The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-08-18

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the I'D oystsR th1t th8 animd cannot
shut k1Ghsll I'D 70 RexishaG 4
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parrot repeat the Lords prayer from
beginning to1end IN the Dutch Lam
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A xAMn owl has been known to hop
about upon the keys of piano, ap-
parently delighted with his perform
Tn sense Of smelling is less perfect
In the hon than In most other ami
mails. He hunts rather by sight than
by smell
COMPRESSED air as motive power has
recently been used in England to run a
locomotive. The experiment was re-
garded as a success.
By English law boy Is manageable
at IA and girl at IL. A Frenchman
cannot marry at any age without the
consent of his parents, if living.
A FLEA will eat ten times its own
weight Of provisions in day, and will
drag after it chain q hundred times
heavier than itself. It leaps a distance
of at least 200 times its own length.
Two CROWS built nest in one of the
al &.raa <1an <,f he
city of London, inside the archway in
st Paul's Churchyard. The plane trees
in question are remarkable as the home
each night Of from 5000 to 5000 of the
London sparrows.
NERVE impulses are conducted along
the nerves very slowly in comparison to
the speed of electricity along a copper
wire. The latter travels 16, 600, 900
times as fast as q nerve impulse, and yet
|. the nerve impulse travels with the speed
sof the fastest railroad train.
The waste of material in coal mining
<is enormous. It is estimated that only
4wo thirds of the coal In workable veins
is taken out; there is q further loss of
h 25 per cent in the preparation and de-
livery. The Reading Railroad Company
has spent $500, 900 in the attempt to
utilize waste coal by burning it in loco
motives constructed for the purpose.
THERE are 30 injurious insects in our
vegetable gardens, 30 in our vineyards,
rs attack our apple trees, more than 100
injure our shade trees and more than so
our grain fields. Seventy-five millions
of dollars was the damage done to the
wheat in Illinois in one season, and near
l. IL.
United States, from insects alone, was
S40O, 0O0, 900.
AT a meeting of the Maryland Acade-
my of Sciences DIR. Theobold showed
"a species of beetle and gave the follow
ing figures: Weight of beetle, grains;
weight moved by it, st ounces-2, $40
grains, or 1,32O times the weight of the
beetle. A man weighing $50 pounds,
endowed with the strength of this insect,
should therefore be able to move 1885,
000pounds, or nearly 100 tons.
In Jessamine county, KY, man by
the name of Bowen would never enter
his house except by the back door, and
never leave except by the front. He
selected early In life the spot for his
burial, beneath an old oak tree, remote
from all other graves, in an open field,
and there was buried. Mr.. Mackey
Duncan, of the same county, whose oc-
cupation, that Of q carpenter, is alto
gether unfavorable to the pursuit of
knowledge, is one of the most learned
men, after fashion, In America. He
knows the date of every important event
in the worlds history, year, month and
day, and, whom essential, the minute.
His knowledRe a the family history Of
all promincut people Is somqthine maf-
velous. z E "a