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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
Dinner Table Hints.

When taking lady down do not ask
if she is "peckish " or sharp-set."
Do not say, hope they will give us a
good tuck-out!"
When you are seated keep calm, what
ever there is for dinner.
Soup must not be chewed, you must
swallow it whole.
Never hammer with your feet for the
next course or shout waiteri"
When anything nice is put on the table,
do not chuckle nor rub your chest.
When the entrees come round, make a
free choice, but don't pocket.
Never take more than four helps of
anything.
Do not sponge your gravy with your
bread and squeeze it down your throat;
it has an uneducated look.
Never speak with your mouth full F.;
first, because its vulgar, and secondly,
because you can't.
If you feel uncomfortable symptoms
arising from repletion you must dissem-
BILE; do not call for brandy and pepper
mint drops.
If your fair neighbor asks what is the
matter with you, hasten to assure her
that it's not catching.
Crack nuts for your hostess-if your
teeth are good.
Do not say "Fm chock fulll" when
dinner is over; it has foreign air about
it.
Before joining the ladies wash your
handsin the bowl provided for the pur-
pose; you should not call for soap or
bath towels
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
The MOrmOnS.

A Salt Lake correspondent shows the
faisity of the reports respecting the mill
tary strength of the Mormons. Instead of
the Mormons being able to show 10000
well-armed fighters, it is doubtful if even
half the number of able-bodied men
could be mustered in Utah to-day for any
military purposes. The population of
Utah, by the census of 1870, was $1,000,
of whom the full normal portion were
women and children. The increase has
certainly been not more than fifty per
cent. within the last seven years, and at
that rate the population would now be
10000. The little principality of
Montenegro has 200,0 900 inhabitants, and
its fighting force-all men between seven
teen and fifty-six years of age-is "a, 900.
The same proportion of about one eighth
would give Utah about $4,000 fighting
men, of whom at least one-fourth would
never fight in the Mormon ranks.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
l0maha Herald

When we came to Rapid City (Dak.)
everything seemed quiet and peaceful,
but upon the ridge, a mile west of the
town, near large pine tree, were the
bodies of three young men with CHASTITY,
blackened faces turned upward toward
the clear blue sky, the ropes dangling
from the limbs of the pine tree and the
deep cuts in their necks showing but too
plainly how they died. During the day
(the 29th) two or three men went out
northwest from town to get some logs,
and were surprised, when about four
miles out, by people whom they sup
posed to be Indians, judging by the way
they rode their horses. Being with an
ox-team, the men left it and ran for the
woods, and by taking circuitous route
came into Rapid nearly scared to DEATH
A party of fifteen well-armed men inn
mediately started out and found, seven
or eight miles out three white men
asleep, with four horses picketed near
them. They surrounded them, covered
them with their rifles and awoke them.
They were taken to town, and when ex-
amined confessed that the horses were
stolen at Crook. They were placed in II
log cabin for the night, but about three
o'clock in the morning band Of twenty
vigilants took them out, and when the
people of the town arose there they were
hanging dead, in plain sight of town.
They were buried last evening. The
following is to be their epitaph:
Aged e, s. years years. Aged % years Aged 10 years
HORSE THIEVES, BEWARE.
Here lies the body Of Curry, Allen and Hall,
Like other thieves, they had their rise, decline and
fall
On yon pine tree they hung till dead,
And here they found lonely bed.
Then be little cautious how you gobbe horses up,
For every horse you pick up here adds sorrow TO
your cup:
We're bound to stop this business, or hang you to
man,
For we've hemp and hands enough in town TO
swing the whole clan
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
A Whole Family Struck by Lightning
and None Killed.

During a recent thunder storm at
Council Bluffs, which occurred in the
night, the residence belonging to Mr..
Theodore Studebaker, in Keg Creek
Township, was struck by lightning and
every member of the family, all of
whom had retired to bed, were more or
less injured. Mr.. Studebaker had his
right leg badly burned from his hip to
his foot His wife had the left side of
her face completely blistercd with the
subtle fluid. In the same room their
little son was sleeping in a little trundle-
bed, and at the time was lying on his
back, in which position he re aeived avery
severe shock, the fluid striking him
apparently on the chin, and running
down the front Of his body, passed of
from both his feet, scorching the skin
like fire as it went. The hired man who
was sleeping in another apartment was
momentarily rendered insensible, and fol-
some time after consciousness was re.
stored was unable to speak word. Not
one of them was fatally injured, and
they are all recovering rapidly.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

A FRENCH engineer has proposed to
established tramways with granite tracks
in lieu of rails in Finisterre. He is of
the opinion that this system is far pre-
ferable to the ordinary railroads. There
alread exists vast network of what are
in truth tramways with granite rails,
worked by horse traction 10 Northern
Italy. In the streets of the principal
towns, and sometimes on the roads, tracks
of granite are laid in the highways The
surface of these tracks being fat and
perfectly smooth, the wheels of the
vehicles glide over them with the least
possible friction. The conductor of each
vehicle takes care to so guide il that the
wheels always remain on the granite.
The author of the project maintains that
there is nothing to prevent the granite
lines from being used by carriages driven
by steam-power in like manner as though
drawn by horses
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
The Blight of Peanuts.

The Brookville Je6ersonian was an eye
witness to the scene described below {:
"Will you love me this way when Pm
old?' she asked, as he emptied hand
fui of peanuts in her lap. /" will, dar-
ling, / swear it," he passionately pro-
tested, as he carefully laid aside his
cigar and commenced on what was left
of the nickel's worth. That was when
the flowers were budding and the birds
were mating one brief year ago. Last
night they sat again in the cleaning,
and who knows but what their memories
reverted to the happy past? And yet,
when she asked for fifty cent parasol,
he remarked that woman whose face
was as yellow as ducks foot, and looked
as though it had been cultivated cross
wise with a patent harrow, needn't be
so particular about her complexion. The
peanuts had done their work. There
had been a wedding ere the budding
blossoms bloomed.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
Burying a Fort.

Quite an original method of taking a
fort is described in Biackwoods Maga
zine. In 1886, a large Russian army be-
sieged the Turkish fort of Azof, which
was situated on plain strongly fortified
and had small, but well disciplined
garrison. No common approaches could
be made to it, as the Turkish cannon
swept the level with iron hail. In this
case the engineering skill of the Russians
was baffled, but General Patrick Gordon,
the right-hand man of Peter the Great
and the only one for whose death it is
said he ever she'd tear, being deter
mined to take the place at any cost,
proposed to bury it with earth by
gradual approaches. He had large
army; the soil of the plain was light and
deep, and he set twelve thousand men
to work with spades, throwing up high
decentralization of earth wall before
them in advance. The men were kept
in gangs, working day and night, the
earth being thrown from one to another
like the steps to stair, the top gang
taking the lowest place every half hour
in succession. In five weeks the huge
earth wall was carried forward nearly
one mile, until it rose to and above the
highest ramparts, and the earth began
to roll over them. This caused the
Turkish Governor to hang out the white
flag and give in. Had he not done SO
General Gordon would have buried the
fortress
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
EFFECT ABROAD or OUR RAILPOAD
STRIKES

A cable telegram to the New York
Herald says that extraordinary anxiety
was felt in all circles concerning the dis
turbances in the United States. The sud
denness, rapidity and general extent of
the strikes were regarded as surprising
and unexampled. The strikes have made
deeper and more painful impression on
England than any event since the out
break of the War of Secession in 1861.
Neither the English people nor the news
papers have been able to form any clear
theory as to the causes of the outbreak.
The public find in London newspapers
only cold statements, such as the loca-
ton of the riot, the number Of the people
killed, and the value of the property de-
stroyed. The newspapers have generally
expressed the hope that the United
States Government would succeed in
suppressing the instruction. The DAILY
Telegraph, however, thinks the corrup-
ton and mismanagement of the railroad
managers have given to the employees
the temptation and the opportunity
Whatever is the result of the Govern
ment's interference, the effect of the
strike must be calamitous to American
credit abroad
The HeratFs correspondent at Berlin
telegraphs that intense interest also
prevailed in the German Capital regard
ing the great American railroad strike.
Most of the papers contained daily leaders
on the subject. The Socialist leaders
were loud in their eulogies of the
martyred Mollie Maguires, and to show
their sympathy for the strikers opened
subscriptions in their favor. Not much
money was raised, however.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
Who Was Casabianca
Youths Companion. !

Owen Casabianca was a native of
Corsica, on which island he was born in
the year 1888. His father was Louis
Casabianca, a distinguished French pol
tician and naval commander and the
friend of Napoleon. He was Captain
Mt this time of the Orient, one of the
largest vessels in the French navy, a
magnificent ship-of-war, carrying one
hundred and twenty guns and five hun
dred seamen. OF Casabianca's mother
we know but little, save that she was II
young and beautiful Corsican lady, and
devotedly attached to her son. Owen
was her only child, handsome, manly
little fellow, with her beauty in his
flashing eyes and dusky hair. She died
while he was yet quite young, and when
the green sod was placed above her
grave, the boy left the pleasant valley
under the smiling hills of Corsica to 60
with his father and tread the hard deck
Of war vessel. Mere child rs he was,
Casabianca soon grew to love his fathers
dangerous calling, and became II favor
lite with all on board. He was made
midshipman, and Mt the early age of ten
years participated with his father in the
Ddttic Oh blt MIC. IHc snip NuUSHt
fire during the action. Soon after, Cap
tain Casabianca, the father, was wounded
by musket ball. Not yet disabled, ne
was struck in the head some minutes
later by splinter which laid him upon
the deck insensible. His gallant son,
unconscious of the chieftain's doom,
still held his post at the battery, where
he worked like the hero he was. He
saw the flames raging around him; he
saw the ships crew deserving him one
by one, and the boy was urged to flee.
With courage and coclness beyond his
years, he refused to desert his post.
Worthy son of Louis Casabanca, he
fought on and never abandoned the
Orient till the whole of the immense
vessel was in flames. Then seeking
refuge on floating mast, he left the
burning ship behind him. But he was
too late. The final catastrophe came
like the judgment doom. With an ex-
plosion SO tremendous that every ship
felt it to the bottom, the Orient blew up,
and from among the wreck the next
morning was picked up the dead, man
gled body of the young hero, whose
story, romance and poetry can not make
more heroic than it was
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

THERE are great many things lost
that are found again, and a great many
others that are never found. There are
regulations lost which cannot be re-
gained there are hopes lost which come
not back again; there are friendships
and joys lost; there are thoughts and
talents lost which are never found.
Every man has at some time lost some
thing which he would give the world, if
it were his, to recover. 1t may have
been but single Pearl from the thread
of friendship, but it was precious to him,
and life is sad and dark without it. The
smallest things are oftentimes the dear
est to the heart of man, as for instance,
little wife, little heir, little fortune,
little home. What wonder, then, that
when they are lost, he would give every
thing he had for their recovery.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

( THE following contains good argument
on both sides: One speaker said to the
other: You say that the expression
Tomorrow is Wednesday is bad Eng
lish, and that / ought to say, Tomorrow
aciHbe Wednesday, But say Wednes-
day is tomorrow NOR, but when it comes
it will be to-day and not tomorrow. II
sciH not be tomorrow hereafter, but is
tomorrow now" Well" said the
other, it is poor rule that won't work
both ways. If you can say Tomorrow
is Wednesday, with just the same pro
priety you can say Yesterday is Mon
day, and nobody ever heard that ex
preston.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

SPECIMENS of silver ore recently taken
from the Cerro de Pasco silver mines in
Peru show that the submerged portion
of the mountain is very rich, and a
rough estimate shows that body of ore
will be exposed, by the new tunnel which
Henry Meiggs is to build, worth from
$3oO,OOO,OO to$5OO, 900, oOO These mines
have lain under water for fifty years,
and are scarcely known to the present
generation, though they have been
worked for over two hundred and fifty
years. Peru has now discovered that a
tunnel can be built which will drain the
mountain completely, by draining off the
lake from which the water in the mines
comes, and she is so much in earnest
about it that the first loads of the now
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
FUNERALS as DISEASE FEEDERS


The Board of Health of New York
City declares a public or church funeral
of any person who has died of scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles or whooping
cough dangerous to the lives of such as
may attend who have not had the disease,
and requires the family to limit the at
tendance to as few as possible, and to
prevent the presence, so far as they are
able, of those who have not had the dis
ease of which deceased person died, and
to disinfect the room in which deceased
person was and the body Of deceased
person and the clothing and bedding used
during the sickness. The Board also
advises the use of sealed wooden or me-
tallic coffins when the family can afford
the expense.
There is good reason to believe that
disease is occasionally disseminated
through the medium of funerals. We
have at least one fairly authenticated in
stance in this countryof diphtheria being
diffused broadcast through the crowding
incident, occasionally, to the last cere-
mony. Fortunately this question is be-
ginning to receive much attention, and
several cases have been reported of latet
where the transmission of the disease
from the corpse seemed highly probable.
The Suffolk District Medical Society sent
out four hundred circulars to medical
practitioners, with view to ascertain the
opinion of the profession ON the alleged
danger of permitting public funerals of
persons who had died from diphtheria.
Two hundred and thirty-nine answers
were received ; of these one hundred and
forty-three writer's express belief in the
possible danger of contagion at funerals
seventeen believe that there is danger
from funerals in the houses of the dead,
but none in churches twenty-nine fancy
that in the present state of knowledge
there is no justification in prohibiting
public funerals, and eight record cir
cumstances which occurred in their own
experience confirmatory of the propo-
sition that peril may ensue; but the testi-
mony these latter advance is not quite
satisfactory The society, after due con-
sideration, recommend that funerals at
the houses of those who have died of
diphtheria should be private, owing to
possible exposure to the poison of the
disease.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
A Prairie Minuet.
iCharles II. Whitehead in the . Midsummer
NUMBER Of Scribner.I

Number" Of Scribner.I
One autumn day, watching for ducks
while ensconced on musk-rat house in
the great Mendoza marsh, which ex-
tends back many miles from the Missis-
sippi River opposite Clinton, / noticed
some objects moving on the summit Of a
knoll. By careful watching I discovered
they were prairie-fowl, and, moved by
curiosity, carefully approached them.
As / drew near I discovered fifteen
prairie-fowlapparently dancing minuet.
They were scattered about on a short
turf, twenty yards apart, nodding their
heads at one another, and presently two
would run ont and perform the figure
which in country dance is known as
"cross over and back to places" all the
while utterinp. a soft note of COO
cooe," the last syllable being much
elongated. Then would follow "salute
your partners" and "dos a dos" This
scene Of merriment was sustained for
half an hour and until shot from a
neighboring gun caused the birds 70 run
into the tall cover Of the reeds. The
bright sunshine of autumn and the con-
spicuous group of native birds i'm
pressed the scene wildly on the specta-
tors mind. A Leighboring farmer to
whom the circumstance was mentioned,
said:
eyes, them same birds skye around
there mostly every day."
The other varieties Of prairie grouse
indulge in the same kind Of amuse-
ment.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

RECENTLY a gang OF men working IN
the gravel pit on the Grand River Val
ley Railroad, two miles east of Nashville,
exhumed the skeleton of man. There
is suspicion that the remains are those
of George Snyder, Of Ohio, who mysteri-
ously disappeared when the road was be-
ing built nine years ago. Snyder was a
laborer in the employ of one Mitchell,
who had the contract of grading the road
from Hastings to Vermontville. One
night while at work at or near the place
where the skeleton was found, he re-
marked to chum that he was going to
draw his pay and quit work. He drew
his pay and was never seen afterward.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

SEVERAL villages in the Alpine val
legs of the Commune Belluno recently
suffered severe losses owing to sudden
deluge from the clouds gathered around
the mountain peaks. The smiling val
leys were quite desolated; many ami
mails were drowned in their stalls, and
the burghers only saved themselves by
taking refuge in the tops of houses and
and other high places.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

Mr.. AMERICUs SYMMEs, citizen of
Jefferson County, Kentucky, who has
been much talked of by the press OF
America, has been corresponding with
Captain Howgate. Mr.. Symmes's no
lions as to another world are known to
all. He believes that this earth is hol-
low and habitable within, and that, af-
ter sailing to certain degree of north
latitude, ship then goes into the earth,
where the other world exists. Mr..
Symmes contributed five thousand dol
lars toward the expenses of the Howgate
expedition to the North Pole, and thinks
that perseverance will prove the Symmes
theory true.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

Puck: Good day, Moses. Vy-s'help
me! my tear, how you vas shainged.
Wouldn't nefer ha eff known you" But
my name is not Moses, SIR" "Kreat
hefens, who would think it-your name
hanged too?'
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

DIR. RoLF's monkey hung himself in
Milwaukee, because his tail froze off last
winter. Darwin should make note of
this event. In former days the uncul-
tured and depraved monkey would not
have hung himself, but spent his time in
coaxing other monkeys to freeze of
their tails.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

submerged ore are expected to reach
Lima in four months. 1t is predicted
that within ten years more silver will be
taken out than from the silver mines in
Nevada.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

THE cultivation of flax in the w estis
increasing, as it should. The North
western Flax Society report the average
value of the crop per acre to be $27.0S.
The United States import annually $780,
100000 worth of flax, hemp, and jute
Improved processes are steadily dimin-
ishing the cost of harvesting, preparing,
and manufacturing. Jute may be
grown in the Southern States, hemp in
Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
further North fax is at home. The two
latter are extensively grown already.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

Mr.. ALcocK, who for twenty-five
years has been making experiments with
trees planted in the vicinity of his cotton
mill, near Manchester, England, finds
that the plane which does better than
any other tree in London smoke will not
grow at all in that of Lancashire; but,
on the other hand, he has been very sue
cessful with the beech, sycamore, birch,
wych elm, and Turkey oak, but the lime
does best of all. Here is hint for Pitts
burg and Cincinnati. There is a society
in Manchester called the Field Natural
lists and Archaologists Society, which
is urging the planting of trees in and
about Cottonopolis.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

THOMAS PLACIDE, the well-known
actor who recently killed himself, at
New Orleans, on account of a cancer in
the mouth, from which he was suffering,
is reported to have brought on the dis
ease by over indulgence in smoking. He
was sixty-nine years old In farewell
letter to friend, he said: e" | have been
driven to the deed by the most agoniz-
ing tortures that man ever suffered-be-
yond human endurance" His father,
mother, brother and two sisters (Mrs.
Mann and Mrs. w. R. Blake were promi-
nent members of the same profession.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

IT is proposed next year to celebrate,
at Penzance or Truro, in Cornwall, the
centenary Of the death of the Cornish
language. According to general belief,
the last person who could speak Cornu-
British fuently died in 1873. 1t is re-
corded that she used the language chiefly
for swearing purposes. The celebration
will probably take the form of a congress
of Celtic scholars, and it is expected
that this reunion will be followed by the
publication of number of Cornish
MANUSCRIPTS
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
EUROPE is now importing a sQrprisin

EUROPE is now importing a surprising
quantity of American fruit-$2, 500, 900
worth within a year past, estimates
the New York Tribune, to 100000
worth the year before. Dried apples
figure largely in this movement. This
country has exported over 100000
pounds of them since last June, as com
pared with 522, 900 pounds the previous
year. This new addition to the trade of
the United States is due to invention,
which has occupied itself of late with
improved methods for drying and pre-
serving and transporting fruit.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

A SUDDEN draught of hot air passed
through cotton field and peach orchard
in Western Texas few days ago, scorch-
ing and killing every green thing it
touched for aspace of one hundred and
forty yards wide and four hundred yards
long.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11

A cRUsTy old bachelor says that love
is wretched business, consisting of a
lastle signing, little crying, a little
dying, and deal of lying.