The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-04-03
NE IFS AND NOTES.

of barley last year, decrease of 1885,
730 bushels from 1877.
THE difference between a Harvard
scholarship and an Oxford scholarship
is Just this, says T. W. Higginson: "a
scholarship is, in England, treated as
an honor; in America, as an aims"
The six largest States are: Texas,
with 274,356 square miles; California,
18S, S,9Sl; Nevada, 1000; Colorado,
I04 800; Oregon, 95, a74, and Mime
sofa, 1881.
A PROMINENT shipbuilder of Maine
is authority for the statement that at
least twenty thousand mechanics have
left that State since the close of the
war.
A MONK named Serafno, at Alcanio,
in Italy, who made a trade of predict
iug winning lottery numbers, has been
murdered by two disappointed clients.
They have been arrested.
THOSE who, in reading old documents
aloud, pronounce eye" as it is spelled.
only show their ignorance. aye" was
simply an abbrevia:ion of "the," and
was pronounced "the. "--Boston Tran
script.
NEARLY two million cattle, mostly
young, will be driven from Texas North
| before the hot weather Of August begins.
The number of cattle in a "drive" is
generally three thou and, though it is
sometimes much larger.
IT has been found that the willow is
as good an antidote for malaria as the
eucalyptus. This is valuable fact, as
it will grow and flourish where it is
impossible to introduce the gum tree,
which cannot stand the frost.
THE present boundary of the north
western provinces of British India was
established twenty-eight years ago;
during which period there have been
nineteen British expeditions to control
the neighboring Inhabitants, requiring
the employ Of sixty thousand men.
EVIL thoughts, those birds of i'll
| omen, may alight anywhere; but you
may be suAe they never stay where they
are unwelcome. Some things, at least,
are optional with you: and neither the
world, the flesh, nor the devil can COM
pei you to entertain unho'y thoughts or
desires, if you do not choose to do so.
| In Donaldsonville, La, there is a nov
city in the way of a courthouse. 1t is
a very small fatboat covered in. Being
discovered floating down the liver, It
was pulled ashore. and is now occupied
on court days by a colored Justice of
the Peace to settle disputes.
| THE Kentucky Supreme Court has
decided that the statute against gaming,
which enables a person losing at faro
table to recover his losses from the pro-
prietor, will not work the other way and
! olInrp ho 70
from fortunate players Cincinnati Go
oette.
The lower house Of the Connecticut
Legislature has passed bill requiring
railroads operated in the State to use
safety gates at the platform of passen-
ger ears. These gates are to be locked
while the trains are in motion, and
opened only at stations.
The capital invested iu all railroads
of the globe exceed SIS, SOC, 900, 900.
These roads, according to the statistics
of Professor Neumann Spailart, require
81, 900 locomotives, $4,000 passenger
carriages ard 100000 good trucks
Annually 300 QUO 0G0 tons of merchan.
disc and 1900, 900, 900 passengers are
conveyed by these means of transit.
SIGNS OF SPRING.
| By the bursting of the BIRDS,
| By the swelling Of the foods,
Spring is coming;
By the freshenir Of the mead"
| Ey the n swepapeAs we read,
| Advertising garden SEED,
| Spring is coming.
Nose Please o5serve--and honor us accordingly
-how we have hero caIy resisted the temptation to
| make rhyme to :. coming" by sayiug something
about the early 6oney-hes un fsllaa : frossszs
| numnilng. -CourSer-.JourndA
OUR court reporter looked into one of
the cells of our city prison day or two
ago, and prepared to take notes concern
ing one of its inmates. "What are you
in for?' he asked. "Pm In for mashin'
you if | can get outi' was the tart re-
sponse. "That isn't the informashin
I'm AFTER" quoth the reporter. and
moved away Wade Whipple, in Honkers
GossHe
TAKE g. it all in ALL" says the Port
land Herald, "this world contains fewer
fools than an toutsider' would be apt
to suppose" May be it does but one
of the poets, big or little, who seems to
have looked into the matter with some
degree of care, assures US that:
| "The W rid of fools ha, suoh store,
| That he who would not ass,
Must hide AT home and bolt his door,
And--break his lookiDg-glsss."
Ef-l --Cou, isr-J -Joxrnos..
The fact most worthy to be noted in
the life of Eiihu Burritt is that before
he was anything else he was good
b acksmith. He was not ashamed of his
trade, and he did not slur 1t in order to
gain time for his studies. He was as
earnest at b anvil as he was at his
books. His work was honest; it satisfied
those whom he served and it satisfied
himself. Probably he disliked his harsh
| calling and was very glad to have done
with it, but his longing for something
higher never led him into forgetting the
necessity of doing well the work set be-
fore him. His eyes were not go set upon
the stars but that they guided his feet
as they tired firmly the earth. So his life,
from the beginning, was patient, faith
full and true; and the lesson that it
teaches is that by every patience, faith
fulness and truth the battle that every
man has to fight with the world is most
surely won.--Philadeiphio Times.
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