The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-20
NEWS AND NOTES.


preting dreams.
The art of composing anagrams arose
among the Hebrews.
GREENLAND once had a climate like
Lake Geneva now has.
In proportion men are not as strong
as the smallest insects.
BEES are extremely short sighted but
can fly in unerring lines.
A CLASS of scientists believes that the
moon is solid frozen mass.
SMALL "snow balls" in all colors are
being sold for mantel vases.
THERE is regular fishing season for
sponges, lasting four months.
COMMON white chalk mixed with coal
will add to heat and save fuel,
THE first Pope Leo reigned in the year
440, and was called the Great.
THE pearl and ruby originally ranked
ahead of the diamond in value.
JOHN WILKs says the worst use you
can put mar to is to hang him.
ToADs are easily domesticated and
become quite tame if kindly treated
NEPTUNE's glove is a species of sponge
highly treasured in museum collections.
THE Boston public library has 1874 900
volumes, with an annual issue of $50, 343.
THE first printed allusion to Niagara
Falls was by French mariner in 1885
VIOLENT intemperance has been cured
by diet of macaroni and farinaceous
food.
MosT of the leaves that fall in autumn
are carried away by underground in
sects.
BEES always send out delegates to in
vestigate and report before the swarm
moves.
ROUND rubber heels is late inven-
ton to prevent shoes from wearing "lop-
sided"
MARTIN FRoBIsHER in the days of
Elizabeth attempted the first Arctic
voyage.
IT is estimated that it would take the
ocean 200,000,000 years to renew its
chlorides.
THE longevity of pear trees is three
hundred years, and apple trees two hun
dred years.
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American clocks have been shipped to
Australia.
A NATURALIST suggests that couple
of toads be kept in houses to rid them
of vermin.
ARTIFICIAL strawberries almost as
natural as real fruit, dangle from the
ladies bonnets.
EMERALD, sapphire, garnet, and topaz
were emblems of faith, hope, charity,
and good works.
IT is proposed to construct switch
back railway from Chattanooga to the
summit of Lookout Mountain.
A SCIENTIST figures that the rivers of
England and Wales carry 8,27O,63 tons
of land annually into the ocean.
In height men rank in the following
succession American Indian, American,
Scotch, English, Russian, French, Mex
lean.
A GOOD barometer can be made by
sticking long -necked bottle into wide
mouthed bottle partly filled with col
ored water.
Young man from rural district, look
ing along State Street for restaurant,
reads on the bulletin-board of book
store "Crabbe's English Synonyms"
"Here, Bill, let's 60 in and have dish
O them; l never tasted any, did your
The "hermit" who contributes the
"Ivy Leaves" to Frazer's Magazine, ex-
presses quite sententiously what appears
to be the prevalent feeling in England:
81, for one, should not care a straw
whether we had so-called Liberia! or
so-called Conservative government at
this dangerous time, if we had only
government that honest and intelligent
men could trust" It's untrustworthi-
ness is really the cause of all the diff
Guilty under which the British Govern
ment has been laboring; it knows that
it is not trusted and it does not trust
itself.