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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Buying Diamonds.
New York Tlrnes.I

Buying diamonds for retail is said to
be q delicate and difficult task. The
buyer sits down at table with large
sheet of white paper spread before him.
On the paper are poured the contents of
certain packages received by the whole
sale dealer. The keen eye Of the buyer,
an expert, of course, picks out at once
the shallow, fawed, and all defective
stones, which are definitely rejected,
and swept into bag. The accepted
stones must then be paired, and to this
end tin plate, mounted on four feet,
and pierced with holes of different size,
is employed. On this the diamonds are
laid, and shifted to and fro till each
diamond mas been fitted into q proper
tionate hole. Then the gems undergo q
second and final examination, the buyer
examining them most vigorously, and
rejecting some which may at first have
escaped his attention. Any irregularity
OF form, lack of brilliancy, dullness of
water, or yellowness Of tint, is sufficient
to condemn them. The matched stones
are then put up in pairs, in papers or
small cases, and the others are sold to
inferior jewellers. In Paris the latter
are readily purchased and set in the
flowers, stars, crosses, and other orna-
ments which make such display in
the windows of the Palais Royal. The
French, as a rule, like showy things,
and are less fastidious in diamonds
than We Americans are. They are more
for general effect than purity of perfec-
ton, and often sell toour people inferior
gems which will not bear resetting.
Paris is not good place to buy dis-
monds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Brutal Hazing.
tPittsburg Telegraph.


At one of the colleges in New York
State, few years ago, a Freshman was
rendered insensible, and his heal th seri-
ously injured, by the efforts of several
upper class men to "smoke him out"
phaze well understood by all college
men. The. Freshman had q strong
stomach, and for long time the tobacco
smoke had no effect upon him. Finally,
the upper class men bound him in a
chair, with his body SO bent over that
his face was nearly between his knees.
A large spittoon was placed between his
feet, and into this was put quantity of
rank tobacco. some woellen rags (torn
from the Freshman's updershirt), and a
little oil. This compound was lighted,
and then the victim was enveloped in a
blanket reaching to the floor. Long
glass tubes from the college laboratory
were pushed under the blanket into the
spittoon, and blowing through these
caused a thick column of black and vile
smoke to ascend directly into The
Freshman's face. To the surprise of his
tormentors, even this device failed to
effect its object, and when the blanket
was finally removed the Freshman was
found insensible. Alarm took the
place of innocent pleasure" in the
minds of the upper class mon. and they
worked as hard to restore their victim
to consciousness as they had before to
make him insensible. 1t was a long
time before the Freshman recovered.
and he felt the effects of his brutal
treatment for months. -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Lawyers Under Peter.

Peter the Great, of Russia, was q
monarch of large views but invincible
prejudices. He loved his country, and
longed to see il take a higher piace IL
European history. He saw clearly that
progress could be made only blythe in
PRODUCTION Of new industries and by
skillful training in mechanical labor. 4
To forward this end he visited in dis
guise the older nations of Europe, made
himself thoroughly acquainted with
their forms of industry, and worked as
common mechanic at various trades.
He sent, also, numerous young men of
promise to great cities in other coun-
tries, to acquire skill in the mechanical
arts, and to become teachers of their
countrymen.
But, while honoring all well-trained
mechanics, he had rooted contempt
for lawyers. 1t puzzled him to under
stand how they occupied high positions
in England and France. They multiplied
quarrels, he said, and fattened ON the
life-blood of others. Vexed at the nigh
esteem in which they were held else
where, he vented his wrath in the
memorable threat:
Il am thankful I have only two
lawyers in my empire. When return
l mean to execute one of them"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Four Points In AdyertisinD

One of the Oldest and best advertisers
in the country gives four cardinal points
that all advertisers may profit by:
First, if one has a good thing, which
the people really need, the more widely
he makes it known the larger will be his
rates; he will gain nothing by econo-
mizing in this matter, provided he ad-
vertises with good judgment. Second.
no one need expect to do brisk and
extended business, in these days, who
.alis to advertise, and advertise freely.
Third, it costs money, at the outset, to
advertise, and one must not expect to
do this effectually for little or nothing,
But if properly done it will nay in the
end. Fourth, papers differ from each
other greatly in their advertising rates.
The cheapest kind of advertising Is often
the dearest. Papers whose rates are
among the highest as general thing
give the most value for the money they
demand.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
LincOlh's Secretary,

washington correspondence Troy Times,1
Mr.. Nicolay was a young man of
twenty-four, at desk in the State House
of Illinois, when Mr.. Lincoln selected
him from the subordinate position he
filled to come with him, and be a silent.
industrious, confidential sharer in those
memorable four years of toll and heart
ache. He has told me many incidents
of the inner life of the White House in
those days. He is small, spare man.
singularly unprepossess1ng in looks, and
OF delicate constitution. He is only
fascinating when he talks. Then YOU
forget all else. He was a German lad
who came to this country with his father
and brother, and lived in great penury
in an obscure town of Illinois till at
about sixteen. After he had picked up
some precarious bits of knowledge he
began to work in newspaper Office, and
thenceforward his rise was steady. Lin
coin used to see him bending quietly at
his desk, when he came into the office of
the Secretary of State at Springfield,
and took liking to him. l have often
wondered if he did not think with grim
humor, There's a human being az
homely as l am" Perhaps he liked his
intense and restful quietness. He has
the subdued ways of those who have
long waited in confidential relations
upon great men. He lives in a neat
house of his own on B street, Capitol
Hill, and has wife and fourten-year-
old daughter. When he returned from
his four years. consulate in Paris it was
generally felt that as relic of Lincoln
he ought to be provided for. In his
keeping were secrets of State to which
no one but himself held the kew. and
when the Office of Marshal of the Su-
preme Court, which Chief Justice Chase
created for his attached friend and fol-
lower, K. G. Parson, of Cleveland, was
vacated by that gentleman to run for
Congress, Mr.. Nicolay had little diff
Guilty in securing the position. Every
thing about the Supreme Court is as
eternal as the mutations of this transit
tory life will allow, and Mr.. Nicolav no
doubt has practically life tenure of
his office. The salary originally attached
to it was 50, 500. 1t is now put at So, 900
and supports very fairly and something
more man with small family and un.
ambitious taste. The duties are scarcely
more than nominal and his vacation
covers the whole time that the Justices
are scattered about the country presid-
ing over their circuits.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Sympathy of q Horse.

An incident occurred on the Columbia
River, Oregon, the other day, which
strikingly illustrates the humane in
stincts and sympathy which exist in
animals. A number Of horses were be-
ing taken aboard steamer, when one
of them kicked another and broke its
leg. 1t was decided to put the poor
brute out of it's misery, and 1t was dis
patched by an employe of the boat with
an ak. A thoroughbred running stal-
lion, Delaware, was quietly Watching
the disabled animal, and just as the
fatal blow was struck he gave o loud
scream and fell backward, with blood
flowing from his nostrils. For over
three hours he was in convulsions, and
it was thought he would die, but he
finally rallied and will recover.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
VIII it Come to This (?

/ shall not live to see it, but fifty
years will not elapse before smoking is
permitted everywhere. Smoking car
riages will be no more needed on rail-
roads than reading carriages. A person,
whether in church, or in law court, or
In q drawing room, will no more ask
permission to smoke than to breathe.
NO one accustomed to the smell of
tobacco objects to it, for it becomes inn
PercePtiDle. Every one, consequently,
should bring up their children in an at
mosphere of tobacco smoke, SO as to
accustom them to it from their earliest
childhood. If l were blessed with
daughters l should seek out an Irish
nurse, for them and insist upon her
smoking every day in the nursery a
certain amount of the strongest tobacco
from short clay pipe. In after years
my daughters would not render them
selves Objectionable to the male sex in
general, and their father in particular,
by declaring that they could not endure
the odor Of cigar or cigarette.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Burdette on Commercial Travellers.

What would do without the "boys {"
How often they have been my friends.
go to new town. don't know one
hotel from another. don't know where
to 60. The man with the samples gets
of at the same station. l follow him
without word or a tremor. He calls
to the bus driver by name, and orders
him to :" get out of this now," as soon
as we are seated. And when I follow
him am inevitably certain to 20 to
the best house there is in the place. He
shouts at the clerk by name, and fires
looks over my shoulder as register
after him, and hands me his card. with
shou t of recognition. He peeps at
the register again, and watches the,
clerk assign me to SO. Ninety.
nothing" he shouts; ewho's in-153 3''
The clerk says he is saving ID for Judge
Dryasdust. e" We'll, he be bowed"
says my CHEEKY friend, !" give him the
attic and put this gentleman in 15."S3
And if the clerk hesitAtss he seizes the
pen and gives me Is himself, and then
he calls the porter. orders him to carry
up my baggage and put fire in Is. and
then, in the same breath, adds: s.What
time will you be down to supper, Mr.
Burdette p and, he waits for me, and,
seeing that ! am a stranger in the town.
he sees thatI am cared for, and that the
walters do not neglect me. He tellsme
about the town, the people, and the
business; !; ne is breezy, CHEEKY, sociable,
full OF new Stories ;alwaysgood d-natured ;
he frisks with cigars and oyerfows with
" thousand mile tickets p, he knows all
the best rooms in all the hotels; he
always has key for the 5car-seats, and
turns seat for himself and bis friends
without troubling the brakeman, but he /
will ride on the.wood- box. or stand out.
side to accommodate lady, or he will
give his seat to an old man. know
him pretty well. For three years /
have been travelling with him, from
Colorado to Maine, and I know the best
far outweighs the worst. could hardly
get along without him, and am glad
he is numerC us. ea z
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
NUMBER,
Advice to Correspondents.
50 burlington Hswkeye.]s

Never write with pen or ink. 1t ia
altogether too plain, and doesn't hold
| the mind of the editor and printers
| closely enough to their work. '-s -
If you are compelled to use ink, never
use that vulgarity known as the blot
| ting-pad. 1t you drops . blot of ink on
| the paper, lick it of. The intelligent
| compositor loves nothing 80 dearly as
to read through the smear this will
make across twenty or thirty words.
We have seen him hang over such q
piece of copy half an hour, all the time
swearing like q pirate, he felt that
good. - -
Don't punctdate. We prefer to
puuctuate all manuscript sent ste MS.
And don't use capitals. Then we can
punctuate and capitalize to suit ourself,
and your article, when you see it in
| print, will astonish, even If it does not
please, you. 9 - ss@iA ss-'3
Don't try to write too plainly. 1t is
a sign of plebian origin and public
school breeding. Poor writing il an
indication of genius. It's about the
only indication of genius that a great
many men possess. Scrawl your article
with your eyes shut and make every
word as .illegibie as you can. We get
the same price for it from the rag man
as though it were covered with copper
p ate sentences
Avoid all painstaking with proper
names. We know the full name of
every man, woman and child in the
United States, and the merest hint at
the name is sufficient. For instance,
it you write character something like
drunken figure g." and then draw
wavy line, and the letter M and another
waving line, we will know at once that
you mean Samuel Morrison, even though
you may think you mean "Lemuel
Messenger" 1t is great mistake that
proper names should be written plainly.
Always write on both sides of the
paper. and when you have filled both
sides of every page, trail q line up and
down every margin, and back to the
top of the first page, closing your article
by writing your signature just abore
the date. And how we would like to
get hold of the man who sends them.
just for ten minutes. Alone, in the
woods, with cannon in our hip pocket.
Revenge is sweet; yum, yum, yum.
Lay your paper on the ground when
you write; the rougher the ground the
better.
Coarse brown wrapping-paper is the
best for writing sour articles on. If
you can tear down an old circus poster
and write on the pasty side of it with g.
pen stick, it will do still better. Il
When your article is completed,
crunch your paper in your pocket, and
carry it two or three days before send
ing it in. This rubs off the superAuous
pencil marks, and makes it lighter to
handle. "a .,,,.,
If you can think of it, lose one page
out of the middle of your article. We
can easily supply what is missing, and
we love to do it. We have nothing else
to dol .4t4ts gslsssL ag ra{e e.f-aas lr.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
Our Bodies After Death.

Within very near approach to truth, !,
the human family inhabiting the earth
has been estimated at ] ZOO 600 900; the
annual loss by death is IL, 600, 900. Now,
the weight of the animal matter of this
immense body cast into the grave is no
less than 1000 tons, and its decom-
position produces 5000, ,000, 900. cubic
feet of matter. The vegetable produc.
tions of the earth clear away from the
earth the gases thus generated. and de-
composing and assimilating them for
their own, increase. This circle, of
changes has been going on ever since
man became an occupier of the earth.
He feeds on the lower animals and on
the seeds of plants, which in due time
becomes . part of himself. The lower
feed on the herbs and gasses, which, in
their turn, become the animal: then, by
its death, again pass into the atmosphere
and are ready once more to be assimi-
lated by plants, the earth or bone sub
stance alone remaining where it IL de-
poeited, and not even there unless
as common swindler.