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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
Funny.

One is very fortunate il he has wit
enough 10 get out Of funny dilemma
without being laughed at. The poor
Teutonic musician Of whom the follow
ing story is told by Southern doctor Of
divinity was not one Of these fortunate
ones.
The doctor was pastor OF n fine city
church. The organ loft and choir gal
lery were Immediately in the rear Of the
pulpit, and a little elevated above it.
The organist wasa German, who, though
a fine performer, was not remarkable
for presence of mind, and was easily
disconnected.
The hour for afternoon service had ar
rived, and, though the organist was in
his place, the choir had not arrived. By
some mishap, also, the key of the organ
had been misplaced.
The minister, not knowing these
facts, solemnly arose, and, after an
nouncing hymn and reading it, took
his seat. There was no response from
the organ or choir. Silence reigned su-
preme.
The minister and congregation became
uneasy. All eyes were turned to the
organ-loft.
At length the organist, with fidgety
manner and q very red face, came TO
the railing in front of the loft, and in a
tone intended as q whisper, but which
was distinctly heard by all, made the
following startling announcement
Mister breecher, mister breecher,
We von'. have no singing dis afternoon.
DE key not coomed, and de lady vat
sings de sobrano bees not coombed, and
de rest OF de people vat sings be not
coomed, and de organ bees not obened,
and We Won't have no singing dis after.
noon, mister breecher, dat's So" The
effect may be readily imagined.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
A Chinese He'll.

A traveller thus describes represen-
tation of the punishment of the wicked
after death, according to the Buddhist
theory, which he witnessed in the sub
urbs of Canton:
"After walk of about a mile, we
came to the Temple of Horrors. This is
a horrible place-that is, the scenes are
hideous. The intention is to represent
what bad man would suffer after death.
1t is composed of ten different groups of
statuary, of clay, and many of them are
crumbling to pieces. The first group
represents the trial of the man he is
surrounded by his family and friends,
who are trying to defend him ; the sec
ond, where he is condemned and given
over to the executioner in the third he
is undergoing asemi- Reconsideration from
the man to the brute the fourth, where
he is put into mill head downward,
and is being ground up; his dog is by
the side of the mill licking up his blood.
In the fifth scene he is being placed be-
tween two boards, and is sawed down
lengthwise; sixth, ne is under large
bell, which is rung until the conclusion
kills him; seventh, the man is placed
upon table, and two men are beating
him with large wooden paddles eighth,
he is upon rack, and the executioners
are tearing his flesh with red-hot pin
GERS ninth, he is in cauldron of boil
ing lead the tenth scene represents him
upon gridiron, undergoing the process
of roasting. In all these scenes the fam
lily are present, also large figures who
represent the Judge, executioners, little
devils, and various instruments of tor
ture -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
Our Knowledge Of Shakespeare.

1t is the man Shakespeare who really
influences us in reading Hamlet" and
Othello," and not the less because
critics generally repeat the assertion that
weknow very little of theman who retires
so carefully behind his characters. We
have, it is true, next to nothing of the
kind of information about Shakespeare
which Boswell gave us about johnson.
But surely we know q good deal about
man if we know only this-that he is
capable of sympathizing impartially with
vast variety of characters, and in some
very important respects it seems to me
that we know more of Shakespeare than
of johnson. If we know less of his do
mestic relations and his taste in cookery,
we know what he felt and thought about
some of the most profoundly interesting
of all the problems of life. But, wheth-
er we have or have not framed any the
ory as to Shakspeare'C personality, or
have or have not constructed theory of
the man from his books, it is not the
less the man who really influences us.
For what really impresses us in Shaks-
peare, or in any great writer, is the ex-
traordinary. force and yividness with
which he has embodied certain general
truths and deep emotions, and his power
of achieving that feat clearly depended
upon his own emotional and Intellectual
temperament. The nature of the infu-
ences is not the less clear that it acts as
from behind cloud.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
Timber Planting.

To make timber plentiful and to render
our climate more genial we must reclothe
all rugged, broken land and rocky crests,
in fact, every acre that is not cultivated
or is cultivated at loss, with valuable
forest trees.
First-All ravines and steep hill-sides,
all land too rocky to be thoroughly
cleared of stone and plowed, should be
devoted to trees.
Second Protecting belts of timber
should be planted wherever buildings,
orchards, gardens, ETC., are exposed to
cold, sweeping winds.
Third-The banks of streams, ponds,
open bitches, etc., should be SO planted
with trees that they will be protected
from abrasion by floods and rapid cur
rents.
Fourth-Al public roads should be
belted by graceful, stately trees.
We should preserve, improve and
extend our existing forests by keeping
up a constant succession of young grow
ing trees of the best varieties. To do
this it is necessary:
First-To allow no stock to run in
wood lots for the purpose of forage. This
should be rule infexible and relent-
ness.
Second = Young growth in forests
should be thinned moderately and judi
ciously. Worthless varieties should be
cut out and the valuable sorts should be
trimmed up so that they will grow tall,
forming trunk rather than branches.
Third Timber should be cut with
intelligent reference to future growth.
Valuable trees that you wish to propa-
gate should be cut in the spring. Those
that you wish to exterminate should be
cut in August.-Professor LaSenby.
Cornell University.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
Lincoln and Father Blair.

Respect and reverence for old age was
one Of Lincoln's marked characteristics,
az was strikingly shown in an instance
which occurred ON the route from Spring
field, Ill, to Washington before the cere-
monial of his first Inauguration.
The sullen roar of civil war was heard
in the distance, and spirit of apprehen-
sion and doubt possessed all grades of
society, as was made manifest in the vast
crowds that assembled everywhere along
the line to either greet the President with
enthusiastic cheers or muttered mad
threats of denunciation and death.
In the progress of the journey the
party had reachen one of the larger
cities Of Southern Indiana, and Lincoln,
while standing on the platform of the
car, discovered an old white-haired man,
whose form at one time had been of her
cGlean proportions, but then bent and
feeble, vainly making an attempt to ap-
proach him. 1t mattered not to Lin
coin that his audience were spell-bound
with the weight of his argument, and
thrilled with the appeal made to their
patriotism and loyalty. For as if alone
before him stood the veteran of almost a
century Father Blair, challenging his
assistance and sympathy, 80 with few
neatly turned and appropriate words he
descended, passed rapidly through the
throng, and placing the old mans arm
within his own, retraced his steps to his
former position. State Reoiste,,.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
American Sugar.

The time is approaching very evident
ly when the manufacture OF sugar in this
republic will reach sufficient magnitude
to supply the whole country. Our terri
tory is SO extensive and the temperature
SO varied that there is scarcely anything
consumed by man that it will not fur
nish, when the intricacies of the art of
producing it is once sufficiently well un-
derstood. We do not say that the sugar
supply will come from beets, though to
some extent, and a very large extent, it
may, and we hope will. But more like
it will be the product of sorghum and
the amber cane, which would seem to be
less costly in the way of labor. Sugar
from beets can undoubtedly be made OF
as excellent quality as any produced
from any other material, but we fear not
so cheaply. Labor is the great draw
back; this being so much more econom-
ically supplied in France and Germany
than in the United States, readily ac-
counts for the success of beet-sugar
making there; and it seems that it will
always continue to be SO, at least SO
long as this discrepancy in the price of
labor exists. Should we be able, how
ever, to counterbalance this by increased
product OF the beet per acre, or by i'm
proved machinery, or from any other
cause not now developed, the aspect of
things may be changed. The factory in
Delaware is experimenting perhaps more
intelligently than any other that has
been established in this country, and the
prospect is more encouraging than any
other. Should it be finally successful,
it will of course lead the way to the
establishment of others, and hence sup
ply want in the United States so great
and commanding as to give employment
to labor and capital to an enormous ex-
tent.-Gernaantoaon Telegraph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
How a sedentary Life Affects Women.

The Popular Science Monthly re-
marks that many of the ills or diseases
prevalent among the women of our day
are no doubt traceable to the sedentary
mode of life among them. The progress
of the industrial art has done away with
much of the household drudgery to
which many women were formerly sub
jected, and in many cases the want of
sufficient occupation for needed bodily
exercise. It says: The fruits of this
state of things are strikingly exhibited
in certain observations made by the late
Dr. Robertson, Manchester surgeon,
who in his practice as specialist for
women's diseases found that women who
themselves performed all their house
hold work found no trace of certain COM
plants; that these complaints began to
make their appearance In women with
one servant, became more pronounced
in women with two servants, or worse
still, with those who had three servants,
and so on. He showed statistically that
the deaths from child birth were four
times greater in cases of women with
four servants than those with none. On
the other hand, we noticed statement
the other day that since the suspension
of labor in the mills of New England on
account of the panic many of the female
operatives have sought employment as
domestics, and as consequence there is
much more sickness among them than
there was previously. This would seem
to show that housework is not as healthy
as labor in cotton mills.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
A Preachers Artiffce.

Fra Roces, the celebrated but eccen-
tric preacher Of Naples, once scared his
congregation In the most beneficial way.
He preached tremendous sermon on
the Inevitable consequences of a sinful
life. His hearers we're in convulsion
of excitement with the blazing picture
of a srlphurous retribution before their
imaginations. ALI at once he stopped in
the very midst of an eloquent appeal
and cried out, " Now, all of you who
sincerely repent Of your sins hold up
your hands," Every hand in the assem-
bly, was up in an instant. The preacher
looked upon the scene for one awful mo-
ment, and then, addressing the higher
powers, exclaimed: "Holy Archangel
Michael, thou who with thine adaman-
tine sword standest at the right Of the
Judgment seat of God, hew me off every
hand which has been raised hypocriti-
cally." In an instant nearly every hand
dropped to its owners side.a
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
The Origin of the Name "Artemus
Ward.S

There has been not little specula-
ton as to how Brown came by his nom
de plume, "Artemus Ward" DIR.
Shattuck says that, having some conf
Dental business with him during one OF
his last visits to Waterford, he took the
occasion to inquire in particular about
it. Brown said it was in this wise
While engaged at the Plaindeoler Of
fee, in Cleveland, Ohio, he made the
acquaintance of an eccentric old gentle
man whose actual name was Artemus
Ward, though assuming some more pre-
tentious titles. This man was in the
show business, having few "wax fig
gers" birds, g 'snaix" and kangaroo.
While waiting on the printers for his
bills he amused Brown by telling an
endless number of anecdotes, all Of
which were duly treasured up. Among
these were some of the incidents in
Browns article entitled edwin Forrest
as Othelle." He referred to the follow
ing as one of the contributions of the
original Artemus Ward:
ed was actin at Niblo's Garding,
but let that pars. 1 sot down IN the
pit, took out my spectacles and COM
menced peroosin the evenins bill.
As was peroosin' the bill grave young
man who sot near me axed me if I'd ever
seen Forrest dance the essence of Old
Virginny.
"' He's immense in that sed the
young man. He also does a fair cham
pion jig the young man continnered,
but his big thing is the essence of Old
Virginny.
"Sez I:
"Fair youth, do you know what I'd
DO with you if you was my sum-
"No,' sez he.
"sWall,' sez I, sd appint your fu-
neral tomorrow AFTERNOON, and the
korps should be ready You're too
smart to live on this yearth.'
The old man claimed himself to be the
hero of this story. Brown, however,
wanted the credit of correcting the
spelling and of dressing the stories up
in good literary style. Pleased with the
name, he attached it to several of his
comic productions, and, finding that it
took with the public, adopted GA.
| Ward" as his own,-Scribner
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
Researches With the Photophone.

After working for some time with the
thermopile and galvanometer, 1t oc-
Cured to me several weeks ago that the
results thus obtained might be checked
by a more direct and simple form of ex-
pertinent. Placing the gases and vapors
in diathermanous bulbs, and, exposing
the bulbs to the action of radiant heat,
the gases and vapors ought, / considered,
to be rendered evident by ordinary ex-
pansion. + devised an apparatus with
view of testing this idea. But, at this
point, and before my proposed gas
thermometer was constructed, I became
acquainted with the ingenious and
original experiments of Mr.. Graham
Bell, wherein musical sounds are obtained
through the action of an intermittent
beam of light upon solid bodies.
From the first, I entertained the
opinion that these singular sounds were
caused by rapid changes of temperature.
producing corresponding changes OF
shape and volume in the bodies impinged
upon by the beam. But if this be the
case, and if gases and vapors really
absorb radiant heat, they ought to pro
duce sounds more intense than those
obtainable from solids. I Ipictured every
stroke of the beam responded to by sud
den expansion of the absorbent gas, and
concluded that, when the pulses thus
excitedfollowed each other with sufficient
rapidity, musical note must be the
result. 1t seemed plain, moreover, that
by this new method many of my previous
results might be brought to an indepen-
dent test. Highly diathermanous bodies,
reasoned, would produce faint sounds,
while highly athermanous bodies would
produce loud sounds; the strength of the
sound being, in sense. a measure of
the absorption. The first experiment
made, with view of testing this idea,
was executed in the presence Of Mr..
Graham Bell, and the result was in exact
accordance with what 1 had foreseen.-
Prof 7yndaU in Popular Science
Monthly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
Lotteries In italy.

An employe of the italian Lotto ad-
ministration has published an interest
ing pamphlet respecting the lotto play
ing in Italy, to which rich and poor,
learned and unlearned, are addicted with
equal passion, and which contributes a
considerable to the Government revenue.
Not counting the Island of Sardinia, the
lottery in 1879 brought no less than
81, ,513, 269 lire into the treasury. The
total amount of prizes was 80, ,614,126
lire. The sixty-seven chief provincial
towns, with 629 lottery offices and
population of 4,O19, $40 inhabitants,
caused the enormous sum of 49,
OBJ ,814 lire to flow into the treasury.
The rural districts, with l, 102 offices
and %, 145, ,074 inhabitants, contributed
"a, 451, 454 lire; in other words, the pop
ulation of the chief provincial towns paid
voluntary tax of 10 lire II centesimi
per capita, that of the rural districts only
l lire II centesimi, making an average
of 2 lire 58 centesimi for every Italian
subject of either sex. The Basilicuta,
the two Calabrias, the Abruzzes, Molise,
the Marks and Umbria, containing the
smallest number of persons unable to
read or write, furnish also the smallest
amount in lotto-moneys as well as in
direct and indirect taxes. The provinces
with the greatest number of persons not
able to read and write, and a population
of 10, $50, ,884 souls, spent q, ,689, ,8O8 lire
for lottery playing, i. e., 2.O5 lire per
capita, and the remaining ones 2.22 lire
for each inhabitant. People play more
where the game is facilitated by large
number of lottery offices.
Twenty-fo provinces with J, ,279 OIL
ces expended 81, ,228, ,277 lire; the other
43 provinces with 452 offices only 15,-
285, oil lire, making an average OF 4 lire
II centesimi for the former and lire II
centesimi head for the latter. In those
provinces which pay larger quota OF
taxes the inhabitants are more given to
playing. As curious and at the same
time regrettable fact be it mentioned
that the city of Turin, with 80 per cent.
of persons unable to read and write,
pays on an average 1918 lire head to
the lotto administration Milan, with an
equal percentage, 9.41 lire; Venice,
Al per cent, 14.7O lire; Genoa, with 6d
per cent, S.O6 lire; Rome, with 60 per
cent, 1891 lire; Florence, with IS per
cent, 1888 lire Bologna, with 60 per
cent, go, and Naples, with SO pei
cent, 1891 lire Wiener AHgen'es''d
| Zeitu,ag.