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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
Her Mother Told Him.
Detroit Free Press.

In the big crowd of excursionists sit
ting ON the City Hall steps for rest,
the other day, was young man of ex-
cellent length of legs, and girl with
sixteen auburn curls hanging down
around her head. They had scarcely
settled themselves and locked fingers
when she cautiously observed:
"I 'spose they have soda-water in this
town."
al 'spose," he replied, "but the last
thing afore we started promised your
mother not to let you drink any 5oda-
water. It's the worst thing in the
world to bring on consumption"
She was quiet for Il moment, and
then pointing to the left, remarked
al see that Sarah is eating peanuts.
| 'spose they have peanuts in this
town.
Wall, yes, but your mother eau
toned me the last thing not to buy any
peanuts for you. The shucks are apt
& into your windpipe. The Queen
of Holland was choked to death in that
way"
Pretty soon boy came along with
some fruit, and the young woman felt
obliged to say:
"Them apples and pears look awful
nice"
Yes, they do" replied the prudent
lover, but promised your mother at
the depot, not to buy any fruit for you.
Them apples look nice, but If you git
the toothache started on you, then the
whole afternoon is busted"
The young man had just commenced
to take comfort again, when she inno-
Gently remarked;
"When | came up here last summer
with Jim, he bought mor'n two pounds
of candy"
Eyes, and what was the result of it,
he demanded. You fell down cellar
that very week, and didn't Jim have to
light out last winter for Dustin in the
school-house doorT'
She got down to water, and with con-
siderable sarcasm in her voice she in
CURED
I can have drink of water, can't 1
Mother did't say anything against that,
did she?"
oval, no, not exactly" he slowly
replied; "but she give me an appealing
look as the cars moved off--same rs TO
say that it ought tn be kind O warmish
water, if anyi You sot here and I'll
borrow dipper somewhere"
She so" and it was all of an hour
and half before he again succeeded in
getting his arm around her.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
Art in Cincinnati-A Leaf from His.
tory.


The good people of Cincinnati seem de-
termined TO make their city the Dresden,
if not the Paris of the Western Cont
nent-at any rate, Of the Mississippi
Valley. And to that extent we can not
see that their ambition is at all extrava-
CANT. Even New York can not offer
musical students such advantages as
will soon be provided in Cincinnati. As
the fine arts usually all move together,
the probability is that in the course of
Few years the city so celebrated for
its connection with the pork trade will
be even more widely known as the
favorite abode of all the muses.. In
truth, however, this musical school in.
dicates no fresh departure or novel en-
thusiasm in the Queen City. Fifty years
ago there were good many persons
there who took a genuine, intelligent
interest in both sculpture and painting,
and not many years later Professor
Mitchell found it easy there to awaken
so lively an interest in astronomy that
the people by their contributions estab-
lished the first observatory west of the
Allegheny Mountains. Their enthusiasm
on the subject awakened in John Quincy
Adams a really profound interest. II
appeared to him significant of noble
promise, and, as we learn from his diary,
he determined, at whatever sacrifice of
comfort and health, to comply with the
invitation he received to lay the corner.
stone of the edifce, and to use the oc-
casion as an opportunity to encourage
and stimulate SO fine a tendency. In
spite of advanced age and many infirmi-
ties he made the long and in those days
tedious journey, laid the cornerstone
and delivered his discourse on the study
of the heavens. 1t seems at least curl
GUS, if not noteworthy, that the city
which afforded Mrs. Trollope the mate
rails for her malignant book has taken
SO prominent and influential a part in
the development of American civiliza-
tion
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
Our knowledge of the Sun.

Professor Lockyer In the Nineteenth Ccntury.l
Our knowledge of the chemical nature
of the sun is now being as much advanced
by photography, for instance, rs that
descriptive work of which / wrote in
the first instance, which deals with the
chronicling and location of the various
phenomena, has, in its turn, been adj
vanced by the aid of photography. The
increased power in this direction recently
realized by DIR. Jansen, is one which
was absolutely undreamed of only a
few years ago. 1t is now possible to
record every change which goes on the
sun down to region so small that one
hardly likes to challenge belief by men
tioning it. Changes under one second
of angular magnitude in the center of the
suns disk can now be faithfully recorded
and watched from hour to hour; in
other words, changes in cloud regions
ten miles square in body $4,000, 900
miles away can now be chronicled.
One of the advantages which have come
from the introduction of new apparatus
has been the possibility of making maps
of the solar lines and of the metallic
lines which have to be compared with
them on very large scale. Thanks to
the generosity of Mr.. Rutherford, the
distinguished American astronomer, who
is making the most magnificent diffrac-
ton gratings which the world has ever
seen, and who is spreading them broad
cast among workers in science, we have
now easy means of obtaining, with in
expensive apparatus, spectrum OF the
sun, and of mapping it on such scale
that the fine line of light which is al
lowed to come through the slit is drawn
out into band or spectrum half fur
long long A complete spectrum on this
scale, when complete Gas hope it some
day will be, though certainly not in our
time), from the ultraviolet, already
mapped by Mascart, and Cornu, to the
ultra-red which has quite recently, for
the first time, been brought under our
ken by Captain Abney, will be three
hundred and fifteen feet long. This is a
considerable scale to apply to the inves-
tigation of these problems; but recent
work has shown that, gigantic as the
scale is, it is really not beyond what il
required for honest, patient work.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
Lost In the Arctic Seas.

The New Haven Journal in a recent
issue, says: Captain Roach, master of
Messrs. G. A. Williams q Co.'s whaling
schooner, Helen F., of New London,
wrecked in October, 1876, in the Arctic
seas, has arrived in that city. He re-
ports that the Helen F. was in winter
quarters at Cumberland inlet when be-
set by the storm in which she was lost.
A heavy gale sprung up, and the ice, in
great masses crowding the vessel, drove
her out to sea. Efforts made to work
her back failed, and, after two days of
toll, an attempt was made to reach either
HannibaPs Harbor or Browns Harbor.
These efforts also failed, and the vessel
was, as a last resource, beached on a
small island. No lives were lost in the
perllous operation, and the vessel was
stripped and the provisions landed. This
latter task was just accomplished when
the southwest wind started the crack
ling, grinding ice-blocks in near ford
toward the isle, and they came on in
great resistless heaps, and crowding and
pushing up and over the schooner's sides
buried her from sight, and lett only her
mast-heads visible. Full forty feet
above her decks and on all sides of her
it lay in shining, transparent piles, i'm
prisoning her as securely as though she
were fastened in the bowels of the earth.
1t was not until December tat her
officers and crew could make their way
to the station in Pennies Harbor. where
were better shelter and plentitude of
provisions, and on that day they left the
schooner. When spring came she sank
in three fathoms of wafer close by the
land that all the winter long had held
her hard and fast. From the station at
Pennies Harbor the crew of the Helen
fished with fair success until the 10th of
July, when the Scotch brig Perseverance
hove in sight and took them off. On the
18th she put out to sea, and after a
pleasant voyage of twenty-eight days
duration she came into Peterhead, Scot
land. Thence her crew went to Liver
pool by way of Aberdeen. From Liver
pool Captain Roach and his first mate
came to New York.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
Cool Courage Of a King.

A story of the attempt on the life of
King George III is worthy to be remem-
bered. On May Is, 1900, the English
Ministers received notice that an attempt
would be made to assassinate the King,
and advised him not to 60 to Drury
Lane. George III replied that he feared
nothing. On arriving, he took care to
enter his box first, and as he did so, a
pistol s. OF was heard, and bullet lodged
in the ceiling. He turned and said to
the Queen, who was behind him.
"Stand back for a moment. They
are burning some cartridges"
He then advanced to the front of the
box, and folding his arms, called aloud !:
CHOW you may fire, if you like"
An appeal to the sentiment and admir-
alton Of crowd always produces its
effect. The audience rose to their feet
like a single man, and raised loud accia-
nations. After this, he allowed his
family to enter the box, saying
Now there is no danger"
Three times "God Save the King "
was sung, and Sheridan, who was pres
emit, added two new verses. When the
King was complimented on his courage,
he replied
"The life of king is at the mercy Of
any one who is willing to expose his
own. only performed the duty Of my
station"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

Up to twenty-five years ago, before
Roman Catholics in England acquired
the power and position they new enjoy
there, it was an understood thing, when
Catholic and Protestant intermarried,
the boys followed the fathers faith and
the girls the mothers. But of late years
Rome says, "All must be Romans A
case arising out of this has just been
before the English courts. Agar Ellis
married Miss Stonor, and according to
the statement of her counsel agreed
that all the children should be Catho-
lies. A son, now dead, and three daugh-
tiers, twelve, eleven and nine were ac-
cordingly brought up as Catholics, but
recently Mr.. Ellis made arrangements
to send the girls to a Protestant clergy
men, with the expressed intention that
they should not return until good, sound
Protestants. Mr.. Ellis denied that he
had ever agreed to his children being
brought up as Catholics; but, on the
other hand. his cousin, the Duke of
Sutherland, Protestant, said that he
(Ellis) had consented, though very re-
luctantly, to his first child being bap-
tized Catholic. The Vice Chancellor
said that the principle of the court was
that children must be brought up in the
faith desired by the father, who at the
head of his house, had control of his
family, and whose rights were never in
terfered with unless where there was an
abandonment of parental duty, as in
the case of the poet Shelley, or where
the father had been guilty of gross
misconduct. Mrs. Ellis's application is
therefore dismissed with costs. She is
the daughter of Lord Gangs, who has
long been lord in wait ng to the
Queen, and delivered the Henly Cup to
the successful Columbians last month.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
Prince Bismarck.

1t was while Bismarck was still a
young clerk in the Berlin Department
OF Justice" that the present sovereign,
then Prince William of Prussia, first
saw-the man who was one day to make
him Emperor of Germany 1t hap
pened that a fellow-clerk, also above
six feet in height, was presented along
with him and the Prince, looking with
an appreciative smile at the two young
giants, remarked pleasantly, II see,
gentlemen, that Justice chooses her
servants by the standard Of the Guard"
The boldness of the young Counts de-
meanor, and his naughty intolerance OF
anything approaching to slight, speed
lily made him conspicuous in the serv-
ice. One may still hear some elderly
Prussian official relate admiringly how,
when a superior to whom Bismarck was
reporting, went to the window and
drummed on the glass with his fingers,
the latter retorted by walking to the
other window and striking up still
louder tune upon it; or how, when
CURLY asked by the same magnate, after
being kept waiting for an hour, what he
wanted, Bismarck replied, 81 came to
hsh loi leaNe, Out now L request my
dismissal" On another occasion, the
cool effrontery of witness whose state
ment Bismarck was taking down, pro-
voked him to start up and exclaim, If
you can't behave properly I'll kick you
out of the ROOM" "Turning man
out of the room is my affair."" interposed
the chief of the department. "You
hear9" said Bismarck to the witness
if you don't behave properly, I'll
make my chief kick you OUT
This characteristic disregard of con-
sequences was even more strikingly ex.
hibted a few days later, when one of
the habitues of well-known beer sa-
loon began to speak Unexpectedly of
the reigning family. Bismarck, who
was present, at once broke in with,
Leave the room, fellow If you are
not gone before this glass is empty, I'll
break it over your head" A Babel of
outcries instantly burst forth, but the
unmoved Count quietly drained his
glass, and then brought it down so Wig
orously on the offenders pate as amply
to make good his words. As the man
rolled bleeding under the table, Bis.
marck leaned back in his chair and
coolly inquired, How much for the
broken glass, waiter2"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
A Very Sharp Woman.

Some time ago Mollie Sullivan and
Tom O'Brien were married at Saginaw.
During the past four or five weeks Mollie
has had suspicious that woman few
doors north of their saloon on Beaubien-
street had been weaving the affections
of her husband from her, and last even
ing she preached the subject to him.
Tom Immediately became very angry,
and pitched into Mollie, beating her
severely, and securing visit from Off
Ger Garfield, who marched him to the
Central Police-station. Mollie was very
mad over the beating her husband gave
her, and determined to satisfy herself
as to whether she was in the right or
wrong. Accordingly she engaged boy,
and by him sent the following note to
her rival: {" am in trouble and out of
money, Will you come and see me?
Tom.a In few minutes an answer was
returned by the boy as follows: "Where
shall come, and what is the trouble ?
Lizzie Riley" Mrs. Sullivan, who had
until then been ignorant as to the last
name of her rival, saw chance to con-
vince her husband that she knew what
she was talking about when she accused
him of being inconstant, and at the same
time do him service. Accordingly,
she sent the following note: az am ar
rested. My fine will be between ten
and twenty dollars. Come to the Gen.
trail Police-station at eight o'clock to-
morrow morning. Tom" In few
minutes the answer came: tom, | will
be there at eight with the money.
Tizzta - Mo1Iia ia uow couOra tula tiuO
herself on her sharp trick, which secured
the payment of Toms fine without de-
plotting her own purse.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
paints the following picture of the hard
ships of a sailors lot: Let the reader
accompany me for moment to the
quarters of poor Jack, the much neglec-
ted, rough-fisted, ill-fed, and poorly paid
toiler of the sea. His lot in life is in
deed no play. With wages far below
those of the ordinary nottingham, ex-
posed continually to the dangers of the
deep, and the risks of disease in tropical
climates, but few attain to old age, but
are swept away long before their natural
term has expired, to mingle their dust
with the Shiny bed or sandy beaches of
the ocean, If not in the soil of some far
off pauper's graveyard known as the for
eigner's battle-ground. By the philan-
thropic efforts of the Seamen's Friend
Society, organized many years ago under
the auspices of the Heme Missionary
Board, the sailors lot has become to a
cerlain extent ameliorated and they
have at least a chance to escape the
wholesale robberies to which they were
exposed while enjoying brief holiday
ashore after the hardships of long
cruise. They live now, if they choose,
Whiic dSHOfe anu ioOklnR lOT eHiplOy-
ment, in comfortable quarters, where
their chief temptations in the form of
spirituous drinks are forbidden, and
where free libraries and organized even
ing. meetings, etc, supply them with
such spiritual food as is best fitted to
their nature. But the time the sailor
spends ashore is brief, compared to that
he passes at sea, and all efforts to help
him on land of course leave his condi-
ton unaltered while ahoat. In longer
voyages he often suffers from insufficient
or bad quality of food, overworked
through the rapacity of shipowners who
gain by reduction of the number of
men needed to work the ship, and he is
also often subjected to brutal treatment,
against which, while in foreign ports, he
has often no means of redress. There
will be no effective reformation of these
evils until strictly enforced laws, oblig-
atory alike on owners and captains, afford
relief TO the oppressed seaman, wherever
his lot may be cast. The quarters and
provisions intended to last the voyage
should be strictly inspected before the
departure of the vessel, and shipmasters
should be held responsible for at least
such treatment of their crews as the
present age demands to be given to the
brute animals.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
The Virtues Of Sauerkraut.

A German gastronomic scholar has
been at the pains to republish disserta-
ton upon sauerkraut, which first saw
the light in the sixteenth century. 1t
was originally composed by writer who
calls himself Gnariponius, and consists
of collection of more than hundred
medical panegyrics upon this ennobled
cabbage" He says that Julius Alexan-
drinus, who was successfully body physi-
clan to the Emperor Macmillan ii and
Sudolf III, reached an exceedingly great
age because he was addicted to the eat
ing of sauerkTaut. He frequently stated
that it was the most wholesome of all
foods, and caused fewer complaints than
any other edible.
"Kraut," made from the white cab
bage was not so good, he commended, as
that made from the red; but it might be
greatly improved in the process Of SOW
ing, and the bad smell of some sauer-
kraut was due solely to the uncleanness
or idleness of the manipulation. Coarse,
tough and moist kraut," from which
the dirty and idle housewife has not
sufficiently expelled the wetness, pro-
duces melancholic blood, from which
acid damps arise TO the head. The
earliest preacher of the virtues of sauer-
kraut is, of course, Father Galen, who
commended it as panacea for the govt.
Other physicians have applied it to al
most every bodily ill with success only
to be equaled by some heal-all of a
modern quack. One doctor found it to
be efficacious as cure for the bite Of a
mad dog. The after effects of drunken
bout have also been successfully treated,
as this old author assures us, by simply
binding the head of the Trunken-
bold " with warm sauerkraut leaves.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

A SUGGESTION is made by a CORE
spondent of French paper that bodies
might with advantage be buried in the
sea, which he considers to be the natural
cemetery for the dead. He proposes that
funeral boats large enough to con-
tain several bodies, be periodically dis
patched from convenient places on the
seashore, and that the bodies be COM
mitted to the deep at such a distance
from the land as will prevent all posi-
bility of their interfering with the pub
lie health. The Japanese seem to have
adopted some such system; for the
schooner Parallel, which arrived at San
Francisco on the 23d ult., reports that
on the 9Th of July, off the coast about
one hundred miles north of San Fran
cisco, she fell in with a Japanese Junk.
There was not living person on board,
butga number of corpses we're found,
some shackled together. They must
from their appearance have been dead at
least a month. Many of the bodies were
dressed in costly materials. There was
no food in the vessel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

IL HE introduction of Chinese laborers
into Algeria has for more than year
been warmly discussed. Its supporters
urge the scarcity of hands for timber
telling, mining, and even for harvesting;
the tendency of desertion among the
Spaniards, TuRisians, iMoroccans, Ital-
ians and Maltese enlisted for railways
ApasetberPublics works, and the exac-
tions of the Kabyles. Its opponents in
sist that capital alone is lacking, and
dwell on the weak points of the Chinese.
The society formed to promote the
scheme demand temporary monopoly,
in order to protect itself against loss in
undertaking the expenses of transport
and repatriation. Governor Chanzy,
the Governor, at first leaned to the
scheme, sbuthow hesitates.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

Miss ROSE EYTINGE evidently has as
tonished the English critics. Her rem
dition of Nancy Sykes" is described
as phenomenal piece of character act
ing. The London papers say that
Charles Reade is writing a new play for
her. One paper, however (the Referee,
is very severe in its criticism of the
American actress. 1t says: Miss Rose
Eytinge might just as we'll have stayed
in America if she has nothing better to
show us than Nancy Sykes" Even
marrying Nancy" has not made her
respectable, and the audience assembled
at the Olympic on Tuesday went away,
/ fancy, somewhat disguised.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

THERE is generally received but
erroneous notion that the torpedo is a
modern invention, and that during the
recent hostilities in the East it was for
the first time employed in actual war
fare. As long ago as the 10Th of Au-
gust, 1777, boat was blown to pieces
and nearly all it's crew killed by the
accidental explosion of a torpedo which
had been used in an attempt made by
the Americans against the English man
ofrwar Cerberus. In 1906 brig, which
had been anchored off Deal, England,
for the purpose of experiments in sub
marine explosions, was destroyed in the
presence Of Mr.. Pitt and large con-
course Of spectators by torpedo con-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

DEPLoRABLE accounts of the muddle
and Encouragement prevailing at
Cyprus are given. Utter ignorance pre-
vailed among the authorities as to the
contents of the various transports. The
boats of sths squadron were sent to un-
load firewood from vessels laden with
other stores; provisions were applied for
TO vessel containing forage. Cavalry
were ordered to disembark from trans
ports containing infantry, and contra
dictory orders were incessant. The bag
gage of several regiments was cast ashore
inextricably mixed Equal confusion
prevailed with regard to the disposal of
the troops disembarked, the want of Or
ganization seeming to be complete.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

tanning one hundred and seventy pounds
OF powder. Previously, in 1897, ma
chine had been designed by which, to
use the inventors own words, he pro-
posed to impart to carcases of gun
powder progressive motion under
water to given point and there ex-
plode them" and which, therefore, con-
tanned the germ of the present fish
tOrpedo.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

ALBERT NELLEN, who died recently
at Dallas, Tex, was ordered to work on
the Vicksburg Notifications, and when
be refused would have been compelled
to do so by negro soldiers had he not
seized Ratchet lying near at hand and
struck off his own left hand at the wrist
He waved the bloody stump in the Fed
erals faces. with triumph.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21

PEOPLE of queer turn of mind still
continue to look down the muzzles of
empty guns, and to kindle fires with the
death-dealing kerosene, in spite of awful
and repeated warnings; and the ranks
of fools and idiots is growing thinner
daily.