The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
NE US AND NOTES.


which are employed 81 1856 slaves, 81 $40
free laborers, and IS, 35l Chinese.
A VACUUM automatic brake lately
tested in England will stop in three
hundred yards train running at sixty
miles an hour.
THERE is certain tree in India, the
wood of which is held in such venera-
ton that every Burman house has a
beam OF it. H f.
TEXAS is facing a deficit of $4,000
in her current expenses for the year,
and the Governor recommends that it
be made good by the sale of school
lands.
WHAT is called il, nature and want
of generosity is very often nothing more
than a quick eye for the injustice and
unreasonableness of Others, and deter
mination not to crafty it; not the de-
sire to save ones own money or trouble,
The flights of birds have been CON-
pared. 1t is said that vulture can fly
one hundred and fifty-nine miles in an
hour; wild geese, ninety miles; and
swallows, ninety-two miles Common
crows make about twenty-five miles an
hour. h.s Tia.
lT is said that a teaspoonful or more
of powdered borax thrown into the bath
tub while bathing will invigorate and
rest the bather, and persons troubled
with nervousness or wakeful nights will
find this kind of bath great benefit,
PEOPLE would be surprised were it
generally known how many anonymous
letters are sent through the mails, being
usually of malicious character. That
is the most cowardly method of satisfy
ing revengeful feeling which can be
conceived.-NeW Bedford Mercury
THE Boston Tragellcr says: One pecu-
liarity of the hard times is shown in the
fact that Washington. street money
lender has customers, ON fair collat-
eral, at two per cent. per day, and one
per cent. additional when the money is
kept over night.
JUSTICE may be blind in most States,
but in Kentucky she is personated by a
mule; as witness the following from
the Louisville Courier Journal. George
Rucker, a desperate, who killed man
some years ago, started from Fulton the
other evening very drunk and whipping
his mule. The next morning he was
found dead with his skull crushed.
TRAMPING the snow down about the
young fruit trees whilst the soft snow is
in packing condition will prevent
mice and moles from nibbling or grid
ling the trees. Many q valuable tree is
destroyed in Winter when these pestif-
erous vermin will live on anything be-
meath the snow to suit their TASTE
Middleton Press.
The ice crop gathered thus far is an
enormous one, and it looks as though
the ice men would have to melt part
of their stock by artificial means in
order to produce the usual scarcity upon
which to base exorbtant rates for 1879.
Luckily the price of coal is low, and the
melting can be done very economically.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Chow shall we avoid being poisoned
by wall paperP' asks correspondent.
The sure way is not to use any. Paint
is in every way better and cleaner, and
on the whole cheaper. Arsenic is not
the only danger that turks in wall pa
paper. The paste used in putting it on
the walls is often a source of danger
Boston Transcript.
ORANGE-GRowING in California has
been assuming such dimensions rs to
make it doubtful whether in few years
it will pay to raise the fruit at all.
Every landowner and settler in the
neighborhood of Los Angeles is ambi-
tious to have an orange grove; houses
are surrounded by them, and they even
border the streets. Many of the long
headed cultivators of the ground are
beginning to plant almond and walnut
trees, foreseeing time when the market
will be glutted with oranges.
CLINGING dresses are going slowly,
but surely, out of fashion; tied-back
dresses have become entirely things of
the past. They have recently earned a
bad name from the fact that investiga-
ton has proved that many of the women
drowned at the wreck of the Princess
Alice owed their utter inability to help
| themselves, or to sustain themselves
when help was given them, to the fact
of their being incumbered with the
tight clinging skirts, which held them
| down.
A CONSCIENCE stricken Dutchman
named Fritz Stuhlmeller, from Rock
ford, put in an appearance at the Hi
nois Penitentiary registering for one
year. He was sentenced for soaping
beer barrels belonging to his employers,
the Rockford Brewery Company, for
some time past. Many of Rockford's
prominent citizens have exhibited signs
of hydrophobia, frothing at the mouth
and splitting soap suds. The disease
baffied treatment until Fritz confessed
having placed large quantities of soap
in the barrels. He was tried and con.
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