The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-05-18
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEVER leave dirty water in a wash
pan or bowl.
THE otter inhabits both fresh and salt
water streams.
POTATOES will grow year after year
in the same ground.
DEAD white wall paper is said to con-
tain more arsenic than green.
LONG feathers hang in an ungrateful
fringe around sun umbrellas.
REAL alabaster is soft enough to be
scratched with the finger nail.
ALLIGAToRs are most active at night
and then make loud believing.
POULTRY wings are better for wash
ing windows than channels skins.
~ ALLsPicE got. it's name from the sup
position that it contained all spices.
AMONG the scientists Albinos are
known by the name of Lencoethiopes.
Boys do more good if they leave
snakes unframed, and kill field mice.
ALGEBRA was taken from the Arabs,
and by them called al gebr wal mokabala.
IT is predicted that house flies will be
more numerous than usual this summer.
THERE are United States postage
stamps of the denomination of $50 and
$50.
THE little town of Durham, North
Carolina, last year paid 1878, S27 tobacco
tax.
IT has been surmised that the spots
on the sun influence the weather of the
earth.
ALLIGATOR plants are a new article
of merchandise for Philadelphia street
vendors.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS plants are her.
baceous plants floating in water or in
swamps.
THE British refuse white horses for
army purposes because they are too con-
spicuous.
THE secret of boiling meat properly
is one that is unknown to most Ameri-
can cooks.
CRANpALL's latest invention for the
amusement of children is Chinese build
ing blocks.
A POULTRY raiser says that the Light
Brahmas are the best fowls for villagers
and farmers.
TEA leaves from the table should be
saved and wash made of them for var
nished paints.
LAST years wheat crop was 800, 000,-
000 bushels; 50,000,000 more than the
year previous.
AN otter when caught in trap cries
so much like a child that it induces
trappers to release them.
ONE ship from Halifax to London re-
Gently took six hundred and fifty-five
thousand Holsters in cans.
THE name Aldine originated from the
works of Aldo Manuzo and family in
Venice from 1890 to 1897.
COAL oil lamps should not be left
burning low; they should either be at a
full head or extinguished.
A New YORK paper wants receipt
for making scrapple, said to be pop
ular breakfast dish in Pennsylvania"
FoRNEY, of the Philadelphia Press,
states, as an instance of the enormous
wealth of England, that there is 81 $780,,
600, 900 on deposit in the various banks
in London-all of which is drawing
THERE are now twenty-six active gold
mines in Georgia, which are being sys-
tematically worked. On these mines
there are about two hundred and sixty
stamps, which average about one hun
bred dollars per stamp. The work in
practical mining is steadily increasing
in extent.
THE killing of woman in Woon-
socket variety show in an exhibition of
craftsmanship has led to the presenta-
ton of bills in seven Legislatures for
bidding similar performances. In sew
eral cases the proposed law includes all
dangerous feats, such as the use of the
trapeze and the tight rope; but gen
orally only shooting and knife throwing
are put under the ban.
RECENTLY French Canadian fisher
man, in passing along the bank of the
Ottawa, near its confluence with the St.
Lawrence, discovered the body of large
seal close to the shore. On pulling it
out of the water he found that the head
of the seal was stuck fast in the mouth
of large muskallonge, which would
have weighed about fifty pounds. Both
seal and fish, as matter of course, were
dead. 1t is supposed that the seal at
tempted to capture the muskallonge, but
was met with fierce resistance.
SchrObiker's Mistake.