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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
SensitiYencss Of q Cat.

The study of mountain climates has
hitherto taken the form chiefly OF an in
vestigation into the physiological effects
of diminished atmospheric pressure on
the human organism. Since different
individuals are very variously endowed
with the power of accommodating them
selves to altered external conditions; it
is not to be wondered at that some
discrepancies are to be found in the
statements of different observers as to
the effects upon themselves and others of
alterations of atmospheric pressure.
Even different animals seem to possess
very different degrees of sensitiveness
in this respect. The cat appears to be
the most sensitive of animals in this par
ticular. 1t cannot existatan elevation of
twelve thousand or thirteen thousand
feet. Attempts to acclimatize it at Po-
tosi, town in Bolivia, about thirteen
thousand feet above the sea, have failed.
At this elevation it is said TO be attacked
by very remarkable tetanic fits, com
mencing at first as slight Irregularities
of muscular movement, as in st. Vitus's
dance, and gradually becoming stronger
and stronger, inducing the poor animals
to make violent leaps asif they wished to
climb up the rocks or the walls of the
houses after violent efforts Of this kind,
they fell exhausted with fatigue, and
expired in convulsive seizure. In the
Town of Mexico, about seven thousand
three hundred feet above the sea, efforts
to introduce the cat, M. Jourdanet tells
us, have been more successful. He men
tions the attempt of French lady who
imported couple of white Angoras. He
says: "They rapidly lost their habitual
gaiety. They bred, however, but their
young family was reared with difficulty,
many of them dying in their earliest in
fancy, drowned, SO 10 say, in rarefied
airD Those who survived had de.
jected appearance, not the gay and
lively aspect natural to kittens. Most
astonishing thing of all, they were all
of them deaf" The long suffering dog
however, abounds in Mexico, and before
the conquest the natives used to eat
them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
A Girl Who Ought TO Have a Medal.

Some four months ago, says the
Detroit Free Press, a girl named Sarah
Schmidt, eighteen years old and weigh
ing one hundred and forty pounds,
reached this city direct from Germany
and secured place to work at one of
the summer hotels up the river. She
has friends living near the toll-gate,
and the other evening she started to come
into the city on foot. Being told that
she would incur personal danger by
travelling alone on the highway after
dark, Sarah picked up an old wagon
spoke as she left home and balanced it
on her thumb as jauntily as the boy
from Dublin carries his shillelah.
When near the Water Works three
men who were lying beside the fence,
having either turned in for the night or
waiting for some adventure, walked into
the road ahead of the girl, and one of
them asked her for money. She can not
understand English very well, and could
only make out word now and then of
the questions directed to her. The men
followed along close behind her fer a
few rods, and then one of them sprang
forward and grasped her left arm with
both his hands and began pulling her
out of the road. The others were adj
vancing to aid him when the solid little
girl spoke her mind in a way that
made her assailants feel bad. The wagon
spoke made tough and handy weapon,
and after striking one blow she sailed
in to strike a dozen. One of the tramps
struck at her several times with knife,
and the others dealt her blows with their
fists, proving that they had some des-
perate plan against her. The girl not
only made gallant defense, but forced
the fighting. In return for the black
eye, bloody nose and torn clothing re-
ceived in the three-minute skirmish, she
cracked their pates until they we're glad
to retreat. About eleven o'clock that
night the three fellows came down to
the Hamtramck drug store and wanted
to know if their was hospital in the
city where one could be fixed up by a
doctor without charge. Two of the
fellows stood back in the darkness and
their injuries could not be seen, though
the spokesman said that the three had
been engaged in a rough-and-tumble
fight in a saloon and had broken nose,
three broken fingers and several bad
cuts to be attended to. This fellows
face was all blood, and blood was rnn-
ming down his cheek from scalp wound,
and he didn't seem at all anxious to
know whether that stout-armed girl was
going back home that night or not. She
was not in the least excited when she
reached her friends house, but seemed
rather annoyed that she didn't get in at
least one square knock down.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
MORGANTOWN w VA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1877.

famished exploring party. After brief
rest Stanley endeavored to continue his
course. Three days after his departure
from the village of the friendly natives
he came to the country of powerful
tribe whose warriors were armed with
muskets. No sooner did these natives
discover the approach of Stanley's expe-
| dition than they manned fifty-foar large
canoes and put off from the liver bank
to attack it, 1t was not until three of
his men were killed that Stanley de-
sisted in his efforts to make the natives
understand that he and his party were
| friends. He offered clothes as peace
gifts, but the savages refused to be con-
ciliated, and the fight proceeded with
undated fury. For twelve miles down
the struggle went on. 1t was main
tanned by SANKEY'S followers with great
courage, and was the last save one of
the thirty-two battles fought since the
expedition had left Nyangwe.
The Lualaba, which changes its name
scores of times as il approaches the At
lantic ocean, now becomes known as the
Kevango and You're. As the river runs
through the great basin which lies be-
tween twenty-six degrees and seventeen
degrees east longitude, 1t has an unin-
terrupted course of seven hundred miles
Thence clearing the large belt of noun
tains between the great basin of the At
lantic ocean, the river descends by about
thirty falls and furious rapids to the
great river between the falls of Yellala
and the Atlantic.
SANKEY'S losses during the long and
terrible journey across the continent
from Nyangwe have been very severe.
The continuous fighting in the forests
and ON the river reduced the strength of
the expedition until it became ques-
ton whether any of its members would
ever reach the coast Stanley states:
Ny grief is still new over the loss of
my last white assistant, the brave and
pious young Englishman, Francis
Pocock, who was swept over the falls of
the Massassa on the Sd of last june"
He adds "My faithful companion,
Kalulu, is among the lost" On the
same day that Pocock was lost, Stanley
with seven men were almost drawn into
the whirlpools of the Nova falls, and
six weeks later himself, with the entire
crew of the Lady Alice were swept over
the Mbelo, whence only by miracle
they escaped. The explorer writes Il
made the expedition from Bona by
steamer to Calinda, and proceeded
thence to st. Paul-de-loanda. Mr.. Price,
of the firm of Hatton & Cookson, of
Liverpool, takes my letter to you via
Angola"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
YELLOW FEVER.

Yellow Jack has made his appearance
in the South early this year, but this
time he has spared Savannah, and
wreaked his spite upon Fernandina,
Florida. Many new cases of the fever
were reported there at last accounts, and
something like panic had taken place.
1t is said that half or two-thirds of the
inhabitants have fled, and most of the
rest are sick. But the fever yields more
readily to treatment than it did in the
terrible time last year. Loads of fumi-
eating and disinfecting agents, and some
nurses, have been sent from Savannah
and Charleston but more nurses are
needed. Florida is as healthy a State,
ON the whole, as Maryland or Massa-
chusetts. This, we believe, is the first
yellow-fever visitation that has ever
afflicted Fernandina: and its cause can
not probably be traced The town, very
pretty one, with branching live oaks for
shade trees, is in the very northeast
corner of Florida, and on an island. The
harbor is said to be the best one south
of Norfolk. Unlike most parts of East
Florida, the surface is billy; and the
drainage, as well as the air should be
good. 1t is sandy soil, like nine-tenths
of Florida, a porous whitey-gray sea
sand, untitled for holding standing water
and such spot, open to Atlantic breezes,
ought to be healthy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

On the recently-robbed Union Pacific
railroad train there were silver bars OF
nearly ten tons weight, but the bars
were so heavy that the thieves could not
carry them, and the whole shipment was
left untouched. 1t must have been a
severe trial to the road-agents to be com
PEELED to drive away and leave whole
carload of the material for the dollars
of their daddies, but there was no help
for it. They had noteven time to smash
up bar or two and line their pockets
with the fragments.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

SOME London papers seem to be de-
lighted to declare that cit is not only
in India that the horrors of famine are
being suffered and they parade before
their readers the fact that starvation
prevails in district in Brazil. In the
absence of any direct news from Rio
Janeiro, it is hard to tell the amount of
truth which there may be in the reports
relative to the Brazilian district of Cara /;
but it is consoling to notice that the
famine there can not have killed, as it
has already done in India, more than
half million of human beings.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
DENNIS DOYLE, of Boston, heard

DENNIS DOYLE, of Boston, heard
voices in his wife's sleeping apartment
the other night and grew desperately
jealous. So he crawlcd out upon the
roof, down the water spout and into the
kitchen window. Mrs. Doyle heard the
noise, was sure it was burglar, and
quietly called to her brother, who was
up stairs, to protect the house. As the
brother came down stairs, Dennis laid
for the supposed despoiler of his happi-
ness, and fred revolver at him.
Fortunately he didn't hit, and now the
comedy of errors ends with the dis
covery that the voice which the jealous
Dennis heard was that of his wife's own
sister. The worst Of it is that the poor
fellow has been arrested and held for
trial.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

Chicago and st. Louis. A considerable
quantity of the tea forwarded has gone
to Boston, but the larger portion has
gone to New York. There has been an
immense falling off in the Eastern de-
mand for California barley the pres
sent year, but the shipments of other ar
ticles show large increase. By the
above facts we learn why shipping is de-
pressed. If this merchandise had come
around Cape Horn it would have re-
quired all the spare shipping of the
country.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

THE Sterling Iron Works, in the south
western part of Orange County, New
York, founded by Lord Sterling, about
twenty-five years before the Revolution,
are still in active operation. The first
anchors ever made in America were
forged at these ancient works in 1852.
The great chain which was stretched
across the Hudson River to obstruct the
passage of the British fleet, was made at
the Sterling Works in 1777. The chain
weighed one hundred and eighty-six
tons, and it took six weeks to make it.
1t was transported in links to West
Point in carts drawn by oxen. Each
link weighed one hundred and fifty
pounds.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

The Shah of Persia has sent to the
South Kensington Museum, in London,
fine array of modern Persian carpets
and embroidery. Some of the carpets
made in Kurdistan are very beautiful,
with flowers strewed over white
ground, and with well-marked borders
of brilliant colors. Most of the en-
broidery is executed in chain stitch after
pattern, the center of which is a ro-
settle surrounded by geometrically ar
ranged flowers.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
The various industries of the South arc

The various industries of the South arc
progressing with immense strides. Sugar,
of which the production in 1866 had
been reduced to about ten thousand
hogsheads in Louisiana, last year reached
one hundred and seventy thousand
hogsheads. In the meatime cotton pro-
duction has almost regained its dominion
in the South, while rice in Louisiana is
on the rapid march to the Importance of
a first-class industry.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

LII is proposed in Brooklyn to put the
tramp to earn his bread in warehouses
specially erected for his accommodation.
That would be cheaper than to feed him
without equivalent, to imprison him as
vagrant, or to be knocked down and
have your pocket picked or your throat
cut by him on some cold winter night.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

The Secretary of the Interior has
given decision that when homestead
claimants land has become valueless for
farming purposes by reason of overflow
or back water of river, he will be
allowed to make another entry, with
credit for fees and commissions. In the
event of new homestead entry, he will
be required to show compliance with the
law, as though he had made no previous
entry.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
EDITORIAL OHIO.

Ii is announced that the rock founda-
ton of the famous Eddystone Light
house is wearing away to such an extent
that it has been decided to remove it and
erect another in its stead.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

BURLINGTON Hawk-Eye: Several
Burlington people who locked up their
houses and went to Europe" early in
the summer, returned from Yellow
Springs in farm wagons. The tourists
look brown and healthy and without ex-
ception proved excellent sailors, and es-
capped sea sickness 50 entirely that they
are unable to even tell Whist it is like.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

AFTER scientific exploration of the
coast of Labrador by Prof. Hind, it was
found that the fish ON the southern
shores of that peninsula nave alarmingly
decreased in number since 1870, and the
result of the salmon, cod, mackerel, and
herring fisheries this season fully sus-
tains the Professors opinion. Twenty
successive years fishing is the
cause, and law against fishing there for
ten Of fifteen years, is suggested as the
remedy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

The Pittsburg Post claims to have ex-
amined with great care the actual losses
by the great railroad riot in that city,
and asserts that the final awards will
not vary far from the following:
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

LORD JOHN MANNERS has done a just
and reasonable thing in appointing Miss
Cresswell, daughter of the postmaster at
Gibraltar, to her fathers post. The
salary is three thousand year. Lord
John believes in government employ
ment of women, and has appointed
oumber Of them to offices in the post
Mice and telegraph departments.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

A BOOK canvasser, the other day,
talked half an hour to induce lady to
buy book. She handed him slip of
paper on which was written, "Pm defe
and dumb"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

The Stone Mountain in North Caro-
ina is vast wall Of stones built by an
extinct race.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

In the first seven months of this year
the Pacific Railroad Company shipped
Eastward 81, 10000 pounds of merchan-
disc. The list includesin its leading ar
ticles, coffee, tea, dried and ripe fruits,
vegetables, hides and pelts, quicksilver,
salmon, skins and furs, wine, wool, silk,
and leather. The quantity of wool sent
since the commencement of this year ex-
ceeds $4,000, 600 pounds. This has gone
principally to New York and Boston.
Most Of the coffee has been sent to
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13

IT is said that in Alsatia, lately taken
from France by Germany, the cotton
printers use annually the albumen of
81, 100000 eggs, or as many eggs as $780,
900 hens could lay. If we add this to
the number of eggs required for food we
shall arrive at an enormous total con-
sumption. The demand for albumen
has led to many attempts to make it from
blood. Two pounds of dry albumen
represent 81 oxen, 10 sheep, II calves, or
366 eggs. Efforts in this direction are
proving more and more successful, and
there are number of factories in
Europe where blood is thus economical.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-13
NUMBER 26.
PASSING SMILES.

HANG up your straw hat, and bring
out your ulster.
How to take life casily-Dc careless
with petroleum oil.
Hoop called the slamming of door
by a person in a passion "a wooden
oath
WHEN desperate ills demand speedy
cure, distrust is cowardicc and prudence
folly.
A ST.. LOUIS reviewer wrote an article
entitled, "Martin Luther - Diet of
Worms" and the compositor set it up,
Martin Luther died of worms"
ONCE again the happy time has come
when the law allows the restaurateur to
set before You pint of milk with little
oyster taking a bath in it, and he calls
ii stew.
A MARRIED woman of Swan, Indiana.
ran away with the proprietor of a
menagerie, the other day, and the be-
reaved husband tauntingly remarks
that he doesn't know of any one else
in the world so we'll qualified to manage
her.
CRUEL little boy in the public school
traps mouse, and cages him up in fig
box with six healthy hornets. Teacher
comes round corner. Boy hides box
inside shirt. Lid of box comes off.
Grand pas scul, with music by the boy.
WHEN man finds an old well SO
fearfully and wonderfully distasteful
that pigs won't drink from it, he inn
mediately builds big hotel, lays out
race-course, and becomes the leading
millionaire Of fashionable summer
resort.
AHUsBANp lately recovered ten thou
sand dollars damages from railroad
company for killing his wife, on the
ground that the railroad was chcaply
and badly constructed. A great many
married men are trying to find out the
name of the railroad
WE are told to place no faith in ap-
pearances, yet it will be found wiser
course TO Judge from the human coun-
tenance rather than the human voice;
most men place a guard over their words
and their actions, but very few can bind
the expression that is conveyed by the
features.
THE MlRRok'
would my lady's mirror be,
50 might , hold her Image i iaI on ma
Seeing her lace reflected there.
For when she smiled on me- ah, then
NY heart would !, ho ,l.a me ,, Image sweet
'''S' --Iraue, Turned. IN s,,ibue,.
~,
IHE french are eneeriui Iace, anu
ma Joke IN tnings wneie no o'nel Peu
PIE wouiu th'hK oi looh',g ioi ono'
snort timc since s.ea',lpoas eAPio :'','
Dlcw up rnI .,,,, 49,, uei Ioron"ad h,s
hand exclaimed " Farewell INV much
e-sico,ued w;fepo
.. a. -
1T mas never Decn accounleu ioI' ahu
proDaply never can DC, Why u poy wno
Will eat Tour meals, pay oal' s tnrec nouis,
gorge himseii VIII ui'rilu Ia, .'J s..u anu ~
IN swimming SIX LINES ua ~, aaiins az
vacation ana DC neal.he '.,;, 1,'a ~, .un
soone, wiz po so,Aou vi. ~ -" ,ah"., t,alI
rings
;. v.Aa,;.
They once hau a man III o IL LILY,
VINO thought ne cou'u preach. n le,' WI
gwen tne opportunity III ecra - sJ i:'.s.4
mouse. His veAI was, AZ Me ntm
OF tne world; ne nauc " eau 70 e. a ny
OF ~ greaIly 70 ',lc .uis, .; ~ ,nst
ola LADY, VINO IN ner III pa.cnce az iasS
shouted; II lhou .ne ,'she u '''o
wo'io' '''ou heeo' '""is
, 1877-03-27
SefentliGe Ddnffaeuns.

Aus5ue aus etnsm Srtefe BON >. 1stnmat
let, Butt. 5pwarb Gounts. SOMA, an ieinet
Spbn s. 5sin nj iQer. &ebaste1, bes ~NIba'
ny 5erplb".
...... Sd Fam ntHt umbtn, Did sa bit.
ten, tn Deinfm glatte uniern DHeatli6en DAM
FUR bic 5eilung E>siner Muiier eurb Dr.
Aug. 8Dnte's 8 hamburger 2~roPfen
aus3ulpreden. @ie Du pcibt, lit bic ltebs
Mutter Al eiuem idperen 3eberleiten, unb
lslbff bic 5ilfe unlsser Merste tpar Serscbli9.
Wir prObirten bic 5amburser Iropfen unb
purbe bkf1 ben @ebrau9 beritlben bic @e'
lunbbeit Der @utter wieoer gang bsrsefeQt,-
Sd piini6e, Du wdrbef bic 6ambnrger
Mebieinen thinner auf's 8efe enapfeblen,
benn ie baben ii@ auf's 0OrtrefIi@fe in uals-
rer Gamilie betuabrt.
, 1877-03-27
Gin bemerfenSwertbeS Smdb!'
-artbut's lettes unb sr0btes.
0efabr!!!

ODER: Seripunoett II Dem 9anS zines Sreunbes.
Gie'es polensetife assre bieies 9eteranen Der
Nnlerltanil1et Nlteratur pat ais 8orluurf eiuen De.
9enltanp, melbsr oas lociale Sebeu unleres seIainmttn
Solfes beriibrt uno 9ie0t einen ldredlihen leberblid
ipannene unc auiregene, piro es BON Mlen nit
Se9t.rbe aslelen iperoen. Slinffrirt une idbpn se'
onneen. 9Sir lno entl6loilen, oas Bud in ieoer ia.
mile oes Sanoes ein5ufibren uno ~otferiren nod nie
easeptiene Sprtbeile alien mdnnlideu unb peibli.
Gen 6ublerlbenteniammlern. gBir uerlanssu Iberaa
Mssntsn une i1iden gratis auf BerIansen 4eoinsun-
Den rno eslarsIssnos Sirsu!Srs; 3. M. Sfoeear'
, 1877-03-27

Dto Nono College, NaeOn, Ga,
ben "a. Gebruar, 1876.
...... DIR. Musuf 85nts's 9am.
burger E%rppfen fnb bon anssesettneter
Wirfuus unb besbalb nabeau unsntbebrlih fur
mid. Rep. @ater 3. 5. &ebu,aua.
, 1877-03-27
Dte 8 laf&t

v9amburser Trppfen"
tpitst so Gents, ODER flNnf Glai&en
Dollars, iinp In allen peutlhen
Mpotbsten gu baben ODER perpen ptelel.
Ben mad Gmpfane bes @elpes fret mad
allen Tbeilen Der 8ereinisten Staater,
perlanpt. Man apreiire:
A. vogeiCr g. Co..
Baltimore, Ma,
, 1877-03-27
300 Yianos utto Sraelm,

neu une aus ~stuetter Sant. BON Tabrtfanten er'
tier 6lafe, iueroen 3u nieori9eren preiiem firGalb ODER
AbiHlass 8 ablunsen, ober FIR Wtietbe III staot uno
Nauo, toabrsno oieIer barten s3eiten nno Der 5eiertase
Ourt FORAGE Waters u. Con, 4S1 Sroacwap,
~psrtautt, ais %DieIelbet le 3upGr it: ytep Wort ~Dfferirt
wuroen. Wsenten uerlanst UNI @ater's neue Scale
DtanDs une Goncert.S rselm su persaufen. Sau.
lirirte @atalose per 4oit p%erjanpt. Cute Seoingunsen
iir ben banbel. Sin GROCER Disconto fur Aebrer,
Beiitlide, &irGen, So9el. S9ulen &C. 4g82bnp.
, 1877-03-27

Der Dapf elmer Tautilfe.-S@ nns
rastne Grau iassn Sbnen ben srSBtsn Danf fiji,
DR.. Ma guf RSnis's 9ambur8er
E~ropfeM fdreibt 5err Sobn Yctt, Geneva,
SQ.. bsnn bielelben baben uns srpbe Dasnlte
eftpieisn. Dir la6en bic Grupfsn ai1t rnsbs
ausgeben.