The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-12
Miscellaneous Items.

A human chain mile and a half
long could be formed daily by the
average arrivals of European emi-
grants in this country during the
past four years. Over twenty thou
sand miles of humanity has come to
US during that period.
DELEvA, Wis. Sept. "a. 1878.
Gents-I have taken not quite one
bottle of the Hop Bitters. / was a
feeble old man of Is when got it.
To-day | am as active and feel as
did at 80. l see a great many
that need such a medicine.
d. BOYCE.
A medical writer states that eggs
contain 15i per cent. of carbon and
} per cent. of nitrogen. As food for
, sustaining the active forces of the
body, the value of one pound of eggs
is to the value of lean beef as 1854
to 800. As flesh producer a pound
of eggs is about equal to a pound of
beef.
There is in San Francisco a shoe
mandatory which is owned and
managed by a Chinese firm. The
products of the factory are said to
be as diverse in style, workmanship
and price as those of the eastern
shops. About two hundred laborers,
Chinese and white, are employed.
The goods produced are sold on the
Pacific coast, in British America,
Mexico, the Sandwich Islands, China
and Japan.
Messrs. Johnson, Holloway Il Co,
wholesale druggists of Philadelphia,
Pa, report that some time ago a gen.
tleman handed them a dollar, with a
request to send a good catarrh cure
TO two army officers in Arizona. Re-
Gently the same gentleman told them
that both the officers, and the wife
OF Gen. John c. Fremont, Governor
of Arizona, had been cured of catarrh
by the two bottles of Ely's Cream
Balm.
/ Extract from a recent funeral ora
ton: THE one whom we mourn did
not seek to raise himself ambitiously
above his neighbors. lie knew that
there was place for all upon this
earth, for the men of modest virtues
as for those whose genius illuminates
space, for humble as well as the
great.-He was wanting, perhaps, in
certain brilliant qualities gratitude,
faith in keeping his engagements,
probity, etc
According to one of the Mexican
newspapers the school children who
have done best in their studies are
rewarded by being allowed to smoke
cigar as they stand or sit at
at their lessons. The school
master himself is seldom without a
cigar in his mouth. In the law
courts all persons commonly enjoy
their tobacco freely, and even the
accused III IA criminal trial is not de-
MED this indulgence.
The new postal notes, intended to
answer the same purpose as the safe
and cheap transmission by means of
the mails of money in amounts to
suit the senders, are now for sale.
There has been considerable rivalry
among collectors of rare things to
obtain the first numbers of these
notes. 1t is said that ex-Postmaster
General James made application to
be the buyer of note No. / at the
postoffice in New York city.
A fellow working in a Maine fac
tory where young women are en-
ployed contrived practical joke for
the entertainment of himself and his
admirers. He killed an adder and
left it among some boxes that were
to be assorted by the young women.
Miss Stevens uncovered the reptile
with her hands. The shock made
her insane, and the physicians saw
that she viii probably die, and in
any event will be a maniac for
/ life.
THE TERROR OF THE SoUTH.-Jas-
per. Fn.-Mr. BOardman W. Wilson.
travelling for A. G.. Afford G. Co,
dealers in firearms and cutlery, Bal
timore, was prostrated here, with the
"break- bone fever; :" he asserts that
in his own, as well as in the case of
others. the only thing found to re-
lieve this painful malady was st.
Jacobs Oil. This wonderful pain
cure has the endorsement of such
men as Ex-Postmaster General
James, Daniel w. Voorhees,, and an
army of Others.
Among the curiosities taken by
Joseph Bonaparts from Madrid was
ring containing a lock of Queen
Elizabeth's hair when ii years Of
age. that period oflife when Blanche
/ Perry described her as my lovely
young mistress" The ring is tradi-
tionally glorified by pervading be-
+ lief that il was presented to Elizabeth
by Sir Thomas Seymour, her earli-
est lover, who had 10 her youth so
many opportunities of "beseeching
the golden honors of her queenly
hair"
/ A North Carolina hog was bitten
by a mad dog, and went mad, 1t
being the greatest rooter in the town
ship it rooted up three pine trees.
five or six panels of fencing, and
finally overturned Mr.. Shoemaker's
corn crib. ] died trying to root up
a big rock. The carcass was hauled
away the next day, the buzzards
feasted on it, and before they got
through several of them died by the
carcass. Others flew up in trees,
where they sat with rufled feathers
until they fell to the ground dead.
1t was fatal feast, and the whole
farm around was strewn with dead
carrion crows.
Major q. W. Candee, paymaster of
the army, is the fortunate possessor