The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

WET feet people more graves than
war
ICED tea should be half green and half !
black.
The Chinese train the remora to catch
turtles.
NAPOLEON wanted to get Cyprus
in 1870.
HARD times stimulate recruiting in
the army.
TIE amphibious nature of the seal can
be changed.
FRANCE has rolled up debt of 81
6S7, ,92l 400.
ALL the stylish dresses for fall are to
be cut short.
ONE thousand dollars in gold weighs
four pounds.
HYDRoPHoBIA can be artifcialIy pro-
dnced in dogs.
THE highest houses in London have
twelve stories.
BOTH of the Herschels thought the
sun to be inhabited.
The pineapple is not single fruit,
but mass of fruits.
BALCONIES on houses originated with
Italian architecture.
A LONG and cold winter is predicted
by weather prophets.
RED and yellow were the only colors
known in ancienG art.
The State of Ohio has 1926, ,e00, 900
invested in railroads.
| PHILADELPHIA has one-half more
houses than New York.
MANUFACTURERS are very sanguine
of better times this fall.
TOBACCO smoke makes bees lively and
puts them ina bad humor
THROW some solution of copperas into
your eesspool occasionally.
QUEEN ANN and japanese styles of
furniture are running rival.
RAILROAD interests in the United
States represent 100000, 900.
LOUIS DEAcoMPT LoBADLE, of De-
troit, has thirty-three children.
IT is said that in the original there is
no mention of blue in the Bible.
THE carpet bug or buffalo moth prom
ises to become domestic scourge.
SEALS can be trained to be the same
to fishermen as dogs are to hunters.
AN CuluDuIS ldGuSI Wuilc III d obdGS
of somnabulism murdered his child.
The light of lightning will penetrate
through distance oftwo hundred miles.
Two acres of sunfowers will furnish
a family with fuel through long winter.
THE Saratoga, N. Y, hotel employs
six hundred and fifty waiters-all ne
groes.
COINED money was known among the
Chinese in the eleventh century before
Christ.
The eve of the human race has moi
always possessed the same delicacy as Al
present.
GAMES of ball were among the mos
favorite gymnastic exercises of the
; ancients.
SIGNoR JOHN HANcoCK's grave il
! Boston is unmarked by either tablet O.
grave-stone.
THADDEUs STEVENS made a provision
in his will for the founding of an asylum
, for the insane.
e ONE hundred and twenty thousan,
l dollars are annually sent out of Georgi
. for canned fruit.
E A FEW years ago Maine was the great
e est numbering State in the Union, bu
f now she is the sixth on the list.
SMASHING. costly monuments is q
b present the favorite amusement c
= tramps in all parts of the country.
d The heat in some of the Nevada silve
d mines is so great that the consumptio
e of ice amounts to ninety-six pounds Pc
Il Il day to each man.
g A DIR. LAVENDER, of Georgia, is sal
/. to cut off all the forelegs of his goats s
e the knee, and never to allow horn O
3. any of his stock.
\. In San Francisco there are said to /
II about 100000 people, but the who
ir church-going population, born Catholic
y and Protestants, is only $4,000.
n n THE Island of Cyprus at one time col
tanned nine different kingdoms, an
e, more than a million Inhabitants. o,
S, ing to the alleged peculiar temneramel
5: of its people, it was called the home
! love and beauty"
a. EVERYBODY who has been at Brusse
has visited its beautiful Botanic
n n gardens. They are principally the r
- - suit of the labors of NJ. du Mosher, wi
tv died last month. He was Minister
ID State as we'll as the first botanist
IN Belgium.