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

AUSTRALIA makes better olive oil
than Italy does.
The Japanese use telephones between
their warehouses.
The stylish shoe fer gentlemen is of |
patent leather with cloth tops.
THE MARQUES of Lorne is very good
rife shot and lover of the sport.
In a Paris restaurant you will give
the waiter five cents on the dollar as
fee.
THE ex-Empress Eugene has recently
sold three residences in Paris for $780,
900.
The Khedive and family, including
his secretaries, receive now only 81 ,500,-
600 year.
THERE are four hundred colleges in.
the United States; three thousand seven
hundred professors.
WILKIE COLLINS is described as lit
tie, short, stout man, timid in manners
and disappointing in appearance.
MASSACHUSETTS officials have OBJ
served that inconsistencies is frequent
cause of insanity among immigrants.
AT Sheffield, England, Church of
England Funeral and Mourning Reform
Association" has been organized.
LONDON has thirteen thousand nine
hundred cabmen, among them being
lawyers, clergymen and doctors, and one
real lord.
None timber is used underground in
the aConstoek lode than has been en-
ployed in the construction of San Fran
cisco.
SHARKS skin now serves for Partisan
purses, and was thought particularly
appropriate for innkeepers, etc., during
the Exposition.
AMERICAN fruit to the value of over
81 OOO,OO was exported last year. In
1862 the entire proceeds of such expor-
tation amounted to but S269, 900.
FROM the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually seven hundred
thousand tons of excellent fuel, and
Belgium five hundred thousand tons.
AMERICAN street cars are now run
ming in nearly every large city in the
world, and horses continue to be ex.
ported from this country to Europe.
EXPORTS from Great Britain to the
United States have decreased from s37, :,
100000 in 1873 to little over EGO, 600,
600 in 1877, and are still slowly de
clining. SIS
NINE. ANToINETTE STERLING, who re
fused to sing before the Queen unless
she, sang in high-necked dress, ha
been winnings great deal Of success be
fore Scotchmen.
VICTORIA Woodruff is reported iv
ing in splendid style in London, nea
Sydenham Palace, sporting coaches
liveried servants, and all paraphernali;
of a stout income. The wonderis who's,
Z money she is living on.
PAPER collars were first patented il
1854, but until 1859 met with ittl
favor. In that year one million fv
hundred were manufactured. In 1877
three hundred millions were made, al
; average of more than one box for ever,
man, woman and child in the country
THE Gloucester, Mass, fishermen fol
low periious business. The report fo
!, the past year shows loss of thirty-fv
! lives and eight vessels, which is beloy
the average, the figures of 1877 bein
two hundred and twelve and twenty
seven.
lYA A BosToN man. named Burnside. vii
: shortly attempt the feat of crossing tn
: Atlantic, doubling the Cape of Goo
Hope, and then crossing the India
Ocean to Australia, in sloop-rigge
.. craft nineteen feet in length and tw
: and one-half feet deep.
A LOUISIANA paper reports that ther
are now nearly, if not quite. fifty case
q of leprosy in Lafourche, all originatin
f from one person thus suffering, VIII
t some twenty years ago settled on th
s lower portion o. Bayou Lafourch
| Legislative inquiry is asked
n AN American egg preserving con
e pany has been established at Shangh'
e for some time. The object is to preser,
k eggs in such a manner that they will
e useful for cooking at any time and
e any climate. The business is entirel
d. export, chiefly to England.
p The value of silk ribbons annual
IS exported hither from Switzerland b.
IF fallen from 100000 to $1,000, o,
n since 1873. Paterson, N. j., silk mil
d. are running on full time and emplt
m from eight to ten thousand hands, al
y the greatest demand is for ribbons al
<. scarfs. g .g,.e4,es
AMONG some insane persons temper
y | ruy at the 1OmOs, III new 1OrK,
n, printer thinks that he was rich and th
e. the Mayor robbed him; a tinsmith
constantly in fear of assassinatic
These things might be; but the maddt
en- of all is a woman who imagines she is
ia distinguished man. AS.SS&A
az THE revenue of the English Pate
- :, Oficeis being increased by the numt
~ of applications for appliances in ct
!: nection with the electric light. 1t
ai- said that as many as two or three apI
cations are filed every day, and that
inventive genius of the Old World
never been so active as at the pres