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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

as clear knowledge of why formula
is correct as of the formula itself. But
teaching of this sort takes time, and
here seems to be the thing which our
schools lack. To be sure, they have all
the time there is, but they seek to crowd
so much into it that it comes very
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

A SINGULAR dilemma is reported in
life insurance business from Memphis.
This summer man named Tighe died.
So did the doctor attending him. So
did the undertaken who had laid him
out. So did the clergyman who offici-
ated at his funeral. The company in
which his life was assured declines to
pay the amount of the policy, for want
of the regular evidence of his death.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

THE New York Herald may have
meant something when it said: No
blame should sttg' 10 medieaA students
who provide themselves with bodies for
dissection. They will more than replace
them when they begin to practice"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

The expression of a boys face at the
end oe1 straw that lacks two inches of
reaching the cider in barrel, is sup
posed to be the model that the artist
selected in the delineation of Adam leav-
ing Paradise,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

In is row of empty houses that gets
all the windows bfs}lN, and, empty
heads, and empty hAGs Is, and empty
hands are sure TO come to grief.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

How pleasant it is to see other people
happy with little when you are compar-
atively miserable with much less.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

ABOUT three years ago tenant have
ing been evicted from a mill and farm
near Phillipstown, in Kings County,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04

"a LAST farewell PA shoemaker Civ
ing up business.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
Tobacco Slaves.

And write the GentlemGn's Magazine
who ably defends the moderate use OF
tobacco relates the following instances to
show what a hold the habit may have
upon persons "a city man that / know
gets half. an hour for his luncheon or
dinner in the middle of the day; but he
manages to eat a few biscuit during
office hours, and spends his half hour
walking up and down one of the quays
smoking. This man walks to the ciCy
every morning from his home, the dis
tance being three miles; he also walks
home every evening; and he smokes in
cessantly during the walks each way.
He dimes at six clock, and then smokes
without ceasing until bedtime. On
Sunday he smokes all day, except dur
ing meals; he will never attend a place
of worship, because it would curtail his
smoking. He will never gointo society
with his wife, and, indeed, will not talk
to her at home, as it disturbs his smOk-
ing. IN all other respects this man is
good husband and father. Another ac-
quaintaince of mine, who is a highly
intellectual and deeply-read man, will
tolerate nothing that will postpone his
smoke. At dinner he is in a perpetual
drive to get done, So as to begin his pipe;
he wants no pudding, cheese or dessert;
taking these would involve loss of time,
and put off the smoking period few
minutes longer. He likewise requires no
tea or supper, protesting he is not hungry
and that he does not wish to be disturbed
in his smoke. Another man that |
know is in Government Office, and
when the usual public holidays occur,
such as the Queens birthday, his treat
is to lie in bed all day and smoke. The
gentlemal ismarried, and always smokes
his last pipe in bed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
WASHING Day il a California Camp.

A writer In Sunday afternoon says
TO such depths of degradation had /
| come at last that / must wash my own
clothes, and, like Mr.. Mantalini, l
thought it demhition grind indeed.
Had / heel as fastidious as some people
ere, they might have gone uhwashed
till the summers end fer all of me and
my drudgery, but my baser nature pre-
vailed, and went forth, laden like a
slop-shop peddler, to wash my clothes
Over the valley and half way up the hill
was a pool of warm mineral water
which was better than concentrated lye
for this purpose, SO they said. By its
side there sat an Indian, solemn and
alone,. probably come here a mission
Ike mine, and contemplating with tim
orous hesitation the event of his annual
clean shirt. He looked at me and
smiled. He saw the burden I bore,
realized my intentions, noticed my
hands, the cut of my whiskers, and
other such items of appearance, and
almost lSIghed outright, WE'LL what
of itP III.
To say that was nettled by his
mirth and evident enjoyment is to put
it very mildly. I could have slain him
forthwith had not feared remOnstrance
on his part. AS it was I could only
take revenge, which proved to be ample
and sweet, by teaching him lesson in
the useful art of washing. From the
moment in which I dipped the first
garment into the water he become in
terested. When I drew it out and
shattered it around upon the rock which
was my washboard, and plastered it
with soap, which I rubbed in with my
knuckles, just as I had seen my VII
beg her pardon-my washerwoman do,
he smiled, not in derisioD, but in de-
light. Then mangled the cloth, tort
ured it, twisted it, and wasted the bet
ter part of my strength on it. After a
time of exertion, emerging from a sea
of lather and suds, gave the cleansed
garment pull through the fresh water
to rinse it, and, with many dextorous
twirl of hand over fist, wrung it dry.
Holding it up before his eyes, l shook
the folds of flannel to the breeze, and
10. they were as blue as the depths of
heaven at midday. Then the stole
savage could no longer contain his ad-
miration within himself, and he cried
in his confusion of tongues, " You sabe
muncho (which polyglot compliment
may be translated to mean, You've
washed beforel. Like as not your wife
takes in washing for living"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
A Machine Scraping Bristles from HOES,

a chicago correspondent writing to a
Cincinnati paper says: "I have just
witnessed a private exhibition of a won
derful machine and have obtained per
mission of the parties most interested to
give brief account of it. Ny brother
in-law, who is a builder and pork-packer
of this city, to-day killed seven hogs,
weighing from 100 pounds to $50 pounds,
to test a hog-scraping machine Just pat
ented. / had seen corn taken clean from
the cob by machinery, but never before
had / ever seen the hair and bristles
taken from hog by machinery. / am
not permitted to describe the machine in
detail, but can say that the working of
it was simply marvellous. A hog was
killed, placed in the machine, and almost
the same instant it came out slick as a
whistle, with the exception of few odd
hairs on the legs and head. The seven
hogs were passed through the machine
in ffty-seven seconds, and the entire
body of each animal was as clean as could
be desired. This was the initial test of
the machine. 1t is so constructed as to
clean any sized hog, and in the test made
to-day animals were selected with view
to test its application to different sizes.
should think from what have wit
messed of its working that with few i'm
provements which are contemplated it
viii have capacity of 5000 hogs in ten
hours. Ny brother-in-law is enthusiastic
over the wonders already performed by
the machine, and says it will certainly
save the labor of twenty men for every
1000 hogs cleaned. 1t is very simple,
and not at all liable to get out of repair.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE.
Fearful Encounter Between n EHrmer and
OK Mad witt. ffySsE0piiN bia.


Near Owingsburg, Pa, George Her
man, a well-tQ-de farmer, narrowly es-
capped being killed by an OK which was
suffering from hydrophobia. The animal
had been raised by Mr. Herman. A fey
days ago u was bitten by a dog sup
posed to be mad. Wednesday evening
Mr.. Herman noticed that the OK acted
strangely, and he penned it I'D III g shed
in the barb yard About 4 o'clock in the
morning he was awakened by hearing
strange sounds in the direction of the
barn. Supposing that one of his horses
was uhwell, he Hett oft, and was sur
prised to see the OK raying around the
barn-yard, uttcring low means and tear
ing up the ground with its horns.
When Mr.. Herman entered the yard
the OK stopped it's antics, and he aps
preached it. When he was about twenty
feet from the animal it lowered its Lead,
and with roar, made rush at him. The
man retained his presence of mind, and
as the animal approached, he stepped on
one side, but in doing so he was struck
in the face by a hoof. He staggered to
his feet and made toward a garden
fence, but the OK turned and charged
after him. Tie distance was about
thirty yards, and the race was won by
the man, who reached the fence and
fairly threw himself over it. Before he
could rise from the ground there was a
terrible crash, and the OK dashed through
the fence, scattering the boards right and
left, and rolling headlong over Mr.. Her
man. 1t didn't take the man long to get
on his feet and esSap over another fence
which surrounds the house. His clothes
were badly used up and his face was
covered with blood from the wound
caused by the kick he had received, but
ne was not seriously injured.
After getting a gun and loading it
with powder and a handful of bird
shot wrapped in a rag, Herman returned
tD the fray. He foiind the OK paving
The ground wrathfully, and pausing oc-
casionally to dig his horns viciously into
it, at the same time giving vent to roars
that could be heard more than mills
away. The atiiinals head was covered
with blood from cuts received by but
ting its way out of the stable, and great
quantities ofsaliva issued from it's m6uth.
Herman thouhted a stone wall which
runs along one side of the garden, and
from that place fired two shots at the in
furiated OK
The first shL took effect in its neck and
only seemed to increase its rage, for, with
blind fury, it charged at the stone wall
and battered its head against the stones.
The second shot, however; struck the OK
in the side and killed it. On going to
the stable where the animal had been
penned the night before Herman found
the sides of that structure completely
battered to pieces, and, in another part
of the yard, he found hog, weighing
nearly 200 pounds, dead and gored 10
q shapeless mass of jelly.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

in existence, has been utterly indifferent
TO the neglect by the Porte Of is solemn
pledges of reform, on which British pro
teetions of Asiatic Turkey was coiSli-
toned. Since it became apparent that
Russian influence over the Turkish cabi-
net was increasing, the British embassa-
dor, Austin Layard, has been making
extraordinary efforts to get Turkey 81
carry out her piedess, and the British
Mediterranean squadron has again been
placed at the foot of the Dardanelles)
within easy reach ef Constantinople,
and Austria, recently strengthened by
Germany's strong backing, is naggiiG
the Sultan in a very persistent manner.
Under the circumstances, we may expect
10 see the Porte make some feeble efforts
at reform, and new cabinet will proba.
bly, shortly appear Upon the scene.
England, Austria and Germany are hoW
engaged oiostrueGng Russian
plans, but Germany is at the same time
Using Austria to weaken the hold Eng
land and France How have on Egypt, the
Teeeht refusal of Austria to engage in a
concert of action with those powers with
reference to the manipulation of The
Egyptian fhaseea having been prompted
by Bismarck. The German chancellor is
also reputed to have warned Russia to
remove her troops from th5 eastern
frontier Of The Herman empire, which
the Car is said to be menacing with 90
900 troops. The Car is also said te le
about 4oo,eeG more men in
Western Russia for possible collision
with German bayonets; but this Is !
correspondents story, as are
nearly all the strained relations" be-
tween the Emperor William and his
nephew the Car.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
A Sensible Trick.DOg.
Detroit Free Press. ]

i
A Ahump-shouldered old man, followed
by dog which seemed to have tasted for
year past, entered a Woodward avenue
butcher-shOp the other day, and the
man made some inquiries about the price
of smoked hams The butcher saw the
dog, of course, and who ever saw a
butcher who didn t want to know all
about dog?
8" Is that a good coon dog% asked the
butcher as he patted the shy canine on
the head.
ooh, no-he's trick dog" answered
the owner.
"Is, Ell? What tricks can he do?
ooh, dozen or two. He has one very
peculiar trick; though. Would you like
to see him do it?'
would that. What is it %
The man directed the butcher to put a
pound of nice beefsteak on sheet of
clean brown paper andplace hewhole on
the doorstep. He then said to his dog,
which had watched matters pretty
keenly:
Now, Cato, I am about to call upon
you to perform a trick You have never
gone back ON me yet, and / have perfect
confidence in you know. Cato, do you
see that meat"
Cato saw it. He walked over to it,
seized it in his mouth, and as he went up
the street it was hard to tell the dog
from dust.
(" Hum yesw muttered the butcher;
do you call thata trick z?
" do" confidently replied the man.
Well, it's blasted mean oneP
Just so-juss so,o said the man.
+" You couldn't expect such a looking
dog as that to be around playing tricks
on guitar or a jewsharp, could you?
I'll see you later about the hams"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
The Size Of Our Great Lakes.

The latest measurements of our fresh
water seas are as follows:
The greatest length of Lake Superior
! is 335 miles; its greatest breadth is 100
miles; mean depth, 688 feet; elevation,
627 feet; area, $1,000 square miles
The greatest length of Lake Michigan
is 300 miles; its greatest breadth, 1O8
miles, mean depth, 600 feet; elevation,
SOC feet; area, $4,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Huron is
200 miles; its greatest breadth, 169 miles
mean depth, 600 feet; elevation, 274
feet; area, 10000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Erie is 25O
miles; its greatest breadth is 80 miles;
its mean depth is 84 feet; elevation, 555
feet; area, 5000 square miles
The greatest length of Lake Ontario is
$50 miles; its greatest breadth, 65 miles;
its mean depth is 500 feet; elevation, 261
feet; area, 5000 square miles.
The length of all five is 1866 miles,
covering an area upward of $4,000
square miles.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
WAITS AND WHIMIS.

|
IT is a wise schoolmaster who employ;
cuffs to take the starch out OF his
scholars. lf -.s -rq
ACKNOWLEDGE the corn" as the
man said when he pulled on tight
! boot. 1
" WE'VE moved into our own house
now, " said Spilkins, "and have quit the
pay-rent-al roof forever"
If man chews tobacco pedestrian, he
must not expeet6rate as anything but a
speculator.-M Y. Mai.
THE Chicago type of girl has nom
parcil head on BREWER body and long
primer feet geographically speaking.
BYRON once said of lady whose
tongde suggested betpgtGal motion to
every visitor, that she had been danger
Ously ill, but was now dangerously well
again.
The Unitarian denomination has a
Perh1aheht committee of ladies It Boston
to examine all books intended for use in
the Sunday School libraries Of that
BRooKLYN S5t; has a thafdpi9H whistler
who wants to compete for belt. just
let him come whistling around this oihce
once and hell get more belts than he
can get away with.
AIN INDIANA lady writes No true and
devoted husband will feel IL deEtading TO
help his wife prepare meal, rock d
baby 6r wipe the dishes, and also throw
in few loving words of encouragement
between times"
A BALD-HEADED professor, repTOVing
youth for the exercise of his fists, said,
eve fight with our heads at this col
lege." The young tilah reflected a mo-
ment and then replied: ''Ahi see; and
you biitted all your hair OIL"
A HUSBAND recently Etftd his Wife Of
divers ills by kissing the servant gin;
and allowing his wife to catch him at it.
He said she was up in an instant, forget
ting her complaints, and has done with
out a servant ever since. .
-, MAMMA, there g6es the sky-bussp'
exclaimed a bright little girl the other
headed funeral procession. ''Therc goes
the bus that takes people to heaven. -
Exchange.
A newly married lady was telling
another how nicely her husband could
write "Oh, you should just see some of
his love-lettersp eyes, know" was
the freezing reply; 'Tve got bushel of
'em In my trunk" .s..
"WHAT shall leave her when / diew
said an insipid fellow to young lady
whose patience he had exhausted.
Needn't walt till you die" said she;
'you can leav6 something now, If you
will" "WHat shall 1ea7eT' he asked.
Leave yourself" she replied. He left.
SOME people who think that by
church memberships they are pre-
empting homesteads in land that is
fairer than this, will find that putting
blank envelopes in the contribution box
on Sunday will provide serious draw
back to reading the titles clear.
AN egg has been Matched in a mans
pocket on the North Carolina coast. He
found terrapin's egg beneath a frag-
ment of rock. He put it into his pocket
in order to show it to friend, but for
got to take it out. He was startled in a
few days after to find young terrapin
alive and kicking.
CAPT. STONE planted a mahogany
seed at MoundsYille, W. Va, thirty-fve
years ago, and remarked that he would
live until grew into tree big ehotghto
provide material for his coffin. Wind
blew the tree down last spring, and the
Captain had handsome coffin made of
it. He died few days ago, and was
buried in the mahogany of his own
planting.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
JOY That Kills.
m al piearnne,s Letfar-

A telegraph clerks wife had for some
time been in failing health. She went,
by advice Of physicians, to spend the
summer in farm house in Normandy,
where boarders were taken. She wrote
her husband almost daily, and gave fa-
vorable bulletins of her health. Recently
he received aletter bearing the postmark
of the village Where she was staying. 1t
was written by a neighbor. 1t announced
the wife's death. The poor husband
swooned away, fell into an armed chair
and was completely stunned by the blow.
This stupeication lasted three or four
hours. He was aroused from it by the
door bell. He opened the door. His
wife, the very picture of health, stood
before him. His issurprise and JOY were
too sudden-too great. He muttercd in-
coherent phrases, Historically laughed
and sObbed alternately. He was insane.
The physicians fear his death will
speedily follow.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

AN ERglishman writes from India
that affairs there are by no means happy,
The taxes wrung from people whose in
come is. only six cents day, to adjust
"a scientific frontier, the immense sala-
ries of high oiIiciaIs-S50,0O0 to the
Bishop of Calcutta, for example and a
scmi-military police, most intensely hated,
are preparing trouble for England. The
wild Hindoo'' is no longer what he was.
IFe has been educated without the con
trolling influence of religion, and is like
It railway engine without brake.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
Phmnician Relics.

Information has been received from
the Pyreneesa that in searching the
ancient sites of Phocean and Phoenician
settlements, DIR. Phene has found a
bronze head of the goddess Isis, of rude
but expressive workmanship The horns
of the cow are well formed, and sur
mounting them is the crescent moon;
the ears of the cow are pendant and dis
tinct, and with the exception of the face,
which is benignant and of human form,
the portion of the body exhibited is
clothed in the skin of the COW. 1t APP
pears to have been made for elevation
on staff or standard. Some rude
objects found with it indicate a very
early date
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

TAE ifon. trade IS booming. In order
TO help the boom firm in Pittsburg are
finishing sixteen-ton steel hammer
which viii delicately pat on the head an
anvil weighing one hundred and fifty
tons The hammer and anvil will be
cast il! IPittsburg and special furnaces
viii have to be erected for their construe-
tion. The anvil will be one of the larg-
est in the world. The largest hammer
now IN America weighs ten tons, and is
in Nashua New Hampshire. The cost
Of these works will be S70,000 @
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
Meyer.

Never fail to be punctual at the tim
appointed.
Never read letters which you may 6no
addressed to others.
Never make yourself the hero of yoU'
own story.
Never fail, if a gentleman, of being
civil and polite to ladies'
Never associate with bad company
Have good company or none
Never look over the shoulderof another
who is reading or writing.
Never answer questions in general
company that have been put to others.
Never arrest the attention of an ac-
quaintance by touch. Speak to him.
Never punish your child for fault TO
which you are addicted yourself
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

THE English board of trade returns
give evidence of a revival of commercial
prosperity. The returns for the month
of September are the most satisfactory
that have been received for many months.
The total exports for the month amount
ed to eli, ,402, ,242, increase of 984O, 600,
or about five per cent, over exports of
September last year, and Il per cent
over the same month in 1877. The inn
ports exhibited an increase of $500, 900,
but this is not 50 satisfactory a feature on
the returns, inasmuch as the increase is
greatly due to the enormous importation
Of wheat from America.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

GENERAL. LoRING (Pacha) says that
the ex-khedive was very much surprised
when England paid the Alabama claims
it persuaded him that no country in the
world so fearlessIy held England respon-
sible for her acts as the United States,
Thereupon he imagined that American
friendship might avail him something,
and he made us present of the obeIisk,
which Pacha Loring calls the true Cleo
patra Needle.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

SENATOR BooTH,s dinner TO General
Grant at Sacramento had merry sur
prise in the midst of it. Forty-five gem
t'emen sat down to table, and dinner
was nearly finished when suddenly the
folding doors at one end Of the room,
which the table nearly touched, were
thrown open, and behold! there was
another room of the same size as the first,
and down its length extended table at
which were seated forty-five ladies with
Mrs. Grant, all of whom had been dining
comfortably the while. The gentlemen
arose, applauded and waved handker-
chiefs; the ladies returned cordial greet
ings, and. the evening most pleasantly
proceeded.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
THE MORRISFOWN GAZETTE.
subsorIption PrIoe, Sc.

1T has been ascertained that people
who eat a great deal of bakers bread are
of quarrelsone disposition. Don't hit a
man when he calls you a liar until you
find out what sort of bread he eats.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

The Pennsylvania railroad company
are about To build in Philadelphia the
largest and best=litted hotel in that city.
BY and by we may expect to see rail
road company go into the dry goods and
grocery business.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19

PARNELr, the home ruler, the most
popular man ia Ireland, is only % years
of age. His income is about $500 g
year, but he has cut his rents down
twenty per cent, 50 that it must now be