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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
The Potato Bug--HOw He Originated,
and How He Grows and Eats.
George A. Quincy in the Boston Globc.l


The potatoc bug is native Of the
West. He originated in the canons Of
Colorado, and may be called an offshoot
Of that section. The State is rammed
ful! and loaded down with them. They
formerely lived on wild plants, but one
Of them went up to Denver on little
pleasure trip, and at the hotel there
he had some fried potatoes, and they
struck him as being about the best thing
to quiet hunger he had ever lighted on.
He went home and advised his brethren
TO go east, and they simply packed up q
few collars and a changeof clothing and
started. The potato bugs dawn on the
farmer very rapidly; he sees his potatoes
nicely up, their green tops reminding
him that potatoes in the fall at q dollar
q bushel are better than serpents
tooth or thankless child, and he goes TO
bed dreaming of wealth pouring in on
him in burrows, and the next morning
he visits his field and sees some red spots
on the potatoe vines, about as big spin
heads. He notices that they give rather
a genteel look to the leaf. In day or
two he sees these red drops begin to
grow, and then to crawl, and in three or
! four days he goes out and II so surprised
at what he sees that you could not paint
his look Of astonishment-not even
prime it over one coat with less than a
bucket Of paint. He sees that the po-
tato bug has arrived, and brought his
whole family and all his wife's five hun
bred friends. He is there with all his
tools and implements of labor. He sees
bug about as large as the letter G,
when it drops from the lips of a small
boy, as he incautiously sits down on an
adult bull-thistle. He sees this bug laid
off in stripes endwise, like the marks Of
| a gridiron on slice of broiled liver. He
sees that what the bug lacks in size he
gains in quantity. He is there and
keeps coming. He has as much mouth
in proportion to his length as the Anna
ION River or Soldene. He can beat q
horsefy laying eggs, and have seer
them do the job at the rate Of twelve
miles an hour. Ten days from the time
an egg is laid it has been Matched, mar
ried, and is the mother of eleven hun
dred and thirty-two grandchildren.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
LoOking-GIass Astronomy.

DR.. Van Der Weyde, writing to the
New York Herald thus explodes the.
mirror method of seeing Mars Moons.
He says: Yeur paper contains COM
munication from Mr.. III. Young, Of
Goshen, mentioning that he saw the
satellites of Mars, as well as those OF
Jupiter, by reflection in a looking-glass
Allow me to remark that any bright
point will give two or three images in a
iooking-glass, when it is inclined under
an angle. The brightest image is that
formed by the silvering on the back, a
fainter one by the reflection of the upper
surface of the glass, and often still
fainter one by the three re1ections-first
from the silvered surface this is re-
fected internally by the upper surface,
and then again by the silvered surface.
When the object is quite bright and the
mirror held very obliquely even more
images may be seen three, four and five,
ETC., all in line, but growing fainter
and fainter by the loss of light caused
by the increased number of internal re-
Elections between the two surfaces of the
glass. These images will be further apart
when the glass is thick, and inversely,
close together when using a mirror of
thin glass. 1t is now some twenty years
ago that somebody looked at Jupiter
by means of such reflection, and seeing
two extra images fainter than the prin-
cipal one, supposed them to be the
moons. This was published and has
since deluded many persons. All that
is necessary to convince any one of the
illusion is to observe that the position of
the supposed satellites is always the
same every night, if using the same
glass, under the same angle, and changes
when the angle is changed, while tele-
scope will from night to night show a
continual change in position, often all
the four satellites, sometimes three,
sometimes two, and always quite diff
| ferent from the illusion of only one re-
! fecting surface will always show only one
luminous point. 1t appears that Mr.. H
Young was not informed Of the fact that
| this error was exploded twenty years
ago, when he now imagines that he has
seen the moons of Mars. Let him look
| in this way at any of the brighter stars
and he will see one, two or three extra
images which to those who have never
seen the moons of planets in a telescope
may be held to be satellites. The satel
lites of Mars are 50 small and faint
that only the best refracting telescope
| ever made has enabled observers to SET
| them. They are still invisible for al
other astronomical observers, even those
having superior instruments in com
mand. This alone should be enough t.
throw doubt into any reasoning mine
that the mere reflection by looking
glass could make them SO easily visible
| did not suppose that this error still
prevailed, and think it duty to dis
abuse the public when occasion offers.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
The Novel Plan of Marrfageable Young
Ladies' for Procuring u Husband.

A lottery in Portugal is as good as a
castle in Spain any day. A young lady,
who has all the qualifications necessary
for making good wife, advertises in the
Portuguese papers for proposals under
extraordinary conditions. She is poor,
but is accustomed to certain degree of
comfort; and she has been left in diff
cult position by the death of a lady who
has been to her as a mother She desires
to bring to her husband a marriage por-
ton of eight thousand dollars. The man
who wishes to become her husband must
take tickets in u lottery which is to be
held, the price of each ticket being two
dollars. When eight thousand tickets
have been disposed of, the amount due
for them will be collected and placed in
the Bank of Wien, invested in the name
of the Civil Governor of that town, if, as
may be expected will be the case, he will
give his consent. The number will then
be drawn in the presence of the Judge
of the district, the Director of the asy-
lum Of Wien and of the Civil Governor,
who will preside on the occasion. The
drawer of the winning number will then
receive, Immediately after the celebra-
ton of the marriage, eight thousand dol
lars, and also the interest of the other
eight thousand dollars, which will form
the dowry of his wife. Should the win
ner be unable from any cause to marry
the person making this announcement,
he may cede the right; or, should the
marriage not take place at all, the sum
subscribed shall be handed over to a
charitable institution in Wien.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
Scientific and Useful.

The electric current moves through
the Atlantic cables only six thousand
one hundred and twenty-five miles pei
! second, whereas it travels through in
sulated wires over ground 2SS,000 miles
per second.
A vial of oil of pennyroyal placed on
the stand at the head of your bed will drive
either you or the mosquitoes out of the
room. A dab of the oil ON your fore
head will keep the mosquitoes away
and everybody else, too.
The force of the wind is easily meas
ured by an thermometer. Seven miles
an hour is a gentle air; fourteen miles a
light breeze; twenty-one miles good
steady breeze; forty miles gale; sixty
| miles heavy storm; and eighty to one
hundred miles is sweeping hurricane.
The discovery of the satellite of Mars
is owing to the fact that this planet is
| many millions of miles nearer the earth
at present than for nearly eighty years.
Take a good look at Mars now; you will
not see him so big and bright again for
nearly a century to come-and it is n
trifle doubtful if you will then.
Where screws are driven into soft wood
and subjected TO considerable strain
they are likely to work loose. In such
cases the use of glue is recommended.
Prepare the glue thick immersc stick
about half the size of the screw and put
it into the hole; then immerse the
screw and turn it home as quickly as
possible
"A simple means of temporarily chang
ing the colors of natural flowers is by
immersing the stems in liquid ammonia.
In this way blue, violet and purple
flowers are changed to green, and white
ones to yellow. The natural color re-
turns in few hours. Another interest
| ing process is method for coating
natural flowers, as well as leaves, with
silver, by the application of electro
metallurgy simply electro plating them
The most delicate ornaments can thus
be obtained, preserving with exquisite
| detail the outline and form of each leaf
and petal.
The quantity of pins now produced
daily in England is said to be 10000, 900,
of which Birmingham produces 81 ,000,-
900, leaving some 13,000,000 to London,
Warrington, Stroud, and Dublin, where
the article is also made. The weight of
wire consumed annually in the pin
manufacture of England is set down at
about 1,275 tons, one-eighth of this be-
ing iron wire, used in the production Of
mourning and hair pins. The consump-
ton of brass wire amounts to 2,5O0,000
pounds, valued at nearly 100000, and
of iron wire some 345, 900 pounds, worth
about $50, OOO-to these valties being
added, of course, those for wages, paper,
ornamental envelopes, boxes, wear and
tear of machinery, manufacturers pro,
fits, etc. Mourning, hair, chronological
and japanned pins-that is, those stuck
in rows--realize larger profit than pins
sold by weight. Taking it altogether,
the pin manufacture of the United King
dom is not over-estimated, it is thought,
at the aggregate amount of 81 100000.
In the United States, the weight Of pins
produced in a year is set down at l.
12O, 900 pounds.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
Securing Away the Eclipse.

Soon after my arrival at Bagdad, on
the evening of the first day in May, as
we were dining on the terrace, we were
startled by most terrific din. We then
noticed that there was nearly total
eclipse of TIE moon, and upon consulting
an English almanac we found that it
would be =" invisible at Greenwich, but
a total eclipse in Australia and some
parts of Asia" The tumult increased,
and soon the whole population seemed
to have assembled on the house-tops,
armed with pots, pans and kitchen
utensils, which they beat with tremen-
dous clatter, at the same time screaming
and bowling at the top of their voices.
Frequent reports of guns and pistols
added to the turmoil. which was kept up
for nearly an hour, until they had sue
ceeded in frightning away the jim. or
evil spirit, who had caught hold of the
moon. 1t was most amusing scene,
although it interfered seriously with the
success of our dinner Our own servants
caught the excitement, and deserted the
table without ceremony. Our host told
us the next day that they well-nigh
knocked the bottoms out from all his
kitchen utensils. 1t was, however, a
complete success, and when our servants
returned to their duty, the moon was
shining brightly as ever, and upon their
faces was an air of complacent salts
faction.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
A Flagman's Duty.

A peculiarly shocking accident oc
Cured in Philadelphia few days ago,
by which fagman employed at one of
the railroad crossings in that city lost
his life while trying to save that OF a
drunken man. The fagman's name was
Stout, and just as the train was about
entering the depot he observed a man in
an intoxicated condition staggering
across the track. Seeing that the man
was in imminent danger, Stout called to
him to get off the rails, but no attention
being paid to the request, and the cars at
that moment running down rapidly to
the point, he sprang on the track and
catching the stranger by the arm en-
deavored to push him into place of
safety. Then ensued thrilling scene.
The man turning fercely seized Stout
with vise-grip, and struggle began.
For second or two the men swayed back
ward and forward, and the stranger, be-
ing the more powerful man of the two
dragged the fagman to the ground, and
fell himself just as the cars reached
them. For an instant there was sick
ening sound of crushing bones, and then
the mutiIated bodies Of the two victims
were seen covered with their blood
Both were shockingly mutilated, and
both expired in short time. When the
man first grappled with the fagman the
spectators called to Stout to let so Of
him, but the grip of the miserable mar
was too deadly.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
THE lfARRIAGE Ia us OF ONO IN
COURT IN b VARIA.

~ The Court of Appeals at Nuremberg
Germany lately had an interesting
cause before it of bigamy. The com
plant was entered against Friedrich
Popp, peasant, and Margaret Steiner,
previously the wife of Mr.. Steiner, a
baker by profession. Margaret had mar
ried Mr.. Steiner in 1867, in a little
place near Weiden The marriage was
an unhappy one, as according to her
statement, the husband was spend
thrift, had abused her, etc, etc. In
1868 they separated, and appeared be-
fore the consistery of the episcopate.
Regensburg as parties to an action for
divorce. The consistory separated them,
granting the wife " dover of tolera
ton for two years. The hubsand now
left that country, and was found work
ing at his trade, as mason, in 1875, in
the city of Munich, while his wife took
service in village. of Upper Palatinate,
where she became acquainted with a
fellow servant by the name of Popp, and
believing that by reason of that "decree
of liberation" she might go to service
or marry again, she emigrated with
Popp to America, when, eight days after
their arrival in Dayton, o., she married
Popp. A year after both returned to
Upper Palatinate, and there lived to-
gether as man and wife, until finally
the birth of child brought up the ques
ton of the legality of the marriage be-
fore the Court, in connection with which
an examination for bigamy was insti
tuted. The Circuit Court in and of
Weiden having sentenced both to the
lowest penalty of six months imprison-
ment, they took an appeal. 1t being an
offense committed by Germans abroad,
the question was not to be decided ac-
cording to German, but to foreign law,
in this case, according to the law of the
State of Ohio. On the part of the de-
Tense they referred to the opinion trans
mitted by the attorney of the German
Consulate in Ohio, who declared that the
criminal code of Ohio fixes the penalty
of him who marries while living in law.
full wedlock at from one to seven years
| imprisonment in the penitentiary. But
if any spouse has been deserted by the
other, or by reason of ill-treatment OF
non-support is compelled to leave the
husband, or has heard nothing of the
other party for the space of five years
he or she may marry again. Again, the
law of Ohio does not punish the origin
ally single or unmarried party (Popp il
this case) who enters into marriage with
a married person. Finally the question
came up whether, in view of a marriage
entered into abroad by Bavarian
without permission and contrary to the
law of the State (Bavaria), it could al
all be spoken of as marriage. When the
Court of Appeals decided to recommi1
the matter to the examining Judge, tc
consult the records as to the divorce
and to obtain further authority from
the Attorney General of Ohio and the
attorney of the Consulate at Dayton
| touching the law of the State of Ohio il
regard to bigamy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

! e A CALIFORNIA paper describing a
banquet to the head or their fire depart
ment last New Year, says: The boys
gave their chief bully lay out, and af-
terward watched and chained him. :"
The paper is sent regularly from there
by young man, to his relatives in Scot
land, where the item was noticed in the
! local journal as follows: "Frightful In
humanity in America-In atown in Ne
vada, which is very lawless place, some
men took the chief of the fire depart
mcnt, bullied him and laid him out 1--WE
suppose on the floor, or with poker),
after which he was carefully guarded
and heavily fettered by the cowardly
villains. The editor who relates the
facts was probably afraid of being SINH
larly treated, as the pusillanimous fell
low makes no mention of the outrage
editorially. Let us be thankful that
we live in civilized country under the
mild rule Of good monarchy" That's
what's the matter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

A sturdy, hungry looking individual
stepped into a Fulton restaurant, says the
Fulton Times, and after consulting the
bill of fare called for a Welsh rabbit.
After a short time they brought the piece
of bread nicely toasted reposing in its
bed of cheese, and after looking at it
intently for a moment he asked:
"Is that Welsh rabbit?'
at is" was the answer. He lifted 1T
with fork and looked underit.
cit is?' he echoed.
eyes, sir, it's just what you called for
"a Welsh rabbit"
"Well," replied the man, moving
slowly back from the table, "you can
take it away just the same and bring me
some American beef, and remember
that when want fried cheese I'll call
for it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

- ssss DURING the war of the Revolution,
:. -278, 021, men seryediin the Continental
armies OF these 57,623 received pen
sicns, the sum paid to them amounting
LII theaggregate to SAT ,0S2175.2. There
~'swere one hundred and .slxty-fye Revo-
lutionary, pensioners onst the rolls of the
-. pension office yat the close of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1859; one hun-
bred and two of these died during the
two following years. The last survivor
pensioned under the general laws died
in 1865; but there were two others, PEN
stoned under special acts of Congress
who survived until 1869. "a '0@ = ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
Death of the Founder of the Adams
Express Company.
New York World. !

The death is announced at his resi-
dence in Watertown, Massachusetts,, of
Alvin Adams, founder of the Adams
Express Company. He was born in
Woodstock, Vermont, in 1904, his pa
rents being very poor. In 1885 he went
with his wife to Boston, and found at
first but very mental employment. Sue
ceeding in starting small retail bust
ness, he lost all that he was worth by a
sudden iluctuation of the market, and
was forced to begin anew In 1910 he
opened an express Office in connection
with L. b. Burke, whom he had induced
to Join in the venture. All the local
and suburban business was done ON
foot, and the success of the new firm was
SO limited that Mr.. Burke retired dis
gusted at the end of six months. The
entire express business in Boston at the
time Mr.. Adams began was transacted
by Hernden 4 Co, and the former seized
the opportunity offered by their absorp-
ton in foreign operations TO open an
Office in New York and to otherwise
push his fortunes His energy and aiissiis-
bility began to tell, and his business rap
idly increased until agencies were cstab-
lished throughout the country. In 1854
Mr.. Adams retired from business, the
possessor of great wealth, and purchased
an estate in Waterfowl, which he inn
proved to the highest degree of elegance,
and upon which he erected an Italian
villa in keeping with the grounds. In
his collection, which is said TO be one
of the finest in the country, is the
Greek Slave" Of Powers. The latter
years of Mr.. hdams's life have been
spent in this luxuriant retreat. He
was very enthusiastic spiritualist. His
eldest son is the manager of the Boston
branch of the company, of which the
father remained stakeholder until his
death
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

-N9I5F MlEuGC Gal
.aklNABILITY to get credit is often em=
phatically blessing in Disguise, for the
would-be borrower, besides escaping an
embarrassing load of Indebtedness, gen
orally contrises Ito hvidge over his tenn
,porary distress, and frequently learns,
from his hard experience, a salutary les
oason. in thrift and industry that benefits
gd1im the rest of his life. Not only does
thissholdtrne with regard to private in
dividuals but also with respect to public
corporations. The Southern railroads,
wafofi instance, whose poor credit saved
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

q THERE is considerable business now
done in the west in drying eggs, which,
4 whenagproperly done. are said to retain
their original favor and other character
isties. They are, heated to uniform
consistency and poured in thin layers
upon polishedSiron plates, when they are
y placed ina current Of hot air and dry
rapidly. They are then put into hermet-
icallv sealed cans for future use. tsE
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

them from contracting great mortgage
debts during the era of expansion, are
now the most prosperous of those in any
section of the country. So far as the
future is concerned, therefore, it should
often dispirit rather than discourage a
man to find his path toward the slough
of Indebtedness blocked by firm re-
flIsal IN crad;t
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

CHICAGO Eyening journal: 1t is a
strange thing to see city chap at a
country party, but he was there, and in
his conversation with one of the prettiest
lasses ventured to inquire:
We're, you ever at a watering place r
Oh, yes" replied she, II live right
at one"
e Indeedr' exclaimed he, growing
interested, :" where might it be2"
ooh, Just out here little way" was
her innocent reply" my father keeps
the railroad tank"
The city chap, wondering whether
she was in earnest or making fun Of
him, then dropped the subject.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

THEsurface of European Russia alone
is about equal to that which Gibbon
80 eitimates for the whole Russian Empire,
-. namely, 100000 square miles With
all the acquisitions made since that time
of Catherine, the Russian Empire is still
s.ssecond in magnitude to the British, the
:, latter being estimated to cover s, S71 1895
A.ssquare mileso of the earth's surface, and
..-sthes -fermer s,S25, 1893 square miles.
When the Emperor Of all the Russias
rules by his autocratic will nearly
= So, 0O0. 90 of subjects, no less than about
.,a'ss22S6, GOO, 900 yield allegiance to Queen
eiN;atnr;a ~ i.iN ne4i ~issfaiti SOS aiotia
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

Z be made. the vehicle of the most conf
dental communications by writing them
in magic link "a solution Of nitrate
of cobalt, chloide Of cobalt, Or chloride
's~' Of copper, mixed with "a little gum
or sugar makes an ink that is ,invis-
ible until II is warmed, but which is
plainly visible when the heat Of aeandle
-. Z sor match is appliedtoit. Or an ink may
be used thatrequiresa deyeloperto bring
il out.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

SINCE the doctors began to agree that
tight lacing didn't hurt women bit,
but had tendency to make them
healthy, you can thartlly find pinched
waist in days travel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

The proprietor of forge not remark
able for correctness of language, but
who, by honest industry had realized a
comfortable independence, being called
on at social meeting for toast, gave,
Success to forgery"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22

A GOOD book and a good woman are
excellent things for those who know how
Justly to appreciate their value. There
are men however, who judge of both
from the beauty of their covering.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-22
HI.
EDITORIAL OHIO.

SEVERAL gentlemen it is privately
stated, who were rendered the position as
< Commissioner to treat with Sitting Bull,
went home read up ON Capt. Jacks in
terview with Gen. Candy, Parson
Meacham and the rest, and then con-
.cluded thatpressing engagementsat home
y would prevent their acceptance, etc.