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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-16

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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06
A Light in the Window.


OF the coast of one of the Orkney Is
lands, and right opposite the harbor
stood a lonely rock, against which il
stormy nights the boats of returning
fishermen often struck and were lost.
Fifty years ago there lived on this
island a young girl in cottage with her
father, and they loved each other yer,
tenderly. One stormy night the father
was away ON the sea in his fisherman,
boat, and though his daughter watched
for him in much fear and trouble, he
did not come home. Sad to tell, in the
morning his dead body was found washed
upon the beach. His boat, as he sought
the harbor, had struck against the
Lonely Rock" and gone down.
In her deep sorrow, this fisherman's
orphan did not think of herself alone.
She was scarcely more than a child,
humble, poor and weak; but she said
in her heart, that while she lived, nc
more boats should be lost ON the Lonely
Rock" if light shining through her
window would guide them safely into
the harbor. And so, after watching
by the body of her father, according to
the custom of her people, until it was
buried, she lay down and slept through
the day; but when night fell arose and i,
lighting candle, placed it in the win
dow of her cottage so that it might be
seen by any fisherman coming in from
sea, and guide him safely into the har-
Dor. She sat by the candle all night
and trimmed it, and spun; but when
the day dawned she went to bed and
slept.
AS many hanks as she had spun be-
fore for her daily bread she spun still
and one over, to buy her nightly candle !;
and from that time to this, for fifty
years, through youth, maturity and old
age, she has turned night into day, and
in the snow-storms of winter. through
driving mists, deceptive moonlight and
solemn darkness, that northern harbor
has never once been without the light Of
her candle.
How many lives she has saved by this
candle, and how many meals she won by
it for the starving families of the boat
men, it is impossible to say. How many
dark nights the fishermen, depending on
it, have gone forth, can not now be told.
There it stood, regular as a lighthouse,
steadily as constant care could make it.
Always brighter when daylight waned,
the fishermen had only to keep it con
stantly in view, and were safe. There
was but one thing to intercept it, and
that was the Rock. However far they
might have gone out to sea, they had
only to bear down for that lighted win
dow and they were sure of safe entrance
to the harbor.
But what do the boatmen and boat
mems wives think of this? Do they pay
the poor woman? No they are very
poor; but, poor or rich, they know bet
ter than that. Do they thank her? No.
Perhaps they think that thanks of theirs
would be inadequate to express their
gratitude; or perhaps long years have
made the lighted easement 80 familiar
that they look upon it as matter Of
course, and forget for the time the
patient watcher within.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06
A Rival to the Sea Serpent.
New York Tribunal


The sea serpent has rival 1t is a
land animal an animal as large, as fan
tastic, and as elusive as the celebrated
monster of the sea-and at least twice
as mysterious.
The minhocaois new wonder. A very
slight change in its name might have
prejudiced the world against it-as for
instance, if it had been baptized min
,hoaxo. 1t is well fathered in the realm
of science, being brought to notice by
one Fritz Muller of Brazil, in the
Ioologische Garten, and receiving full
page of large type in a recent number
of Nature. The minhocao is believed to
be resident of the region of South
America where the Uruguay and Parana
rivers have their sources. The animal
is said by different observers to have
the following characteristics 1t is worm
shaped; eighty-two feet long, by guess,
and more than yard in thickness;
"not very long," however, according to
another account; two horns on the
head; a snout like pig; less definite
description makes the animal Gas big as
house." and measurement of the tracks
indicates its possible width at six and a
half to ten feet. Some years ago, it is
said, there was a dead minhocao wedged
in the cleft of a rock near Arapohy,
Uruguay; its skin was as thick as the
bark of pine-tree, and formed of hard
scales like those of the armadillo.
The new animal is, however, chiefly
known by his works. Great trenches
are found in this region, which are sup
posed to be the evidence of the min
hocao's industry. Heaps of earth are
pine-trees stand in the way Of the trench
they are rooted up, and sometimes part
of their bark and wood may be torn Of.
The devastation of this performance,
which is chiefly near or under the sur
face of the earth, though often under
the bed of stream, is enormous. In
case the entire side of hill was under
mined, it is supposed, by two of these
animals, and was traversed by deep
trenches. By such proceedings marshes
have been drained, or dry land con
verted into morass, and the courses of
streams entirely changed. Some of the
trenches are spoken of as being from
three-fourths of mile to a mile in
length. They are excavated with great
rapidity.
1t will be noticed that the new as
pirant for fame has been almost as little
seen as the sea serpent. The subter-
ranean monster is simply more fortunate
than the submarine, in leaving more
palpable traces than a wake OF foam
We may expect soon to hear of scien
tifc expedition to Uruguay in search o.
the minhocao. Whether it will be founc
like ceratodus or lepidosiren or {
glyptodont, it is yet too soon to guess
Possibly, when unearthed, it will b
recognized as the descendant of one o
the gigantic armadillos that certainl,
dwelt in South America during the rep
\ lillian age of geology.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

THERE is in Berlin society called
The Society of Collectors of Cigar Cut
tings.o Every Christmas the proceeds
of the cigar ends collected by its agents
are applied to the purchase of clothes for
poor orphan children. In 1876 about
thirty children were clothed by this So
ciety, each child having shirt, pair of
strong boots, wooden stockings, warm
dress, and pocket handkerchief They
were in addition entertained with well
decorated Christmas tree. The system
of collection is by one or two ladies or
gentlemen in the various towns of Ger
many getting their friends to save their
(" ends for them. Putting the smokers
in that country at 100000, which is
very much below the mark, and assum-
ing that the cigar ends of each person are
worth two cents quarter, this would
make in year $400, 900, and it is now
proposed by making more active efforts
to raise much larger sum than has
hitherto been raised by this means and
found large orphan home.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06
A Call on the King OF Spain.
Madrid norresnondence London Times. |

The young monarch and his amiablc
bride were standing at the entrance OF q
third room, the King with extended
hand and afable smile on his lips and in
a gray country suit, the Queen in dark
green velvet brocaded dress. ~ beg
your pardon" said the King, for hav-
ing kept you waiting, but you see have
to receive General Sonnaz and / have
not yet had time to put on my uniform.
Sit down, however, that we may have a
little talk" The Queen seated herself
on the sofa, the King on chair; the
friend / had presented to him took a
chair near the Queen, and ! the other
end of the sofa, near the King. During
the whole interview the King did not
utter sentence without looking at the
Queen, as if to ask her approval, and
my friend tells me that the Queen, to
whom my back was necessarily turned,
listened with admiration to her hus-
bands words. ~ have noticed you
several times" said the King, during
these grand Spanish .tetes; but they
have not been so fatiguing for you
as for those who have constantly had to
figure in them. You have witnessed
the two greatest events of my life-my
accession to the Throne and my marriage.
AS to my marriage, all now ask for IS
to remain quiet with my wife, and as to
my accession, perfectly recollect the
long conversation we had together. l
then told you, IF you wish to know my
policy, read my December proclamation.
| shall act up to it. shall try to be-
come really Constitutional King, and,
above all, to abolish the fatal fashion OF
dismissing everybody, even down to the
change of Cabinet Well, l have fol
lowed as far as possible the policy
marked out in my proclamation. You
then thought did not fully understand
how matters stood, but that was mis-
take. have tried to give Spain taste
for stability. l wish Cabinets to last,
Parliaments to run out their full term,
functionaries to be certain of the NOR
row.-Madrid Correspondence London
| Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

THE Supreme Court of Commission,
in the case of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
Il Chicago Railway Company and the
Pennsylvania Railway Company VS.
Mary Valleley, administrator of the
estate of John Valleley, deceased, has
very lately decided that it is not only
the right of conductor to expel from a
train drunken, unruly, boisterous pas
senger, but when such person endangers
by his acts the lives of people it is the
duty of such conductor to remove such
passenger in order to protect others from
violence and danger. But this right must
be reasonably exercised, and not so as
to inflict wanton or unnecessary injury
upon the offending passenger, nor 50 as
to needlessly place him in circumstances
of unusual peril. If, having exercised
reasonable prudence, considering the
time, place, circumstances, as also the
condition of the drunken man himself,
the conductor expels such passenger,
who is afterward run over and killed by
another train not in fault, the expulsion
itself is not such proximate cause of the
death as will make the company liable.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06
TILE CHINESE HOLOCA ILST

The terrible fatality at Tien-tsin
China, on the 9th of January last, when
a great relief station was burned and
over one thousand four hundred women
and children persisted in the flames, was
briefly announced by telegraph at the
time. From the Hong Kong Press of
January 81 we CLEAN the following adj
ditional particulars in regard to the sad
affair. 1t seems that refugees from the
famine-stricken districts of the empire
had been for months collecting at this
point, and at the time of the disaster
their number was variously estimated at
from fifty thousand to one hundred and
fifty thousand. To provide for this
enormous influx of starving wretches, the
authorities had established relief yards,
strongly inclosed by high fences and
with locked gates. These yards were
furnished with light shanties covered
with mating, where the inmates lodged,
and the soup provided for them was
dealt out. The yard where the fire oc-
CURED was about ninety feet in length
by eighty in width; and as it was in
tended for only women and children,
care was taken to make the fence sur
rounding it unusually strong to prevent
interference outside. The gate was al
ways eptlocked except at certain hours,
but gatekeeper was always supposed
to be on duty. Into this limited space
were crowded four thousand women and
children, whose husbands and fathers
| were at other stations. 1t would be diff
ficult, says the Press, to find outside the
boundaries of China place where SO
many human beings were crowded in a
place SO small. 1t was here that on a
bitter cold January morning the fire
broke out sweeping through the fimsy
and combustible structures with fright
full rapldity. From some unaccount-
able reason the gatekeeper was not at
his post, and there was no means of
egress for the imperiled women and
children until help could come from
outside, and SO rapid was the spread OF
the flames that before the appalled,
spectators of the affair could demolish
the fence one thousand four hundred
persisted in the flames. The male rela.
tives of the imperiled ones were, many
of them, in adjoining yards, but were
unable to reach the scene in time to
prevent the terrible loss of life. The
Press states that the scene within was
awful. In a few minutes the long
sheds had vanished in smoke and ashes
and only the poles were still burning
yet not the poles alone, for beneath
stretched long line of something only
indistinctly seen, and which, between
the gusts of fame and smoke could be
recognized as the remains of those who
were caught, smothered and burned by
the fiery sirocco. Not one in twenty had
time to move yard before being met
by the fatal flames From the time the
fire broke out until those who were for
tunate enough to escape had got out
side the yard was not more than tiftee1
minutes. Some hundreds who sue
ceeded in escaping were SO badly burned
| that they could not survive.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

A HALFwITTED Partisan has been
making an experiment in dentistry. He
had long been suffering from tooth-ache,
but obstinately refused to go to den
fist, and at length finding the pain un-
endurable, took the following uncommon
method of extraction. To the tooth he
attached long string, and to the string
aheavy stone; thus armed he proceeded
to the topmost story of the house he
occupied, opened the window, and
hurled the stone into the air. The
weight of the stone and the length of the
string produced so violent shock, that
not only was the tooth pulled out, but
with it portion of the jaw, his neck
being SO painfully twisted that he tainted
Hours ensued ere consciousness re-
turned-and when he recovered hi,
senses, it was only to find himself de
prived of the faculty of speech.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

The Van Vert correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette has Centennial ak
in his possession. 1t was found last sum-
mer in the southern part of Van Vert
County, on what is known as Wayne
trail, and had slowly sunk to the depth
of fifteen inches below the surface of the
ground. The root of large mulberry
tree had grown through the eye of the
ak, completely filling it, and bullying
out to much greater thickness at each
extremity of the eye. Some letters and
figures were seen, but could not be de-
ciphered until the rusty iron was treated
with oil and acid, when the date "1776 y
became clearly discernible. The cor
respondent thinks it was undoubtedly
lost more than eighty years ago by Mad
Anthony's"' troops on the spot where
it was recently found.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

Mr.. JOSEPH BoNoMI, who died in
England the other day at the advanced
age of eighty-two, was son of Joseph
Bonomi, architect to st. Peters, Rome.
The son also was an architect. He
travelled extensively in the East, max
ing drawings of the notable buildings
and monuments in the Holy Land and
Egypt, and his long practice at the
drawing of hieroglyphics, as well as
Egyptian sculpture, gave him facility
in that style which has never been ex-
celled by any other draughtsman.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

AT recent meeting of the st. Louis
Academy.of Science, Mr.. J. A. Dacus
presented drawings of the ruins of a
vast palace at Xayi, Chiapas, Mexico.
Some discoveries have just been made
in the subterranean portions of this
ruin. 1t is supposed that library has
been found, prehaps of sacred writings,
which are contained upon very large
number of tablets, each six by eight
inches in surface and half an inch
thick. The material is spoken of as
terra Gotta. The inscriptions appear to
be in language possessed of an alpha
bet, but they have not yet been trans
lated. ~ -.-.t.-tls,s, Il. a. ~ 81
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

PROFESSOR PROCTOR says that if an
infant were born having an arm the
length of ninety-fve millions of miles,
SO as to reach the sun while in his cradle,
he could live out the allotted three-score
years and ten of mans life and never
know that the tip of his finger was
burned he would have to live one nun
dred and thirty-five years before ne
could feel the pain" The Professor
may be right in this, we don't know mnca
about the sun, but we would like TO BET
him ninety-five million dollars that IT
doesn't take the average baby one hun.
bred and thirty-fve years to lind ous
when his little finger has reached the
sunny side of lamp-chimney. Now
we'll lust waste money on that. = arI'"3-
ton Ha,okeye.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

THE recent attempt to kill the Master
of the Rolls in England, made by the
Rev. Mr.. Dodwell, an insane clergy
man, is the first assault of the kind on
a Civil Judge which has occurred in En-
gland, for many years. In 1916 Sir
John Tyndall, one of the Masters in
Chancery, was killed by shot fred at
him while entering Lincoln's Inn, by a
man called Bertram. against whom Sir
John had given decision. The assassin
committed suicide before he could be
punished. A few years latter, at the
Assizes at Salisbury, prisoner, after be-
ing condemned for felony, threw brick
bat at Chief-J ustice Richardson, which
narrowly missed him. For this an in.
dictment was Immediately drawn by At
torney-General Noy against the prisoner
whose right hand was forthwith cut of
and fixed to the gibbet upon which he
was himself Immediately hanged in the
presence of the court.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

THE Indian Territory affords safe
refuge for the criminals of the adjoin-
ing States. Having no laws affecting
whites, and no Governor or police to
surrender him to justice, the fugitive
who crosses its border is secure. His
only fear is that the Judge of the West
ern District of Arkansas, hundreds of
miles away, may send writ and mar
shall after him. The territory, there
fore, naturally becomes a harbor for
characters of the vilest Sort From Fort
Smith, Arkansas. where the court is
held, the officers are obliged to travel an
average of tive hundred miles to make
arrests and procure witnesses. And the
disbursements of the marshal of the
district, on account of the Indian Terri
tory, range from 100000 to 100000
annually,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

A RESIDENT of Dubuque, Iowa, on
leaving home, eighteen months ago,
buried his earthly wealth, four thousand
dollars in gold coin, in field, having
taken the bearings very carefully by the
fence, tree and the cupola Of house.
When he returned the field had been
cut up into building lots and the tree
cut down, and it was not until a land
surveyor had been called in and a va
riety Of abstruse calculations had beer
worked with the rotting roots OF the
tree, which were fortunately discovered
in the ground, that the money was found
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

CAPT. HowGATE is hopeful of reach
ing the open Polar sea despite press and
personal opposition. He bases his faith
partially on the failure of the ship Dis
covery. He believes that that ship
failed to reach the Pole only by few
minutes time. Had she reached the
point she did reach only " the fraction
of an hour" earlier, she might have got
through the ice in which she was caught,
Howgate is of opinion that her failure
was due 10 an unusually bad year.
There are, therefore, milder and severer
years, and his project of a colony rests
on the theory that wintering through
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

SPIDERS fly without wings. Some
spiders wrap themselves up in silken
bags, and float through the air in great
numbers. There is tiny black spider,
very common on the Sussex coast, Eng
land, which flies about foated by fila
ment, as boy swims foated by string
of bladders. Wings, therefore, are not
essential to flying; but a certain pro-
portional lightness is essential. A boy
does not need bladders to maintain his
balance; but spider seems to require
its thread, as bird requires gaseous
structure and wing surface.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

THE reason given for girls not be-
ing able to throw anything with the ac-
curacy of boy is that her collar bone
is several inches longer and several de-
grees lower down, and being long and
crooked, interferes with the free action
of the shoulders.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

YOUNG men with sprouting mustaches
who are supported by their mothers
ought. to be very careful what they say
about the female sex. Nine times in
ten you will find that the young man
who says evil things of young lady
has been politely informed that his So
ciety can DO dispensed with.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

DR.. MARY WALKER wants a law
passed by Congress making her ma
tional police officer. When the thing
is done, she proposes to have handle put
on her cane, so that she can catch unruly
boys by the collar, and yank then into
kingdom come when they tell her to
pull down her vestm
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

DURING the past year the experiment
tai Department of Agriculture, at Wash
ington, distributed over twenty thou
sand tea plants, grown in the green
houses of the Department. Three hun
dred pounds of the seed of this plant
have been lately sown, with view Of
extensive distributionins the Southern
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

ST. PATRICK is the tutelary saint of
Ireland, and fourished in the fifth cen
fury. 1t is supposed that he was a
native of Scotland, and that he COM
menced his labor among the Irish in 432,
in which he was successful, converting
many of the rude inhabitants to the
Christian religion
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

from year to year, it must come some
time upon an open year, year of ex-
-ceptionably favorable weather, which
wall give ample time for the exploration
that is still necessary to solve the great
Polar problem. This is the essential
point in the whole plan of the Polar
colony
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

FIVE men-of-war, whose average ca
pacity is only three hundred tons apiece,
are required to convey the exhibits from
this country to the Paris Exposition.
One merchant vessel might have carried
them all at less expense.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

The following laconic epitaph, carved
on a Spanish tombstone, should be re-
membered 81 was well, / tried to feel
better, took physic, and here am"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

To keep your friends treat them
kindly; to kill them treat them often.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-06

A LITTLE boy who went TO church was
told to remember the text, which was:
"Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Go into my vineyard and work, and
whatsoever is right, that | will pay
thee" Johnny came home and was
asked to repeat'the text. He thought it
over for while, and then cried out,
What do you stand round here doing
muffin for? Go into my vineyard and
90 to work, and I'll make it all right
with YOU"