The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
NE VS. AND NOTES.

ErGLAND's fruit crop is the poorest
since 1870.
CALIFORNIA produced s8,000,000
worth of wool last year.
THE Belgian census Just taken shows
the population of the country to be
5,336,l85.
DIPHTHERIA is Staying the innocents
again. Look out for sink-drains and de-
caying vegetable matter.
The Pennsylvania oil wells are esti-
mated to have yielded 88,000,000 bar
rels, worth $3,00O,0 600 on the spot.
In the Turkish empire there are on
an average forty-seven Christians to ev-
eryone hundred Mohammedans.
A Moscow newspaper says that out of
the wealthy merchant families of that
tity not single member has gone to
cght the Turks. They get medical GER
fficates of unfitness for military service,
and have to pay well for them.
CHEZ is the clarified butter of Hin
dostan. 1t is produced generally from
the milk of bufIaloes and is universally
used in native cookery. 1t is also sold
in large quantities in the Western prov
inces, and is conveyed in large bottles
made of green hide.
THE chestnut tree, which furnishes
great deal of food in Southern Europe,
is widely threatened there with destruc-
ton by little insect which girdles and
kills it, in the Pyrenean districts for
ests have been destroyed, the oldest and
strongest trees being attacked.
NEVER attempt to introduce two per-
sons to each other before making sure of
their names. A Wisconsin lady tried it
the other evening, and, forgetting the
names of both while in the very act, she
became so chagrined and excited that
she fell down and died of heart disease.
THE rice crop of Louisiana increased
from twenty thousand barrels in 1866 to
over one hundred and seventy-five thou
sand barrels in 1877. The yield for this
year is estimated by the New Orleans
Democrat at nearly one hundred and
seventy thousand barrels on decreased
acreage.
Six diminutive fish of the tom cod va
riety, which is found only in salt water,
were taken out of a new dug well at
Deadwood, in the Black Hills. The waite
first drawn from the well was slightly
impregnated with salt, and the Dead
wood people are convinced that salt
water river runs between them and the
place they are going when they die.
The last photograph of Theirs during
his life was taken by an enterprising ar
fist of Saint German, who ambuscaded
him on his morning walk. With good
nature the old statesman stood still, and
gave the artist every chance to take"
him, as he stood leaning against the bal
cony ratings, with a stout cane in his
hand, and wearing his traditional black
coat, buttoned to the throat, and straw
hat The face is calm. When the
negative was shown him, Theirs said:
"My friend, my cravat is not very
neatly tied. Ishall come back some day
and give you another sitting"
Mr.. HUNTER NICHOLSON, of East Ten
nessee University, takes exception to
Mr.. Frank Bucklands statements in a
note to the recent edition of Whites
Sei6orme, to the effect that rattlesnakes
cannot play up their rattles in wet
weather, because the horn becomes more
or less saturated with water, and no
sound can be produced from it. Writing
to Nature Mr.. Nicholson says: "The
live rattlesnake can play up his rat
ties in the very wettest of wet weather.
| have taken them alive on two occa-
sions in the midst of a heavy rain, and
could discover no difference in their rat
Ting powers" He adds that during
the year 1873 he kept rattlesnake in
his room for eight months, and in that
time he came to know that " Rather"
as he called him, could play up several
different notes, indicative of anger, of
pleasure, and of loneliness.