The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-16

lor the support OF the feoeral GoVern-
ment.
The British HAL, monthly financial
publication, says, in a review of the
general commercial depression, that up
to the present time the United States
seems to have suffered most and France
least
A CORRESPONDENT of the Toronto
Globe recommends licensing horse-shoers.
He takes the ground that thousands of
horses are ruined every year by improper
shooting, and that the only way to cor
rect the evil is to license shoers,
The reports put afoat that the stock
holders of the New York Tribune are
casting about Tor a successor to White
law Reid have been oontradieted by the
fact of his unanimous reelection to the
editorship for another term of five years,
ending January, 1883. a. Is 5srfr5
A RESOLUTION has been introduced in
the Mississippi Legislature to annul that
section of the Constitution that pro-
hibits dueling and DISTINGUISHES persons
engaged in duels. The average Missis-
sippian will fight duels, but, as is very
well known, he has great respect for law.
A KRUPP cannon, for instance, whose
greatest range ON our earth is, let us say,
five miles, would, on the Marian moon,
fire projectile which would leave that
moon forever, and the recoil of the can
non would probably carry it half a
dozen miles away from the firing point.
Professor Proctor.
DISPATCHES from Havana report that
Spain is about to sign a treaty assuming
a protectorate of the republic of San
Domingo. The black people in the
other end of the island Of Hayti are ex-
cited about these rumors, and there will
probably be trouble if Spain attempts
to execute the treaty.
Two hundred cats were shipped to
Honolulu from San Francisco recently
The Sandwich Island cat, though it
lives on animal food, is too lazy to chase
the nimble rat or mouse, and new blood
has to be infused into the feline tribes
dwelling in the Hawaiian Islands to give
them the proper oannibalistic tone.
THE following, according to an ex-
change, is the result of the measurement
of over half million of men as regards
height and nativity: The mean height
of the AmericanIndiani is 1894 inches; ;
the American white man, 67-672; Scotch,
67-066; English, $3.50. Russian, &C.
1893; French, 66-277; Mexican, 66-110.
The coloring of leaves in fall and
winter depends upon three distinct
| physiological processes. The yellow color
is due to the decomposition by light ;
the brown to cold, which develops
chlorophyll; the red is due to the pres
ence of anthocyan, caused sometimes by
light, and generally denotes the COM
! mencement of rest in vegetation.
A CALIFORNIA paper says: James
| English is still at work on the Redwood
| tree he felled at Russian River Station
some months ago. He has already made
from it 250,000 shingles, 1000 fence
posts, 5000 stakes, lumber for dwelling
| house and out-buildings, and has lumber
left for 5000 more shingles. The tree
| was fourteen feet in diameter.
CANADA is doing an immense business
in shipping Holsters, to England. Lately
one ship from Halifax took $4,000
worth in cans for London, which repre-
sents something like $4,000 Holsters,
and few days before shipment worth
$2, 900 was made. Frank auckland is
| warning the Canadians against thus de-
stroying a fishery that in future years
| will be even more valuable than now.
Iowa is moving to bring to penal
grief the amiable imbeciles who point
guns and pistols at their companions
"just for fun" you know. A bill has
been introduced in the State Legislature,
making it a crime to aim a deadly
weapon at any person, in sport or earnest.
The customary plea in such cases, :"
didn't know it was loaded" should in
sure for the maker life imprisonment, at
least. e
BULLBACK riding is new sport in San
Francisco. The exploits one of unusual
hazard, although the animal used in a
recent performance had the tips of his
horns sawed off. After being infatuated
in the usual bullfght style, the animal
was thrown to the ground by lassos, and
rider took his place on its neck, with
his face to its back, locking his feet
underneath. In this way the man was
carried around for while, till dog
was thrown into the arena to attract the
bulls attention, when he sprang off and
the show closed.
MRS. SANTo, of Lagrange, Ga, had
1928 in gold, and four or five dollars in
silver, which for safe keeping she put in
a sack of cotton, placing the sack under
her bed with other similar sacks A
few days ago she wanted to have some
cotton ginned, and sent by mistake the
sack that had the money in it. The
negroes who were running the gin found
the money, and quietly divided it among
themselves. As soon as Mrs. Santo dis
covered her loss she instituted search
Some of the ginners were arrested, and
about one hundred and sixty dollars re-
covered. The other parties left town,
and have not since been heard from.
A FRENCH deserter, Thomerel, aged
nineteen, went to a restaurant, dined
quietly in a private room, finishing with
coffee and brandy. Then, getting be-
hind the door, he waited the entrance
of the waiter, and, springing on him,
stabbed him. The waiter, who was but
slightly wounded, rushed for aid, and
Thomerel was arrested. At his trial he
said that he had no grudge against the
waiter, whom he had never seen before
in his life, but he was SO dreadfully
bored with his existence that he determ-
ined to kill somebody SO as to get killed
in turn. He had good record in the
regiment, but it came out that he had
passed two years and half in prison for
attempted assassination. The plea OF
insanity was put forward but rejected