The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-02-22
Current Topics


of gigantic stature aud enormous
strength recently had the honor Of be
ing presented to the Emperor. He IS
private YanIshita. Of the Third Regi
ment Of Nagoya field artillery. he en-
listed l. December last aud IS now
twenty-five years Of age. His musen-
lar strength is 50 great that he can car
~ a field piece on his shoulders aud
climb up a amountain where horses are
not available. Yamshita regularly re-
ceIves two mems ratiOus, and his uni-
forms are made 10 order.
A movement has been inaugurated to
have the first annual reunion Of the
Rough Riders Of the late war beld at
FL Paso, Texas, because that city fur
nished a great number of the Riders.
Governor Roosevelt has notified ex-
Governor Prince, Of New Mexico, that
he will visit that territory this year,
and while down in the great Southwest
the effort viii be made to hold the
reunion.
If Keely had had good thing in the
form of an invention he would proba-
bly, have starved or sold il for trifie,
observes the Boston Traveller. Il Is de-
plOrable but true that gold bricks fad
a reader market than genuine goods.
The English shipbuiIdsng firm Of
Short Bros. has lately made a report on
the results of seven years expert
ence of the eight hour day. Formerly
the men began work at 8 O'Clock in'the
morning, took half an hoUs for break
fast at o'clock, half an hour at noon
for dinner, and quit work at , O'Clock;
but il is said that the day was 81 long
that many employees lost much time
from breaking down under the strain.
they now 20 To wcrk at so a. m, take
half an hour for dinner, aud quit at ,
D. m., and the firm maintains that on
these shortened hours more work Is
done per individual, and the general
operation Of the plant IS much more
economical.
An Oshkosh journal announces a lee
ture "by Dr. Haidekopf, our able health
officer, before the Sanitary Improve
ment Association, on The Beneficial
Effect Of Filtration on the Public
Health" 1t is reasonable to assume
that "iliriation" is typographical er-
ror for Filtration.
\ company organized in Montana
has written TO the New York Board u
Health asking permission 70 sell horse
meat In that city, promising that the
animals to be slaughtered for the mar
ket would be horses that had never
been in harness young stock, as we'll
fed as Montana cattle, and superior TO
beef" II is believed that many pur-
chasers would be found ia the foreign
quarters Of the city.
ssThe Piseataquis Observer uses space
t. report that Gus Oakes, Of Sanger
vile, Me-, sixty years old, was turning
handsprings on the streets Saturday"
says the LewistOwn evening Journal.
''If Gus had been ninety-iive years old
it would have been worth mentioning,
but everybody expects Maine man Of
only sixty to be able to turn double
handsprings."
Preparations are b-ing made in
Northamptonshire, England, to par
ticipate in the celebration of the three
hundredth anniversary of the birth Of
Oliver Cromwell, which event viii oe-
cur on APRIL . next. OneOf the ways
in which it is proposed 10 honor the
day in NorthamPtOnsbire IS by a pill
grimage 10 Naseby battlefield. the scene
of Cromwells greatest triumph This
proposal has already been heartily APP
proved in the county town, and many
prominent London free ehurehmen are
to be invited to participate in the eere-
mony.
In the Hotel Everett, one Of New
York oldest hostelries, a custom adopt
ed fifty years back is s;ill in vogue. It
il that of placing the reading Of the
thermometer Immediately under the
date line Of the register. This is the
duty of the clerk who takes the early
morning watch. Years back, before
GOtham's centre was a myriad Of ho-
tels. Thermometers were not 50 plenti-
fal, and nearly all the hotels adopted
I this custom of telling their patrons the
condition Of the atmosphere; but the
Everett is the only one to continue the
practice now.
The American Packer says that more
than 5000 900 has been invested in the
canning industry in the past four
months. The total pack Of tomatoes
in the United States and Canada was
5,797. .sO6 cases in ls9S. In 1907 it was
4. Ilg. All cases. In 1898 the pack for
the United States was !. .652, SO cases as
compared with Z. .964 80 for 1897. The
total corn pack Of the United States
and Canada for 1898 was ,s9s So cases
as against sos, 40 eases ia 1897.
The timber Of the scaiIold on which
four murderers We're hanged at Ches-
tertown, Md, was afterward used
in building a henhOuse on ex Sheriff
Plummer's farm. II is a Significant
fact that while other farmers in the
ueighbOrhOod have suffered from the
depredatiOns Of chicken thieves, Plum
mer's henhOuse has never been robbed.
The American Agrieulturist estimates
that there are 75,OOO,OO0 horses in the
world. OF these Ss,OO0Oo0 are in
Europe, l7OO0,O00 in North America
and 1000, 900 in Asia. The mules and
asses in the world are said to number
! 1000 600.
Women's Ways.