The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-11-30
NE WSAND NOTES.

HORSES when dying of hydrophobia
yelp like dogs, ..t...-- .,.-.
ALMOST all the amber brought in the
market is the produce of mines.
A VAST layerofa huge bones of some
extinct animals has been found in Iowa.
% Italy produces as, 2S6,000 gallons
of wine aud S7,179, 400 gallons of olive
oil. r.i.. l....ll -. ....
THE american Agricultmist recon-
mends its parlor archery for winter
evenings. d. ea ~
THE Mexican government Is TO have
AN exhibition of American and Mexican
goods exclusively. ,eh-ff % sa
The fashionable dinner hour in
France, Russia and Italy is seven
Z clock; in Germany it is six - "
THE Cremation Society of f.oution is
about to erect 'erematorium after the
model of the one in use at Milan
The California grape crop this season
is the largest ever gathered, and prepa-
rations have been made TO cure ,0o0,-
600 pounds for raisins.
GERMANY turns out annually five
hundred and fifty doctors thoroughly
educated, about one hundred of whom
emigrate TO foreign parts. Is
AFTER all, we are afraid the electric
! light is a failure, No woman has yet
killed herself while trying to kindle the
fire with quart can of it in her hand.
A SWARM of bees took possession OF
the chimney of Middlefeld ct. ),
church during last summer, and when a
fire was kindled in the stove last Sunday,
the comb became detached, fell, and the
sweets flowed out upon the floor.
PORTRAITS, addresses, pictures and
poems have often been published from
the silk-loom, but never, it is believed,
an entire book until now. At Lyons q
volume has just appeared with all the
letter-press executed in silken thread.
THE Russian leather, so much priced
for durability and grateful smell, is
prepared by the use of the essential oil
Of the birch tree. Bales of 1.-THE for3s&
long time in damp warehouses Without
spotting or being otherwise ifljured by
mildew.
|. THE Chief of Police of q town in
Minneapolis has issued an order TO the
effect that t'all persons whose cows are
found running at large in the city
limits will be impounded." A more
effective process, on theswhole, than to
impound the cattle.
Ten years ago over one million of
acres were devoted to potato culture in
Ireland now only about eight hundred
and seventy thousand acres are thus EN-
ployed. The decrease is attributed to the
great uncertainty attending the cultiva-
ton of the crop, and TO new methods of
foraging cattle.
| For three consecutive days during
the week before last May-heart cherry
tree standing in the yard of James B.
Conner, at FELTON,, Del, rained water in
perfect mist and in such profusion as
to wet the clothes of any one passing I'M
der it,. Thus the kind of cherry tree
that Washington hacked with his little
Ratchet is at last discovered
The Nevada inventors aspire to rival
the wonderful achievements of Edison,
yet recorded by them is the invention
of combined butter churn and accor-
deon. The cream is placed in the lower
part of the ACCORDION, and while the
player is drawing Sweet Spirit, Hear
My Prayer" out of the instrument,
wooden attachments to the keys are
churning the butter.
Mr.. BOWMAN, of Owasso, Michigan,
was a henpecked husband. He bore it
as long as he could, and then took to the
woods, where he built hut under the
roots of fallen tree, ate nuts and roots,
and hid from his wife. He was not dis
covered until two weeks after his disap-
pearance, and then Mrs. Bowman, made
repentant by sorrow at his absence, in
duced him to return home by promising
| to henpeck him no more.
THE collectors of the fund for the
relief of those who were made orphans
by the Princess Alice disaster in the
Thames, after obtaining no less than
| $3.50, 900 for that purpose, are at a loss
what to do with it. They can find only
twelve persons thus bereaved, and,
though it is proposed to educate them
and give them sum of money to start
them in life, it is Justly thought that
$12, 500 apiece would be an excessive
sum. i7i