The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

railroads, and it always means &c STOP
On mans nose it ought to give the
same warning. ..>-ss
HIPPoPHAGY is becoming decidedly
popular in Vienna. where two thousand
and forty horses were slaughtered for
food during the first five months of this
year. ve-e e.t-E ~
! LATE scientific investigations have
developed the fact that the rate of
mortality among negroes is more than
twice as rapid as among the white
race. -. -
PARENTS are never satisfied. In
bathing season the ambitious infant is
thrashed for taking to water in later
life he is held in whitening scorn for alb
staining from it. ,,FFJJtG ::
| A BOY will make pretty good time
when he's sent down town for raisins;
but give him coal-oil can, and you'd
better put mark on him so as to iden-
| tify him when he comes home. e
EDISON says tits periodical rather tha
continuous noise that wears upon :
brain, and adds that if the roar of t.
city was to suddenly cease at high noon,
a thousand men would drop from the
nervous shock.
IT is stated that lady in England has
made demand on the United States
Government for the swords of the late
General Twigg, captured by General 3.
F.. Butler at New Orleans. They are
valued at $4,000.
! SAID Genesee restaurant man one
morning: When customer calls for
five-cent plate of soup and pockets ten
cents worth of toothpicks, 1 am satisfied
that Carl Schurz cannot make it too hot
for timber thievesw
PRISONERS in the Connecticut State
prison get reduction in time of two
months from each year of their term by
good behavior. This, to a man serv-
ing life sentence, must amout to con-
siderable at the end of his time.
The editor of the Reading (Pa.) Times,
now abroad, says that the ball on the
spire of the dome of ST. Peters at Rome,
five hundred feet from the pavement,
will hold only sixteen persons but that
half of them are always sure to be
Yankees.
STRONG proof of the rapid strides
which education has made in France is
derived from the fact that only four
thousand nine hundred and ninety-two
of the of 294, ,382 men admitted into the
army last year were unable to read and
and write.
A sPECULAToR in Milwaukee has
started out with a determination to get
possession of every. bushel-of wheat in
the country. There's no cause for
alarm, however. First-rate whisky can
be made out of corn, we are told
Breakfast Table.
"IF you were in the jungles and
should meet a royal Bengal tiger, with
his eyes glaring fire on you do, what
would you doT' inquired one cockney
of another. al don't known what I
should do; but I know if I was on
Bond-street I'd call a cabI'
The diameters of bodies in the solar
system are-the Sun, SS3, ,246 miles;
Mercury, 1924; Venus, 1857; the
Earth, 1916; the Moon, 2,209; Mars,
4,189; Ceres and Pallas, uncertain;
Juno, 1925; Vesta, 23S; Jupiter, &c.,
17O; Saturn, 79, ,042; Herschel, 35.11
AN old lady passenger was so much
impressed by the polite attention she
received from a railroad conductor
in Connecticut, that she recently
left him two thousand five hum
derd dollars by her will. But will this
catch the eye and go to the hearts OF
J other conductors?
THERE is said to be running wild in
the woods of Texas man who was made
insane by the study of the currency
question. You will find quite number
of men in Congress between whom and
! this Texas man about the only apprec:
able difference is that they are not run
|. ming wild in the woods.-L0uisville Rife
Ball. -.z
5 Popular Science Monthly proves that
: death by hanging is painless. That
) would be we'll enough if the hanging
) could strike man like lightning, before
r he knew it was coming. 1t is standing
, around waiting for the thing to come to
, a focus that makes it unpleasant. That
is, we suppose so. Ours has been
!, quiet and truthful life; we were L
i hanged, and in fact haven't had mue
5 exciting experience of any kind.
3 HdUkege.
q | On, for some cool umbrageous spot,
8 Where it isn't so dog-goned awfully hot;
? . Where the-where the-where the-where the
t Where theft could-where the-where-
Oh, for some cool outrageous spot
: Where it isn't SO everlastingly hot;
O Some place where ethe-the-the-where the
!. Where the-some place where the-some-
. Oh. for some cool outrageous spot
' Where it isn't SO dreadfully, horribly hot:
e Where the breezes-where the whispering breezes-
q Breezes-where the whispering breezes-where
!; h. the
+ Oh, for some
+ But somehow or other this doesn'
e seem to be our day for poetry.-Hatck
eye.
e The Boston, Traveller says that whel
the officials of the Andover Seminary re
IS ceived from an unknown man in Phila
delphia a draft for twenty-five thou
Ell sand dollars on New York bank, the
n supposed somebody was hoaxing them
d They made INQUIRIES in business circle
y in Boston, and could learn of no sue
man. They searched the Philadelphi
directory and could not find his name
They ventured to send the draft to tn
New York bank, and it was cashed 8
rt once to their surprise. The donor hs
ut never been a student of Andover, an
e, even now little is known of him beyon
ut his name, and that he is an old maj
We wish the unknown would cah aroun
e. and see us. We won't keep him Ion,
Well Just remark, "And-oyer. ."-Phil'
he delphia Bulletin.
MS LOUIS KossUTH, who still lives
re Turin, is described as quite feeble, an
re- having aged materially within fe
n years. He is now seventy-six, ant
he though for some time in delicate healtl
70, his mind is as vigorous as ever. II