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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
FOREIGN SUDMAR Y.

Fox, Walker & Co., of the Atlas Engine
Works, Bristol, failed. Liabilities, 100000.
A TELEGRAM dated Galatea, December
10, reports the steamer Byzantin, from Mar
seilles for Constantinople, sunk in collision
with the English $ Gamer Rinaldo, near
Gallipoli. One hundred and fifty lives were
lost. Only fourteen escaped. The Byzan-
tin was cpmmandtdby Captain DLeros, and
owned at Marseilles, France.
From Lahore we learn that the officials
and notabes of Je lalabad have arrived at
Dakk9, to render their submission and
service to the British. News from Cabul
represents the eight regiments of the Afghan
| infantry there have shoan disinclination
to fight. The natives in the south of Shutar
Garden Pass seem friendly to the British.
A CORRESPONDENT with the kuram col
umns in Afghanistan reports that preda-
tory tribr attacked on Sunday the rear
guard of the convoy east of Sapiera Pass.
| Gen. Roberts sent two regiments, which
rescued the convoy. Two British officers
were severely wounded. Three Ghoorkas
were killed, and twelve Ghoorkas and
one Highlander wounded. Gen. Roberts
! has summoned the Chiefs of Kurarl to an
swer for the outrage. 1t is feared three pow
erful tribes will combine against the
British.
IT is now confirmed by cable dispatch
that the Russian Government has finally
taken the steps which were rumored some
time ago in regard to the duty to be paid on
raw cotton. 1t was apparent that the i'm
position of that duty couId hardly be
detrimental to American cotton interests,
for cotton is wanted in the European
factories, and especially in the case OF
Russia, because she uses more of the Surat
Indian, and other short staple cotton
than of the American quality. 1t may be
added thai in the Muscovite Empire
there are very few cotton factories, and that
the Russians understand that 1t is more ad
vantageous for them to buy cotton fabrics
in America than to purchase the raw ma
terial and manufacture their own cloth a
large and useless expense, since perfected
machinery is somewhat wanting in Russia
ZUBENA & Co., iron ore importers o
Cardiff and Newport, have failed in conse
quence of the stoppage of the tin-plat'
works of Booker & Co., near Swansea
whose bills Zubena & Co. held to larg
amount. This failure will considerably in
crease the liabilities of the West of Eng
land and South Wales District Bank. Ad
vices from Stockholm state that anothe
firm, J. Hirsch, has failed, with three mi
lion crowns liabilities, it's difficulties hay
ing arisen through a failure in tn
price of iron, and also from unproftabl
operations in building and land. Assets re
ported sufficient. The Times says the firm
which have failed are believed to have bee
kept going by the banks long after the
! should have gone into liquidation. A rathe
better feeling prevails in Sweden now, bu
{ it is feared the bank managers there hav
t been no wiser than in other parts of Europe
4 and hold too many securities and too smal
s a proportion of capital.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

study, but the constant shifting from
one to another SO distracts and confuses
the pupil that the impression which he
receives are apt to be vague and fleet
ing. 1t is very certain that the more a
pupil knows the better it is for him pro-
vided he knows it " certain" Our pre-
sent system of education has many warm
and earnest defenders, persons whose
opinionsare entitled to the highest pos
sible regard but it is neverless true that
tree is best judged by its fruit, and it
is very certain that the annual crop of
graduates" is not what might reason
ably be expected, considering the
money spent upon our schools and our
boastfM claims concerning them. True,
tha pupils have a superficial and
"showy" knowlege of many things, but
thorough knowledge of any one branch
is hard to find. Now, the chief object
Of schooling, the rudIments having been
mastered, is to learn how to learn; but
our schools, too many of them, are
teaching how not to learn. The arts of
drawing and music are taught to GER
tain extent, but the greater art of study,
the art which enables the pupil to con-
centrate the energies or his mind and
master the subjects in hand, is shame
fully neglected. The fact is that study,
real study, is hard, tiresome, exhaust.
ing work, and no new-fangled system
or " method" will ever make it nythine
else. The boy that is going to learn
elgebra, geomentry or trigonometry has
to think-think for himself and that's
just what the schools rarely teach him
to do. 1t is not enough that he should
understand the solution of a problem
the demonstration of a propositien, Of
the derivation of formula. That il
superficial. If he is ready to learn, ht
must think out the solution for himself
demonstrate the proposition, and have
as clear knowledge of why formul'
is correct as of the formula itself. Blu
teaching of this sort takes time, ane
here seems to be the thing which ou
schools lack. To be sure, they have al
the time there is, but they seek to crowe
so much into it that it comes yer,
short +
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
1t Was the Boss.

He was an esthestic young man from
the city. The floor manager had intro
duded him to a divine young creature
in blue, and they stood in the set wait.
ing for the prompter's call.
"What charming assembly, ~
remarked the young man of the city
gazing around upon the array of beauti
full faces and costumes.
There is something so captivating
etherealizing, in these gatherings of cu1
ture and refinement, that l am always
charmed when / can mingle with such
joyous throng. Do you notpronounce
this fashionable and Intellectual soiret
"a superior gathering of beauty ant
gentility?"
It's the boss" replied the creature
in blue, as she arranged the fastenin,
of neat little glove?
The young man from the city had t.
! be assisted out of the hall.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

1HE docility of the reindeer, so care
fully impressed on us in childhood, is
declared to be myth. II seems that
he is remarkably difficult to break, and
always exceedingly troublesom to
catch; while in temperament he is apt to
be dangerous compound of vice, fero-
city and hypocrisy. While apparently
going pleasantly in harness, he will turn
sharply round and make a savage as
sault on hisdriver. His master knows
him too well to trust him. The Lap is
always on the lookout to tumble out of
the sledge and turn it over on top of
him as protection against the animals s
horns. When the deer is tired of but
ting the timber, the driver picks himself
up, replaces the sledge on its runners,
and the pair proceed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

4uence. Every element of aid to the intro
uuctiou of the products of our soil and man
ufactures into new markets should be made
available. At present such is the favor with
which many of the products of the United
States are held, that they obtain remuner-
ative distribution, notwithstanding n the posi-
tive differences of cost resulting from
our defective shipping, and imperfec-
ton of our arrangements in every respect
in comparison with those of our competitors
for conducting trade with foreign markets.
If we have equal commercial facilities, We
need not fear competition anywhere. The
laws have now directed resumption OF
financial equality with other Nations, and
have ordered the return to basis of coin
values. 1t is of the greatest Importance that
the commercial condition now fortunately
attained shall be made permanent, and
that our rapidly increasing export trade
shall not be allowed to suffer for want of
the ordinary means of communication with
other countries.
The accompying reports contain valu-
able and instructive summary of infor-
nation with respect to our commercial in
terests in South American, where an invit-
ing field for the enterprise of our people is
presented. They are transmitted with the
assuTa ice that any measures that may be
enacted in furtherance of these important
interests wi meet with my cordial approval
"R. B. HAYES"
SECRETARY EvARTs' OPINION.
Secretary Evarts, in his accompanying
report to the President, says: 1t seemi
to be very evident that the provisions
for regular steam postal communication
by aid from tie Government has beer
the forerunner of the commercial predom
nance of Great Britain in the great mar
kets of Central and South America
1t is obviously the interest and duty of ou
Government to promote by every jus
and appropriate means, the attainment o
| this first and principal agency for tn
| desired expansion of our foreign commerce
| 1t is difficult to understand how this com
| mencement and development of an oceal
postal system, to be the forerunner 0
expected trade, can be wholly trusted t
the mere interests of mercantile combins
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

Mr.. JOHN 5. WILEs, surgeon of
Thorncombe, Dorset, writes to the Lon.
don Tines that after two cases Of
malignant diphtheria out of some nine
or ten he had baen called to attend had
proved fatal, the mother of a sick child
showed him an extract from an Ameri.
can paper concerning practitioner who
used sulphur to cure the disease. Ac
cordingly, he used milk of sulphur fol
infants and flowers of sulphur for Older
children and adults, brought to s
creamy consistence with glycerine dos,
"a teaspoonful or more, according t,
age three or four times a day, swal
lowed slowly, and application of tn,
same to the nostrils with sponge. Re
sult-he did not lose case there or else
where, and he succeeded in saving lif
when the affection had almost blocke,
the throat.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

1T seems almost incredible that Eu-
rope is now paying to North Italy ten
millions OF francs annually for its eggs
The firm of francesca Cirio, in Turin, in
one single year has dispatched 1888
wagon loads of eggs across the frontier
to Germany, Holland, Belgium, France
and England. Each wagon is reputed
to contain about 100000 eggs. No less
than 1871 of these egg wagons during
the past twelve months have passed the
transit station, Peri, for England and
Belgium. Each egg is valued by the firm
OF Cirio at 8 LILO cents; the total annual
cost of packing is reckoned at 400, ,OOO
lire or francs, and the expense Of transit
at 100000 lire. Before the year 1875
the firm never employed in the best sea.
sons more than two hundred wagons
while they are now obliged to use nearly
1,400. The industrious hens of North.
ern Italy are at present laying an aver
age OF 100000 eggs every day, solely tc
supply the international traffic carried
on by Signor Cirio, while other firms are
employing 91S egg wagons in the sam,
traffic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
The Death OF a Lake.

John Muir, in Scribner for January,
thus describes the sudden death OF
California Mountain Lake:
A few lakes unfortunately situated
are extinguished suddenly by single
swoop of an avalanche, carrying down
immense numbers of trees together with
the soil they were growing upon. Others
are obliterated by land-slips, earthquake
taluses, etc. ,sbut these lake deaths conf
pared with those resulting from the
deliberate and incessant deposition OF
sediments, may be termed accidental.
Their fate is like that of trees struck by
! lightning.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

In a paper recently prepared upon
starch reasons are expressed for believ-
ing that the constitution of this sub
stance is much more complicated than
is generally supposed. On treating it
with diluted acid the starch splits into
maltese and soluble starch. This last
by similar treatment, yields maltose
and still another body. The treat
ment is continued till body is pro-
duced yielding solely maltese, which
the process being continued, slits into
dextrose.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

LII is interesting to note the number
OF important inventions due to the in
genuity OF persons whose occupation
lay entirelyou of the line of mechanical
pursuits. Whitney, who invented the
cotton-gin, was a school teacher, and
Fulton, of steamboat fame was an artist
painter, as was also Morse, discoverer of
the telegraph. BrindIey, the greatest
civil engineer in England before the
present century, was totally deficient in
scientific training. Arkwright the in
ventor. OF the spinning machine, was a
barber; and Cartwright, the inventor of
the power loom, was clergyman, who
had never even seen a weaver Mt work
Koebuk, the originator of the modern
iron manufacture of England, was a
physician-and 50 the list might be
much extended.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

IHE Mikado of japan having decreed
that all his subjects holding official situ-
ations shall dress like Europeans, they
and their wives, the Japanese miliiners,
who had not seen the fashions change for
a thousand years, have consigned to
Paris the Thousands and thousands Of
native dresses which they had in stock,
and Partisan ladies are now wearinp
them as dressing gowns. They are said
10 be very becoming, and the bright dyes
In them-a secret we ought to learn
VIII stand any amount of washing
Chinese silken skirts, SO fine that you
can pass them through wedding ring
are also being sold in quantities; but tn,
attempts to introduce Chinese peake,
straw hats into fashion has faile,
hithereto.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

BY eating old straw of barley or wheat
grown over with bunt and green clover
with rust, a peculiar disease in cattle
was developed recently in Bavaria. The
affected animals were. however, entirely
cured by taking from them the above
named substances.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
WHEN pins were first introduced into

WHEN pins were first Introduced into
use they were very expensive, and only
attainable by the rich. So precious
we're they considered to be that the
maker was only allowed to sell them for
two days in the year. Owing to these
circumstances the custom arose for hus-
bands to give their wives money for the
purchase of pins, and hence the term
was applied-a term which is still used
when speaking of the money allowed by
husband for the wife's private expen'
diture,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

A SINGULAR dilemma is reported in
life insurance business from Memphis.
This summer a man named 1ighe died.
So did the doctor attending him. So
did the undertaken who had laid him
out. So did the clergyman who ofici-
ated at his funeral. The company in
which his life was assured declines to
pay the amount of the policy, for want
of the regular evidence of his death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

him in the face, knocking him off the train.
The train was going slowly up grade, and
the fall did not injure him severely. He
managed to make his way along the track to
house nearly mile away. His situation
was very critical No trace of the perpe-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

ABOUT three years ago tenant hav-
ing been evicted from mill and farm
near Phillipstown, in Kings County,
Ireland, the place became forbidden to
other tenants, but after the lapse of
some months young man named Cahill
was found courageous enough to make
the venture He was not long in occu-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

patton when he was shot dead, in day
light, at the door of his mill. The muir
derer was not found. A longer interval
then occurred, during which the place
remained absolutely waste, but tenant
was eventually found, named Peter
Lang.on. He was duly served with a
notice of death, but was more fortunate
than his predecessor. An iron hut,
which is kept for such uses, was erected
on the land, close to the mill, by the
censtabular authorities, and two armed
constables were put in it to watch over
Langton's life. This was nearly two
years ago. Langton has at length left
the locality, and the miniature fort has
been removed and the constables have
been called to ordinary duty. The hut
however, has been sent to another part
of the country.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
WHAT SCHOOLS SHOULD TEACH

1t is serious fact, says the Boston
Transcript, that the more branches"
our schools teach, the less the pupils
learn. Not only is the time SO cut up
that but little is devoted to any one
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

A SCENE of very disagreeabe nature
is said to have occurred recently at
funeral in Pittsburg 1t seems that
young married lady who died had, pre-
vious to her marriage, received the atten-
tions of a gentleman who afterwards
married another lady. At the funeral
of the former lady the wife of the gen.
tleman, who is practicing his profession
in Pittsburg, repaired to the house
where the last sad rites were being per-
formed, and when the minister of the
gospel had finished his eulogy of the de-
ceased, she approached the coffin and be-
gan to address the assembled friends
and relatives in an excited manner
From what could be gathered from her
| excited utterances, it would seem that
she was jealous of the deceased, and she
announced that, should her husband ap.
proach the coffin and even so much as
look at the corpse, she would tear out
his eyes, The woman became excited
and violent in her demonstration, and
considerable confusion resulted among
the astonished persons present. She
was finally elected from the room, and
for fear another scene should occur, &
gentleman was dispatched to the pave
ment outside, where the husband was
and requested him not to enter the
house.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26

SEAsoNABLE advice with regard to
taking care of turkey feathers is given
by Robert Skene, of Louisville, KY,
which, as there is a demand for the
feathers for making brushes and dust
ers, is called to the attention of those
who have heretofore allowed them to
20 to waste. In saving the feathers of
turkeys it is recommended that they
be taken in bags like geese feathers,
those from the body, wing and tail be-
ing kept separate, and each kind packed
in box by itself. For tail and wing
feathers the boxes should be a little
wider than the feather is long, and the
feathers laid in the boxes straight, care
being observed that the sides and ends
of the feathers do not curl up, as this
spoils them for making busters, and
thereby impairs the sale of them. In
selecting the wing feathers leave out
the third joint, or that part commonly
used as fan, as the feathers on that
part of the wing are useless in the manu-
| facture of busters. Body feathers
should be kept as straight as possible
and also packed in boxes. Keep all
! feathers perfectly dry, as wet feathers
are unstable; for this reason turkeys
should be dry-picked.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
PASSING SMILES.

THE best illustrated paper out
bank note.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-21

the highest standard of personal honor
and of professional integrity.
The correspondent says that Mr.. Pills
bury is candidate for the state printing
contract, and that the Portland New Era
talks of making a claim to the job. But
it is contract requiring an outlay of
money that one years patronage will not
Justify, as there must be a large and well
appointed printing office hitchcd to it
somewhere.
There is great talk of retrenchment in
expenses, but where the knife is to be APP
piled does not clearly appear As gen
eral thing there is no state government so
economically managed as that Of Maine.
\ great deal of the expenditure which is
complained of comes from the payment of
interest and principal Of the war debt,
for which there is no help. But the Ag
/ riculturll College, the school system and
/ many other institutions and offices calling
for appropriations, are threatened 10y the
| party of ECONOMY in Expenditure. We
/ shall know more about all this by and by.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-21
Senator Lamar Finds no Change in Presi
dent Hayes Policy.

NEW YORK, NOV. 49, Senator Lamar
has discovered no change in the policy of
President Hayes towards the South, and
does not know of any cause for change.
He says elections in his state Miss were
as peaceable as could be desired No
human being was molested or made afraid.
He says so long as the right Of the South
to self government is made an issue in ma
tional politics, the people of the South will
not and ought not to allow any question
as to the currency to divide them. The
South is more solid in favor of self-pre-
servation than divided as to national pol
itics. The republicans in Mississippi, in
Guiding federal officers, voted solid for the
greenback candidates.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-21

The death OF Alexander Smith Of lon-
kers, y. u, on the evening Of his election
to Congress, is 4 striking Instance of tho
uncertainties If life lie was an extern
slye arpctmanutacturer, employing near
" sixteen hundred persons. He had
done much to improve the processes OF
carpet making, and sought to reduce
prices 50 that fine carpets should no long
Err becXclusiycly used by the Very wealthy.
He was popular with his employees, some
of whom had been with him for over thirty
years. In some Instances father, son, and
grandson were all in his employ Though
never an active politician, he carried y on
kers on the Republican ticket by about
| 900 majority, and was elected by about
1850 in district strongly Democratic.
He had been in excellent health for some
time past, but on Sunday afternoon com
planned OF severe pains, and went to bed
early. On Tuesday, the day Of election,
he was better, and when told, about eight
o'clock in the evening, that he had carried
lonkers 10y large majority, seemed
greatly pleased. Soon after he began to
sink, and two hours later he was dead.
His friends had secured band, and were
about forming in procession to march to
his house, to serenade him, when the
news came to his headquarters that he
was dead. He was sixty years old, and
his death was caused by an attack of
acute gastritis.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-21

AUGUSTA. Me, N0Y. -. The trial OF
Jason Scribner for the murder Of two chill
dren last May was continued to-day. a
large number Of witnesses being examined
on both sides. Large numbers are in at
tendance II l.. 1itcomb appeared for
Scrlbner and Z. f. Webb. County Attor-
neT, for the State. Considerable interest
IS manifested in the case. as the facts are
fresh in the minds Of the people here
abouts. On the 10th Of Nav last the
prisoner, during fit Of temporary insan-
lty or loss Of temper, attacked bis family
with spade, killing outright two cDl-
dren, aged respectively ; and | wears,
and seriously injurng a third, and after
wards cutting his own throat badly The
crime was the most terribly revolving one
which ever occurred in this State Serb
ner Is large, strongly built man. with a
liorld complexion, and looks much better
since his incarceration in the kenneDec
jan. The evidence to-day bore wholly
upon the theory Of the prisoners insanity.
Dr. Harlow Of the Insane Hospital tcsti-
tied that he had no doubt, from the evil
dence adduced, that the man was insane
when he committed the act The testi-
mOny seems to show extreme cruelty in
stead Of insanity.
The jury on Saturday returned a YER
dict of guilty OF murder in the first de-
gree.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-21

Some important resolutions have been
taken by the New York clearing house
in relation to the management of business
after the resumption of specie payments
on the LIST Of January. The intention is
to disregard all distinctions between gold
and greenbacks after resumption, and
decline receiving special deposits of gold
coin; but to refuse silver deposits except
under special contracts to withdraw in
kind. Silver certificates and dollars will
not be received in adjustment Of clearing
house balances