The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

are sown in youth.
New YORK has an average of twelve
people to every house.
THE cities of the land now hold one
fifth of the population.
LADIES clubs have proveda failure in
New York and London.
THERE are two dozen insects that
prey upon the potato bugs.
THE Hindoos have the art of PERSONAL
ing death SO as to deceive able surgeons.
In the year 1928 there were but three
miles of railroad in the whole United
States.
On an average hens lay twelve dozen
eggs year, and consume sixty pounds
of corn.
AMERICAN dried fruits to the value of
$2,50O,o 900 were sold during the last year
in Europe.
CAPT. SYLvANUs BAKER, of Dart
mouth, Mass, ninety-three years of age,
is.cutting his third sci of teeth.
History gives Italian merchants the
credit IF being the first to practice book
keeping with anything like system.
QUEEN VIoToRIA's new saloon rail
way car costs $4,000, and is considered
one of the most beautiful ever built.
A CORR sPoNDENT says that Prince
Bismarck is fond of sitting up late at
night chatting over bottle of wine or a
glass of beer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson, of Mountain
City, Texas, are probably the oldest mar
ried couple in the country, the former
being one hundred and three and the
latter one hundred and two years old,
and they have lived together eighty
two years.
Mr.. STRETrEL, of the British Indian
Forest Department, has written book
to show that considerable revenue
might be obtained from plants which are
regarded as mere weeds in Hindostan,
by extracting fibers for paper and
textile fabrics.
In Boston the Bergh society is enlisted
in behalf of the cats that are left to
wander homeless while their owners go
on their country summering. The offer
is made to take care of the cats that are
to be deserted-by chloroform, if homes
can't be found for them.
ASPARAGUS is one Of the most i'm
portant of all the vegetable crops grown
in German gardens, and in the vicinity
of Braunschweig twenty-five thousand
acres are devoted to this crop, most of
which is canned for home consumption,
and for the Russian markets.
SINCE the late attempts on the life of
the German Emperor, the relaxation in
the demand for passports has been dis
continued, and now no foreigner will be
allowed to enter Berlin without first
showing his passport. The old plan Of
sending the passport to be vised from
the travellers hotel is peremptorily for
hidden.
FoRTY-THREE English officers who
fought at Waterloo still survive. eigh-
teen of whom have, however, left the
service. Two of them are Field-Mar
shals and eleven are Generals. One Of
the Field .Marshals is Sir William
Rowan, who is gratefully remembered as
the man who first initiated Americans
into the mysterious excellencies of that
exquisite morning drink, the John
Collins.
SOME lapidaries at Beis-le-Duc dis
| covered method of carbonizing COM
mon glass, rendering it Opaque and capa-
BILE of being so cut and polished as to
resemble the Brazilian diamond. Glass
so treated is frequently sold as genuine
diamonds. The spurious stones can not
be detected by the water test. If file,
however, is passed over the imitation
gems the surface is soon destroyed. The
file has no effect whatever on the real
diamond.
DIR. WILLARD, of the Chicago high
school, declares that school-room walls,
for the sake of the pupils eyes. should
be tinted with pinkish, greenish or
blush tinge, and the lesson boards
should be green, brownish or drab color.
He adds that it is a mistake to think
| that the board must be black to make
the chalk mark distinct, and that though
| the relief and comfort to the eye may
seem slight, it amounts to great deal,
taking day after day.
A NEWSPAPER of January s, 1921,
mentions an extraordinary and absurd
performance by the postmaster of Lis
more, Ireland, then in his ninety seventh
year. He travelled from that town to
Fermoy in a hungarian oyster-tub
drawn by pig, a badger, two cats, a
goose and a hedgehog, with large red
nightcap on his head, pig-driver's whip
in one hand, and in the other a common
cows horn, which he blew to encourage
his team, and give notice of this new
mode of posting.