The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
NE WS AND NOTES.


HOUSES in Asterdam are built leaning
toward each other.
The wigglers in rain water are the
young mosquitoes.
CALIFORNIA has waterfalls three times
as high as Niagara.
THERE are sixty known varieties of
oysters in the world.
The Thessalians decreed that women
should not drink wine.
ULsTERs, with belts and buckles, ap-
pear on the winter charts.
POISONING by green shade over the
eyes is reported medically.
A SWARM of bees lately stuDg hors
to death in Bucks County, Pa. s-
| CHINESE coal production already
reaches three million tons year.
WASHINGTON S will, now fading fast,
is to be copied by photo-lithography.
The nearest star is two hundred and
| fifty thousand times as far off as our
sun,
WE are represented in Rome by
seventeen sculptors and eighteen pain
ters. s-e W.
The husband of Thomas Carlyle's
sister is house carpenter named
Aitkin.
GOLD leaf is the two hundred and
eighth thousandth part of an inch in
thickness.
| ENVELOPES decorated with little
| water celors are the latest in fancy
stationery.
RECENTLY thirty-eight persons were
baptized at Texas camp-meeting, by
torchlight.
The starving miners of Shropshire,
in England, were reluctant to accept
rice as food.
| WooD grown in moist soil is lighter
and decays sooner than that grown in
sandy dry soil.
| In 1877 Great Britain had one hun
dred miles of tunnel, costing fifty
thousand dollars. - saI -
ALL coiors shading on red will con-
tinue in favor during the approaching
fall and winter season.
The match of the ex-Prince Imperial
of France with the Princess Thyra of
Denmark is declared off.
The latest dictionaries give forty
three thousand five hundred and sixty
six words in our language. ssh
TINE passes most slowly and tediously
to the idle and listless. The best cure
for dullness is to keep busy.
A FRENCH actress has a skeleton SO
arranged as to throw reflection in the
mirror at the foot of her bed.
WE trouble life by the care of death,
and death by the care of life. The one
torments, the other frights us.
! WE hate to see boy with the manners
of an old man, but worse to see an old
man with the manners of a boy.
MODERN education too often covers
the fingers with rings and at the same
time cuts the sinews of the wrist.
THEREare stone bridges in China three
or four miles long, and an arch of the
incredible span of six hundred feet.
FIFTY-FIvE million pairs of peggeo
shoes were made and sold by manu-
facturers in the United States in 1877.
IF you ask an obstinate man to incline
his ears to reason, he is apt to incline
them backward, like Ihischievou
horse.
MANY peoples lives are not worth
the market value of the iron in thei
blood and the phosphorus in thei
: bones.
A LADY who weighs one hundret
pounds here, would weigh two Thousand
and seven hundred pounds on the SUI
face of the sun.
6 The yearly revenue of Denmark i
: about $l2, $780, 900, and its expenditur
+ $11, ,445. 900. Its public debt in 1877
! was $61, 10000.
! MIsFoRTUNEs are often moral bitters
! that restore the healthy tone of tn
j mind after it has been sickened by tn
sweets of prosperity.
: EDIsoN's latest invention is ink fo
:. the blind. When used, it produce
q raised letters, which can be read by th
t touch of the fingers.
q A CLEVELAND woman advertises fo
washing, and says that, having bee
i until lately in aff1uence, she knows wins
t fastidious folks require.
s In aping the manners of foreig
4 countries, we lose what is best in on
own, and expose ourselves to the rid
+ cule of those we initiate. -.f
: AT North Londonderry, N. H, thel
is white pine tree two feet in diamete
- which in growing has split rock twely
= feet in diameter and fourteen feet higl
~ starting in what was slight crevice {
:, the top and forcing the rock apart.
q THE latest bug is the corn bug. 1t h:
v brown body, six legs, and carri,
n feelers. 1t has arrived in this Stat
n and is already actively at work. 1t ca
8 the kernels from the cob as neatly as
d cut with knife. Near Meriden fielt
d of corn have been thus destroyed in
Ie day.-Danbury Ne,Os.
4. DIR. JOHN P. GRAY, in the America
,e Journal of Insanity, disputes the popul
s. opinion that suicide is always an insal
a. act. He admits that it is always an u
r natural act, but in the majority of cas-
N he thinks that it is committed by sar
ot persons. A deficiency of moral educ
N ton, rather than mental derangemer
le is the occasion of most suicides.
N BRAIN workers need much sleep, al
IS generally get but little. They stimula
ID too much--many with coffee, tea
ID tobacco; some wines or spirits. Owe
n work generally means oyer-stimulatio
70 or over-eating, or both. If a man tax
IS no stimulants, he rests when he &c
r tired. Stimulants hide fatigue al
g, exhaust life.-Dr. Nichols, tn DR.. Foot
We Health Monthly.
8 Timid People
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