The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-13

Loot.

Sir Thomas Urquhart, the translator
of Rabelais," had twenty-five brothers
and eleven sisters, all of whom were
living at the same time.
The earliest mention of coral occurs
in an inventory of Alianore de Bohun,
about 1921, in which a paternoster of
coral is described as belonging to the
treasures of Margaret de Bohun.
An extremely simple method of test
ing the genuiness of diamonds is given
in q letter to the London Times: If the
specimen is immersed in water, should
it be diamond it will sparkle with al
most undiminished light and brilliancy
of color; but if it be spurious, whether
paste or rock crystal, the " fire. or the
jewel will be completely quenched.
DIR. Plot, in his " Natural History of
Staflordshire," published 1856, relates
that a Lady Child, of Shropshire, was
married ut twelve years of age, had her
first baby, daughter, before she COM
pleted her thirteenth year. This daugh-
ter also married at the age of twelve,
and gave birth to child before she
reached thirteen. Thus Lady Child be-
came a grandmother before twenty
seven.
Women first appeared on the stage in
England in 1861. The event is recorded
in Pepy's Diary: February -. BY
water to Salisbury Court playhouse,
where, not liking TO sit, we went out
again, and by coach to the theater, and
there saw The Scornful Lady, now
done by woman, which makes the play
much better than ever it did to me"
The woman whs played on that occasion
was Mrs. Marshall.
Many persons suppose that money
grabbing is a modern custom peculiar
to our scientific and industrial rigime.
This is altogether mistake. We find
Horace, the great Roman satirist, in his
celebrated epistle to Mecenas, asking
this question; Does he advise you
best who says, Make fortune; a for
tune, if you can, honestly if not, a for
tune by any means that you may
view from a nearer bench the tear NOV
ing poems of Puppins; or he, who still
animates and enables you to stand free
and upright, match for naughty
fortune %
In speech on the Texas Pacific Rail
way, Senator Lamar lately dwelt at
great length on the natural advantages
of the South for successful manufacture
ing. Every condition of soil, climate,
and raw materials for the development
of a great industrial community are
there. The South has already begun
her industries of the future, and the
profits that are realized from them are,
in some instances, prodigious. But TO
develop these industries, she must have
free access to the markets Of the world,
and be able to. attract to herself the
skill, the capital, and machinery, and
appliances of the North. In the South
land, food, raiment and shelter are
cheap, and taxation is growing every
year less burdensome. In everything
except capital, skill and experience, the
manufactures of the South are on an
equality with those of England, and the
saving in baling, waste and transporta-
ton gives the South great advantages.
Nowhere in the world can cotton be
manufactured SO cheaply as on the spot
where it is grown, where water power is
SO abundant and unfailing; and every
factory set up there will help to develop
the diversities of Southern agriculture.
The cotton crop last year amounted to
100000 bales; yet the Southern States
have but a small part of their cotton
lands under cultivation.