The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-04-10
ALL SORTS.

A MOUNTAIN echo is halloo raockery.
Tom sMooRE's birthplace is now
candy shop.
THE Jews of the world are estimated
at 6,50O,O00.
WHEN is railroad track Like ship?
When you see cargo on it
SAMUEL J. T1IDEN and Senator Thur
man are of the same age-65.
THE locks used in the new War Office,
in London, are of American manu-
facture.
SOME of the mails in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan are carried by
dog trains.
GEN. BURNSIDE two years ago became
total-abstinence man and has kept his
pledge to date. -
THERE has been failure of the win
ter rains in the North of India, and the
people are apprehensiye of another
famine
The ordinary life of a locomotive
engine is stated at thirty years. Some
of the small parts require renewal every
six months.
ALL the guns recently captured from
the Afgbans are of Cabul manufacture,
and are rifed, firing very accurately up
to $500 yards,
THERE is this difference between mag
istrate in his office and the violation of
another's rights One is a Justice in,
and the other is an injustice.
The successful man has faith in his
profession, and loves the task it i'm
poses. Aye more, he performs those
duties with a strong heart and willing
hand.
A POPULAR bill to allow the same re-
ward for killing stage-robbers as for cap
turing and convicting them has just
been defeated in the Nevada Legis-
lature. r.
The tenant farmers of England pay
a larger sum per acre for the use of land
than they would be obliged to give in
purchase money for better lands in this
country.
DIPHTHERIA, according to the expert
ments of Prof. Klebs, of Prague, can be
very successfully treated with benzoate
of soda. No Inconvenience is felt from
doses OF nFe grammeS.
: PAGES in the United States Senate
go about among the Senators with al
buns, to which they solicit signatures
for people in the galleries, who give
slight compensation to the pages for the
favor.
The Lieutenant Governor of Colo
RADIO is worth $5,000,000, owns two
- - L.
prietor of a large wholesale store. A
few years ago he was poor stone-cutter
in Augusta, Me.
THE st. Louis Common Council is
petitioned to stop the ringing of church
bells, some of which are SO eponderous
and gloomy and in such continuous
action that real estate in their vicinity
is depressed"
= JOHN E. SKINNER, q conlpositor on
the journal and Courier, at New
Haven, Ct, has fallen heir to $3.50, 900,
left him by. Antonio Mercer, of the
Island of st. Thomas, whom in youth
he befriended, at Port Jefferson, Long
sland, N. Y.
A GENTLEMAN who lives in Indiana,
but who has been sojourning in Missis-
sippi for two Oh three months, states, in
la recent letter, that yellow fever is still
lurking around Vicksburg, and several
cases have been reported, notwithstand
ing the cold weather.
A MAN who died in Utica, N. Y, the
other day, had spoken but twice in
nearly forty years. On one occasion,
when he hit his finger with a hammer,
he calculated @Oh!" and on another,
when he saw snake creeping over the
body Of sleeping child, he cried out,
"See!" And, strange as 1t may appear,
this singular man was not a barber.
The American House of Representa-
tives is renewed once in two years; the
French Chamber once in four years; the
German Reichstag, the Prussian Diet
and the Hungarian Diet once in three
years; the italian Chamber once in five
years; while in Great Britain the nom
inal period of the elective House is
seven years.
AN article in the New York Tribune
places the population of the United
States at 47,568,OO0, and of the Terri
tories at 662 ,000-a total of 48,035, 600.
The population of the Eastern and
Middle States is set down at IA. 800, 900 ;
of the Western and Pacific States at
16,27O,0OO, and of the former slave
States at 16,S00.000.
THERE is one woman in Maine who
has lived good deal in year. This is
her story: "She lives in Fairfield, is
40 years of age, and is the mother of
seventeen children. Inside of year
she gave birth to two at different times,
married off two, and lost three by death.
One of the two married sons lost his
wife and was remarked within the same
year."