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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
MILK AND MALARIA.

A discovery has been made in En-
gland which should excite some atten-
tion in this country. 1t is to the effect
that diseases can be spread by the dis
tributiCn of impure milk. The discov-
cry was the result of an accident, as
most discoveries are, and was caused by
the putting of strong disinfectant in
a drain near a dairy. The next day
disagreeable taste was complained of
in the milk, and Investigation led to
the discovery that gases from the drain
pervaded the dairy, and were readily
absorbed and held by the milk.
This fact led to experiments which
disclosed that the germs Of typhoid
fever could without difficulty be dis
seminated in this way, and convincing
proof was furnished when an epidemic
in certain town was traced back to a
similar cause. In this connection il
may be mentioned that during the past
summer a Northern village, located
among the mountains, and formerly SO
healthy that it had become quite sum.
mer resort, was afflicted with an epi
demic of typhoid, and the only way in
which the invasion could be accounted
for was that case of typhoid fever had
occurred in family which usually sup
piled the residents with milk.
That this fluid is a convenient medium
for storing and conveying gaseous poi
sons is now pretty we'll established
and since, in this country particularly
there is no intelligent system of drainage
outside of our cities, and since dairiel
are frequently located in the lowlandl
and in the easements of buildings, it il
fair to presume that much of the malari;
with which people are inoculated il
brought to them in their milk. This il
subject which might properly be ex
amined by our scientists on this side o
the water, and such Improvements sug
gested as will contribute largely to tn
public health and safety.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
FOREIGN SUMMARY

The London Telegraph sees no cause for
alarm in the dispute over the fishery ques-
tion. 1t says: " Let the whole of the facts
be put before the public, aud we are sure
the common sense in both countries will
soon arrive at friendly agreement
THE Directors and other officials of the
City of Glasgow Bank have been committed
for trial, on charge of fraud and theft. The
relatives of John Stewart, one of the Direc-
tors, offer 100000 bail, but acceptance of
bail is not obligatory in cases of theft.
Several persons connected with the bank
have disappeared.
HEUGH, BALFoUR & Co., of Manchester,
England, have failed. Liabilities estimated
at between fl,0O0,000 and f2,O00,00O. The
firm of Heugb, Balfour & Co. was one of the
Oldest Eastern shipping houses in Man.
chester. Two hundred thousand pounds Of
their liabilities fall chiefly on Manchester
| cloth and yarn agents.
A DUBLIN dispatch says that DR.. Gillooly
Roman Catholic Bishop OF Elphin, has
been appointed by the Pope to the high
position of Apostolic Delegate from the
Holy See to Canada and the United States
His jurisdiction will extend to the Catho
lie clergy of the United States, as in the
case of his predecessor, DR.. Conroy. DR.
Gillooly has been for some years Bishop OF
Elphin, and is distinguished from his fel
low-Bishops in Ireland by his activity and
energy.
The United States Consul at Tangier has
transmitted a dispatch to the State Depart
ment giving an account of the fearful
ravages of cholera in the interior of Mo
rocco. The misery among the people is
great. Business is almost completely par
aiyzed. Cholera is sweeping over the mid
die and southern provinces. Hundreds are
dying of starvation. To all these miseriel
smallpox and malignant fevers add theil
horrors. Never before has Morocco passet
| through such fearful ordeal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

POSTAL CARDS give rise to peculiar
troubles. A Rochester lumber dealer
mailed a card to discharged clerk,
accusing him of swindling, and the clerk
has obtained a verdict of $3.50 damages,
based on the publicity of the charge
while passing through the mails. A
similar case is on trial in Pittsburg, the
plaintiff being sewing machine agent,
TO whom his employer addressed an ac-
cusation of improperly retaining money.
An Omaha clergyman publishes card
complaining that he frequently receives
advertisements of wine, printed on pos
tai cards, and, as he is a total abstainer
from strong drink, the impression might
be wrongfully created that he is buyer
of the wine. A Boston landlady sends
bills on postal cards to former boarders,
accompanied by urgent requests for
payment. One of the recipients began
a suit against her for libel, but withdrew
it, his lawyer advising him that, as the
communication was simple request to
pay just debt, he had no legal griev-
ance. A Kansas City girl Tilted her
lover, and he retaliated by writing her
amorous letters on postal cards. She
did not invoke the law, but put raw,
hide in her pocket, lay in wait for her
annoyer, and whipped him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Tie New York Bank Robbery.

The complete details of the recent
robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank
in New York show it to have been one
of the most skillfully- planned opera
tions that has ever been known in the
records of crime. 1t may be observed
at the same time that there has never
before been crime committed that was
so absolutely free from the chance of
detection, either in its perpetration or
after its commission. The seven masked
burglars were as secure as if they were
robbing lonely farm house, with not
another house for miles around, instead
of bank in the heart of great city, in
broad daylight, with people constantly
passing and repassing who could look
directly into the room where the thieves
were at work. 1t is one of the most
startling curiosities of crime, that these
seven men could enter this bank in day
light, unrerceived, overpower a family,
and obtain the keys and combination
that guarded millions of dollars in cash,
bonds, and securities, enter the bank
and spend an hour or two, in plain sight
from two streets, packing up its assets,
and then leave it through an exit into
one of the most frequented streets of
the city, and escape with their booty,
without attracting the attention of any
one, although several patrolmen and
citizens passed and repassed the build
ing and locked in, as was their wont, to
observe the time by the clock on the
larger vault which the thieves at that
very time were wrecking. The circum-
stances Of this bold robbery argue either
an incomprehensibl lack of observation
upon the part of those whose duty it is
to have their eyes open, or the posses
sion upon the part of the thieves of in
visible powers not hitherto known out
side of the Arabian Nights. Had a
writer of fiction invented similar sitaa-
ton for his villains, the book reviewers
would have accused him of Inconsistency
and want of fidelity to nature.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

CLAM yellow fever sufferer, and |
want four-bit dinner" said a red-nosed
specimen, stepping into Clay-street
restaurant. "But there is no fever in
the city," objected the proprietor. =" Ex-
actly,a blandly rejoined the gentleman,
rubbing the aforementioned corner
grocery sign with his forefnger, eek
actly; but my wife resides in Memphis,
and she is down sick with it, and is
therefore unable to support me as usual.
Perhaps your customers might like to
club together" he continued, glancing
round pleasantly. When he picked him
self up from the car track he felt as if
the customers had indeed dubbed to-
gether-all together.-Sdn Francisco
Ne,rs Letter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

WE NEVER heard of its doing any
good for a lover to browbeat woman
into loving him. According to all that
we have ever read in tales or hist ory,
love does not come by browbeating. In
fact, browbeating is more apt to repress
than to encourage love. Sometimes a
dashing, audacious act may turn the
scale of an obdurate woman's heart in a
wooer' sfavor, as in the case of William
the Conqueror, who, in fit of rage at
the object of his passionate love, excited
by her obstinate refusal to accept his
suit, pulled her from her palfrey in the
street on public market-day, and
rolled her in the mud until all her
finery was spoiled, and then, mounting
his horse, rode rapidly away. This
unique style of wooing took the lady's
fancy, as she soon after permitted
Billy-then Duke of Normandy-to pay
court to her as an accepted lover, and
subsequently become his wife. But we
would not advise our modern lovers to
insist too stringently on pursuing this
course. AS a general thing, fascinating
maidens will object to being pulled
from their palfreys and rolled in the
mud.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
"WALKING CASESn oF FEHER.


A New Orleans physician, in private
letter, writes that he follows the old
treatment in yellow fever, and has had
over one hundred cases and only sixteen
deaths. Two of the latter were "walk-
ing cases." The term is technical
one, understood in yellow fever districts
A walking case" is patient who re-
fuses to go to bed, and keeps his feet
until he drops dead. Sometimes he
refuses to admit he has yellow fever
sometimes he realizes that he has the
dread disease, and despairs of recovery
from the start. Sometimes the walk
ing case" manifests the most abiect
fear, and again he displays the courage
and Indifference of spy led out to
execution. The stalking death is not
an uncommon feature of life in New
Orleans during the prevalence of an
epidemic. Many who passed through
the fearful ordeal of 1853, in which
nearly eight thousand victims perished
will remember the case of John c., {
Memphis printer. He was a man O.
splendid physique and handsome pres
ence, but an unfortunate love-affair hat
made him reckless. He developed
walking case" of yellow fever, ant
for two days and nights he roamed tn
streets and frequented the drinking
houses of the city, in spite of all hi
friends could do, finally falling on tn
street and dying before he could be cor
veyed to his lodgings. He would wip
the black vomit from his lips, holdin
up the handkerchief, critically examir
ing the horrible exudation, and remar
with grim humor that his "cofee
didn't agree with him that morning
Death is dreadful at best, but no di
ease presents SO great horrors as
walking case" of yellow fever.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

JAMAICA is coming to the front as a
producer Of tobacco. She finds her
most considerable customers in Ger
many. At Hamburg, probably the
most considerable tobacco market in the
world, Jamaica tobacco is ranked second
only to that of Cuba; and though
buyers at first hand may probably not
be deceived, yet retailers no doubt buy
and sell II as genuine Havana.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

BICYCLES have got into the courts in
England, owing to the neglect of riders
toprovide their machines with proper
bells. A fine was recently imposed on a
Liverpool bicyclist whose bell could not
be heard more than a couple of yards
away. In this country We cannot hear
the bells close by--for the excellent
reason that there are none. Here is a
field for aldermen and councilmen.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Deceit.

Deceitful and artificial people are gen.
orally caught in their own traps. They
deceive themselves more than they de-
ceive others. They may feel great COM
placency in view of the success of their
doings; but they are in reality casting a
mist before their own eyes. Such per-
sons not only make false estimate of
their own character, but they estimate
falsely the opinions and conduct of 9TH
ers. No person is obliged to tell all he
thinks-but both duty and self-interest
forbid him ever to make false pre-
lenses,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

THE recent gale at Philadelphia shat
tered the glass roof of the elephant
house at the Geological Garden, and a
female elephant trod on one of the frag-
ments, receiving painful wound. She
set up long, loud, and dismal howl of
pain, and rolled necessarily on the
ground. She was secured by ropes, and
a surgeon lanced the wound, removed
the glass, and in a few minutes the ami
NAL was on her feet again, looking as
amiable as lamb.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

A MAN was lately before London
Police Court for attempting to commit
suicide by jumping off a bridge into the
Thames. He pleaded that he had lost
his wife and two children in the Prin-
cess Alice disaster, and was desperate.
His wife was produced in court, and
said that she had no children. He then
explained that he had been drinking
with friend who had lost his wife and
children, and his sympathies were SC
exercised that he got confused, and
thought it was his own case.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

SIMON GRANT has bought tract of
land on the Northern Pacific Railroad
for the purpose of starting community.
He is a wealthy Scotchman, and will
devote his entire fortune to the enter
prise, which he has been planning many
years; but he intends to be the high
priest of the region-said to be strange
worship of the sun-which is the basis
of the movement. Thus far he has
only a score or so of followers. He
has chosen place in what is fast becom.
ing thickly settled farming region,
and is confident of success.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

THE practice of "giving away"
ohromos and other cheap articles with
tea, coffee and the like originated in
England. The households of buyers
being now full of " gaudy but not neat "
works of art, dealers have introduced
the custom of giving away sugar with
teas. Others have offered to give, on
stated day of each week, hat or neck
tie TO the purchaser of certain
onanftfv
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

Mr.. CARD, about the highest agri-
cultural authority in England, states m
his new work, The Landed Interest
and the Supply of Food" that the re-
turn per acre Of English wheat crops is
not as large a. formerly. He attributes
this to the farmers feeling lack of se-
curity for their capital.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

CHUN PUT NAM, the Chinese Consul
General, who is to watch over the inter-
ests of his countrymen in California
and the Territories, is said to be the
richest foreigner that has ever come to
the Pacific Coast TO live there for any
length of time, as he is not only pos
sessed Of vast wealth, but also of high
reputation for integrity and ability.
He has, it is said, already taken steps
TO abolish the Six Chinese Companies,
which for years have ruled over the
Chinese in San Francisco.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

The new port about to be constructed
at Boulogne, France, will be the most
beautiful OF any on the coast of that
country. Four magnificent revolving
electric lights will be erected at the ex-
tremity of the breakwater, and there
will be bells rung by the waves in case
of fog. The lights will be strong enough
10 illuminate the harbor and to be seen
from the English coast. Until now there
has been no port with more than two
lights.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
The Clean Newspaper.

There is growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journals
which make it their special object to
minister to perverted taste by seeking
out and serving up in a seductive form
disgusting scandals and licentious revela-
tions. There is good reason to believe
that the clean newspaper is more highly
priced to-day than it was four or five
years ago. 1t is also safe to predict that
as people in all ranks of life, VINO protect
their own at least from contamination,
become more conscious of the pernicious
influence of certain class of journals,
called enterprising because they are am
bilious to serve up dirty scandals, they
will be careful to see that the journals
they permit to be read in the family cir
Gle are of the class that never forget the
proprieties of life. Already men and
women of refinement and healthy morals
have had their attention called to the
pernicious influence of bad literature,
and have made commendable efforts to
counteract the same by causing sound
literature to be published and sold at
popular prices. These efforts are work
ing a silent but sure revolution. The
best authors are more generally read to-
day than at any previous time. The
sickly sentimental story paper and wild
ranger and pirate story book are slowly
yielding the field to worthier claimants.
To the praise of the decent newspaper,
it may be said that where it has a place
in the family and has been read for years
by young and old, it has developed sucn
a healthy tone and such discriminating
taste that the literature of the slums has
no admirers: Fortunately, the number
of such families is increasing in the land
and as they increase, the journal that
devotes itself to sickening revelations ol
immortality will be compelled to find its
supporters solely among those classes
that practice vice or crime or are ambi-
tious to learn to follow such ways.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

Four miners who were working in
The shaft of Nevada mine, heard
he hoisting car break from its fasten-
Ings far above their heads. They
knew that there would be just foot of
space between the falling car and the
wall, but they were not 50 sure of their
,wn thickness, and there was but little
lime for calculation. They made them
selves as fiat as possible and escaped
injury, although the shirt of one was
torn off
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

REV. J. II. WILBUR, agent for twelve
years with the Yakima Indians in
Washington Territory, reports that this
tribe, "taken from the war-path in
1856, and gathered into the reservation
in $50, are now quite prosperous. They
number 3,64O; have 1000 head of cat
tie, LOO horses, 5000 acres of land un-
der cultivation, with 10000 acres in adj
dition fenced in. Their property is
valued at $433, 900, equal to 5000 for
each family"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

scratched as though she had been thrown
into bramble bush, and one of Miss
Burt's eyes was swollen and nearly shut.
That episode relieved the committee of
embarrassment, for neither of the two
young women was any longer pretty,
and the prize was awarded to another.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
TOPICS OF THE DAP.

THERE are more deaf mutes, idiots
and lunatics in Switzerland, in proper
tion to the population, and fewer people
afflicted with blindness, than in any
other European country.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

The London Atheneum says that the
Eastern unsettlement threatens to create
yet another nuisance new European
language. The Albanians, in asserting
their nationality, claim that Albanian
shall be the official language of their
country. The Albanians have two chief
languages, the Tosk and the Guegh, and
they can not read them when other peo.
pie write them, SO they use Greek fol
written communications. Some year.
ago the Bible Society published TosE
Testament, which no one could read, SC
they printed a Guegh Testament, il
another new character, and set uy
schools 10 teach people to read it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

A WATERBURY, woman who weighed
something over three hundred pounds
got some anti-fat and took double doses
of it, until the first thing she knew her
skin was 30 loose that her nose hung off
the end of her chin and her eyes were at
each corner of her mouth.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

THE melancholy days are upon us
when every man you meet informs you,
with tears in his eyes, that he has the
worst cold he ever saw"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

You cannot tell man who is con-
tented in the world merely by looking
at him. The neatest fitting boot often
covers a raging corn.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

ART is cold, but Nature is warm.
What work of the chiseler can compare
with the bust inspired by three gin
sliugs and couple of whisky-skins?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

THERE was a prize for the prettiest
girl at ball in Gold City, Montana,
and the delicate question was to be
decided by committee. The choice
was generally conceded to lie between
Miss McGowen and Miss Burt, and, one
being blonde and the other brunette,
the committee was unable to judge of
their charms by comparison. The sus-
pense was trying to the tempers of the
rival beauties, and they fell to CRITICS
ing each others looks. Then they quar-
relied. Next, they fought. When they
were parttSsats Miss Mo@owep's,s4ce was
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
" Who killed John Keats?
1, says the Quarterly,
So savage and tartarly,


Poor Keats-poor in nerves and health,
but 0, how rich in genius issued his
Endymion from the press with that
trembling anxiety-fearful and hopeful
which is felt by every impressible
spirit on the issue of his first enterprise.
The tartarly Quarterly Magazine assailed
it with harshness that stung the sus-
ceptible young bard to the quick; and
his final death was, by many, attributed
to the severity of the attack. He lived
long enough, however, though dying at
the early age of twenty-four, to write
the Ode to a Nightingale, st. Agnes
Eve, and Hyperion, as well as some ode:
and sonnets that are favorably men
toned in mouths of wisest censure. y
Who now reads the Quarterly? Who
does not read Endymion7
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

LIVES of great men all remind us we
may make our lives sublime, and, de-
departing, leave behind us barely a pair
of odd stockings for our expectant
heirs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
A NEW way of stating an old fact

A NEW way of stating an old fact;
Into thirty diurnal sections Of time, is the month
Of September divided;
April June, and November likewise, and II mas
also been decided
That thirty-one days, and nights as wen, some
eight of the others containing,
Leaves twenty-eight days and piece of night
But when leap-year comes, with a skip and jump,
Lest February repine,
He adds on a day to the calendar count,
Thus making it twenty-nine.
Now, if anybody can beat that mod
erniang any of the old poems, please
step to the front.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

He that runs may read-a good many
things concerning his character, es-
pecially if he runs for an office.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

The English Mechanic says the pro-
jected Channel tunnel under the Dover
Straits is still only possibility. Moth
ing is being done on the English side,
but on the French coast borings are con-
tinued. Although thus far the geolog-
ical characteristics upon which the
undertaking was proposed have been
fully verified, the scheme does not meet
with favor in influential circles in
England.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

THEREare to be no active Operations
in Afghanistan until spring. The season
is too advanced for protraeted move
ments in mountain gorges.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07

LIGHTING fires with kerosene makes
every man his own cremationist.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
ga thing of beauty is a joy forever"

may be found in poem of John Keats's.
1t is the first line of his easy-running,
rivulet-murmuring, honey-phrased idyl,
Endymion. "Who," says Lord Byron,
initiating the simple strain of Cock
Robin,