The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-30
NEWS AND NOTES

ECONOMY is the road to wealth, I"
and the way can be easily told by the tall
grass which streaks its.center.--- Whitehall
Times. 81
SEVERAL miles of street railways
have Just been opened in Naples, and
others are to be constructed immedi-
ately s
A WOMAN in st. Louis had her nose
broken last week by the explosion of a toy
steam-engine with which her children
were playing.
The dial of the old town clock in Lex
ingtou, KY, has been been used for a
target until it is perforated like sieve
with bullet holes. v-n
A SCHENECTADY clergyman is deliver
ing sermons on "Heaven." 1t has
seemed to us for sometime that some
thing ought to be said ON that side of the
subject Buffalo Express.
Look but for the counterfeit trade
dollars. They are smaller than the gen
uine coins, and the metal has yellowish
tinge, but they are well calculated to
deceive. Boston Advertiser.
The House Postoffice Committee has
agreed to recommend the adoption of
the double stamp return postal card.
The purpose of this is to permit an an
swer to be returned to a postal card.
THEconcert hail at the French Exhibi-
tion is to hold seven thousand people, be-
sides the executants, and it will have a
gigantic organ. There will be only two
galleries, and the place will be lit by four
thousand gas lamps.
AN English gentleman committed sui
eide few days ago, leaving paper to
say that he did SO because his wife was a
great deal too good for him. Right here
stepped in the Coroner's jury with the
verdict that he was insane.
ACCORDING to the British Mercantile
Gazette, an excellent paper can be made
out of the white ends of asparagus, which
consists entirely of tough vegetable
fibers. The material is adapted to the
production of the finer kinds of writing
paper. -. ze5-. rs. ==-. .-
A TENDER parent of Hull, Ont, re-
Gently tried to get rid of his dumb idiot
son by having him arrested for stealing
one dollar in cash and piece of pork,
and expressing his intention of prose
cutting the thief to the fullest extent of
the law.
THERE are II, 900 rooms in the Vati-
can, which is not a palace, but city
compressed. An army of 10000 strong
could be lodged in it; its actual inhabi-
tants number but few hundred. Only
two cardinals lodge there, Simeoni and
Ledoehowski.
A recent effort TO transport to this
country from England some soles and
turbot for stocking our Eastern bayshas
proved fruitless, the fishes all perishing
in transit but two specimens. Another
effort to Americanize these dainty fish
will be made in spring.
ST. LOUIS has two black lists -
that's, names persons whom it is found
unsafe to trust in business---already in
in operation, being for the protection of
grocers and real estate men respectively,
and the physicians are now forming a
list of patients who deliberately incur
bills for fees which they do not intend
to pay.
A CLERGYMAN writing from Zanzibar
late in December states that the slave
trade is now very quiet, but the coast
people are making every effort tOopen
up fresh ground. War has arisen be-
tween some of the native chiefs on this
account, but Kubanga, the native chief
who Represented the anti-slavery side,
was victorious
A CALIFORNIA newspaper says: Gone
redeeming feature of the late flood at
Knights Landing was the with which
the families residing in the overlooked
district could be supplied with fish. All
they had to do was to step to the door or
window, cast out hook and line, and in
few minutes enough perch could be
obtained for fine fry
ITALIAN cigars contain long hairs,
nails, pins, bits of rag and splinters OF
wood. Of tobacco for pipes there are
two kinds; one has the flavor of chopped
hay, and the other of chopped hay with
nasty weeds in it. One of the first acts
of King Humbert was to raise the to.
bacco tax, instead of banishing the man
ufacturers from his kingdom.
THE widow of the late President Lin
coin is living secluded in an interior
town of France declining to return to
America lest she might be placed in a
lunatic asylum. 1t is said that she still
INDUCES to a moderate extent her pro.
pensity Of purchasing things for which
she has no use, which was one of the
forms her mild lunacy at first assumed.