The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-01
Ne us AND NOTES.

NOTHING could be finer than this from
Memphis paper discussing the yellow
fever question: We have had heroism
now let us have a sewer"
A VARIETY show in Virginia CITY
Nevada, offers special attractions in {
boxlng-match between two women, {
pie-eating contest by newsboys, and al
attempt by a dog to kill twenty foul
cats.
A COUNTRY clergyman was a good
deal astonished one day by the jollity oil
the mourners at the breakfast" of {
funeral, and was gravely told in expla
nation: =" Bless you, sir, they're MOI
laughing--they're only assembling theil
grief"
GENTLEMEN who would be considered
du fat in matter of dress will not roll
up their pants at the heel, as formerly
but all around. The roll should not ex.
tend over the hem, except in severe
cases of mud, when two rolls, the width
of the hem, is admissible. Cit,
Derrick
SOME members (net " inhuential") oil
Boston's new Common Council tried to
have the ulespreventing the dining and
winlng OF themselves and their friends
and promiscuous hiring of carriages
at the clty's expense dropped, but they
failed, and the rules of 1878 will remain
in force this year.
PASSENGERS are not allowed to carry
dogs on the Pennsylvania Railroad
trains, but few days since a full.
bearded man with big black carpet-bag
stepped of the train at the Union Depot,
Elizabeth, and opening the bag, let out
black Spitz dog. He had got on at
Newark. The dog shook himself little
and then followed his master.
THE late cold snap was fatal to num-
bers of quails in this section. A sub.
scriber in Union says flock in his
neighborhood became so tame from hun
ger that they came to his back door and
allowed themselves to be fed like chick.
ems. The severe weather thinned them
off from day TO day until there were but
four left-Binghamton Republican,
CROWDS of unemployed and starving
men, women and children swarm
through the streets of Birmingham,
Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow, and
other great manufacturing centers. At
Sheffield, with a population of two hun
dred and seventy-fve thousand, five
thousand people are at this time subsist-
ing on charity.-English Letter.
THE Society for the Preservation of
the Irish Language has memorialized
the British Government in favor of
placing the teaching of the Irish lam
guage on the results programme of the
national schools. 1t says the people are
DESTROYS of learning their native lam
guage, and over two thousand teachers
are able and willing to teach them.
The volcano of Santa Ana, in San
Salvador, has been for some time in a
state of eruption, and the clouds of fire,
dust, and ashes which issue from it are
the same as those of Izalco, which gives
rise to the supposition that the two are
connected. The dust is very fine cal
cined powder, found to possess peculiar
medical properties, particularly in the
cure of wounds.
ACCORDING to German paper,
Luther's house at Mansfield, which re-
manned in the possession of the Reform
er's descendants till the middle of the
last century, has just been bought by a
person who wishes to turn it into a pub
lie house. To prevent its falling into
irreverent hands, committee has been
formed with a view to raising funds for
its purchase and preservation.