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

Secretary and Mrs kirkwood are
assisted in their hospitable duties by an
adopted daughter, Miss Rachel Kirk
wood. Miss Abigail Dodge and Miss
Alice Blaine aid Mrs. Blaine in receiv-
ing her guests.
"A man assisted at the burial of a
person who had died of smallpox at
New Britain, Conn. Then he got drunk
and went home without changing his
clothes. His children are now down
with the disease.
"A bluebird, Virginia cardinal, a
Baltimore oriole, two song sparrows,
two or three snowbirds, two canaries,
Brazilian cardinal and half dozen va
rieties of finches and other small birds
are living happily together in single
cage in a New York drug store.
"A contributor to a Toronto paper
plaintively asks it TO explain that he
wrote Senators where the types
made it read Lunatics. He can find
sympathy in the editor of a Pennsylva-
mia paper which suggested the other
day that it's district needed an addition
al Jaw Judge.
-Baltimore's eentenarian, Mrs. Mary
Orem. is 1o5 years old. She is the
daughter of Robert Peake, British SOL.
dier, who deserted from the British
| army during the Revolution and joined
that of George Washington. Mrs. Orem
has twenty-five grandchildren and fifty
one great-grandchildre
2 -Dr. James Alternately and John F.
Alternately, although not related, were
born on the same day, married twin
sisters on the same day, and, after liv-
rya<r t0l l,<,f f..., of
age, died recently, at their homes in
Castor, N. c., on the same day, but
their residences were five miles apart.
Mrs. Judith Twornbly of Chelms-
ford. Mass. has just celebrated her
reader of the Bible and daily finds com
fort in spiritual song, but her mental
powers are falling. She was the mother
of nine children, only two of whom are
living. La her native town, Strafford,
N. H., she has great great great
grandson living who is in his fifth year.
| Kurdish women are industrious and
mix freely with the men-a remarkable
fact, considering chat they are Moham-
medans. They know all about their
husbands affairs and actively en-
gage in their plans. Bold and enter
| DI1SlIiS as dHy IiICD, tiiC AAu oich ioSoAOC
are ever ready to take the saddle and
start on foray. They ride well. but
not very gracefully.
If we are willing to accept the opin-
ions which sanitarians of other nations
have formed, says the Medical and SIR
gieal Reporter, we have a very decided
one ready, to cur hand in Switzerland.
That republic enacted law last year
prohibiting the sale Of tobacco to minors
under fifteen years of age, and making
it an offense against the law for them to
smoke. Hence boy of twelve or four
Teen who parades the streets of Geneva
or Berne with. a cigar in his mouth is
liable to be arrested and committed to
the police station; and as they have a
disagreeable habit in that republic of
enforcing the laws they enact, such
would be pretty certain to be the iuve-
nile smokers fate.
The following is verbatim the Ian
guage used by a complainant in a coun-
try court in Germany. 1t was suit by
man and wife against peighbor whom
thev accused Of having caused the death
of their two little pigs by witchcraft
.You couldn't see any marks on thei1
bodies at all. In the evening they were
healthy, ate heartily, the pigsty was
locked. and in the morning one of them
was already dead. The defendants
crossed the yard during the night and
bewitehed them. speak to you, Judge
as to father, and / implore you te
! make her give YOU the doctor books
she has got. In there it stands how tt
bewitch. Besides, she has before this
made me and my, husband lousy by
= witchcraft." When the suit was dis
, missed, the compliments said the,
would appeal, and as they went out the
husband exclaimed: This we cannot
> lose; it is impossible
A curious incident occurred re
J: Gently at the Vatican. An unknown
Cardinal appeared in the Loggia o
Al Raphael among the many persons gath
n cred there on the occasion of the ami
Il versary of Leo kits coronation, Fo
q few moments he was supposed to b.
Il q foreign Cardinal whose appearanc
= was unknown to the officials, and som
: ladies present are said to have kisse,
his hand and received the benedictiol
from him. Hwas, however. soon notice.
that he wore moustache and that som
9 of the accessories in his dress were in
z complete, and on his being then ques
. toned it was found that the suppose
= Cardinal was poor madman who ha
. on several occasions presented himsel
y y at the Vatican asking to be presente
z to the Pope. Having managed to pas
y y the Swiss Guards he had made his wa
2 2 to the apartment of Cardinal Jaeobini
. where he changed his clothes for SUI
}. of his Eminence's robes, and was pre-
n ceeding TRANQUILITY to take his plac
!, among the members of the Sacred Co
= 4 lege in the Sistine Chapel when he wa
"a discovered He was removed quietl
d by the guards and taken to the asylum