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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
A Mystery Explained.

On Sunday evening, says the Roches-
ter Herald, the residents in the southern
suburbs were startled by a heavy roar as
of distant thunder, accompanied by a
trembling OF the earth. This lasted but
few seconds, and the general opinion
was that slight earthquake had taken
place. Telephone dispatches received
from Richmond Mills last evening ex-
plains the mystery in another way. II
appears that a well known society young
man was showing some young ladies at
the mills how to swing ina hammock.
The lesson proceeded successfully until
the fastening broke, and the young man
aforesaid struck the ground in the shape
of the letter v. The roaring was caused
by his remarks, and the trembling Of the
earth by the sudden contact of something
less than three hundred pounds Of hu-
manity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
How Women Bathe.

Kind reader, didst ever see two women
bathe? They emerge from their bath
house. looking as though they had stolen
something and expected to see hurley
policeman bob around the corner, clap
his rude hands upon them, and ex,llt-
ingly cry, "Now I've got you" Then
they trip along half a dozen steps, not
altogether like Dundreary or sand
piper, but somewhat resembling both.
Then one says "Oh, dearl' and reaches
down to pick pebble out of her shoe,
while the other takes the opportunity to
yell like pair of panthers, and then
runs back with all her might to the bath
house. Her mate, of course, doesn't get
the pebble out of her shoe, but gets sew
eral more in to keep it from being lone
some. Then the screamer tiptoes down
again to the yelling place and says,
''What fool was!'' The other comes
down, having secured a new invoice of
pebbles in transit, and screams, ''What
is it?" As it is nothing but the devils
apron string and not snake, the
screamer again says, "What a fool!''
And the other replies, sI know it!' Then
they laugh But they keep their eyes
about them, and each mouth is ready to
emit scream. By this time they reach
tina waters edge. A puny roller is ad-
vancing. 1t breaks little way out, and
as the line of foam is sent up the beach
they turn and scamper with all their
might.
Then one says, ''What a fool!' And
the other replies, 81 know it!' Then
they take hold of hands, determined to
do or die. Another wave makes them
finch and tremble and scream Just lit
tie, but they keep on till the water
reaches to what would be their knees if
they were men. Now they face each
other, each holding the two hands of the
other. Anybody who has seen the fire
men at work on hand-engine will un-
derstand the motion readily. They keep
this up for five or ten minutes, talking
like brace of parrots all the time, till
one of them screams with all her might
and runs half way to the bathhouse. She
stops to remark that she knows she will
die, and looking down sees the cause oi
her scare-a blade of seagrass wound
tightly around her ankle Spunk.
ing up courage again, they seek the water
once more, and again the hand-engine
maneuvre is repeated. Then one o.
them whispers, '"There's man" Anc
1ue otiier says, don care one plt,
and runs with all her might to the bath
house. Then the one who has seen the
man saunters slowly after, picking up &
shell or two on the way, pretending te
think there isn't such thing as mar
in creation. By and by they emerge
from the bathhouse, and ostentatiouslJ
display the key, towels and bathing
dresses, chatting in most voluble man
ner. cit was just lovely!' one re
marked. And the other says she feel.
$50 refreshed, you know. - Bosto,
! transcript. - a.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
English Lawyers.

The London LaU Times has the fol-
lowing: 1t is seldom that any English
judge upon the bench condemns the ex-
cessive cost of litigation, and of legal
proceedings generally, in this country.
We would that it were done more often,
hardly less in the interest of the profess
sion than on public grounds. We hope
that the strong, but becoming, language
in which Lord Justice James recently
condemned the enormous cost of litiga-
ton will not be lost upon our profession,
and especially upon those members of it
upon whom the responsibilities of a seat
in Parliament are now resting. Is it
wise, we ask, for lawyers to try the, ex-
pertinent of leaving laymen, both in and
out of Parliament, to cut down the cost
of legal proceedings? Is it not the duty
of the legal profession itself to take up
this question and apply the necessary
remedies, some of which are already at
hand? Any sufficient, and therefore SUBJ
stantial, alterations in the legal procedure
must necessarily affect large numbers of
| the profession; in some cases adversely,
and in others to their advantage. Among
the sources which give rise to COSTS the
incurringof which might often be avoided,
the following may be mentioned: Plead
mgs, which practice the judicature acts
have to all extents and purposes pre-
served; the central, instead of the local
administration of justice; the interests
and the privileges of the bar; the system
by which solicitors are remunerated; the
! practice of the judges in granting new
trials; the unnecessary large fees often
4 received by counsel and allowed on taxa
tion; the scale of cost drawn with dis
tinct view of encouraging solicitors to en-
ploy counsel, instead Of vice versa; the
delay of dealing with the high court Of
justice; the uncertainty of the law as al
present administered, in the absence of a
code, and in view of the enormous ac-
cumulation of case law, and by which
litigation sometimes become little better
than gambling speculation; and finally,
both branches of the profession are filled
to overcrowding, and the result is re-
siduum in both branches of speculative
lawyers, who are danger to society, and
!, who include the black sheep of the pro.
fession.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
The Oyster.

According to Mr.. Frank Buckland a
great deal has to be said in physiologi-
cal view in favor of the oyster as an arti.
Gle of food. There is All average of about
two and half ounces of meat to every
twelve ounces of shell in each oyster,
and its constituents include much phos-
phate of iron and ozmazone, or creative
matter similar to essence of meat, and
also certain quantity of gelatine or
mucilaginous matter, and another ma
teriaI Of which phosphorus is the main
ingredient. 1t is the principal BRAIN
giving food that can be taken, and hence
is so largely used by those fond of liter
airy pursuits, and in this manner has be-
come an almost essential element of diet
to intellectual men. The annals of the
University of Paris shadow forth that
when scholastic disputations were more
than usually rife and boisterous the stu
dents were in the habit of rehearsing
their debates over oyster suppers. Louis
VIII, who died in 1926, loved oysters so
well and thought so much of his cook for
the savory manner in which he furnished
them up for the royal tablet, hat he in
vested the chef de cuisine with patent
of nobility and made him n handsome an
nual allowance. The members of the
College of the Sorbonne were invited by
Louis XI. to come once every year to
feast upon oysters, until on one occasion
distinguished theologian came to an un-
timely end, by drowning in the River
Seine after the symposium had con-
clr,dad t..ea ss-s..., ......
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
A Canal Boat Horrer.

The Poughkeepsie Eagle of recent
date relates the following horrible tale:
Friday morning last we published brief
account of the drowning of two women
from canal boat near Cornwall, while
waltzing on deck. On Saturday the
bodies were recovered. The whole story
in detail is that the canal boat George G.
Notter, loaded with salt, was one of a
tow of boats which passed Poughkeepsie
on the way to New York at seven o'clock
on Wednesday night last. The captain,
William Hill, of Oswego Falls, was ac-
companied by his young wife, twenty-six
years old, and her sister, Maria Milligan,
sixteen years of age. The night, though
very dark, was warm and pleasant.
Capt. Hill had been frolicking on the
deck, and he called to his wife and sister
to come up from the cabin and see how
we'll he could waltz Mrs. Hill left her
baby four months old and her little son
of five years below, and went on deck
with her sister. After watching Capt.
Hill for few minutes, one OF the women
exclaimed, "We can beat your waltz
ing," and together they whirled along
towards the bow of the boat. They
danced back, and when they reached the
raised part of the deck they accidentally
struck their heels against the woodwork
and fell over the boats side in each
others arms. Capt. Hill seized a boat
hook and, while shouting for help, put
the hook into the water and caught the
dress of his wife, to whom the girl was
still clinging. He tried to lift the women,
but their combined weight was too great.
ALI on the boat had gone to bed except
the man at the tiller. and he was too
frightened to be Of any assistance. Capt.
Hill found his strength fast giving out,
and saw that he would have to relinquish
his hold on the women or himself fall
overheard, and before help arrived he
took the former alternative and his wife
and sister-in-law sank. Capt. Hills
shouts having drawn some men from the
other boats the tug was stopped and a
row-boat was lowered. Capt. Hill and
one or two others pulled back to the
place where the women sank, but no trace
Of them could be found till Saturday, as
stated above.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
In Iceland,

The main difficulty in Icelandic travel
ing is to find ground firm enough to
bear a horse and his rider, and the safest
track is often along the sea-beaeh, where
that is available, or even in the bed of q
stream. Water is everywhere, and the
traveller constantly crosses fords, either
in the river whose course he is follow
ing, or through torrents rushing down
from the field on either side. The pass
over which we had to ride is about !, 800
feet high, and in. the month of June the
"divide" was still blocked with snow.
This snow was hard enough to bear n
man or pony, but in many places it
would give way beneath them, when
both on the same set of feet, and in con-
sequence the Captain and / did o good
deal of walking. The old guide, how
ever, stuck to his steed, except when
obliged to cross a torrent on precari-
GUS bridge of snow, and they managed
to founder triumphantly through all
difficulties. An Icelander in riding uses
neither whip nor spur, but works his
arms and legs perpetually like the sails
of windmill, and can thus keep his
pony moving at a pace which leaves the
foreigner far in the rear. On the quiet
waters of the ford the elder ducks We're
taking their newly Matched broods for a
first swim, and as we scrambled up the
field, the cock ptarmigan futtered and
croaked over our heads, according to his
habit when the hen is sitting upon eggs.
The region of forests, represented by
dwarf birches and whortleberries. is soon
left behind, and near the summit of the
pass there is hardly any vegetation of a
higher order than Icelandic moss, while
the bare rocks are profusely marked
with situations from glaciers that have
longsince disappeared. The Niaeteen.h
Century. s.-F.RsI. m ra
Or 115 women observed on the street.
cars yesterday, 113 stuck out their tongues
when they unclasped their pocketbooks.
-And,.etps' Queen
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23

"This, 1 presume, is Matilda VIII
liams?" queried his Homer as a plainly
dressed woman of 40 was escorted to the
bar.
"Yes.'
"And you disturbed the peace, I be-
ieve?" ...,..-r.1
"I believe So.
Have you any defense?"
eyes, sir; wait till I find my handker-
chief, for know I shall cry as soon as I
get mad"
Failing to find the needed article in
her pocket she sent Bijah to her cell to
recover it, and then began:
ssFor the past six months have been
keeping company with q man named
Thomas. We were to be married in Oc
tober, and had no doubt that he was all
right. The other day heard that he had
gone off ON an excursion with foolish
chit of a girl not 16 years old, and l
waited for the boat to come in to see If it
was So" "+
Here she began weeping, and thrill
of sympathy ran over the audience, while
Bijah sbuthis teeth together and breathed
like horse galloping up hill.
Yes, it was so, she continued; ''and
when got sight of them i sort o lost my
presence of mine and thought only of re-
venge. I expect I raised row but I
couldn't help it. p"
"Of course she couldn't!" growled Bi-
jah below his breath eff had been in
her place I'd have killed him dead with
tack hammer!' 01J sass a3 ssa
"Well ?" queried the court as he sank
back in his chair.
"That's about all, sir" she replied.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
A Strange Plea.

In Paris, some time ago, druggists
assistant was tried for causing the death
of man by misreading a prescription.
The doctor, whose writing is very clear,
ordered eight drops of laudanum, which
the assistant carelessly read as eight
grammes, or about q quarter of an ounce.
The overdose naturally killed the patient,
and the court sentenced the prisoner to
three months imprisonment. His advo-
Gates urged as an extenuating circum-
stance that if the mistake had cost the
deceased his life, it had at least provided
him with painless death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
Names of Countries.


The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Phwnicians,
the greatest commercial people in the
world. The names, in the Phenician
language signifying something char
acteristic of the places which they des-
ignate: 5t
Europe signifies country of white
complexion, SO named because the In
habitants were lighter complexion than
those of Asia and Africa.
Asia signifies between, or in the mid
die, from the fact that tie geographers
placed it between Europe and Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn or
ears. It was celebrated forits abundance
of corn and all sorts of grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry-very
characteristic.
Spain, country of rabbits or comics.
It was once so infested with these animals
that it sued Augusta for an army to
destroy them.
Italy, country of pitch, from its yield
ing great quantities of black pitch.
Calabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies yellow
haired, as yellow hair charactized its in
habitants.
The English of Caledonia is high
hill. This was ragged mountainous
province in Scotland.
Hibernia, is utmost, or last habitation,
for beyond this the Westward Phenicians
never extended their voyages.
Britain, the country Of tin, great
quantities being found on it and adjacent
islands. The Greeks called it Albion,
which signifies in the Phenician tongue
either white or high mountains, from the
whiteness of its shores or the high rocks
on its western coast.
Corsica signifies woody place.
Sardinia signifies the footsteps of men,
which it resembles. s-. .
Syracuse, bad favor, so called from
the unwholesome marsh on which il
stood. s1Ez g. leg s
Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which it
produced in abundance.
Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla, the whirlpool of destruction.
Etna signifies furnace, or dark or
smoky
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23

A SURVEYING party on Seneca Lake, in
Western New York, recently found the
water to be 700 or 800 feet deep south
ward from Dresden. At one point the
line was let out 1000 feet, and without
finding bottom. 1t is thought that it
must have been carried by strong un-
dercurrents, which are known to be in
the lake. "
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
TO rHEONK.
N HHs .. v. =. xooxh


when from iffeis dun and prosy oars
Ny weary spirft turns
In quest Of holier rest elsewhere,
For love like that which burns
within my own heart, then quah
From the fount Of poetry
Full many o fresh, nectarfxn draft
Theone, and think Of thee.
Becsuse feel thy soul hath felt
Its sweet, enhancing power,
Before its shrine that thou hast knet
At twihght's holy hour,
And, while thy spirit upward SCARED
In deep devotion there,
To God thou'st hymned thy praise Ana pouroo
Thy heart in feryent prayer. - -
That thou hast, In HES lonely hours,
OF wandered forth and wreathed
Frcah flowers from thoughts ambrosial bowers,
And sweet aroma breathed
From all the nectsred devs that shins
Upon ife's novery shore,
And felt that none but hands divins
such bamy drops could pour.
That thou hast nestled lovingly
On natures vooing breAst,
And felt while fhsre ssnctity,
peaceful, quiet rest,
That nothing else, no other place,
Nor m infs sss sIasa sh,r.s,sr ssss ss. % with No.
'Twere heaven on carth 70 live
In deep and prsycrful tsnAernees
Ny heart goes forth 70 thee:
Thy faith and love ana genfleness
Are full Of poetry.
Though severed here no more TO m
TIN earthly ties are riven,
Together stili up there our feet
Shall press the paths Of heaven.
TIN then IN trust thy love and thee,
Nor doubt heart like thine.
IN pray for thee, pray thou for me, ~
Theone. and trust thou nina
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23

THE hop crop in the State Of New
York and throughout the country this
year will exceed that of last year 25 per
cent, or about $50, 900 bales.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23

LoTs of people are willing to rob
Peter to pay Paul, only they get tired
when their job is half done. They neg
lect to pay Paul.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
NUMBER %.
Short Snake Stories.

= At Alma, Kan, a man named Schultz
fell dead of heart disease, caused by
fright at snake. as
The little soE of Henry Leals, of Pat
tersburg. Kan, died from the bite of
rattlesnake.
A son of Joseph Thompson of Butler
county, Kan, died q horrible death from
the bite of copperhead snake.
Thomas Sherlock, of Bedford, Ind,
killed spotted snake in his garden that
measured 6 feet 7 inches in length and A
inches in diameter.
Five italian woodcutters near Chero-
kee, New Mexico, set lot of wire nooses
to catch squirrels and found in one trap
an immense rattlesnake with sixteen
rattles.
In Reading, Pa, copperhead snake
thirty-seven inches long was found to
contain eighty eight young snakes, all
alive, and four to six inches in length,
when it was killed. @ --''
Mrs. Wistman, of Walkerton, Ind,
was attacked by an enormous black
snake. She seized the reptile tightly
about the neck and screamed for help.
The snake was feet in length
Fl. L. Patty, while riding ON horse
rattlesnake in the road, and had Just
taken his foot from the stirrup when the
snake struck, imbedding its fangs in the
stirrup leather. MI. Patty killed the
snake, which was one of the largest of
its species, its body being as thick as q
mans leg.
William Drake, of marlborough, N.
Y, while in the mountain near the vii
mediately showed fight. There was no
ing up an incessant rafting, the snake
struck at Drake repeatedly, but in every
instance he managed to avoid its stroke,
and in half an hour killed the reptile. It
measured six feet five and one-half
inches in length. .. .-.
While picking blackberries on the
Black valley, Pa, felt something rub
bing against one of her stockings. She
continued picking berries, and next felt
a sharp and sudden pain in that limb.
| Springing out from the bushes, she
found copper-head snake over yard
in length curled about her leg; and,
without an instant's loss of self-control,
she took the snake by the tail, and, after
unwrapping it, dashed it to the earth,
and then beat it to death with club.
John Geer, of Basket station, Pa, has
killed over 100 rattlesnakes within the
past three months. He always carries a
crotched stick. When he comes upon a
snake he carefully places the crotch
over the reptiles neck, just back of the
head. Then, if he desires to keep the
snake alive, he removes the poison by
instruments made for the purpose. He
has a regular process fer extracting the
oil from the bodies. This Oil is said to
be very valuable, and sells readily for
81 per bottle. It is said to have great
curative powers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
Some More, Love.

"This, T presume, is Matilda VIII
liams?" queried his Homer as plainly
dressed woman of 40 was escorted to the
bar.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23

Or 115 women observed on the street.
cars yesterday, 113 stuck out their tongues
when they unclasped their pocketbooks.
-AndretOs' Queen
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-23

80
Special DIpatsh TO the IntsliigiBeer.
All headquarters tonight are surround.
ed by noisy crowds, who are being enter
tanned by speeches from local politicians
and music from visiting bands.
The town Ia full Of exciting rumors as TO
to.morrow's proceedings. The New York
delegation agreed this evening to support
Payne, but 1t Is believed by many that the
TiIden support Of Payne is altogether In
sincere aud only intended to pave The
way for his own return before the conven'
tion.
Many OF Payns's own friends think Til.
den will never furnish more than enough
votes 10 keep Payne in the foreground un'
I'll he has perfected his real plan, which Is
supposed to be the precipitation Of the
fraud issuelupon the convention, and the
sprlnging Of his own name upon the dele.
gates again, when and while they may be
in condition to receive 1t iAvorably.
There is no cnauge In the position Ol
other candidates. Apparently Field has
the best organized force OF workers, but
they seem to labor to little advantage.
Bayard still leads In the list SO far as dele
gates are pledged for first ballot. sey.
mour's name has dropped out OF dis.
cussion tonight. 1t Is claimed that Ran
dali Is Tilden's real legatee whenever Til.
den Is killed of finally. Some high flown
oratOry is expected during the nomina.
tIons, which 1t Is expected will be made
tomorrow, 1t being proposed among other
oratoricSl arrangements that VoOrhe's
shall speak for Hendricks, John NJ. Daniel
for Hancock, and John Mcsweeney for
Thurman. H..
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-23
PERMANENT o ORGANIZATION.
The Territories 10 Have all Rights Rx.
cept u voie-The rwo.thirds Huie Re-
talaaH


Tho Territories to Have all Rights Ex.
cept u voie-The rwo.Ihirds Huie Re-
tained.
CINcINSArI, June 92.-The Committee
on Permanent Organization held meet
Ing this morning and decided to report in
favor Of Ex-Governor ]. W. Stevenson, Of
Kentucky, for permanent chairman Of the
convention, and to recommend the re.
election OF the temporary organization, so
far as the remaining officers are concern.
cd. The further action Of the committee
was as follows:
The Committee further report that they
have only considered the memorial in re.
latlon to the representation Of the District
OF Columbia and Of the Territories, and
have heard their arguments Of the mem.
oriaIists, and respectfully recommend the
following resolution
ResOlred, That the two delegates from the
District OF Columbia, and the two dele.
gates from each Of the Territories be ad.
mitted 10 the convention and have the
right to participate In the debate, and
have every other right and privilege en-.
jlyed by delegates from the States except
the right 10 vote.
The State delegations were informally
requested to-day to return at the same
liHe they announced their members Jor
Vice Presidents and Secretaries OF lhe
convention, the wishes Of their respective
delegations regarding the two.thirds rule
The result Of this Informal expression Of
opinion was that oil the States except
three (the names Of which the Secretary
withheld) declared In iavor Of refining
the tWo.lhlrds rule,