The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

LIZ tIccs
The Texas Legislature has passed an
act requiring all railway trains to stop
not less than five minutes at any
station.
HUNGARY produces more horses than
any other country of its size-2, 15S, 900
for a population of 100000. The
Government has four breeding stables
The value of silk ribbons annually
exported hither from Switzerland has
fallen from four million to one million
dollars since 1878.
ALL night long, awake and thinking,
Rhymes run riot through my head;
This was one--too true--that drinking
Takes away at last ones bread
--Meriden Recorder.
BEGINNING with production of four
pounds of tea in 1910, India now exports
10000, 900 pounds, and all the islands
of the India archipelago are cultivating
the plant.
The Memphis (Tenn. Appealexpresses
fear that the appreciation of the value
of correct time has not reached that city,
as there is not a single public clock in
the place.
VERY promising nickel mines have
been discovered in New Caledonia, and
an English company has been formed to
work them under encouragement from
the French authorities of the island.
A DECISION has Just been rendered in
St. Louis that the city cannot be held
responsible for damages when a person
is run over by fire apparatus while
hastily answering an alarm.
COLORADO contemplates the introduc-
tion of the yak or Thibet OK, which
fourishes in the high mountains OF
Thibet, and the hair of which is used
in manufacturing the beautiful Thibet
shawls.
AN English gentleman writes to the
Times protesting against what he calls
the nuisance of ministers giving theil
congregations, in the shape of sermons
the condensation Of the weeks views Of
their particular news organ"
A MAN was shot at in Colts Station
O., by a highwayman, but the buller
| lodged in book, and he was uninjured
The book was not a Bible that his mothe
had given him, but comic song book
and it was not next his heart, but in hi
coastal pocket.
z TIE price of bread in England is .saic
to be precisely what it was in 1770. Beef
at its present retail price of nine pence, i
great advance on the three and three
quarter pence per pound of that day
and butter has risen from six pence t
twenty pence.
DURING 1877, ISL German vessels wer
wrecked, and with them perished ~
men belonging to their crews and sevel
passengers. This loss of life was, how
ever, proportionally small, the tota
nun Der of persons on board of the YES
sells having been over Il, 900.
A TRAMP was arrested at Newbnr
recently in whose pocket was found
dried snake. After his incarceration
made meal of the snake, which he dc
cfared was good eating, and said he ha
been subsisting on like diet for severs
days.
WHEN we read agricultural addresse
delivered by men who could not 60 alon
and pick out furrow from a cabbag
row, we can readily understand VIII
men who never saw the inside of prin
ing Office understand so well how to COZ
duct newspaper.
A LADY of rank in London agreed t
!; pay tradesman's bia by presenting b
ambitious wife at court. The Chambe
lain heard Of the scheme and refused t
receive her. The lady claims to hay
fulfilled her part of the bargain, but th
tradesman has sued her for his bill
HERE is hint that may be of servic
to somebody. When there is only or
step to the carriage, and a person il
tends to sit facing the horses, the lc
5 foot should be placed first on the steE
when a contrary position is intende'
5 the right foot should be placed on tt
step frst.-Albany argus.
} To beautify the coats of eight horse
value $4,000, and also four oxen, Can
bridgeshire (England)' laborer put {
} much arsenic in their food they all die
Sentence: months labor. This trea
e ment of horses is quite common
J Vienna. 1t makes them foam at tt
7 mouth, too, or is supposed to do SO.
THERE was a genuine surprise part
given recently. When the party ha
assembled, the young gentleman wi
organized the affair summoned the 9th,
l young gentlemen into a room up stair
S and assessed them five dollars apiece Fl
t expenses The3surprise during the re
: of the evening is said to have been pal
e full.
> A WITTY French journalist sugges
as methods of warfare which will plea
:, the vanity of people of the dueii1
!, kind, without needlessly exposing the
r to danger, the throwing at each 9th
:, of tire-crackers, the man whose peta
t makes the most noise to be regarded
e victor, or the pulling of gigantic torpe'
notices, where the motto shall be of
5 libelous character.
F.; IN June, 1869, French law provid
n that all Jews, male or female, living
+; the kingdom, should wear a whe'
e shaped piece of yellow cloth as big
d the palm of the hand on the breast al
n back of their outer garment. BY w
. of securing due enforcement, of tt
:, edict, the garment not so decorated |
d came the property of the person W
If espied the omission, its confscation u
d exempting the negligent 1sraelite fro
p fine for the use and benefit of |
i; church.