The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
NE VS. AND NOTES.
ABOUT two million sbank.bones

ABOUT two million shank-bones of
oxen are worked up every year in
Sheffield, England, for knife handles,
tooth and nail brushes, combs, fans,
button molds, etc.
OFFICIALS of the treasury deny that
there is any such amount of bogus coin
in circulation as two million dollars.
They believe that five thousand dollars
exceeds the actual sum.
A GERMAN paper says that the
repeater rifle, the invention of an
Austrian captain, is the best military
weapon in existence and hints at its
adoption in the German army.
DIPHTHERIA, according to the expert
ments of Professor Kiebs, of Prague,
can be very successfully treated with
benzoate of soda. No Inconvenience is
felt from doses of five grammes.
A CHATAUoUA Lake steamer cleared
ten thousand dollars last season. In the
summer of 1Se0 the only boat on the
lake was laid up because there was not
sufficient business to warrant its running.
THE Messenger de Paris puts French
oyster beds at thirty-fve thousand, dis
tributed over twenty-six thousand acres,
and which last season produced six
hundred and fifty-one million oysters,
valued at twenty-three million francs
IT is believed that Queen Victoria had
decided to lay aside, or at least materi-
ally change the heavy mourning garb
she has worn for seventeen years, on and
after the wedding of the Duke of
Connaught, but the death of the
Princess Alice has interfered.
BIOLOGISTS having reported that
there is in Japan enough workable coal
to produce yearly yield equal to that
in Great Britain for one thousand
years, the Japanese Government have
agreed to grant loan of 81, 500, 900 for
the purpose of working it.
COLORADO, "the colored land" de-
rived its name from its many colored
turreted hills and rocks, which, white,
pink, and blue, stand out in pointed
contrast with the unchanging greenery
of gnarled and wide-fringed pines.
THEY have some strange things in
Virginia as well as elsewhere. At
Farmsville a -four barrel was opened
and in it was found-four, of course,
and also twenty-one large rats with
their tails so knotted together that the
rodents could not free themselves.
This tale is vouched for"
THE finest soap bubbles are made
from the purest soap, with glycerine and
pure water added. This is statement
made by Professor Dewar to the Royal
Institution of London and he further
advises children to get soap obtained
from fluid fat.
The country has on its surface 49,
204 miles of telegraph wire, which is the
greatest amount possessed by any coun-
try in the world. Britain comes next,
with 100000 miles; Russia next with
81 900; France with $4,000; Canada
with 90, 600, and Germany with $4,000.
philadelphia Bulletin.
TIE making of wooden toys is almost
the sole industry of many parts of cen
trail Europe. Schools have been estab-
lished and artistic taste has been devel-
oped in way TO make the work done of
greater value and more attractive than
it has hitherto been. At Sonneberg, in
Thuringia, the annual production of
toys amounts to some $10,000,000.
IT has been declared that the free use
of liquors and the constant habit of
smoking frequently produce color-blind-
ness, and the question of employing men
addicted to such habits on railroads
where the public safety requires the
instant recognition of color in signals
is agitated. fH - a
1T makes great deal of difference
how ink gets on garment as to
whether it will stay or not. For in
stance, if you accidentally spatter lit
tie ink on your shirt cuff no amount of
washing will remove it, and yet if you
write your name across the tab of your
shirt, in two washings you can't find
a trace of it even with microscope.