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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
that organ is, it is not capable Of distin-
gushing sounds which succeed each
other at intervals of the twentie tn part
of a second.
PHYSICAL CULTURE.

The Pittsburg Dispatch doesn't be-
lieve we are to get true ideas of physi-
cal culture from exceptional instances,
like the swimming Boyton and the
walking Weston.
! Walking is beneficial, says the Dis
patch, and so are riding, rowing and
contortions of the gymnasium, when iu-
dulged to a moderate degree. But when
they result in exhaustion they become
physically injurious. The amount of
exercise taken, its quality and severity,
must vary with the health and strength
of the subject, if serious consequences
are to be avoided. Again, the mass of
Americans are such hurrying, work
ing people that few have leisure to de-
vote to special hours of physical exer-
else, and they who need relaxation most
are the persons who receive the least.
The real philanthropist, therefore, is
not the person who illustrates how great
strain the human organization can en-
dure, but he who teaches how health
can be best preserved while BODY ana
mind are devoted to the busy vocations
in which the useful portion of humanity
are engaged day after day, with almost
no intermission. There is no installing
the fact that intervals of leisure in
American work-day life are too few
Such confinement is productive of a race
of invalids, 1t is useless to advise less
labor. 1t is not among the possibilities
for an American business man to cease
work as long as he can find work to do.
Some sanitary regimen is therefore
necessary which can be followed in the
office, at the desk, about the place of
business; but the "great illustrators of
physical culture" are not the persons to
solve this enigma.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
Condition Of the English Peasant.

The London correspondent of the
Tribune, in speaking of the condition of
the English peasant, says of him: He
and his progeny do not exist. Poets
have sung and moralists sentimentally
descanted upon the British peasant but
strip him of his romance, and look at
him truthfully and soberly, and he
presents melancholy spectacle. He is
merely beast of burden; his condition
is little better than that of serf, if
indeed it is as good. He grovels in
poverty and wretchedness-often with
an insufficiency of food. And scarcely
is he able to dream of any more elevated
state of existence, for the social forces
by which he is beset almost entirely pre-
clude him from breaking through the
bonds which hold him. He is n drudge;
his life is life of drudgery; and, from
his cradle to his grave, it would be diff
cult to see where his existence could be
illumined by ray of prosperity or hope.
At the lowest rung of the ladder of
labor, he is forced to remain in his thral-
dom, both intellectual and social, which
the custom of ages has imposed upon his
class.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
Absent I'm Mind and Body.

The absent-minded husband of whom
the following story is told could scarcely
have sung Motherwell's ballad on jean
ME Morrison:"
I've wandered east, I've wandered west,
Through many weary way;
But never, never can forget
The love of life's young day.
An absent-minded Hyde Park farmer
drove down to the village the other
evening with his wife, and, after leaving
her at neighbours, discussed politics in
one Of the stores till 10 o'clock. Then
he drove home put up his horse and
went to bed, concluding, as his wife was
not in her usual place, that she might
have been called out to watch with a
sick neighbor. just as he was drop
ping off to sleep, however, he recol-
lected where he had left her, and, rising
hastily, he harnessed the horse and
started after her. She had got tired OF
waiting, and was walking home when
her absent-minded husband met her.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
An English Confidence Game.

An English confidence man, once q
country gentleman, and well known at
the cover-side and in the betting ring,
contrived an ingenious way of making
dishonest living. He watched the papers
for the deaths of noblemen and wealthy
gentlemen, and dispatched to them, as
II they were still alive, confidential let
ters, generally running in this way:
"My Dear Bob: You know am now
down in the world, and nothing but the
pinch of poverty compels me to ask for
the settlement of that small debt OF
honor standing SO long," etc. This pre-
cious letter, of course, was opened by
the executors, and in many cases the
swindler was successful in obtaining
large sums.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
Albani.


! was at Saratoga eight or nine years
ago and attended an entertainment in
the ball room of the United States ho-
tel. At the close an old French gentle.
man arose and begged the audience to
listen to his daughters singing. Among
the few who attended TO the request,
this lady saw two rather shabby figures
advance behind the old gentleman; they
were his daughters, and one was the
Albani of to-day, who was then listened
to merely as matter of courtesy, as
there was nothing at all in her voice
then to foreshadow the great fame she
now enjoys. The father would, how
ever, persist that his daughter could
sing, and when others turned away in
disbelief, be held steadfastly to his faith,
and she, in spite of sights and difficult
ties, persisted and went onward. You
may have read of magnificent home in
London where Albani lives with that old
father and the sister who was her COM
panion in the shabby bonnet and shawl
that failed even in the slightest degree
to enlist the interest of Saratoga ball
room audience. Lately, the newspapers
tell, she had twenty-three recalls in one
night before a critical audience in st.
Petersburg, and the great and the high
are now busy in her laudation. Is this
a reason, dear girls, for taking courage
to persevere?-" Old Lady" in 81.
Louis Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

NOTHING would seem, at first view,
more unlikely to furnish any wondrous
revelations than piece of chalk; but
let us see We will take small frag-
ment and soak it in water, and When
softened, with fine brush, we will
gently reduce it to powder, and then
place small quantity of it under the
microscope. And now what do we see?
To our amazemeut we find this fine
powdered chalk composed of the per,
fectly-formed shells of myriads of mi
mute creatures, SO small that billions of
them are necessary to make single
cubic inch. These animalcula existed
many thousand years ago, and, on dying,
they sank to the bottom of the ocean,
and their shells alone are now found
condensed and changed into the sub
stance known as chalk
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

The State eff Georgia owes the Gov
eminent about two hundred thousand
dollars under the assessmentfor direct
tax on lands imposed by the Federal
authorities in 1S64-5. The assessment
was three mills on the dollar, and is the
only land tax ever levied under United
States law: The recent Congress ap-
propriated seventy-seven thousand dol
lars to Georgia for the amount advanced
in suppressing and removing Che Cher
okees in 1885, and the Treasury officials
refuses to pay it, but insist upon placing
the amount as credit upon Georgia's in
debtedness. The question will event
ually have TO be decided by Attorney
General Devens. $50
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

In country parish in Scotland, not
many years ago, town clergyman, who
was officiating for his clerical brother,
wished to be assured by his own eyes that
his gown and tie were in perfect order
before he ascendsd the pulpit. With
this view he asked the beadle if he had
not glass to give him. "Weel, no.,
replied John, but I'll soon get ane for
ye, sir" Imagine the surprise and hor-
ror Of the evangelical gentleman when
John returned with pewter measure In
his hand, and placing it before tho
worthy divine, informed him that re
had been quite unable to procure single
"glass," but that he had brought him .
half mutchkin instead, which, ne
naively added, "wsd maybe dae -
wcel."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05


IT is always possible in looking up the
origin of reigning fashion to find a
reason for it; cause and effect go hand
in hand even in fashions vagaries.
This winter we hear of the prevalence
of pearls as a fashion; recent traveller
notes the finding of new pearl bank in
the Persian gulf early last year; there
fore some one stood behind the crank
that turns oHt the Paris fashions who
was interested in some corner" in
pearls. AT recent English high life
weddings bunch of pinks from the
village of Celarine in the Engadine has
been a uch-prized wedding gift; above
price because it needed all the persuas-
ion of tourists to make the peasant yield
up his cherished flower, and ithad lately
been much famed ~.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
An Unpleasant Joke.

A familiar but not diverting joke has
been repeated lately by French soldier
at Nancy. After instructing recruit
in the management of his rife, he leveled
the piece at him, exclaiming at the same
time, by way of jest, Nov, Team going
to shoot yoc" The conscript, lending
himself to the joke, put his forehead
against the muzzle. the soldier touched
the trigger, and the gun suddenly going
off nearly severed the young soldiers
head from his shoulders. A blank
cartridge had been left by mistake in
the barrel
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

THE Independent, of Constantine, in
Algeria, contains an account of an ex-
traordinary act of courage and presence
of mind by a mail guard. A passenger
writes that he was in the coupe of the
diligence which runs from Algiers to
.Setif, and the vehicle had just passed
the bridge over the Oued-el-Xir, when
the horses stopped suddenly and at
tempted to swerve round, but were kept
in with difficulty by the native position.
A large lion was seen quietly walking
along the ridge on the right side of the
road at a distance of less than fifty feet
The situation was critical one, for on
the other side was deep ravine, down
which the diligence would have been
precipitated had the horses started off
The guard, Joseph Borge, was inside
the vehicle, and seeing the cause of the
alarm, he opened the door and de-
scended, and, going to the heads of the
horses, seized the brides and patted the
animals on the neck to tranquilize
them. The lion, in the meantime, con-
tented itself with giving a sidelong
glance at the carriage, and then entered
the brushwood and was lost sight of.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
PROBABLY the largest medical fee

PROBABLY the largest medical fee
ever paid has just been landed by a
Philadelphia physician. He is the in
ventor of peculiar system of treat
ment, under which the patient is not
allowed to see any relative, friend, or
stranger forbidden ali exertion, and
kept in a perfectly passive state. Sue,
cess seems to have followed his system,
as an English lady of wealth wrote to
engage the doctor to come to England
and treat her. Not desiring TO. leave
this country, he wrote and named
s55,000 as the fee, for the purpose of
placing it beyond the lady's power to
engage him. He reckoned without his
host, as by the return mail the invalid
accepted his terms, The doctor reached
England recently, and when he returns
will pack up. along with his English
clothes and Sangster umbrella $685. 600
of British gold Patients treated on
the same terms at this Office, says the
Courier.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
A POOR devil is met on the boulevard,

A POOR devil is met on the boulevard,
in very thin overcoat ornamented with
a tremendous hole on each side. 81
say" says a friend, with complacent
compassion; "you ought to freeze to
death in coat like that" "Not ut all, !"
replies the other, with cheerful shiver;
"this coats all right. The cold just
comes in at one hole and goes out at the
other, and never feel it." "Quoi;
jamalsr' Non jamals" "Quoi--
iamals?" "Eh bien; presque jamals."
Ports Paper.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05


THE Hartford correspondent of the
Springfield Republican tells some inter.
esting stories of the Mitchell family
of Hartford, ancestors of Donald G.
Mitchell eek Marvel"). The best is
the reply of one of the old danes of the
house, century or more ago, to the
clergyman who, preaching in Wethers-
field on the sinfulness of man, suddenly
asked, in a most dramatic way, "Who
of you, o, my brethren and sisters, can
stand up here and dare exhibit yourself
as one who knows that he or she finds
nothing of which to be ashamed? ]
pause for such an one to stand up"
Hereupon the old lady calmly rose and
looked about moment or two, until all
eyes had been fastened upon her, and
then quietly seated herself without a
sign of perturbation. Without word
of comment from the preacher, the ser
mon was very quietly finished, but no
man or woman present ever dared to
hint to Mrs. Mitchell that her conduct
was other than any true Mitchell should
have taken under such circumstances.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05
TOPICS OF THE DA Y.

Now that the President of the French
Republic is civilian, the black coat
reigns supreme. The height of courtesy
and delicacy consists in avoiding uni
form. There is, too, great and grave
question as to whether the white cravat
ought not to give way to the black
cravat. The old men prefer the latter,
and the young men the former. There
are, therefore, two camps. In many of
the crack clubs, however, the. black
cravat has been adopted exclusively for
dinners.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

THERE is a certain pathos mingled
with the politeness of the little boy,
who, on being asked by his Sunday
school teacher who made these everlast-
ing hills by which We are surrounded,
replied: Il really don't know, sir. ]
have only lived in the village about 10
days, and haven't yet made any ac-
quaintance."-Cxristjan at Work.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

A MAN about thirty-fve years old
was arrested for burglary committed
at the store of Robbins & Marsh, at
North Chester, Vermont. AT his
trial he gave his name as John Ham
mond, or California Jack" and proved
himself quite an interesting character.
Although young attorney was assigned
him, he conducted his own case. AT
the impaneling of the jury he inquired
of each of them whether he would have
any conscientious scruples against &C
quitting prisoner should it be shown
that he had been ironed, hand and foot,
and dragged all over New York and
Vermont. During the progress of his
trial he would interrupt a witness with
"'You need not answer; l object" ETC.,
and when oyerruled by the Judge, who
was member of the Supreme Court,
Jack would take exception to his rulings,
and upon these he appealed to the Su-
preme Court, recently held at Wood
stock, before which he won his point and
obtained a new trial. His versatility,
shrewdness and legal knowledge are
subject of much comment among the
legal fraternity. California Jack has
been confined in the Windsor State
Prison, as no other prison was deemed
safe against his experienced efforts to
escape. ffIUL mar arr .f.ltsif
A LOCOMOTIVE travelling at the ordi-
nary rate of thirty miles an hour, per-
forms forty-four feet per second, and at
seventy miles an hour one hundred and
five feet per second. Two objects near
a traveller, a yard apart, pass his eye in
the thirty-fifth part of second. When
two trains having this speed pass each
other the relative velocity will be seventy
yards per second; and if one of the
trains were seventy yards long it would
flash by in single second. To accom-
plish this, supposipg the driving wheels
to be seven feet in diameter, the piston
must change its direction in the cylin-
der ten times in a second. But there are
two cylinders, and the mechanism is so
regulated that the discharges of steam
are alternate. There are, therefore,
twenty discharges of Steam per second,
at equal intervals, and these twenty
exhapsts divide second into twenty
equal parts, each puff having the
twentieth of second between it and
that which precedes and follows it The
ear, like the eye, is limited in the rapid
| ity of its sensations; and sensitive as
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

THE Kolnische Zeiung announces
that during the night between 18th and
18th of February, Herr John Palisa,
Director of the Observatory at Pola,
discovered new planet of the eleventh
magnitude, the position of which is
given as follows: Mean time at Pola,
February IL, 13h. Ann. right ascension
1lh. 10m. 20s. north declination, 81 81.
Should this really prove new planet, it
will increase the number of the known
small planets to 1872, of which 1913 have
been discovered in Europe, So in
America, and 5 in Asia, and of which 80
have been observed only once Accord
ing to the Astronomische Nachr1chten,
one of the 'leadingr astronomers in
Vienna has declared that probably a
planet near the sun passed across the
SUMS disk during the forenoone of We'd
nesday, the 10Th Of March.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

A PEN picture Of Lord Beaconsfeld
says he is to strangers an amiable old
gentleman, who converses with a languid
interest about music and painting, with
some animation about turnips and cattle,
ana with no fire at all, but rather a
demure composure, about politics and
the spread; of Roman Catholicism in
England. He has loud, grating voice,
which only grows tuneful when he is
warmed. He likes flowers, perfumes
and fruits.T He eats a great deal of
champagne jelly, and drinks a great deal
Of black coffee. He never smokes. He
dresses to perfection, knowing exactly
what style. Of clothes best, suits him.
Into newspapers he hardly ever dips.
Sometimes when sitting. alone he rests
hishead on his hand and gazes into the
fire,or out OF the window No one can
boast that he has obtained glimpse Of
the Sphinx's" true mind.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-05

WHILE the British bargue Lutter-
worth, which recently arrived in San
Francisco, was. becalmed in the tropics,
a large shark was observed swimming
around the ship. A large hook with. a
chain attached was baited with four
pound piece of pork The shark made
for it, and bolted it, but in hauling him
up the chain parted, and he coolly
swallowed the hook, chain, and pork.
Another hook was then baited, which he
instantly seized, biting three-inch
rope in twain, and also swallowing ii
with another four-pound piece of pork.
Another hook was then baited with a
similar piece Of pork, and with this the
shark was caught and landed on the
main deck. When at last he was killed
and cut open, the large hooks, chain and
rope, together with the eight pounds OF
pork, were found in his stomach.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-03
He Held the Fort and the Flag,


A flag raising was advertised to take place
this Tuesday evening, Sept. 2, by the Green.
hackers alias soft money Democrats. Monday
morning they woke up and low and behold
they had no fag! What's to be done? No
time to be lost. The flag must bear the name
of j. e. S., the bondtolder. The millennium OF
greenbacls was only in doubtful prospects, and
no sound money to spare "Well get the old
flag" says the captain. "But that's in the
hands of hard money man." says another.
"No matter Well go for it," No sooner said
than DONE A column was formed with the
would be county attorney at its head, a formal
demand made, but it was easier to ask thanto
get. The keeper, smart as his assailants, had
anticipated the attack and put the fort in
order.
Then recruits were drummed up to overawe
with numbers. Soft words were Piled with
now and then something a little louder. But
no go. Noah, one of the old hard shelled
Jacksonian stripe, stood his ground like true
soldier and told his assailants they might caress
or Distress he never would consent to have the
old Democratic flag of the banner town dis
graced by flying over u greenback alias soft
money Democratic fusion or confusion OF he
terogeneous conglomorates. Here the assault
ended No blood shed. You will find there
are few names in Scarboro that won't bow
the knee to Baal next Monday. PLUCK.
Scarboro, Sept. 2.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-03
THE MAINE ELECTION.
Coalition Success Means Soft Money
Democracy.


(QuOted by Bangor Commercial.
Gen. Sam Cary of Ohio, was caught on "the
fly" ON his way to Columbus the other day by
an Enquirer correspondent, to whom he ex-
pressed himself as having great confidence in
the election of Gen. Ewing. The following
conversation then ensued:
Correspondent-In the event of Ewing's
election what will be the policy of the National
party?
General Cary-I look at it in this way If
the Democrats aided by the National party
carry the State for Ewing Ohio will gain such
prestige as to be power in the National Pres
idential Convention next year. Maine this
year will most assuredly be carried by the Ma
tional Greenback party, and think the result
will be that the Democratic party will at the
National Convention adopt a Greenback plat
form. If that is done the necessity for a Ma
tional Greenback party ceases to exist. We
shall have then almost gained what we have
been working for, and / for one do not believe
the issue which made the necessity for the
organization of the National Greenback move
ment.
Correspondent-In the event of things turn
ing out as you anticpate-the election of Ew-
ing and the Endorsement of the Greenback
doctrine by the Democratic National Conven-
tion--Mr. Tilden's chances for the Pres-
Dental nomination would be spoiled, would
they not?
Gen Cary-They would.
Correspondent-Wh do you suppose would
then be the Democratic nominee?
Gen. Cary-That l cannot say; but if Ohio is
carried by the Democracy this year, Ohio will
name the next President.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-03
Republican Rally at windham.


The Republicans of Windham had rousing
rally at the town house last evening The
house was filled to overlooking, and people
stood under the windows to hear the gospel of
honest money dispensed. The meeting was
called to order by the venerable DR.. Parsons,
and Hon. VIM. Goold presided Congressman
Reed was the speaker, and discussed the finan-
cial question for an hour and half, command
ing the closest attention of his listeners, who
frequently manifested their approval of his ut
terances. The whole cheap business of Green
backism was sharply reviewed, and Scion
Chases arguments taken up and refuted. Mr..
Reed told his hearers that if they had been no
wiser about stock raising and butter making
than Scion they would have been in the poor
house long ago.
The outlook for the Republicans in Wind
ham is bright. The town will certainly go Re-
publican and send Republican Representa-
tive to the Legislature.