The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

MICHIGAN is assessed this year at
$500, 000,0
WITHIN the last ten years the United
States has sold $43,0U0,0O worth oil
arms and ammunitions of war TO Europe,
In two recent attempts to sound the
Northern Ocean with lines one mile and
a half in length, no bottom could be
found.
Iowa has four hundred and twenty
seven baseball clubs. Now we under
stand why the last Assembly appropriated
$500, 900 for new insane asylum.
FROM the sixth to the thirteenth CEN
turtles many bishops could not read, and
kings were hardly able to sign their
names. Hence the use of seals and seal
ing.
THE cotton manufactures of the
world run total of 65,000,000 cotton
spindlcs, OF the spindles $1,000, 900, or
more than one-half, are operated in
England.
THE English sparrowsare turning from
the diet of worms to feed on the grain
fields and on crumbs from tables. The
change in taste is not highly appreciated
by farmers.
ONE firm in New York, engaged in the
manufacture of matches, consumes per
annum 900 feet of white pine lum-
Der, 100,0 900 pounds of sulphur, and 100
tons of straw board for boxes,
THE population of Russia is set down
as $1,000, 900, and Turkey $4,000, 000
or, Egyp., Tunis, and Tripoli are ex-
cluded, 26000,000. Seven millions of
the S7,000,00O of Russia must be
credited to Asiatic Russia.
In the past sevcnty-two years, Of 1858
persons condemned to death in Austria
only 500 were executed, the reigning
sovcreigns have been averse TO capital
punishment and having pardoncd or
committed the sentences of the others.
SINCE the year 1871 the butter produc-
ton of France has increased from 49,
100000 to lS,600,000 in 1876, and the
egg interest in the same period from 81
$4,000 to S9,3b0,000 This year the lat
ter has had an inormous increase on the
product of last year.
THE startling announcement is made
that there are twenty-five thousand more
Indians to-day in the United States than
when the whites first settledin the eoun-
try In other words, there are three
hundred and ten thousand in all, and
they are increasing annually at the rate
of seven-tenths of one per cent
SIR THOMAS Roe, British ambassador
of Constantinoplc in 1922, said in one
of his dispatches: =" Turkey has become
like an old body, crazcd through many
vices, which remain when the youth and
strength are decayed." That was three
hundred and iifty-five years ago, and still
the invalid takes solid victuals.
IT is said that the walls and iron
columns of the Cooper Institute, New
York, rest upon nothing but sand for a
foundation, although they have to sup
port fire-proof structure one hundred
feet high above the sidewalk. Although
the building is some twenty years old, it
has shown no signs of settling.
JOHN TAYLOR INNEs has an article in
the Popuiar Science Monfhiy on the trial
of Jesus Christ before Pontius PLATE.
He subjects it to searching analysis in
the light of what is known Of Hebrew
and Roman criminal Jurisprudence, and
concludes that the proceedings were II
regular and illegal from beginning to
end.
A SINGULAR lawsuit is being prosecu-
ted in Rensselaer, County. A landslide
in the town of Schodack filled up a
creek and turned the water in different
direction. The owner of the mill fur
Their down sues the farmer who owns the
land on which the slide occurred, to COM
pei him to restore the stream to its
former condition,
Two little edible dogs from China
have been received at the Acclimatiza-
| ton Garden in Paris. These interesting
CANNES have heads like pugs are very
small and fat and short legged, and are
eaten usually when two months old, after
being fed exclusively on rice and milk.
They are eaten roasted, and served in
cuts with soy.
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