The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-08-01
Miscellaneous Items.
The Northern Pacific Railway has
killed 1000 Cinnamon.


killed 1000 Cinnamon.
A Binghampton bank is loaded
with 10000 Of the eighty y-fve-cent
dollars.
A woman wearing $500 worth of
jewelry was sent to Jail for drunken
ness IN Brooklyn last week.
A New Yorker has bought
swamp Of eight thousand acres in
Pike county, and will convert it into
q cranberry patch.
A smart young man picked up
flower in the ball room after all the
girls had gone, and sang pethetical-
ly, "|Tis the last rose of some
her"
Cigarette smokers will be pleased
to learn that the mildest cigarettes
are benevolently made from fine-cut
tobacco, out of which the injurious
strength has been already chewed
by gentlemen of leisure.
The telegraphers have the Oldest
secret insurance society in the Uni
ted States. 1t was formed in 1868,
FIVE years before the Knights of
Honor and admits ladies as well as
gentlemen to membership.
had severe attacks of gravel and
kidney trouble; was unable to get
medicine or doctor to cure me un-
til used Hop Bitters, and they
cured me in a short time.-A Dis
tinguished Lawyer of Wayne Co.,
n. Y.
The HollidAysburg Standard says:
"A young man recently sentenced
to the penitentiary for one year by
Judge Dean, can see the residence
of his parents from his prison, and
they do not know that he is in that
situation"
The Franklin Independent Press
looks upon the selection of Senator
Cooper as Chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee as just recog-
milton of his able services in the
past. The same paper predicts that
he will take the fort this time.
A naked wild man is dashing
about the country near Boerne, Tex
as. He runs with great speed, is
very tall and slender, with long
locks flying in the wind. He has
outstripped chasing horsemen, but a
party has been organized for his
capture.
While digging an artesian well
near Plunkenton, d. T., the other
day, workmen struck the roots of q
tree seventy-six feet below the sur
face, and other portions were found
at depth of 1876 feet. The tree was
pronounced to be a tamarack, and
the wood was in fair state of pres
ervation.
The city of Dallas, Texas, is said
to be built over graveyard of mas
todons, and for five or six years past
excavations for buildings have sell
dom failed to bring up their bones.
A large number of these mastodon
remains were unearthed recently,
and some of the bones were of enor-
nous size.
Gustave Boer, a youg cigar dealer,
of Hoboken, n. i, went to Germany
about month ago, in response to a
cablegram, informing him that his
mother was sick and desired to see
him. He arrived there an hour after
his mother died. He ascertained af-
terward that in her will lshe bequeath-
ed him 100000.
The telegraphers' strike has has
tened the discussion OF the advisa-
bility of the Governments taking
hold of the telegraph system. The
Lancaster Examiner thinks that
when the Government becomes a
telegraph operator or a railroad pres
ident, there will besome big failures
and an unserved public.
The fireman and engineer of an
English locomotive, exhausted by
fifteen hours work, fell asleep while
their engine was on a rapid run. No
one discovered the danger until they
dashed past siding where they
shOuld have stOpped Warning
was telegraphed ahead and they
were awakened by torpedoes on the
rails.
Colorless and Coda young girl
deeply regretted that she was so col
orless 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