The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-03
NE VS. AND NOTES.


sandpapered."
WHITE cords for eye glasses are tn,
style in summer.
PETROLEUM was first sold as linimen
called Seneca oil.
BURMESE boys are taught to smok,
when mere babies.
BUDDHISM is the most widely extended
religion ON the earth.
THE Katy-dids have reopened theil
time-honored discussion.
CONSIDERABLE hay will be allowed t.
rot down for fertilizing.
FASTING pictures on curtains of Jap
anese silk is late pastime.
OHIO will thresh out sixteen million
bushels of wheat this year.
THE Red Cross of Constantine is be-
ing revived in Philadelphia.
GENTLEMEN jewelry has declined
in price and increased in use.
THEnose will recognize the 800, OOOth
part of grain of otto of roses.
The highest lodge of Good Templars
has denounced sacramental wines.
BLACK kids, together with light toilets,
are fashionable at dinner receptions.
SWEET alyssum and mignonette planted
in boxes in August will bloom in winter.
SYRIAN babies when an hour old have
finger forced down their throat to clear
it.
The precious metals of the world for
coinage and art amount to 5000, 000,-
600.
A RED cap, silver around the waist
and bracelets, form Hindoo baby's cos
tune.
In Central Africa if a baby cuts an
upper front tooth before lower it is
killed.
The silver wedding of the King and
Queen of Belgium is to be celebrated
August %.
The famine in China is pressing upon
100000 of people, while 60,000,000
are suffering more or less distress.
IT is complained that the st. John IN.
b. herrings are dipped in a solution of
arsenic to make them look brighter.
LAPLANDERs cure collie by covering
their babies with crust, putting them
in dish and baking few seconds.
JOHN TENNIEL, the famous English
artist of the penal, is self-taught
draughtsman. His age is fifty-eight.
HINDoo mothers kill or cure their
babies of collie by plunging them into
cold water where there are electric fish.
THE only daughter of the late Will
liam NJ. Tweed is said to be living in
New Orleans in reduced circumstances.
MIGRATING bifGs 60 in direct line
from north to south, and never take
their course from east to west, or west to
east.
PLINY and others relate that Antilius,
Roman General, killed serpent one
hundred and twenty feet long, near
Utica.
Miss NELSON, who is now in London,
is suffering from the heart disease, which
may compel her retirement from the
stage.
AMERICA sent over four hundred mis-
sionaries to Turkey, and spent So, 000, 900
in efforts to convert the Turks to Chris
tianity.
ELDER ORsoN PRATT, of Salt Lake
City, says the earth will soon be de-
stroyed by fire, according to Scriptural
prediction.
THE French Government will not al
low any Workingmen's Congress to as
semble at Paris during the period of the
Exhibition.
A MAN is taller in the morning than
he is at night to the extent of half an
inch, or more, owing to the relaxation of
the cartileges.
BEER and music will not mix in Bos-
ton, where all attempt to establish such
gardens as are fashionable in most other
cities have failed.
The clergy of Oxfordshire, England,
are trying to induce farmers not to give
laborers intoxicating drinks during hay
and harvest time.
In Great Britain eight persons own
more than 220, 900 acres of land each,
and forty-one persons own more than
100000 acres each.
Potato beetles are blown out upon
Lake Pontoosuc, Massachusetts,, and
eaten by perch and bullheads, which are
dying in great numbers.
BERLIN physicians protest against the
use of the present baby carriage, in
which the little ones sit facing the nurse
and are pushed backward.
VIRGINIA has established the whip
ping. post, and in future stripes are to be
inflicted upon persons convicted for the
first time Of petty larceny.
! A STRADIvARIUs violin, date 1904,
was lately sold in London for 81, 200
Seventy years ago it was bought by a
violin-maker for sovereign.
BALTIMORE dog-catchers feed unmuz-
zled CANNES poisoned sausages, and a
child narrowly escaped death by at
tempting to eat one of them.
The grain used for liquors in a veal
in the United States reaches 10000, COO
bushels, which would make 1850, 900,
900 four-pound loaves of bread.
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