The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-01-12
NE us AND NOTES.

| STRAGGI ERs from the Sioux and Nez
Perces have fraternized near the Cana
dian border, and are supposed to be
showing each other new passes and
trails, with view to future action.
A VENETIAN has succeeded in making
violin, the box of which is porcelain,
and the strings of metallic wire. Upon
it are said to be produced tones of rare
purity, richness, harmony and power.
To remove foreign bodies from the
throat an English naval surgeon recon-
mends blowing forcibly into the ear.
Powerful reflex action is produced,
during which the foreign substance is
expelled.
The enormous quantities of herrings
caught this year off the Danish coasts,
lead the Danes to believe and hope
that these fish, which left their waters
about three hundred years ago, may now
again direct their migrations thither.
THE double postal card is becoming a
favorite in Europe. If man is too
discourteous, too poor, or too mean to
answer you, he has only TO write his
answer on the pluck page and send it
back.
JAMAICA began quinine planting in
1860, and now has 200 trees, of which
experienced chemists report most favor
ably. The experiment, made by Gov
eminent, is regarded as a complete sue
cess.
PARIS covers an area of thirty square
miles, has five hundred miles of streets,
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seventy-five churches, thirteen palaces,
thirty-five theaters, eighteen hospitals,
eight large libraries 1000 schools and
nearly 100000 inhabitants.
THE Ohio State Horticultural Society
has recently taken ground in favor Of
the preservation and renewal of forests,
a subject noticed from national point
of view in the Presidents message, and
will urge the passage of suitable bill
by the Legislature.
TELEGRAPH warnings are to be en-
ployed all over Paris for giving alarms
of fires to all the fire-engine stations
The alarm is given by breaking small
pane of glass facing the street. This is
a variation of the system employed on
railways for signaling the engine-driver
or guard.
GOLDSMITH. MAID was put up at
auction in Kansas City recently, under
an assumed name, by some jokers. The
wise horsemen examined her carefully,
and when bidding was begun offered $50,
but no more. The owners bid her in and
took her back to the stable, enjoying the
joke hugely.
WIDOW WEALTHY CRANE, Of East
Windsor, Conn, has fourishiDg apple
tree sixty years old, that bears good
sized but seedless apples. The seed-cells
are perfect, but seed itself has never
been found in one. The deformity is
caused by the tree in way growing up
side down, it having been started by
bending the tip of branch into the
e round, and not cutting it from the
parenttree until it had taken root.
CLARK COUNTY Democrat: Quite a
sensation has been created in the Amity
Church neighborhood, Clark County,
Alabama, by pine tree which groans
like human being in distress or dying.
A number of persons of both colors
visited the place Sunday to hear the
doleful sound. With the colored people
the interest in the mysterious sounds is
enhanced by the fact that the tree
stands hard by large graveyard, and is
also near the place where a man of their
color was killed by lightning a year or
two ago.
THE surprise which Charles Browne
(Artemas Ward) caused by his elegant
appearance ON the lecture platform is APP
preached by Josh Billings. ARENAS
Ward was supposed to be in reality the
vulgar, keen-witted Snowman which his
writings had prepared the public for and
Josh Billings would seem an uncouth
literary pumpkin, instead of which he is
a tall, spare man with an intellectual
face and penetrating glance. His flow
ing hair gives him rather the appearance
of seer than philosopher of the barn
yard.
The winter season of Texas usually
lasts from the first Of December to the
middle of February, and its most dis
tinguishing feature is the "Northers,"
periodical wind totally unknown in
other States. They occur on the average
twice week and last couple of days.
They are preceded by warm, close,
summerish atmosphere, and during their
continuance the temperature not un-
frequently touches seventeen degrees.
The cold is the seyerest imaginable; not
steady, as in the North, but of keen,
searching, biting description.
FRANKFORT (Ky.) Keoman: The
track of the Cincinnati Southern goes
through an extensive oil region, and it
will not be at all wonderful if multi
tude of good wells should be opened the
next twelve months. 1t would be very
strange if railroad running in any di-
rection through Kentucky failed to pay
for itself in short time by opening up
rich treasure. In five years from this
date. if properly managed, the freights
of the Cincinnati Southern within the
borders of this State will more than pay
its running expenses and the interest on
the debt.
NEW YORK Tribune: A new Pompeii
has been discovered in Italy. At the
foot of Mount Gargano buried town
has been laid bare, the houses being
twenty feet below the surface. A
temple of Diana was first brought to
light, then a portico composed of
columns without capitals, and, finally,
a metropolis covering nearly four acres.
The Italian Government has taken
measures to continue the excavations on
large scale, and has already discovered
monument erected in honor of Pompey
after his victory over the pirates. The