The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-23
NE US AND NOTES.

"GoD helps the man that helps him
self, but God help the man caught help
ing himself here" is a notice posted be
hind the counter of silversmith's i,
Boston. A double-barreled gun hang
near the notice.
A SINGLE orange tree in the Azore
in one year produced twenty Thousand
oranges in a fit state for expectation
The Azores send every year to Londor
more than two hundred thousand boxe,
of oranges.
A NEVADA engineer is perfecting {
plan for heating city by means of hea
generated in subterranean mines. Tn,
plan contemplates system of pipes foI
distributing the heat throughout tn,
city. The same operation ventilates the
mines,
The value of the ore reduced and
marketed in the Black Hills in 1877 ID
estimated at S1,500,000. The yield OF
the placer claims has been less than last
year, and will not probably exceed
81, 100000. This makes the total pro.
duct of the Black Hills for 1877 about
one-fourth as much as that of Cali
fornia.
DURING the past year the consump-
ton of cotton reached the highest point
ever attained in the States, while the
value of the cotton fabrics exported
has, despite low prices, increased sc, 000,-
600 within two years, or from $4,000,t 90
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1875,
or S1O, 10000 for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1877.
| GENERAL BANKS says that he was re-
Gently told by an officer of leading in
surance company that there has been of
late & wonderful increase of very de-
destructive fires, and he added: "Our
companies dc not care to thoroughly in
vestigate the cause, but it is fact
that the warehouses and establishments
of solvent firms are seldom DESTROYED by
fire."
A LITTLE girl belonging to charity
school in the Island of Malta, while
playing with her mates, saw baby in
charge OF its nurse, and gave it good,
hearty kiss. The infant was the thir-
teen months old daughter of the Duke
and Duchess of Edinburgh. Owing to
this daring action of the charity child
the garden of the palace, in which the
deed was done, has been closed to the
public
The production of tobacco has re-
Gently become very important agricul-
tural interest in Pennsylvania. II is as
serted that the State now produces more
tobacco than the Connecticut Valley,
and it is believed that in few years it's
crop will be larger than that Of Con-
necticut, Virginia and Missouri. The
yield of Lancaster County last year was
18,400,000 pounds.
In Glasgow an ingenious expedient
has been adopted for scattering the
crowd that usually assemblies at fire.
This is merely small hose attached to
one of the engines, and under the charge
Of one of the firemen. He begins by
showering small space around the en-
CINE, but gradually enlarges it, until the
retreating crowd give ample room, 30
that the operations of the fremen are
not impeded.
The GOODNESS of Canada is one OBJ
jectionable feature of lifein that region !;
but Captain Graham, wealthy ship
owner in Montreal, says that he can
readily do away with that discomfort.
He finds that the chief cause of the low
temperature is the current of water
from the Arctic seas that washes it's
shore, and he proposes to turn the icy
water in another direction by closing the
straits between Newfoundland and
Labrador. The necessary breakwater
would be eight miles long, and on an av-
erage thirty fathoms deep.
The supporters of the doctrine of
transformation or evolution in animal
forms find striking argument in it's ia
vor in the case of certain butterflies,
both American and foreign, closely al
lied species of which were observed to
make their appearance at different sea-
sops of the year, which, while possess
ing some common characteristics, had
specific peculiarities by which they were
easily distinguished. A suspicion after
time entered the minds of some observ-
ing naturalists that these peculiarities
represented some climatic or other phys
ical influence upon much smaller
number of species, and experiments on
the subject have now satisfactorily
shown this relationship.
The rude representations cut on rocks
near the Laos des Marveilles, in Switzer-
land, have long been puzzle to arch
biologists. Some have believed that they
were the work of the soldiers of Hanni-
bal. The most satisfactory explanation
of the origin of these figures has Just
been given by M. Chiquet. He says
that at certain seasons of the year shep-
herds could find near the rocks some
heritage for their sheep and goats. To
while away the weary hours, the shep-
herds amused themselves in cutting the
figures which have cost days of owlish
study to Swans, who are more inclined
to look for mysterious and remote au-
thors of such things than to accept an
obvious and common-sense view.