The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-07-22
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Cans hsve no fixed political belief.
They are usually on the fence.
TIE cattle drive from Texas this year
will reach nearly million head
THE census taken last February shows
that Denmark, including the Farce Isles,
has /, $50, ,675 inhabitants. Ten years ago
the total was ], 784, TAI.
EVIDENTLY trade is improving in Glas-
gov. One Monday morning last month
the police returns showed $50 "drunks,
against only 2s7 last year.
The constructors of the railway up
Mount vesuvius have adopted the Amer
ican double iron rope system as the
best means for raising and lowering the
trains. H
THERE can be no longer any doubtth
the alligator does exist in the old world,
as two fine specimens taken from the
Yang-tse-kiang are now in the Berlin
Geological Museum. ...-.sat
THE Bayard family has had four MEM
bers in the United States Senate, grand
father, two sons and grandson. The
grandmother was the daughter Of Sen
ator, Richard Bassett
THE. reduction of the incomes OF the
landed gentry in England is sending
many to economic abroad, where they
can live in style, in which they would
not like to live in England.
HARD times have led to English squires
docking the all vance of their army sons,
and there is now much murmurlng about
officers expenses, which are higher In the
British than in any other service.
SEVERAL ladies in Memphis have made
application for positions as letter-carriers,
but the law provides that letter-carriers
shall wear only the registration uniforms,
and the ladies will not submit to this
THE newspapers of Ireland say it is
time that the tide of emigration from the
Emerald Isle to the United States be ar
rested, as young laborers, at the present
rate Of outflow, will soon become scarce.
T.. A. BRECKLEBARK estimates that in
single decade 500, 900 persons engaged
in industrial pursuits in Great Britain
sustain personal injury or are killed; in
mines, 800, 900; in railways, 10000; and
in factories, 10000.
A FOLDING cooking stove of Russian
sheet-iron has been invented by which
dinner for fifteen can be cooked over
small CRATE fire of wood, coke, coal OF
charcoal, while no odor from the process
is thrown into the room.
A PERSON in women's clothes at Havre
de Grace, Md, was deemed too stalwart
for o real woman, and, his masculineness
being finally exposed, he confessed that
he was fugitive murderer and had
taken to skirts as disguise.
A WEALTHY Chinese merchant of San
Francisco has full-blooded negro wife.
Their six children are singular COM
bination of two races in appearance,
with crisp, curly hair, coppery skins,
almond eyes, and Mongol expression
of face.
J D GALLAwAY, q notorious charac-
ter of northern Texas, claiming to he an
India. hero doctor, died suddenly in the
negro quarter in Dallas. He had been
married thirteen times; had four wives
living, and had twenty-five sons in the
confederate army, ten of whom were
killed.
A SPEAKER at a recent meeting of
Massachusetts Teachers Association said
very aptly that too many teachers and
pupils seem to entirely lose sight of the
true end and aim of all study, and instead
of teaching and studying to know, devote
their time and energies to preparing for
recitations and examinations, with little
thought of anything beyond.
Two editors were seated side by side
at circus, A trapeze woman was COM
ing down the rope bottom side up; slowly
the rope wound around her limbs and
body SO that she scarcely moved "How
gradually she comes down." said one
editor. eyes," said the other, "just
like some of my subscribers. Then
they went out and drank some. red
lemonade.
JAY GOULD has bought a fine summer
residence at Tarrytown, on the Hudson,
giving 1926, 200 for "Lyndhurst, on
whose 200 acres and fine marble palace
the late George Merritt spent half
million dollars. It is the finest establish
ment ever occupied by Wall street
magnate, even SURPRISING LIE Grand
Lockwood's magnificent country seat at
Nowalk, Conn.
IT is shown by statistics relating to the
years 1872 to 1879, that, while the total
income of the population in Prussia has
not diminished, the large and very large
incomes have fallen of, and medium in
comes have increased. The fear of a
progressive accumulation of wealth in a
few hands seems to be groundless, and
the real core of the nation, the middle
class, is extending and gaining strength.
The buying power OF money In the conn
try, after having undergone an almost
unbroken diminution from 1852 to about
1874, seems in the subsequent interval to
have become steady, and even to have
partly risen.
To Cure Fits of Sneezing.