The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-29
Ne US AND NOTES.


Queen Anne's reign. f'Il ..
THIS is the coolest winter remem-
bered in Ireland. Birds have been dis
covered eating each other.
No one is more profoundly sad than
he who is obliged to laugh.
ABSENCE is the greatest of evils when
1t isn't the best of remedies.
WHEN fortune caresses man too
much she is apt to make fool of him.
THE Turkish language is spoken by
about $4,000, 600 of people in Europe.
THE building for the Australian In
ternational Exhibition at Melbourne is
to cost about $475, 900.
AT the present rate of increase of the
Slsv race, Russia will have 800, 600 600
OF inhabitants in fifty years.
MARCO BozzARIs was also troubled
with cats, judging from the poets word ,
that, at midnight, in his guarded tent,
the Turk lay dreaming of the yower.''
-0s,eego Record.
The following is section three of the
proposed new Constitution of Califor-
MIA: g No Chinese shall be EMPLOYED
on any State, county, municipal or
other public work, except in punish
ment for crimes"
SPORTING men in Connecticut are
alarmed at the discovery that there is
upon the statute books provision that
every horse used in races on which any
wager is to be laid or any purse or stake
offered shall be forfeited to the State.
THE ST. Gothard tunnel beneath the
Alps has been bored more than seven
miles and half, which is about seventy
feet more than the length Of the Mont
Gents. 1t is expected that the two gangs
of workmen will meet in January next.
If the anti-Chinese bill becomes law,
our Chinese fre-crackers will have to be
manufactured in Connecticut or New
Jersey, where so many of our real Ha-
-vana cigars are -No,rnto,on
Herald
OWING to the continued and marked
success of republican institutions in
France, serious apprehension is gain
ing ground in Italy that civil war will
soon break out in behalf Of an Italian
republic. The Mazzinians would have
to strike the blow, but they are few in
numbers, and could soon DE put down
by the royal troops. The more Judi
cious of the national papers admit that
the peninsula is not yet ripe for re-
public.
A SALT well at lie Roy, N. Y, has
been bored 10 depth of four hundred
and fifty feet, when a rush of gas was
ignited at the mouth by contact with a
stove, and the blaze rose a hundred feet
into the air. A volume of water came
next, smelling and tasting strongly of
sulphur, and then the men standing
around walked away rapidly, fearing
that they had been trespassing on the
domain Of the Evil One and his works.
A CRUEL form of torture is revived
among us by a womaIfs walking quar-
ter mile every quarter of an hour, dur
ing two or three thousand consecutive
quarter-hours. OF course, this is done
by fighting down the natural craving
for sleep, 10 the serious injury of the
foolhardy persons who make the at
tempt. AS the profits of prize-walking
depend on the number of those who pay,
every person who stays away serves the
cause of humanity Christian Register.
WHEN John Jacob Aston came to
this country he brought with him six
flutes, and with the proceeds of the sale
of these instruments he started business,
and died worth few hundred million
dollars. And here is where John Jacob
had an immense advantage over the
American. When the latter comes to
this country he doesn't bring anything
with him but vociferous pair of lungs
and bald head. And we don't see how
he could bring six flutes, if he wanted
to--Norristown Herald
A GOOD old man died in Maine the
other day. The Portland Press says
that he had fallen asleep in his easy
chair. He did not wake until past
noon, when he inquired of his daughter,
as though he were dreaming, if his feet
were in the right way. She replied that
they were. He then said: "If my feet
are in the right way, l will move on"
and his breathing gradually ceased, hav-
ing lived within four years of full GEN.
fury. ..-na
The Chicago poorhouse became such
resort for the county officials, for
whose benefit the superintendent gave
elaborate dinners whenever called on to
do so, that the supervisors have passed,
not without strong opposition, resolu-
tom forbidding anybody but the pau
pers' and employees to seats or drink in
the institution.