The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
NE WS AND NOTES.

READING, PA, is beginning to furnish
England with iron.
PARIS has twelve large establishments
for making glass eyes.
DRUNKENNESS is fearfully on the in
crease among young men.
FRUIT culture is making rapid pro-
gress in the United States
LIGHTNING travels nearly a million
times faster than thunder.
MAKING Photographic impressions
upon silk rs new industry.
The frequency of colliery explosions
in Great Britain is appalling.
LETTER paper with the day of the
week printed on it is the latest.
A BONNET reversible is an achieve
ment in millinery architecture.
THERE are fewer Cinnamon in this
country now than five years ago. -s--
The French author, Victor Hugo,
has a writing chamber on the roof of his
house.
INDIAN maidens on the Northern Ne
braska Reservation have begun to carry
parasols.
The military authorities of Germany
have introduced a telephone. drill into
the army. e's-
The heat given off by the the sun
would melt 287, 200, 600 cubic miles of
ice every second.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD child in Indiana
tried to commit suicide in order to see
her dead mother.
The new fashionable shade is called
lees of wine. 1t is used in combinations
of satin and velvet ana
Pope LEO XIII is an enthusiastic
amateur in music, and is able. to sing
mass with due eflecs. s.sSs-. -
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa, does not have a
criminal dock. The prisoners sit in the
bar with the lawyers.
IT is said that the African explorer
Stanley's name is P. Brodigan, and that
he was born in Ireland. iG51e 81
DURING 1877, LIS persons were
killed, and 3,705 injured, by railroad ac--
cidents in Great Britain.
SINCE the modern improvements in
machinery, 1850 900 men do the work
as 100000 did formerly.
THE exports of the United States were
greater in 1877 and 1873 by hundreds of
millions than our imports.
An Ohio lady's glossy black hair
turned white as snow when she saw
snake in her, path before her. = g.,
% IT, costs as smuch to. bury a man de-
Gently in New York as to live six
months in fine style in London.
A THIEF at Summit, Miss, stole the
spade left at the grave awaiting the
coming of the funeral procession.
WITH the thermometer at thirty de-
grees below zere, the sensation of cold
is undistinguishable from that of heat.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD's physician,
who was summoned from London to
Berlin during the Congress, has pre-
sented bill for So, 500. f7 73 <
THE rumor of the contemplated mar
riage between King Alfonso of Spain and
a sister of the late Queen Mercedes is
officially denied at Madrid. .
IN the rivers of Canada are varieties
of fish originally from salt water, which
can swim by ziz-zag movements from
the bottom to the top of a sheet of water
fifty feet high. fii t'- si3-
LADY CAROLINE MORTON left $500
by her will to " the good cause of woman
suffrage" and aMrs.lGeorge -Oakes, an
other Englishwoman, has lately con-
tributed s., 500 to the same cause.
WIFE (anxiously)-What did that
young lady observe who passed us just
now? Husband with smile of calm
delight)-Why, my love, she observed
rather good-looking man walking with
quite an elderly female-that's all!
| The report is that in some cases tele-
graphic messages from the infected fever
districts have been refused in the South,
for the fear that through some mystic
rious agency of the wires the yellow
scourge may be propagated. -d
On single farm in Todd County,
KY, there were killed in one week
twenty-six rattlesnakes, nineteen of
them in one pile, the largest being five
feet four inches long, and ringing" "
nineteen rattles and a button.
AUSTRALIA has carried off the high
est diploma for wheat at the Paris Ex-
position. She gained the prize for each
OF seven samples of wheat and flour.
Adelaide wheat gained the gold metal
at the London Exhibition of 1851.