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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

The Moffett bell-punch seems to be
working out the financial salvation of
Virginia, and is bringing into the State
Treasury from four hundred thousand
dollars to six hundred thousand dollars
per annum toward the payment of the
State debt There is good deal of talk
of introducing into other States, es-
pecially Kentucky, this method of
registering every drink taken in every
liquor store, taxing the same, and thus
raising large revenue while checking
drinking to some extent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

The example set by Mrs. Hicks-Lord
may have stimulated Mr.. Stapleton, of
falkland, Ohio-if there is such a
place-who is only ninety-two, to con-
sole his declining years with blushing
bride of thirty summers. In this case,
however, the relatives of the bridegroom
applaud his act unanimously. Instead
of suggesting that old Stapleton is a
lunatic, they regard hishead as remark
ably level. Cause why? Mrs. S. has
plenty of money, hence the difference is
clear. Mrs. SIS honeymoon is undis-
turbed by threats of violence, but rolls
on in serene blissfulness that is too
sweet for anything. Happy Stapleton
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

AN acquaintance of Henry M. Stan
ley, the explorer, says of him: His
powers of labor were immense, and he
never tired nor lost his temper. have
known him, after riding all day in the
ambulance, remain up the entire night,
wrapped in an overcoat and blank ct,
and on his knees, by the aid of tallow
candle, write, the liyelong night, several
letters to different papers, yet on the
same subjects, changing language and
ideas, SO as to be ready for the courier
who started at break Of day, and then
trust to the jolting of the ambulance
for his mods of repose on the marrow
roads, to repeat the operation, u ne
could secure any news or smelt cnancc
for another letter"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

The wholesale slaughter of deer in
the Adirondacks is going on this winter
more reckessly than ever, and is arous-
ing the indignation and alarm of all true
sportsmen. The woods are full of
hounds, and at least one hundred deer
were killed on single river and its lakes
last fall. 1t is estimated that, if this
wanton destruction goes on unchecked,
there will not be single deer in all the
Adirondack region in ten years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

FIVE hundred tons of minerals, re-
presenting the resources of California in
that respect, will be sent to the Paris
Exposition. A pyramid twenty feet
square and seventy feet high, contain
ing seventy million cubic inches, will be
erected to set forth the mass of gold
thus far obtained from our Pacific Coast.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

In answer to a fair correspondent who
wants receipt to hide freckles, we re-
DIV that the best receipt for her facial
blemish will be well-circulated report
that she is possessed of one hundred
thousand dollars in her own right. No
one will see any defects in her face after
that
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

PRUSSIA derives no small income from
her rich amber mines. Not less than
one hundred and thirty-fve tons Of am
Der were dug last year. The industry
gives employment to about fourteen
hundred men. The principal markets
are Austria, France, Russia, America,
China, and Japan.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

GREAT BRITAIN paid to foreign ma
tions for grain, cattle, and meat, during
the year 1877, S4s4, 39s, 6s5, while during
1876 the total was s435, 646, $3.50. Of the
total in 1877, 1916, 1861, 12o was for grain,
$50, 56S, $40 for cattle and meat, Sat-
691, 525 for butter, s23, s15, 26S for
cheese, and S12, 1926, 405 for eggs,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
TOPICS FOR THE DAY Y.

THE total dividends paid last year by
mining companies, banks, insurance and
express companies, and other COM
mercial enterprises on the Pacific coast,
not including the Central Pacific Rail-
road, was s34, 1866, 600 an increase of
81 OS0 nna
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

If woman wants to faint in COM
parative safety, Maine is the place to do
it. A woman tainted in car on
Maine railway, and thirteen liquor
TASKS were promptly placed at her dis
posal. In this connection it may be in
cidently mentioned that there were just
thirteen men in the car. b sx
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

The unapproachable Graphic, of a
late date, very shortly after the death of
Plus, contained portraits of the heads
of the Roman Church from st. Peter to
Plus TX The first three and the last
six are the handsomest and most intel
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

AMERICAN ladies, in the best society,
spend from five to ten times as much as
English ladies Of corresponding social
grade. On the other hand an English
gentleman spends twice as much as an
american on his own apparel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

Ar the great ironworks of Pittsburg,
they have succeeded in rolling iron SO
thin as to resemble tissue-paper, and ten
thousand sheets are required to make
one inch in thickness.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

EVERY man who has felt pain knows
how little all other comforts can glad
den him when health is denied.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

YOUNG CORN is cadet at West Point
He will probably be q kernel.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
Evenings Rt Home,

1t is well for the women of the house
hold to remember that the pleasant
evenings at home are strong antidotes to
the practice of looking for enjoyment
abroad, and seeking for pleasure in by
and forbidden places, for relaxation and
recreation will be INDUCED in somehow
by most men, and happy are they who
find in the heme circle the diversion
they need A lively game, an interesting
book read aloud. or in musical families,
a new song to be practiced, will make an
evening pass pleasantly.
A little forethought during the day,
little pulling of wires that need not
appear, will make the whole thing ap-
pear easy; and different ways and means
may be prepared for making the evening
pass pleasantly and time to be looked
forward to with pleasant anticipations.
We visited once large family where
it was the duty of each sister, in turn, to
provide the evenings occupation, and
there was pleasant rivalry between
them as to whose evening should be the
most enjoyable. The brothers entered
fully into the simple home entertain.
ments, and were as 10th to be obliged to
spend an evening away from home as
their sisters and parents were to have
them absent. Every one spoke of this
family as an uncomm0nly united one, tor
each and every member showed such a
strong attachment for the home to which
each one contributed so much pleasure.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
The Mock Mother.

An idle married woman who does not
care for her husband, who either has no
children or elae takes no interest IN
them, must have something to give
flavor to life. Take the case of woman
who has risen from the ranks and attain.
ed that social position which the judicious
expenditure of large fortune can gen
orally give, at least in London. She
must take up something to make her
footing secure. She mnst discover a
Using star in art, science or literature,
and bring him before the public. Per-
haps she succeeds in persuading herself
that the passion Of her life is for music.
She is utterly ignorant of the subject,
and without anv natural taste, but
meeting, by chance, at an evening party,
a youth with long hair and nimble fin
gers, she decides that he is the composer
of the future, and invites him to call
on her "at home" AS he turns out to
be even more eccentric than she could
have hoped, he is at once adopted as a
child of the house, and given footstool
at his new mothers knee. He comes
after breakfast and remains to lunch.
The silent and suffering husband,
who expresses no paternal feeling toward
him, is compelled to retire to his club,
while the wife plays duets with the rising
genius. True, the poor youth has Ger.
tain fatal facility, and can ring changes
on feeble motive, with dexterous ac-
compartment formed out of the common
chord. But his compositions, though
numerous are always slightly incoherent.
There seems no particular reason why
they ever began, why they should ever
end, or why they should ever be counted
as compositions at all. They seem in.
variably to be studies OF chords of Sc
quence from various haphazard roints of
view. Here and there truly sweet
little air is begun, but it vanished unfn-
ished, and the attentive listener is sad
dened by his ears nearly as much as is
the critic by his eyes on behOlding the
rough sketches Of promise. Nothing il
finished, nothing completed; there is a
certain amountoi talent, but no industry
there is fancy, but it ends in failure.
Naturally his adopted mother sees moth
ing of this. She hears pleasant jingle,
and ia more than satisfied. She talks to
him of his wonderful heaven-sent origin
ality, his poetic.touch, his thrilling tones
Then she begs him to play over again
that air for the left hand. As he looks
up from the piano he sees her sitting
spell-bound on the sofa. She is in 8
morning-dress of white muslin, evidently
not dOnned from vanity, for nothing
could well be more unbecoming TO hel
portly form. She rises with deep
drawn sigh, and declares that, sooner
than believe talent like this can bt
wasted, she will renounce her belief in
future state of existence. She startlet
him, but being mystical and impression
able as an imperfect musician must need
, be, he rises to The occasion, and endeavor
to refresh her religious belief by a sketcl
Of his own. A new mission presents
itself. She must save her boys soul, i
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
One Way of Carving Turkey.

There is nothing a young unmarried
man likes better than to go to dinner on
Christmas day at the house of a married
friend and to be asked to carve the tur-
KEY. lie never carved a turkey in his
lite, and with an old maid on one side of
HIM. watching him closely, and on the
other side fair girl for whom he has a
tenderness, he feels embarrassed when he
begins. First, he pushes the knife down
to one of the thigh joints. lie can't find
that Joint, and punges the knife around
in search of it until he makes mincemeat
out of the whole quarter of the fowl.
Then he sharpens his knife and tackles it
again. At last, while making terrific
dig, he hits the joint suddenly, and the
leg flies into the maiden lady's lap, while
her dress front is covered with a shower
of stufling. Then he goes for the ether
leg, and when the young lady tells him
he looks warm, the weather seems to
him suddenly to become 400 degrees
warmer. This leg he finally pulls loose
with his fingers. He lays it on the edge
of the plate, and while he is hacking at
the wing he gradually pushes the leg
over on the tablecloth, and when he
picks it up it slips from his hand into
the gravy dish and splashes the gravy
around tor six square yards. Just as he
has made up his mind that the turkey
has no JOINTS to his wings, the host asks
him il he thinks the war with Turkey
will soon be over. The girl next to him
laughs, and he says he will explain his
views upon the subject after dinner.
Then he mops his brow with his hand
kercbief, and presses the turkey 50 hard
with the fork that it slides off the dish
and upsets a goblet of water on the girl
next to him. Nearly frantic, he gouges
away again at the wings, gets them off in
a mutilated condition, and digs into the
breast. Before he can cut any off, the
host asks him why he doesn't help out
the turkey. Bewildered, he puts both
legs on a plate and hands them to the
maiden lady, and then helps the young
girl to plate of stuffing, and while tax
ing her plate in return, knocks over the
gravy dish. Then he sits down with the
calmness of despair, and fans himself with
napkin, while the servant girl clear,
up and takes the turkey to the Other
end of the table. He doesn't discuss the
eastern question that day. lie goe:
right home after dinner, and spends the
night trying TO decide whether to com.
nit suicide or take lessons in carving
! New York Mercury.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10

any one has soul, which she very much
doubts. He must come daily and spend
the morning beside her at the piano
She buys his Hymn to Sardanapalus,"
and invites him to her grand evening
entertainments TO play the accompani-
ments. Afterward, when he is very
tired, he ia allowed to improvise on the
latest opera boufe, and, as great treat,
to give rendering of his latest sacred
piece, which he composed to be played
on the organ in the Albert hail. Next
morning. she tells him that she alone
can understand his yearnings and his
genius; that she, too, has inspirations
which none but he can fathOm, and
then only through the love he has for
her. Hereupon great horror seizes
him, for her manner is more than me-
ternal. The poor young musician, being
secretly in love with German princess
whom he saw when on a pilgrimage to
Vienna, recoils, and taking up his hat in
his bewilderment, supposing it is his roll
of music, tries to stuff it into his pocket
and gets out of the room. His want of
presence of mind leaves him an orphan.
His hopes are gone, his only chance of
patronage is withdrawn, and if he can get
the position of organst in some obscure
country town, and keep himself from
starving, it will be the future limit of his
AMBITION Saturday Review.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
Fashion Notes,

Some Of the handsomest imported bon.
nets are composed entirely of large dam.
ask roses.
Some mufls have monograms and crests
worked upon them, and Others bouquets
of flowers. Mufls are now perfumed like
satchels.
Grecian passementerie made of simple
mohair, in small squares, is used all over
theoutergarments and arranged in Greek
designs.
Furs will be sparingly used on garments
this season. Most garments will have
deep fur cuffs, collar, and pockets with
out fur borders.
The small, embroidered kerchiefs of
crepe de chene are the choice to protect
the throat, instead of scarfs, and silk
handkerchiefs seen so long,
The Ulster is not the ungainly belted
garment that first came under the name,
but more of polOnaise, with plain skirt
and no trimming, relieved only with but
tons Of black pearl.
japanese fans, wide spread, are fastened
above the chamber doors or windows, to
give a touch of brilliant color to the
room. Those costing from three to ten
cents each are quite good enough. They
are secured with brass headed tacks.
In trimmings for rich wraps, the nov.
city is the border of ostrich down, not az
formerly glued on the cloth, but woven
ints it by a new process kept secret by
the Partisan manufacturers, and which
renders the feather band very lasting.
Painted jewelry on silk is also another
of the seasons fancies, the earrings and
pendants being exquisitely decorated
with flower designs done by hand.
Dragon, moss, olive, lizard, myrtle,
seafoam, nile, salad, bottle, bronze and
hunters green ale the various shades of
this one color, now the favOrite fashion.
The pea green and sea green, known to
the last generation, are never mentioned.
Real Roman beads are much used for
evening wear, and colored Roman beads
as well. Mother-of-pearl and natural
pearl, combined with Roman pearl beads,
form effective ear rings and pins, and
are quite in demand The natural pearl
is cut into camcOs
70 lessen the heat and pressure of the
clothes as commonly worn, ladies' are
making but one piece of the merino
garment worn next to the skin, as
women dealers in underwear inform their
customers. Thisis easily done by cutting
the belt and a few il ches of the top OF
the drawers and sewing them directly to
the lower edge of the belt, the hem being
opened for the purpose, practice too
convenient and healthy not to be fol
lowed at once, and indispensable to
secure the proper fit of the princesse
dress
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
CaOutchOuc.Making on the Amazon.

Narrow paths lead from the hut
through the thick underbrush to the
solitary trunks of the india-rubber trees
and, as soon as the dry season allows, the
wOodnan goes into the seringal with a
hatchet in order to cut small holes in the
bark, or rather in the wood of the caout-
chouc tree, from which milky white
sap begins to flow through an earthenware
spout fastened to the wound. Below is
a piece of bamboo which is cut into the
shape Of bucket. In this way he goes
from tree to tree until, upon his return
in order to carry the material more CON
veniently, he begins TO empty the bamboo
buckets into large calabash. The CON
tents OF this are poured into one of those
great turtle shells which on the Amazon
are used for every kind of purpose. He
at once sets TO work on the smoking pro-
cess, since, if left to stand long, the
gummy particlesseparate, and equality
of the india-rubber is hurt This consists
in subjecting the zap, when spread out
thin, to the smoke from the nuts of the
Urucury or Uauassa pslm, which,
strange to say, is the only thing that
will turn it solid Mt once. An earthen-
ware "bowl without BOTTOM" whose
neck has been drawn together like that
of bottle, forms n kind OF chimney when
placed over heap of dry red.hot nuts
so that the white smoke escapes from the
top in thick clouds. The workman pours
a small quantity of the white rich milk
like liquid over kind of light wooden
shovel which he turns with quickness, in
order to separate the sap as much as pos
sible. Then lie passes it quickly through
the dense smoke above the little chimney,
turns it about several times, and at orce
perceives the milk take on grayish-
yellow color and turn solid. In this way
he lays on skin after skin until the india
rubber on each side is two or three cen
timeters thick, and he considers the
plancha done. 1t is then cut upon one
side, peeled off the shovel, and hung up
to dry, since much water has got in be-
tween the layers, which should dry out
if possible. The color OF the plancha,
which is at first a bright silver gray,
becomes more and more yellow, and at
last turns into the brown of caoutchouc
as it is known in commerce. A good
workman can finish in this way five or
six pounds an hour. The thicker, the
more even, and the freer from bubbles
the whole mass is, so much the better is
its quality and higher the price.-.Scr,b'
ner for Decrubfr.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
PERSONALITIES.

Maurice Vignaux, the French billiard
expert, has issued challenge to all billiard
players, including the Paris professors,
offering TO give 300 points in 1000.
A Spanish illustrated newspaper is
threatened with prosecution for publishing
a portrait Of the Princess Mercedes, the
fance of the king, her picture not being
hattering.
A Miss Thompson, of this country,
recently astonished the people OF Edin.
burgh by having her horse shoed with gold
at a cost of 81 900. She is now on her way
home with her gold.mounted steed.
The king of Sweden, the government,
Oscar Dickson, of Gothenberg, and Mr..
Sibariakoff "a Russian will conformity defray
the expenses OF the Swedish Arctic expedi.
ton, which will start next July.
A most noted monk, Alcoin, occupied
himself twenty-five years in transcribIng a
copy OF the sacred scriptures for the Emperor
Charlemagne this interesting relic is now
IN the British museum, and Is valued at
$3.50.
General Miles is man of thirty.eight,
hve feet nine inches in height, muscuiarly
ouilt and slightly inclined to corpulence,
and with face typical Of New England.
The powder marks made on Admiral
Jonn Worden's face in the famous monitor
ngnt In Chesapeake bay are nearly oblit'
erated' and his sight is completely restored
BIZ. Hamlin is the oldest senator now
serving he is sixty-eight. Mr.. Dorsey i:
tne youngest, he entered the senate when
only thirty years old, and has served five
years. Mr.. Edmunds, who is forty.nine, j,
the senator who looks oldest.
Mr.. Brights intended speech upon the
Indlan iamines is exciting great deal o.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
A New Version of the Seven Ages.

Here comes the Oil City Derrick with
the following inn rovemenl e. on III : =
peare's Seven Ages: "All the "r -
a stage, and all the men and "o" tn
merely PLAYERS, some OF them c'ntouni.
edly bad players, too; they have III 'lr
exits and their entrances, but large
PROPORTION would rather have whisky as
a steady thing. And one man in !l'
time plays many parts-right field, &c
ter field, short stop, etc, AT ht't
the infant mewling and puking in l
nurses arms, and yelling fire; and then
the school.boy, with his dinner BUCKET
and whining morning face, creeping like
snail unwillingly to icheol, with a
sheepskin under his jacket; aud then the
lover, sighing like furnace, with woe
ful ballad learfullv and wonderfully
made to his mistress eyebrow, and his
coat tail pocket big with confectionery
then, a soldier, full of strange Oatbs aud
bugs, jealous in honor, sudden and quick
in quarrel, seeking the bubble repuia.
ton even at the cannon's mouth, at SO
a month and found and then the alder
man with a bay window on his stomach
full Of wise sewerage and other things to
eat, who charges two dollars for mary
ing a man and kisses the bride WITHOUT
leave or license. The sixth age shiits
into the lean and slippered psntaloonS,
with or without ruffies, As the case m!
he last scene of all that ends 'nis .,s. s.Nns,
eyentlul history Ia second cpiu
and mere oblivion, sans s;.n tse.n' ssnc srcsui "a ,
sans taste, sans everything ea.spI "
wopdrcu. faculty for lying apou. @ lne uos
s,n, n,ers and cold winters OF his younger
days"