The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-21
VOLUME VI.
Ne VS. AND NO TIES.

Rome, Italy, a church built by the
American Baptists at a cost of $40, 900
has just been opened.
HUME, the Spiritualist medium, is
again conspicuous in Paris and London,
where he is exciting considerable inter
est among the credulous.
THE Peking Staff letting prints a
letter from Chinese scholar asserting
that the telephone was invented prior
to 1890 A. D., by resident of Peking.
THE science and geometry of dress"
will here otter be a branch of instruction
in the indianapolis schools, compulsory
on the female pupils in certain of the
grammar grades.
QUEEN MARGARET, of Italy, is said to
be one of those happily constituted peo-
pie who never feel fatigue. Her life,
full of travelling and public ceremonies,
seems to suit her perfectly.
ACCORDING to DR. Tarnier milk diet
will cure obesity. To cure Indigestion
chew green, leaves when you are out
walking any leafs you. choose, except
those of noxious plants, of course.
On certain ridge of Kearsage Noun
tain, in California, there is a place
where, at about midday, the rumble of
trains on the Southern Pac ic Railroad,
one hundred and forty miles distant, may
be heard.
Mr.. WARD, the British Consul at
Bremen, writes to his Government that
carrier-pigeons are now used regularly
between the German coast and its con-
tiguous islands, where telegraph lines do
not exist.
MRS. TENNYsoN, the wife of the poet,
has long been an invalid. A great part
of the time she reclines on a sofa in her
drawing room, where she receives her
guests and delights them by the wit,
grace and cleverness of her converse
ton.
IT is said that the roots of the red
clover plant will reach a depth in the
earth of nearly five feet; that those of
Indian corn will descend seven feet,
those of onions three feet, those of lu-
cerne fifteen feet, and rye, beans and gar
den peas seven feet.
G. M. MILLS, of Troy, N. Y, who
rescued Miss Lillian Van Keuren, of
that city, from drowning at Rockaway
last summer, was married to her few
days since, this romantic denouement
being the direct result of their meeting
on that occasion in the surf.
THERE is such thing as being too
sympathetic. A man was crushed by a
heavy wagon in Aurora, New, and left
writhing in agony. His ompaniuns,
reasoning that he could not recover and
that it would be merciful to end his
sufering-, deliberately shot him through
the heart.
A PATENT was lately issued for
coffin torpedo, which consists of can
lister, containing powder, balls, and a
firing trigger, so arranged that, should
any attempt be made to open the coffin,
the torpedo would be instantly exploded,
with loud noise, and deadly balls sent
in all directions.
JOHN MCCARTHY, of the China Is
land Mission, has probably performed
the most remarkable journey ever made
through China. He left China at the
close Of 1876 and reached Bhamo in
August, 1877, having travelled three
thousand miles. Wearing the Chinese
costume, he met with no difficulty.
l. A farmer of Pennsylvania, aged
eighty, married girl twenty. II. The
brides elder brother had previously
espoused the grooms only daughter.
Ill. The old gentleman, therefore, is his
son-in-law's Drother-in- law, and his wife
is her sister-in-law's stepmother and
her brothers stepmother-in-law etc.
DIssENTERs in Russia number 10, 0O0,-
600. The Stundists, who have the same
relation to the Greek Church as the
Methodists do to the Church of Eng
land, are increasing so rapidly that the
Minister of Public Worship has dis
patched commission to Odessa to in
quire into the circumstances attending
the growth of that and other heterodox
sects.
ONE of the directors of the Liberian
Exodus Association writes home from
Liberia that the emigrants are dying off
rapidly and starvation stares him in the
face, and that if his white friends in
North Carolina will send him money to
bring him and his family home he
will never cefse to pray and work for
them.
PRINCESS THYRA, the betrothed of
the Duke. of Cumberland, met her
spouse elect three years ago in Rome,
and it is sad to have then become
warmly attached to him. Her sister,
the Princess of Wales, has taken warm
interest in the engagement, believing
that it will result in great domestic hap
piness to the parties.
A GENTLEMAN who had a leisure rainy
hour the other afternoon was led, while
considering the wear to which a watch
is subjected, to go into a calculation of
the distance the secondhand travels in
year. The result, which nobody would
guess, is this: The distance is two hun
dred and forty feet a day, and nearly
seventeen miles year; in exact figures,
sixteen miles, one hundred and eighty
nine rods and eighteen inches = not
counting the extra quarter of day,
which sho uld be counted, and which
adds sixty feet. The watch is of the
ordinary size of Swiss pocket watch
the second dial being fve-eighths of an
inch in diameter. The sum is a simple
and easy one, which anybody can figure
out who chooses to give few minutes
TO it.-Hartford Times.
The last survivor of Napoleon's ex