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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20
NE HS AND NOTES.

WISCONSIN has 10000, 900 acres Of
land which have never been broken OF
felt the pillow.
A TEXAS preacher lost three-fourth.
of his deacons by preaching a sermon
against horse racing.
BULL fights have just been introduced
from Spain to Marseilles, France, and at
tract immense crowds.
ELEVEN foreign journals have ap.
peared in Japan, of which ten are En-.
glish, and one French.
SOUTH CAROLINA has now five thou
sand spindles and one thousand foul
hundred looms in operation, divided
among ten factories.
In the Gasconade River, Missouri
the fish are dying by thousands, from
eating the worms that drop from the over
hanging maple trees.
A New YORK detective has resigned
after serving twenty-seven years and
never making an arrest. His conscience
got the better of him at last.
lT is computed that the tomb of st.
Charles Borromeo, in the Cathedral of
Milan, contains in precious stones alone
value to the amount of $l,000,O00
SILVER was first coined by Phidon,
King of Argos, about $50 B. c., lao
years after the building of Solomon's
Temple, the epoch of the building of
Carthage.
INDEsTRUcTIBLE collars and cuffs are
on exhibition in New York. They re-
semble linen but need no washing, soils
being removed by the application of a
damp cloth.
A YOUNG woman of Woolwich, Me-,
aged twenty three, married a man of
eighty-three, on the payment of 81, loo,
which was the price he offered and she
was sold for.
The lemon verbena is used as a tonic
for the stomach. A decoction of it made
with hot water and sugar, and drank
cold, morning and evening, is excellent
for this purpose.
A LARGE colony of Germans have
settled in Tyler County, Texas, where
they are putting farm of $1,000 acres
under one fence. The residences of the
colonis's are built together in town
plat, as in Germany.
In the last fifteen centuries Japan has
had one hundred and forty destructive
earthquakes. One every ten years has
been the general average, but for the
past century the ration has increased to
one for every five years.
AN article in a recent number of the
Pekin Gazette, written by Chin Ho, says
Kung Foo Wiling, distinguished
philosopher, who fourished about the
year $40, invented the telephone (Which
is known in China as "Thumthsien - J,
in the year S6S.
A CURIOUS candle used in Alaska is a
fish, eight inches long, almost transpar-
ent, and very fat-the fat being pure
white and very sweet. The Indians dry
his fish, then light it at the tail, and it
burns with a clear, sparkling fame,
which the wind will not extinguish.
COMMON baking soda-the carbonate
has been found to cure burns and
scalds, afording immediate relief when
promptly applied. For dry burn the
soda should be made into paste with
water. For a scald>or wet burned sur
face, the powdered soda (or borax will
do as well) should be busted on.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20
Mr.. DObson's Experience with Dog.

Last night Dobson, writes Virginia
City reporter, ran across little friend
less purp on B-street, and not wishing to
see the animal left out in the cold, took
him home. Mrs. Dobson hates dogs,
but after an argument of an hour or so
consented to allow this one to sleep in
the house. The animal acted with
proper decorum until about one O'Clock
in the morning, when it began to slam
around the house and bark vociferously
Mrs. d. limited that old d. had better
get up and "put at dog out" He got
up, stumbled over tie baby, and upset
some stands and things before he struck
light. He was just twenty minutes
catching the dog and upsetting more
furniture than he supposed he ever
owned. There was narrow alley be-
tween Dobson's house and the next, and
opening a window on the lower floor,
the distracted man hove the dog into
the alley and slid back into bed, as
cold as tombstone" as his wife said.
In about five minutes the yelps of the
dog and the walls of cat in the alley
reminded the Dobson household that the
gate at the entrance of the alley was
closed and the dog was still confined
within the legitimate environs of the
household. The noise continuing about
ten minutes, Dobson, who was assisted
out of bed by his anxious wife, grabbed
a broom, and leaping into the alley, was
about to sweep out the dog, when ten
pound chunk of coal, thrown out of the
two-story window of the next house, fell
with great accuracy upon his person.
The missile was PROFESSIONALLY meant
for the dog or the cat, but it hit Dob
son all the same. The unfortunate man
now wants the dog tax raised to fifty
dollars head. This is true story.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20
Wise Items.
What is it to be wise?
"Tis but to know how little can be known,
To see all others faults and know our own

TITS but to know how little can be known,
To see all others faults and know our own -
Pope
Be wise worldly, but not worldly wise.
-QuarLes.
1t is right to be contented with what
we have; never with what we arc
Mackintosh.
Virtue requires no other recompense
than the tribute of self-approbation and
respect.-Cicer0.
The flower which we do not pluck is
the only one which never loses its beauty
or its fragrance.-Aieger.
Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is one
rascal less in the world.-Cwlyle.
Truth is eclipsed often, and it sets for
night, but never is it turned aside from
its eternal path.-W Ware.
The beginning of faith is action, and
he only believes who struggles; not he
who merely thinks question over
Carlyle.
Who is powerful? He who can con-
troll his passion. Who is rich? He who
is contented with what he has.-Jewish
Saying.
Age is all decay; it is the ripening,
the swelling of the fresh life within,
that withers and bursts the husk.-
George Macdonald.
Chemists tell us that single grain OF
the substance called iodine will impart
color to sew thousand times its weight
of water. 1t is in higher things-One
companion, one book, one habit may
affect the whole life and character.
AS the tree is fortified by its own
broken branches and falling leaves, and
grows out OF its own decay, 80 men and
nations are hettered and improved BY
trial, and refined out of broken hopes
and blighted expectations.-F. w
| Robertson.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

If the leg of crab be fractured, it
throws off the injured limb near to the
body. And it has the power of doing SO
apparently for two purposes, to save the
excessive flow of food which always
takes place at the first wound, and to lay
bare the organ which is to reproduce the
future limb; as soon as the injured limb
has been thrown off, the bleeding stops
but if the animal is unable, from weak
ness or any other cause, to effect this, the
result is fatal. The growth of the new
limb is slow, uutil after the period of
the next moult, when it rapidly as
sumes its full proportions.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

The late Charles Dickens is credited
with this not very brilliant play upon
words. One day while he was being
taken by Photographer, the result being
the well-known picture in which he is
shown writing, the artist told him that
he did not hold the pen right, and sug-
gested that he should take it more natur-
ally in his fingers. Just as though
you were writing one Of your novels,
Mr.. Dickens" said he. az see," said
Dickens, "all of 'er twist"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

warding them in their own domiciles.
The constitutional guarantee of the right
to secure against unreasonable searches
and seizures extends to their papers,
thus closed against inspection, wherever
there may be. No law of Congress can
p ace in the hands of officials connected
with the postal service any authority to
invade the secrecy of sealed packages
in the mail
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

A LITTLE fellow who has seen scarce
half-a-dozen summers, and at whose home
hens have been kept for but few weeks,
visited neighbours, day or two since,
to get company in his play, where he
was informed that his oft-time play mate
was suffering from chicken-pox. The
lady of the house, in tones Of curiosity
not little tinctured with solicitude,
asked the little fellow if they had had
the chicken-pox over to his house, and
was much amused at the reply, with all
gravity: No; we haven't had our hens
long enough, yet"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

A MASSACHUSETTS clergyman came
down square-toed against the practice
of playing drop the handkerch eff .
and similar games at the church pic
MICS, and now he is conductor of horse
car in Boston. The world do move"
whether the sun does or not.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

AN English scientist asserts that flies
have language of their own, and are
not limited to the irritating buzz for
which they are distinguished By the
asst lance of the microphone, this fly
language can be heard, and the tramp of
fly across box is said to sound almost
as loud as that of horse across a
wooden bridge. A curious sound ac-
companied the tramp of the fly, which,
it was suggested, was caused by the
neighing of its proboscis
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

SEABIRDs on the British coast do
great damage to the rabbit-warrens, as
they kill off hundreds of the rabbits
On Skerner Island it is estimated -four
thousand rabbits year are destroyed
by the birds since the Sea- birds Pro-
tective Act was passed in 1870. As
rabbit is worth at least twenty-five
cents, the cost TO the owner of the
island is 81, 900 per annum; while the
public, to whom the rabbits are sold,
loose three and half tons of meat.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

WILLIAM CAMPBELL, knoxn as the
Scottish giant, has just been buried in
Newcastle, He wasa well-grown youth.
His age WAS twenty-five years, his height
was six feet two and half inches, his
girth around the shoulders eight feet,
and his weight seven hundred and fifty
pounds. The services of a derrick were
necessary to lower the coffin containing
the body into. the grave.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

To make the phonograph a perfect
success it is necessary to have a per-
fectly durable pointer. Edison is anx-
-ieus to procure a diamond-pointed
needle for that purpose. The ordinary
steel point now becomes blunted, and of
course the vibrations are imperfectly
registered on the tin-foil, and therefore
lose their character upon being repro
duced. The diamond point will over
come this difficulty.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

WINK at small injuries rather than
avenge them. If, to destroy single
bee, you throw down the hive, instead
of one enemy, you have thousand.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

MARQUIS ANTINoRI, at the head of
an exploring expedition in Equatorial
Africa, writes to his brother from Mahak
Nonza, in the Kingdom of Shoa " am
very happily residing among this raw
flesh eating people. The King goes
barefoot, dresses like the rest, uses his
fingers for knife and fork, and wears
only gold pin in his greasy, curly hair
as sign of his royal rank"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20
TOPICS OF THE Day.

A BLACK HILLS miner recently found
the skeleton of horse with the skeleton
OF man within it, terrible reminder
of last winters snow storms. Lost on
the plains, the man had killed his horse,
cut him open, ana crawled inside, think
ing to escape perishing of cold, but the
animals flesh froze solid, confirming the
man in a tomb from which there was no
way of escape
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

SAID he" Matilda, you are my dear
est duck" Said She" Augusta, you
are trying to stuff me-" She was too
sage for him.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

The question whether postal officials
have right, under any circumstances,
except by due process of law, to open
letters or sealed packages in the mails,
has again been answered in the negative
by the Supreme Court of the United
States. Sealed mail matter" says the
decision, " is as fully guarded from ex-
animation and inspection, except as to
their outward form and weight, as if
they were retained by the parties for
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

If, as seems probable, Sir Joseph
Whitworth has counteracted the ten
dency of steel plates to crack when
struck by projectile, the contest be-
tween the guns and the armor of men,
of-war turns again in favor of the latter
An experiment lately made with tar
get formed of fluid compressed steel,
built up in hexagonal sections, each of
which was composed of series of con-
centric rings around a central disk" has
shown that large vessels clad with armor
of this kind of steel cannot be penetrated
by projectiles from the heaviest guns
now in use.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

almost killed me. was three hundred
miles from home"
At this moment my friend arrived,
and | left the agriculturist. He seemed
dis onsolate as babe him adieu; but |
felt happy at being delivered from the
ordeal of listening to the big story
which he promised to tell, and only re-
GREETED that when he collided with the
stone church he was not summarily
mangled b. yond repair.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

A CHICAGO honey dealer has con-
structed floating bee-house, large
enough to contain two thousand hives,
and is having it towed up the Missis-
sippi River from Louisiana to Mime
sofa, thus keeping pace with the BIOS
soming of the flowers and stimulating
the hopey-making ability of the bees.
He will return in the fall to take advan-
tage of the autumnal flowers at each
point. This seems to be a shrewd way
to make the bees work the year round !;
but if they should take notion to strike
on the route, they could make it pretty
hot for their oppressor.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

The experiment OF using superheated
water for locomotives has been success
fully tried in France. The engines are
charged with water heated to 1902 G.,
which is allowed to vaporize as fast as
required, and by doing away entirely
with furnaces in locomotives, the danger
of explosion, as well as the cause of ter
ror to passing horses, is easily avoided.
A locomotive propelled in this manner
and attached to two carriages, assembled
gradient of five and a half in the
hundred at the rate of sixteen miles an
hour.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-20

AN application of electricity to the
production of musical effects has been
successfully made in New York. Grace
Church, in that city, has three organs,
the latest built being very large and
powerful. The three instruments COM
bine seventy stops, tweny three mechan-
ical appliances, and four thousand four
hundred and nineteen pipes, and all are
brought into use by one performer at
the same time through the medium of
electricity. The effect is singular, yet
grand, with a suggestion of celestial
harmonies- echoing symphonies.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-04-26
SELECT PROVERBS.

Pay as you go and keep from
small score.
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to
lose.
Poverty is the mother of all arts.
Provide for the worst, the best
will save itself
Poverty Graves many things, but
avarice more.
Quarrelling dogs come hating
home.
Quiet persons are welcome every
where.
Riches, like manure, do no good
till they are spread.
See, listen, and be silent, and you
will live in eace.
Speak well of your friend, of your
enemy say nothing.
Some have been thought brave
because they were afraid to run
away.
Sit in your place and none can
make you rise.
Speak little and to the purpose,
and you will pass for somebody.
Think of ease but work on.
The stone that lies not in your
way, need not offend you.
There are no coxcombs SO trouble.
some as those that have some wit.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-04-26
LYNCH-LAw.

Along with the news of the lynch
ing of three men-two negroes and
one wheat Huntsville, Ala, for
the murder of white man, comes
the story from the Valley of Virgin
ia that the innocence of colored wo~
man, Charlotte Harris, who was
hung there some weeks ago, has been
fully established. This woman was
hung by mob for the offence of
burning barn, and of course the
evidence must haue been satisfacto-
ny to the minds of the parties engaged
in the horrible work, or they would
not hove ventured upon measure
so extreme, and one subjecting them~
selves in any aspect of the case to a
prosecution for murder.
That a mob has no right to pun
ish an evil>doer in any way will not
be denied, and the only plea that
any one can put up in defense of
Lynch law is the probability, or the
the possibility, of the escape of evil
doors either through a weak prose>
cution or in some other way. Now,
when we look this plea fairly in the
face, we see that it wants one of the
first elements of truth-that is, can
dor. The very men who engage in
this unlawful way of pretending to
mete out justice arc the parties to
wham the law looks for assistance
and help. They help to make the
lists of jurors, officers and witnesses,
who are relied on for proper exe>
cution of the law, and in thus con-
Tossing the weakness and uncertain
ty of the law, they but confess their
own weakness. A good strong dose
of the law against such conduct, adj
ministered to those guilty, will prove
beneficial to society, and will make
all those who witness its infiction
willing to let the law take its course,
and willing also to lend tn sir assis-
lance to proper enforcement of the
law. Rome Courier.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-04-26
A WoMAN's QUERIES.

Don't you think yourselves just a
little exacting sometimes, gentlemen
For example, when you expect of
every woman that she be a thorough
cook, a competent dressmaker and
milliner, that she may make her own
clothes in addition to her other du
ties be an experienced laundress,
that she can stake hold" if Biddy
gives her the slip in an evil moment
to know all about nursing and ba>
bies, by instinct of course, for where,
in the midst Of learning such triAes
as geography, grammar, arithmetic,
spelling, etc, can she have time to
perfect herself in one quarter Of your
requirements before middle age land
then you don't want her) something
Of tailoring, for the boys's jackets
and pants; a good deal of music to
enliven the evenings and teach the
girls; 10 be cup" in the latest liter
erature, 80 as not to disgrace you be
fore literary acquaintances ; to write
fair letter, and be able to con-
dense all the news of the day into
one page when you are off on those
"business tours that occur so oftenY
just little, considering how few of
your own sex have graduated as
tailors, gardeners, carpenters, or tin~
smiths, in order to be fitted for mar
ried life, Notwithstanding your SUI
perior chances in the way of educa>
ton and considering you don't like
"strong minded" women, but have
sort Of vague ideal-about as de6n
tie as your theories of a future state
of clingiug dependent creature,
who hasn't thought beyond the ne
cessities of your stomach and clean
linen, until some sudden exigency
arises, when she is to spring, like
Minerva from the brain Of Jove, full
panoplied, a selt-reliant, allwise wo
man! Haven't you been making a
mistake all along, and isn't the OPP
posite of "strong" "weak ?" And,
don't you think such versatile crea-
lures as you require us to be are,
after all, at least your equals ?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-04-26
AN OLD SOLDIER IN A BOX.

Reldville IN. G Times During
the late war four Confederate sol,
diers were making their way toward
Richmond, along the nine mile road,
near which was the cemetery where
those who died in Richmond hospit-
ais were usually buried. At a GER
tain point the soldiers were SURPRISE
ed to see an ambulance, with mules
attached, standing in the road with
out driver. Upon closer examina-
ton the ambulance, was found to
contain four coffins with apparently
corpse in each. While the Confed-
crates were discussing the situation
they were startled by something like
a groan from one of the collins. Af-
ter getting a little composed they
determined TO open this particular
coffin. On removing the lid they
found a man nearly sufocated, who
represented himself as soldier from
Georgia, who had been patient in
one of Richmond hospitals. He had
been considered dead, and along
with his defunct companions was
shrouded and encoffined, and dis
patched to the cemetery for burial in
charge of negro driver. Being
aroused, probably, by the jolting,
the Georgian came too and cried out
and kicked, and endeavored to OBJ
tain help and deliverance from his
close quarters. The negro driver
decamped early in the action, and
the imprisoned Georgian [ had we'll
nigh exhausted himself when the
four Confederates put in timely
appearance, and effected his release.
He was sent back to Richmand, and
his dead companions to the GENE.
terry. One of the four who unlocked
the Georgian, and thus saved his
life, is now living in Caswell county,
near Milton, N. G.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-04-26

The CURCULIo, AGAlN.--A new
remedy, the very newest, to utterly
destroy this destructive pest of the
plum is now on the carpet. 1t is
not patented, so that any one can
use it if he thinks, after knowing
what it is, that it is worth trying
1t is a Western discovery, and i!
what the discoverer says Of it is true,
we shall be overwhelmed with plums
this year, as cheap as the stuff by
whose agency the crop is assured
1t is simply to take bucket of coal
ashes in one hand, aud with the 9th
er dash the ashes over the tree Just
after the blossoms have fallen and
the thing is done Tho discoverer
says in busting one of his trees he
neglected one branch, though cover
ed with blossoms AID young fruit,
did not yield sound plum, the cur
culio having destroyed every one oil
them, while the rest of the tree was
a mass Of fine, uninjured frui: In
dustrial Home.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-04-26
BLACK MAN TURNING WHITE.

A Cairo, Illinois, news says there
is in that city now a color ID man
who, for fifteen years past, has been
steadily turning white. He says
that before the war he was the slave
of Mr.. Winston, now living near
Union City, Tennessee, and that any
one doubling that be is negro can
have those doubts set at rest by
writing to his old master. He has
farmed near Columbus, Ky, for sew :,
en- years past, and his children, all
black, have grown up and are mar
ried. He says that the change in
the color of his skin began fifteen
years ago, in spot the size of a
three>cent piece, on his right wrist,
and has been spreading steadily un-
til now the only black left upon his
person are few spots on his hands,
and 8 mask, as it were on, his face
extending from his forehead to his
mouth, with the exception of his
eyebrows, which are white, the hair
on them being black and straight
like white mans. The skin of his
head, neck aud body is a healthy
fresh color like that of any white
man, and is tender and easily bis
tered by the sun, and his hair is get
ting straight like white mans. -
The first impression upon seeing him
is that his face has been painted
with iodine, but his eyes are the un>
Unstable color of a negroes. His
name is Henry Winston. He says
that soon after the change began, he
was examined by twelve physicians
at New Orleans, and they told him
not to be alarmed it was healthy
change, and would not injure his life.
He had feared it was the eprosy