPT
site Mohawk. The cat watches them U
til they uncoil and start to glide {
then jumps and catches them by t
back of the neck, chewing the verteb
ms till the snakes are dead, and with
"a claws tearing loose any coils that may
h. thrown around his body. He has alrea
100 killed several.-ArizonG Sentinel.
m. A RATHER amusing incident occurr
iii recently at show in Paris, where I
Is wonderful performing Eleas" WI
nn. exhibited. One of the dear creatur
,pIo which acted as coachman to the gr,
tbe fea-coach, managed to hop off his b,
ose and selected rather stout lady, stal
'd;. d. ing near, as his first resting place. I
ire- proprietor of the show, who had sp'
rhe much time and patience upon the et
,ds cation of this, his favorite insect, was
tod despair, and the lady was asked if
u ;m would mind making search for
~, missing pet. She accordingly retired
oor3 a private room, and in a few minutes
lew turned triumphant, carefully hold
nh. nh the captive in the most approved sty
r. ffho She handed him to the Snowman, '
too too started and changed color. aud retu
too too ing the flea to the lady, remark
too "Je vous remercie, Madame, mais C,
for la est vous, pas moi!' Thank y
on madame, but that's not mine.
"i7 Tho Health Of TNmafOoS