The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES.


ian is 3, los, $40 acres.
The largest naval guns now in use
weigh one hundred tons, which throws a
proiectile of no less than two thousands
pounds.
THE rumor of Tilden's engagement
to a st. Louis belle is again revived.
1t is said that the marriage will soon
take place.
THE highest inhabited place on the
earth is a farm on the Andes, two miles
four and half furlongs above the level
of the sea.
EPITAPH UPON A MliKMAN.
Put away his short quart measure
And the COW with iron tail;
" Mi-ilk!n he yels no more at morning
He has kicked the golden pail.
THE grounds surrounding the war
monument at Berlin are to be paved
with stones from the several battle-tields
of the Franco-Prussian war.
A GREAT many men pretend they
have got the hay-fever, SO that they can
get away from their wives and have a
high old time in the mountains.
TIRNovA is built in such steep place
that they say when peasant wants his
COW to come in from the suburbs he
goes to his chimney and looks up for
her.
A CORRESPONDENT writes that the
Russian army is differed exclusively by
men of royal blood. Even a great many
of the non-commissioncd officers are
Czargents.
THE salary of Marshal Mcmahon as
President of the French Republic is
10000 francs. He receives, inaddition,
his pay and perquisites as Marshal of
France.
EXPERIMENTS in a minc in Corn
wall, England with the telephone, point
to the probability of its being employed
in conveying signals from the deep mines
to the surface.
ENGLAND's war-debt is nearly eight
hundred million pounds sterling Her
former ,earS now cost the people nearly
thirty million annually! besides the
current cost Of the army and navy.
WEST VIRGINIA has between eight
or ten millions of acres of forests, the
timber in which is valued at rs, 600 as it
stands. The oak, walnut, cherry, ash,
poplar, maple, elm, sycamore and locust
attain great size.
RECENTLY twelve of the multitude of
destitute men in the Black Hills offered
to draw loaded wagon from Deadwood
to Bismarck on condition of being fed on
the way, and their proposition was nc
cepted by the teamster.
EpHRAIM MARTIN, an eccentric citizen
of Sutton, New Hampshire, who died
not long ago, bequeathed to his daughter
four hedgehogs, to his oldest son five
dollars, to his second son $4,000 and to
his third 100000.
Mrs. JAMES ST.. CLAIR and her two
children were poisoned at Cleveland,
by eating toad-stools, mistaken for mush-
rooms. The children died on Sunday
evening, and at last accounts Mrs. st.
Clair was not expected to live.
A BEAUTIFUL marble has been found
in California on the line Of the newly
built Southern Pacific Railroad. II is
of snowy color and exquisitely
threaded with amber-colored veins.
Italian experts have pronounced it equal
to the finest marbles known.
The Russian National debt, it is esti-
mated, will be on January !, 1878, ST.
$4,000, Holland guildcrs (about $685.
000000), f100,311 $40, (about $500, 000,-
000), 567, 1923, 100 francs Q13, 1884, 6G0),
and 1893, S69;95 roubles 1886, $685.
1884,
WILLIAM G. BRYANT will be eighty
four years on the Sd of November. His
paper, the New York Ecening Post, is in
its seventy-sixth year, and has had but
two chief editors. The first was William
Coleman, who occupied the post for
twenty-six years; and the Second Mr..
Bryant.
A GENTLEMAN of Bombay, named
Adams, has invented solar battery con-
sisting of two hundred small mirrors so
arranged that they focus the suns rays
upon small copper boiler and generate
steam in it in twenty minutes. Mr..
Adams contends that he can by the
same means, generate steam enough
to drive the largest spinning-mill in
Bombay.
JEWISH Messenger: Alexander of Rus
STA evidently believes in the efficiency
of prayer. In the synagogue Lublin,
placards were recently placed, informing
the Jews that their dwellings would be
set on fire, if they did not pray oftener
for the success of the Russian army.
And they we're further commanded to
chant the Russian hymn in the syna-
gogue, and to contribute more money
for the support of the Russian paupers.
This is specimen of that civilization
of which the Russians are, according to
Mr.. Gladstone, the acknowledgements.