The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-26
MORGANTOW NW.VA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1878.
NE VS. AND NOTES.

ONE of the Boston police force has
been in the service of the city fifty-three
years, and is seventy-nine years old.
Mrs. ANNA WTTTENMyER, President
of the Woman's National Temperance
Union, is at work in Canada, organizing
women's temperance societies.
A PRETENDED cripple was exposed in
Springfield, Mass. One arm was bound
close to his side, and false stump was
attached close to the shoulder.
In 1859 Minnesota exported it frs
wheat, amounting to $50 bushels. This
year the wheat crop will be between
10000, 900 and 100000 bushels.
A WESTERN editor thus kindly alludes
to contemporary: He is young yet,
but he can sit at his desk and brush cob
webs from the ceiling with his ears"
THOMAS HARDEN, of Ripley, Mimi,
bit off more than he could chew. 1t
was the neck of whisky bottle and a
piece stuck in his throat and choked him.
In paper mill in Manchester, Conn,
is in use an improved machine, in build
ing which the maker says that he fol-
lowed directions given by the spirit of
his dead brother.
MANY think themselves friendly
when they are only officious; they coun-
sci not so much that you may become
wise as that they may be known as
teachers of wisdom.
EVERY year of our lives we grow
more convinced that it u wisest to fix
our attention on the beautiful and the
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on the evil and the false.
THE great secret of avoiding disap-
pointment is not to expect too much.
Despair follows immoderate hope, as
things fall hardest to the ground that
have been nearest the sky.
HAzING in the high school of Spring
field, VT, takes the form of Selling the
victim by the arms and legs, and drop
ping him repeatedly on his back. Spinal
disease is common result.
CHAs. ORDwAY, lad of twelve, COM
mitted suicide at Poland, Me-, recently,
by hanging. He had lost his father,
mother. two sisters and brother within
the past two years, and was respondent
THIS was appended to death notice
in the Louisville C0urier-JOurndt: Her
disease was paralysis, and she fell into
the arms of her blessed Redeemer with
ease. Jackson and Vicksburg papers
please copy"
Mr.. HAzEN, of Bowling, ILL.,, starting
on long journey, hired Mr.. Newcomb
to watch Mrs. Hazen, as to whom he
was Jealous. When Mr.. Hazen returned
Mr.. Newcomb and Mrs. Hazen had
eloped together.
ALL OF Tunkhannock, Pa, is wonder.
| dering how Leslie Smith, aged eight
contrived, unassisted, to climb out of a
we'll thirty-two feet deep, in which he
had fallen while practicing gymnastics
on the well sweep.
NORTH BEAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa, has
discovered tree climbing snakes. A
dozen of them have been killed, the
longest of which measured seven feet.
They have fat heads greenish spots on
the skin, and emit Kissing sound like
that of a goose.
A BILLION is very large sum. A
mill which makes one hundred pins a
minute, if kept running night and day,
would only turn out 1856, 900 year,
and at that rate mill must work 20, 000
years, without stopping, in order to
make 100000 900 pins.
CARDINAL MANNING says that in.
toxication by distilled spirits is purely
Christian habit. Yes, but it is aston.
ishing how quick the heather learns
the habit after he has got into civilized
society. 1t is a cloak in which he dis
guises himself frequently.