The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-27
ODDS AND ENDS,

A lady in Bringhampton says that if
Bob Ingersoll had the right sort of wife
he wouldn't be in doubt of hell.
A standing joke-Inviting a hundred
people to q party in a house where there
are only fifty chairs.
A shoemaker's wife out west allied her
husband Sequel" because be is always at
the last"
When man has no mind of his ownf
his wife generally gives him piece
hers.
Mrs. Anthony worked SO earnestly at
raising the debt of Providence church,
that she became insane and tried to kill
herself.
A Nebraska City woman not only Listen
ed at the keyhole, but fred through it a |
man whose talk offended her.
Some malignent slanderer says "Woman
need no eulogist, for she speaks for herself"
Hard times iu Germany are shown in
| nothing more than in the consumption of
! 100000 less gallons of beer in 1878 than
| in 1877.
Since Parise opened her first horse butch
| cry 132 133 horses, 4,S70 asses, and 203
mules have been eaten there. In the
country they eat less of such viands.
Mrs. Morgan, known as "Granny" Nor
gan, of Zadesville, and supposed TO be q
hundred and five years old, was found dead
in bed on the 4th.
Careful housewife 1ifting a shoe from
the soup tureen); ia! who'd thought ba-
by's shoe would turn up in the soupe? But
/ knew it wasn't lost. ] never lost any
thing.
Rochester has an anti-treating society,
whose members bind themselves not to al
low anybody else to pay for their drinks.
Private and public dinner parties are ex-
empt from the pledge.
Queen Victora, it is rumored, has ex
pressed strong wish to see Canada, and
the Prince of Wales is encouraging her to
visit both that country and the United
States.
A Humboldt Tennessee, merchant
named Solomon, is being tried for fraudu-
: ulent breach of trust in obtaining large
quantities of goods, aggregating in value
nearly 100000, and then making an as
signment.
A woman started to carry her twin ba-
bies five miles through the woods, in Sand
Hill, 8. c., but lost her way, and was found
almost dead at the end of ten days, with
/ the infants lying lifeles at her side.
A bachelor who lately died in Manches-
ter, England, left his property to the thir-
r ty women who had refused his matrimoni-
, al offers. He said in his will that to their
refusals he owed the peade he had en- JOY
ed during life, and that he felt himself
> their debtor.
: A bill establishing the Mofett bell
punch has passed the Lowe Houser of the
, Texas Legislature, and it is thought will
go through the Senate. There are said to
be eight thousand barrooms in the State,
;, 70 one to every two hundred and fifty per
n sons.
They tell up in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, Of
i brakeman on the Western Union rail
n road who roared out the stations in such
harsh, savage tones, that the nervous pass
. engers begged him to modulate his elocu-
y tion little, and speak more softly. "Thun
der" replied the indignant railroader, "dc
" you expect fellnw to have a nice silver
t. tenor voice for thirty-f dollrs month";
1t was an ingenious woman that saw &
hog fall in we'll in Livermore, Colorado
d She got a strong rope, made a moose
fixed it around the helpless beast, pulled
- him up SO that his nose was out of water
4 IL = Ill 60 - - ,oh
'r harnessed horseand drew the 400 pound
e. of pork to the surface.
Mrs. Deaton Of Lexington, KY, not sat
II isGed with giving her ten year old step
'g daughter unmerciful whippings day afte
y, day, deliberately hanged her. The dea'
child was then put into field among som
horses, to convey the impression that sh
bad been kicked to death by the brute'
but the truth came out.
at At breach of promise suit for $1,000
-, in Ottwa, ILL.,, last week, the mother of tn
g bride that was to be, described scene be
tween the affectionate couple, which sh
fs; had witnessed from an adjoining room, b
co means of looking glass. The defendar
ought not to hesitate long between part
ing with $4,000 and having such a moth
at er law.
A wooden watch, said to be an exceller
f.. timekeeper, is the property of N. Devo
ei of Bristol, Tenn. 1t weighs but half a
ounce. The dial plate is made from tn
horn of a buffalo killed by locomotiv
on the Texas Prcife Railroad. The out
side is of olivewood from Jerusalem
ri The works, except few of the most impol
nj tant, are of lockwood. Even the stem an
:. bow are of wood.
Us James Burnison school teacher of Ha
he den county, Tuesday evening shot a ma
he named James Lorgan, wounding him in Il
face. The trouble was concerning "a CIR
N Nele and was the second or third combat ov'
ce' the same subject. Burnison claims
ier hav We shot iu self-defense. The wound
ay probably not fatal.
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DAVID CROCKETT once visited a m
~ nagerie at Washington, and pausing