The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-12
NE VS. AND NOTES.

READING, PA, is beginning to furnish
England with iron.
PARIS has twelve large establishments
fer making glass eyes.
DRUNKENNESS is fearfully on the in
crease among young men.
FRUIT culture is making rapid pro-
gress in the United States
LIGHTNING travels nearly million
times faster than thunder.
MAKING Photographic impressions
upon silk is new industry.
The frequency of colliery explosions
in Great Britain is appalling.
LETTER paper with the day of the
week printed on it is the latest.
A BONNET reversible is an achieve
ment in millinery architecture,
THERE are fewer Cinnamon in this
country now than five years ago.
THE French author, Victor Hugo,
has writing chamber on the roof of his
house.
INDIAN maidens on the Northern Ne
braska Reservation have begun to carry
parasols.
THE military authorities of Germany
have introduced telephone drill into
the army.
The heat given off by the the sun
would melt 2S7, 200, 900 cubic miles Of
ice every second.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD child in Indiana
tried to commit suicide in order TO zee
her dead mother.
THE new fashionable shade is called
lees of wine. 1t is used in combinations
of satin and velvet.
POPE LEO XIII is an enthusiastic
amateur in music, and is able to sing
mass with due effect.
BUCKS COUNTY. PA, does not have
criminal dock. The prisoners sit in the
bar with the lawyers.
IT is said that the African explorer
Stanley's name is p. Brodigan, and that
he was born in Ireland.
DURING 1877, 1,l75 persons we're
killed, and 1905 injured, by railroad ac-
cidents in Great Britain.
SINCE the modern improvements in
machinery, 1,650,000 men do the work
as 5000, 900 did formerly.
THE exports of the United States were
greater in 1877 and 1878 by hundreds of
millions than our imports.
AN Ohio lady's glossy black hair
turned white as snow when she saw a
snake in her path before her.
Ir costs as much 10 bury man de-
Gently in New York as to live six
months in fine style in London.
A Ttrtrr OF G,pan,.t Mise ofo1a N
spade left at the grave awaiting the
coming of the funeral procession.
WITH the thermometer at thirty de-
grees below zero, the sensation of cold
is undistinguishable from that of heat.
LORD BEAooNsFIELD's physician,
who was summoned from London TO
Berlin during the Congress, had pre-
sented a bill for $500.
The rumor of the contemplated mar
riage between King Alfonso Of Spain and
sister of the late Queen Mercedes is
semi-officially denied at Madrid.
In the rivers of Canada are varieties
of fish originally from salt water, which
can swim by ziz-zag movements from
the bottom to the top of sheet of water
fifty feet high.
LADY CAROLINE NORTON left $500
by her will to % the good cause of woman
suffrage" and Mrs. George Cakes, an
other Englishwoman,- has lately con-
tributed 81, 500 to the=same cause.
WIFE (anxiously)-What did that
young lady observe who passed us just
now? Husband with smile of calm
delightfully."-, my love, she observed
rather a good-looking man walking with
quite an elderly female-thats ALL
The report is that in some cases tele-
graphic messages from the infected fever
districts have been refused in the South,
for the fear that through some mystic
rious agency of the wires the yellow
scourge may be propagated.
ON single farm in Todd County,
| KY, there were killed in one week
twenty-six rattlesnakes, nineteen of
them in one pile, the largest being five
feet four inches long, and ringing "
nineteen rattles and button.
AUSTRALIA has carried off the high
est diploma for wheat at the Paris Ex-
position. She gained the prize for each
of seven samples of wheat and -four.
Adelaide wheat gained the gold metal
at the London Exhibition of 1851.