The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-06
NE VS. AND NOTES.

lHE cosJ Oh modern EngilSn naval
monitor, fully equipped, is over $500,
900, and yet they are comparatively use
less, since the newly-invented torpe-
does will blow them to pieces in mo.
ment.
IT is computed that France now pos
sesses steam engines of an aggregate
force of 100000 horse power This is
equal to the effective labor of 81 900, 000
men, or about ten times the industrial
population.
AT recent concert at Agricultural
Hall, London, the audience cheered the
Marsellaise enthusiastically, Kissed the
German band until its music was almost
lost, hooted the Russian airs, and burst
into wild applause over the Turkish
music.
FROM statistics contained in the an
nual report of the quarantine officer at
the portof San Francisco it appears that
the Chinese coming to our shores during
the period of one year was only one
thousand four hundred and sixty in ex-
cess OF those returning home.
The experiment in importing the mi
gratory quail into Vermont is reported
to be proving success They are often
seen and heard in the woods where they
have been placed, and are now raising a
large number of young birds, some of
the nests having twelve and fourteen
eggs.
A WEIGHT of $4,000 pounds attached
to bar ofiro one inch square and 900
inches in length will draw il about one
inch; $4,000 pounds will stretch il two
inches: $4,000 pounds, four inches
$4,000 pounds eight inches, and $4,000
pounds, sixteen inches, when it will
finally break.
THEY have been having revival in
the Christian Church near Decatur,
Texas, and few Sundays ago sixty ac-
cessions were made to the society. Some
enemies of the church put poison in the
coffee drank by the congregation, and
came near killing large number, in
Guiding four preachers.
THE use of horses, donkeys, and mules
for edible purposes, in Paris, is CON
stantly on the increase Those who eat
horseflesh affirm that it is more whole
| some and more nourishing than beef, al
though often not quite so agreeable.
Paris contains fifty butcher-shops
specially devoted to this article.
To keepin order the trees, strawberries
and seats upon the Paris boulevards and
in the Paris public squares and gardens
costs every year 100000. The number
of trees in the squares and courtyards of
public buildings is estimated to be $500 !;
he number in the cemeteries l0,400,
nd the number in the avenues and boule-
wards S2,20l
The Journal Of Commerce says that
two of the largest silk mills in Pater-
son. N. j., have received an order from
Paris for the manufacture of certain
description of silk goods. This is prob
ably the first order received from Europe
for American silks, and comes from the
nation which, having made a speciality
of the manufacture, stands in the first
rank as a producer of manufactured
silks.
FOURTEEN years ago, says the Venango
Spectator, when the oil fever was at its
height, Pithole was the largest and thrift
test of the oil towns. Its post office de-
livery was enormous, ranking third in the
State. Last November the borough of
Pithole polled only six votes equally
divided between two parties, and last
Monday the survivors of the great oil
metropolis petitioned the court for dis
solution of it charter. Such is life.
JOSH BILLINGS is very tall stoop-
shouldered man, with large, strong fea-
lures, cavernous eye-socketsandb brightly
glowing dark eyes. His clothing is dark
blue and don't fit. He wears black
felt hat with brim as broad as an UNI
brella, and from under this gigantic
shadow his struggling, iron gray hair
hangs in heavy, curling locks upon his
shoulders. He is regular Buffalo Bill
looking fellow; two Deringers and a
knife in his belt would complete the
picture. He is ventriloquist and in no
manner a clown. Stretching his long
forefnger out, and following it by his
head, until his great hat is so far in
advance of his broad shoulders that they
appear to be connected only by the hat
brim.
New YORK World: Sitting Bull, who
is graduate of college, will be graft
fed to know that General Crook will
not serve on the commission. The Gen
eral is almost bald, and what little hair
he has he wears cropped disgustingly
close. General Terry's is little better,
and the most industrious savage who
took a contract for scalping him could
not make decent days wages. Judge
Lawrence, we believe, wears a wig, and
his scalp lock is
"Like Dead Sea fruits that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lip"
Col. Corbin, however, has Hyperion's
curls, and Gen. Mcneil is like the
Squire in Chaucer,
/" A lusty bachelor,
With lokkes crulle, they were layde in presse;"
SO that as whole, the personnel of the
commission is not Objectionable.
A New View of Consumption.