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, 1881-12-04
"A Bureau Of 1n~pectlof-The -llsrePre-
aenta1Ion Of Gouds Iii Packages to Be


Stopped.
Ameeting Of the general Freight Agents OF
the Western roads ccntersng In this city WAS
held yesterday af1ernoou at the Office OF tho
Western Hallway Weighing Association, in tue
lakeside Building, for tho purpose OF taking
measures to stop tho Misrepresentation By ship
pers Of goods sent to the various roads Tor ship
lneut The railroads have lost much money nno
hare been Otherwise greatly damaged during
the past few years o,Aaccount OF the practice OF
dishonest shippers In u1isreprcsenslnE tho goods
contained in packages and locked CARS These
shippers have made it practice to mark and
llll high cIass goods us 1owclass. Fur Instance,
Etarch is frequently marked and shipped as
tour, fine cutlery il marked as hardware etc,
md .in this way the railroads are dc-
1sauded: of from ~ cents tu 70 cents
per 100 lbs. Even lumber has been ire
- Quently shipped in closed ears rs san
Or antthin2 else that pays, much lower rates
that it had been delrauded out otn large amount
Of money BY Il shipper who seu1 large amounts
Of lumber to Missouri River points marked
load of dynamite % mite on IT tho Rock isianu ut Council
Hluds. where tie compANy WIS daningeu 10 ta6
amount Of about $1U,Ott)> was due TO such ms
renresentataon: That car,oad "f dynamite! a! ~1i y
would not hive been received ut ALL iHc fa1l-
1oads find that III order TO stop SUCH occur
mests and prevent ar od S 7.t
1ake some united and energetic action, u nor
ouiF the railroads themselves are sufferers froln
such state Of gtluirs, but the hnuc5t shippers
who abstain from fraudulent practices arc also
much injured, being unable to compete agaanst
inch Of thelr competitors as are able 10 secure
.1ow fates through 1raudu1cnt means; r. e<.
There we're present at the meeting w. =. SWan,
milwaukee, & ST. Paul: J. I. Sanford, Rock
ls!and; Il. G. Wicker, Northwestern; {. L. Rising
" mmatash; IT, II. Courtricht. Alton; 412rnce
tucker. Illinois Central: and E. T. Ripley, Bur-
lneton.
Nr Ripley was elected Chairman and Mr. C. L.
Aslug Secretary
Those present we're unanimously OF the opi1l-
ION TINT some measures had to be nken 10 stop
NE Misrepresentation Of goods shipped in pack
ages, both originating in Chicago and passtn1
Through Chicago frotn Eastern poiuts- Alter u
!eogthy discussion, it wus agreed to cstabtisn a
bureau Of Inspection. aud that the matter DC
paced in the hu1lds Of Mr. j, H. Wheeler. super
1ntendent of the Western hallway Weighing AS
toc1auon, and he WAS instructed To take meas.
ufes Tor the examination OF all receipts anu. II
necessary, of oil packages at the various dc},ots
rAessrs. E. T. K:pcy. j. r. Sanford, anu H. T..
"tckeF we're appointed cOfumirtcc to surcf-
xise and direct tho affairs OF the Inspection
Bureau.
The railroads here hive assurances from the
roads cen1crtue in Milwaukee und St Louis that
toeT will tuke *imiiur act1on. II Is expected
toat the merchants here will show ITO opposition
% the arrangement when they become satisfied
taat the saule rules will apply to I'LL other cities
~ The East and West+ aud will cordially TO-
operafe with the railroads i'll this mA!tcr+
, 1881-12-04

tho Long Branch R0nd they also obtained the
over tne !iound Brook route. and this agreement
wan ,Io gn into es!ee. ubout jan l. ls: 'ihe ar
rctaSfMent Il cnns'dere3 advantageous tn butt
crowded WITH freight 1T the present time rnnt 1t
enuli nut afford 10 rener the necessary ftcii
Inc tracks formerly used f..r the purpose and
tho transfer 10 tho Bound Iirook route will bc
ati advantage to the Pennsylvania Road Tho
p!ny in this CITY say that they haye no official
advice On the subject as the arrangements are
belL* made In Philadelphia and baltimore. n1,d
they will not he infnrlned 0f tho completion or
the agreement nn1il everything Is iii work iug
nrier. The slne answer was received 1T the
Ne" nfk office Of The Pennsylvania Railway
Company. although 1t WAS there believed that
some such arrangements had been euterc1 il,to
by the u!anngcrs uf those roads inierea;c n the
proposed c5ange Of route for the transportation
Uf freight to aud from this city.
, 1881-12-04

DRUNKENNESS S-THE ACKNOWLEDGED ONLY CURE.
Ur. u 'Unger, discovercr ut tho Ctnchonn refill
cdy for drunkenness, 81 Clark street, Pariors
l6-15. Everybody Interested invited to call
Cures positively guaranteed.
, 1881-12-04

What shall buy for loved ones? The most
appropriate and most serviccabic gift would be
4 set OF teeth. The finest and best only S. The
most popular place In tho city, Drs McChcsuty,
corner Randolph and Clark streets.
, 1881-12-04
STEAMSHIP NFiHS

LONDON, Dec. :a-Thc City OF Brussels and the
bohemia. from New York, have arrived out.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 3.-The steamship Wieland
sailed for Now York today with the Lcssiugs
cabin and l5u stecrasc passengers.
, 1881-12-04

Among the sales OF pinnos nt~the warcrooms
III New Fork last week twu werc to Lay Gould,
the great stock operator, ami Samuel Hunting
tn,4 President. Tie bra;c.1 Weber warerooMs
in this city arc ut 10 and ~ W:hush uyonuc.
, 1881-12-04

+ Hanging and Standing cabi-
nets, Easess, Music Stands,,
Fancy Stands and Tables, Work
Stands, Parlor Writing Desks,
Fancy Chairs, Easy Chairs and
Rockers in almost endless va
fiety, and Of the newest and
most desirable styles.
Cur recent in1poTtations of
French Goods surpaSs any
thing that has been offered in
this market.
Full lines of Fine Par!or and
Chamber Suits Dining-Roona,
Library, and Office Furniture:
Sole manufacturers OF the
Celebrated
ElnPRESSS FOLDING BEDSTEAD
State and Auanas-sts.
Factory, West Randolph and Jeff=rsoa-sss.
, 1881-12-04

F3LES! pT2.siN!: 3'ILEE.::
4 >u?e cure for Blind. bleeding, Itching. aud
Uceru1cd Iitc5 has be:H discovered by DR.. Will
iaIus. 4 single hox vi DR. WILLIAMS INDIAN
PILE uiNIiHENT hns cured the wurs, chroaic
cases vi twenty tiye years st 4nd,ng: II give.
rctiei i'll live u,!n;l.cs;4.Icr uxinI. WILL
LsHS' UiNTMENTuhSoruS tho tuusp:s, southe3
cutting ws.rsn III bed, acting u puutice. It Is
prepared fur riics, itching Ut tho parts, and
noll44I.= else. sSola by druggists. or mailed
OH rercipt vi prsct--S1. hy
VAN SCu.AACil, STEVENSON Co, Chicago.
, 1881-12-04

For cou.l,s. ceide. a*tI11.lu. hroicIsf-
Us. and consump.ion Naca!ister5 cough Mkt
TOR whuopinx- cough and Group '.1phu T.. Lee
CORNER Hnlstet and Harrison Streets, and oil
druGHj5(S.
, 1881-12-04
INe N0l F[dn|9,
The QverSfruag Bass,
The Circular Scale Scale,
The hgyaff9 Bridge,

All OF whicl. have been universally
copied by all other makers.
Their last and crow,lins inven-
ton is the Complete Metal Action,
substituting metal for wood i'll all
parts Of the action liable to be At
fucted by dampncss or ellasses Of
Temperature, making it the only
Piano III the worl.! that is inscnsl-
bic to atmospheric changes; rs
wooden .plows, wood ;axietrees,
wooden buildings, wooden ships,
wooden elackS, wooden bridges
have all been Displaced By more
substantial! iron and steel, 6r other
suitable metal: 50 the Metallic -ec-
lion oi the Cliickering Piano is
destined to 0isplace the old-iash-
ioue1 wooden action now in use by
all other makers.
Splendid assortment of new
Clickering Pianos. Grand, Square,
and Upright, including some sn-
perb Instruments Tor the Holiday
trade, just received at the Music
|>0hnS ut
, 1881-12-04
70 Compare tha Most Wonderful Bargains
in all Departments Ever Offered il
ile U2ited States.

Compare our COlOrcs! Ffrhrh SasinS ut 'Sr
Compare aur Hack Lyons Eetrets ut ~ 10 and
$..t1.
Co,apare pur Elegant Pushes 1T $:.G9, S:.05. and
$::.3:}
Compare our Wear Resisting SiIks At S1.3", $1-49
S1.C!,. Sl.73- and Si.2a-
Compare our Satin sroradcs at Gt. :i9c and Sl>:9+
Co,,pare uur prices nraralc fe'vHts.
Cusuparc our Black Frearh Cashmere ut 63c, tic,
s1r, and Gf}r.
comparc our figures cn Stylish Fall nress FOOLS
Conpnrc our lIandsenp riaitls anl Combination
ETerts.
Compare the noin,ans nc selling at $1,000.
Co,,rare oar Sa.in le Lyon Dulsnln* ut S'0and Ss'
yu,,,,asc aut pau1*r Prices TN Far-lined Garments
Comrarc Duf childrcn's Fancy Cloaks ut $3.50,
$:;.9:,, aud $500.
Con,,,are our @,rices Tor ScalsSin poMans.
Compare our prices fur Sralskin Sar1ues.
Compare our Fail Importation Of Sia"is-
Con,pare style aud prices Of osr Ladies' Suits.
Couparc nrcaS IT onr magnificent lne Of Millinery
Con,.,arc our complete stock of Winter t:loreS.
C0npare Quality, Styic Mni Prizes or our Hosiery
Comparc our uunstrlAhlc prices for Underwear.
Comncre our Best Iautried Shirt for Sl.oo.
fsmnayc our Extra Quality IniaundrIe Shirt at 7ac
Compare orr durable frsHrh Wore coFset Il VI.
Compare our excellent Health torsct for .a1..o"
compare cur handsome collection Of Skirts
Couupare our s!rl1 tloaks for Infants.
Compare our fine assortment of Lace an fare Goods
fnuare our beautiful .;uck IT Si1s iana1errhiets.
Cnn,,,are our extreme lyY prices on Ribbons.
tou,src our uuniersut collection OF ilpllda1 Goods
cuuuare our Slyli>h Frinyps, timls. Buttons, etc.
f'nnsf,frr Thu value you rrrelTe fur yuur money
lousfdcr our honorable system of d"lHy busiuess-
Consider CUR QUE price and no derivation.
cnn,3er t1r courteous attention tae aud all rceerc
consider your advantage in buying ffons nc" '''use
, 1881-12-04
A Very Important Cave Involving THE
Rights Of Passengers Through s'ro.::-


specsat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.
siNtSuF1ELp, ILL.,, Dec. "a suit was com
mcnc:d In the United Suites Court today by F.
". Burnett, &c this city, attorney for Her.
inann Naur. OF st. Louis, agsinsr tho Marshal
anu the President aud hoard Of Trustees Of tho
Village OF Tayiorvillc, Christian County, which
is Intended to test some very interesting anu
important questions growing out or tho use Of
diniuz-cars OH she Wabash Railway. This cona-
pany hgs lately supplied its trains with dining
ours furnished will I'LL tho lrxurlcs usually
found In lrs,-class hotel, Including, the
hest brands or wine aid beer. Tho
through Tnyioryc, which is Il no-licc:ise town,
ard contains nu1lscrDf temperance advocates
s,l zeulOus ti&ar they nor willing that nassen-
gers travelling through their village tbs rate
Ot thirty miles At1 hour shall obtain anything to
drink TN the trA;ts. un .Nor- Il The -'iliase
Narshaf, acting under Instructions from TIC
Town Nuafu, entered tho Iinln;-clr while t!a
train ut tho depot, aud purchased Il hottie
ot beer from the cond4et"r: wl.n S'inp"se'i PIN
arrested the conductor without Il warrant, t0ok
him from til cur aud trait, and brought him be-
fure magistrate. by whom he WIS tnui Si1 tor
violating the village nr'l1anc.: ii <st3 3st keeping
oycn 1t drasn- snop- >Upon settln: tho tine the
conductor was immediately reArrcs!ett fur VIC
Ia:iils the State W. ana hclh to Witit tho iiuu-
fn:. y; the gra:,d Jury, which has sncc found iln
i,sd!ctu.e,1t aSniuat. him eonia'n:ng numerous
counts. The sEllruasl cotnpnIy eams that the
OF law, and. us twpuia BIZ obliged to discontinue
the ::llc Ut u lis lrti:!s ii Hh,l.st! I" pro-
cure license fruln every vlllaE* through which
they run. l,;,s determined To test :av matter,
Iieuee ,his suit uus been brt,nE!s: Ay tho cou-
Iuc;0r against 1ne town authorities ny sAn d.
rtsilon Of the cotnl,au:-s attorney. Tne dnin-
ages claimed arc $3v-J.
The Sou:I. western Hallway -t->ocf:-
1ion Meeting Hostuoned for Ono
May.
Ncssrs. Z. 2. Ripley. H. Ii. Courtrigat. and ~
c. bird, WHO were appointed ii committee at The
late meeting or the Southwestern halfway Asso-
c'ution iii st. Louis to prepare Il plan for tho ti-
vision of the business arising from points I'll
tho Kansas & Texas Division of tho Missouri
Pacific Halfway southwest of Kansas: City met
1T ST. 1.s,tlls FRIDAY to perform the work as
signed, u them. They did slot get through
their work. however, us they expected, en ar
t,,ulit Of tlr absence Of ss}tNe s.il'cas "f the
Missouri Pacific, whose lreset!ce Wi:* necessary
IL eulllc Il, 1enlt unlcrs; ulli,y. TEtt tEurc-
fore adjourned to meet again III this city next
Tuesday
In .r,lcr TO give this committee chance II,
complete its work before the general Metttrg OF
the Southwestern Railway Association, the lat
ter meeting. has becu postponed untn NeuutS-
6,at
, 1881-12-04

grain dealing yielsls large profits. For pamphlet
aud electric l1er, reports write to ". r Soulc &
Co., ur1kers, l3U LII SaIc-st.. Chicago.
, 1881-12-04
FORCED BARGAINS
EM OUR
CLOAK DEPARTMENT. |

500 French Diagonal and Fur-Back Beaver
Cfouls al,A Dn[maus, handsomely
trimmed Will, Plush and P;tssculen-
terles, ut $500, $1,000, 5l1-Oo. $l25o, att!
Sl4.03, worth $500, $500, SO 0o, -: 90,
and Sa5.0O
Is Ladies' Elegant Satin De Lyon and Satin
MarvellIeaux Dolnlans, handsomely
trimmed with fur and quilted Innings,
at S.. and SA.00, worth $500 and
$4,000.
$50 Light Cloth Jackets at $3.50, $780, $500,
sG.uo, aud SS.oo-!alf Of forner prices
100 Ladies' listers ut $50. $500, 57.00, SS.0o,
5000, Sll00, and Sl3.00-ilnnense re-
ductons. -
200 samples Of Imported Garments consist
lng Of Light Cloth, French Diagonal,
Satin de Lyons extra long Dolnlans.
Prices range FROM $500 to $500,
which is half their real yaInc.
ALI goods bought strictly for cash enables lis
to offer many. bargains unapproacll-
able by any other house.
All goods marked in plain figures.
One price Tor ait. Money refunded at all
times ii goods are not satisfactory.
, 1881-12-04
P11lTDS.
CHICK E|}III((II(1I,
The King Of
IEo[ A. \ ()S
| ALWAYS VICTORIOUS!
The VQpn-RcnDvncl Cbiirkepine !

It was we'll said years ago that
the Gold Medals awarded to the
Chickering would make KINGS
RANSOM.
Tile latest triumph for the
Chickcring &.Sons Pianos was ut
the Mecllanics' Institute Fair in
Boston, where they were awarded
ONE GOLD MEDAL and TWO SILL
YER MEDALS SoreruN competitors.
The Cilickering Piano has stood
in tI,e front rank for nearly II
century, always in the lead and
always the first to introduce lm-
proycments. The inventors Of
, 1881-12-04

Total .GO.;99 1910 Hits 40.Hti
The percentages were: Michigan Central, = .io'
Lake Shore, :5.aD; Fort Wayne, $50; Pam
Handle, 1855; Baltimore S; Ohio, :-4Qs Grand
Trunk. TO- So
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
A Doctor on the Bicycle.

"A Country Surgeon" writes to
the London Lancet about the bicy-
Gle as follows: / have been bicy-
Gle rider for the last five years, with
an ever increasing delight the more
proficient become. This summer
I have turned both my horses out
to grass and have trusted to my BIZ
cycle alone, doing on an average of
about fifty miles a day. find |
get through my days work with less
fatigue than on horseback and with
out the monotony of driving. Ny
work is done quicker; my usual
pace is ten miles an hour, and l can
90 at the rate of fifteen when press
ed. A bieyclist's steed is always
ready saddled, and on arriving at
your destination does not require 4
boy to hold him. 1t can be ridden
with almost as much ease in wet as
in dry weather, but it is not adapted
for very hilly country, though all
moderate hills can be surmounted.
Since invested in my new fifty
two-inch l rode ninety-fve miles in
one day without unusual fatigue,
and all who wish to curtail their
stable expenses, should take the
trouble to learn the bicycle.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15

When lately returning from Bonn
bay to Indore, Maharajah Holkar
fell in with a sanity old gentleman
named Jasawant Rao, of whose mir
aculous powers strange tales are told.
One day the wife of a wealthy native
merchant dropped her nose-ring
while in the act of presenting CO.
coanut to the holy man. In vain
did he politely request the lady to
pick up her jewel; she vowed that
she could not be guilty OF such pro-
family after it had fallen of its own
accord at his feet. So Jasawant Rao
gave the ring to another woman who
happened to be standing by, and re-
turned the cocoanut to the merchants
wife, with directions that on reach
ing home she was to bathe, and
then to break open the nut with her
own hands. These instructions be-
ing faithfully carried out, the lady
was rewarded for her piety by find
ing her nose ornament inside the CO.
coanut. Such is the tale as related
by correspondent of leading ma
tive journal, who evidently believes
implicitly in its truth. No doubt a
clever piece of jugglery.
These sanity personages are often
accomplished conjurors, and some of
their appliances show remarkable
ingenuity. One of these is a brass
cup three or four inches high, con-
tanning an upright figure of Luch-
NEE, with her infant lying horizon
tally across her bent arms One foot
of the brass baby touches the upper
edge of the cup, Luchmee stands on
the bottom. On water being pour
ed in, the cup fills gradually until
the fluid reaches the infants foot,
when miracle takes place. Out
runs the water from hole in the
bottom of the cup underneath Luch-
mee's feet, but which does not ap-
parently penetrate to the inside,
and the stream never ceases for
moment until every drop is drained
out. There is small hole in the
side of the cup close to where the
infants foot touches the rim, but
the odd thing is that although the
water only commences to run out of
the bottom OF thecup when it reach
es this orifce, the flow continues
after the surface of the fluid has fall
en- below the only apparent exit
from the cup. We believe this in
genious apparatus is much used in
some parts of India to delude the
ignorant into belief in the miracu-
lous powers of wandering saints.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15

The Valley OF the Jordan

The valley of the Jordan would
act as an enormous hot house for
the new colony. Here might be
cultivated palms, rice, cotton, indi-
90, sugar, sorgum, besides bananas,
pineapples, yams, sweet potatoes,
and other field and garden produce.
Rising a little higher, the country is
adapted to tobacco, maize, flax, cas-
tor oil, millet, sesamum, melons,
gourds, cumir, anise, coriander,
ochra, brinjals, pomegranates, or
anges, fgs-and SO up to the plains,
where wheat, barley, beans, and leE-
ills of various sorts, with olives and
vines, would form the staple pro-
ducts. Gilead especially is essen
TALLY country of wine and oil it
is also admirably adapted to silk
culture while among its forests,
carob or locust bean, pistachio, juju-
be, almond, balsam, kali, and other
profitable trees grow wild in great
profusion. All the fruits of South
ern Europe, such as aprieots, peach
es, and plums, here grow to perfec-
ton; apples, pears, and ounces
thrive well on the more extreme
elevation, upon which the fruits and
vegetables of England might easily
be cultivated, while the quick-grow-
ing eucalyptus could be planted
with advantage on the fertile but
treeless plains. Not only does the
extraordinary variety of soil and
climate thus compressed into small
area offer exceptional advantages,
from an agricultural point of view,
but the inclusion of the Dead Sea
within its limits would furnish a
vast source of wealth, by the explor-
alton of its chemical and mineral
deposits. The supply of chlorate OF
potassium, two hundred thousand
tons of which are annually consum-
ed in England, is practically mex
haustible; while petroleum, btu
men, and other lignites can be pro-
cured in great quantities upon its
shores. There can be little doubt,
in fact, that the Dead Sea is a mine
of unexplored wealth, which only
needs the application of capital and
enterprise to make it n most lucra-
tive property.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
THE DEVIL.
BY ALFRED J. HoUGH.

Men don't believe in devil now as theil
fathers used to do;
They've forced the door of the broadest creed
to let his majesty through.
There isn't print of his cloven foot or a
fiery dart from his bow
To be found in the earth or air to-day, for
the world has veted SO.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that
palsies heart and brain,
And loads the bier of each passing year with
ten hundred Thousand slain ?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day
with the fiery breath of hell,
If the Devil isn't and never was Won't
somebody rise and tell
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint, and
digs the pit for his feet ?
wherever God sows His wheat
The Devil is voted not to be, and, of course.
the thing is true;
But who is doing the kind Of work the Dew
il alone should do +?
We are told he does not go about as roar
ing lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible for the
everlasting row
To be heard in home, in church and state,
TO the earth's remotest bound,
If the Devil, by unanimous vote, is no.
where to be found?
Won't somebody step to the front forthwith,
and make their bow and show
How the frauds and crimes of a single day
spring up -? We want TO know,
The Devil was fairly voted out and, of
course, the DEVILS gone
But simple people would like to know who
carries his business on ?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
Love.

Says Spurgeon Love to Christ
smooths the path.of duty, and wings
the feet to travel it it is the bow
which impels the arrow of obedience;
it is the handspring moving the
wheels of duty; it is the strong
arm tugging the ore of dill
gence. Love is the marrow Of the
bones of fidelity, the blood in the
veins of piety, the sinews Of spiritual
strength !; yea, the life Of sincere de-
votion. He that hath love can no
more be motionless than the aspen in
the gale, the scar leafin the hurricane,
or the spray in the tempest. As wen
may hearts cease to beat as love to
labor. Love is instinct with actiyi-
ty, it can not be idle; it is full of en-
ergy, it cannot content itself with
little; it is the well spring of he
roism, and great deeds are the gush-
ing of its fountain it is giant; it
heapeth mountains upon mountains,
and thinks the pile but little it is a
mighty mystery, forit changes bitter
to sweet; it calls death life, and life
death and it makes pain less painful
than endowment.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
A Mistake.

Don't try to give a large party il
you have small house. Such at
tempts are special nuisance, fail
ure, and "a mistake"
Why should we be driven out
upon the staircase? We don't live
upon the staircase when we are at
home and neither our wife, sons,
or even daughters (who are apt to
be free with paternities), think that
we ought to do SO. Why are we to
be condemned to play whist for five
hours, because our hostess does not
know what else to set us down to?
But our girls seem to enjoy it.
Nither Flora, nor Bessie, nor Emily,
appear to mind dancing, although
their faces are more than pink.
There is scarcely breathing room
and SO we put up with it Tor their
sakes and when our wife thanks
our hostess upon parting, and says
what a delightful evening we have
had, we try to believe so; but, next
day, when lady friend drops in to
gossip about the party, we find our
feminines were not as pleased as
they appeared. There was no room
to dance; only half the people could
get seats at supper; and what stuff
those charades were! Does not every
body know that gentleman with a
saucepan on his head, the lid in one
hand, and a poker in the other,
means knight" and that his hold
ing up copy of "Don Quixote, "
means "of therueful countenance? I"
Did Miss Jones chow much longer
will she be Miss ?-ask the girls
think it very clever to bother every
body with that conundrum ? What
has human nature done to be So
amused? A crowd is not amusing
themselves in, or rather, if you ask
more people than your room will
hold, they will tire themselves out,
and set your party down as a failure.
Don't attempt more than you can
pleasantly perform.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
The Countess of Jersey and Disraeii

This celebrated lady was also IA
nous in her old age as the only per-
son who had ever snubbed Lord
Beaconsfield, then Mr.. Disraeli, with
any approach to success. She was
of the extreme Austrian faction in
politics, and looked upon Count Ca
your as an incarnation of the foul
fiend. NJ. Disraeli had early news
of his death, and communicated it
to old Lady jersey as follows
''Your ladyship viii be pleased to
hear of the death of your greatest
enemy. Count Cavour is dead"
"Mr. Disraeli, replied the ancient
dame stiffly, Il am sorry to hear of
any persons DEATH" Lord Beaeons-
field had the last word, however, for
in ''Endymion" Lady jersey figures
as Zenobia.-AH the Year Round.