The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-21
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NEWS AND NOTES.

/ CHIMNEYS were hrst put 10 houses III
1886.
GLASS windows were first used for
lights in 1850.
Two thousand American firms have an
nounced their intention of contributing
to the Paris Exposition.
THE inner channel-ways of the harbor
of Norfolk. Va, which is one of the finest
in the world, are gradually filling up.
THE failures of the last year in the
United States have been far fewer and
smaller in amount than in England or
Canada.
A MONUMENT is to be erected to the
memory of the two hundred alumni of
Virginia Military Institute who fell in the
Confederate service.
The manufacture of brier-root pipes,
from laurel root, is carried on in War
rem, Penn. From eight to ten workmen
are employed, and some three hundred
pipes are made daily.
LIGHTNING struck the Columbia Ho-
tel at Chester, Pa, and set it on fire.
Seven persons were stunned, one of
whom, William Appleby, was seriously
injured. The fire was quickly extin-
guished.
A LONDON paper prints the following:
"The attendance ut the wedding of Mr..
Smart and Miss Jones, yesterday, being
so large, for benefit of the friends unable
to gain admission, the ceremony will be
repeated"
THE Raiipay Age says that three hun
dred and ninety-five American locomo-
tives, worth 80, 0,630, have been ex-
ported in seven years, and that the
reputation of American engines is stead
lily increasing.
COINAGE reports from all the minis in
the United States, except Carson City,
state the aggregate coinage for the fiscal
year as seventy-one million dollars, show
ing an increase over the last fiscal year
of fourteen million.
THERE is a pecan-tree on the farm oi
Wash. Feasele, in San Saba County,
Texas, the trunk of which is six feet in
diameter, and line drawn across its
branches, the widest place, measures one
hundred and fifty feet.
A POOR woman in Providence found
pocket-book containing seven hundred
and fifty dollars, and returned it to the
owner, wealthy merchant. He expert
enced fine glow, and gave her twenty
five-cent bottle of cologne.
SUSIE ANDERSON, little colored girl
of indianapolis, and young daughter of
farmer Farley, near Fort Wayne, Ind,
were struck by lightning on the same
day, lately. The colored girl died, and
it was thought the other could not re-
cover
Two Terre Haute boys, James O Brien,
fourteen years, and Robert Osborne, ten
years, left their homes on Saturday morn
ing and were missing until Sunday even
ing, when the bodies of both were dis
covered in bayou just south of the city,
where they had gone bathing
NUBIA is strip of land nearly five
hundred miles long and three hundred
miles broad, on each side of the Nile,
and is very fertile. There are on this
island one hundred and fifty-nine vii
lagos and about one hundred thousand
black inhabitants with Hindoo features.
A NATURAL bridge near Pomona, ILL.,,
is of pure sandstone, one hundred feet
in length on top, and seventy-six feet
from one abutment to the other. 1t is
sixty feet high, and eight feet broad on
top. The average thickness is nine feet,
and team crosses it in perfect safety.
AN invention has been patented
which may produce almost as remark
able an effect as the cotton gin. 1t is a
wagon-like machine, called the Picker"
and when driven through the ripened
fields, picks clean every scrap of cotton
and saves the labor of one hundred
hands.
THE celebrated Casa Granda ruin,
Arizona Territory, was discovered by the
| Spaniards about the year 1880. 1t was
then the remains of colossal structure,
with eight stories Of the main building
| in a good state of preservation. 1t has
rain to four stories. It's walls are from
eight to ten feet in thickness
A SoNoMA, CAL, man has raised five
cork trees, which are now twenty-five to
thirty feet in height and from ten to
twelve inches in diameter in the trunk.
One coat of cork, one and one-f0urth
inches thick, has been stripped off. The
tree resembles the live oak in foliage.
The seeds were brought from Spain
twenty years ago.
IT is said that the brain of an idiot
contains about one per cent. of phos-
phoric matter, that of persons of sound
intelligence two and one-half per cent,
while that of the maniac is three and one
half per cent. If this be SO, it would
seem that in maniac the brain appro-
pirates an undue proportion ofphosphoric
matter from the rest of the system,
whereby the functions are materially i'm
paired
THERE is a watch in Swiss museum
only three-sixteenths of an inch in diam
eter, inserted in the top of pencil-case.
It's little dial not only indicates hours,
minutes and seconds, but also days of
the month. 1t is relic Of the time when
watches were inserted in snuffboxes,
shirt-studs, breast-pins and fnger-rings.
Some were fantastic-oval, octangular.
cruciform, or in shape of pearls, melons,
tulips, etc.
THE Porte has published the follow
ing official dispatch: The Russians,
denying the rights of humanity and
without any military necessity, have
completely destroyed the fourishing
town of Rustchuk, which is now nothing
but heap of ruins. They spared
neither mosque, churches, hospitals nor
public buildings. We hereby make
known their acts to the justice and