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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-09-10
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
Catching Cold.

Colds" are among the unsolved
medical problems. They used to be
thought to be due to the suppression of
the excretions of the skin; but this
takes place whenever the surface is ex-
posed to cold, and often without harm,
and colds are sometimes taken when
only few square inches of surface are
exposed. 1t is fact, too, that men and
animals may be vanished without pro-
ducing the symptoms Of a cold.
Still, the ordinary medical view is
that, the passage off of effete matter
being checked, the blood is altered in
character. The corrupted blood then
in its turn Affects the heat-regulating
apparatus.
A cold is slight fever. It begins
with chilly sensation, followed by heat.
The fever runs its course in day or
two. Like other fevers, however, it may
have various complications. Hence
rheumatic pains, headache, nasal catarrh,
sore throat, catarrh of the intestines,
herpes neutrality-suspicious. around the
mouth.
Sweating, whether by medicines adj
ministered internally or otherwise, is
the main reliance for fastening cure.
But the pores should be kept somewhat
open by warm clothing or the heat of a
warm room, for several days, during
which there should be no exposure
Youths COMPANION.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
Mai. Andre,

In lecture before the Workmon's
Club and Institite Union, in London,
the other day, Dean Stanley spoke OF
Maj. Andre. The memory Of this
young officer, he thought, was hardly SO
well preserved in England as it was in
America. The story of Maj. Andres
striking adventures and their tragic
conclusion was graphically narrated in
the lecture. Every American, said the
Dean, who saw Maj. Andre, at the time
of his trial and up to the moment of his
execution, was SO captivated with his
courage and his chivalrous behavior
that, if they had allowed their feelings
to overcome their sense of duty to their
country's cause, they would certainly
have granted his request that he might
be executed as a soldier, if they had not
released him altogether. When he
(the DEAN was in America it was sug-
gested to him that he should bring back
a wreath of leaves from the banks OF the
Hudson river, which were then in all
the extraordinary colors which they
bear in the fall, and this wreath, which
was taken from maple and oak trees
overlooking the spot of Maj. Andrea
death, he had brought back and placed
above the tomb in the Abbey, where he
trusted it would long remain as token
of the kindly feelings that might be
called forth by such tragic events.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
A DISCOVER MADE PNRLLC

A Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader says that a young
scientist over in Smithsonian Institute,
named Gushing, has just made public
the discovery of the method employed
in making the stone and volcanic glass
arrow-heads, daggers, knives, axes, and
razors of the prehistoric races. Up to
this time this has been great problem
to all antiquarian students, but no
theory has ever been advanced showing
such practical results as Cushing's. He
started to solve the difficulty by putting
himself in the identical position of the
Aztec or Mound Builders--witnout any
thing to work with except sticks, vari-
GUS shaped stones such as he could find
on the banks of any stream, and his
hands. After making some rude nipple
ments by chipping one flint with an
other, he discovered that no amount of
chipping would produce surfaces like
the best of those he was trying to imi-
tate. He therefore came to the conclu-
sion that there was another way of doing
it, and, by chance, tried pressure with
the point of stick; when, presto he
found that he could break stone, flint,
and obsidian in any shape he chose.
Shortly he had made spear-heads and
daggers that would cut like a razor, as
good as any he had before him, which
had been picked up from all over the
world. By little more observation,
he found that the Taking" which he
calls his process, on the old arrowhead
left grooves all turned one way. He
produced like result by turning his stick
the easiest way from right to left. He
therefore concludes that the prehistorics
were righthanded people like ourselves
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
Cheating at Cards by Machinery.

Isaac Finberg and Frank .Basseet
were held for the Grand Jury in default
of $1,000 bail by the Police Judge on a
charge of burglary in the second de-
gree. They broke into a room in the
Rock House, on Broadway street, few
days ago, and stole, among other things
a quantity of gamblers implements
Among the latter was an exceedingly
ingenious apparatus which was exhib-
ted in court as evidence against the
men, and is designed to facilitate cheat
ing at cards. The continuance consists
of an arrangement Of springs in frame
which passes around the players arm,
beneath his coat-sleeve, and contains
the cards designed to be used in cheat
ing. Attached to the apparatus is a
string which passes around the players
body to his left hand. By means of the
string the player can throw out the
cards SO as to "stock" his hand, and
withdraw those that he does not con-
slider strong enough to play against his
opponent. The machine bore evidence
of long service, and has doubtless
emptied the pockets of many green
horn.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
A Drunkard's Revenge.

During the exhibition of some wild
beasts, few weeks ago, at the theatre
of a small town in Thuringia, Germany,
frightful scene occurred. A leopard
was not nearly SO submissive to the
tanner as usual, and dashed wildly about
the cage. Suddenly two of the bars
gave away. and the animal sprung with
tremendous bound among the specta-
tors in the pit. The terrified people
rushed pell-mell to the door, but the
beast attacked the hindermost of them
with teeth and claws, and in four
minutes had killed woman and child.
and fearfully lacerated four other per-
sons about the face and neck. The
moment the leopard escaped from his
cage, the beast-tamer and his assistants
hurried after it, armed with spears, but
were unable to overcome it until it
dropped dead from its wounds. On
examining the broken bars of the cage
it was discovered that they had been
filed. An attendant, lately dismissed
for drunkenness, has been arrested on
usspicion of being the author of this
atrocious deed.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
A POstaI-C on Its Travels.

Jules Verne's around the World in
Eighty Days will litely be outdone in
point of time yet. We were shown a
postal card yesterday by Mr.. Edward G..
Holman, at the Monongahela House,
which is a curiosity, and, if no accident
occurs now, will have made the trip
around the world in seventy-six days.
The postal was sent by Mr.. Emil Neef,
editor of the TagleblaH, in Zofngen,
Switzerland, to friend, Mr.. Leon Roul.
ct, in Calcutta, India, on the Odd OF
January, with a request to send it from
there to Mr.. Holman, of Pittsburgh,
without losing any time, so that it can
be ascertained how long it took it to go
a-ound the world. 1t arrived in Cal
cutta at 10 o'clock a. M, on the 10th OF
February, consuming twenty-four days
on its trip there. In 15 minutes there
after it was given to the post again, and
by mail steamer brought across the Pa
cifc ocean, and, via San Francisco, it
reached Mr.. Holman yesterday, taking
%hirty days to come here from Calcutta,
and sixty-two days since it left Switzer-
land. 1t was Immediately re-directed
to Mr.. Meet. 1t is expected that it will
reach him in, at the furthest, fourteen
days, as that is the regular time, and
sometimes it takes less time for letter
to get there from Pittsburgh. Thus, if
no accident occurs now, it will have
gone around the world Ill seventy-s six
days, four days less than Jules Verne's
"Pbineas Fogg required.-Pittsbalrgh
Gazette.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
The Bushman After the Lion.

Capt. Awkward tells droll story Of q
rencontre between bushman and hon.
The narrator was acquainted with the
man, and has no doubt of the truth OF the
story. The bushman, while long way
from his home, was met by lion. The
animal, assured that he had his
victim completely in his power, began
to sport and daily with him with feline
iocosity which the poor little bushman
failed to appreciate. The lion would
appear at point in the road and leap
back again into the jungle, to reappear
little further on. But the bushman
did not lose his presence of mind, and
presently hit upon device by which he
might possibly outwit his foe. This
plan was suggested by the lions own
conduct. Aware that the brute was
ahead of him, he lodged to the right,
and feeling pretty sure of the lions
whereabouts, resorted to the course of
quietly watching his movements. When
the hon discovered that the man had
suddenly disappeared from the path, he
was good deal perplexed. He roared
with modification when he espied the
bushman peeping at him over the grass.
The bushmnn at once changed his posi-
ton, while the lion stood irresolute in
the path, following with his eye the
shifting black man. In another mo-
ment the little man rustled the reeds,
vanished, and showed again at another
point. The great brute was first con-
fused, and then alarmed. 1t evidently
began to dawn upon him that he had
mistaken the position of matters, and
that he was the hunted party. The
bushman, who clearly recognized what
was passing in his enemy's mind, did not
pause to let the lion recover his startled
wits. He began to steal gradually tow
ard the foe, who, now in complete
state of doubt and fear, fairly turned
tail and decamped, leaving the plucky
and ingenious little bushman master of
the situation.-Ch dmbers' Journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
The Value Of Education.

Jake was heard calling across the
fence to his neighbours son, colored
youth, who goes to school at the At
lanta Colored University:
"Look hyar, boy, you goes ter school,
don't yer?"
"Yes, sir" replied the boy.
"Gettin' eddykashun, amt yerP"
eyes, sir"
"Larnin' 'rithmetick and figgerin on
slate, eh?"
eyes, sir"
"Well, it don't take two whole days to
make an hour, do it?"
"Why. mol" exclaimed the boy.
"You was gwine ter bring dat Ratchet
back in an hour, wasn't yer?"
eyes, SIR"
"An' it's bin two whole days since you
borrowed it. Now, what goods eddy
kashun gwine ter do you thick-skulled
niggers, when you go to school whole
year an den can't tell how long it takes
to fotch back hatchet?"
The boy got mad and slung the
Ratchet over the fence and halfway
through an ash-barrel.- W5t and Hat.
NOR.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
Where Our Socialists Are Coming From.

We have reason to believe that few
Americans perceive the danger that is
daily growing in their presence under
the shrewd and fostering protection of
Prince Bismarck. Not many months
ago, when Europe was panic-stricken by
for successive attempts in one year
upon the lives of three monarchs,
Prince Bismarck, by the famous bill
passed in the Reichstag, laid low the So
cialistic propaganda in Germany. By
the repressive measures of this bill
100000 Germans were deprived of
their constitutional rights. Of these
100000, the German Government, su-
premely conscious of its own best inter-
ests, is now making attempts, direct and
indirect, to drive large portion to this
country. In first directing his attention
to Socialism in America, the writer was
moved by motives of pure curiosity.
No one could have been more surprised
at the discovery of SO perfect an organ
ization, the fanatic earnestness of its
followers, and the strength of its num-
bers. Nor can we view without grave
apprehension the fact that Prince Bis
marck is at present secretly encourag-
ing the emigration to the United States
of prescribed German agitators, and de-
fraying their expenses from the enor-
nous secret-service fund at the COM
mand of the Imperial Chancellor
North american ReUietU.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
Not In the Bible.
detroit Free Press.I

A resident on Brush-street who had a
horse to sell, was directed to citizen
of Ninth-avenue who wanted to buy,
and after little talk the two made 3
trade. The Ninth avenue man gave an
old horse and twenty-eight dollars in
cash for the other, and everything
seemed quite satisfactory. In a day or
two, however, the Brush-street man re-
turned and said;
You and | made trade the other
dayp
Yes" replied the other.
You are member of the church,
understand"
81 am"
Well, that horse you traded with
me has SPAWN, and you never said a
word about it. What sort of trickery
is this for Christian man to
engage in 90
The other entered the house without
a word, but after minute reappeared
with the family Bible and said
MIR. Blank, here is my guide and
consolation, | have read this book
through, and if you will take it and
find where Christian man is required
to point out spavins in horse trade, Pll
buy you better horse than you ever
owned?
The Brush-street man went home with
new thoughts in his head, and he has
said no more about the exchange.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
LincOln's Real Life.

Capt. Mark Mason, editor of the
Cleveland Leader, says that Col. John
Hay has finished the first volume of the
life of Abraham Lincoln, from the only
original correspondence and executors
papers, and is advancing with the Sec
ond volume. Col. Hay wrote the whole
of the text. Mr.. Nicolay prepared the
whole matter for Hay to study progress
lively. Nicolay's work was one of the
most remarkable pieces of literary siit-
ing and codifying ever known. He
used the envelope system, and into
each envelope, as the unit of an index,
placed all the clippings and memoranda
applying to that head. The united en-
velopes would fill several wagons
"Gath." IN Netc York Graphic.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
The Folly of Virtue.

A very good and pious-looking young
man applied for position in a we'll
known store last week. After he had
introduced himself and made known his
wants, the proprietor informed him that
he would like to have q clerk if he
could get one that would suit him.
IL suppose you go to church, eh?' he
commenced.
yes, sir"
do you drink" continued the mer-
chant, cycling him sharply.
Never
"Do you use tobacco in any form?"
Here the young man pushed the quid
into the roof of his mouth, and replied,
with smile that was childlike and
bland, II never use the weed, and never
did. / consider it the lowest and most
shocking habit that man can be adj
dicted to"
"Do you frequent the policy shops2"
"No, sir; never
"Da YOU go to the National Theater,
dog fights or boxing exhibitions2"
Never was at any in my life" was the
emphatic answer.
"Can you tell the ace OF diamonds
from the king of clubs?"
Il know nothing whatever of cards.
"Do you ever bet?"
"No, sir, don'tl"
Suppose" said the merchant, "a man
should offer to bet 81 900 to $40 that a
thee legged goat could outrun grey
hound, would you take him?'
mo, sir!"
"Then you won't do for this estab-
lishment; we don't want you've never
hire foolsp
That youth won't be so good next
time.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07

LORD DERBY is now one of the half
dozen wealthiest men in England in the
sense of having an enormous amount of
spending money. His income is little
short of a million. He is childless, and
his wife has jointure of $40, 900 year
from her late husband, Lord Salisbury.
Unlike many other great noblemen, his
resources are not depleted by having
various places to keep up, for, except a
villa at Kent, he has no rural abode save
Knowsley Hall. He has, moreover, no
expensive tastes, cares nothing for SPORT
and rarely enters his stables. In fact,
he is just one of those who would have
been as happy, or happier, as an active,
hard-working professional man. His
only brother, Col. Stanley, now Secre-
tary for War, inherited fortune from
his father of 100000. Lord Derby and
his father had few tastes or sympathies
in common, and Col. Stanley was the
favorite son, The house of Stanley and
the citizens of Liverpool have for long
though interchanges of courtesies be-
tween them are few and far between.
Lord Derby takes his title from the
hundred of West Derby, in the county
of Lancashire, not from the county or
town of that name in mid-England. The
senior branch of the Stanleys is repre-
sented in direct line by Sir John Stan
ley, who, like all his ancestors, is a Ro-
man Catholic. The ancient family feat,
Hooton, in Cheshire, was Sid about
twenty years ago to Liverpool banker,
in consequence of the extravaganza of
Sir Johns brother. 1t had been five
hundred years in the family.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
A Female Duel.

A good deal has lately been heard of
the progress of female emancipation in
Russia, but it is somewhat of novelty
to find the Russian ladies figuring in the
character of duelists, as was the case
not long since with two bellies of Peti-
gorsk, a well-known fashionable resort
on the northern slope of the Caucasus.
A dispute arose between the rival beau
ties, springing out of the attentions
paid to each in turn by handsome
young cavalry officer quartered in the
neighborhood. The quarrel ran so
high that one of the Amazons at length
dispatched her maid to the other with
a formal challenge, which was instantly
accepted. The belligerents met without
seconds in a lonely place outside the
town, each armed with brace of loaded
pistols. Before, however, they had even
taken up their respective positions, the
trembling of the one lady's hand caused
her pistol to explode prematurely, send
ing bullet through the dress of the
other, who shrieked and fell down in a
swoon. The assailant, frightened out
of her wits, flung away her weapon and
rushed to raise the supposed corpse |;
but her ungrateful antagonist, recover
ing her senses as suddenly as she had
lost them, clutched her by the hair with
one hand, while boxing her ears with
the other in the most energetic style.
The firing having now ceased, the bat
tie proceeded hand to hand. Locks of
hair, ribbons and shreds of clothing
flew in every direction, and, but for the
timely advent of three or four police
men, the ARRAY might have ended like
the somewhat-similar combat of the
Kilkenny cats. The military Lothario's
only remark on hearing the story was,
Its lucky they took to clawing each
other instead of me-"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
The Metric system.

The metric system of weights and
measures is gaining ground. From a
statistical table recently constructed by
M. d. Malarce, and published in
Complies Rendats, it appears, first, that
the decimal metric system of weights
and measures is now established legally
and obligatory in eighteen states, COM
prising population of 236,600,000 of
inhabitants; these states are France
and colonies, Belgium, Holland and
colonies, Germany, Sweden, Norway,
Austria Hungary Italy, Spain, Portugal,
Roumania, Greece, Brazil, Colombir,
Ecuador, Peru, Chill and the Argentine
Republic; second, that it is made legally
optional III three states, having a
population of 75,600,0 00-viz., En-
gland, Canada and the United States /;
third, that it is admitted in principle, or
partially for customs, in five states, with
343,600,000 inhabitants, viz, British
India, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and
Hungary; fourth, and that, altogether.
the system is established obligatorily, or
optionally, or in principle, in twenty-six
states, comprising 655,000,000 inhab-
itants. Four states have different
systems, decimal as to multiples and
divisions, but based on another unit than
the meter. They comprise All 100000
inhabitants, and are Switzerland,
Mexico, Japan and China To these
may be added some mediocre states.
with various systems, non-decimal and
non-metric. 1t appears, then, that in
1879 more than half the population of
civilized states, comprising ,180, 000,0 900
inhabitants, legally recognize the
decimal meter system of weights and
measures. A large part of the progress
is in these recent years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07

WHENEVER any body is arrested in a
Russian city the fact is kept secret. and
every body who calls at the arrested per
sons house is also put under arrest. One
of the persons recently arrested at St.
Petersburg was a physician in good
practice; and it so happened that at the
time he was captured child was taken
i'll in family which he was in the habit
of attending. During the night the
child's illness became SO alarming that
the father went to fetch the doctor but
on arriving at the house he Was seized
by the police and carried off in spite of
his protests The mother waited an
hour or more, and finding that her hus-
band did not return, went herself to the
physician's house, where she, too, was
arrested. Meanwhile the child re-
manned alone in the house, and on the
following morning it was dead.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07
Wanderings Of q Postal Card.

An English postal card arrived in this
city yesterday and will be returned to
its native country by the steamer City
of Berlin to-day. When it arrives at its
destination in London, this little bit OF
pasteboard will have made the circuit of
the globe on wager that the tour could
be made in 100 days or less. It was
posted in London to the British Consul
at Singapore, where, however, there is
no such official; Yokohama, San Fran
cisco and New York, with request to
each official to forward it on its journey.
On the face and back of the card appear
the following postmarks: London, Oct.
10, 1878; Alexandria, Oct. "a, 1878;
Singapore, Nov. II, 1878; Yokohama,
Dec. %, 1878; San Francisco, Jan.
80, 1879; New York, Feb. z, 1879, The
wager has been lost; for 116 days will
have elapsed when the wanderer re-
enters No. 60 Ferntown road.-Neac
York Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-06-07

past six. In the long interval they
succeeded in consuming eight soles au
gratin, twelve lamb outlets, joint of
roast veal, weighing eight pounds, three
kilogrammes of asparagus, and an ONE
lette of twelve eggs, besides Dutch
cheese, twelve pounds of bread and IF
teen bottles of wine. At the conclusion
of the performance the two negroes left
the house with very satisfied express
sion of countenance, dividing between
them the fifty louis which they had thus
pleasurably earned.