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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
NEAR Foochow, China, is Buddhist

NEAR Foochow, China, is Buddhist
monastery wherein dwells priest who
probably never heard of the noble Ro-
M an, Mucius Seaevola, and a certain
Lars Porsena, of Clusium. But this.
Buddhist priest has burned one of his
fingers down to the second joint in the
fame of candle, as an act of devotion,
and q report is circulated in Foochow
that be will make yearly sacrifice of a
finger, and finally by the same process
of incline ration destroy both arms as far
as the elbow joint. Somebody from the
Herald (FoOcbow) Office paid the priest a
visit, and came away satisfied that a
ligature had been used in the process,
although not long enough before the
operation to produce gangrene. He was
unable to obtain any direct answer as to
the yearly sacrifice, but understood the
priest to disclaim the honor of such in
tentions. Disease has already taken sight
from one of the poor fellows eyes, and
is likely to take it from the other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

In the year 1894, it was discovered, by
actual experiment, at Florence, that a.
diamond would burn. Cosmo III had
one fixed in the focus of burning glass,
and after some exposure to the rays of the
sun, it cracked, corruscated and finally
disappeared like ghost leaving no
trace behind. Experiments of this kind
were costly. They were long iniyielding
any scientific results. 1t was only a
sovereign prince, who could afford to see
his Jewels vanish like the gifts of fairy
godmother. Another potentate, the
Emperor Francis I, tried number of
valuable diamonds in the heat of a
smelling furnace, and may have felt
some qualification in finding they had
disappeared. This was in 1850, and
about twenty years later magnificent
diamond was burned in France. A
jeweler named LIE Blame denied the
possibility of burning diamonds, and
suspected some unfair play on the part
of Macquer, the chemist who conducted
the operation. Hehad often, he asserted,
exposed diamonds to great heat, with
the sole result of increasing their bril-
liancy. MIR. Streeter has done the same,
with success. But LIE Blame only knew
half of what Mr.. Streeter knows, and
when the chemist demanded that he
should inclose some diamonds in coal in
crucible, he rashly assented, and in
three hours they had all disappeared
Then another jeweler, Millard by name
who seems to have had a suspicion of the
truth, put three diamonds into ar
earthen-bowl pipe, packed in powdered
charcoal, and exposed them, without in
jury, to intense heat. Lavoister, wh'
was present, proved, in 1776, that by
shutting out the air the diamond wa
preserved in a furnace, but that tn
admission of oxygen, with which tn
carbon combines, allows the diamond t
burn like piece of coal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
To Know an American in Paris.

Marie Rowland writes to Harper's:
While waiting for our breakfast one
morning in cremerie in Paris much
frequented by foreigners, my friend
Madame B. said, 81 can point you
out every American breakfasting
here"
I looked around at the people seated
at the different tables, and wondered if
she were speaking seriously. In these
days when fashion reduces costume and
coiffure to such uniformity, and when
the blood of every civilized race is
mixed to great extent with that of
every other, distinguishing nationality
at sight appeared to me impossible. |
asked my friend her secret.
"Oh, it is no secret" she replied,
smiling. "I don't pretend to tell ex-
cept when they are taking breakfast.
They all put salt on their butter"
Your acuteness applies only to
breakfast then" said. AT dinner it
would not serve you, suppose" L
said this in kind of savage way,
having the common weakness that
makes all people abroad defend their
countrymen.
"No," she said; we never put butter
on the dinner table IA fact had at the
moment forgotten. fi nsa.,.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

Rev. DIR. BARToL, of Boston, who
came as near being struck by lightning
as it was possible and escape, has written
an account of the sensation. He says its
suddenness beyond conception is the
marked property. cit gives no time for
fear, or even surprise, and the self-loss
does not sppreciably last. If the blow
be not fatal the restoration may be so
ouick that in less than minutes time
horses and cows and pigs and men, es-
caping or delivered, swarm together,
under the flash and tempest, on the
greensward. A resistless weight, steam
ing and crowding through the frame, is
the consciousness I chiefly remember,
with the idea that had been chosen as
part of the lightningrod for huge and
incompatible discharge. The experience
was, moreover, single moment in won
der-land. All customs and institutions
were abolished for a time. In such a
passage as / was allowed to stand in for
a moment death becomes nothing and
life is all, but wakeful night and a
weeks headache were the result"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

STARVATION, it appears, ought not TO
have any place in the bright lexicon of
those who live within procuring distance
of fungi Mr.. Washington Rodman, of
Astoria, J.. l., who is an enthusiast on
the subject, declares that tons upon tons
of good food are wasted because people
will not take the trouble to acquaint
themselves with the nutritious proper
ties of these succulent vegetables. He
has just found in Vermont, for instance,
a huge puf-ball which in fresh condi-
tion, he says, would have made an ex-
cellent meal for half dozen persons.
When fresh the flesh on being utshouId
remain without the slightest tinge of
yellow. Cut in slices, dipped in egg and
-four and properly cooked, the dish can
hardly be distinguished from the best
omelet, having in addition a delicate
oyster flavor. This almost beats fiat "
money as a help for the needy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
Miss OsbOrne's Patches.

Miss Lucy A. Osborne, of New Mil
ford, Conn.,, whose scalp, right ear, and
part of the right cheek were torn off in
September, 1874, by machinery in which
her hair caught, and who mas since been
at New York hospital, is now at home.
A new scalp has grown upon her head
by the grating thereon of minute bits
of skin. The pieces were contributed
from the arms of the hospital surgeons.
The total number of pieces used in this
operation was twelve thousand. One of
the surgeons contributed from his per-
son one thousand two hundred and two
pieces, and another gave eight hundred
and sixty-fve. The appearance of the
scalp now is similar to that of healed
wound. OF course, there can be no
growth of hair thereon. The eyes still
present slightly drawn appearance,
The wounds of the cheek and ear have
been neatly dressed, the former leaving
| scarcely scar. In the first of the graft
ing process bits of skin the size of nickel
pieces were employed, but not with
| good success, and, at the suggestion OF
an English surgeon, much smaller pieces
were substituted, and with excellent re.
suits. Miss Osborne is now twenty-five
years old.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

PAPAws, Pumpkins, Persimmons, Peas,
Pears, Partridges, Pheasants, Plums,
Potatoes, Politicians, Proud People,
Pick-pockets, Pleasant Parties, Pichics,
Possums, Pains, Pecuniaiy Papas, Pau
pers, Preachers, Profanity, Peri urers,
Parted Parents, Participations of Pleas
ant Pastime, Promenades, Pugilists,
Prussians, Publications, Prunes, Provis-
sions, Procrastinators, Physicians Pre-
scriptions, Representations, Pharo Pro
pellors, Prisoners, Professions, Profes
sors, Partly Prompt Payments, Pies
Priests, Pretended Presents, Passes, Pats
Patents, Pastors, Petitions, Prosecutors
Persistent Personators, and Philanthro
pists are plentiful.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

In the French international Exhibi-
ton Of 1867 was shown lock of won
derful complexity, which admitted OF
1874, ,3s5 combinations. Heuret passed
one hundred and twenty nights in lock
ing IL, and Fic!iet was four months III
unlocking it. Now they can neither
shut nor open it..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

EXPERIMENTS are being made by the
Government of New Zealand with a
view TO acclimatizing the English hum
blebee. The object is to assist the New
Zealand agriculturists in cultivating
their fields of clover. Common bees are
not strong enough to force their way into
the petals of the clover flower, and thus
fertilize the plants as they fly from one
to another. For this purpose, therefore,
the humblebee is needed; but so far the
nests sent out have been destroyed. At
tempts to acclimatize the common bee in
some hot climates have so far proved
useless. After short period they quit
the hives and cannot he entiCed back.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The earliest notice of yellow fever is
that of Ligon, in his " History of Bar
badoes." He there states that il broke
out early in September, 1647, and that
before the expiration Of a month "the
living we're scarcely able to bury the
dead" Thereafter it did not attain any
very remarkable severity until 1898,
when IL destroyed not less than six thou
sand men of the garrison of Port Royal
in the course Of few months. In 1904
it was brought to the south of Spain,
and visited Cadiz, Malaga, and Car
thagena. But its greatest force fell
upon Gibraltar, where out of the civil
population of the town, amounting tc
nearly fourteen thousand persons, only
twenty-eight escaped attack.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The wife of Prince Bismarck, Johanna
Won Putkammer, OF an old and noble
Pomeranian family, was born in 1924,
He made her acquaintance at the mar
riage Of one of mis- friends, where she
acted as bridesmaid, and two years later
in 1847-he asked her to become his
wife. Her family was not at first dis
posed to accept his proposals. At that
time Herr Won Bismarck enjoyed
rather curious reputation. He was sur
named 'fder tolle Bismarck" (mad Bis
marckl, and had earned this title by his
numerous duels, his daring feats of
horsemanship, and some widely-spread
orally toward professors, burgomasters,
and other respectable members of what
German students call "Philistine So
ciety." But more especially he owed
his surname to the very noisy revels he
used to hold with number of exceed
ingly loud young men at Kniephof and
at Schoenhausen. To quiet, respectable,
religious people like the Putkammers,
| he did not appear very eligible suitor
for an only and beloved child. Bismarck,
however, settled the question at once.
He walked up to Miss Johanna, and
having ascertained by look that she
sided with him, he folded her in his
arms, and said, turning to her astonished
relatives, "What God has united, no
man shall put asunder." Princess Bis
marck has preserved all the simplicity
of her youth. She is a perfect specimen
in the best sense of the word, of the
German hausfrau (housewife). She is
very quiet, bears her honors as the most
natural thing in the world, holds fast by
the old friends of humber days, and has
but one great object in life to make hel
husband and children happy. She care'
for them in peaceful, motherly way
and her serenity and patience, which
have always secured for Bismarck ;
quiet home, have certainly contributed
to his success through life. "She it is,
he once said to friend, "wbo has mad
me what | am."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

TRAvrLErs complain that since the
Italian Government has occupied Rome
as its capital, the ancient city is losing
picturesque antiquities and is being
transformed into bad imitation of a
modern town. From the new quarter
around the railway station to the royal
family all is in bad taste to artists eyes.
Their treasures are removed and their
views destroyed, and they curse the
white stone and red brick that the new
occupants are building on all sides.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The few Italians who can vote do not
care much for their high prerogative. In
a population of $4,000, 900 only sos, 900
or about two and one-fourth per cent.
have the privilege, but of the sos, 900
only fifty-6ve per cent. voted at the cleo
tions in 1876. Tn Italy 10000, 900
letters were posted in 1875, and 10000
900 postal cards, against 104, ,00O, 900
letters, and 100000 cards in the
previous year. There were no cards in
1873, but the number of letters was the
same as in 1874, while in 1871 there were
less than 100, ,0OO, 600 letters. Postoffice
orders to the value of All, 900, 600 lire
were issued in 1875, an against 300, ,000,.
900 in 1871 and ia 100000 newspapers
passed through the PostofTices in the
latter, as against 95,000,000 in the
former year.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

II is stated, on good authority, that
the Superior Commission of the Inter-
national Exposition has resolved to pro-
long the Exposition until the goth of
November, in order to give opportunity
for the sale of exhibits, and that the
drawing of lottery prizes, which in
cludes many of the articles on exhibi-
tion, will also be postponed to the goth
Of November. Most of the foreign ex-
hibitors are at present disposed to begin
packing up on the day originally desig-
mated for the closing of the Exposition,
the 1st of November. The influx of
visitors is again very large. All the
hotels and lodging houses are full. Ar
rivals of strangers in Paris, registered
during the past fortnight, number
1896 French and 27 ,50l foreigners.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The Mohammedans are very super
stitious touching the beard. They bury
the hairs which come off in combing it,
and break them FIRST, because they be-
lieve that angels have charge of every
hair, and that they gain them their dis
missal by breaking it. Selim was the
first Sultan who shaved his beard, con-
trary to the law of the Koran. al do
it," said he apologetically to the scan
dalized and orthodox multi, "to prevent
my vizier leading me by it." He cared
less for il than some of our ancestors,
two centuries ago, did for their own.
They used to wear pasteboard covers
over them in the night, lest they should
turn upon them and rumple them in
their sleep.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

WHEN the Scraps last set sail for
India Captain Warren had her bottom
thoroughly coated with paper, applied
by means Of cement OF his own devils
ing. After making the voyage and lying
in the dock for three months the bottom
remained free from marine incrusta-
tions, except in few places where the
paper had been rubbed off. As the ma
terial is very cheap, and the method of
its application is simple, the discovery is
likely 10 revolutionize marine construc-
tion in at least this detail.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY

They had frightful railroad acci-
dent in England recently, and the Daily
Nelcs says that the patience of the
servants Of the company was sorely
tried" by the relatives of passengers in
the wrecked train coming TO make in
quiries.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

In an editorial article on the recent
development Of the velocipedc, the Lon
don Tnss says: "A bicyclist can per
form a journey Of one hundred miles in
a day with less fatigue than he could
walk thirty; fifty miles-that is, FROM
London 10 Brighton--as easily rs he
could walk ten, aad a daily journey TO
and fro between London and the distant
suburbs with just the usual results OF
moderats evercisen
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The origin Of electing by ballot may
be traced to the ancient Greeks. When
a member was 10 he elected, every voter
threw little pellet of bran or crumb OF
bread into a basket, carried by servant
around the table, aud whoever dissented
Aattened their pellets at one side.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

SoME touching and beautiful super
stitions prevailed among the Indian
tribes. The Seneca tribe entertained
one Of singular beauty. When maiden
died they imprisoned young bird until
il first began to sing, then loading it
with messages and caresses they lib
Grated il over her grave, with the belief
that il would not cease its fight nor
close its eyes until it had flown to the
spirit-land add delivered its precious
burden of affection to the loved and
lnaI
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
Interviews With English NOyelists.

Interviews With English NOvelists.
Rose Eytinge, the actress who has
just returned from England, thus gos-
sips about some noted writer's:
| was delighted with MIR. Reade. |
met him often at his house at Knight
bridge, where he entertained me. He is
a man whose life is given to the broadest
open-handed charity. He lives to do
good. Why, the people co&esto see him
for everything, and out he goes to right
their wrongs, visiting this man, rem0n-
strating with that, into offices and
counting. rooms. To see that Justice is
done some poor body, who has been
wronged in the matter of shopkeper's
overcharge, he will run all day. Just
now he is busily engaged in forcing he
introduction of safety lamp into the
mines. His study, or writing room, he
calls it the garden room, looks out over
Hyde Park. The ceiling is low, the
walls are covered with family portraits
and in inches stand the entire series of
Rogers statuettes in plaster. On his
table, flanking an elegant Louis Qua
torze clock, stand two unsightly coal oil
lamps of the kind he is trying to intro
duce into the mines. His house is
museum of bric-a-brac and curiosities.
l have four grand plays by him which
will act this winter. AS | sat in his
room and looked into his face, framed
in white hair from chin all around,
was as deeply impressed as when 1 read
his "Cloister and Heart" Indeed, more
so. His apparently intuitive perception
of the workings of woman's mind are
Ial, TO 1n h.
bachelor, and lives at home, but dimes
at the club a great deal. He is man
of large frame, and photograph be
gave me had written upon it: "This
is the picture of a great man, now,
thank Heaven, much reduced r'-refer-
ring to the time when it was taken, when
he was much stouter. cannot suf-
fciently express my admiration of the
man. He told me that he intended to
,ntinue to write for the stage entirely
hereafter. Mr. Cyril Searle, my man
ager, he appointed his agent in this
country to protect his dramatic work
from piracy.
Wilkie Collins saw, also, and found
him delightful. He is almost an inva-
lid, and suffers a great deal from rheu-
matte gout. He speaks of the gout with
stern disapprobation, but, despite the
pain it almost continually affiicts upon
him, he talks admirably upon nearly
all topics. Edmund Yates l saw fire.
quently, too. He spoke in glowing
terms of his visit to America, where he
received magnificent hospitality. But
I suppose if | speak in this strain o.
everything and everybody l met, you
will imagine that [ saw nothing tha
was not delightful. Perhaps did not
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
Fashion News.

Dark red and marine blue is one of
the odd combinations of colors worn
this season, and old gold and pale pink
is another.
Monograms are in favor again, and are
embroidered on slippers, collars, hand
kerchiefs, mitts and parasols, in the gay
est colors.
A new style of bracelet is made of
delicate flexible spirals of gold in one
continuous piece, and so arranged that
it will fit any arm.
A pretty bracelet for young girl is a
slender band of gold with a small palm
leaf on the top, made of diamonds and
turquoises.
A novelty among underwear for gen.
tlemen is the filet shirt.
Old-fashioned maierita red is to be
the fashionable shade for the new fall
goods.
Ladies' coaching parasols are made of
cardinal satin, and edged off with deep
white lace.
Handkerchiefs for ladies' and gentle
mems wear are plain hemstitched, with
polka-dot centers.
Ostrich feathers will be more used
this winter than they have for years
past, and now is the time for ladies to
invest in them when they are so low
priced.
New chatelaines consist of pieces of
ivory bound with silver, and linked to.
gether.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The man who invented shoes with
the French heel did it to avenge an
injury done him by a handsome wo-
man. She Tilted him, and since then
his hatred of the sex has really no
bounds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

A SWISS patent makes the dialss of
watches visible at night.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

tell you what | have seen and felt.
There are plenty of them here in town
who can tell you a worse story than this
One thing more l will say, the pretended
efforts of the police officials to stop
gambling are nothing but sham. l
know how it is and have seen it. The
gamblers have it all their own way"
THIS ended the story. The young man
who told it lives here in the city, and is
well-known both to the gamblers and
the employees of prominent dry goods
house
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

THE money question" How much is
he worth P
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The father who has the welfare of
his children completely at heart, will
see to it that his boy does not grow up
to talk through his nose and sell
matches in market. Words of gold are
not scrambled after if they come
loaded down with nasal twang that
makes the tympanum want to put up
| the shutters.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1878-01-26
NAPOLEONVILLE La. SATURDAY. JANUARY 26 1873.
THE CENTENNIAL MEDAL !!
The Truth at Last !!
THE
HOWE MACHIN E
Again triumphant!

At the 45th Exhibition of the American
Institute Fair in this city, the Howe Ma
chine was recommended by the Judges,
and approved by the unanimous vote of
the Board of Managers, for the GRt At
GOLD "CENTENNIAL MEDAL" under the
following rules:
''This Medal fof gold) is to be awarded
only for machine, product, or process,
exhibited this Centennial year. at The 18th
Exhibition of the merican Institu of
the ci y of New York 1t can be awarded
only for a machine, produ t, process, of
gre value, decided importance, and OF
more than usual merit; and hen only by
majority of the whole Board of Trustees,
upon the written report of three judges,
whose report shall certify to the above
requirements, and after said report shall
have been approved by majority of the
whole Board II Managers"
1t viii be thus seen that the ssHowe''
still leads all coinpetitors-and we chal-
lenge all Sewing Machine Companies in
the land to produce an award Of like ex-
cellence received in this EATEANI l.
YEAR.
TIE HOWE MACHINE CO..
S3 CANAL SreE Il, NEW ORLEAN !.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1878-01-26
BRlCKsl BRICKS :!

The undersigned, having e larged then
RPII,K YARD With the intention efearry-
inc their business on 3 larger scale, solicit
- heretofore the patronage OF their
friends. and are now prepared to denver
pr;cks ~ a.. s1 landings between Donaldson
v;Iie glieAs snd "a Thibodaux at prices and con,li-
lions TO suit purchasers.
DUGAS 6 TRUXILL0,
- ss.g assumption Store.
~ Constantly on hand supply OF
TILE BRICKS.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1878-01-26
SUCCESSOR TO ERNEST TuRPIN,

sUOUEsSUR TO FINEST TUKPIN,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in
stick andy lthe best madel, French at.d
Fanc. Candies, Sugar Toys, Chocolates,
Jel ies, Ssrups, Fruits, all sorts o3 Dry Al d
snngeF Cakes. l,irs Works. surprise and
Jash Baxes, Ne. dc.
80 0LD LgvEE STRtET,
NEW ORLEANS, La.