The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-12
NE WS AND NOTES.

The nails of the right hand grow faster
than those of the left.
"THE Sweet Bye-and-Bye has been
translated into Chinese.
1T is said that not one British sailor in
three knows how to swim.
A YOUNG lawyer of Pittsburg has in
vented water velocipede.
TIE largest bell in use is at Moscow,
and weighs 443, 772 pounds.
A MEDICAL paper says it is as import
ant to suppress dirt as crime.
SPARRows will tear up doormats in
looking up building materials.
SUNDAY driving is not considered
stylish at fashionable Newport.
The Empress of Austria is only thirty
two, and yet she is a grandmother.
FIREWORKS and fire signals were in
use in japan and China centuries ago.
THE sugar crop in the United States
will fall short thirty per cent. this year.
THE fall of the year is considered the
best time to have outside painting done.
THE last wild wolf on record in Eng
land was killed in the reign of Charles
II.
OPIUM and famine prevent very
rapid increase of the population of
China
The salary of the Mayor of Denison,
Texas, has been reduced from $50 to 81
per month.
Ex-Gov. AMEs, of Mississippi, Ben.
Buffers son-in-law, is selling butter and
cheese in New York.
THE migratory quails of Western Ver-
mont are proving indefatigable destroy
ers of the potato bug.
RUSSIA has not ceased naval prepara-
tions-her feet is constantly increased
by the purchase of vessels.
AMERICAN horse-cars are the lightest
and strong. st in the world, and are
bought by several countries.
ALADY in Huntington, Pa, has dis
covered that aqua ammonia is an almost
instantaneous cure for scalds.
GOOD strong blown glass tumblers are
delivered in England from American
glass works at sixteen cents per dozen.
RECENT investigations show that more
money is paid for beer in almost every
large city in this country than for bread.
DURING the recent bull fighting sea-
son at Madrid, ninety bulls and one
hundred and forty-three horses were
killed.
The potato bug was first introduced
into England from this country by Sir
Walter Raleigh, in the time of Eliza
beth, 1868.
In Paris those children in the public
yh0h h lsofi
the year are taken to the seaside at the
public expense.
THE remains of pigmy elephants three
feet high, with tusks a foot long, have
been found in the island of Malta, in
the Mediterranean Sea.
IT is said that the Rev. Canon Bagot,
! the celebrated English agriculturist,
proposes to do his harvesting this year
with the electric light.
BANANAS are drug in some of the
Eastern markets, owing to a popular
belief that they are somehow liable to
superinduce yellow fever.
THE famous Viennese surgeon, Baron
Rekitansky, whose death was recently
announced, is declared by local papers
to have dissected $4,000 corpses.
| HEREAFTER at the St. Louis mOrgue,
| the bodies are to be placed in caskets,
into which air will be forced at such a
temperature that the corpses will be
| frozen.
| 1T is publicly given out, as the resul,
/ of more than thirty years experience
| and observation in the hospitals of Phil
/ adelphia, that yellow fever is not con
| tagious.
THEY begin young on the Pacific
coast. At San Francisco Adeline Gray
| aged thirteen, was shot and fatally
wounded by rejected suitor, William
Baker, aged twenty-five.