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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
FACTS AND FIGURES

-One cubic foot of water measures
y gallons.
Wood will furnish, when properly
burned. sixteen per cent. of coal.
i'm Columbus County, n. c., it is
proposed to cultivate jute for market.
Oregon shipped to England last
year wheat to the value of over Sc, 0O0,-
900.
Pure milk condensed to one-third
will remain sweet from five to ten days
in warm weather.
The cotton manufacturing indus
tries of the United States give employ
ment to 1s1, ,629 people,
"A healthy man requires about a
pint of air at a breath. He breathes
about 1000 times an hour and requires
about fifty-seven hogsheads of air every
twenty-four hours.
1t is stated that the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad Company now employs
7,O40 workmen and has completed for
ty-one kilometers Nf tho road, having
spent thus lar el,353, 400.
Geneva, Switzerland, has almost a
monopoly in music-boxes. There are
made there also musical chairs, which
play when they are sat upon, musical
foot stools, goblets and trinkets of vari-
Gus kinds.
There are four starch mills within
six miles of Presque Isle Village, Me-,
and three more are to be built in the
spring. The potatoes used are worth
$3.50, 900 to the farmers, and the starch
obtained from them $240,O00 to the
manufacturers.
The property destroyed by fire in
| 1880 was valued at S76, 516, 900, against
$S4, 1862, 900 in 1879, $40, ,266, 900 in 1875
and 1897, 526, 900 in 1877. Although there
were only three fires with $1,000,00C
loss and but 9 or 10 where the loss was
| over S5O0,0 there were 250 with 3
loss of $5O,OOO each.
An Auburn (Me.) man packed IA, O0(
dozen eggs the past season, and is now
selling them for double what the quo
tations were when he bought them
There have been few years when egg
spectators have had such big chance
1t is said that one man in Belgrade
made $50, 900 in egg speculation. Egg
sellers get their own price now.
The total number of paupers il
London on the last day of the thirG
week in December was 92, 262, of whom
81, ,566 were in warehouses, and 40, 70t
received outdoor relief. Compared
with the corresponding week in 1879
these figures show decrease of $3.50
but as compared with 1873 and 1877
they show an increase of 6,061 and 6, 60!
respectively.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
A Dog With Good Training.

H. Nj. Beebe, of Andover, Windsor
County, claims to own the champion
dog. 1t is a thoroughbred Scotch
shepherd dog named Leo, and has been
SO well-trained that Mr.. Beebe, while
at work in the field, can send the dog
to the house after any light tool which
he may want, and the dog never makes
a mistake, budgets what he is sent after.
He will get the cows without any
trouble. Mr.. Beebe has u stock of cat
tie, which are kept in different stables,
and he will open the stable door when the
cattle are all in the yard, and say to the
dog: "Leo, drive them I'M" the DOG
viii pick.out such cattle as belong in
any mistake. Leo is great on devotional
exercises. When told that it is prayer
that stable and drive them in without
time, he takes his position in corner
of a room with his nose on a chair and
will remain (although they may call
him and offer him dinner) until he hears
the final amen. The last summer Mr.
Beebe left his vest in the cornfeld,
where it remained number of days;
wanting it one day, he said to the dog:
LEO, my vest IS down in the cornfeld;
90 and get it." The dog went directly
to the field and soon returned with the
vest. st.-Bat7fington w. Free Press.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

This 10 the name of q publicstion, 1Sl
Broadway N. Y. under the management
Of the Inventors ins,itute. Cooper Union.
Peter Cooper. 10 ssme houorcd and loved.
distinguished for private worth and pub
lie benefsctious, . name 10 which wealth
was granted by Providence, that man may
know how wealth might Ind should be
used to benefit his fsllowmen." The read
81 may judsr Of the News by its contents
among which We 6pd:
Inventors and their Invsntions:
Trus Elevation Of Labor
Bnrnside Public Education Bill:
Cre6sld High School for Textile Induf-
trIse:
Type setting By machinery:
The farmers dependence on Machinery:
Evils Of Bank Discounts on Specie
Basic:
Welding by Electricity:
Recent Patent Dec's'n:
Ne. ss for Saw Dust
simple method Of Calculating Strains
On bridges.
Freeing Bsnzins from offensive odor:
Comparative Table Of National EIpen-
sec and Debts:
New Inventions.
Monthly, $50 per year, OF, 800 for
months.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
OF INTEREST TO MINERS.

Representative Grinor's House Bi,
No. $40, which requires bosses If
mines to measure the purity of the
air once per week and report tn.
same on blanks to the State Mine In.
spector once month passed the Sen
ate last Thursday and is now a law.
This law is. if faithfully c.rried our
Of great importance to the Miner I,
health and life. Had this law been
in effect few weeks ago, the explo-
sion that occurred in Columbiana
county would have been prevented.
Many lives were Tossed and grea,
deal Of property was destroyed. This
is the first bill Of great importance to
the miner passed this session.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
Would Not Paw Duty.

Marie Van Zandt relates this droll in
cident which happened while returning
from Germany to France: 6 Running
the gauntlet at the Custom-house, l had
in my arms two enormous bouquets,
presented to me by some American
friends and composed of our National
colors, which, you know, are the same
as the French, and do you believe it.
those old Custom-house officers insisted
on my paying duty! For they hate the
French, you see, and meant to take re-
venge ON my Door flowers which bore
the hated hues; but this stirred my
American blood, and, mildly but firmly,
1 refused their extortionate demand,
and declaredI could not should not and
would not give them up. The argument
was getting quite serious, when, think
ing that an explanation of how came
by them might be soothing and having
exhausted my German l tossed my head
back and gave them little trill, then
initiated applause and threw the bou-
quets up and caught them again. The
gruff old fellow grunted and smiled and
motioned for me to pass on. The idea
had penetrated
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
A Wonderful Engineering Work in the
South Of France.

The railroad now being constructed
from Maroeiols to Saint Fleur, in the
department of Loire, in the south of
France, presents one of the most re-
markable triumphs of civil engineering
that the world has witnessed. This is
the viaduct of Garabit. Reaching the
valley of this name, the road termi-
mates abruptly on the edge of preci-
pice. On the opposite side, a distance
of /, $50 6feet-considerably over a quar-
ter of q mile-rise the basaltic promon-
tories of the Contal Mountains. The
valley is a sort of colossal chasm, at
the bottom of which flows the river
Fruyere. Plans for a viaduct across
this valley were presented by the young
engineer, M. Eiffel, and he was told, as
Americans would say, to '.go ahead"
The structure, now nearly completed,
is of iron. The central arch spans 541
feet Q65 meters), with an average rise
of IS meters or about 2l3 feet. The
rails will be about 402 feet from the
surface of the river. Place the Cathe-
dral of Notre Dame on this stream and
the Column of the Place Vendome upon
it's towers, and there will still be consid-
erable space above to the platform on
which the road is laid. The span of
this arch is much greater than any in
Europe. Our great bridge at Albany
has four arches, each of 1875 feet span;
the La Sale bridge in Illinois has
arches of 100 feet span; those of the
Augusta bridge over the Kennebec are
160 feet, while those of the famous New
River bridge in West Virginia are only
275 feet.
The height also of the Garabt Viaduct
is exceptional, in Europe at least, where
from 60 to 63 meters is considered the
limit of safety for iron supports; though
the great viaduct of Fribourg, in Switz-
erland, passes this limit. being rs. rs
meters. nj. Eiffel has not overstepped
the traditional prejudice, for the me-
talic part of his supports is only 81, l6
meters, the rest being masonry Of the
most solid character; but he maintained
before the European Society of Civil
Engineers that he could guarant G
safety. with the combinations he uses
to iron supports 100 meters high. The
Garabit Viaduct is exceedinglv light fol
it's size, the central portion represent.
| ing only 10, 500 lliIogrammes Ia the run
ming meter, or little over III tons,
while the weight of the metal lor tn
entire viaduct win not exceed $50 :
tons.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
Among the Wall Street Brokers.

Wall Street brokers say that there is
double if not threefold more speculation
than there was four years ago. Then
the average number of shares sold daily
in the Stock Exchange was 100000 to
10000. 1t is now counted dull day
when 800, 900 shares are not sold, and in
the excitement of the great upward
movement last winter, 500, 900 was the
daily average, and one day the number
touched 100000. Lately it has been
over 500, 900 several times. This in
crease brings with it many changes in
the street. The Stock Exchange has
become too small to accommodate the
1 ZOO members, and a new building is
going up. Seats in the Exchange, which
two years ago were quoted at 81, 200,
are now worth S21, 200. The increased
number of customers who watch the
tape from ten clock q. m. until three
o'clock p. m. have compelled half the
brokers in the street to enlarge their
Offices. Indeed. the offices of some of
the leading tirms have come to be curl
osities, because of innovations. tor
years the typical brokers' Office in
Wall Street was small room in
a dingy basement, with a desk for
the proprietor and another for his
| assistant, who. combined the duties
| of clerk, book-keeper and boy. Quo
| tations came at rare intervals over
| a telegraph wire and were registered
| on a receiving slip. The customers were
| not many, for the craze had not taken
hold of people. The brokers Office of
to-day is suite of rooms. Let us
look into one. 1t occupies two
full Broadway fronts, and extends
through TO Exchange Court. One
side Is devoted to customers and
the general Office, in which the men,
bers of the firm have desks, and the
other, separated by a partition, is taken
up by fifteen or twenty book-keepers,
cashiers, clerks and assistants. The
front room for customers has an inlaid
oaken floor, put together in squares Of
tasteful workmanship. The wainscot.
ing. which extends half way to the cell.
ing. Is of cherry, and the paper above
1t Is fit for q Fifth Avenue drawing
J room. In one corner is a fireplace in
which hickory logs blaze in cold weather
and above which is a mantel of rare de
sign and beauty. The furniture is o.
cherry to match. and upholstered ir
leather. But for the regular tick, tick
tick of the gold and stock indicator a
1t registers prices upon the tape o
white paper. you might think you wer,
In club room. The rear room, which
is also open TO customers, is carpetel
with Brussels. The desks are massiv,
!: cherry, and the couches and easy chair
: are ofthe same, with leather upholstery
But for the business look given by tn,
desks, you might think you were in
drawing room. Another indicator rat
ties out prices here also. just befor
noon q colored attendant moves abou
. with considerable alacrity, and. rs tn
chimes of Trinity Church far overhea'
ring out the full hour, he trundles asid
the cherry doors Of the lunch room an
: discloses a well arranged table. o.
which are salads, cold meats. oyster
and other good things. Customers ar
expected and invited to lunch there a
the firms guests. and the table remain
until two O'clock,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
The Chinese Rip Van Winl<le was

The Chinese Rip Van Winkle was
a patriarch named Wang Chin He
was gathering firewood one day on the
mountains of Ku Chow, when he found
a grotto where some old men were
playing chess. As he watched one Of
them gave him what looked like date
stone, telling him toput it in his mouth.
No sooner had he tasted it than he
ceased to feel hunger and thirst. BY and
by one of the players said: 90 1t is long
since you came here; you should GO
home now" Wang Chin went to take
up his ak and found the handle mould
cred into dust. Undismayed, however,
he returned home and found centuries
had passed since he went wood cutting
and that no vestige of his relatives re-
manned. He retreated to a cell in the
mountains and. devoting himself 30 re-
ligious exercises, finally attained inn
mortality.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
WIT AND WISDOM.

An exchange says: "The only
kind of cake children don't cry after is
q cake of SOAP" How about stoma
cakeP-Syracuse Standard.
We trust that. in his inexperience,
Secretary of the Navy Golf will not be
so unfortunate as to sit down on the
tack of ship.-Neso Have's Register.
Father Time is pictured as an old
and baldheaded gentleman; but he
manages to skip around quite lively, all
the same, in spite of being handicapped
by agricultural implements.-N o.
Ptcayu'ae.
1t took Harvard student only two
years to conquer Latin, but he was four
years learning how to throw the lasso
so as to enable him to earn thirty dol
lars per month on Texas rancho
Detroit Free Press.
whats your tastep" asked Bos-
ton house painter of a customer. 81
can give you harmony in green and
white, or a symphony in lavender and
brown, or a nocturne i'll yellow and
blue. .''-Boston Globe.
-'sNow I understand remarked
Oldenborg with sigh, after vainly try
ing to get view of the stage over the
bonnet in front of him; 6 now under
stand what they mean by the 'height
of fashion, "-Boston Transcript.
AT an undertakers' conference in
New York recently, one undertaken
complained lnat the sections were get
ting "al the cream of our business"
What, for Heavens sake, is "the
cream of the undertakers' businessP-
Boston Post.
The fashionable spring bonnet for
1881 is to be profusely decorated with
flowers, and provided in the rear with
fire-escape, so that the wearer's friends
can climb to the top and See the Trim
mings. PhiIadelphi0 Chronicle.
The Oil City Derrick draws the fol-
lowing picture of a reporter:
Sadly he wanders about through the streets,
Asking for items of each one he meets.
And misused,
And credit refused,
But smiles, all the same, whene'er friend
treats.
Last Sunday little girl came home
from church and failed to repeat the
text to her mother, as customary. The
| good mother cast her deep, expressive
eyes reproachfully to her forgetful child.
''How could I, mamma, remember such
a long text. when every lady in the con-
gregation had on a bran new dress that
was too sweet for anything? Oh, man.
! ma, you'd ought to have been to
church!' And all thoughts of the text
were forgotten as she described what
| she saw to her loving mother Turner 5
| Falls Reporter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
Sir Walter Scott WAS so pers;stent /

Sir Walter Scott was so persistent in
denying the authorship of the "Waver-
ly'' novels that when Samuel Warren
wrote to him, asking for some literary
advice, Scott replied: II am not the
author of those novels which the world
chooses to ascribe to me, and am there
fore unworthy of the praises due to that
individual whoever he may be. =
cannot be useful to you in the way you
propose
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

In another column will be foune
q bill offered by Senator Jackson, IL
reference TO building pixies. 1t pro-
vides that each townsl l., shall buil'
its own, instead Of taxing the county.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

There is considerable excitement j.
Corning over the supposed murder Of
. negro in that place last Saturday
and collision is threateend betweer
the whites and blacks.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

This Senatorial district Is entitled
to but one Senator according to the
apportionment. Muskingum count,
having but 4s. 900 inhabitants instead
Of sixty eight as first reported.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
GREENBACKs AND BANK NOTES.


National bank currency was never
worth more on the dollar than green
backs.
National bank currency never had
greater purchasing or debt paying
power than greenbacks.
No man ever preferred national bank
currency to greenbacks in payment.
National bank currency costs the
people from 4 to 6 per cent. per an
mum interest on its security.
Greenbacks cost nothing.
National bank notes are not legal
tender debt paying money.
Greenbacks are debt paying mon
ey.
National bank notes are controlled
by q ring monopoly to regulate the
value Of bonds.
Greenbacks are under the control
of the government for the public
good.
National bank notes are secured by
the deposit of government obligations.
National bank notes require mil
lions Of dead capital, earning nothing
but continually consuming.
Greenbacks constitute circulating
capital, consuming nothing, but earn
ing continually. ... .....
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

Emerson says that no book should
be read until it is year old The
British Museum takes up the Sage of
Concord's motto and goes him one
better. That institution proposes to
withhold all works of fiction from the
reading-room until three years after
they are publRhed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

-Yawcob Strauss gives this advice
ito skaters: s'When you make an en-
gagement to take your sweetheart out
TO skate upon the frozen surface of the
lake, be sure you don't slip up on it."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24

Passing around the hat is one way
Of getting the centsrof the meeting.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
MODERN PROVERBS.

!. Bonds are Is per cent. premi-
um.
2. Hog and hominy are 10 per cent
discount.
3. Money is dear and up.
4. Labor is cheap and down.
8. Labor and production pay all
taxes, but receive none.
6. Usury receives, but pays no tax.
z. The usurer waxeth rich, dresses
in purple and fine linen, and fares
sumptuously every day.
8. Labor and production are beg.
gars in the market, pleading with
usury for pittanoe Of their own ere
atoms. They retire at night upon the
straw Of privation, and breakfast up
on the crumbs Of want.
0. The insurer builds his own toll
measures and laber is compelled to
gil them.
10. For these things the people are
disgusted, and for which they will
not long endure.
IL. For labor to produce all the
wealth, that idlensss may enjoy it.
II. For the creditor to determine
the size Of the dollar in which the
debtor shall pay.
13. For those who have no use for
money, to be the judges of how much
those shall have who have use for it,
IA. For those who weave not MOI
spin to put a price upon cloth or yarn.
Is. When the righteous are in au
thority the people rejoice, but wher
the bankers rule the people mourn.
16. As he that taketn away a gar
ment in cold weather and as vinegal
upon nitre, so is he that signeth "th'
boom" to the heavy heart, of unre
Quilted toil.-Chicago Express.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-24
Legislature
While in Session.
TH E PRESS

WILL LOOK AFTER THE INTERESTS OF THE FARMER ,E
CHAM AND LABORER, AND THE INTERESTS OF THE
Tax Payers Ia General
. .4saazs-e-e Fl. 81
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-08
TheOnera Senaon.

The indications are that Mr.. c. E. Ford's
Opera Company. which opens tc-morrow
evening at the Theatre in the new and
sparkling opera entitled Patience" will be
greeted by the largest aud most fashionable
audience Of the season. Mr.. Ford Is the
son OF the well known and popular Southern
manager, John T. Ford, and has selected
this company specially for Southern tour,
and We are satisfied that the opera will be
given In the best style. In Augusta, Allan
"a, Macon, and IN all the Virginia cities,
and in fact throughout the entire circuit,
they have been greeted by lsrg e
and pleased audit noes, snd the press
speak in the highest terms of their perform
ances. Their season 10 Savannah will IN
dOubtedly be 3 grand success, as the sale OF
reserved seats yesterday was largely In ex
cess of that on the first day OF the opening
for Hess Acme Opera Company, who met
with such favor here.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-08
A Little Game that DIdn't work
Wall.

In yesterdays NEWS appeared an account
of little diplomacy exercised by one Cal
win Griffin, colored individual, to post
pone the trial of a case against his brother,
George Griffin, who was charged with COW
stealing, aud which case wac assigned for
trial Tuesday afternoon in the Superior
Court, by Turing off the prosecutor, Sam
Bryan, and getting him drunk. Calvin aud
Sam were both arrested Tuesday night and
lodged in jail. Yesterday morning they
were produced In court and arIsigned
before the Judge, who, after a few re-
passed the following order:
at appearing to the court that Sam Bryan
was the prosecutor in the case Of the Stste
We. George Griffi ], and duly subj pnaed wit
ness to appear on oh December at the trial
of said Case, and that seld WITH : came TO
Savannah and suffered himself - be msde
drunk by one Calvin Or ffiG, 0r3 Ter OF the
defendant, in order that he might not sp
pear on the trial OF the case, and that said
Calvin Griffin carried said witness to the
house of one Emma Walker, there directing
him TO be kept closely and concealed, all of
which obstructed the process Of the court
and delayed the trial OF said case on the 6
December, as oresaid,
at is ordered, that the said Sam Bryan be
confined in the / all of Chatham county for
three days, and mat Gavin Griffin be COR
fined in al for five days, for contempt OF
court p"
Calvin's little game, it would appear from
the above, did not work well, as he accom-
plished nothing for his brother, (who, when
arraigned yesterday morning, plead guilty
to the charge, and was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary), but got himself
into trouble. During the next five days that
he viii have to spend in jail for his emart-
ness he will have ample ime for r, fl -ction,
and will fully realize that "the best laid
plans of mice and men aft gang aglee.n
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-08

Among the cases before the Superior
Court yesterday was one against Rachel
Robinson, colored woman, who was IL
dicted for the offense of perjury, and who
was placed on trial. The charge grew out
OF testimony given by Rachel in trial be
fore Judge Harden in the City Court, in
March. 1850. of Linus Green, a colored
constable, charged with assault and bat
terry. Linus, It appears, had a warrant for
the arrest Of Tama Habershsm. a colored
woman, and on the 23d of February, 1880,
proceeded after Tama, who lived in the
coun ~. Some dispute arose about the
route to be taken to the Magistrates office
after she was arrested, Tama wanting to go
one way and Linus another. The re-
suit was q scuth1, Tama resisted,
her and otherwise ill-used her. This was
the testimony before the CITY Court of
Rachael, who witnessed the struggle and who
Is a daughter Of Tsma. Linus was found
not guilty in the City Court, as, although
the force used by him was established by
the evidence, IN the opinion OF the court he
was justified on account Of the resistance
made By Tama- Green denied the charge,
and claimed that Rachael was not present,
did not see the alleged trouble, and had
sworn falsely at the trial In the CITY Court.
The result was the Indictment of perjury
against Rachael. A number of WITNESSES
were introduced for the s ate aud defense.
The case was ably argued by Mr.. L. H.
Montmollin for the prisoner and Solicitor
General for the s ate, and at half past two
O'Clock, under charge OF the Judge, was
submitted to the jury, who, at The afternoon
Ct ssion, returned q verdict of not guilty,
and the prisoner was discharged.