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has been notified that Austria is opposed to
separate peace, and intends to support
the treaty of Paris, and further, that she
wishes Turkey should leave the grave ques-
tion affecting European interests open for
consideration at the conference of European
powers. This communication, SAYS the
dispatch, is regarded as a sign that there
is an understanding between En- gland and
Austria,
THE special correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial under date of London, jan
uary 10, furnishes the following: Adrian
ople has been taken by the Russians, the
advance of Skobeleff's column having en-
tered it yesterday. Suleiman Pasha's army
has retreated into the mountains south of
the railroad line, and it is doubtful whether
they can escape capture. The Russians do
not seem disposed to halt in their onward
march. 1t is impossible to obtain any news
frem the Turkish plenjpotentiaries who
arrived at the headquarters of the Grand
Duke Nicholas Friday night.
The NeD Free Press says that since the
capture of Shipka Russias conditions have
become severer, and instead of admitting
the necessity of the previous agreement
with the Powers, she now insists on separ-
ate peace. On the other hand st. Peters
burg dispatch says: 1t is sem-officially an
nounced that no such declarations as the
ones attributed to England and Austria
have been received here. In the pourpa1lers
leading to negotiations for armistice Eng
land had an opportunity of convincing her.
self that Russia fully respects the sphere
;ol, Loo of 49,
and Russia reserves to herself to seek Eng
lands participation in any alteration of the
international treaties. Austria expresses
herself, as hitherto, in conformity to her
specially friendly relations to Russia.
THE British Parliament was opened on
the 18th. The Queens speech on the oc-
casion does not give color to the alarming
reports of the intention of Great Britain
to assume an attitude hostile to Russia.
Hitherto, the Parliament is assured, neither
of the belligerents has violated any of the
conditions upon which the neutrality of the
British Government is based. The offices
of the Government have been employed to
bring hostilities to an end, and as the Gar,
like the Porte, is anxious for peace, it is
hoped it may be concluded without any
necessity on the part of England to change
her amicable relations to either Power. 1t
is intimated that if the war goes on the
circumstances may be so changed that pre-
cautionary measures on the part of Great
Britain, in view of her own interests, may
be necessary, but there is no call upon Par
lament for the appropriation of moneys to
that end. The speech, on the whole, is
pacific in tone, and does not indicate eager
ness for war with Russia.
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Yagaries of a Bachelor.
TDaily Graphic. !

The wine-cup, it is said, is in gradual
process of abolition for New Years re-
ceptions. This was noticeable yesterday
1t seems to be supplanted by coffee and
mince pie.
Fragrant coffee and mince pie are
good. But when offered several times
an hour, it may become burden to the
flesh.
Where, yesterday, L made my first
call they had coffee and mince pie. The
coffee was rare in faver. The pie was
all New Years pie could be. par
took. Hours waited upon me and an
ticipated every want. Our American
houris, you know, have souls. said ::
This pie and coffee and salad is so good
I'd like, if you please, to sit down to it.
| don't like to eat perpendicularly. !"
With all the ease, grace and tact peculiar
to the New York lady, was allowed to
sit down and put down much pie.
Which I did.
Coffee and mince pie at the next call.
AT the next pie and coffee. Coffee and
pie at the next. No wine. At the next
pie and coffee. | partook every time,
of course. What can weak man do
when urged by houris to partake of pies
mingled by their own fair hands? Re
fuse ?-it is impossible. But coffee and
mince pie or plum cake is not exactly
the right refreshment wherewith to sup
plement the banished wine cup. At my
seventh call I left quoting Paul to
Timothy. "a little wine for the
stomach's sake"
AT the next house they had coffee and
| NO No T
the next they had coffee and mince pie.
No wine. 1 partook: "This is the age
of temperance" said. GLOW we have
improved on the fashions of our dads
and grandads. They, at this hour,
would have been tangled as to mind,
tongue and legs" AT the next house,
no wine; more coffee and mince pie.
| Well? Can a man refuse?
Now, you must try our mince pie %
they said at my sixth call.
But I'm not SO hungry as-p'
"Oh! ysu must try our pie. Oh! you
must, you must!'
Weak, feeble man; I was led like a
lamb to the slaughter before more mince
pie. l staggered from that house over
balanced and unbalanced by New Years
mince pie. l went home. 1 retired,
but not to sleep, Mania potu? Mine
was mania mince pie! 1t is worse than
the wine cup. Young man, look not
upon the mince pie when it moveth
itself Alright in suffering anatomy. For
it biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder. [ dreamed dreams. The
houris were transformed into skinny
hags. They sat down upon me. A
witch's cauldron was simmering with
the future contents of an immense New
Years mince pie. Meat, citron, raisins
currents, sugar, toe and frog, old shoes
tacks, newspapers, sticks, bricks, mortar
No. Give us on New Years day little
more wine and a little less pie for the
| stomach's sake.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24
THE ITALIAN SUCCESSION.

A correspondent at Rome says that
since the day of Count Cavour's death
in Turin, he has never seen the popula-
tion of any city SO utterly stunned by a
sudden blow as the Romans appeared
when the Official announcement of King
EmanuePs death removed every doubt
as to the fearful loss the nation had sus-
tained. Certainly the transition from
father to son could have not occurred at
a more trying moment. The Ministers
of the late sovereign have been main
tanned in their office by the young sue
cessor, but what Ministers! A Cabinet
which was mere rehash of the admin.
istration, fallen only few days age
under an irresistible outburst of public
Indignation: forsaken by nearly all sec
tions of an immense parliamentary
majority, brought together by fail
means or foul atthe recent election, anc
hampered by a variety of rash engage
ments, which it had shown itself neither
able nor willing to fulfill. There mus
be new session of Parliament and al
address from the Crown, but the latte
must come from a new King, wh,
hardly knows anything about his lat
fathers Ministers, and does not mucl
like the little he knows, and is supposed
to harbor views and principles in opposi
tion to those attributed to them. l
ever there was need of providence t
shape ends, rough hewn by man, it Gel
tainly is felt in the position in whic
Italy has been put by the death @
Victor Emanuel, coming so unexpecr
J edly, and at the end of the beginning G
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24
Peeps at the Planets.
Norristown Herald.1

Neptune, the most remote of the
planets in the solar system, is about g.
700, 100000 miles from the sun.
1t is supposed that Mercury has noun
tains higher that our Himalayas, and
volcanoes in a state of activity.
Out of all the myriad lights in the
Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
At certain favorable times Jupiter
might see us with the aid of tele-
scope, but it would only be small
black spot slowly crossing the suns
face.
The Earth is seven hundred and forty
six times smaller than Saturn, whose
mean distance from us is over 81 900, ,O0O
miles.
Uranus can never see us at all, as it is
1853, 100000 miles from the sun.
Mercury cannot be seen with the
naked eye, as it is immersed in the rays
of the sun.
The temperature in Mercury is sup
posed to be seven times hotter than oul
torrid zone; therefore, if it is inhabited
it must be by people very differently
constituted from ourselves.
Fontenelle says "the heat to which
the inhabitants of Mercury are ac
customed is so great that the climate ot
Central Africa would freeze then
through"
1t is believed that Venus has an at
mosphere much like ours, and mountain
peaks five or six times higher thar
Tenerife, their sides bright with flowers
and birds of brilliant plumage.
The Moon never leaves our globe
therefore it is called our satellite
Though to us it appears larger than tn,
stars, it is really smaller than any O
| them, but much nearer to us.
Astronomers have calculated tha
the mountains and extinct volcanoes il
the Moon are higher than any on ou
earth.
The Moon has no atmosphere, accord
ing to careful and accurate observers
and its climate must therefore be YER
strange, passing suddenly from a hea
equal to our torrid zone to cold create
than the Esquimaux feels.
| Ii there were any one on the Moon t
see it, the Earth would appear to ther
as magnificent ball. The planets an
sun would move behind it in brillian
succession.
The planet Mars much resembles tn
Earth in atmospheric phenomena an
polar, cold. 1t is supposed to be SUI
rounded by dense atmosphere.
Our globe appears to Mars as tn
morning and evening star.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

VICTOR EMMANUEL, the King of
Italy, has just died, at the age of fifty
seven. He is succeeded by Humbert,
his son, Prince of Piedmont, now in his
thirty-fourth year. The new ruler has
issued proclamation in which he states
there will be no change in the Italian
policy. He says that he will be mind
full of the great example of King EN-
manuel, of his devotion to his country,
love of progress, and faith in the lib
eral institutions which are the pride of
his house. MY sole ambition" he re-
marks, "will be to deserve the love of
my people. Italians, your first King is
dead. His successor will prove to you
that institutions do not die. Let us
unite in this hour of great sorrow. Let
us strengthen that concord which has
always been the salvation of Italy,"
The Pope evinced great feeling when he
received the news of the Kings death.
During the day he had frequently sent
to inquire as to the Kings condition,
and offered the services of his own doc
tor to assist the Kings physician. He
also conferred the blessing in articulo
mortis. The King received the last sac
raments of the Catholic Church. He
then took an affectionate farewell of the
Princes and Princesses, after which
some of those who had been familiar
with him through life were admitted.
He said few kind words to each, and
expired sitting in an armchair, dressed.
The disease of which Victor En-
manuel died was malarial fever, and was
repetition of that which struck him
down in 1860.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

a most unsatisfactory Ministerial crisis,
and an almosthopeless division of parties,
in an unfairly elected and still more un-
scrupulously corrupted Parliment. Per-
sonally, Humbert comes to the throne
under favorable auspices. He has out
lived the i'll name won by some follies of
his youth. He has been lately well be-
haved and methodical, of wisely saving
disposition, free from debt, in spite of
the incessant calls upon his resources.
Like his father, he has shown himself a
good soldier, and processes sound, liberal
principles.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

FIFTEEN years ago Capt. Kottwitz
was an honored officer in the Russian
Imperial Guard, with an income of $40
900 year from his private fortune.
Lately he threw himself under locomo-
tive in Kansas City and was killed. In
the time between his highest prosperity
and his suicide he was, successfully, a
political exile in Siberia, an officer in
the Union army during our war, an un-
fortunate speculator in western land,
and pennilcss seeker after work that
he could not get.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

The Grand Duke Nicholas, comman-
der-in-chief Of the European army of in
vasion in Turkey, is stern, martinez
in discipline, and reckless of the lives
of his soldiers. Some time since the
Moscow mobiles, in an address on the
state of the Empire, which, after
much difficulty, they managed to get
into the hands of the Emperor, asked
his recall, and openly charged him with
incapacity. On hearing of it, and that
the Car had taken it into considera.
tion, the Grand Duke warded off the
blow by declaring that he would blow
his brains out, if he was removed from
the army. This, and the victory at
Plevna, put an end to it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

Miss MACPHERSON GRANT, of Edin-
burgh, was an inveterate foe TO matri-
mony, and she thought her bosom friend,
Miss Temple, was also, until Miss
Temple went off and got married. Ac-
cordingly she revoked a will made in
1878, bequeathing property, worth over
a million dollars, to Miss Temple, and
when she died in 1876 it was found she
had left nothing to her faithful friend,
who Immediately contested the will on
the plea of mental unsoundness of the
testatrix, and, the other day, accepted
$50, 900 as a compromise.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

The Nez Perces, eighty-seven braves,
one hundred and eighty-four squaws,
seventy-eight boys, and sixty-nine girls,
all the tribe except the eighty warriors
and one hundred and ninety men and
women that White Bird took across the
line, are camped on the race-course at
Leavenworth, Kansas, having the run of
the country near by. Rations are issued
to them. They have dug a hole forty
feet in diameter beside the Missouri
River, where, having previously warmed
the water by casting heated stones into
It, they bathe daily, no matter how cold
the weather. Chief Joseph wants to be
sent back to his reservation and take his
tribe with him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

LONDON Times: Martha White died
at Market Marlborough, Leicestershire,
under very peculiar circumstances She
had been i'll five years and is popularity
supposed to have taken no food for four
years She was at first attended by Mr..
Francis, surgeon, and latterly by DIR.
Grant, his successor, and has been kept
alive by the injection of morphia into
her system. The case has excited con-
siderable interest among the medical
profession. 1t is stated that post
mortem examination fully satisfied the
doctors who made it that no food had
passed the stomach for a long time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

In the State prison at Charlestown,
Mass, is n man named Dunaunin, who
has had an eventful career. When the
war broke out he was serving a sentence
of thirty years, but was pardoned out
on condition that he would enlist in the
army. His bravery quickly won the
good will of his officers, who knew moth
ing Of his antecedents, and after the bat
tie of fredericksburg he acted as a spy,
gaining important information. He
was afterward captured and sentenced
TO Libby prison and paroled. He broke
the parole, re-enlisted, deserted, COM
mitted a burglary, and is back in his
old quarters, with twelve years more to
serve,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

The value of the grain and flour i'm
ported into France in the first nine
months Of this year, was $26, 200, 600, as
compared with sS4, 100000 in the cor
responding period of 1875. On the
other hand, the value of the grain and
-four exported from France, in the first
nine months of this year, was S20, ,400, 900,
ms compared with $40, 200, 900 in the cor
responding period of 1876. The value
Of the live stock exported during the
same period this year was $4,000, 900, as
compared with SO, 100000 in 1876; OF
eggs, in nine months of 1877, Sc, ,240, 900
as against 81, 800, 900 in the correspond
ing period Of 1876.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

A READING man while eating oysters
oysters nickel penny of the year 1850.
After he had swallowed the oyster the
penny remained in the shell, and was
cut loose with knife. 1t partly covered
the "heart," where the oyster was
grown fast to the shell, and after being
removed there was circular indenta-
ton in the shell, showing where the
penny had been. Those who were pres
ent at the time expressed the opinion
that one of the men who assisted in
transplanting the oysters dropped a
penny, which found its way into the
oyster, and remained there and grew
fast as the oyster increased in size.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

THR United States sends a respectable
representation of scientific and profes-
sional men TO the Paris Exposition-ex
pcrts in chemistry, scientific agriculture,
botany, and other branches of learning
An improvement over the old-time
merely Political appointee. A contem-
porary well says, in regarding this as
not so much a scientific as merchants
and mechanics exposition, that there
might be few practical business men
appointed, who will regard the show
from profit and loss basis to the United
States. What can we make out of the
thing, is the question, to attract atten-
ton to our wares, and draw custom from
the old world?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24
Which is about as neat pun as royalty
has ever provoked.
"The Artist who this picture traced
A better Subject never knew

THE war carried on by DIR. Crosby
against the liquor saloons of New York
has been so successful that a strong
effort will be made to enact new excise
laws at the present session of the Legis-
lature. Bills have already been intro
duced. 1t is DIR. Crosby's purpose to
resist changes which will render the late
decision of the Court of Appeals nuga-
tory. Additional excitement has been
created by the fight of one of the Ex-
else Commissioners. He was the treasurer
of the Board, and carried off $4,000 of
excise money. The Police Commits
sioners were also arraigned before the
Mayor, who finally decided not to re-
move them. Throughout the State the
temperance revival makes great pro-
gress. The line of the Hudson River is
now followed by the Murphy" men;
in Troy ten thousand or more have
signed the pledge. Many of the towns
in the State have elected Excise Com
missioners who grant no licenses what
ever
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

TENNYseN, the English poet, is very
sensitive. During his walks near his
country home in England, if he meets
any one, he puts handkerchief over
his face, and so wells himself from the
gaze of curiosity. The old bard ought
to be put in amber, and buried. Such
sensitiveness is unaccountable in a man
who lives, moves, snd has his being by
public applause.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

THE Duke of Portland, who has been
among the most liberal contributors for
the relief of the sick and wounded in
the East, is hypochondriac of seventy,
with an income of $3.50, COO year. He
suffers from a disfguring malady, and
lives in great seclusion. He has superb
country residence-Walbeck Abbey-in
Nottinghamshire, and a vast, gloomy
mansion in Cavendish Square, London.
The duke cannot bear to be seen, and
has erected at the back of his house an
immense screen of iron and glass which
completely prevents the neighbors from
gratifying their curiosity. 1t is said
that after dark he may be seen pacing
the garden in the midst of Cavendish
Square. Neither he nor his brothers,
all dead, ever married. One of them,
Lord George Bentinck, who was cut off
in his prime, was the hope of the Tory
party, and the first turtle" in Eng
land
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

RoCKLANp Courier: "Where art
thou now, beloved?' warbled Rockland
young man beneath her window. The
old gentleman put his head out and said
she was in bed with a cold, with a mus
tard draft on her chest, bottle of hot
water at her feet, and done up in blan-
kets till she couldn't be seen. The young
man softly faded away.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

Apropos of Queen Victoria's recent
visit to Lord Beaconsfield, a London
letter writer says that only thrice in her
reign has Her Majesty so honored a
Prime Minister, the previous visits being
paid to Lord Melbourne in 1841 and to
Robert Peel in 1S43. Her last visit to a
subject was paid to the Duke of Nor
folk in 1916. In the Earl of Beacons-
fields case, the visit was doubtless in
tended as much for its political effect
upon the continent of Europe as to show
Her Majesty's personal regard for her
iilustrious subject. The young Queens
respect and affection for Lord Melbourne,
her first Minister, were notable. If the
world is not in error, she honored him
by drawing his portrait, fact which in
spired Winthrop Mackworth Praed with
charming little copy of verses, end
ing
"The Artist who this picture traced
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

Mrs. ANGELA PoDEsTA ONETTA died
In Cincinnati, the other day, at the age
OF one hundred and nine years. She
was born in 1869 at the village of
vignolo, Italy, and preserved good
health, activity, and eyesight till three
days before her death. This is the first
record Of centenarians for 1873.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

THEpossibility of employing gun cotton
instead of gunpowder for the charges of
heavy guns has become more remote
than ever since the scientific researches
of modern artillerists have effected such
great improvements in the service ex-
plosives. A recent experiment was made
in England with gun cotton in an eight
inch experimental gun. The crusher
holes were closed with metal plugs, and
the bore was filed with water, into
which charge of two pounds of gun
cotton enveloped in a waterproof bag
was lowered to the bottom of the bore.
1t was there fred by detonation when so
violent was the shock that one of the
plugs was blown out. As the expenses
OF closing the crusher holes so securely
that the plugs could not be blown out
would have been very great, it was not
considered desirable to repeat the ex.
pertinent.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24

A KNIGHTS oath in the days of
chivalry was composed of twenty-six
articles, one of which was to the effect
that he must render faithful account
Of his adventures, whether honorable or
not. These relations were incribed in
the books of the heralds, and must have
been curious reading. st. Palaye says,
in his "Memoirs of Chivalry" paris,
1769), that "never was there greater
corruption of manners than in the times
of chivalry-never was the empire of
debauchery more universal. St. Louis
discovered sink of iniquity close to hi,
own tent in the most holy of the cru.
sades." This may console those dis
posed TO lament with Burke that the
age of chivalry passed away with Marie
Antoinette, whose court was itsel
grossly immoral. Overstrained atten
ton to women is rarely seen in men of ,
moral type.
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EDITORIAL OLIO.

PENNSYLVANIA says she doesn't want
any more railroad riots. Seven hundred
thousand dollars is what the military
cost her in that remarkable civil war.
The other expenses have not yet been
computed, and the Quaker Common
wealth Is in no hurry for the figures.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-13

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