The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-26
News Items.

Thus far this season Is tourists who set
out to climb the Alps have lost their lives
in the venture.
Its claimed that at its present rate of
increase in - years Allegheny City
will he the metropolis of Allegheny
County.
The peach crop from Chambersburg,
Scotland, Pa, and vicinity is abundant,
the total shipment amounting to 300
bushels daily.
For fishing with II other men on his
owIs farm, in Clay township, Lancaster
county, icaac Eberly was arrested. They
had sained i've bushel of fish at haul.
In Korea a boy goes bare headed until
he is years III age; once he puts ON a
hat he never appears without it. \
Korean girl il never seen in public after
her seventh birthday.
Postmaster Harry Marietta, of Con-
nellsville, and several others were,
Wednesday, convicted Of unlawful as
semblage. 1t was proved that they aided
the rioters during the recent coke strike.
Gilmore Gilmore, country school
teacher of Ecllerty, Ind, recently mar
ried farmers pretty daughter. Three
days later letter was received from a
firm of barristers III Ireland stating that
the bride had fallen heir TO s3,Oco,cco.
Dead walls and bill-boards have become
veritable galleries of patriotic art since
the advance brigades of the Adam Fore
paugh shows have postsd upon them the
splendid announcements OF the coming
of the great shows on Tuesday, October2.
Divorced az 10 O'Clock in the morning,
married at noon and widowed at :; O'Clock
in the afternoon We're the three events
Scranton, Pa, life on Monday. This is a
record of mingling connubial smiles and
tears that is seldom paralioIed.
After October the head tax on ~immi-
grants will be raised from - cents per
head 10 81. The money thus collected
will be covered into the United State,
Treasury instead of being set aside 10
be expended under the control oil the
Bureau of Immigration.
The silver dinner service which Mrs.
J. w. Mackay has with her i'm Europe
is worth slSi,U1. Her husband fiii-
nished $4,000 in weight of pure silver
and then paid another SI2I,G0 for the
work done upon it. The above is reckon
ed as being the most costly silver set now
in use in the world.
William Law, recently discharged from
the West Penn railroad, sought revenge
last Friday evening 10y laying a boulder
on the track in front of AN approaching
train near Frceport, Pa. Fortunately the
pilot of the engine burst the rock into
fragments and the tram passed over i'll
safety. Law was placed in jail.
\ neat bit of white-washing was per
formed saturday 10y the Huntingdon
County Grand Jury. Sheriff T. II. Oaks
was exonerated of all blame in the man
have escaped from the Jail in Is months,
the Grand Jury concluded that it was
only misfortune and not an indication
of fmismanagement.
spinning apparatus, and is said To have
trained tyo mice 10 work il. The me
chanical principle of the contrivance is
small mill which is operated 10y the paws
of the mice. They can each wind on and
off from 100 to l20 pieces of thread per
day, and TO do this they must supply a
motor power by which course of 10y
4 I n.
that the mice perform this task every
day without apparent fatigue, and that a
halfpenny worth of flour furnishes them
food enough for five weeks. During that
time the little animals have spun about
$50 threads yard and a half in length.
OF late the naturalists have been losing
sleep and filling great deal of valuable
magazine space in discussing the causes
that produce the light emitted by fire
flies. As is generally the ease where
much study and investigation is involved
| there is a wide difference of opinion. One
school of scientists trace the phenomenon
TO the nervous system of the insect !;
another To his respiration, while a third
school have prepared an article of 600
words 10 prove that the light is entirely
dependent upon the poor bags circula-
ton. The burden Of evidence seems To
be i'm favor OF those who claim that the
luminous tissue is made up of fat glob-
ules. which are internationally acted upon
by the oxygen of the air and the phos-
phorus of the creatures body.
During the races at Terre Haute, Ind,
Friday afternoon, Robert J., the horse
which surprised the world a few days ago
by pacing a mile in 2:G2!!, was brought out
to break his own record. Ii was seen that
he WAS at his best, and when the quarter
was caught at 30i the hope was strong.
The runner who was making the pace
came alongside near the half, which was
made in l:o03 The threc-quarters WAS
reached in l:;0l, making the middle half
of the mile in the phenomenal time of 59s
seconds, or at the rate of i:J9 He came
home strong, and went under the wire
with the apparent courage and effort of
his. first quarter. The time-2:0la was
put up at once, and Geers, the driver, was
caught mp by the people and carried on
their shoulders to the grand stand, where
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