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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07
" To Break"

Il begin to understand your language
BETTER" said my French friend, Mr..
Arcourt, to me; "but your verbs trouble
me still: you mix them up 80 with your
propositions" az am sorry you find
them so troublesome" was all / could
say. ~ saw our friend Mrs. James,
Just now," he continued. "She says
that she intends to break down house
keeping. Am right there?" I" Break
up housekeeping, she must have said"
ooh, yes; j remember. Break up
housekeeping" "Why does she do
thatY asked. Because her health
is broken into" Broken down, you
should say" Broken down-oh
yes. And, indeed, since the smallpox
has broken up in our city" Broken
out" "She thinks she will leave it
for few weeks" "Will she leave her
house alone?" "No. She is afraid it
will he broken-broken. How do ! say
thatY' Broken into" Certainly;
that's what l mean to say" els her
son to be married soonY' Ono. The
engagement is broken-broken--"
Broken off," " Yes; broken off,"
"Ahl / had not heard that" "She
is very sorry about it. Her son only
broke the news down to her last week.
Am right? lam so anxious to get the
English WE'LL" He merely broke the
news. No proposition this time" cit
is hard to understand. The young man,
her son, is fine fellow. A breaker, /
think" "A broker, and very fine
fellow. Good day." So much for the
verb "to break"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

THERE has hitherto, we believe, been
notion prevalent that the elimination
of human folly has been attained by
what are known in England as the
peculiar people" who let those dear
to them die miserably rather than take
medical advice. But quite as great a
fool as any of these has come to light in
the person of a French priest. Some
months ago, during very fatal cpl
demic of typhoid, DIR. Lieberman, head
physician of the Gros- Gaiilou Hospital
at Paris, was demonstrating, in the post
norton theater, the pathological results
of the disease. Suddenly the chaplain
entered with great solemnity, and began
to explain to his astonished audience
that by defacing that which had in
closed the soul they were offering an in
suit to the divinity in whose image it
was formed. DR.. Lieberman did not
take the trouble to explain to the
chaplain the scientific and humanitarian
aspects of post-mortem examinations,
but told him to mind his own business.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07
A Lady of Industry.

The judges who precide at the Courts
of Correctional Police, in Paris, would
be almost justified in claiming an in
crease of pay this year, so large are the
editions made to their duties by the
influx of visitors, fashionable and I'M
fashionable, and by the consequent in
crease of petty ofenses. Pocket picking
and all sorts of stealing and cheating
have become unusually prevalent within
the past few months, and the ingenuity
of the knights of industry has developed
itself to an extent which could hardly
have been expected by the bitterest
cynic.
Another most elaborate device for alb
stracting articles from the shop counter
has just been divulged in the police
court, and deserves to be ranked ameng
the brightest inventions of the Exhibit
ton era. The actress in the perfor-
mance-for this time il was not a
knight" but lady" of industry
made use of small child as sort of
stalking horse to cover her maneuvers,
and by this means contrived to carry off
considerable booty before she was de
tected. On coming into shop, the
child was set down upon the counter, in
a sitting posture, close to some pieces of
lace or other coveted articles, while the
supposed mother asked to be shown
something else. Very soon afterward
she managed to administer to the ill
fated infant severe pinch, which nat
urally caused it to howl aloud, and
upon this the lady would hurriedly
snatch up her pretended offspring, and
with many apologies for its misbehavior,
carry it of, together with the object
which it was desired to appropriate.
This trick, simple as it was, seems to
have had great success, owing no doubt
to that feeling of sympathy with mater
nal love with which the French nation
is so amply gifted. As long as the OBJ
jects stolen were only of moderate di-
meusions, everything went well. The
affectionate mother was easily able to
hurry away into cab before the search
after her began. But from one species
of theft she unluckily proceeded to
another, and at length conceived the
mistaken idea of carrying off huge
piece of pork. The usual proceeding
had been adopted and safely carried out
up to the time of exit into the street.
But the booty had hardly been taken
out of the shop when some voracious
dog wandering in the vicinity was lucky
enough to catch scent of it, and made
an attack upon the party, in which
several other ours soon joined. There
upon establishment of the bystanders, in
quiries, explanations, and at last appear
ance on the scene of the porkbutcher,
who succeeded this time in recovering
his property, and bringing the too au-
dacious thief to justice.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

THERE has been an interesting cores
pondence in the London Times as to the
degree of comfort with which men can
live at great heights. Mr.. Weber, writ
ing from the Grindelwald, in Switzer-
land, to the London Times, states that in
Thibet he has lived for months together
at height of more than fifteen thousand
fee. above the level of the sea, and that
the result was as follows: His pulse, at
normal heights only sixty-three per min
ute, seldom fell below one hundred per
minute during the whole time he was
at that level His respirations were
often twice as numerous in the minute as
they are at ordinary levels. A run of
one hundred yards would quicken both
pulse and respiration more than run of
one thousand yards at the sea level, and
the higher the level, the greater the
difficulty of walking or running fast. He
crossed the shoulder OF the Gurla Mand-
hata at heightof some twenty thousand
feet, and found the greatest difficulty in
getting his breath quickly enough, had
frequent and violent headaches, and
found that his native guides and com
panions suffered much more even than
he did. Clearly, the physical constitu-
ton of man has not been naturally Sc
in the attitude of his dwelling place.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

OF course, others besides ourselves
have noticed that fruit and hail-stones
grow much larger in the West than they
do in the North. Especially hail-stones
Probably it is because they grow more
healthy and robust liars in the West.
When an old farmer enters printing
office to give the particulars Of a de-
structive storm, and gets the hailstones
any smaller than hulled walnuts, the
press gang" kill him on the spot and
throw his body down an old well. If
he says the stones we're as large as goose
eggs, they put him on the free list for
life and drag him across to a saloon and
"set 'em up" P. S.-A farmer was
never killed in the West for not getting
the hail-stones large enough to please
the fancy of the editors in that section.
-Noristoton Williams.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

The total area of Denmark, says a
contemporary, is 5000, 900 acres 5, 2OO,-
600 acres are under cultivation, of
which 100000 have been added during
the last ten years. The area is divided
into more than 100000 different proper
ties, of which 10000 are each owned
by different proprietor; and out of
$50 900 families not living in the towns
only $4,000 are cottagers. 1t will thus
be seen that in Denmark, as in France,
the soil is divided among a number of
small proprietors, and not as in Eng
land, accumulated in few hands.
During the last ten years an extraor-
binary increase in the breeding of
cattle and corresponding decrease in
the production of grain have taken
place. Two-thirds of the imports and
exports fall to the share of England
and Germany, Sweden and Norway
coming next.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07
Ne US AND NOTES.

WET feet people more graves than
war
ICED tea should be half green and half
black.
THE Chinese train the remora to catch
turtles.
NAPOLEON wanted to get Cyprus
in 1890.
HARD times stimulate recruiting in
the army.
The amphibious nature of the seal can
be changed.
FRANCE has rolled up debt of 81.
6S7 ,92l 400.
ALL the stylish dresses for fall are TO
be cut short.
ONE thousand dollars in gold weighs
four pounds.
HYDRoPHoBIA can be artiicially pro-
duced in dogs.
THE highest houses in London have
twelve stories.
BoTH of the Herschels thought the
sun to be inhabited.
THE pineapple is not a single fruit,
but mass of fruits.
BALCONIES on houses originated with
Italian architecture.
A LONG and cold winter is predicted
by weather prophets.
RED and yellow were the only colors
known in ancienC art.
THE State of Ohio has 1926, 100000
invested in railroads.
PHILADELPHIA has one-half more
houses than New York.
MANUFACTURERS are very sanguine
of better times this fall.
TOBACCO smoke makes bees lively and
puts them in bad humor.
THROW some solution of copperas into
your cesspool occasionally.
QUEEN ANN and japanese styles of
furniture are running rival.
RAILROAD interests in the United
States represent Sc, 900 100000.
LOUIS DEAeoMPT LoBADLE, of De
troit, has thirty three children.
IT is said that in the original there is
no mention of blue in the Bible.
THE carpet bug or buffalo moth prom
Uses to become domestic scourge.
AN Edinburg father while in state
of somnabulism murdered his child.
The light of lightning will penetrate
through distance OF two hundred miles.
Two acres of sunhowers will furnish
family with fuel through long winter.
THE Saratoga, N. Y, hotel employs
six hundred and fifty waterfall me-
groes.
The eye of the human race has not
always possessed the same delicacy as at
present.
COINED money was known among the
Chinese in the eleventh century before
Christ.
GAMES of ball were among the most
favorite gymnastic exercises of the
ancients.
SIGNoR JOHN HANCoCK's grave in
Boston is unmarked by either tablet or
graye-stone.
THADDEUs STEVENS made provision
in his will for the founding of an asylum
for the insane.
ONE hundred and twenty thousand
dollars are annually sent out of Georgia
for canned fruit
A FEW years ago Maine was the great
est numbering State in the Union, but
now she is the sixth on the list.
SMASHING costly monuments is at
present the favorite amusement of
tramps in all parts of the country.
The heat in some of the Nevada silver
mines is so great that the consumption
of ice amounts to ninety-six pounds per
day to each man.
A DIR. LAVENDER, of Georgia, is said
to cut off all the forelegs of his goats at
the knee, and never to allow horn on
any of his stock.
In San Francisco there are said to be
about 1900 people, but the whole
church-going population, born Catholics
and Protestants, is only $4,000.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

has informed us that many fish can and
do exist in water greatly exceeding the
normal temperature. The common
goldfish, for instance, are known to
breed where the water is, on an average,
more than eighty degrees Fahrenheit.
More than this, the Leuciscus the,matis
and Maria thermoicus-fish living in the
hot wells of Canusa in Ceylon-exist in
water the temperature of which is posi-
lively known to be from eighty to one
hundred.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

BADJI LOLA, of Serajevo, who headed
the present instruction in Bosnia, is a
fanatical Dervish. He is said to be the
talle.t man in Bosnia, and always walks
about in fantastic and tattered attire,
barefooted, and during the Ramazan,
half naked. His practice is to beg aims,
with which he feeds dogs around the
mosques. While rapt in holy trance
he has murdered many Christians, but
has never been brought to book and
punished for his crimes and malefactions.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

WHEN cells writhe about after a severe
death by boiling water, there is ample
opportunity for the imaginative or
ignorant mind 10 indulge in curious
speculation. Likewise the run of fowl
after its head has been chopped off in
duces strange conjectures, and is likely
to lead one to fancy that these extraordi-
nary motions are the result of something
more than muscular power. However,
be this as it may, French naturalist
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

DAMASCUS has been ruined by the
opening of the Suez Canal. The over
land trade, both Oriental and European,
by caravan with Bagdad and the Persian
Gulf, has been diverted to the water
way. House rent has declined thirty
and fifty per cent, and large numbers
of empty houses in every part of the
city indicates the general decline. The
streets are filled with beggars, both
Moslem and Christian, and that, too, in
a city where, eighteen months ago, a
beggar was rarity. The more elevated
districts of Lebanon, which formerly
contributed the principal portion of the
mendicants during winter months, have
this year sent double the number to
swell the amount of local indulgence.
The far-famed Eye of the East is now
dull and lusterless.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

The Petit Morseiliais relates that a
youth of about sixteen recently ventured
beyond the Portugal Rock to battle,
when all at once he felt that something
had attached itself to one of his legs,
and was dragging him downward. He
was terribly frightened, and cried out
Justify for help. A fisherman heard
him, and came to his rescue just in
time to save him from sinking. After
much difficulty the lad was got into the
fsherman's boat, when it was discovered
that cuttle-fish, measuring eighty
centimeters from the head to the ex-
tremity of its arms, had fastened itself
to the leg so strongly that it did not let
go its hold, even when out of the water.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

The London City Press says that Lord
Beaconsfeld's grandfather was con-
nected with, if not partner in, the
house now Messrs. Clark, Ansted q Co.,
fruit brokers, Mincing Lane. The name
of Disraeli may still be seen on the
books of the firm. The father of Earl
Beaconsheld bought life annuity of the
corporation, which he received until his
death. The balance due to his estate was
paid to the present Lord Beaconsfeld,
whose signature, together with that of
his father, can still be seen in the books
of the Chamberlain office, Guildhall.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

The origin of newspapers Is a subject
on which there has been large amount
of controversy. All writers who have
given attention to the matter are agreed
that Nathaniel Buffers Weekly News,
which first appeared in 1922, fulflls all
the conditions of a newspaper, and that
publication has generally been accepted
as the first English newspaper.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

THINGS not SO generally known as
they ought TO be-That the evening
song of the nightingale is nice, but that
the morning lay of the barn-door fowl
is nicer. That the end of the longest
wall is blubber. That ships are fire.
quently put into stays, but they only
wear barnacles when they 60 to sea.
That some lovers's quarrels begin, and
that many end, with smack. That,
although one swallow may not make a
summer, yet an inverted tack on chair
will make one spring. That the real
and only correct system of bookkeeping
is--not to lend them. That it is very
difficult to keep your own peace of mind
if the wife of your bosom will insist on
frequently giving you piece of hers.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

BEAooNsFIELD piles on words when
he desires to belabor an adversary. He
calls Gladstone "a sophistical rhetor-
ician, inebriated with the exuberance
of his own verbosity." 1t sounds very
pretty, but an American orator, like
Dennis Kesrney, would have abbrevi-
ated the same idea into Gladstone is a
liar and a first-class gas-pipe."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

A PRIZE fight between women took
place at Cobridge, near Hanley, England,
few weeks ago. They were both mar
ried and with families They tied up
their hair and ring was formed, each wo-
man having her partisans. Teeth as well
as fists were freely used. The mill was
ended in three rounds. English civil
ization
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

SINCE the advent of Private Dalzell
and Eli Perkins as correspondents, store
boxes are in demand for waste-baskets.
This affects the price of timber
Breakfast Table. And numbers up the
sanctum.-E Enrique in NJ y. Ne'cs.
Editors ought to have pluck enough
not to complain. when they are bored.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

A WOMAN may not be farsighted in
business matters, but she can see fly
speck without glasses as far again as
man can smell fried onions.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

"WHAr is the defendants character
for truth and veracity ?" asked Maine
lawyer of a.witness. oval, now, squire,
she alters used me fust rate. I'll be
blowed if she didn't. As for voracity,
squire, why, bless you, that was her
big holt. Why, I've seen that air girl
eat whole Here the Judge asked
the witness if he understood the ques-
ton.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-07

HANDSOME, dressy bonnets are of
white net, dotted with tiny pearls.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-12-20
Bayard raylor's Death.

NEW YoRK, Dec. l9.-Ths President
said to a World correspondent tonight
T~aylor's death was unexpected. although
I had been informed OF bis illness. aud
had known for some time that he was
afflicted with dropsy. His appointment
was one Of the few | have made. where nc
especial pressure was exerted by any one
in the a~ppointes's behalf. His fitness
for the position. because Of his
standing as q journalist. his familiarity
with German literature, and his ability
as an educated and talented gentleman.
were well known to M, and N soon as
I mentioned his name TO Secretary
Eysrts his appointment was virtually
decided upon. Taylor was q native oil
Pennsylvania. Welsh, our Minister to
Great britain, Is also from Pennsylvania,
and the fact that two gentlemen from
one State had boon selected to all i'm.
portant missions in Europe was sug.
gested to me when the appointment OF
TAYLOR was made, but I felt In some ro-
spects that Taylor was more O represent
alive Of the United States ut large than
Of one locality In particular. He was
better known, perhaps, In New York
than In Pennsylvania, and his fame az q
literary man was almost worldwide.
NEW yoRx. Dec. 2O.-Ths Tribue's
Berlin dispatch on Taylor Is a. follows:
Tho deceased gentleman was o universal
fayorite. The Emperor, Crown Prince,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-12-20
District Csart.

The following business was transacted
the District Court to-day;
Mcmillan vs.. Campbell-Dismisss at
cost Of plaintiff.
State Va. Galowsy-Placed among the
appeal cases.
State vs.. Tim Dalton-Appeal dis
missed.
State W. Koke Lung-Prosecution foi
practicing ms a physician without a di-
ploma. Continued till December 20.
Jury waived. .
State W. Anna Cullinan-Continued
till . p. N. Monday.
Lonkey X Smith VI. Savage-Lewis
4 Deal added as associate counsel for
the deieuse.
State W. VI. A. McDonali-Charee Of
assault aud battery ON his wife. Case
on appeal. Verdict not guilty.
State VI. John Doe Walton-Con-
tinued till the Goth Instant.
State vs.. Ellen Galloway-Dismissed
on motion OF the District Attorney.
State vs.. NJ. Lowenthal Cause dis
missed on motion Of the District Attor'
nsy.
State VS.. j. G. Bmy-Charge Of as.
sault aud battery. Trial commenced
aud recess taken till attachment for wit
nssses returned.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-12-20
ovEaMAn VS.. .cuacuaAn ct Al.
re.timesy ~ 60 the value Of the
Land seughs Co he CSademned.

~. .nno;n,sd Inv thu
r"---. Su-..
Cour. in the case oil the o'efmAn o"
Mining Company vs.. Corcoran ct AL 70
ascertain the value OF the property Of
.,.,....,.n,s son,b. 10 be condemned
.ns ss - %. -. u., /.
oy the p'ihuH -
morning al the once OF ths ooun'y
Clerk to hear testimony in the case.
m. Commissioners are Simon Ogg,
ri, .na co,on., r q steven.
@ Thsv will renor, 10 the Court on
sou. lh'S ""' ''p'" WV
sAeN
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-12-20
Piper. Opera IIsase.

II 'twere all Of life to laugh. the play
OF Robinson Crusoe, Esq. and his
Man Friday" a. presented by Rics's
Surprise Party at Piper's Opera House,
would be full Of life for II is certainly
full Of laugh. II is NO intensely ludri'
crous in many OF its phases rs to excite
ths risible even in an an anchorits.
But. "'tis gone like a beautiful dream,
and tonight the Babes in the Woods
will take its place. This extravaganza
is not quite so ultra, no unreal and un-
reasonable in Its essential features n
Esquire Crusoe." 1t has more con.
sistency and sticks together better. The
music Is superior. too. II will be con-
tinued till the close OF the season, In
GLIDING tomorrow afternoons matinee.
The house was crowded again last night
and will be as long as the present en-
Raeement lasts : so II Is best to get re-
served seats and the quicker the better.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-12-20
Europe,s silver Junkshop.r

NEW York. Dec. 20.-The Times
comments thus Silver was quoted In
London yesterday at 49H pence. alower
rate than has been reached since 1876.
when the price reached iC'. pence, and
and the bullion value Of il2h grains
OF silver was less than eighty cents.
Yesterday the value OF the silver dollar
was a fraction under eighty.four cents.
At the present rate OF decline the price
Of silver Is likely TO touch before long
tho lowest point which II reached before
the reconciliation. and the friends OF
this much abused metal will be driven
In self defense to adopt tho course OF
the ingenious Cernuchi - repeal tho
Bland bill. coin no more silver and pre-.
cipitate such q crisis In the price OF the
metal the Indian rupee will be depre-
ciated to q point where England. weary
OF the warfare, will sue for a negotiation
on a basis Of international bi.metallism.
That would at least be wiser and more
patriotic than TO continue making the
United States a sort Of junkshop for the
rejected silver OF Europe.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-12-20
A Dead Mans Shoes.

New YoRx. Dec. 2O.-A Times Wash.
ins.on special says : Already there has
been q great deal Of talk as to who shall
DO appointed to ill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death OF Bayard Taylor.
An effort is being made by certain
members Of the New York delegation to
press the name Of George William Curtis.
The term OF Office OF ]. Madison Wells.
who holds the position OF Surveyor OF
the port OF New Orleans, will expire on
the 4th OF March, aud as there is no
prospect that the Democratic Senate,
which will then como into power, would
confirm him. even II he were reappoint.
cd, his claims are being pressed. There
are already many other applicants for
the place.
A Herald Washington special says I;
washburn, late Minister TO France. Is
spoken Of as q possible successor OF
Bayard Taylor. Washburn is n great
favorits in Germany. and his appoint.
ment would DO very welcome there.