The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15
NE US AND NOTES.

NEVER appear to notice a scar, de-
formity, or defect of any one present.
NEVER arrest the attention of an &C
quaintance by touch. Speak to him,
NEVER answer questions, in general
company, that have been put to others.
New YORK has thirteen sugar re-
fneries, Boston four, Philadel phia three,
New Orleans two, and Baltimore and St.
Louis one each.
THERE are only one hundred and
forty-three daily newspapers in Great
Britain, and nearly half of them are
Liberal in politics. Eight suspended
publication last year.
A MINNESOTA railroad company pays
a series of rewards, the highest $50, to
the locomotive engineers who at the end
of each year have killed the smallest
number of cattle on the track.
Much of the wood used for making
briar-root pipes is derived from Corsica.
The roots are dug up and cut into rough
forms of tobacco pipes by saws worked
by the water power of the mountain
streams, and are sent in sacks to France,
and thence to America.
OGDENsBuRG is famous throughout
the country for its splendid cheese, but
the journal of that city says that the
home people never get any of it, the best
going abroad for sale, Travellers who
have heard of the great diaries leave
disguised because they never see good
bit of cheese in the vicinity.
WINE made from oranges is being in
troduced in Spain. There are said to
be "four kinds; one sparkling, and all
of attractive color, perfectly clear, of
an agreeable sweet, slightly acid flavor,
and of an alcoholic strength of about
fifteen per cent" The Florida orange
growers are also experimenting in this
line.
THE Society for the Preservation of
the Irish Language has memorialized
the British Government in favor of
placing the teaching of the Irish lam
guage on the regular programme of the
national schools. 1t says the people are
DESTROYS of learning their native lam
guage, and ever two thousand teachers
are able and willing to teach them.
THREE boys at East Thorndike, Me-,
who had been reading dime novels,
started for the West to fight Indians,
the other day. When missed, the neigh
bors turned out with lanterns and
searched in all directions. At midnight
two were found in hay-mow near home,
and the other had crawled into his own
bed. They had concluded that winter
campaign was not advisable.
A SUSCEPTIBLE young gentleman, who
was engaged 10 beautiful lass in Mon
treal, offered to give her all the money
he had saved, amounting to several hun
dred dollars, and it was deposited in a
bank in her name. Not long afterward
he fell in love with another girl, and was
anxious TO have the money refunded.
The first sweetheart was willing to can
eel the engage ment, bit regarded the
bank account as n matter of business,
and refused to refund the money.
Two queer accidents happened in
Massachusetts, the other day. In mill
at Fall River, a girl was caught in the
machinery by her back hair. She was
promptly cut down, but not before she
was probably fatally injured. An aged
negro was found In his house at North
aniPtoh iYdhihs phch dSaiHsu wall III "
chair. He pitt the chair too far from
the wall, fell back, and was unable to
recover himself. He suffocated with his
head bent to his chest.
In Massachusetts town recently one
of the Sabbath schools gave a SYM
phonic entertainment entitled the "Bells
of Heaven" To heighten the effect
during the singing the church bell was
struck at intervals. This was mis-
take. The congregation mistook the
ringing of the bell for fire alarm, and
rushed pell-fhell out of doors. The con-
fusion was only ealtned down by the
pastors assurance that the ringing was
not signal of danger from torments
hereafter, but of joys to come.-NeD
Haven Register.