The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-11
Miscellaneous Items.

An old lady in Georgia, having
lost all her patience, has sued u
neighbOr for SIS for coffee borrowed
cupful at n time.
During the fiscal year Just ended
there was net increase in postoffics
established of 1859, compared with
the previous fiscal year.
A pickle factory at Highland, H.,
has contracted for over 400 acres of
cucumbers with farmers, and expects
to ship about 10000 barrels.
The decrease of the public debt
for June is estimated at s17 10000.
This would make the total reduction
for the fiscal year s137, ,225,OO0.
The dairy herd Of jersey cattle
belonging to c. Z. Markle Il Sons
was sold in West Newton last Thurs
day, at prices ranging from 500 to
$500 apiece.
The Mayor ofPittsburgh distribu-
ted four hundred straw hats to poor
children on Saturday of last week.
They had been donated by a large
manufacturer.
The widow of DIR. Glenn. the
great California farmer, will realize
this year 100000 from the grain
crop. Now is the time for the en-
terprising young man in search OF a
partner to go west.
Between the hours of , and 5
o'clock last Saturday afternoon SO
boats, carrying 100000 feet of
lumber, left Bay City, Mich, for
Ohio and the East, being the largest
fleet that ever left that port in one
day.
The annual report of the chief
mail division of the Pension Office
shows receipts during the fiscal year
of 53,41l APPLICATIONS for pensions, an
increase oyer the previous year of
%, Cos. Seventeen thousand letters
were received from Congresmen.
In 1923 Daniel BUM, a twenty
vear-old youth of Huntington, Pa,
became violently insane and was
chained in q room. from which he
has never emerged in all the sixty
years. In all this time his two
bachelor brothers have taken care Of
him.
The assevoration that Governor
Blackburn, Of Kentucky, has not
touched a single drop of liquor since
he became Governor" is only to apt
to Great an impression that such a
dose would be altogether to small
for him.
Miss Carrie Zimmerman, of
Bloomington, H.. recently had a
verv dangerous experience in blood
poisoning occasioned by handling
green velvet, the poisonous coloring
matter Of which entered her system
by absorption from the prick of
needle.
The steamship Nevada. which
arrived at New York July /. brought
ESQ Mormon converts in charge of
% missionaries. The converts are
from Sweden, Denmark, Wales.
England and Norway. The number
of men and women are about
equal.
Judge Pitcher, of Mount Vernon.
Ind, is the only surviving member
of the first Indiana Legislature.
which met sixty-seven years ago.
He is eighty-nine years old. 1t has
taken longerto knock him out of the
box than any other Pitcher in the
business.
Henry Whiting, aged seventy-fve
years, and his wife, aged seventy
four years, were found in the ceme-
terry, in Brooklyn. the man having
cut his wiie's wrist and then his
own, under agreement to die rather
than starve. The woman died the
man viii survive.
An officer of the navy stationed at
Annapolis has been granted a patent
for a sash holder. At West Point,
so long as the ladies will wear sashes
the cadets want no patent contri-
vance for holding them. They are
men of arms and know how TO use
them to the best advantage.
A young man of Macon while
camping out with party of friends
was heard to exclaim in his sleep:
" For heavens sake, stand aside :
that picture will kill you" 1t was
afterwards ascertained that his
sweetheart at about the same time
narrowly escaped being killed by 4
falling picture under which she was
standing at her home.
The body OF Archbishop Wood,
inferred at the Catholic Cathedral
in Philadelphia last week, was en-
balmed by a new process, claimed to
be equal and in many respects far
superior to that employed by the
accidents, and it is thought will
stand the test of age quite as well.
BY the extraction of the blood and
the peculiar composition Of the
preservative liquids, it is claimed
that the objectionabl feature of tur-
ming black is entirely obvious.
A saucy sparrow took possession
OF a swallows nest under the cave OF
a house in Louisville and would not
vacate on due notice The pair few
off and presently returned with a
score of their kindred, each bearing
a lump of mud in its bill. Before
the sparrow realized what was going
on his enemies had shut him up in
the nest, leaving only one small
opening, out of which. at last ac-
counts, his neck was hanging in a
discOnsolate manner, while starva-
ton stared him in the face.
Most ridiculous was the death Of
the French Marshal. De Montrevel,
whose whole soul, saws st. Simon,
was but ambition and luere, with
out having ever been able to distin-