The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-22
Ne VS. AND NOTES.

Two boys recently found in the gem
district of Ceylon blue sapphire
weighing no less than two pounds in the
rough, and valued at $4,000
OWING to the great falling of of mar
riages in the Established Church of
England, civil magistrates are reaping
rich harvest of wedding fees.
THE annual value of silk ribbons ex-
ported by Switzerland to the United
States has fallen in the last five years
from over $4,000, 200 to about 81 000,-
600.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., enacted that
dodgers at her station-houses in 1878
should work for their entertainment,
and the number of dodgers diminished
from 8, 19l to ! ,66s. ~ .-''se -
THERE are two hundred and seventy
two telephone stations under the direc-
ton of the German post-office authori-
ties. The instruments work perfectly
over lines, say thirty-two miles long.
THE King of Portugal has put aside
his translation of "Othello" and is
busying himself with the Merchant of
Venice" His translation of Hamlet"
has already met with success.
THERE was grand ball In New
Haven the other night, and when the
next morning the janitor was sweeping
up he found set of false teeth on the
floor. Nobody has claimed them.
A CABLE dispatch confirms the rumor
that the Duke of Edinburg will shortly
be appointed Admiral at this station.
He will come out early in the summer
with the Duchess, accompanied by the
Russian fleet.
A TEMPERANCE society up in Meriden
dignifes itself by the apellation, " Mt
Ararat Lodge" probably because that
noted mound was the driest spot on
earth when Noah anchored there.--NeD
Haven Register.
The st. Louis Common Council is
petitioned to stop the ringing of church
bells, some of which are SO poDderous
and gloomy and in such continuous &C
ton that " real estate in their vicinity
is depressed. "-Phitddelphia Bulletin.
A BILL has been introduced into the
St. Louis Municipal Assembly making
it misdemeanor punishable by fine to
ring bells ON churches, converts, schools
or factories, or anywhere that the noise
will disturb people.--,S. Louis Repub-
hcan.
The people of Paradise Valley and
Paradise Mountain, Nevada, delight in
euphonious names. A new town has
been started between Paradise and
Spring City, or, as they are called
respectively Gouge Eye" and "Bung
eye" and named Knock 'em Stiff"
France spends fifteen and half times
as much ON her army as on her schools,
Italy twelve times as much, England five
and a half times, Austria four times and
Switzerland one and one-eighth times
Per head of population France spends
on her army lbs. and England las. Sid.
In England, forty bushels of whea
per acre is not an unusual yield, and
fifty or sixty bushels per acre is often
realized in the result Of high farming.
Nevertheless, England is obliged to inn
port each year about 00,000,000 bush
els, in addition to her own crop, to iced
her people.
THE total cotton spindles in the North
are now estimated at about 5000, 900,
and in the South at {, 900, 900, or total
in the country of 15,500,C00. OF the
.68, 100000 spindles employed in the
manufacture of cotton in 1876, the
United States had in round numbers
10000, 900 and Great Britain 10000, 900.
On Thursday afternoon, while car
penter was engaged at work in the Ii
brary of the Young Mems Association,
he opened cupboard which had prob
ably not been used in twenty years. and
discovered human skull. The ques-
tions naturally arises, whom did the
skull belong to and how did it come
there troy Times.
San Francisco has fewer shade trees
than almost any other American city of
its size. The 'Friscans say they don't
need 'em or want 'em, so salubrious and
genial is the climate, and say they could
line their streets with evergreen varie-
ties of trees, but naples, oaks, chestnuts,
and the like won't grow, on account of
sea breezes.-B0ston Com. Bulletin.
NINE-TENTHs of the $1,000, 00O, 900
which France borrowed of English
bankers in order to pay Germany are
now held in the shape of national bonds
by Frenchmen at home. As fast as the
foreigners would sell, the bonds were
bought up on the Paris market, and
thus, though France still owes that vast
sum, she owes it in bulk only to her own
people.