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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
An Earthquake in Japan.

The Rev. George w. Knox, writing
recently about the weather in Yoko-
hama, Japan, and of the way they have
sometimes in that city of waking in the
morning, says:
fhe weather is now simply superb.
A sky more clear and blue, brighter
sun and bracing air, give the effect of
Indian summer at home. This is the
season to be ia Japan, unless you would
prefer a month in the spring. But al
most any time from October to June is
pleasant, with some variations, of course,
as for example, when the people get a
signal for earlier rising than they are
won't to. Yesterday came such a
yisitation-a sharp earthquake-few
sharper since foreign residents were
here to know of such matters. My
teacher, man of thirty five years, does
net remember a severer shock since the
great one in Yeddo twenty-five years
age, when thousands of people perished.
Yesterday was more favorable in that
no one was hurt so far as heard from,
but chimneys we're thrown down, beams
fell from roofs through the ceiling to
the floor, and walls were cracked. The
buildings could be seen rocking to and
fro. One house cracked and shook as
If some huge monster were trying to
pull it over. The door bell rang, the
lamps swung, the timbers groaned, and
the floor moved perceptibly. Ny first
impulse was to run out of the house !;
but I thought 1 might be no safer
out of doors, so stood still. The SER
want started to run, but when he saw
that stood quietly, stopped short, only
exclaiming, fTerribleP Almost every
one, however, showed a preference for
the street, foreigners and natives alike.
At seven in the morning, the hour when
it occurred, Yokohama, for the most
part. was still in bed, but minute later
it could not be said to be still anywhere.
Neither did people stop to make their
toilets before rushing into general so
ciety. I did not find it very terrifying,
save in the wondering uncertainty as
to what was coming next, and as things
continued to shake harder and harder,
an undefnable expectation that they
would all go to pieces. This amount of
shaking the house could endure very
well, but suppose we should have an
other and harder shakel However,
we had no harder experience, and the
greaning, trembling cottage did not
come down about our ears. The tiles
on our roof were more or less displaced
and broken, but that is, no doubt, the
common state of things in Yokohama
this morning. At one of the hotels a
chimney fell, striking the roof of a
building next door and deposited hall
toms weight on bed that chanced tc
be unoccupied. On the whole it was
not very agreeable experience, and
earthquakes are by no means pleasant
visitors"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
He Thought It Was the Bath-Tub.


A story in Saturdays Eagle of man
going 10 bed with knife rammed eight
inches into his leg, which so incou-
venienced him that he didn't rest we'll,
calls to mind an anecdote of the late
Martin Kalbfeisch. When that gentle
man was Mayor of Brooklyn, he COM
planned one morning of slight pain in
his side, for.which he took small dose
of brandy. Finding that it relieved
him he went about his business, but the
second day he spoke TO his private secre-
tary again, and said he couldn't imagine
what allied his stomach, az his general
health was good aud he hadn't eaten
anything that had disagreed with him.
Another dose of brandy carried him
through that day, but on the morning
OF the third he remarked the same pain,
and believed he would have IL attended
to. A physician was called, who, on
examination, discovered that the worthy
Mayor had broken three ribs. "Well,b D
said Kalbfeisch, "that's iunny. 1 re.
member now, while taking a bath the
other morning Ifell. heard somethino
crack, but thought it was the bath.
/ tub"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
The Wicked Typo.

"Compositors," Mr.. Proctor notes,
"make strange work of scientific state
ments. l sometimes fancy they are not
altogether so innocent in this matter as
they would have us to believe, and that
they compose sometimes with their
tongue very much in their cheek
They are fond, SO far as my own in
dividual experience is concerned, of
substituting comic for cosmic,"
plants for planets human for
'known,' and in other ways making
hash generally of my more serious and
solemn statements. The most remark
able change they ever arranged for me
was one of which, still retain 'docu-
mentary evidence in proof on the
little book on Spectroscopic Analysis,
which / wrote for the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge Here
the words which in the work itself ap-
pear--as they were certainly written
lines, bands and stria in the violet part
of spectra,' were positively printed
links, bonds and stripes for the
violent kinds of spectres.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The Cincinnati Saturday Night informs
us that in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, there are
thirty claimants to the estate of one
Weber, who recently died in Germany,
leaving $1,000,00 of property. They
also claim title by inheritance to about
sixty acres of land that surrounds
Trinity Church, in New York City. 1t
is remarkable how people who fancy
they are heirs to some estate abroad in
variably connect it with Trinity Church
property. About half the folks in this
country who trace their lineage to
Germany seem to have a claim on old
Trinity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

A BILL has been introduced into Con-
gress to put printing paper and certain
articles used in its manufacture on the
free list. This measure will no doubt
receive the cordial support of the news
papers, whose business suffers by the
general advance in prices in the proper
tion that the other branches of business
are benefited. The Chicago and st.
Louis dailies have either increased their
price or diminish their size. The Times,
of the former city, will sell, hereafter,
for six cents a copy, and the iribuns de-
clares that all the great dailies will be
obliged soon to curtail their dimensions
or put up their prices to escape loss.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
Not that Kind of a Starcher

An absent-minded man, travelling
with his wife in railroad car, left her
side to get drink. When he returned
he dropped into seat, Immediately in
front Of his better-half, beside an unpro-
tected female over whose head the SHOWS
of about thirty, eight winters had glode.
His wife was looking out of the car win
dow at the scenery and didn't notice his
awful blunder.. Presently, without
turning his head, he impatiently re-
marked: "Jane, how often have | told
you not to starch my shirts so Internally
stiff" The ancient female whose for
ward name ehsppened to be Jane,
screamed 's Monster" and tainted on
the spot, and the absent-minded man
looked uncomfortably warm as he
changed seats.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

Board of Public Works bill; from six citizens of
Guernsey County for authority for the School
,ard Of Washington 70 itsue bonds to liqndate
for the r1'ef of Ai6x ,nder McCui lough. The
following bills were introduced: To exempt
from taxation the Paid rart Of the appraised
gress!onal distrc,s reLealins the ac- creating the
office Of Criminal Basif was lost. Yeas. IS nays,
SS; aholishing the Bosrd of City Commissioners It
Cincinnati. came up for third reading: the hill
passed. Mr. Reeds Rouse hill, t, rea6uraise oe1-
tain real estate 10 Ross County, was passed.
A resolution was adopted toinvest1gate the claim
from the Nor tgomery County Soldiers Orphans
heretofore allowed. The following we're intioducrd:
Making appropriations to meet defcieucies for the
inpris0r meut In thu. peDiteutiary for ct ang or
taxes in Hamilton and Cuyabo a counties; Senate
j.int resolution directing that ali matter in
bills amending any existing laws he printed in
italics, was concurred in. House bill IS by Mr.
Walker. for the protection of agricultural eties
and fairs came up the third reading, and after
long discu~ ~irn was laid over The following bills
we're pass d: Authrr Zing the Co missiolprs 0f
Pike Clunty to bui,d bridge across the Sc'ofo
yer at Pikeiou; establishing high school district
in sycamore and Springfield townsh ps Hamilton
Country. The Senat-s bill hy Mr. S8ltzgsber to
authorize the city of Lima to borrow money to
buf'd machine shops for railrosds came up on the
hri reading.
mum ber of petitions for local option killing uu-
taxed days, e,c., we.e read. The Senate bill by
Mr.. Craamer 10 restor. the Congressional appoion-
ment Of 1872 passed by of t. Al. The fol-
lowing House bill s were intro ured: To create a
joint school district in Bowling Green Town
sh p, NJ rion County and Hale Towns lip, Hardin
Couaty; TO ovids for the refunding OF taxes when
:he valuation has hees relueeS; authorizing
of Child EN- Homes and Boa d. of rust.es Of zine
women for ioc.l option with femsls recognition /;
give the Toledo 2 Grad R. pids -llroad sisee
of the M AMI and Erie Cann tor railroad pu poses
re Ju ring lgal advert eMents to be published in
two newspapers of opposite parriss.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE widow of Admiral Paulding has
made application for pension of $50 a
month. Her husband, who was one of
the survivors of the War of 1912, served
his country long, faithfully, and with
distinction, and though holding an Ad-
miraps commission for a number of
years, he died leaving only small farm.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The report given currency to by a
telegraph operator at Scranton, Penn,
to the effect that Samuel ]. Tilden was
about to be married to Miss Fannie
Ranck, of Lewisburg, Penn, is stoutly
denied by both Mr.. Tilden and Miss
Ranck. 1t is said that they are not even
acquainted with each other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE New York Herald opens an Irish
Relief Fund with contribution of $780,
600. This is nearly half as much as all
England has given for the cause up to
the present time. Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett by this deed gives handsome
rebuke to the itinerant Parnell, who has
been charging his paper with sympathy
for the Irish oppressors.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

AN order from San Francisco on
the Philadelphia Mint calls for supply
of cents to be put in circulation in Cali
fornia. A few years ago nothing less
than dime was. known in trade circles
on the Pacific slope. The nickel subse
quently appeared, and now the smallest
of your coin follows suit. The times are
less prosperous in California than in the
Eastern States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The Committee on Education and
Labor in Congress has deferred, for the
present, action on the subject of distri-
button for educational purposes of the
fund arising from the unclaimed bounty
and pay of colored soldiers, as the fund
is being constantly drawn upon by
claimants, directly or through heirs, and
in all probability but a small surplus
will remain.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

But one of Indiana's wooden mills is
at present running, all the others having
shut down owing to the high prices de-
manded for the raw material and the low
rates offered for the manufactured goods.
1t is expected that the early spring will
bring change in the situation and that
the mills will be put in operation again.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE Mobile Register reckons that
$4,000, 900 will be made this year by
Southern planters by the rise in crops
over what they expected to get for them,
and it urges that part of this be put
into the establishment of manufactures
in the South, especially for those spin
ming yarn from seed cotton.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

ALTHOUGH capital punishment has
been abolished in Wisconsin for over
twenty years, there is now bill pending
before the Legislature of that State for
the re-establishment of hanging as the
penalty for murder in the first degree.
Crime is reported to be on the increase
in that State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE fact that little Norway has the
second largest commercial feet in the
world is alleged to be chiefly due to the
fact that villages pool their savings to
build or buy a ship instead of as here
putting them into saving banks to pro-
vide fast horses, etc., for a delinquent
manager
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

EprsoS's luminous horseshoe will prob
ably be put into practical use on ship
board. The new steamship now being
constructed in Chester, Pennsylvania;
for the Oregon Navigation Company is
to be fitted out with three candle cleo
trio light in each state room.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
HOUSE.

The Finance Committee have summoned the
Trustees and officers Of s. and 5. o. Home to appear
aud explain why they ask for $500 for the re-
maindtr Of the fiscal year, when hey have on hand
an uns xp pended balance Of $4,000, which 10
abuudantly large enough to ca ry Them through.
A petition was presented from Madison County for
a local option la~. Tho following petitions were
p esented: From 2,tse citizens Of Bslmont Couuty
for the removal Of the county seat; from 2ss ci,i
gems Of Hamilton County for the passage Of the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The Minister Resident from New Gra-
NADIA says that the terms of concession
to DE Lesseps were framed with an ex-
press view to avoid giving to any foreign
government pretext for exercising a
protectorate over the interest of the
canal company.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

KANSAS claims a population of ], ,000,-
900, and that immigration will increase
IL TO /, 100000 before the census of 1880
is completed. This will entitle the
State to seven members of Congress
after 1882.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, under a special Legislative
act, has commissioned all its conductors
as special constables, with power to
make arrests.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

As horse market st. Louis is picking
up. The receipts for January by river
and rail were 11,s46 head, as against
1856 in the corresponding month Of last
roar .
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

Is this pun? Says the Cincinnati
Commercial: The earth has q good
many more "rings" than Saturn. Every
we'll regulated city of the first-class has
a fsw
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

AT the Philadelphia mint in January,
the coinage was as follows: Gold,
$4,000, 900; silver, q, $50, 900; and base
coins to the value of $50, ,000-a total of
&C. .4O9. 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
HOUSE.

A resolution from the Committee Public
Buildings and Grounds was adopted calliug on the
Supervising Architect Of the Treasury Department
for information regarding all public buildings now
In course Of erection and those erected within the
past three years, the cost OF the same ard why
such buildings have csst more than the amount
limited by law. An amendment submitted by
Mr.. Aiken, Chairman OF the Committee on Agrj-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The Cincinnati Commercial is in favor
of letting European capital build the
canal across the Isthmus of Darien if
they want to.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

YOUNG man, remember these things
while in the height of single blessed
ness: Seven dollars week with solitude
will pan out further than ten dollars
with twins, 'a-rera a-as - 80 sN'''I
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

NISETY-sEvES years ago Cuba was
shaken up by a great earthquake in which
upwards Of 100000 lives were lost. 1t is
not surprising that Havapeses, with the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE Queen of Spain is in poor health.
Physicians are divided in opinion as to
the disorder with which she is afflicted,
but it is thought to be catalepsy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

IT is proposed to change the name Of
Central Park, New York, to Irving Park,
in honor Of Washington Irving, in whom
all New Workers delight.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

IT is said there are 40, ,00o, 900 acres of
public lands in the State of California
yet unsurveycd.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

ALASKA promises to be valuable
purchase after all. Its mineral wealth
has been sufficient to attract large num-
bers Of immigrants.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THAT war cloud over the water does
not appear TO diminish in size, though
IL Is still difficult to locate.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

CHICAGO is agitating the product Of
a grand opera-house on the usual Chi
cago scale Of hugeness and tinsel
grandeur
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

CHICAGO is considering the propriety
Of running underground all the tele-
graph wires within the city limits.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

BEFORE the 1st of May fifty miles of
sewer pipe is to be laid in Memphis, the
yellow fever city.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE Indiana Asbury University has
n female military company, comprising
forty member
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The spaniards are entertaining dis
tinguished visitors ut one end of their
island and fighting insurgents at the
other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE Indians are not quite fat enough
to kill, but just poor enough to need
Government rations.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The coinage at the United States
mints during January amounted to
s9,576, 500. -rr~1 aa . .r
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

A MILLION dollars worth Of property
in Clarksvillc, Tenn, is in litigation or
threatened with lawsuits.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

CONGRESS has been petitioned from
Chicago, Boston, New York and Phila-
dclphia for another bankrupt law.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The Greenback party will hold their
national nominating convention at Chi
cago on the 9th Of June.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

IT would be easy to learn foreign
language If, as the Irishman said, "it
could only be spoke in English"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

SEVEN OF the recently pardoned crimi-
mails in Ohio have already found their
way back into the Penitentiary.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

SINCE quinine has been placed on the
free list" IL is said to be considerably
adulturated.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

PEACH trees in Chattanooga are in
blossom.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

The railroad fever is epidemic in
Georgia. Every village wants rail-
road to its nsighbor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

MOSQUITOES are as plentiful and
pestiferous in Louisiana now as in
spring time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

GENERAL GRANT and the earth
quakes are making things lively in
Cuba.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THE combined strength, rank and file,
Of the militia Of the United States is put
down at 6,516,75s men.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

DEADwoop's assessment Is only 1000
less than before the fire.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

PALMETTO paper manufacturing in
Florida is said to be successful.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

MAJOR RENo's dismissal from the
army has been approved by the Cabinet.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

TEE dry goods market partakes Of an
almost continal advance in price. .
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

THERE is s5O,oOo,ooo SILVER coin in
the National Treasury.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The New York Herad receives dona
tions for the destitude in Ireland.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

memory of such a disaster, should be
made frantic by admonitions of the pos
sibility of its repetition.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

SUNDAY school teacher-"Annie, what
must one do to be forgiven?' Annie
" He must SIM"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
Public Debt Statement.

The following is the public debt statemen,
Aoy 1onuarv. -I5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-28
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.


Editor SJdr After all the appeals from the
public. end the efforts Of the Commissioners.
the screaming nuisance Of street.vender5 rag,
bone and other uncivtliZed DRAWERS, is on the
increase, because so-called philauthropists pity
the huckster's family. Are there not other and
better means of support for these men than In.
hcting these fortunes on the sick. sensitive az d
suffering OF this city? They brawl twenty
times where once would answer far better, and
TOT the sake OF health they should not be al
lowed TO sell their wares In the street. large
proportion OF the fruit, vegetable, nSh, &C.. sold
In the street is the stale and surplus leavingS
after the market has been culied over; and
often, when large quantities are sent from
southern cities, already stale, these huckster5
can buy very cheaply, and sell low. but the
purchaser, who may not inspect carefully what
Is so hurriedly bought On the street, has no way
OF getting redress If he gets worthless or CON
demned produce. Very few hucksters raise
what they offer for sale. Many of them have
stands, ard send out their surplus stock for the
street. sometimes the very meats. fowls or
fruit condemned at the market are sold on our
streets.
Again. those who purchase from hucksters
weight or measure. Not once out OF ten times
VIII potatoes. sold by the peck, weigh within
three pounds, lawful weight. Many persons
plead Tor these men because the poorer classes
cannot go to market, and ere obliged to bay In
the street. The poor need our sympathy quite
as much as those of whom they buy. The
yelptng of dogs, the screaming of children the
milk wagons startling toll, and the thou
sand noisy aggravations we are obliged to
enough to distract one. Justice to all would be
fairly distributed by giving our citizens space
Of rest after enduring these infections 10, these
many years. B. B.