The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS.
-Of the 6O1 convicts in the Arkansas
State Prison more than one hundred are
murderers.
The Petersons claim that '.Helen's
Babies has had a boom, and that they
have sold 10000 copies lately.
Cyrus W. Field is said to have ar
ranged to put nearly 81 900, 900 into his
newspaper building, to be erected in New
York this year.
An economical woman at Andover.
Mass, commit ed suicide by gnawing
the phosphorus from matches and drink
ing pint of ink.
Says the Philadelphia Chronicle:
michigan produces more salt than any
other State, but it is forest fires and not
salt that put the inhabitants in the great
est pickle
Several recent explosions of stoves in
Maine show that the old-fashioned prac-
tice of loading firewood with gunpewder
for the annoyance of thieves IS still fol-
lowed IN that State. ' sairti --e--'t
y
Va, found twenty pieces of gold in a
log which he was splitting the other day.
The treasure was concealed in an augur
hole, and the tree had grown over it,
A man in Columbia City. Ind,
claims to have discovered spot where
| diamonds can be scooped up by the
quart, and though he has been offered a
whole gallon of whisky he won't give
| the place away. -s - s-..a.4
Newark, N. j.. has been robbed by
| mayors, councilmen, auditors, treasur-
| ers, clerks, policemen and contractors,
| and yet imagine their surprise and indig-
nation to discover that she has $4,000
left in the treasury. z.t:s1 Il
Rev George Flett, of the Okanese
Mission, who arrived in Winnipeg recent
| ly, with Mrs. Flett and Miss E. Ross,
drove the whole way, a distance of over
ing the journey in nine travelling days.
"A comparatively new method of heat
| ing railway cars is now in use ON mum
! ber of the Southern roads. Surplus steam
| from the locomotive is used. The advan.
tages claimed are perfect safety a uni
| form degree of heat throughout the whole
train, great economy and simplicity OF
operation.
w. S. Balch, who, during twenty
years conductorship on the roads of the
Rensselaer, & Saratoga and Delaware &
Hudson Canal Companies, travelled a dis.
| tance of nearly million miles-in exact
| figures $4,000 miles-equal to a little
| more than thIrty-seven times around the
world, never once received a scratch mol
met with any accident or mishap what
| ever. 80 i t 81
in recent address, DR.. Siemen:
commended the open fireplace for its
sanitary advantages. Unlike radiatine
stoves, it warns the walls and furniture
OF "a room more than the air. If the all
within room is hotter than the walls
moisture condenses ON the latter, causing
mildew and with resulting
liability to disease on the part of the 90
cupants of the room. tes a.e4 .f
"A new j law has been projected te
govern the employment of children ir
manufactures throughout the Russian
empire The minimum age. is fixed Al
twelve years, but the children already
|Femployed IN such establishments are ex
,cepted from the operation OF this clause
For person under eighteen years of age
"a days labor is not to exceed twelve
hours, inclusive of two hours for rest
and meals. Night work is absolutely
forbidden.
II Maryland and West Virginia have
an unsettled dispute of long standing
involving the right to half million acre!
of fertile land Charles II. made grant
in 1869 of large tract bounded on the
north by the Potomac There are two
branches of the river, and the northern
one was taken as the line, which became
the boundary of the States; but Mary
land has never given up her claim, anG
new attempt is now being made to gel
the territory.
| "A recent investigation in one of the
large stores in Cbie:i?-o. W''2cr2 %: h;ss,
dred girls are employed, that they are
compelled to eat at noon thirty at a time
in an atmosphere thick and foul with
sickening and unhealthy odors. In the
same place their shawls and wraps, often
damp or. wet, were folded in small
bundles and left to reek all day in this
impure air. The Board of Health has
ordered the proprietors of the establish
ment to ,)royI!c actter acco..-..tJ, lis
Immediately.
AN organ which is somewhat of 9
novelty has been placed in the First Bap.
fist Church, Brooklyn. It cost 5000
has two manuals and pedals, and is oper
ated by pneumatic tubular action. The
keyboard is on the main floor, about ten
feet in front of the pulpit platform, max
ing the distance between the keyboard
and windchest about sixty-fve feet. Fol
use in orchestral compositions there is
unusual addition of snare drum, oper-
ated by pneumatic engine, controlled
by the feet of the organist. The wind
for the organ is supplied by feeders
worked by two water motors.
lit appears from the last volume OF
the history which Germany is publishing
of the late war with France that the
number of men whom Germany put into
the field for fighting purposes was 49,
11O1 officers and LIB, 254 subordinates,
Of these LAG, $50 men, $4,000 were
nursed in field hospitals and 812,O21 in
hospitals for reserves. The lives lost
numbered 129, ,703, of whom 6,247 were
officers and 1913, 453 subordinates. More
than 10000 men either died in battle q
afterward from their wounds. In add
ton to the money which the war cost the
State, there were voluntary contributions
of $12, 100000. Asr .s.5
AS engine No. 25, which draws Erie
passenger train No. l, was running at
full speed near Binghampton, N. Y, re-
Gently, a tire on one of the driving
wheels came loose, and was thrown
through the air with the velocity of a
cannon-ball, and, striking telegraph
pole, splintered it to. atoms. The heavy
piece Of iron rebounded and tore off the
steps of two passenger cars. The in
mates of the cars were greatly shaken up
as the train went humping along. The
train. fortunately did not leave the track,
but railroad men say that it was a very
narrow escape from very serious acci-
dent. --