The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

penalty for smuggling a single cigar is
seventy lire.
In the Maine Senate, resolve was
presented and referred, instructing the
Maine Senators and Representatives in
Congress TO use all honorable means in
their power to effect a reduction of the
salary of the President of the United
States to twenty-five thousand dollars
per annum, and the salary of the MEM
bers of Congress to three thousand dol
lars; also the number and salaries of all
other officers of thegovernment, and all
other expenses to correspond with the
general depression in business, and
increased purchasing power of money.
ACCORDING to the aimee Maritime
France in 1877 had 120 war ships on
active service; England, 202; Germany,
49,; Russia, 260-mostly small and old
fashioned; Austria, 81; Italy, 66;
Turkey, 10S, Spain, 1877; Greece, 15;
Denmark, SO; Holland, 102; Portugal,
80; Sweden, GO; Brazil, 65; Peru, 1s;
Chill, 13; Argentine Republic, 81.
France had AZ ironclads; England, At /;
Germany, 16; Russia, %; Austria, 13 /;
italy, 15; Turkey, %; Spain, 8; Greece,
2; Denmark, 6; Holland, 10; Portugal,
/; Sweden, IS; Brazil, 10; Peru, 6;
Chill, 2; Argentine Republic, 2.
WHITE women receiving charity from
Cinnamon was the singular spectacle
witnessed in San Francisco on the recent
Chinese New Years Day. 1t is a Gus
tom with the Cinnamon on that holiday
to show their liberality and win favor
with their gods by wrapping five and ten
cent coins in red paper, and giving them
to the poor who solicit help. A number
of italian women, becoming aware OF
this custom, made complete tours oi
Chinatown ON New Years Day, and
called at every Mongolian shop in the
quarter. They reaped bountiful har
vest until a policeman took them in
Then they were taken to the police
court, and thence to the workhouse.
INCIDENT related by an Italian paper
Sig. Francisco b., well-known gentle
man of Genoa, was in the act of count
ing large sum in coin which he hac
Just received, when his barber was an
nounced. Figaro set about his work
when all at once he threw down hi
razor, bounded out of the door an,
rushed down the street. He was pun
sued and brought back. When ques
TONED as to his extraordinary conduc
he frankly avowed that the instant hi
eye struck the pile of money he wa
seized with such strong temptation t
cut Sig. BIS throat that he could onl
restrain himself from the crime by tai
= ing TO flight. Sig. B., touched by th
forbearance of his haif-dresser, CAV
him one hundred francs of the none,
-. SCIENTIFIC news from a Ere nch D;
per: The Americans have succeede
in making artificial eggs. This is tt
method employed: The albumen is i'm
tated by means of mixture of sulph,
- and fatty matters obtained from IL
slaughter.honses and made cohesive wi
mucilage- The yelk is composed
blood, phosphate of lime, magnesi
muriate of ammonia and of oleic al
margaric acids, colored with chror
yellow. The shells are made of pir
stone, gypsum, carbonate of lime al
oxide of iron. Two eggs prepared
this way would cost about hundr
francs. There is no present likeliho
that these artificial eggs will take t
place of the natural ones.
GEN. MoLTKE estimates that flu.
sixty thousand Russian soldiers perish
in the campaign of 1929, and that h
OF them fell victims to the plagl
which found their frames, enervated
privation and hardship, an easy pr
while the absence Of sanitary provisi
gave little chance even to those VIII
constitutions might have withstood
disease. The epidemic in Ath,
described by Thucydides is not now
lieved to have been identical w
plague, the date of whose first appe
ance Is generally referred to the re
Of Justinian A. ID. 542, in whose tim,
thrice appeared. Since then its Wis
tions have gradually become less
quent. In Europe only Russia
Turkey have suffered since 1900,
Constantinople has not been thus