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

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CANADA buys more American organs
than any other country, and England
and Scotland takes nearly all our oil.
cake.
THE people of Chicago did not marry
as much last year as in 1876, the num-
Der of weddings being only 4, 432, fall
ing off of 1911.
MANY of the Massachusetts legisla-
tors ale in favor of limiting free educa.
ton TO grammar schools, and move.
ment to abolish public schools of q
higher grade is to be made.
IT is asserted that people in New
Hampshire have deposited over $4,000.
600 in savings banks in Massachusetts
in anticipation of higher dividends and
greater security than at home.
IT is unusual to find book of adven-
ture by sea that does not paint the life
of mariner in rose colors. Somehow,
authors seem to fancy that the nascent
ideas of boys must not be rudely shocked
with too much reality.
BELIEF in the existence of subterran-
can lake, near Newburyport, Mass, led
to the sinking of well. Clear water
was found at depth of fifty feet in
such quantities that there is talk of sup
plying the city with it.
Two firms of Western Yankees are
engaged in the business of manufacture
ing paper bags to hold liquids. Five
years hence it will be no uncommon
thing to hear man say, "give me a
quart of vinegar and wrap it up strong"
DURING December one hundred and
forty-fve new publications were started,
of which one hundred and one were
weeklies and twenty-nine monthlies.
During the same period the suspension
of ffty-one publications was reported,
forty of them being weeklies The new
dailies number thirteen.
A VOTE of editors is proposed as to
the relative degrees of their animosity
against three classes of correspondents /:
/. People who punctuate with dashes.
2. People who "quote" every phrase
they have heard before, including all
proper names. 3. People who under
score all their so-thought strong points.
BURLINGTON Hawk-Eye: Nothing"
remarked teacher of botany, the other
day, "notbing will come up when the
ground is frozen" If the teacher will
just try to put the crupper on bay
mule when it sfeeling little dyspeptic,
he will discover there are two things
which come up like rockets without any
regard to the weather.
THE production of gold in the United
States, anterior to 1853, footed up in
round numbers $3.50, 100000, of which
period the greatest production for one
year was $65,000,000, in 1858. From
1858 to 1875 the aggregate production
was 1907 700, 900, making the total yield
by the country, including 1876, 81 1884,
100000.
A VERY remarkable and singular pond,
about three-quarters of an acre in ex-
tent, exists on the top of Grand View
Mountain, Middlebury, Conn. Except
a small space in the center, it is covered
with thick moss, strong enough for
people to walk upon. Poles are pushed
through the moss at any point, but none
have ever touched bottom.
A Boston artist has worked some of
the hair of the two cows of the Smith
sisters, of Glastonbury, Conn, which
have been sold 80 often to emphasize the
convictions of the sisters on woman's
rights, into representations of flowers,
| which have been framed and set up for
the admiration of the advocates of
woman suffrage who visit the sisters.
The number of cattle in Norway in
1875 was 1,016, 595, being 564 for every
thousand of the population, proper
ton exceeded only in Denmark and in
the United States, where 1t is 687 and
651 respectively. Lower in the scale
comes Sweden with 1872, Holland with
1896, Switzerland with 1888, Germany
with 1884, Austro-Hungary with 315,
France with 1885, Russia with 315, and
Great Britain with 300 cattle per thou
sand inhabitants.
In recent treatise on an9sthetics, by
DR.. Christholm. of the University of
Maryland, it is stated that deaths which
occur from the use of anasthetics are due
TO an unexplainable idiosyncracy in the
patient, which makes the anesthetic an
extremely fatal poison. The unfortu-
nate fact is that such patients carry
about them no recognizable sign Of this
idiosyncracy, so that even an autopsy
reveals nothing to indicate the destruc-
tive effects Of the poison. In over
100000 ADMINISTRATIONS of chloroform,
but twelve deaths occurred, thus show
ing rarity of the idiosyncracy.
JUDGE JEREMIAH S. BLACK, formerly
United States Attorney General, and
Just now in New Xork as counsel fol-
the contestants in the Vanderbilt will
case, is thus described He is large
framed and vigorous, though spare
rather than feshy, and his iron-gray
wig surmounts very deceptively his high
square head. He has slightly slopine
forehead, bursting 'perceptives, anG
small shrewd blue eyes arched over with
white and foxy brows, and his face il
close shaver. His square lower jaw
gives truthful impression of strong
combative force; but, ON the whole,
was well pleased with the shrewd old law
yer" The judge has great dislike t.
ordering from bill of fare when a
! dinner, and his usual direction to an at
tendant is, Bring me anything that i
proper for civilized being to eat.
When his cup becomes empty, he will
say overwhelmingly to the nearest coloret
man, "My fellow-citizen, will you pleas
fill my cup?'
A temperance orator recently mad
this statement: az bought supper fo
man tonight who was worth $50 90
eight years ago. His wife was Judge