The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-28
NE US AND NOTES.

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Paris has been burned down in its turn.
PHILADELPHIA claims to have estab.
lished the first Sunday school in
America.
DRAFT for a sale of real estate be.
fore the time of Nebuchadnezzar, has
been found.
The German army is To Use the tele-
phone. 1t is to be especially serviceable
on the outpost.
ARTIFICIAL ice factories are success
fully running this summer in several
Southern cities.
q" IMPRoMPTU dances wind up en-
tertainments given by the Prince and
Princess of Wales.
SCHUYLER CoLFAX, ex- Vice President,
has read the Bible through twenty
one times, SO tbs said.
THE horses of the Paris Omnibus
Company lodge in third story. They
go up an inclined plane.
In China the husband of an Imperial
Princess has an extra horse on the out
side of the shafts of his wagon.
THREE hundred and fifty thousand
persons were taken up for drunkenness
in England and Scotland last year.
THE monument over the grave of
Thomas Jefferson will be after design
of which he himself was the author.
JOHNNY STEEL {" Coal Oil Johnny ~
is C erking in grocery store in Dem
nison, Pa. He is now but thirty years
old.
The hat worn by Napoleon l through
out his Russian campaign was recently
sold for one hundred and seventy-fve
francs.
A STORY comes from Kentucky of a
man being pulled under the water and
drowned by two hundred and twenty.
five pound catfish.
The perfect imprint of Il tree may be
seen upon the breast of Thomas Briggs,
CT Wellsburg, W. Va, who was struck
by lightning July 4.
GERMAN and Austrian laws forbid the
sale of dead fish. The fish are brought
from the sea and rivers in tanks, and
are killed after being sold.
A SILK manufacturing firm in Lyons,
France, presents on its silks variety of
photographed impressions comprising
pictures by the old masters.
In Paris, those children in the public
schools who have distinguished them
selves during the year, are taken to the
seaside at the public expense.
AT English masque" balls, dominos
are greatly dispensed with, or are re-
moved after very short time. When
masks are used, dullness follows.
THE ammonia of the commercial fer
tilizers manufactured in the suburbs of
Augusta, Ga, has completely driven
out the chills and fever and other
malaria that used to infest the locality.
WITHIN fortnight after the occupa
ton of Cyprus, six companies, with an
aggregate capital of 500, 725,000, had
been registered in England to carry on
operations in connections with the
island
DR.. S. S. MYER, of Virginia City,
New, has re-discovered lost Egyptian
art. He tempers copper tools to more
lasting cutting edge than steel tools will
hold, similar to that of the copper inn
plements with which the stone for the
pyramids was cut.
QUEEN VICTORIA is reported 10 have
said not long since, when she had given
an order to one of her domestics, al am
Queen of Great Britain and Empress of
India, but have not power enough to
make one of my servants put Goals on
the fire if she has been hired 10 look
after the bedchambers."
A BIBLICAL curiosity in the English
section at the Paris Exposition, which
attract crowds, is the model of the Tab
ernacle as it rested during the wander
ing of the tribes in the desert; the ex-
terror and interior are faithfully con-
structed according to the details which
are given in the Old Testament.
AMONG the orders just issued to the
Boston police, to regulate their duties
in places of public amusement, is the
following: "Police officers are not to in
terfere, even on the request of managers
or their agents, with persons who in a
reasonable and decorous manner ex-
press their dissent by kissing, or other
wise, at what is presented on the stage"
CREMoNA, an Italian painter of re-
pute, has just died at Milan under ex-
traordinary circumstances. He was a
man of the most careless, not to say
dirty, habits, and in order to save time
he discarded the Use of the palette,
which he deemed unnecessary and troub-
lesome. He was wont, therefore to
spread his colors on the palm of his
left hand and on his bare chest. The
other day while standing at his easel he
was seized with strong CONCLUSIONS, and
expired after forty-eight hours agony.
The doctors attribute his death to the
absorption into the system of poisons
used in painting.
A MAN in dilapidated clothes is said
to have spoken as follows to San Fran
cisco Newsletter reporter, at the recent
mechanics fair: "You see that case of