The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-09-16

uor good stove, and Earrdnteos ~ " -
. uolserbsum's Hardware Store, Somerset,
Pa
cradles single and doubie, all sizes, eslor
- sbapes. Yes, DeYlin's for them, 2l5
p,oad St, Johnstown.
lord Butte said to be the biggest dog IN
4 - world. arrived in New York on the
T,s,eb steamer La Touraine Tuesday lie
.-.;ybs 2s7 pounds and measures S6 inches
,,bs shoulders. He has taken twenty-six
! 81. prizes. He is ST. Bernard.
Hs,e Is in briefest terms, the Temperance
I'D of the Catholic T. A. U.
There is q little public house
That every one can close,
And that's the little public house
That's lust beneath the nose
7-,5er the act Of assembly, approved June
,sal the weight of bushel ofpotstoes
r.s made fifty-six pounds Ay another act
.-,--ov.d the same day, the standard weight
20 cord Of hemlock, oak or other bark,
-bsB sold BY the cord, or ton, was fixed at
80 thousands pound for cord and two
tbossand pounds for ton.
Farming, grazing, mineral or timber
s,ss fDr sale cheap, in the booming state of
w Va. Special inducements to those desir-
ing homes Write what you want.
DUNCAN McREA, Real Estate Agt.
Kingwood, W Va.
Rfz Rosa Miller. wife of Valentine Mil
L. ofJenuer Township, Somerset County, Is
listing at the home Of her granddaughter,
NJ Dr. William Rauch, Of Somerset street.
The old lady is eighty-two years ofage, and
.l,bough a resident Of Somerset County all
her life she has been in this city but once
t.s,-s and that was in 1861. She bears her
.,a r.narkably well-JohHstoi0a Herald.
The One Hundred and Twelfth Pennsyl-
-..-;. Veteran Volunteers held reunion in
pbTa5elpbia Tuesday. The regiment was
o-yanized in 1861, and was mustered out III
1sas Il was entrusted with the defence OF
Washington, to which duty It was assigned
until the Wilderness campaign, when II en-
,s-sd upon service in the field, participating
in many Of the bloodiest battles OF the war
II stands second in the list Of regiments &C
oording 10 the number killed.
Jobn NJ. Thurston, the Nebraska LAWYER
who is making speeches for Mckinley IN
Ohio. and who came 70 national prominence
asa Temporary Chairman Of the Conven-
,ion that nominated Harrison, had a hard
struggle for existence in the years immeoi-
ately following bis admission TO the Bar In
lSsS be was so straitened financially that ne
went 10 Chicago and drove hack to sup
mort himself He carried delegates 10 the
Convention Of that year, little dreaming that
twenty years later he should be Chairman oi
slch Convention himself
The Johnstown DrmOaat says that there
r,.,verv unpleasant little scrap in the
ladies waiting room at the court house IN
Ebensburg on Monday aftern oon- Two
U,men who were contestants in pending
lawsuit got into an alteration over the
t-utbfalness of one another's statements and
in the twinkling of an eye the fur he|.
Roth clinehed each other in the hair and the
battle raged strong until they were separated
bT the court officers, who were attracted by
thar wells. One Of them was placed under
arrest and taken to Jail. She will be given q
hearing TO answer to the charge OF assault
and battery. There is no mistaking when
YOU get the "old GAL stirred up things are
lively.
The Cumberland Times tells the following
aueer story Of some rare old coins exhibited
bv a local firm. Some weeks ago, Dr. }.
W. Phillips, a country physician living on
the South Branch Of the Potomac was called
professionally TO attend an old farmer. The
latter had married late in life and had but
one daughter, a girl in her teens, living. The
old man died. On his death-5ed he told Dr.
Phillips he wanted him to act as his eTecu-
tor. He then directed him where 70 dig TO
ind two boxes Of gold and silver money,
which. with al his estate, was to 60 to his
daughter Hisinstructions were carried out
and ancient coins of the face value Of SlO,-
900 were found They are Spanish and
Mexican monies, bearing the royal seal OF
Spain and the subservient crest Of Mexico
They must have been buried over fifty years.
The great DR.. Storrs speaks Of the Bible
with no uncertain sound, on this wise:
Ilook upon the Bible as the book for the
world. and I see its divine authorship as
plainly as see the authorship Of God in the
stars. which I know no human mechanic
could have built in his workshop and flung
out into space: and when the critics pick
sEsy al the Bible sav, Well, il is no great
matter If it gratifies them, it does not hurt
me. and a. long as all the universities In the
ggdd combined are not able 70 make anoth-
e. Bible that shall be 50 cOsmical in Its range
ofspPezl aud 50 mighty in its power over
men and women, over mind and heart and
life and over the growing civilization itself
TO which il ministers. rest assured that this
Is God s book and not man's-as certain as
an that this is his globe under nv feet, and
not something which human carpenters have
builied
Thousands of the best men the world
knows-men who have studied the Bible
nost and walked most closely by its teach
ing-viu give hearty amen to these ut
terances Of faith.
botsnist has thus explained in Forest
GE &-srm why leaves change in color:
The green matter in the tissue of a leaf is
composed of two color, red and blue. When
the sap ceases TO flow in the fall and the
haiural growth of the tree ceases, oxidation
Ofshe tissue takes place. Under certain con
d.dons the green Of the leaf changes to red;
under different conditions it takes on yel-
loz or srown tint. This difference in COM
binaiion Of the original constituents Of the
green tissue and 10 the varying conditions
ofclimsse. exposure and soil. A dry, cold
climate. produces more brilliant foliage than
one that is damp and warm. This is the
mason that our American a0tumns are 50
much more Gorgeous than those Of England
Tasre are several things about leaves that
even science cannot explain. For instance,
Why one or two trees growing side by side,
ofthe same age and having the same expo
sure should take on brilliant red in the
fail and the other should turn yellow; or
why one branch Of tree should be highly
oolored and the rest Of the tree have only
yslioWtint, are questions that are As imPossi-
bleto answer as why one member of 8 fami-
lT should be perfectly healthy and another
siekly.
On the subject Of moOnshine whiskey the
Pennsylvania Argus (Greensburgl says
Reports Of the existence Of Illicit distillers
come from Ligonier valley. 1t is generally
knSvn that al various points in the noun