The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-10
Ne VS. AND NOTES.

The French army requires $4,000
horses.
THE next territory is to be called
Oklahama.
MORE lemonade, less sickness, says q
Boston physician.
FIVE million people have died Of
starvation i'll China.
AN ordinary gas flame requires a.
much air as nine persons.
REINDEER are to be employed in
Manitoba as draught animals.
THE annual salary of Lord Lytton
Viceroy of India, is $lS5,000.
Over thirteen hundred British steam
ships have been idle for year.
A LEADING physician says heat is the
sole cause of cholera infantum.
AMONG the royal visitors in England
is King George, of Bonny, Africa.
In France there is society for the
prevention of the abuse of tobacco.
SOUNDS are distinct at twice the dis.
lance on water that they are on land.
A GEORGIA item tells of tramp who
had "no shoes on except the strings"
THE New Orleans monument to Gen
Lee will be one hundred and six feet
high.
NINE. MCMAHON is described as short
and stout, and of not impressive pres
ence.
A CAT of Dawley, England, has
walked seventy miles to get back to hel
home.
THE muscles of the human jaw exert
force of five hundred and thirty-four
pounds.
LONDON is to have new bridge over
the Thames to cost something like 3d..
600, 900.
THE common string telephone has
been in use in East India from time i'm.
memorial.
LIGHTNING recently knocked knit
ting needle out of the hand of young
ady in Montreal.
MRS CRAIG, of Columbus, Kansas,
lately gave birth to four children, two
girls and two boys.
NORTH CAROLINA contains 1925 dis
tilleries, the largest number of any one
State in the Union.
ALBANI has been engaged to sing at
st. Petersburg next winter, at 81 400 q
night for two nights week.
A MAN named King, of Massachusetts,
lately coughed up a splinter of wood
which penetrated his face fully twenty
nine years ago.
The Princess of Wales, the Crown
Prince of Denmark, her brother, and the
heir to the Belgian throne, are all of
them partially deaf.
AN Atlanta ga Judge has decided
that shaving is a moral necessity, and
the barber shops there are again opened
on Sunday mornings.
A BOOK on the polarization of light,
by Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria S
youngest son, is to be published in Lon
don the present year.
COLONEL FoRNEY says the artists in
Paris and Rome are not as we'll paid, as a
class, as are the good house painters of
the city of Philadelphia.
THERE are few positions more envia-
BILE than that of the English Judge
salary 1875, 900 year, with pension of
$50, 900 on his retirement.
THE American girls have scandalized
pious Paris by tanning themselves in
church. They were admonished to stop
tanning or retire, and retired.
In Sauna County, Russia, wolves in
1876 devoured $3.50 horses and cattle,
$4,000 sheep and hogs, $4,000 chickens,
ducks, and geese, and 1000 dogs.
NEW YORK City has a club called
the Full-bearded Company" consist
ing of forty members with boards rang
ing in length from two feet to four feet
six inches.
A WOMAN was lately before the Ro-
chester IN. Y Police Court who had
been arrested one hundred and thirty
five times. Her trouble is her temper,
but her husband likes her.
The Rev. John Jasper is laid COM
pletely in the shade by the Rev. Moses
Boyle, of Evansville, Indiana, who is
lecturing on the record of the African
race, which he holds were the origina-
tors of all civilization, science and art
LADY BLANCHE MURPHY, well-known
in literature, is daughter of the Earl
of Gainsborough. She ran away with
her music teacher and married him, for
which her stern parents disinherited her,
and the poor thing had to go to writing
for the newspapers, it is said.