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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23
Ever Changing Fashion.

Fashions change gradually. Unless
they did they could not be followed, for
suddenness would demonstrate their alb
surdity. The revolutions that they make
are not obvious until they have been re-
garded through a series of years. The
feminine mode of wearing the hair at
present is fair illustration. A good
while ago, when the rage for phrenology
had brought high forheads into vogue,
the hair was brushed back from the brow
80 as to exhibit it to its fullest expanse.
The fashion was not pretty; it gave women
q bold, masculine, staring expression;
but it continued with the interest in
phrenology. Then women began to
dress their hair reasonably, letting it
shade the brow, as it ought to, instead
of pushing it off as far as possible. They
have of late been wearing it lower and
lower, until many now hide their fore
heads with it altogether. 1t is not un-
common to see well-dressed women
whose hair, natural or false, comes down
to their eyebrows, while others draw it
forward in such profusion as to give
them a grotesque appearance. Most of
the New York women who make any
pretense to fashion look as if they had
no brows, these being invisible on ac-
count of the peculiar arrangement of
their hair. They are not content to de-
pend upon nature, either. They deco
rate themselves with front-pieces of
divers patterns, and by their aid look as
i'll as they well can. If they knew how
they looked in the eyes of good taste
they would, we are sure, alter the dress
ing of their hair. Hiding their forhead
in that manner bestows on them a very
insipid, not to say imbecile, expression.
They might, with hair and eyebrows
mingling, be mistaken for bleached
South Sea Islanders, and candor COM
pels us to say that the intelligence of
some of their faces does not need toning
down.-NeU York Times.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23

One afternoon, during voyage on a
sailing vessel bound to West Indian
port, while the ship was making some
four or five miles an hour, a coryphene
was observed gamboling under the bows,
going ahead little, as if to show its
superior speed, and then returning to its
frolics While the sailors were fastening
the harpoon to line the. coryphene
sighted flying fish. At once it stifened
itself; its whole body quivered as if
with excitement; its tail was agitated
from one side to another, and it started
in pursuit, bounding over the surface of
the sea, with leaps Of some fifteen or
twenty feet. Although stern chase is
held to be very long one, this lasted
less than minute; one of the leaps
brought the coryphene right under the
terrified flying fish, which seemed to fall
into its enemy's jaws. The latter re-
turned to its playground" under the
bows, and was harpooned, brought on
board, and cut up within two minutes
after its meal. The flying fish was taken
out whole, uninjured. The coryphene
is the beautifully colored fish noted for
the shifting and varieties of its tints
when expiring. It is commonly but er-
roneously called dolphin, as in the
well-known verse: ''The dying dolphin's
changing hues.' Now in regard to the
fying-fsh, have watched them on
many voyages, and can confirm the
observers who describe its motion as a
leap, not an act of flying. 1t springs
out of the water, gradually rising to the
middle of its course, then falling, de-
scribing parabola just as an arrow
does in ifs f1ipht T have rapoatad1v " aaon
them change direction during the leap,
making DETECTION of about half an an
gle, never more. But 1 cannot agree
with Mr.. Whitman, who estimates the
length of their leap or jump to be eight
hundred or even twelve hundred feet. 1
opine that about two hundred feet is a
pretty big jump for one of these fishes,
and instead of forty seconds, I calculate
the time occupied in long leap at fif-
teen seconds; which gives velocity of
nine miles and fraction per hour
Communication to the Nea0 Orleans
Times. s--.i.
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The HerOines of NihiIism.

They are mostly daughters of poor
army officers, or petty civil officers, or
even of shop-keepers, who feeling the
influence of modern times, are anxious to
rise above the level of their parents,
coarse, ignorant people in the main.
Either by their own talents or by the aid
OF influential patrons, the girls gain
scholarships, and enter some high school
where their brains are crammed with q
heterogeneous mass of knowledge. At
10 they leave, and in turn become teach
ers. Finding their parents uncompan-
ionable, they abandon home for some
wretched lodgings, and eke out miser-
able existence by giving poorly paid les
SONS. Food is scarce, the feminine pleas
ures of dress are impossible, the restrain
ing power Of family affection is absent,
they grow hopeless and discontented,
when some day they form socialistic
acquaintance, rapidly adopt their ideas,
and, having found an object for their
life, with feminine rashness devote them
selves to the cause, even TO the very
death Paris Figaro.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23
No Further Flirting.

The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company has issued
orders that hereafter no employe of that
company shall firt with unprotected
females along the line of the road.
Heretofore every damsel from Gotham
to Albany had her particular mash on the
road; there was one railroader upon
whom she smiled to the exclusion of the
others, and now about 268 little romances
are pulverized under the iron wheel
of the monopoly. The men, of course,
do not mind the matter much, but the
poor little girls who have been permit
ting the tendrils of their affection to
railroad men are awfully indignant. For
a time they could not understand the
sudden GOODNESS of their adorers, who
ceased all along the line to laugh back
when the girls laughed at them, but now
that the order has become public they
are up in arms. A numerously circu-
lated petition, signed by every unmar-
ried female along the Hudson River,
between the ages of eight and eighty,
has been addressed to the company, ask
ing that the odious restriction be taken
off the men, and threatening in the event
OF refusal to boycott this line. The
sentiment is a unanimous one. There
is some feeling in the female heart which
the railroader particularly sti-s. It is o
sentiment rather than q hope. They all
admit that the boys never marry-they
do not wish them to marry: they only
demand that, in the beautiful language
of the song, they shall smile as they
were won't to smile. esq ss. Etza
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23
TMigs and Leaves.

Dryden has aptly remarked: "What
the child admired, the youth endeavored,
and the man acquired" No need Of
spurs to the little Handel or the boy
Bach to study music, when one steals
midnight interviews with smuggled
clavichord in secret attic, and the other
copies whole books of studies by moon
light, for want of candle churlishly de-
MED; no need of whips to the boy painter,
West, when he begins in garret and
plumbers the family cat for bristles to
make his brushes. sss.rs, +, v--rs Sra
There was an intimate connection be-
tween the miniature ships which Nelson,
when boy, sailed ON the pond, and the
victories Of the Nile and Trafalgar, be-
tween the tales and songs about fairies,
ghosts, witches, ETC., with which the
mind of Burns was fed in his boyhood,
and the tales of Tim O'Shanter.
Michael Angelo neglected school to
copy drawings which he dared not bring
home. MuriIlo filled the margin of his
school books with drawings. LIE Brun,
in childhood, drew with piece Of char
coal on the walls of the house. Pope
wrote excellent verses at fourteen. Mad
anne de Stael was deep in the philosophy
VI pOubiCo db OIL tSC WuOA OpuCA Sh 10
were dressing dolls.
So Ferguson's wooden clock; Claude
Lorraine's pictures on the walls of a
bakers shop; Chantrey's carving of his
schoolmaster's head in a bit of pine
wood; Napoleon pelting snow balls at
Brienne, were all hints Of the future
man. IL
1t is said that when Rachel, the ac-
tress, threw table cloth round her per-
son she was draped, on the instant, with
a beconiingness which all the nlodistes
that ever fractured stay-lace, or circum-
located crinoline, never impaired to the
female figure before. She had genius
for it, as Brummen had for tying his
cravat. Thousands choked themselves
in initiating the Beau's knot. but in vain;
the secret died with him, and is now
.smong the lost arts. !"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23

When Susie is fretful and peevish,-
which am glad to say is not often,-
there is nobody who can put her in
good humor so quickly as her grown-up
sister Ann. She knows just how to deal
with the little girl.
Thus Ann will say: "What is the mat
ter, Susie p care you hungry" "No."
"Are you sleepy" mot bit of il.
'fDo you want me to tell you q story?"
"No.' "Are you tired2" mo" 'I
have IL: you want good dose of exer-
else. That is the very thing you need.
Come here now and I'll give you q good
dancing lesson"
She takes Susie's hands, and whirls
her out ON the floor before she has time
TO say word. Then Ann begins to
sing: t..
Here We 60 up. up, up,
And here We 20 down, down, down-y;
Here we 20 this way and that,
And here we 20 round, round, round-y,"
dancing all the time, and whisking Susie
about the room in such lively way.
that the child has to laugh in spite Of
herself. Susie soon gets In high glee, and
always wants to have another dance.
"WhatT says Ann. Haven't you had
dancing enough? Well then, how
would You like fancy dance? Mind
your steps now. Do as you see me do.
Keep time with the music.
aUp and down, fast and slow,
Hop and skip, and away We 20;
Round and round and jump Jim Grow;
oh, won't We danes the pofkap
So the little girl is danced about until
she has TO stop to take breath; and by
that time she is 30 full Of fun, that there
Is no room for frown on her pretty
face.
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Cultivation of SelkRespect.

A child that is uniformly treated with
courtesy, with consideration, with JUS
tice, will unconsciously deem himself
worthy of such treatment, and will be-
come worthy of it, unless he is by nature
wholly base; and he will unconsciously
treat others as he is treated. Tt is fear
full thing to give child the lie, to accuse
him of stealing, to accustom him to un-
expected and unmerited blows and cuffs.
He may merit punishment, but the wise
parent never will admit into the house.
hold vocabulary the terrible words saliar'
and ."thief," and will never permit in
himself or others the hasty blow, the
bitter taunt, the stinging epithet. The
refined and educated parent can never
tolerate such language as we have indi-
Gated. Bitter words are more cruel than
blows and infiict more lasting injuries.
Care in the choice of associates will do
much to foster self-respect in child.
Some mothers think their SONS and
daughters can go where they choose and
play with whom they please, and come
out all well in the end. There never was
a greater mistake. As well might one
think it no difference what air we
breathe. Children are quicker than we
W catcH tne Tone OF aSSOclates, 10 PICK
up slang words, bad grammar, vulgar
ideas these often seem to be taken in
through the very pores, as typhoid poison
is, when least expected. Care in the
choice of reading will do much to foster
due self-respect in child. The boy
who grows up with familiar knowledge
of Washington, Of Franklin, of Lincoln,
and other great men who have been the
glory of the nations in which they have
been conspicuous, will be far more likely
to find his mind filed with noble images,
with high ideals, with lofty ambitions,
than one who reads sensational newspa-
pers, dime novels, and the comic alma
nae. Any soil that yields abundantly
must contain in itself elements of fer
tility, and barren soil may have elements
artiticially supplied to them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
ONE OF HIS NAMES.

Never boy had = many names;
They called him Jimmy, aud Jim, and James,
Jeems and Jamie, and we'll he knew
Who Il was that wanted him, too.
The boys In the street ran after him.
Shouting out loudly, "Jimi Hey, J-i-m-mi"
Until the echoes, little and big,
Seemed 10 be dancing Jim Grow Jig.
And little Mabel out in the hall
"Jim-Bsyl Jimmy" would sveetiy call,
Until he answered, and let her know
Where she might ind him, she loved him 70.
Grandpa, who was dgnihed,
And held his head with air Of pride,
Didn't believe In abridging names,
And made the most that he could Of "J-a-m-e-sr
But n papa ever wanted him,
Crisp and curt was the summons, JfmW
That would make the boy In his errands run
Much faster than IL he had said, " My son."
Biddy OF1ynn could never, IL seems,
Call him anything else but "Jeems;"
And when the nurse, old Mrs, Mcvyse,
Called him Jamie" II sounded nice.
But sweeter and dearer than all the rest,
Was the one pet name he liked the best;
" Darling" he heard IL wherever he was at,
For none but his mother called him that,
81 Nicholds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23

On the train was a woman with baby
about eight months old, and in the next
seat back was an old man who couldn't
sit still until he had said:
''That's baby you have got there,
isn't it?"
''Yes, SIR"
"About year old, isn't hep
'.Mercy, mol He's hardly eight
months old yetl''
'1sn't, eh? Well, I'm the father of
nine children, but it's been SO long since
I've seen baby that I've forgotten how
they ought to look. Is he girl?"
mo, sir; he's boy"
"Just me, agin. / never can tell one
from 'tother. Is he purity healthy"
''Oh, yes"
''Squall much nights?'
"Never squalls at all"
''Don't eh? That's the kind of a
young 'un 1 like to see around. My
Samuel did nothing but howl for the first
fell out of the cradle and broke his arm,
one of the lot. Have you named this
baby yet?" ~
"No, sir"
Haven't, eh! Say?"
"Yes, SIR"
"'Sposen you call him arter me? Ny
fust name is Jefferson, and they jeff me
for short. I've got two ten dollar gold
pieces here for him if you want to call
him Jefferson"
'I'll do it'll" promptly replied the
woman.
"That's business. Here's the cash and
the boy is named Jefferson, arter me.
Lemme kiss him about four times"
The baby was duly, kissed and con-
graduated, and at the next station he
left the train with his mother The old
man was hckled half to death over the
matter, until the conductor came along
and asked: al --i te a-
ibid you pay her anything to name
that baby after you?" 5i l-r
"Yes-twenty dollars. He's clipper,
and don't you forget it." siasstl
Sand so is his mother. She's down in
the Detroit House of Correction, and the
woman who had him takes care of him
for two dollars week. 49, - ~
'N-o a!'' E--.- te.5
''Fact." 1- --
The old mans jaw fell, his eyes re-
mained fixed on the ceiling for minute,
and then he fell back In his seat with
the exclamation:
"Chaw me! Everybody has called me
a fool for the past twenty years, and now
1 know they were right Conductorl'
'Well." r..-rv sr,s
'sPlease mop the floor with me and
break my neck, and step on me thous-
and time, and then throw the mangled
wreck into some swamp, for I won't be
no more good in this d!"-Detroit
Free Press.
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RENCTED FROnT DE,TH.

William J. Coughlin, Of somerve, Mass, says: I'm
the fall of 1876 taken with bleedings the lungs,
followed by severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 1 ad-
mitted to the hospital The doctors said had hole in
my lung as big as half dollar. At time report
went around that dead gave up hope, but a
friend told me of Dr.. WILLIAM HALLS BALsAM
LUNGS. got bottle, when to my surprise, L COM
menced to feel BETTER and to-day feel better than for
three past. write this hoping every afflicted
with diseased lungs will take Dr. HALL's
SAM, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION
can positively say has done good than all tn
other medicines have taken since my Sickness"
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The Baltimore american gives ladies
hint for the paralysis of 'tmashers. +"
Here it is:
"The lady has only to :ast her eyes
modestly down and fix her gaze intently
on the feet of the mashers. The glance
at the feet should be concentrated, yet
full Of pity and should linger slightly as
the lady passes by. Instantly the who'll
platoon Of Washers is affected by pro-
found distrust The sympathetic look
strikes terror to their souls They all
cast down their eyes, and look at their
own feet. The horrible fear that their
shoee are not in the latest style takes
possession Of their bosoms.s Each one
Is smitten with the conviction that his
foot is abnormally spacious; he becomes
conscious of multitudinous protruding
corns and bunions; his shoes, peradven-
ture, are muddy or dusty; or something
has gone wrong with the set of his
trousers at the ankle. The stoutest lah-
de-dah collapses at the mere possibility
of such thing his nerve is gone The
eye-glass falls from his eye, his arms lose
their kimbo; he feels that his pantaloons
are cupped at the knees, and that his
coat is full of misfits and wrinkles; he
suspects the cleanliness Of his stockings,
shudders at the thought that the sole
and upper leather have parted com
pany, revealing that painful fact. He
even flies to some secluded spot and
makes protracted investigation. before
he can satisfy himself that all is right.
And even then his nerves do not recover
their tone. He is liable to be again
panic-stricken. A glance of pity mingled
with slight smile cast at his feet viii
renew and aggravate all his paralytic
symptoms. e
1.-The masher, the lad-de-dah and lum-
tum, like all other creatures, have their
weak spots. To prevent hog from
roofing, slit his nose; to keep a jackass
from braying, weight down his tail; to
keep masher from mashing, gaze sadly
at his feetr'
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The Pope's Peculfarities.

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. appears
to be decidedly enigmatical parsonage,
If we may trust the account given of him
by the Roman correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette. The most striking fact
about him so far appears to he the slight
extent to which his character is known
either by the faithful at large or by the
inmates of the Vatican. Every one knew
how Pins TX. lived; his hours were
allotted beforehand, and the same duties
always performed at the same moment.
There is total want of this regularity in
his successor. He keeps.late hours, and
has sometimes been found by his SER
wants at his desk in the early morning
half dazed after writing through the
night He has all his meals served to
him in the greatest privacy, is much
more sparing of audiences than was Plus,
and even his State Secretary and the
Cardinals can only see him at irregular
intervals. The great innovation he has
made has been his partial supersession
of the above mentioned official, who un-
der Plus TX. practically administered
the affairs of the the Papacy. He has
set on foot a chancellery of his own, con-
sisting of three Private Secretaries, and
conducts his affairs with their aid quite
independently of the State Secretary,
and often over his head. It not unfre-
quently happens that orders go down to
the Bishoprics from the State Secretary,
and are Cancelled in day or two by diff
ferent orders from the Pope, or that the
Secretary brings papers to His Holiness
and tells him that he has settled par
ticular matter In such . way, merely in
order to be told that the Pope himself
had already settled it In quite q different
way. One thing is clear, that Leo XIII.
means to be master in his own house;
but the exact aim and tendency of his
policy is by no means equally evident.
But Leo comes from the country of the
Cioccari, and it is believed in Italy that
q man from that district is commonly
rather deep-a notion which appears
also to be strongly entertained by the
correspondent. Mall Gazette.
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Chained by His Collar.Bone.

A Buddhist priest was seen in Hanga
how asking for aims in the public street
He bore round his neck a heavy il
chain, which on close inspection CO.
be seen to be attached to his body by
small silver chain passing around b
collar-bone, through the flesh. Numerorl
placards posted in the streets announcel
that the aims solicited by the priest wei
for the sake of rebuilding a stone bridg'
in the neighborhood of Shaoshing. HI
hoped, of course, that the sight of the
pain inflicted on himself would softer
the hearts and loosen the pursestrings oi
the passers-by.-Japass Gazette.
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The SueZ Canal.

Attention was first called to the SUBJ
ject of canal across the Isthmus OF
Suez by the great Napoleon during his
invasion of Egypt. For years, however,
nothing was done. In 1847 France, Great
Britain, and Austria commissioned M.
Talabot, Robert Stephenson, and Signor
Negrelh to make survey and decide
whether Napoleon's survey was correct
in the point that the level of the Red Sea
was thirty feet higher than that of the
Mediterranean, and they found the two
seas had exactly the same level. The
canal project was never so favorably en-
tertained by the British as by the French.
The whole length of the navigation is
eighty-eight geographical miles; of this
distance sixty-six miles are actual canal,
formed by cuttings, fourteen miles are
made by dredging through lakes, and
eight miles required no works, the nat
ural depth being equal to that of the
canal The cost of the whole undertak-
ing, including the harbors, is placed at
about $100, 600, 000 In doing this won-
derful work it is stated that there have
been about 80, ,O00, 900 cubic yards of
material excavated, and at one time go
dredging machines and nearly 10000
laborers were employed. For their use
a supply of fresh water was conveyed
from the Nile at Cairo and distributed
along the whole length of the canal, a
work in itself of no small magnitude. 1t
is regarded as making a saving of thirty
six days ON the voyage from Western
Europe to the East Indies. 1t is difficult
to state by whom the controlling inter
est la held. t-tsa1g Z -a sas}
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Ladies', .,ll,,il D.i,cat. ate, ana Feeb,..

:, Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing
you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet;
that constant drain that is taking from your
bloom from your cheeks, that continual strain
upon your vital forces, rendering you irritable
and fretful, can easily be removed by the use
of that marvellous remedy, Hop Bitters r.
regularities and obstructions of your system
are relieved at once, while the special cause of
periodical pain are permanently removed VIII
you heed this? See 'Truths. !" s1sst
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ROgus (eraincafes.

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to be
made of wonderful foreign roots, barks, DC,
and puffed up by long bogus certificates OF pre-.
tended miraculous cures, but a simple, pure.
effective medicine, made Of we'll known valu-
able remedies, that furnishes its own certifi-
Gates by its cures. We refer to Hop Bitters
the purest and best of medicines See ssTruths"
and Proverbs" in another column.
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Abandoned.

We perceive, by one of our Massachu-
sets exchanges that DIR. Lorenzo Waite,
of Westfeld, an eminent physician of
Berkshire Co. strongly indorses st. Ja-
cobs Oil. With it he cured a case of
Sciatica that resisted all regular profess
sional treatment, and that had in fact
been abandoned as incurable.-Al6any
(M " Daily Press and Knickerbocker.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23

PEOPLE who think China is small
power are surprised to know that the
tonnage of her mercantile marine is 4,
100000, exclusive of the inland junk
traffic. The tonnage of the United
States. including all the canal boats in
the country and all the river boats, is
but $500. 900. Even England's tonnage
is only 100000. So that China is press
ing close after England as q sailor
power. sssS sss $50 as8ssssss sssssassaa ssss