The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-11-16
NE us AND NO TIES.

hERoSFNE Will make tea-kettles a
bright as new.
IT is said that English sparrows max,
a good pot-pie.
ONE-FoURTH of the human race die
before five years of age.
BLUE ointment and kerosene, in equal
parts, IS death to bed-bugs.
BEEswAX and salt will make rusty
hat-irons as smooth rs glass.
HEAVY cloth will be used for street
costumes for the cold season.
SALT fish are quickest and best fresh
ened by soaking in sour milk.
THE rice crop of this country is the
largest for ten or twelve years.
A TABLESPOONFUL of turpentine
should be boiled with white clothes.
A LITTLE sperm, or salt, or gum
arabic, should be put in boiled starch.
THE official catalogue of the Paris
exposition isprinted ON American paper.
IN gravies and milk porridge the salt
should not be added until the dish is
prepared.
THERE are about one hundred and
twenty thousand unsatisfied mortgages
in Philadelphia.
Mr.. BLAIsDELL, the Aroostook (Maine)
bee king, markets ton and half of
honey raised this year.
ONLY men with absolute faith and
trust in the integrity of their fellows
really enjoy hot sausage for breakfast.
THE fierce autumn breeze
Now reckless.y blows,
And likewise the man
With cold in his nose.
If your last winters overcoat looks as
il it had passed bad summer, it may
be that the moths have disturbed it in
its nap.
THERE was nothing but plain slab
at the head of the mound, but the sim
pie inscription upon it tells its own sad
story " He was an umpire in close
game"
THERE is something nice about the
balance of trade. A worthy farmer
who comes into town loaded with new
wheat almost every day, goes home
loaded with old rye.
The remains of prehistoric village
on piles have been discovered in the
Barmsec Ga small lake in the Bayarian
mountains), much like the Swiss lake
dwellers' habitations.
MILK is found to be an antldote to
lead poisoning. The journal de Medicine
states that after each operator at some
white ead.works received a quart a day
no collie or harm to health occurred.
A WOMAN in Vermont was offered
new dress if she would at midnight
walk twice around graveyard, and the
way she walked in and won it made her
husbands hair stand up straighter than
if she had seen dozen spooks
THE consumption of cotton by Amer
lean manufacturers was greater by
10000 bales in 1878 than in 1877. The
yield of the staple in the United States
exceeds that of any year on record,
being 4,Sl1, 265 bales, of 1880 pounds
gross each, up to September /.
REFERRING to the fact that the rela-
tive number of American prizewinners
at the Paris Exhibition exceed that of
any other nation, the Scientific american
says the effect of these victories upon
our foreign trade, and thus directly
upon our many industries, can not be
oyerestimated.
"NATURE covered the skull with
hair" said DIR. Lewis; some people
shave it off. Mischievous practice. 1t
exposes the brain. Nature covered
part of mans face with hair; some peo-
pie shave it off, Miscellaneous practice.
1t exposes the throat, the lungs, and the
eyes also, say psychologists"
ANsELL MERRITT advertises as fol-
lows in Troy, Kansas: Whereas, when
| am intoxicated / am not competent to
make contracts; and whereas, / have
been taken advantage of on several oc-
casions recently, in such contracts, no.
tify.all persons that | shall not hereafter
fulfill any contracts made by me when
drunk"
AR SHOVE is not one of those China
men who regard their residence here as
only temporary, and look forward
eagerly to a return to their native land.
He engaged in business in Boston thirty
years ago, married German woman,
and grew wealthy He is now wild
over, lives on fine suburban estate,
and has two pretty, educated daughters.
A STRANGE thing occurred the other
day at Gals, in Switzerland. A school
master was explaining to his pupils the
nature of certain vegetable poisons,
and, to illustrate his lesson, he had pro-
cured bunch of belladonna. After
showing the class how to distinguish the
berries of this plant, he threw it, some
what thoughtlessly, as would appear, in
corner, intending to destroy it when
the lesson was over. Meanwhile, his
little boy, who was playing about in the
schoolroom, picked up the bunch, and
before he was noticed, ate several of the
berries of the deadly belladonna. A
few hours afterward the child died in
great agony.
Marriage in Nevada.