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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

A good story is told by the Marquette
Mich Mining journal of former res
ident Of Negaunee, now living in Col
orado. He was an explorer of some
note, and was one day digging at the
foot of mountain in Boulder County,
when Teutonic gentleman came along
and inquired:
"My goot frient, vat you peen do
dere?"
"Oh, Pm only scratching around to
see what can ind"
"Vell, mine frient, / dond't know
pretty much by dis exblorin' pisness /;
auver dond't you could dell me we're /
gould Wind me COLT mine right away
guickg"
"Oh, you just find big pine tree
and 60 to digging in its shadow, and
you'll find what you want"
Dank you mine frient;" and the
German went little way up the noun
tain, found the shadow of pine tree
and went to digging. In short time
he found what is now the celebrated
Melvina Mine, and now our Negaun
eeite is suing for an interest in the valu
able property, ON the ground that hi
gave the information which led to it,
discovery.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

correspondence OF the Newark AdvertiserI
This Is one of the richest and most
beautiful cities in the world. 1t seems
especially so as you approach it in the
distance. Standing on elevated ground,
it is seen afar from every direction. Its
numerous towers-every church having
several besides the steeples-with hum
dreds of domes and cupolas, either
gilded or painted green and s2angled
with stars, together with many gardens
and trees intermixed with the houses,
give it quite an Oriental appearance,
and fill the traveller with wonder and
admiration whenit first breaks Upon his
view. The river Moskva flows at the
base of the hill ON which the Kremlin
is built. The Kremlin is a vast citadel,
or city within city, enclosed by wall
from twelve to sixteen feet thick, and
from thirty to fifty feet high, with many
towers, embellishments and beautiful
gates. 1t contains many MAGNIFICENT
churches, also the Large Palace and Lit
tie Palace. We entered with uncovered
head, as every one is required TO do,
from the highest official to the lowest
serf, through the Gate of the Redeemer,
over which hangs picture. of the
Saviour. / would like to tell you of
the cathedrals, and the great bell, which
weighs ten thousand pounds, or three
hundred and sixty thousand pounds
English, now standing with its broken
piece on a pedestal, placed there by the
Emperor Nicholas; the Romansoff Place
with its ancient obelisk; the crooked
streets and mixed houses, elegant Gov
eminent offices in close contact with
huts and cottages; the tolerably wide
street, three miles long, leading from the
walls of the Kremlin to the st. Peters
burg gate, and thence to the Park or
review ground; also to the Treasury,
the Public Museum and Library, to-
gether with modern improvements in
gas-pipes, letter-boxes, ETC., etc, but l
must hasten to give you brief account
of my journey from Archangel to this
city. Moscow may be visited again, but
that journey will Fever have a second
edition.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
BRIDGE OBSTRUCTION

The old wooden bridge on the line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning
the Susquehanna- River above Harris
burg, is being transformed into a
wrought ron bridge, without interfer-
ing with the use of the structure by
the hundreds of heavy trains that pass
over it every day. The bridge is nearly
three-quarters of mile long, and it's
reconstruction requires thirty-six hun
bred tons of iron. Fourteen of the
twenty-three spans are already in place,
and, although the manufacture of the
iron was not commenced till after the
LIST of June, the entire work will be COM
pleted by the Goth of November, which
is ten days less than required by the
terms of the contract. The iron is being
rolled at the Edgemoor Iron Works,
near Wilmington, Delaware, and the
construction is by the Delaware Bridge
Company. Each of the iron spans is
placed in position outside of the old one
by means of derrick travelling on a
narrow gauge track. When the iron
span is thus completed the old track is
transferred to the new work, and the old
span removed piece-meal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

ST. LOUIS lobe-Dcmocrat: AS an in
stance of the revival of business, the
following conversation, which occurred
yesterday between DIR. Lnych and P. j
Pauly, is given:
" Well, Pauly, how is businessT'
" Business is reviving; l have more
orders now than can fill, and am about
to rent the Car-wheel Works down there
on your ground"
Il am glad to hear that business is Sc
brisk. l see the streets are full of peo-
pie and vehicles, and the hotels are
crowded"
eyes, am overrun, and must have
more ROOM"
"By the way, Pauly, what is your
business? have forgotten"
"Making iails."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
The TichbOrne Case Again.

Mr.. William Quartermainc East writes
to us from Tavistock as follows:
Mr.. Onslow, Lord Rivers, and myself
accepted the joint trusteeship Of fund
established three years since TO procure
evidence from Australia in this case.
We readily realized that the discovery
of Arthur Orton was the only chance OF
possibly benefting the claimant, and
am sure all the well-disposed will be
pleased to learn that after many fail
ings, incessant work, great expense and
continued disappointment the undoubted
Arthur Orion has been discovered under
the name Of George Cresswell, fully re-
cognized by several in Australia, and his
photograph sworn to by many in Eng
land who knew him within this past ten
years. Although the only sister who has
at present seen Cresswcll can not posi-
bly, swear to him, she remarks: "There
is most wonderful likeness to our
family; in fact, at once picked him
out from several others, and, certainly,
after lapse of twenty-five years, al
though ] have not sworn he is my
brother, / should positively decline
swearing he was not" Upon the arri-
val of Messrs. Onslow, Haworth, and
myself at Dartmoor, on Friday, the
photograph of Cresswell was shown to
the claimant, who at once declared it
solemnly as the same Alfred Smith
sworn to by him on the sixteenth day of
his examination in chief. OF course
this is of no legal value, nevertheless 1T
is eminently satisfactory to his partisans.
The claimant looked in better health
than on any of the previous visits. l
will not intrude upon your space with
the many details connected with this
discovery, or dwell upon the causes
which resulted in his conviction. Judges
and juries must decide by the evidence
and facts as they find them, whether
true, untrue, perverted, or distorted +;
but will simply observe that the credit
in the main is due to the unwearied
efforts of Mr.. Onslow, and to the many
kind friends who have from time to time
so literally subscribed, and thereby en-
abled us to trace Alfred Smith, alias
George Cresswell at the Paramatta Asy-
lum, to be the undoubted Arthur Orion,
son of George Orion, butcher, of High
Street, Mapping.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
What the Sun Is Made OF.

A discovery made of Importance to
science Is announced by DIR. Henry
Draper, of Hastihgs-on-the -Hudson. Ii
is well known to students of the spectre
scope that while the black lines that in
dictate the presence of metallic vapors
are SO abundant in the solar spectrum as
to leave no room for doubling that most,
If not all, the metals are ignited in the
sun, there is yet an absence of the lines
that characterize nearly all the non
metallic substances. Hydrogen is ex-
cepted from this sweeping rule, but there
are many reasons for chasing that gas
with the metals. Various theories have
been put forward to explain the absence
of non metallic lines from the solar
spectrum, and the fact has even been
used to throw doubt over the nebular
hypothesis, which necessarily assumes
that the constituents of the sun can not
greatly differ from those of the earth.
DIR. Diapers discovery, if it be con-
frmed, shows that at least one--and
probably several - non-metallic sub
stances are present in the sun. In
paper read before the American Phil
osophical Society last month, he gave
the details of experiments which appear
to prove that oxygen forms one of the
suns constituents. Its presence is indi-
Gated in the spectrum, not by black but
by bright lines. To make this more ap-
parent, DIR. Draper has photographed
with the spectrum of the sun "com-
parison spectrum" of common air, the
air being ignited by the electric sparks of
a Leyden jar. The comparison spec
trum' gives the bright lines of oxygen
and nitrogen, and also (from the termi-
nails of the battery used) those of
aluminium and iron. The lines of the
metals serve to check the accuracy with
which the two spectra-of the sun and of
a ir---are matched
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
BRITISH 81 YINGS BANKlS.

When SO many of the savings banks
in the States have been going down, a
return recently issued in Britain gives
some very interesting information on
the extent and condition of the national
institutions of the kind in the United
Kingdom guaranteed by government.
The extent to which the saving principle
is developed is seen by the number of
depositors in these banks. In England
there were 1,120,172. In Wales, 32,947.
In Ireland, Sc, 849, and in Scotland, $780,
S19. Taking the population of 1871,
this would give one depositor for every
ninety-six of the population in Ireland,
every thirty-six in Wales, every nine
teen in England, and every thirteen in
Scotland OF the weather. classes who
take other means of investing their sur
plus, we find that in Scotland every
alternate family has a handbook. In
Glasgow alone there stood on the Goth
of last November, 92,559,999 to the
credit of 1855 depositors, or an aver
age of EGG each. In Edinburgh the de-
posits amounted to FL, 079,67s, by 81 ,043
depositors. When these national saw
ings banks are fully and equally es-
tablished over all the country, the
amount of the savings put into them
which are as secure as the credit of the
British empire can make them-will be
immense. 1t is but comparatively a
short time since these banks were estab-
lished, and the result is as gratifying as
it is surprising. If workingmen would
only deposit in such guaranteed institu-
tions all they spend on tobacco and
whisky, in a very few years they would
be surprised at the amount of cash at
their credit with the country.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
October Days.

This II the time when the careful
housewife rummages over the stores Of
last winters clothing, reads the daily
! quotations of flannels, and hearkcns e
the unmusical voice of the rag man
when the good man of the house inspect,
every nook and Granny that admits q
draft of cold air, investigates weather
strips and padding, ascertains the con.
Iition of the chimney, delibcratcs over
improved CRATES and inquiries the whole
sale rates of coal. These are the days
when the maiden's cheeks are suffused
with a pretter pink, and the mans with
a ruddier glow the days whose bracing
atmosphere stimulates the man TO bet
ter and more hopeful business efforts I;
quickens his pulse and step, fills him
with kindlier feelings toward all, and
strengthens his social and family sym
pathies. These are the days when
man begins to thoroughly enjoy the
journey home at the close of his days
work. The streets and street cars are
lined with their cheerful faces; the out
going railroad trains are filled with the
impulsive, good natured fellows who
hurry home from the depot to greet the
wife and little ones, and to whom the
blazing lamp at twilight burns SYM
when all people begin to think of home
comforts; when those at home become
happier over its approach, with it,
promises of evening sociabilhy and
amusement. All classes welcome it ex-
cept the unfortunate poor, to whom il
brings additional burdens and discom-
forts, and the old bachelor, who, solitary
In his chamber, listlessly allows his pipe
to burn out, while over and over again
he clocks before and after, and pines
for what is not" God pity them both.
The one for misfortunes and the other
for his own folly.
1t is the time besides, when plans
ought to be made for passing the winter
evenings and making the most of them.
Otherwise the winter season, the most
in the whole year for social
and intellectual improvement, may be
away uselessly and UNI
prohtably. A little system will enable
all to take advantage to some extent of
all the variety of enjoyments the season
may offer. Club parties need not inter
fere with visits to public amusemcnts,
and neither of these need interfere with
the more valuable time which one may
pass at home. Every family might
form little reading circle, and during
three or four evenings in the week com
mune with the best thinkers, or store the
mind with useful information. Reading
is an irksome task to those unaccustomed
to mental application, but it issurprising
how quickly the interest increases, and
at the close of the season to
note how much has really been accom-
plished with SO slight an effort.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

inches long by two and a half inches
wide on the surface, the roots from the
surface of the jaw being about three
and half inches long, and the tooth
itself, the surface of which is deeply SER
rated or mammelated, rising about one
and quarter inches above the jaw, the
whole tooth not weighing seventeen
ounces. The osseous portions of the
tooth are petrifed, but the enamel on its
surface is quite clear and glossy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
New Uses for Electricity.

The wonderful versatility of electricity
is constantly finding for it some new
labor to perform, and now the lumber
man and the butcher have secured its
services. We read of the following use
made of it in the East Indies:
A platinum wire, connected with the
poles of battery, is stretched around a
tree, and, becoming Immediately red-hot,
it is gently see-sawed with the requisite
pressure against the tree, and rapidly
burns it's way through. 1t is thought
that tree can be cut down, without
any waste of timber, in about fifteen
minutes, that would require two hours
to fell in the ordinary way.
And in England has been made this
experiment in behalf of animals to be
slaughtered:
An interesting experiment was made
at horse-slaughtering at Dudley, with
viewof testing system of slaughtering
cattle by means of dynamite, and thus
putting them out of existence more
speedily and with less suffering than by
the ordinary pole-ax. Two large, pow
erful horses and donkey disabled for
work. were arranged in line, about
half yard apart, under shed, the
donkey being placed in the center. A
small primer of dynamite, with an
electric fuse attached, was then placed
in each of their foreheads and fastened
no position by piece of string under
the jaw. The wires we're then coupled
up in circuit and attached to the electric
machine, which stood about five yards in
front. The handle of the machine being
then turned, an electric current was dis
charged, which exploded three charges
simultaneously, and the Enthusiastically
fell dead without a struggle. The whole
affair was over in ten minutes, and the
experiment appears to have been per
feet success. BY this means, it is stated
even hundred or more cattle may b
instantly killed by the same current O.
electricity.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

SANITARY CARBON

The name of sanitary carbon" has
been given to a remarkable kind of shale
deposit found on the Dorsetshire coast,
England, which is now being success
fully employed in purifying the effluent
water of districts that treat their sewer
age by precipitation in clarifying the
waste-water of dye-works and mines, and
for other sanitary purposes. 1t is a
charcoal-like deposit, of undoubted ami
NAL origin, and is supposed to consist of
blubber, fish, and other forms of marine
animal life. 1t is found to yield more
plentifully than camel coal, and at less
expense, an excellent carbon-one ton
of the shale, after giving off nine thous-
sand cubic feet of gas, leaving about
eleven hundred weight of residue, which
is the sanitary carbon in question. 1t
is found to have precisely the same
properties and action, in sanitary point
of view, as animal charcoal that costs
three or four times as much. The tests
to which it has been subjected consist,
first, in running sewage through alayer
of the carbon, the effluent water coming
out as clear as crystal; and, second, in
mixing sewage with compound of ink
dye-stuffs in solution, forming liquid
more intractable than would ever be met
with in actual drainage operations, the
water running off perfectly clear and
with no perceptible odor.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03
Habits of Disrespect in the Family.

One of the dangers of home life is this
habit of disrespect-th which is bred
by familiarity. People who are all
beauty and sunshine for a crowd of
strangers, for whom they have not the
slightest affection, are all uglness and
gloom for their own, by whose love they
live. The pleasant little prettiness Of
dress and personal adornment, which
mark the desire to please, are put on
purely for the admiration of those
whose admiration goes for nothing,
while the house companies are treated
only to the ragged gowns and threadbare
coat, the tousled hair and stubby beard,
which, if marking the ease and comfort
of the sans facon of home, mark also
the indifference and dsrespect that do
so much damage To the sweetness and
delicacy of daily life. And what is true
of the dress is still truer of the manners
and tempers of home, in both of which
we often find too that want of respect
which seems to run side by side with af-
lection in the custom of familiarity. 1t
is regretable habit under any of its
conditions, but never more so than When
it invades the home and endahgers still
more that which is already too much en-
dangered by other things. Parents and
bringers-up do not pay enough atten-
ton to this in the young. They allow
habits of disrespect to be formed-rude,
rough, insolent and impatient, and salve
over the sore with the stereotyped ex-
cuse, "They mean nothing by it,"
which, if they look at it Alright, is worse
than no excuse at all; for If they really
do mean nothing by it, and their disre-
spect is not what il seems to be, the re-
suit of strong anger, uncomfortable tenn
per, but is merely a habit, then it ought
to be conquered without the loss of time,
being merely a manner that hurts all
parties alike.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

IT is related of M. Theirs that he
was passionately fond of flowers and
birds; that every recess in his house was
fitted up as an aviary or conservatory
that on the landings of the great stair
case were gorgeous groups of tropical
ferns and magnifcently tinted, heavily
odored exotics; and that here and
there were large cages, carefully pro-
yided with running water, fresh green
plants, and cunning inches of rockwork,
in which bright-feathered little crea-
lures from the topics plumed their gay
pinions, lowered to and fro like butter
flies, and piped their dulcet notes.
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companies.

Mr.. JACOB KILLAM, of Dresden, Can
ada, has petrified mastodon's tooth,
which was found on lot four, in the
third concession of the township of Cam
den, County of Kent. 1t was found in
a marsh, three feet under the surface,
in digging ditch known as the county
drain. 1t was under an oak log of con-
siderable size, which bore marks of hav-
ing been gnawed by beavers. This tooth
is a double molar, three and a half
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03


A VIRGINIA CRY dispatch says: A
meeting of the Superintendent of the
mines on the Comstock Lode was held
lately to consider questions arising in
connection with the approaching COM
pletion of the Sutro Tunnel. A COM
mittee was appointed to make careful
investigation as to the cost of the tunnel,
and the benefit it is likely to prove to
the mines, cost of pumping water to the
surface from the tunnel level, etc. The
committee will probably report in two
or three weeks, and their report is ex-
pected to exert strong influence in set
Ting points of difference between the
tunnel companies and various mining
cOmpanies
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

GENERAL SKoBELEFF is one of the
most genial as we'll as the most skillful
General of the Russian army. He
always wears his white uniform when
he goes into the fight, and rides white
steeds, of which he has already had four
shot under him during the present cam
paign. In appearance he is handsome.
He has has large, blue, frank eyes, and
full, fair beard. He sits his horse
finely, and is one of the most daring
riders of the army.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03


Two Belgian peasants, while in an inn,
desiring to gamble, hit upon novel
method. Each melted lump of sugar
in water and poured the syrup on the
table A multitude of flies were upon
the walls. Money was bet as to which
pool of syrup the first dozen flies would
gather around. Soon there were eleven
flies around one pool, and, while its
owner was anxiously scanning the air,
into the room buzzed wasp, and began
feeding by the side of the eleven. The
wasp was instantly claimed as fly, the
claim was declared absurd, warm argu-
ment followed, then blows-and then
the police marched both men off to the
station house,
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ciennes lace

THE newest industrial feature in the
world is the introduction by Kansas
landowners of the contract system in
raising wheat. Large tracts of prairie
are broken, seeded, and narrowed by the
poorer emigrants for the older settlers,
at fixed price per acre. The plan per-
mits the cultivation of immense areas by
capitalists at small expenditure, while
it brings ready money to the doors of
those arrivals who require employment
for themselves and teams while cultivat-
ing their own homesteads.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

AMONG the novelties of the coming Paris
exhibition will be youth of fourteen
with feet shaped precisely like his hands.
He can use them for the same purposes,
and plays upon the piano with hands
and feet, having peculiar chair which
enables him to curl his body into the ne
cessary position. He is very good per-
former, and speaks both English and
German. His French is yet imper-
feet 49,.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

Coop old Bishop Mant regarded
affection as the guide to reflection, the
teacher of humility, the parent of re-
pentance, the nurse of faith, the strength
ener of patience, and the promoter of
charity. He probably failed to realize
that it never cures baldheadedness, soft
ems shrieking female voice when fell
low returns home late on lodge night,
nor places the paregoric within accessible
distance when the baby wakens up on a
cold night yelling with collie.
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A BRASS cannon sunk in the Hudson by
Burgoyne during his retreat, hundred
years ago, is soon to be raised. 1t is a
twelve-pounder, and lies in ten feet of
water, two hundred feet from shore, I'M
der three feet of mud. Any man that
ever dropped shirt-stud ON the floor
will wonder at the exactness with which
that cannon is located.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-03

ALL babies born in the Oneida Com
munity are at once taken from their
mothers and given to some other woman
to nurse, and the babies are changed
around so that no mother ever rears, or
even knows her own child. The object
is to destroy all family feeling, and to
keep woman from loving her own child
better than anybody's else children.