The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-19
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THERE is not a house for rent in
Columbus, Ga.
THE half dime of 1902 is deemed a
bargain at 800.
GAS cost s5 per one thousand feet in
Columbia, s. G.
ATLANTA has received 95, 900 bales of
cotton this season.
The glove business in Plymouth,
N. H., aggregates $500, 900 per year.
How is it that two story women al
ways wear four-story bonnets?
No man is so smart but there are
others as smart as he is.-Addie Boyd.
LoNGFELLow has resided at Cam
bridge since 1854.
THERE were $50 900 hogs packed in
indianapolis in 1879, against 770, 900 in
1878.
CATERERS, forists, dressmakers, and
musicians have reaped q harvest this
winter. s-s.
A UTAH paragraph speaks of q man
who narrowly escaped being cartridg-
ized."
ST. LOUIS merchants are taking steps
towards establishing commercial rela-
tions with the City of Mexico.
THERE are ffty-one furnaces in blast
in the Lehigh Valley, Pa, with an an
nual capacity of over 100000 tons of
pig iron. .,--.- .
THE factories in Atlanta, Ga, employ
1900 girls-remarkable enterprise when
contrasted With ante-bellum business.
IT is said that Pennsylvania manu-
factures more railroad cars than are
constructed in any other State in the
Union.
THE large Transatlantic steamers con-
sumo about ninety tons of coal every
time they cross the ocean.
TIE largest belt in the United States
is being made by the New York Betting
Company; it is 36 inches wide and
$500 feet long. 30
THERE are about one hundred and
planted in Florida this season for the
market. A yield of 725,000 quarts is
counted on. h
ONE of the largest of the dry goods
stores of Paris was visited in one day re-
Gently by 81, ,920 persons, and the money
taken amounted to- 1852 francs,
eight centimes. 20
THE number of Frenchmen still ex-
cluded from clemency is BOG. Of these.
543 were condemned in person and 263
by default, including Paul de Roche
fort.
SANDALwooD is found chiefly in the
Pacific Islands. The Chinese burn it
as incense in the temples of their gods.
They use enormous quantities of it, and
it is valued article of trade. Fl
MISS, JENNIE FLooD;. to- whom
Ulysses s. IGsant, jun. is engaged, has
been presented with 81, SOC, 900 by hel
father. His friends now speak of her
as his fnance.-Patsburg Telegraph. =
THE railway which passes over the
Andes climbs to heigh ht of Is, ,646 feet;
the Union Pacific 8,573 feet; the Cen.
trail Pacific 1921 feet; the North
Pacific 5, 420 feet; Mount Gents tunnel
800 feet, and st. Gothard tunnel 81.
786 feet. ID,
FROM the report of General Sherman
on the condition of the Army, it is
shown that, in an emergency, there
would be available along the Atlantic
Coast force of artillerymen smaller
than the police force of New York City,
could not be Immediately and uniformly
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HAT-MAKING was fret begun in Dan.
bury, Conn, in 1880, the factory there
employing three workmen and turning
out three hats day. There are now
employed ], 300 persons. and they make
II. 400 hats day. The pay roll is 1923,
900 each week. In 1880 it was under
500 a week. =
The monthly wash list of Pullman
palace car is about 5000 pieces. and the
bill is upward of $40. Each car has a
total equipment of 100 sheets, 100 pillow
slips, 80 hand towels, and 10 rollel
towels. The entire equipment of tn,
Pullman Company in the matter ol
linen is about $4,000 sheets, 46, 900 pill
low-slips, 5000 hand towels, and {, ,00t
roller towels, ard they also use abou
$4,000 blankets. Is
The QUESTION is frequently asked
"Why are ministers sons 80 much wors,
than the sons of ether menu Because
perhaps, being aware that their papas are
deferred by their calling from becoming
acquainted with the many forms o
naughtiness extant, they wish to Civ
the reverend gentlemen the best second
hand experience that it is in thei
power to bestow. If that is not the righ
answer, our second guess is, becaus
they are not. o.