The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

A BUTTON is small event which Is al
ways coming off. ss,.-s
THE corn crop will be immense in the
West and South.
The bite of an owl has been known to
create hydrophobia.
SAVANNAH isexercising mossEigorous
quarantine measures. r--rf
In Boston the police are subjected to
medical examination.
THE Mormons are charged with selling
arms to hostile Indians.
A BUsHEL of corn yields about four
gallons of proof spirits.
EXTENSIVE religious revivals are
looked for next autumn.
THE Khedive of Egypt and his family
own 910, 900 acres of land.
TELEGRAPH messengersin Detroit ride
three-wheeled velocipedes.
Ice as thick as window glass formed
in Gold Hill, New, July A.
CON a kangaroo" is the new geological
title for state of hilarity.
A BASS was caught in the Schuylkill
which had rat inside of it.
THE three-cent pieces are to be called
in and their circulation stopped.
AT a late sheriffs sale at Lebanon,
Pa, cofins went at a dollar apiece.
AFRICAN princes require their brides
to have their teeth fled like saw.
ANY one who violates the quarantine
ordnance in Vicksburg is imprisoned.
THE only medical college for negroes
is in Nashville. 1t is amply endowed.
AKRON, Ohio, has seventeen thou
sand population and not a dollar of
debt.
A PROMPT emetic made Fair Haven
IN. Y. baby vomit up nineteen potato
bugs. .., -.--- --.
THE will of Michael Reese, of San
Francisco, bequeaths $40, 900 to char
tiles.
COTTONWOOD telegraph poles in Ne
vada have sprouted, forming lines of
trees.
THE Irish language is hereafter to be
regularly taught in the schools of Ire
land.
AN English estate lately declared a.
dividend of 5O-12Sth of penny in the
pound.
A FALL of one-tenth of an inch per
mile will produce a motion in the
rivers.
THE United States pay yearly to for
eign countries S100, ,00G, 900 for sugar and
molasses.
A CoHoEs IN. Y man, had the
silver in his pocket turned black by
lightning.
The sales of land to settlers in the
western territories have been very large
this season.
In less than thirteen years, the ma
tional debt has been reduced more than
$611, 100000.
ONE Georgian has collected and sold
sixty thousand bullets from battlefelds
in that State.
AN English Judge has lately decided
that bicyclist is only pedestrian as to
the rights of the road.
KRUPP has finished cannon twenty
nine feet long, weighing one hundred and
forty thousand pounds.
THE electric light is being slowly de-
veloped, so that it promises to become
capable of universal use.
THE lately terrible thunder storms
have abundantly proved the danger of
seeking shelter under trees.
DURING July, 1,135, 100 pieces were
coined at the Philadelphia mint, over
million being silver dollars.
AT Leeds, Eng, a Mrs. Anderson
lately walked ne thousand two hundred
miles in one thousand hours.
A PETERSBURG (Va.) paper says the
increase of insanity among the colored
pc, pie has been marked of late.
The greatest dress parade in the world
is that of the King of Siam, who has
three thousand wives in one building.
THERE are two million beehives in the
United States, and the average yield
is over twenty-five pounds of honey to
the hive.
ALMOND color, the new shade of drab
or brown, is seen in kid glsves, ribbons,
straws for bonnets, and elegant silks for
fall wear.
A RICHMOND (Mo.) SOW lately came
toher master from the woods with three
coons among her litter, which she nursed
as if her own.
A COMPANY has been organized at
Washington to supply the householders
of the entire city with provisions on the
cooperative plan.
WOMEN have had to do harvest work
III PAoSOo III AOWo, OSNauSO sAAO
tramps won't work, even at two dollars
and fifty cents day.
IT is said that Mr.. Darwin's theory of
the origin of man suddenly flashed upon
his mind one morning as he was brush
ing his hair before the glass.
THERE are fifty thousand illegitimate
children born in France every year, and
there are now about four million of these
unfortunates in that country.
IT is estimated that thirty thousand
people have emigrated from Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to
Kansas, taking with them Sc, 900, 900 of
capital.
The general resultof the Berlin treaty
is that by partition and possession the
empire lately known as Turkey in
Europe will be governed henceforth by
Russia, England and Austria.
THERE are indications that the city
ward movement of our people will soon
be reversed, and an agricultural life be
once more as attractive in the eyes of the
people as it is independent and honor
able.
An Unexpected Ghost.
There was a real dead man at Paris