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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

properfy contained four CO ton presses,
with acapacity of pressing about $500
bales of cotton per diem, and a STORAGE
room FOR over 10000 bales. Only two
presses were runniBg.lTh buildings and
presses were valued at about $l0o, ,00o.-1n-
sured for 100000. The loss on cotton is
estimated at s475,oo0. The insurance
amounts to s472 $50.
a WESTON (O.) dispatch says that WASH
ington Rnmler, about nine o'clock at night,
left Custar for home. On the way, about
two miles from Custar, he stopped at one
seeman's house, demanding that the door
be opened, claiming that he was cold and
wan ed to warm. .,Seeman refused to open
the door, Runler. determined to get in
the house. went to window and fell head
first, smashing he window in. seeman, to
defend him self, got shotgun and shot
RumIef in the head, causing instant death.
Rumlef it Is supp osed. was intoxica ed.
Seeman Was arrested.
A eaGlawaxe ofsunusual severity struck
the country on the night of the I'd. At
Chicago the thermometer, which was
twenty-five degrees above ON New Years
from fifteen to twenty degrees below Sim
.ilar Changes are rep orted in all the States
North. Tue change was followed in many
places by great snow storms. It was found
Necessary to alb ind in freight trains on Che
Lake Shore Railroad. Trains We se stalled
sat Buffalo and other cities in New York.
At st. Paul thirty degrees below zero were
reported, and several deaths by freezing.
The pedestrian contest between OLeary
and Campana closed on Saturday evening,
the 2Sth inst, at Gilmore's Garden, New
York. The Garden looked like a very full
menagerie. 1t was thronged, and every
man present who could afford cigar was
smoking one. The match was aEfzzle, as
far as good distance was concerned, for
O'Leary only covered four hundred miles,
while "Sport' made but three hundred and
fifty-seveu miles and two laps. The Wild
est enthusiasm prevailed throughout tn
evening, and the walk ers were cheered be-
yond measure, although they did nothing
extraordinary.
{ DIR. A. W. SMYTHE, a prominent practic-
ing physician OF New Orleans, testified be-
fore the Congressional Commission that he
believed yellow fever, wherever it exists,
originates there. He believes heat to be a
main factor of the fever, together with bad
sanitary conditions. Crops are better dur
ing the epidemic, and vegetation more
luxurant. He does not believe in the germ
theory, or that yellow fever is trans
mittible from one person tolanother. He
does not think there is any evidence that
fever poison is transmissible in goods or
clothing. He believes there.is more liability
insecondary attacks of yellow fever than
smallpox: he knew several cases of recur-
renee, but thinks one attack generally i'm
numitiye of the disease.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
j." Sich is Life.''
+ Newark Sunday Call [

A few years ago there existed In New
ark a club of respectable young men of
good promise in life, who were happy in
their youth, their freedom from care
and their social enjoyments. Where are
those young men now? There were
twelve in all. Four of the number
died drunkards. That was sad. Two
became politicians and devoted their
lives to cultivating low acquaintances
That was sad, too. Four got married,
and were speedily snubbed to degree
of humbleness that took all the spirits
of their earlier days out of them and
brought on sparse growth of hair.
That was exceedingly sad. One got
Tilted in love, then got reckless, then
committed a crime and, went to State
Prison to die. That might seem to be
the saddest of all, but it wasn't as sad
as the fate of the twelfth young man.
He was a fastidious young man, and
could never make up his mind to gel
married. SO he remained a bachelor
Now, ostracised from female society
and compelled to find his associations
| among saloon habitues, he migrates
from one boarding house to another
Just as it may happen he finds hair il
the hash half Of his shirts are withou
buttons, and his stock of unmendee
stockings is frightfnl to contemplate
never does he press his lonely pillow
that the ghost Of what might have beel
does not come and squat on his con
science, and he is continually haunte,
by the pensive figure of the womal
whom his baehelorhood and destiny ha
condemned to celibacy and scragginess
There is moral in this for young me
who 'sdo not intend to marry"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

Mr.. JOHN HAMMEs has reported to
Rear Admiral Rogers, of the United
States Naval Observatory, that on No
vember IL, 1878, at half-past eight
O'Clock p. M, civil time, he saw vol
canic eruption on the moon in the
vicinity Of Baco, Barocius, and Nicolai,
while. looking through six and one
half-inch telescope, at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The matter elected took fan-like form,
and Hammes says the spectacle con.
tiDued for half an hour, and was seen by
him as plainly as "any other mountain
scenery in the moon is seen, and of the
same color" Rear Admiral Rogers has
intimated to his correspondent that his
observation will be attributed to some
chance dust on the glass, or to some
error of adjustment, or 20 an accidental
light reflected from some neighbor's
window, or to some other source O.
error"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

Nor long ago writer in the Garden
er's Chronicle, an English periodical,
laid it down as rule that amy very
hard winter is likely to recur either
forty-one years or eighty years LATER"
Thus the hard winter of 1888 was fol-
lowed eighty years later by the hard
winter of 1853. At the same interval
from the hard winters of 1908, 1716
and 1889 come those of-178S, 1796. and
1919. The three successive winters of
1888, 1854 and 1885 fall under the forty
one years rule. The winter of 1854 was
very severe, so was that of 1895, while
that of 1885 was unusually mild. The
hard winters of 184S, 1856, 1859, 1860,
1864 and 1865 all followed upon hard
winters occurring either forty-one or
eighty years previously, and the writer
in the Gardeners Chronicle said that, re-
lying on this rule, he predicted the cold
weather of 1867 and 1875. Against the
winter of 1889 are both chances, since
the winter of 1889 was very cold and
so was that of 1878. The prediction
for 1889 refers to the English climate
and reports show that thus far the
weather in England has been unusually
| aavara ~ A
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

The profits of pedestrianism are again
brought to public notice by the printed
assertions that OLeary pocketed ten
thousand dollars or twelve thousand dol
lars, and Campana two thousand dol
lars in contest. In his walk two months
with Hughes, 0'Leary was said to have
made seven thousand dollars, while in
his Chicago tramp he and Weston di-
vided eighteen thousand dollars. Null
titudesare paying TO see Madam Ander-
son in Brooklyn, and Miss Won Hillern
and Miss Won Berg, who for year have
walked in cities and villages, from one
ocean to the other, draw many spec
tators. s.t
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
Blessings Brighten as They Say seNo.'

, It was night ina Walnut-streeta par
lor. Out of doors the wind smoaned and
the sleet ratified, but within all was
warmth and cozy comfort. The Grim
son upholstery glowed TRANQUILITY un-
der the soft light of the argand, and
the flickering rays from the ruddy
CRATE shaped many an elm shadow on
the carpet and in the corners. Fs.s. g
Two parties, male and female, were
sitting on one. sofa..l,.v
This sofa was designed for that num-
ber, but tonight there were, accidents
an Encyclopedia. ,.. - sss-ss,, fls
what pressed for sitting room. ysgE i
The occupantsof the other end of the
sofa we're Paul Plump and Miss More
McMinnywink. 1ss 81 ssssia has 9
+ Paul was saying, "Miss More, pardon
my boldness, but I must speak. 81 Long
| ago you must have guessed the great
feelings which-which l. feel for you.
| Oh cannot you return 'them--some of
them, atleastf Ii love you, ] do P'
"Paul," she answered softly, but
firmly, /" Paul, you must not talk so
Forget it, Ipray you. We are both
poor, and should have no fine house
nor pretty furniture, nor sweet carriages
/ nor lovely dresses, and-and all that
Forgive me, Paul, but l must have al
these when / marry, and you cannot
/ furnish them '%esAt ''A essa'
Yes, 1 forgive you, do! Fact was,
II was under false impression; I-el
thought you could supply us all then
ere things! forgive you."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

Miss CALLAHAN, who was a prosper
GUS milliner in Boston, married Patrick
Cain, who was a lazy loafer. The match
was not liked by the young woman's
family, and her brother John, who was
passionately fond of her, brooded over
the matter until his hatred Of Cain be-
came mania. At last he went into the
couples bedroom at night, shot Cain
four times as he lay asleep, and then
killed himself. Cain is recovering. Miss
Meadows's marriage to Elijah Lane, in
Waco, Texas, was displeasing to her
family. Her two brothers induced her
TO return home, and when Lane went
there 10 get his wife, she shot him dead
on the doorstep. A less summary, but
!. equally murderous. course was taken by
Henry Williams in Walla, Miss, who
poisoned his son.in-law in order to rio
his daughter of drunken husband.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
LEGACY MISSED

The city of Geneva has only just
missed having left to it legacy con-
s'derably richer than the heritage be-
queathed to it by the late Duke of
Brunswick. Count Potocki, who died a
few days ago at his house in the Avenue
Friedland, Paris, had an income of four
hundred thousand dollars a year from
real estate alone, and eight hundred
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
The Tyrolese observe a singular GUS

The Tyrolese observe singular Gus
tom in making proposals of marriage.
The first time young man pays visit
as an avowed lover, he brings with him
a bottle of wine, of which he pours out
a glass and presents it to the object of
his desires. If she accepts it, the whole
affair is settled: Very often the girl
has not yet made up her mind, and then
she will take refuge in excuses, SO as to
drink the wine, and yet not refuse
it point blank, for that is considered a
gross Insult, proving that she has been
merely trifing with the affections of
her lover. She will, for instance, main
tain that the wine looks souri," or that
wine disagrees with her, or that she is
afraid of getting tipsy, or that the
priest has forbidden her to take any.
In fact, she makes use of any subter-
fuge that presents itself at that mo
ment. The purport Of these excuses is
that she has not yet come to decision,
and that the wine offering is premature.
Shy lovers 6nd this custom singularly
happy institution.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

AN interesting paper on the effect Of
the motion of the air within an audi
torium upon its acoustic properties, is
contributed by w. w. Jacques, Fellow
in Physics of the John Hopkins Uni
versity, to the journal of the Franklin
Institute. Preachers, singers. actors and
public speakers generally will find valu-
able suggestions indicated by it. Mr..
Jacques has repeated Tyndall's expert
ments with some notifications, and ar
rived not only at the conclusion that
currents of air of varying density form
one of the chief obstacles to the propa-
cation of sound, but that they actually
modify the sound wave, and SO give rise
to great indistinctness.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

THE subject of cremation has been
quite prominently discussed at Munich,
Bavaria, where the authorities con-
suited the opinions of the various re-
1igious denominations, but with rather
conflicting results. The Catholics will
have nothing to do with cremation, the
Israelites refused to express an opinion,
and the Protestants considered il would
necessitate change in the liturgy, so
the Board of Health could only recon-
mend it as appropriate under the follow.
lowing contingencies: After battles,
during epidemics, for the conveyance OF
remains to distant locality, and when
the soil is unsuitable for burial pur
poses While the burning of one body
in epidemics might purify the atmos
phere, the cremation of number wouit
probably tend to increase the infection
but there are SO many localities whert
the soil is untitled for burial purposes
the practice of cremation may in thi
case, as we'll as that of transportation
recommend itself as necessity and be
come practice. ts
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

HENRY THOMAS RICHARDSON, of
Brynhyfryd, Wales, who died recently,
was, in conjunction with his father, the
inventor Of the tubular lifeboat in
which he performed dangerous voyage
along the English coast, and which is in
use at Rhyl and New Brighton, and has
been the means Of saving many lives.
BY his will he bequeaths fifty thousand
dollars, on the death of Mrs. Richardson,
for the purchase and maintenance of
lifeboats at Pwilheli and Deal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

AT the meeting of the Franklin Insti-
tute DIR. Isaac Morris, jr., exhibited q
modification of the microphone for
stethoscopic purposes. 1t is like the or
dinary Bell telephone, but with the mag
net and coil replaced by metallic tube
which can be adjusted endwise by means
of a screw at the end of the handles A
small carbon cup is inserted at the end
nearest the diaphragm. To the center
of the inner side of the diaphragm an
other short tube is attached, having also
a carbon cup. Each tube is connected
to binding posts. A pointed piece of
| carbon rests on the two carbon cups,
which are placed half an inch apart,
and the circuit is completed with q Bell
telephone. This instrument is very
delicate; but, though the Philadelphia
College of Physicians have been favora'
bly, impressed by it, in certain positions
! 1t does not work well.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

CoMPULsIvE military service is the
rule in Switzerland, but the Federal
Council has the power of raising or low
ering the standard of height. For 1879
the standard has been raised by five
centimeters-say two inches-a step
which helps the Treasury both ways,
since there will be smaller force to sup.
port during the period of drill, and
there will be an increased revenue from
the exemption tax, which those beneath
the standard height have to pay.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE.

A lecture delivered before the late
meeting of the British Association by
J. G. Romanes, on Animal Intelli-
gence," is attracting much interest. We
quote from it the following: AS re-
CARDS the particular emotions which oc-
cur among the higher animals, 1 can
affirm from my own observations that
all the following give unmistakable
tokens of their presence: Fear, affec-
tion, passionateness, pugnacity, jealousy,
sympathy, pride and reverence, emula-
ton, shame, hate, curiosity, revenge,
cruelty, emotion of the ludicrous and
emotion of the beautiful. Now this list
includes nearly all of the human emo
tions, except those which refer to re-
ligion and to the perception of the sub
lime. These, of course, are necessarily
absent in animals, because they depend
upon ideas of too abstract nature to
be reached by the mind when unaided
by the logic OF signs. In highly sinteHi-
gent, highly sympathetic and tolerably
we'll treated animals the germ of a
moral sense becomes apparent. On the
whole, therefore, l can only suppose
that We have in these actions evidence
of as high development of the ethical
faculty as is attainable by the logic of
feelings when unassisted by the logic of
signs; that is to say, grade very nearly
if not quite as high as that with which
we meet in low savages, young children,
many idiots and uneducated deaf mutes
From close observation of the mental
condition of uneducated deaf mutes, we
learn the important lesson that in the
absence OF language the mind of man is
almost on level with the mind of 6
brute in respect of its power of forming
abstract ideas. IS
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

In this happy land 1882 people were
killed by their fellow-men in 1873;
lob dead victims of brutal murder,
unjustifable assassination, childish quar-
rel, chance mishap, insane or drunken
frenzy, sleep the eternal sleep. The
causes that led to their taking off in
volve all the passions and motives of re-
venge, cupidity, lust, fear and hate. No
really accurate summary can be made
of the motives or the causes of the kill
ings. The killings, many of them, have
been wrapt in impenetrable mystery, SC
closely draw the veil of motive and
secrecy that not even newspaper enter
prise, detective ingenuity, legal acumen
the eyes of interested hundreds tha
knew the murdered, could discover tn,
motive or hunt up the murderer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

PROFESSOR ScHIEF, the great vivisec-
tor of Florence, sacrifices on an average
two dogs a day in the interests of sci
ence. It being reported that he had
thus destroyed fourteen thousand dogs
In the last ten years, the humane society
has interfered, and now buys up all
stray ours and puts them to death pain
lessly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.

THE woods which are heavier than
water are Dutch box, Indian cedar,
ebony, hgnumvite, mahogany, heart of
oak, pomegranate, vine. Lignum vita
is one-third heavier, pomegranate rather
more. On the other hand, cork, having
a specific gravity of "a and poplar OF
1888, are the lightest woody products.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

times, sea in that neighborhuod, from
FIVE to six hundred leagues in circum-
ference. He also has been enabled to
disprove the idea that the formation OF
a new lake would do away with the
oases, for he has discovered that these
are all from fifteen to forty metres
above the level OF the sea, whereas the
desert itself is below that level. Traces
of Roman civilization have been found
in the desert, and among them the re.
mains of an amphitheater like that in
Rome aa.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

A FOREIGN paper says: "We learn
that a poor fellow named Moreau,
whose jaw, nose and two eyes were car
ried away by the splinter of a she'll, at
the battle of Bapaume, in January,
1871, has just been able to leave the
Val-de-Grace and to return home to his
native village, not cured, but wonder.
fully patched up. He has metallic
mask, provided with eyes, false nose
and dental arrangement which al
lows him to masticate. 1t appears that
this unfortunate gunner, before joining
the Army OF the North, was engaged t.
be married. He naturally expected tina
after what had happened he would b,
rejected, but this was not the case, ant
Moreau has returned home to his wife.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

A PAPER carpet is now made in Eng
land, designed to initiate parquet floor
ing, the paper being printed in patterns
to represent different woods from pho
tographs, SO that the resemblance is
quite perfect. The, floor is first pre-
pared BY being made perfectly level,
and the crevices filled up with plaster of
Paris; over the surface, as thus pre-
pared, hessian is stretched, and on this
first lining paper and then patterned
paper is pasted, the whole being finished
with a coating of peculiar kind of
yarnish, described as wonderfully hard,
and wear-resisting. This kind of car
peting can be kept perfectly with the
greatest ease, and though the wear of
paper carpeting may be thought prob
| iematical, the inventor states that he
has had rooms covered with it for some
sixteen months, without showing any
appreciable signs of wear.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

WILLIAM SCoTT claims to be one hun
dred and forty-nine years old. He is
known to Baltimoreans, among whom he
lives, as Sc Uncle Billy" Snowden Dis
sney makes affidavit before Justice Pole
that he has known old darkey Williams
for fifty years: that William then bore
the same appearance as now; that the
deponents father, who had been nursed
by William, gave the date of the latter's
birth as 1879. Uncle Billy might pass
for a man of seventy. He has had six
"head of chiidren-that is, six differ
ent families of children, exactly how
many he duesn't remember. He was a
body servant to Lord Howe during the
Revolution, went to England with him,
and was servant to an English officer at
the battle of Waterloo. This Methuse-
lah is ventilated by the Baltimore Eren-
! ing Bulletin. -4
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M. DE LEssrps has lust returned from

M. DE LEssEPs has Just returned from
a trip to Tunis, whittier he went to in
vestigate the possibility and the advisa-
bility of letting the waters of the Med
iterranean into the Desert of Sahara,
so as 10 convert portion Of that DESC
late expanse into an inland sea. M. de
Lesseps says that the Arab chieftains Of
the south of Aures, keep up the tradi
ton of there having existed, in former
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THE Milwaukee Wi>consin prints a
full and comprehensive review of the
produce trade of Milwaukee for 1878.
As compared with former years, re-
ceipts Of wheat, -four and coarse grains
show very considerable increase over
the two preceding years, while receipts
and manufacture of -four aggregate a
larger amount this year than ever be.
fore. The live stock tables show an un-
precedented increase in business done,
receipts for live hogs being nearly
double, and those of cattle third larger
than last year. Receipts, of cheese
reached the enormous aggregate of 49,.
263,OO0 pounds, an increase of nearly
100000 pounds over 1877. Receipt,
of wheat, 2l,900,000 bushels -four q,
266,000 barrels. Shipments Of -four. 2,
$40, 900 barrels. -, 1.di1-lals CIV i'li-l
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LORD BEACoNsFIELD's appearance in
Parliament, after the reception of the
news of Princess Alice's death, is some
what sarcastically described by Man
chester correspondent. He was per-
fectly made up in the deepest mourn
ing, which could not we'll have been
deeper had Princess Alice been his own
daughter instead of the Queens. He
had on, as far as one could Judge, new
black hat, with the deepest of cloth.
His scarf was black; his coat, vest and
trowsers were of the sablest hue; and al
together a more funereal figure could
hardly be imagined than he presented
as he walked to his seat, with bowed
head and soft tread, as if he were in the
chamber of death itself. This was very
much overacted, and so, for that matter,
was the speech in which he moved the
address. He overdid the emotion. He
presented, in voice and manner, the
picture of grief which, in the nature
of things, it was impossible to feel.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

JAPAN is pushing head quietly but
steadily with her industries, and much
faster than some people will like. The
large cotton mills and spinning-factory
erected at Sakai several years ago are in
successfuloperation. Avisitor to these es-
Establishments reports that the buildings
are very substantial, and that they are
provided with good machinery. In the
factory there were employed about one
hundred and fifty hands. In consider
ing the conditions Of successful foreign
trade, it will not do much longer for
Western nations to overlook what the
people of the East are doing for them
selves, not only in Japan, but in China
and India. -s -