The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-09-21
Irsm, of Interest.

Black birds have become an ini0lerlble
nuisance in Hollidaysburg and Gaysport,
where they roost by the thousands in the
large shade trees. Some Of the citizens
are shooting into fiocks. trying TO frighten
them but the little fellows are hard to
chase away.
A few days ago the people of Philadel-
phia witnessed the sale Of one oftheir
historic buildings, Assembly Hall II
was built just one hundred years sgo, sud
wss used for the entertainment OF Illus
trious people, Washington, franklin and
Presidents and statesmen down until
few years ago. According n the sgree-
ment this bailding was used for social
affairs for one hundred years and then
sold. The sale took place one hundred
years from the date Of the agreement
The following method has been recon-
mended for keeping butter sweet and
firm: Make the butter into rolls and
wrap In pieces Ofmuslin. Make your brine
in the following manner: Put enough
salt in six quarts of water 70 cause an egg
10 float in it; add two tablespoonsfuls Of
granulated sugar and half teaspoonful
Of saltpeter. Let the brine come to boil,
and when cold strain it over the butter.
The brine should more than cover the
butter. which should be weighted suffi-
ciently to keep the rolls beneath the sur
face and exciud de the air.
10 recent decision of Judge Clayton
he said that the owner Of real estate also
owns the sidewalks 10 front Of his prop
erty, subject to right Of pedestrians 10 use
them in travelling, but outside of this he
owns them as much as any other part
of his property and they cannot be used for
any other purpose without his consent.
should the owner allow them TO become
dilapidated so that they may cause any
one to fall and suffer an injury, he can be
prosecuted for such negligence and will |
have to pay damages
In the common pleas Of Lsckawsnna
county, last week, Judge Edwards de-
cided that "The reading of the holy |
scriptures, in either version, as a part of |
the opening exercises in our public |
schools, does not violate any constitution
al provision. tt is not in contravention |
of Article /. section 3, nor of Article y. |
section ." The case was one in which |
an injunction was sought against the |
reading of the Bible as part Of the open |
ing exercise Of the public school at |
Waverly, on the ground that it was an |
interference with the rights ofconscience, |
and gave the school sectarian eharac-
ter, forbidden by the constitutional pro-
visions referred to. Under this decision, |
therefore the Bible may lawfully be
read as a school exercise
Austin s. Baird and Miss Lizzie Weav-
er, Of near SmithtOn, Westmoreland
county, went 70 Cumberland, Nd, on
Thursday to get married. They were
nabbed by a hackman, who. after leav-
ing the young lady at hotel, went with
Baird 10 get the license. On the way to
the court house the hackfnan induced
Baird to take drink, and the groom re-
turned to the hotel in a dazed condition,
with but three cents in his pocket, and
the minister refused to perform the mar
riRge ceremony. The couple went to the
railroad station and there Baird became
unconscious and would have died but for
the kindness of two physicians, who
worked with him for several hours. The
young lady, though loath 10 leave her
intended, was induced 10 go TO the hotel
or the night. Baird had So when he
reached Cumberland. The doctors say
he was drugged.
A man supposed to be from Johnstown
is lying in a critical condition at the hos
pital. He is partially unconscious and
his stories about himself afford little light
as TO his family or his place of residence.
While walking along the B. & o. track
at Garrett, Somerset county, last Thurs
day evening, he was struck by a train,
and hurled several feet. He was brought
to the hospital on a train and there It
was found he suffered from concnssion
of the brain. Both arms are broken at
the elbows aud he is badly bruised and
battered. His condition. is critical. In
his pocket was found bank book with
a number OF depositrecords in the Johns
town Savings Bank. The last deposit
was one of s., made June 18th. AS the
bank book bore the name Of Andrew
Muman," it is supposed that is the mans
name. He is about 40 years old and ap-
pears to be OF German descenL-Con-
nellsville Courier.
Rev. ]. A. Maxwell, of the First Bap-
tist Church, of McKeesport, in a recent
sermon, made the following timely re-
marks in regard to the modern funeral:
The modern funeral is not Christian.
Christianity does not make ostentation
over a dead body. 1t does not enshroud
death with such gloom People who can
afford it have set such pace of extrava-
ganee in the burial OF their dead that it
breaks an ordinary man up when he has
loved one dead TO conform to funeral GUS
toms. 1t is no good to the dead, but an in
mense injury TO the living. The ordina-
ry funeral sermon reflects no great credit
to Christianity. Usually If is desperate
effort to erect post-mortem character
upon a frequently shaky ante-m rtem
foundation. If funeral sermons are
preached. let them be preached to the
living If a man has been a good man
he does not need an obituary orator. II
he has been bad man he ought not 10
have one. The wearing of symbols OF
mourning is not consonant with the hope
of a Christian. A true Christian cannot
at any time be in mourning over the
providences of God or anything that
comes TO his life.
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