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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The population of European Russia
being estimated at something like IT,
100000, of which 100000 belong to
the rural class, it becomes interesting to
learn what has been done for the educa-
ton of this vast mass of peasantry.
Some progress has undoubtedly been
made in rudimentary instruction. In
examining the slight educational tests to
which the conscripts are held, in 1866,
only one per cent. of the newly-enlisted
men could read and write, whereas in
1870 the average of scholars was raised
to as much as eleven per cent. During
the reign of Catherine Ii no attempt
was made to educate the masses, and the
efforts of Peter the Great were mostly
directed TO technical instru ction. The
autocrat Nicholas seemed to take scarce
any interest in schooling his people, and
it was reserved to the present Emperor
to introduce a system of popular educa-
ton among the peasantry and to reclaim
them from the densest ignorance. Ac-
cording to official reports, there are 25,-
308 primary schools, with 1,152,712
pupils. If the Russian census be correct,
thisnumber of scholars is an exceedingly
small one in proportion to the popula-
ton. 1t should be fully 10000 900 to
100000, In 1872 the amount spent
in the Empire for instruction was $780,
600, 600, Of which one-sixth was fur
nished by the State, the rest being de-
frayed by the provinces and BY private
benevolence. Some efforts have been
made by the Communes to make attend
ance at schools compulsory. AS pro-
auctions of Russia are very sparsely in
habited, the system adopted in Norway
of having movable schools, has been
suggested The week portion of the
Russian school system seems to be in the
difficulty of procuring proper teachers,
discharged soldiers of the grossest igno-
rance often occupying the position of
masters. The awakening of the Russian
intellect from a long slumber has notas
yet brought. with it the happiest results.
Suddenly endowed with an imperfect
education, with that liability the
Russian has to rush to extremes, the
peasant has been brought face to face
with his not overhappy surroundings.
Reckless Russian students, graduates of
the universities, seem to,have taken ad-
vantage, Of this faint glimmer of in
struction which the working classes pos
sess, and have been quick to put before
them books which teach the widest
ideas in regard to property, labor and
government.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
Inroads of Slang.
Bloomington tlniuOis) Eye,

lbioomihklon NiiHhoiel fNesl
Once upon time an exquisite trav-
eler asked Spartan general why there
were no walls around Sparta. Pointing
to his battalions, drawn up in martial ar
ray, the general replied: "There is
Sparta's wall, and every man is a brick"
Therefore, when we wish to speak in a
highly commendatory manner of our
friend, we have classic authority for
calling him ga brick" We do not
know just what connection this has with
"a brick in ones hat" but presume it
has some.
When our business enterprises are
not as productive of as pleasing results
as we had anticipated, we say they do
not pan out we'll" Is not that ex-
preston as classic as Greek mythology,
in which we read of the god, PAM
Perhaps we can not always find such
high authority for our elegant American
classics, but it must exist, and our fail
ure to discover il is the result of our
lack of penetration. 84aol Hil -
This style of linguistic adornmept is
very popular.
When we observe Miss Fortuna upon
the street, arrayed in her new walking
costume, Just from the artistic hands of
Nine. Style, we do not say that she is
fashionably attired and presents a bean
tiful appearance; we pronounce her
the nobbie,t girl that's out"
Miss Alice Hutchinson is not merely
fine soprano singer; she is Immense
When the .bootblack -energetically ca
resses our tenderest corn with the hard
side of his brush, we do not threaten
him with the punishment adequate to
the enormity of his ofense; we mildly
insinuate our intention Of putting a
head on him." lea ~
When Johnnie becomes too boisterous
our foreman does not invite him to keep
silence, or submit to summary eject
ment; he merely remarks: "Cheese
your racket, my covy, or I'll fire you
down the stairs bodily"
When there is an unusual tumult on
the street our city editor "waltzesP
down town to get an item. .s.E5... Is.
Our musical critic calls the Ten.
nesseeans }" the "daisiest troupe that's
going" ID I III suua1 .t.s
Our literary editor informs us that
the heroine Of "Ouida's" new novel is
clear gone on the hero, and he doesn't
tumble" -
The long list of such expressions con.
tinues to increase, and popular speech
deteriorates correspondingly Even
among those who would not, under any
circumstances, use his kind of Ian
q age, we observe constantly increas-
ing carelessness, which seems to be the
result Of this pernicious habit.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07


ABOUT sixty years ago the paper-mills
then in existence in the United States
employed five thousand people, and the
annual product represented, q money
value of $4,000, 600. lin 1880 the num-
Der of persons employed was about ten
thddssnd, and the value of the annual
product vas $1,000, 00O.s Since then
there has been "a steady growth, lcwith
the exception of the past two or three
years. In 1860 the number Of persons
employed was twenty two thousand, and
the value of the paper manufactured
$2l 900, 900. In 1870 this amount had
increased to 4s,4S6, 665; and in 1872,
the last year for which there are com
plete records, the value of the amount
manufactured in a Thousand mills, en-
ploying thirty thousand persons, was
$50, sos, 1926. Between the years 1860
and 1870, there was a general revival in
the book, BUSINESS, and the paper makers
pushed things with great energy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07


THE survivors of the Six Hundred
who rode in the famous charge dined
together at the, Alexandra Palace on the
anniversary of the charge. No public
announcement was made for the dinner.
The chair was taken by Mr.. 10y
Smith Gate Sergeant Major Eleventh
Hussars), and upwards of eighty sur
vivors-including representatives of the
Fourth, Eighth and Eleventh. Hussars,
the Thirteenth Light Dragons and
the Seventeenth Iancers- sat down.
Speeches were made, and the memory Of
Lord Cardigan was drunk in solemn
silence. II was announced that the sur
vivors will meet every forthcoming an
niversary at the Alexandra Palace 80
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
Bravery in Danger and Suffering.

The Philadelphia Press says that an
engineer named Edward Osmond was re-
Gently running passenger express train
through from Philadelphia to Jersey
City. 1t was one of the swiftest and
heaviest trains, which are only intrusted
to the most experienced engineers. The
train was making sixty miles an hour,
when heavy connecting rod of the
driving-wheel on the right of the engine
broke, and one end of it, swinging up
ward with terrible force, struck the cab
beneath him, and shattered it into a
thousand pieces. Osmond fell senseless
on the engine. He was both burned and
scalded, and the pain quickly restored
consciousness. The engine, with its
open throttle, was rushing forward with
frightful velocity to certain destruction.
Inside the long train of cars men were
talking, smoking, laughing; women
playing with their babes. The fireman
let himself down from the tender and
escaped. Osmond might have done the
same. Instead, he crept along the side
of the engine, carefully let himself into
his place, and with his burned hands re-
versed the engine and applied the air
brake. The train stopped. People in
side the car went on with their reading
and their gossip, and the children
played with their mothers, who won
dered, indifferently, perhaps, why the
train was stopping again. They never
will know how, in one brief minute, they
passed over the mouth of the grave, and
were sratcngd back by the quiet, high
courage OF one poor workingman. To
ourminds there is something finer in the
calm integrity to duty in the face of
danger and death which is so often seen
in the lives of obscure American mechan-
les who fill posts of responsibility, than
in the dash and sudden courage of many
a daring soldier on the battlefield.
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4
A CURIOUS series of experiments has
recently been carried out by Mr.. Oar
win to test the question whether car
nivorouss plants. are really benefited by
the insects they capture and kill. He
cultivated about two hundred plants of
the, genus Fly Trap-one-half Of, them
being fed with roast meat, and the others
were left to take care of themselves.
The result at the end of the season
showed that the plants which, had been
supplied with meat weighed 21.5 per
cent. more than the others, and their
flower stems, seeds and capsules were
two and a half times heavier, ard their
seeds weighed SO times pore than the
unfed plants.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
An Active Skeleton.
Medical students are commonly

Medical students are commonly court
eous enough toward the living, but
treat the dead with much levity and
rudeness. Their fondness for adjoining
their rooms with skulls and cross-bones,
and working the odds and ends of skel-
etons up into drinking-cups, paper
weights, pipe-stems, and other useful
articles, is proverbial. No dreadful de-
tail of death and corruption is CHASTITY
to them. They treat corpses with easy
familiarity, and like to show that
they, are void of all fear in such
matters. This spirit often carries them
beyond what is demanded by the mere
interests. of science. The graduating
class at the Dartmouth Medical College
have recently had their class photograph
taken, and the skeleton of Evans, the
Northwood murderer, was the central
figure of the group. This skeleton has,
so to speak, led an active life since ii
was laid aside by the mortal possessor.
Evans's body was. after his execution,
given to the medical college for disco
ton. The skeleton, as having a certain
historic interest, was wired together,
and it has since been in frequeet demand
for what the playful Dartmouth student
would probably call decorative pur.
poses" Many a morning it has been
found suspended from the village flag.
pole,l or sitting contemplatively upon
the front steps of some timid citizen
1T attended the chapel services one
morning, hanging from a lofty hook II
has been constantly used to scare fresh
men. To medical students such prank.
are infinitely diverting; to others they
seem any thing but funny. In the fiDel
and nobler minds, this spirit of horrit
levity commonly ripens into the phil
osopAic calmness with which old physi
clans regard the mystery of death. z.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

THE Russians and Poles are the most
inveterate of gamblersy AM English
paper tells a story of a certain. prince,
who recently lost in single night his
estate, horses, jewels, and indeed every
thing he possessed, including the car
rage and horses which were waiting for
him at the door AS he was about 10
leave, he remembered that he had not
staked his harnesses, and going back,
the luck turned, and he SOON won back
all that Ne mad lost 80" l'9 - -
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

A GIRL in St. Joseph, Mo-, went to a
drug store to buy arsenic with which TO
kill herself. Tho clerk happened to
know that she had quarreled with her
lover, and he guessed her purpose. We
gave hereern starch instead-ef arsenic,
and hurried out to tell her lover, The
lover repented having grieved the gir4,
went, to her house, found her lying on a
sofa waiting in vain to die Of dose
Of corn starch, and made up with her.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

OTTo BERGER, son. Of an attendant,to
the Grand Duke of Baden, died in
Wards Island Hospital last summer,
and his body was taken to the. Morgue,
where, being embalmed, it has lain ever
since, waiting for instructions from his
father. A letter has just been received,
in which the father. begs that the body
may be buried in Potter's Field, as the
son was scapegrace and not worthy of q
parents consideration.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
TOPICS OF THE DAY

AN artist undertook TO caricature
some eof the new bonnets that are Just
making their appearance, but his pic
lures were such sensible improvements
on the prevailing styles that he has
given up in despair. % , afA.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

THRPatent Office, in October, granted
to Senior Miguel de la Vega, native of
Havana, the -aole..right to manufacture
artificial tallow from a plant that is
said to grow wild on all parts of the
continent of America. 1t is alleged
that the article~can be produced at a
nominal cost of two cents pound, and
that the yield is about seventy per cent.
from the prime material Senior Vega,
it is said, came to New York City four
years ago, political refugee. He had
been wealthy sugar and tobacco
planter, and had been decorated by
the Spanish government with the cross
of the Holy Sepulcher aud of I he order
of Isabella Catolica, and had been a
staff Captain Of Artillery. In General
Grants first term, American cattle
raisers having been swindled by two
Spanish firms, Senior Vega, it is said,
succeeded in recovering more than
$50, 600 from the swindlers. Senior Vega
has been in destitute circumstances
since he came to New York. 1t is said
that his artificial compound is equal, in
most respects, to common tallow.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
ENGLISH midnight modern CONVERSE

ENGLISH midnight modern converse
ton: Awfully jolly party Rather
baw, / think. Deuced fine woman
talking to Browni Immensel Grooms
her head we'll. Nice little filly next her.
Yaas good form. Awful ass that Tomp-
kins! Dreadful Spoons on the FLY ;
any tin? Not poney. That's the old
mare in the corner. Frightful!" and so
on to lawfully ia tai"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

If all men were to bring their mis-
fortunes together in one place, most of
them would be glad to take their own
home again rather than TO make an ex-
change.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

Z
SOME very curious provisions against
the Chinese have been proposed in the
Constitutional Convention Of California
Among those that have actually been
adopted by the Committee on Chinese
is one that disfranchises citizens who
employ Cinnamon. Another prohibits
Cinnamon from suing or being sued in
the courts, and declares that any lawyer
who appears for them shall forfeit his
license to practice, 1t. also provides
that no business license shall be granted
to any corporation or petson1employing
them, and forbids public officers from
having them in their employ under
penalty of removal from office.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

AMONG those who labor for future
happiness, he is greatest who lives well
in his own household. ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

TEN and half ton--or about $780,
000-locusts were destroyed in one day
in town in India.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
Our of faesgfAnd p,rriizzs prizes, a,47o gold

OUT of fsoS grand prizes, 2,47O gold
medais,s $500 silver medals, 10000
bronze medals, and 10000 honorable
mentions awarded at the Paris Exposi-
ton, England takes 20 grand prizes,
231 gold, 341 silver, 459 bronze medals,
and 949 honorable mentions; while her
colonies carry off three grand.prizes, SO
gold, 1919 silver, 2S6 bronze medals, and
31S honorable mentions. England also
takes 81 and her colonies Is diplomas of
honor. The United States carry off
grand prizes, 10; diplomas of honor, 30;
gold medals, 1856; silver medals, 200
bronze medals, 220 and honorable men,
tions, 1856, ;. seaa4 -1as ., bstsa 90 ssa4I -
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07

! THE storyfis going the rounds that at
"a recent safe of curios in Paris long
strip of skin from the arm of Anne of
Austria was disposed of, this singular
relic being proved authentic by the
signature of DR.. Dabos, who took it
from the body in the vaults of yal-de-
Grace, May Y, 500. Unhappily for
the purchaser of this interesting relic,
. only the heart of Anne of Austria W as
, placed at af-de-Gface.. Her body was
inferred at st. Denis, the coffin which
contained it being placed between those
of Marie de Medicis and Maria Theresa
Thence, according to Dom Poirrier, who
saw the devastation of the abbey, Oc-
tsbef Ia 1913, it was torn, to be thrown
with other royal corpses into a pit filed
with quick-lime, which did the work so
thoroughly that in 1916, when the pit
was opened, only few shreds and frag-
merits, which no skill could identify,
were found. The American gentle
man, who is credited with purchasing
this interesting relic has made but a
poor pargaih' IL &c - -..l -5s
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-07
T A SCHEME has lust been proposed b

'T A SCHEME has Just been proposed by
NJ. Emile Pagan, a Belgian, for reaching
the NorthPole in a balloon, The aerial
machine, which is of special form, will
be used as a sailing vessel as far as the
eighty-fouFth parallel. There he will
fill his. balloon, of a capacity of $500
cubic metres, with pure hydrogen,
which he will make in the. Arctic re-
gions with $4,000 cubic metres of sui
phuric acid and 5000 of iron filings. He
will be supplied with boxesof preserved
meats, biscuits, bottles of brandy, alco-
.hol, etc, which he will throw over
board as he advances towards the pcle.
The car will serve him, according 10
circumstances, as sledge or boat.
, 1878-06-15

who have a greater respect for
defiant secessionist than for a
sneaking repudiator.
Senator Grover bids fair to
make one Of the most influential
and useful Senators in Congress,
not so much on account OF his
brilliant abilities as for his gen
tie department conservatism and
PRACTICAL common sense, by
which he will probably be able
to achieve as much for his State
as Mitchell has by his untiring
industry andindomintable perse-
verence. With another Senator
like Grover, with Whitaker in
the House, Oregon would be as
we'll represented as any State in
the Union. DR.. Hawthorne
would Just fill the bill.
, 1878-06-15

because they preferred a liberal
infdel to a scheming and cor
rupt preaching politician. Mr.
Hines we'll knows that if he had
not been false hearted, villain
Gus pretender, he would not
have been able 70 beat Mr.. SnOd-
grass out of the nomination for
Congress to get it tor himself.
He knows that he never worked
harder i'll his own personal inter
ests than when be was at the
State convention, although he
was all the while protesting to
be moving Heaven and earth i'll
favor.of Mr.. Snodgrass. Again,
Ir. Hines knows too well that
when he came with hands clasp
ed in reverential pretension, be-
fore that convention to accept
the nomination, he did SO with
deceit upon his tongue and lie
in his heart. AS we have said
the Republicans have learned
that 1t is not we'll to run a polit-
ical preacher for Congress: while
Mr.. Hines has learned that the
God whom he ministers unto,
will often punish openly the Sc
cret sins OF men. We are sorry
that Mr.. Hines was not elected
sorry that a Democrat goes to
Congress-
But q few days since this same
Bee denounced in unmeasured
terms, the editor OF the CHr;ztia
.41r0cate as the cause Of Mr..
Hines defeat. Now the same
Bee represents Mr.. Hines himself
as u very disrcputable charac-
ter-a liar and hypocrite, utterly
unworthy OF confidence or re
spoct, and Yet expresses regret
that be was not elected. These
are some of the curiosities Of
party politics, which are never
more filthy than when mixed up
with religious sectarianism and
manipulated by clergymcn.
, 1878-06-15
The Afterc!ap.

Bro. Harvey X. Hines was forced
into the candidacy for Congress
in Oregon against his protest,
the mana ging politicians regard
ing it as a smart stroke OF policy
to have a Methodist minister on
the ticket in view of the large
Methodist vote in that State.
Since his defeat, Mr.. Hines,
through the La Grande Gazette,
explains how it was done, as fol
lows:
"Three weeks ago the whole
or nearly the whole Republican
ticket would have been elected,
but Ben. Simpson and c. P. Gran
dali came up here from Port
land, and went directly to the
Sentinel office, and held secret
counsel with f. S. McComas, the
Democratic editor of that paper,
Crandall, ostensibly looking after
stock ranch, and Simpson look
ing after land matters connected
with the duties of the Office of
Surveyor General, and immedi-
ately thereafter, Nc. bolted the
Democratic ticket the people
came to the conclusion, how just
ly, we are not prepared to say,
that those two very knowing
gentlemen from Portland had
bought Nc. with cash, and the
result was perfect uniting of
the Democratic forces and the
election Of the Democratic tick
ct.
In the future if those Portland
and Salem would-be wiseacres,
defunct politicians and chronic
place hunters will stay at home
and attend to their own business,
and let the people of Eastern
Oregon attend to theirs, which
they are amply able and compe-
tent to do, it will be very much
to the interest of the Republican
party, and to the credit of the
detuncts.
The Bee, the organ Of the Re
publican party in Portland, re
torts apon Bro. Hines:
"The Gazette says, in effect,
that Eastern Oregon turned
gainst Hines because two prom
inent Republicans from Portland,
while IN Union county, called
upon the editor of the Sentinel
and encouraged him in his oppo-
sition to the Democratic ring.
But we are rather inclined to
the opinion that Eastern Oregon
gave a large majority against
Mr.. Hines, as Western Oregon
: polled small one in his favor,
, 1878-06-15

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to make money, is to procure terri
tory to introduce the latest useful in
vention that is wanted every day, by
every one, everywhere, who has a
not a full sized sewing machine,
with table and treadle, for only
Eighteen Dollars,
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co. OF PHILADELPHIA,
does the same work as machine you
pay eighty dollars for, rapid, smooth
and firm work, and makes'a seam SO
strong the cloth will tear before the
stitches rip apart. Agents only need
show them in operation to sell in
every house they enter. Thirty dol
lars and upwards cleared daily by
smart agents. No such machine
was ever offered at any such price
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USING TKEM
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where they become known. Min
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them perfect. Rights given free to
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Machines sent to all parts of the
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