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Tor rates Of pAesage and other information, apply
y JOHN g. DALE, agent, 81 Broadway, e. T.; OF %
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EVEN In DREAMs.-A gentleman OF this cftv
went TO look at his two little girls as they wero
sleeping before he retired. Finding one partiai-
~ uncovered he said, 81 never lind this ntfio
girl covered, never" The sleeper softly mur-
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~THE hBOVE SALE IS POSTPONED INIT,
MONDAY. March 3lst same hour and place. by o.
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mar2o W. T. EDMOESTON} Arus'ees
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Wtscnes Guns. Pistols. 10. ct Q fair cash price. II
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The Steamer ". ". CORCORAN, which has been
recently built and furnished. J.. L. rN-A
~ A1k; C,ptain, is the only heat al
vernon wharf. Round trip 81, including admission
% mansion and grounds. Steamer leaves 9th street
wharf daily (Sundays excepted at 10 a. m and re-
turns about 3 y. J. MCH HOLLINdSWORTH
Sup't Ladies Mount Vernon Association. L. I.
BLAKE, steamer W W. Corcoran iel5-lv
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02

BISHOP HAVEN advocates a union of
all of North America under one gov
ernment. He is sure that Canada Is
ready for such change, and as to Mex
leo, he says, in the Independent: Why
not? Her treasures are even more at
tractive and necessary than those of the
Dominion. She has wealth unsurpassed
in her many mountains. Our railroads
are pressing into it on the north, west
and east. Three or four lines are NOV
ing upon it. Its lands adjacent to ours
are fertile and empty. Three hundred
miles from Monterey to Matamoras is
one belt of magnificent emptiness, rich
est of pampas, and practically without
inhabitants. So is Chihuahua and so is
Durango. That superb land awaits our
honorable asking" The enthusiastic
Bishop finally settles the question of
the religion of his proposed country as
follows: "The world will look with ad-
miration and with awe ON the sublime
spectacle, and the earth and man be far
advanced by that consummation to the
fulfillment not only of pagan and dpolit-
ical prophecies, but of those further
seeing men of old who spake as they
were borne along and borne aloft of the
Holy Ghost, when they declared that all
nations and tongues should accept one
Gospel"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
Some Of Cassagnac's Duels.

Tee Paris GauLois. in giving an ac-
count of the seventeen duels and other
achievements of Paul de Cassagnac, re-
lates this of his encounter with Arelier
Scholl: The high road to st. Denis was
the spot selected; two o'clock in the at
ternoon the time. A crowd quickly
assembled, and the combatants were
about to commence, when a gendarme
made his appearance. However, instead
of making an. arrest, the executive
officer drew his sword, and, addressing
himself to the spectators, cried, Hats
off, gentlemen! When there is fighting
in France, one uncovers." Poor Scholl
received terrible wound, but he is still
alive and we'll, on excellent terms with
his old adversary, and editor of the
Voltaire M. de Cassagnac then fought
Henri Rochefort, and afterward his own
cousin, Lissagaray, who did all he could
to kill the Imperalist champion. After
having been touched four times in the
face, Lissagaray lost his head and flung
himself on the sword of his adversary.
He had hardly recovered when he again
challenged M. Paul de Cassagnac, who
refused second meeting in the follow.
| ing terms: .Since / fought you and
left you riddled like strainer in the
garden at Vesinet, have reflected that
it is sufficient to have been your adver
sary, and that it is useless to become
your charcutier (poor butcher)." Victor
Noir, who was afterwards shot down by
Prince Pierre Bonaparte, challenged NJ
Paul de 'Cassagnac, who, having thu
choice of weapons, selected ortho
graphy, in which his opponent wa
deficient.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
The Name of the Female Fox.

A Londoner recently told reporter
of the Whitehall ReUieU of one of those
awkward contretemps which, happily,
are of rare occurrence. He was travel
ing in Somersetshire, and had for his
companions a reverend gentleman and
his wife, daughter, and maid. Con-
and the Londoner opened the subject of
education. Among other things, said
he to the reverend gentleman: ....
A curions question was put to my
sister, when at school, as test question
at an examination: What is the name
of the female fox'-and curiously, al
though my sister had been born and
bred in the country, and her companions
at school likewise, none of them could
answer the question. The answer is
Vixen"
The Londoner had no sooner said this
than he observed cloud gather over the
lady's brow; the daughter blushed, and
the maid looked confused, while the
clergyman stared hard at him. Ignorant
that he had given utterance to any
thing indecorous, or likely to cause this
sudden change, he began to feel very
of the extent of his inquiry when hi
clerical ois-o-uis handed him card
whereon, to his horror, he read: Rev
Fox, ,-Rectory, He
of course, rendered profusion o
apologies, and avowed his entire ingnor
ance of the names previously (whicl
was facD; but it was no goOd-con
yersation was impossible afterward.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02

EX-GOVERNOR HoRATIo SEYMOUR, of
New York, has been urging the Com
missary General to have cheese made a
part OF the army ration, but General
Macfeely objects on account of the diff
Guilty Of procuring a good quality at a
reasonable price. The factory made
cheese is made for immediate consump-
tion, and the processes employed for
hurrying up its maturity also hurry its
decay and make it to a certain extent
unhealty. When a cheese of good
quality which will keep a sufficient
length of time for ordinary issue to the
army is made and offered at a reasonable
price, it will be made one of the com
Ponents of the army ration. An earnest
effort is being made to have the suppl,
OF tobacco to the troops stopped. 1t il
alleged that it is not only injurious tt
the health of the men, but that it create
thirst for intoxicating drinks.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
VOICl NOES IN THE NOON

THE elder Herschel fully believed
that on one occasion he saw the flames
of an active volcano in the moon, and
quite recently DR.. Klein announced his
discovery of a new crater on the lunar
surface. Still the prevailing impress
sion among astronomers is that the moon
is dead world, and that while the evi-
dence of past volcanic action in that
satellite are abundant, its internal fires
have long since been extinguished.
The controversy as to the existence of
active volcanoes is likely, however, to
be renewed by the publication in the
Scientific American of supposed erup-
ton of lunar volcano seen by Mr..
John Hammes and his son at Oskaloosa,
Iowa, on the 18th of last November, at
half-past eight o'clock in the evening.
Mr.. Hammes, it appears, has six and
one-half inch telescope, with which he
travels around the country showing the
moon and planets to schools and col,
leges, and is, therefore, familiar with
the appearance of that body and the use
of his instrument. He describes the
eruption as lasting half an hour, and as
being of the same color and as plainly
visible as any other mountain scenery
in the moon. His son also saw the phe.
noment n, but describes the eruptive
streaks as less fan-shaped than those
seen by his father. According to the
sketch furnished by Mr.. Hammes, the
new volcano seems to be in the vicinity
of Baco, Barocius and Nicolai, as given
on Beer and Madler's map of the moon
Mr.. Hammes had, of course, no means
of measuring the height of the eruption
but his sketch shows that it proceeded
from clearly-defined crater. Mr.
Hammes is we'll known in Keokuk
Iowa, and the Mayor, Postmaster anc
other officials of that city vouch for hin
as an honest and trustworthy man. The
surface of the moon is now 80 closely
scanned both here and in Europe, tina
if the eruption seen by Mr.. Hamme
was not an optical illusion-and very
many remarkable instances of sucf
mythical appearances are on record-i
ought to be confirmed by other oh
servers. Meantime, the belief that tn
moon is not so dead as has been imag
ined is growing among scientific men
and the discovery of this supposed ne,
volcano is sure to strengthen it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
NUMBER 80.
An Anatomical Wonder.

A novel exhibition in anatomy was
given yesterday afternoon to the stu
dents OF the Rush Medical College At
four clock the large amphitheater lee
ture-room was filed with fedged and
unfedged doctors, and in the arena
stood Charles Warren, man of about
thirty years of age, of athletic appear
ance, and apparently jointed the same
as ordinary mortals. But he soon showed
that he differed from most men in his
makeup, for there was hardly joint
in his whole body that he. could not
throw out of place, OF at least give that
appearance. He went through with
his distortions, much to the amazernent
as we'll as the amusement of all. He
commenced by giving circulatory
movement of the scapule, moving either
one or both at time, and without any
apparent motion of the shoulders. He
then threw the humerus into the axilo,
disjointed his elbow, wrist and pha-
langes. This was done merely by the con-
traction of the muscles of the arm, and
not by the pulling of one member by
another. In none of his feats was there
any such wrench of one joint from
another. Without touching any part
of his body with his hands the joints
would move out of position. He forced
the femur from the thigh-bone. This he
co aid do while standing on one or both
fs tor while reclining The dislocation
ca Ised an apparent shortening of the
limb. Another striking feat was the
turning of his feet so that he could
touch the bottoms of them while his legs
| were perfectly straight. Perhaps the
most remarkable of. all his powers was
the wonderful ezpansibiIity of his chest.
| Medical works, upon the strength of ex-
aminations of thousands of them in the
army and navy, generally give five
| inches az the maximum ofexpansiom51he
exhibitor could expand his from nine
! to twelve inches. Those who did not
take much interest in 9th er perform
| ances were wonder-struck at this. This
feat was performed by the. remarkable
degree Of the. compressibility of the
chest and his power to force his heart
and lungs into the abdominal cavity,
and then of the power to force his Wis
cera into his chest. The abdomen was
hardly less curious when the viseera
Was forced upward by the diaphragm
than was the inflated chest, for at such
a time there seemed to be an entire abb
sence of organs in that part Of the body,
and to be no distance at all from the
front walls of the abdomen to the
spinal column. IGs-.>5 ID. ~ .a5gi1i
This subject proved a fine study in
the anatomy of the muscles, because he
could contract them so as to show the
position Of each from. origin to insertion,
He had this power over the muscles in
pairs or separately, and could make
them as distinct as if dissected. q
MIR. Warren concluded with an exhi.
bition of his ability to comfort his whole
body, drawing himself through rings
and performing other things, much to
the amusement of the students and the
professors, if they had only felt at lib
erty to give way to laughter. Mr.. War
rem has daughter who takes after him
self, and can .dislocate her joints with
such ease that they sound like rattles
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
Putting the Plaster on the Wrong
...iE ..syi Back.

=. An old sea captain, well known in the
davs of Havre packets, :" who sailed the
seas over" for Fifty years or more, used
to tell that in the first part of his first
VOYAGE as captain, when he had just
turned twenty-one, his cabin boy COM
planned of. a lame back. There was
medicine chest aboard, whose contents
it was the captains duty to dispense &C
cording to the best of his knowledge
and ability. In a shallow drawer at the
bottom of the chest were three or tour
Spanish fly plasters ready spread on KID,
and one of these the captain decided TO
apply to the boys back. It was done,
and the. little fellow sent to bed: In
the morning he was on hand bright and
early, but the captains usual cup OF
coffee was missing.
Cook isn't up, sir, !" was the boys
Why not ?" asked the captain.
"Says he can't get up, sir
" Why notP'j l..aG., ...,..-
t'Says his back hurts him, sir
3" Back? What's the matter with his
back7" .,5 -.,rs 10 ,Es .1a...
~" The plaster, sir"
"What do you mean?" exclaimed
the captain; al didn't put the plaster
on his back ,o-,.
"No, sir, but did, ,whimpered the
boy. ''- ,,,
"You did, you young rascalp'
howled the captain, jumping from has
berth, ".what on earth did you do that
forW al.i'A1 ".A-' .-'.'ffi 10
."Well, SIR" answered the boy, get
ting we'll out of the range of any stray
boot-jack or other missile that might
chance to be within the captains reach,
".when woke up in the. night it hurt
me SO that 1 had to take it of. The
cook was in the next bunk asleep, and,
Just clapped it on his back. | didn't
want to waste the plaster, sill"
And he didn't. 1t worked to per
feetion, keeping the cook in bed with a
J sore back for over week; and in the
next bunk, keeping him company, was
the boy, also with sore back, but il
wasn't the plaster that made it so, A
ropes end was a fayorite prescription IL
those days.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02

A STUDENT at the University of Vir-
ginia thus describes the present condi-
tion of Jeflers ms homestead at Mon
ticello: The house is in good condition,
and in its entrance hall, as centerpiece
in the ceiling, still flaps his wings that
great bird symbolical of Americaliberty,
the eagle. In this hall also is ladder
old Tom daily assembled in order to wind
up clock whose weather-beaten face is
seen as the house is approached; it was
made by his own hands, and is very
ingenious thing, looking, when shut, like
square rod. The room and bed he died
in, the Jail wherein he confined his
slaves. and his numerous wine cellars
are we'll preserved; but the tunnel, by
means of which he escaped the British
in 1872, is now nothing more than a
hole in the ground, with a few bushes
growing around as if to hide and keep il
in remembrance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
Kerosene, a Diphtheria Cure.
Rochester Democrat.

A gentleman writes to the Prattsburg
Republican of a family there named
Light, who recently moved thence from
this cityss Mrs Light said to some of
the neighbors that previous to moving
here Ssheshad an attack of diphtheria
and cured herself by the use of kerosen e
oil as gargle; she also swallowed some !;
but the remedy was so simple that our
citizens didn't think anything of it until
five of Joseph Jelley's children were
taken down with the diphtheria. Their
throats became swollen and cankered
terribly. Mrs. Jelley sent after her
neighbor, Mrs Milliette, who had lately
lost a son by the disease, to ascertain
whether it was really diphtheria or not
Mrs. Milliette pronounced it very dan
gerous form. Mrs. Jelley said she
would use Mrs. Lights remedy-kero
sene oil-which she gave her children
as a gargle, also had them swallow some
The children recovered rapidly, and il
a few days were out on the street.
Four other cases were in like manner
successfully treated.