The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-26
Miscellaneous Items.

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One pawnbroker in New York
says that in one year he received
$4,000 coats, vests and pantaloons,
OF which number he said 10000 were
redeemed.
The wearing of rattlesnake skins
as glrdles is new fashion set by the
wife Of chemist, who, while at a
picnic in the woods of Sullivan
county, n. Y, boldly killed the rep
tile. She had the skin properly
cured, retaining the head and its
fourteen rattles, and now values the
girdle at $3.50.
In Pike county there is a Revolu-
tionary brass cannon 200 years old.
Thirty-fve years ago it was left in
charge OF six prominent Democrats,
on condition that it should never be
used in a Republican jollifcation.
The last of these six Democrats is
now dead, but the old gun is still
Democratic, and under careful
guard.
A public school teacher in Tennes-
see goes to his school barefooted, in
his shirt sleeves, without any collar
on, his shirt bosom open and his
pants rolled up to his knees, notwith-
standing the fact that he has nearly
grown young ladies among his
scholars. 1t is said that water has
the same effect upon him as upon Il
mad dog.
COLoRLEss AND CoLD.-A young
girl deeply regretted that she was so
colorless and cold. Her face was
too white, and her hands and feet
felt as though the blood did not
circulate. After one bottle Of Hop
Bitters had been taken she was the
rosiest and healthiest girl in the
town, with a Tivacity and cheerful
ness ofmind gratifying to her friends.
Lightning struck a contribution
box as it was being passed around
in a Breathitt county, n. Y, church
recently, and scattered the fragments
in all directions. All the five and
ten-dollar bills must have been con-
sumed by the electric fluid, for all
that was found in. the shape of
money was a plugged quarter, with
one side engraved for a sleeve
button.
sHerr Krupp, according to the spe-
cial catalogue prepared for his dis
play at the Amsterdam Colonial Ex-
hibition, employs 10000 workmen,
consuming daily 1900 tons of coke
and coal, and produces 750 tons iron
and steel daily, in the form of guns,
rails. bridge work, axles, anchors,
chains, etc. Over 10000 of the ia
nous Krupp guns have been turned
out ofthe works.
\ sronndhOg recently uncovered
some human bones near Dubois
town, Lvcoming county, Pa. Then
a farmer found the entire skeleton.
1t had been about 4 feet below the
surface The field had been cleared
four years. A man named Black,
who once owned the farm, disappear
ed about twenty-five years ago. He
had money, but no heirs. 1t is be-
lieved that the bones are his, and
that he was murdered.
Gen. Zach Taylor is thus eulogized
by Jeff Davis Though richly en-
dowed as a soldier by nature, the
precision he exhibited in active cam
paigns was not merely intuitive,
for in military history | have known
few men SO deeply read or 81 pro-
fouDdly learned. Asgentle in peace,
as formidable in battle, the figure
which would be emblematic of his
character would be a composite of
the lien and the lamb"
An Austrian scientist has succeed
ed in lighting up the inside of
mans body for the purpose of facili-
tating the performance OF surgical
1t is expected that pat
ent medicine manufacturers will
now furnish an electric light with
each bottle of medicine, so that the
purchaser can illuminate his inside
to see that the only genuine liver
is not tampering wit his
lungs or his never-dying soul.
The heat on the Colorado desert
has been greater this season than
during any previous year past, and
the suffering of those whose duties
compel them to make the tedious
trip frequently is almost Overpower-
ing. During the last two weeks of
the thermometer in the dav
time has stuck persistently at 1902,
and the close atmosphere has made
the heat appear greater than it
is. Tremendous thunder
storms have been of frequent occur
renee. and about a week ago one
swept over the desert which was
grand beyond description.
During the reign of the Emperor
Charles v, the will of an attorney
who died at Padua left all he had to
his nearest relative on condition that
every musician residing in the city
and within ten miles around it
should be at his funeral, that twelve
young women dressed IN green were
to sing comic songs to the mourners
and make them laugh, and that
while his body was lowered into the
grave, the Easter Mass with the Hal
lelujah should be sung. Permission
to set aside these absurd provisions
wss applied for, but the judicial au-
thorities decided in favor of the will.
In the Arkansas valley grows a
weed shaped like ball and varies
in size from one foot or less in diam
eter to five or six feet, some speci-
mems being as tall as man. 1t
grows upon a small stem, which is,
however, stout enough to bear the
mass till it has ripened and dried,
when a puff of wind will blow it
over and snap the slender support.
Then it is that every gust of wind
sends it rolling over the prairie,
over bushes and rocks
with the greatest elasticity and light
noes Whap the wind IL strono ord