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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
Signs Attending Feigned Grief.

The expression of grief has recently
been a subject of investigation by an
Italian Psychologist, M. Paolo Mente-
gazza, who has studied with great care
all the contractions which suffering pro-
duces in the human face, and endeavored
to arrive at an exact distinction of the
phenomena of real from those of simu-
lated SORROW All the forms of dolorous
hypocrisy he exposes mercilessly. The
following, according to M, Mentegazza,
are signs of grief: l. The expression is
nearly always exaggerated relatively to
the cause of the grief; 2. The visage is
not pale, and the muscular disturbance
is intermittent; 3. The skin has its nor
NAL heat; f. There is not harmony in
the mimicry of grief, and one sees GER
tain contractions, certain relaxations,
which are wholly wanting in real grief ;
5. The pulse is frequent in consequence
of the exaggerated muscular movement ;
6. A surprise, or any object which WV
idly attracts the attention, sutfices to
make the tragic mask suddenly fall off;
Z. Sometimes one succeeds in discover
ing among the tears, the sobs, and heart
rending lamentations, the presence of a
chuckle, which expresses, perhaps, the
malignant pleasure of practising de-
ception; g. The expression is eccentric,
or is wholly wanting in concentric
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
Spanish Living and Dying.

The Spanish father is absolute king
and lord by his own hearthstone, but his
sway is so mild that it is hardly felt A
light word between husband and wife
sometimes goes unexplained, and the
rift between them widens through life.
They cannot be divorced-they will not
incur the scandal of public separation
and, as they pass lives of lonely isola-
ton in adjoining apartments, both think
rather better of each other and of them
selves for this devilish persistence.
If men are never henpecked except by
learned wives, Spain would be the place
of all others for timid men to marry in.
The girls are bright and vivacious, but
they have never crossed, even in school
day excursion, the border lines of the
ologies. They have an old proverb which
coarsely conveys this idea--that "a
Christian woman in good society ought
not to know any thing beyond her cookery
book and her missal."
in his life, and the old traditions which
represent the doctor and death as always
hunting in couples still survive in Spain.
In all well-to-do families the house of
death is always deserted Immediately
after the funeral and the stricken ones
retire and pass eight days in inviolable
seclusion. aChildren are buried in coffins
of gray color, pink Or blue, and carried
open to the grave.
A luxury of grief consists in shutting
up the house where a death has taken
place and never suffering it to be opened
again. l once saw beautiful house
and wide garden thus abandoned in one
of the most fashionable streets of Madrid.
The wife of certain Duke had died
there many years before. The Duke
lived in Paris, leading rattling life,
but he would never sell or "let" that
Madrid homes Perhaps in his heart,
that battered thoroughfare, there was a
silent spot where, tn rough the gloom Of
dead days, hescould catelf glimpse of a
white hand, the rustic Of trailing robe,
and feel sweeping over him the magic: Of
loves dream, softeniDg his fancy to
tender regre t.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
The New Mexico Indians.

News from the frontier continues to bring re-
ports of Indian outbreaks. The New Mexico
Indians are now trying their hand at massacre,
and in atrocity fall little short of the horrible
work of the Utes. The difficulty is in the Rio
Grande Valley, and southwest Of Fort Cum
minis. Two companies of eighty men were
raised a few days since, under Col. Rynerson,
to 20 to the scene of trouble. Two trains have
been captured near Slocum's. In one of them
eleven men, one woman and a child were
killed. In the other all hands escaped. Both
trains were captured and some of the oxen were
killed and others left standing in the yokes.
The corpses lie all along the road. A number
of people are known to have been killed within
the past four or FIVE days, the aggregate being
about forty. The Indian trail leaving the
stage road leads toward the Black Range, and
in the vicinity of the Hillsboro Mining Camp.
Major Morrow, of the Ninth Cavalry, with a
strong scouting party, is thought to be in the
vicinity of Colorado. This is the most per-
sistent fighting the Indians have been known to
do in that section. They are in large bands,
and seem determined to stay in the country and
fight, and make general warfare.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
The Largest Sapphire in the World.

1have recently been favored with the
sight of one of the famous jewels of the
world-a stone that has its history and
its pedigree and is celebrated in the
annals of the noted gems of Europe; l
have held it in my hands and admired
beneath the rays of the sunlight the
finest sapphire that is known to exist.
This beautiful and well nigh priceless
stone combines in singularly perfect
degree the leading qualifications of size,
shape, color and water. In form it is a
fiat oval, being about two inches long by
one inch and a half wide. 1t is cut
slightly en- caboca0n on top and into a
multitude of small facets beneath. Its
hue is perfect, being warm, lustrous
Marie Louise blue, not so dark as to show
black beneath the gaslight, but having
all the velvety softness and purity of
tint that are required in really fine
gem of this descriptions. Its weight is
300 carats, and it belongs to noble and
wealthy Russian family, In whose pos.
session it has been for the past two cen
turies, and it has been placed by its
owner in the hands of one of the great
diamond merchants of Paris. for safe
keeping. One of the Rothchild family
las OntIcu LOT uO ICES a SUM LEau 9OUU,
900, but the offer has been refused. [
asked the courteous gentleman in whose
care it has been left as to the actual
value of the stone. He told me that,
being, as it was, perfectly unique, no
precise valuation could be set upon it,
but that he was inclined to estimate it
at some 100000. He also showed me
string of enormous graduated pearls of
extreme purity and fineness (the center
one was as large as small cherry, and
he told ME that the necklace belonging
tc the noble Russian was composed of
six similar strings of equal beauty and
exceptional size. The great sapphire
was mounted to be worn as a brooch,
being surmounted with large diamonds
of some twenty carats each. Its guardian
informed me that the pendant belong
ing to its brooch was composed of large
pear-shaped sapphire, weighing sixty
carats, and set in diamonds. The whole
collection of jewels belonging to this one
family is worth over $4,000, 900. "There
is no such sapphire as that largest one" !"
continued my informant, ''even among
the crown jewels of Russia. furnished,
myself two very fine ones to the empress,
each weighing sixty carats, but they dc
not compare with this magnificent gem" "
The gentleman who spoke was well
qualified to give an opinion, as he is one
of the few great diamond merchants OF
the world. and is, moreover, noted ex
nart- zss sag la
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
Science, the Fraud.

Stop this scientific business where it
is, and don't let it 60 any further. 1t is
robbing life of all that is worth living for.
Only short time ago one of these scien-
tiic joskins analyzed a tear that had
trickled down upon the cheek of lady
who wanted new dress, and he found
that it contained phosphate of lime,
chloride of sodium and water. Ever
since reading that analysis we have lost
faith in tears, and no matter what per-
son is bellering about, we can only look
at the tears as they flow over beauty
damask cheek and think of the phos-
phate of lime, chloride of sodium and
water. The internal analysis has
knocked all the poetry out of the tears
for us, and we feel as though we wanted
our money back. If the scientist will
refund what he has taken from us, he
can have his old analysis. We would
like to throw him in a corner and Jump
on him. He has robbed us. O, give us
back them other days, when tears were
tears, and not lime chloride ofeodium
other nauseating drugs.
And now another yahoe has been at
1t, and he states that blushing Is caused
by the enlargement Of the blood vessels
at the intersection of the veins and ar.
teriesi There goes another pane Of glass
mashed all to thunder. Blushing is
caused by the enlargement of the blood
vessels is it? Well, suppose it is! Couldn't
you have kept it to yourself, you ETH
opian? Suppose We go to ball, now
like the ball.a Oshkosh week: before last
and after daacing waltz we take occa
| sion to compliment our fair partner, az
| any gentleman would if he had any style
| about him-and we look up into hel
innocent hazel eyes and peachy complex
| ion, and what do we see? We see the
blood vessels are enlarging at the inter
section of the veins with the arteries
Once we would have noticed rosy blush
but not now! All, no; not now! The
scientific fiend has got in his work ON us
he has accomplished his devilish designs
and we stand there like butcher thai
is bargaining for beef, and notice only
the enlargement of the blood vessels
Who was the man who first started thiI
thing about blood vessels. Let him be
hunted out; let us know his name anG
residence, so we can see If we have gots
pass on arailroad to the place where HI
lives. He is doubtless some chenlica
cuss, that wanted to get little free adj
vertising. IF we can find out who he il
we will give him some advertising tha
shall not cost him cent Blood vessels
By the ETHEREAL.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

An evening newspaper of San Fran
cisco gives glimpse of the state of the
mining stock market west of the Rocky
Mountains. Six of its columns are
filled with closely printed lists ofshares
in various mining companies on which
assessments are overdue, and which are
advertised to be sold as directed by law,
because their owners refuse or are una
BILE to make further payments on them.
On some of the stock the assessments
are so low as two cents share, and 9th
ers as high as 50. Nearly $15O,0fO
delinquent shares were advertised in q
recent number of the Newspaper in
question.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

HoroRARY degrees are too easily
obtained in tn, United States. Three
hundred and twenty-six colleges have
power to confer them here, while in
England only four great universities
are authorized to bestow such degrees,
and in all Europe only one hundred and
one institutions have such power. Pres
ident Barnard, of Columbia College,
has abundant reason tor making war
upon the present system of distributing
the title of ID. ID. and LII. d. The
plan he advocates of having Bureau
of Degrees which shall pronounce on
the merits Of the candidates for honors
nominated by the various colleges,
seems worthy of adoption.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
The Right Sort of Men.
THE British Quarterly.

You will find, as rule, that the men
who are favorites with men are the best
and truest in their relations to women.
Yes, the men who like sometimes to
turn their backs on all women, and go
off with the other fellows and have a
good, boyish time on the water or the
mountain, or in some other mans g den. I"
Women never need be afraid to trust
their happiness to those whom other
good men esteem good fellows; but if a
man is avoided by men, however much
women admire him, shun him. 1t is he
who has tiirtations that come to nothing,
and has "nOt been very nice" to the
girls who have broken their engagements
with him; who, when he marries, wrings
his wife's heart, if she has one, and
spoils her. temper if she is naturally an
angel. Manly men are the best lovers,
the best husbands, the best companions
for women, just as womenly women are
! the best eethearts and wives. What
do we think of women who shun their
own sex, however charming men may
find them? It is seldom, II ever, that
your mems favorite ill-uses his wife.
Perhaps it may be explained in this
way-friendship of a sublimated sort is
what love becomes after year or so of
marriage, and he who is friendly to the
very depths of his soul enters into this
state happily, and is ready for all the
delights that follow. But a man who is
capable of nothing but that fieeting af-
fection which ever pursues new object,
and cares for no. woman when she is
won. hates the domestic ties and becomes
detestable in consequence. 1t is the
man who would die for his friend, and
for whom his friend would die, whc
makes miraculously happy wife of the
woman to whom he scarcely knew how
to make love when he courted her.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

father, mother and brother. He succeeded in
killing his father. but whether the mother and
brother will survive is not positively known.
The only explanation for the commission of the
crime (the murderer's story is, that he was
angered on returning home by find
ing himself barred out. He was cutting
pane of glass out of the win
dow when his father demanded to know
who was there, and this slight inquiry seemed
to so irritate him, that he shot his father at
once. Gaining entrance, and enraged in his
blood-thirsty course, he shot his brother and
mother, and left them for dead. He went at
once to Cleveland, a distance of sixteen miles,
leaving them all for dead, but the mother and
brother rallied sufficient in the morning to go
to a neighbours a short distance away, and tell
the news. The murderer was arrested the next
day without much difficulty.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
Fatally Bitten by an Insect.
Montreal Witness.l


This morning resident of the Tan
neries named Robert Duffin, fifty-two
years of age, died from the bite of an
insect received last Sunday. The un-
fortunate man then felt a sharp sting in
one of his arms, but whether it came
fEom fly or not he was unable to de-
tect. He rolled up his sleeve and per-
ceived that the bite was poisonous one,
and soon sent for doctor, who did not,
however, apparently apprehend any
serious result. The arm, however, be-
gan to swell, and the effect of the poison
began to be felt on the system, where
upon the physician was sent for again.
He cut out the part where the insect had
stung the unfortunate man, but the oper-
alton came too late, and he died, as al
ready stated, this morning. A somewhat
similar case, it will be remembered, re-
sulting in the death of a young man
bitten by fly while out driving, oc-
CURED in this city about two years ago.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
As to Sernents Charming.

In imitation of the historical iconoclast
a scientific disillusienist, writing for the
Popular Science Monthly, says that the
belief in the power of serpent to charm
small animals had its origin in super
stitious ignorance. The writer contends
that snake has no such power and that
what appears to be the result of a
'charm' is nothing more or less than the
last act of well played tragedy. The
snakes fangs being thin and retractile
he says no effort is made to retain the
prey after it is onced seized. Stealthily
the serpent creeps up to its victim and
inflicts the fatal wound. The sure work
ing of the virus, says the disillusionist,
constitutes the charm" Has the Gre
dulity of the world been imposed ON for
centuries, or has the Popular Science
writer just begun to impose on the
world.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
A Very Foxy Story.

A remarkable story comes from Cob
bleskill: A few days ago, while plodding
along after his pillow, in deep meditation,
farmers attention was attracted to n
large fox trotting along between the two
horses Now, Webster never gets nervous
or acts on the spur of the moment. In
this case he coolly took in the situation,
and carefully revolved the question in
his mind of how to capture the fox. He
soon had it. He would bury him alive
Suddenly striking the horses a smart
blow and engineering the plow with a
double-jointed twist, over went the fox
in the furrow, and over the fox went q
covering of earth. Nothing but the
hind legs of the animal were visible, and
these Webster seized, and, whisking his
foxship out of the furrow, dashed his
brains out on a stone near by.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
The Prize Pumpkin.

A Kansas genius, representing himself
as practical farmer, has lately been
visiting all the fairs with prize pumpkin,
and took the premium every time. 1t
measures seven feet in circumference,
and weighed two hundred and thirty
pounds. Several days ago ut Council
Grove, rival farmer attempted to tap
the pumpkin in the absence of the owner,
to get some of the seeds and discovered
that it was made of wood,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
Where Forged Note Proved Good.

The wiry old president of New Eng
land commercial bank is known among
the younger financial fry of his town ms
"Old Nails"-possibly from his incisive
decisions and driving way of doing busi-
ness. Some time ago business man OF
the place, and brother in good standing
of the church, had note discounted at
this old worthy's bank. When it came
due, the president, at the solicitation of
the makers friends, though against his
own judgment, extended it. When the
final time of payment came, the note was
discovered to be q forgery, to the scandal
of the church and the astonishment of
the town, but not that of the astute bank
president.
The brethren, however, rallied around
the erring one, the note was paid, and
the matter supposed to be hushed up.
Some time after, however. the bank re-
'ceived letter FROM another financialin-
stitution, asking their opinion as to Mr..
sS1oteszI Z 80
"Old Nails3 said he would answer the
letter which he did as follows:
/" Presidend -----r- eRaNk:
DEAR SIR In regard to Mr.. IS note,
We would say: IF II is a forgery, it will be
raid by the First - Church of Bushy town.
Ii it is genuine, ID iss not worth. "a cent. Re-
apectfully yours,
- s"sN sNArHAxrEL NAILS, President"
ia -
y IT is. easier'to rectify liquor than the
habit of drinking it. p
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

The negro exodus threatens Indiana.
Two men representing a community of
two hundred of their race in North
Carolina, have visited the State and re-
port that they received such flattering Of
fers in the shape of work that they will
return at once to North Carolina and pre-
pare to emigrate. If the move proves a
success it is said that several thousand
colored people of both North and South
Carolinas will follow suit.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

ENGLISH emigrants who are induced
to come to this country in colonies by
the London agent of the Emigrant Land
Department of the Galveston, Harris.
burg and San Antonio Railroad and
settle in Texas. express the greatest dis
satisfaction of the sections of the country
to which they are consigned. They con-
tract to pay 50 per acre, but upon ex
aiming the land, find it so poor that many
of them refuse to pay anything for it.
or to settle upon it at all.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

UPWARDS of two million of acres of
land have been taken by settlers in
Manitoba during the past two years,
and million and a hslf more have
been surveyed. 1t is evident that this is
the most promising portion of the Do
minion, and as it contains 100000
acres of arabic land, it affords abundant
room for all the emigrants Canada can
attract for some centuries to come.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

ILLINOIS taxpayers are having an
easy time Of it. The tax levy for this
year IL but 81 mills. Last year 1t was
3.3, anil for 1877 it was 3.6. The aggre-
gate assessment upon which the levy
is made is also reduced 81 per cent. as
compared with last year. Thus the tax
Is doubly reduced.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

LEW WALLACE, Governor of New
Mexico, reports the population of the
Territory at 125, 900, although some per-
sons estimate it at 10000. There is
large immigration following the con-
struction of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

The Circuit Court at Jacksonville,
Indiana, before which the miscegena-
tion case Of the State VS.. Thomas
Howard (colored) indited for marrying
white girl, Leone Hull, was tried,
has decided that miscegenation is not a
crime in Indiana where the parties come
from another State. This decision is
regarded as singular, and has created no
little surprise.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

THE Relief Board organized in St.
Louis to aid the flying Southern ne
groes, reports that it has sent 6,3l1 men,
women and children to- Kansas and
other States, and has distributed among
them $4,000 worth of supplies, in
cluding 1000 pieces of clothing. The
arrivals at St. Louis still average twenty
to thirty families weekly-or from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty per-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

N. ID. CLARK, President of the bank
at Ravenna, Ohio, while visiting Lead
vile, recentlv, was induced by stranger
to pay 1000 for a gold brick, which
proved to be base metal tipped with
geld. Thomas Lewis, of st. Louis, has
been arrested for completely in the affair.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

THE substitution OF celluloid for ivory
in the manufacture of billiard balls,
combs, backs Of brushes, cane and um.
brella handles, and a great variety OF
other articles, has become so extensive,
that the demand for native ivory ha,
fallen of so as to affect the African
market very sensibly,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

CALIFORNIA boast the largest trees in
the world. as well as a good many other
specimens of vegetable growth, but
when it comes to potatoes she must give
way to Iowa. The Eldorados Ledger
says that it has been favored with lot
of potatoes of the Irish cup variety,
twenty-five of which filed bushel
measure
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

MoScURE ID. CONWAY writes from
London to the Cincinnati Commercial
that Mr.. Thomas Carlyle is by no means
such sufferer as the paragraph wander
ing in the American papers makes out.
He has returned from Scotland, and
takes his daily walks as usual in this
charming weather which has followed a
dismal summer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

FLORIDA is the most dourishing of all
the Southern States. Her debt amounts
to but one million dollars, and her reve-
nues enable her to meet the interest
promptly. Internal improvements of
great Importance to her interests are in
progress, while agriculture is receiving
more attention than ever.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

TRAIN robberies, Indian massacres,
horrible railway accidents and murders
have furnished the boom for the daily
press recently. All kinds of business
must boom.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

In the year ending July l, 1877, g.
4S0, 1000 acres were taken up in the West.
In 1878, 7,76O.OO0 acres were settled on.
This year no less than $3.50, 900 acres
were disposed of, and il is estimated
thatbv July fully 10, 0,0OO, 900 will have
been given to emigrants.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30

The New York Commercial says that
1t turns out that Gen. Joe Hawley wrote
Beautiful Snow" for Marx Twain
himself has said it. The exposure has
cast gloom over the entire State OF
Connecticut. II is understood that the
Hartford Cowant will ak Mr.. Hawley
TO resign.