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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.
OF THE 100000 voters in the United
States 100000 are farmers.

OF THE 100000 voters in the United
States 100000 are farmers.
LoUrsIANA's Temperance Alliance
gives the amount of liquor drunk in the
State at $42,000,000 yearly, or $2,000,-
600 more than the value of the COM
bined cotton, sugar and rice crops.
A BOX freight-car costs from $400 to
$3.50. A baggage-car costs from $4,000
to $4,000. The usual price of a sleeping
car is $4,000. Drawing-room cars cost
about $4,000. The ordinary mail-car
costs about $4,000 to $4,000. The or
binary passenger-car about "a 800.
A RELIABLE Irish authority says that
there are in Ireland 155,675 mud cab
ms, not one of which contains more than
one apartment These apartments are
occupied by 227, 1873 families. There
are also 357, 1875 mud cabins of better
class, which afford accommodations for
432,774 families. There are at least
100000 small farmers who live in mud
cabins Of the worst class, in large
number of which the COWS and pigs
share the solitary room with the family.
INDIA ranks fourth among the coun-
tries of the world in the extent OF coal
deposits. She has 10000 square miles
of coal-felds; the United States, $780,
900; China, 100000; and Australia,
100000. Only 100000 tons of Indian
coal are now consumed annually, and
this quantity is mined at Ranigunj,
Kurhurbali, and Daltongunj in Bengal,
and Mopani and Warora, in the central
provinces. But there are 100000
tons used every year for locomotives
and factories, the other 100000 being
imported, mainly from Europe and
Australia. Indian coal is almost all
bitnminous, and it's structure is lamin-
ated, presenting alternate bright and
dark layers. Its heating quality is in
ferior to English coal, but the native
coal gives good results when mixed in
equal proportions with the latter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
"Advertised."

Putting her head into the postoffice
window, she shouted at the astonished
custodian of the mails, Advertised"
Marin" said he, after partially recov-
ering his self-possession, what did you
wish?" Advertised" she repeated,
louder than before. By force of Gus
tom he managed to ask: What name,
marm?" Again came that same reply,
Advertised" but this time supple
mented with the demand, AN how
long wild yez kape body shtanding here
while yez be garruping loike moon
calf in a shtable? Wud yez liver give
me me letther, I soy?" "But what is
your name, my dear woman?" "Och,
don't yez dear woman me, yez ould
sinner! Don't yez name to abode by
yez own Directions entoirely, yez ould
bald headed devil? Didn't yez put
Until the papers Persons calling for
letthers will PLACE say Advertised? -
And haven't Oh made mesilf hoarse wild
saying advertised! advertised adver-
tisedp Give me me letther, Oh soy
That liver Bridget McShaugnessy should
ha' been trifed wild by the loikes of
yell" The letter was forthcoming ere
She had done, and the Postmaster sank
back into the chair with q sigh of relief,
while Bridget left the office with a
very red face and perfect cataract of
RS escaping from her mouth.-Boston
Transcript.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Mimetic Crystals.

Let any one examine the delicate
fimbriated petals of the purest white
belonging to that dainty little blossom
OF our Northern woods, Miletta nuda,
and he shall see the fulfllment OF q
prophecy made in the depth OF winter
by snowflake, which in the symmetry
OF its six compound crystals exactly
prefgures il.
Nature, indeed, in the great variety
OF the six-rayed star spangles Of the
snow, seems to find patterns for many
such flowers of endogens as when ex-
banded are flat and radiate. The min
eral kingdom shows at least prefgure-
ment Of life and living forms. Crystal
upon crystal clusters in graceful and
symmetrical accretion, until the dull,
hard, indurated mineral or chemical
salt spring forth fairy-like fronds into
arborescent forms. Their purity, and
the translucent brilliancy Of their colors,
render them the blossoms Of inorganic
nature. Again, as the crystal is the
mineral flower, the flower is the veget-
able crystal. The geometrical proper
tons Of crystals reappear in the SYM
metrical arrangement Of the parts in
vegetation. Trigous and tetrigous
rhomboids, as, for instance, they appear
in the fir cone before it opens, belong
equally to minerals and vegetables;
even the cube is represented in the
pretty little early spring blossom the
Adoxa moschatellina, and triangles, cyl
inders and ellipses in the delicate little
organisms of the Desmidi@.1. G.
Beard. I'M Hayper's Magazine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
In the Coils Of q Serpent.

One of the most intrepid wild beast
tanners in Europe, Karolyi, Magyar
of colossal stature and extraordinary
physical strength, fell victim to his
perilous profession. He was perform
ing before crowded audience in
Madrid on certain day one of his most
sensational feats, which consisted in
allowing huge boa constructor, over
twenty feet in length, to Unfold his
body in its tremendous coils, when SUI
denly piercing cry escaped him which
was greeted by the public with round
of applause, under the supposition that
its utterance constituted part of the
performance. 1t proved, however, to
be the outcome of astrong mans death
agony. The gigantic snake had tight
ened its coils, and crushed poor Karol-
yi's life out of him with one terrific
squeeze. As his head fell back and his
eyes became fixed in CLASSY stare, the
plaudits died away, and were succeeded
by the stiffness of utter CONSERVATION.
The snake and it's hfeless victim
swayed for a second or two of mex
pressible horror, and then toppled on
the boards of the stage. But the boa
did not in the least relax his grip upon
the corpse, which remained for more
than an hour imprisoned in its hideous
thralldom, nobody daring to approach
the 1.-THE monster, of whose powers
such appalling proof had been given.
At length it occurred to one of Karoi-
yi's attendants to place bowl of milk
in q cage within sight of the mighty
sn1, al lxv
from the dead body and glided into its
den, irresistibly tempted thereto by its
favorite dainty. A post-mortem exam
nation of the unfortunate athletes re-
mains discovered no fewer than eighty
seven fractures of his bones, effected
by the construction of the serpent's
coils. His death must have been al
most instantaneous, rs the spine was
dislocated in several places.-Lossdon
Telegraph.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
A Danger in the Jury System.

The dry, cutting satire practiced so
much by the cross-examining lawyer OF
to-day is sometimes as dangerous in
court as it would be ON the street. Once
upon time jury was sitting on
case in Southern Colorado. A woman
took the stand and was somewhat I'M
tremendously treated by the lawyers.
At last particularly dry and caustic
fellow began to practice on her with the
cross examination. Now, among the
jurymen was one gentleman who was
drawn with apprehension and fear of
consequences. He was free, wild
miner, with no more idea of the restric-
tons of law and justice than buffalo.
He had twitched uneasily while the
woman was being examined, and could
only be kept still by being provoked in
to a whispered conversation with the
foreman. AS the cross-examination
reached a particular point, he aston
ished the court by jumping up, thrust
ing his hand into his hip-pocket, and
exclaiming to the lawyer: Hi, thar,
Mr.. Stick-in-the-mu This from
juryman brought every eye in wonder
anu huuseueub upon ILL., ne Hccueu
nothing, and proceeded: "Jack Nc
Cabe won't low no man to talk to
woman in that shape; not while he's
roundl" The Judge rebuked honest
Jack, and he skunk into his seat, ON
barrassed but mad. The lawyer, turn
ing upon him with whitening scorn, be-
gan, enthusiastically: "Of what weight
with me is the opinion of an ignorant
juryman? I" "That's what thought"
said Jack, as with one bound he cleared
the rail and wound himself around the
lawyer. Before constable could reach
and separate the struggling pair, Jack
had macerated the lawyer SO that he
was obliged to give up the case and go
home on a shutter. The juryman near
ly cleaned out the court before he
could be placed under arrest, disabling
two constables and putting the crier
and the Judge to fight. Another ar
gument against the jury system.-Bos-
tom Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

This is the way in which Mark Twain
once intr duced Gen Jos phi r. Haw-
ley at public meeting:
/ see l am advertised to introduce
the speaker of the evening, Gen. Haw-
ley, of Connecticut, and / see it is the
report that i am to make a political
speech. Now, must say this is an
error. wasn't constructed to make
stump speeches, and on that head
(politics) have only this to say: First,
see that you vote. Second, see that your
neighbor votes. Lastly, see that your
self or neighbor don't scratch the
ticket. Gen. Hawley was President of
the Centennial Commission. He was q
gallant soldier in the war. He has
been Governor of Connecticut, mem
Der of Congress, and was President of
the convention that nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Ger. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Twain-He says it was Grant, but
know better. He is a member of my
church at Hartford and the author of
Beautiful Snow May be he will deny
that. But am only here to give him
a character from his last place. AS a
pure citizen, / respect him; as per
sonal friend of years, l have the warm
est regard for him; as neighbor whose
vegetable garden joins mine, why-why,
watch him. That's nothing; we all do
that with any neighbor. Gen. Hawley
keeps his promises, not only in private
but in public. He is an editor who
believes what he writes in his own
paper. As the author of Beautiful
Snow" he added a new pang to winter.
He is broad-souled, generous, noble,
liberal, alive to his moral and religious
responsibilities. Whenever the con-
tribution-box was passed / never knew
him to take out cent. He is square,
true, honest man in politics, and / must
say he occupies a mighty lonesome
position. He has never shirked duty
or backed down from any position taken
time, and stood there. AS Governor,
Congressman, as soldier, as the head
of the Centennial Commission, which
increased our trade in every port and
pushed American production into all
the known world, he has conferred
honor and credit upon the United
States. He is an American of Ameri-
cans. Would we had more such menl
So broad, so bountiful is his character
that he never turned tramp empty
handed from his door, but always gave
him q letter of introduction to me.
His public trusts have been many, and
never in the slightest did he prove
unfaithful. Pure, honest, incompatible,
that is Joe Hawley. Such man in
politics is like bottle of perfumery in
a glue factory it may modify the
stencil if it does not destroy it. And
now, in speaking thus highly of the
speaker of the evening, have not said
any more of him than 1 would say of
myself. Ladies and gentlemen, this is
Gen. Hawley.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Palace Of the King Of Rome.

Soon after the birth Of the King Of
Rome, Napoleon contemplated erecting
0 palace for him upon the banks Of the
Seine, nearly opposite the bridge Of
jena. The government accordingly
attempted to purchase the houses situ-
ated upon the ground. They had OBJ
tanned all except the dilapidated hut Of
cooper, that was estimated to be worth
$3.50. The owner, mulish man, find
ing tho possession of his hut quite es-
sential to the plan, demanded $4,000.
Tho exorbitant demand was reported to
the Emperor. He replied: at is ex-
orbitant, but the poor man will be
turned out of his home; pay it to him."
The man, finding his demands 80
promptly acceded to, Immediately de-
clared that, upon further reflection, he
could not afford to sell it for less than
$4,000. All expostulations were in
vain. The architect again appealed to
the Emperor. "This fellow, "lsaid Ma
poleon, "trifes with us. But there is
no help for it. We must pay the mon
ey." Tho cooper now increased his
pricc to $4,000. The Emperor, when
informed of it. said Indignantly: "The
man is wretch. will not purchase
his house. It shall remain where it is,
monument of my respect Of the law"
The plans Of the architect were changed.
The works were in progress at the time
of Napoleon's overthrow. The poor
cooper. finding himself in the midst Of
rubbish and building material, bitterly
lamented his folly. The Bourbons, on
their return to Paris, threw down the
rising walls of the palace, and destroyed
their foundations.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Correct Pronunciation.

At meeting Of the Philadelphia
Teachers Institute, Mr.. Jacob II.
Sides, principal of the Belmont Gram
mar School, was assigned the duty OF
illustrating correct pronunciation by
pronouncing fifteen words. Being al
lowed but five minutes time, the gen
tleman was only able to struggle with
thirteen words, which are frequently
mispronounced even among those who
have been literally educated. tits char
table to suppose that the errors com
mitted by this class are the result of
carelessness rather than ignorance.
The words pronounced by Mr.. Sides
were in this order: Pronunciation,
which should be pronounced as if
spelled pro-nun she-a-shun; associa-
ton should be pronounced as if the
third syllable were spelled she, instead
of CT, with the accent on the last q.
II was surprised" remarked Mr..
Sides, "to hear the word 80 universally
mispronounced by the members of the
Teachers National Convention, which
met recently in this CITY," The word
telegrdphy should be pronounced te-
leg-ra-phy, not tel-e-graph-y. Sqa1olor,
frequently pronounced squoller,"
should receive the long sound of a, as
in mate-squa-lor. The word vagary
should be divided into three syllables,
va-ga-ry, with the accent ON the a in
the second syllable. In recess the ac-
cent falls on the last syllable, and is
pronounced recess. The ~ IN goUeYra-
ment is too often omitted, as the
word is pronounced guu-ern-ment.
E7aervate is pronounced e-a1er-vate, not
e1l-er-vate. Illdispattdble is pro-
nounced both in-dis-pu-ta- and in
dis-paI- table, but the former mode OF
pronunciation is the correct one. The
word ISOLATE should be pronounced iz-
o-late the as in mate), not isolate.
AHop0thy is pronounced al-lop-a-thy,
not al-lo-path-y. Rise, when a noun,
pronounced "rice," but when verb is
pronounced rice. The last word re-
ferred to by the expositor of correct
pronunciation was laugh. which created
considerable merriment, SO much SO
that the listeners LATED and they loffed
and they larfed, when the proper thing
for them to have done was to have
struck the sound of as in far, and
they would have been just right
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
How We Catch Cold.

This pertinent question is just now
engaging attention, says the London
Lancet. There is another question
which should be answered first, namely:
What is cold? The old idea of a
chill is, perhaps, nearer the truth
than the modern notion of cold"
The hypothesis would seem to be that
q" cold ]" is something more than cold,
because, it is said, You do not catch
cold unless you are cold" The. fact is,
there are probably as many diverse CO.
currences grouped and COMPOUNDED I'M
der the generic title of cold-catching as
diseases covered by that popular term
fever, which is made to comprise every
state in which the pulse is quickened
and the temperature raised. By
parallel process of reasoning cold "
ought to be limited to cases in which
the phenomena are those of "chill."
When person catches cold" either
of several morbid accidents may occur
ID he may have such chill Of the
surface as shall drive the blood in on
the internal organs, and hamper some
weak, or disorder and influence some
diseased, viscus; CO the cold may so
impinge on the superficial nerves that
serious disturbance of the system will
ensue, and morbid state be set up;
(3) the current of air which causes the
cold may in fact be laden with the
propagating germs of disease; or 90
the vitality of the organism, as whole,
may be SO depressed by sudden alb
straction Of heat that recovery may be
impossible, or severe and mischievous
reaction ensue. The philosophy of
prevention is obviously to preserve the
natural and healthy action of the or
ganism as whole, and of the surface in
particular, while habituating the skin
to bear severe alterations of tempera-
ture by judicious exposure, and natural
stimulation by pure air, and clean water,
and orderly habits of hygiene and
health.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
PITH AND POINT.

ACORN on the tree is worth two on
the toe.
THERE are several Kings in Europe
who are total rex.
81 WISH there was more get-up to
that boy" said doting parent of his
slothful heir, who was prone to lie
abed.
ONE is an onion boiled and the other
is q bunion oiled. There is the an
swer. You can fit a conundrum to it at
your leisure.
A DETROIT restaurant keeper hangs
out a sign of Free chops" and when
the old loafers come around he shows
them an az and wood-pile.
"WHAT's eggs this morning.
Eggs, of course" says the dealer.
"Well," says the customer, Pm glad
of it, for the last bought of you were
all chickens"
TIE worst case of selfshness on rec
ord is that of youth who complained
because his mother put larger mus
tard-plaster on his younger brother
than she did on him.
A MAN who is bothered to know Just
what fees to extend to hotel-waiter
doesn't enjoy his meals half as much as
the man who decides right off that he
won't be juggled out Of one red cent.
The fool goeth out in sail-boat when
he doesn't know boom from break
er, but the wise man picks up pebbles
on the shore and firts with the girl in
the pink dress.-Detroit Free Press.
ENGLISH farmers, as rule, are not
supposed to be very smart at repartee,
but one in Huntingtonshire said rather
O good thing not long since. Being
asked how he and his neighbor were
faring, he responded; Last year we
lived by faith, this year we live by
hope. and, next year, unless the land
lords come to the rescue, we shall live
by charity"
al AM told" said Mrs. Gubbins, the
other day, "that good deal of suffer
ing exists among the 'pheasants,' in
Europe, in consequence of their not
being able to obtain work" And,
when Mr.. G.. kindly suggested that per-
haps she meant peasants, she fared
right up, and said he had been mighty
willin'" to "catechise" her talk ever
since bewas elected Alderman.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
6 WANTS"

A pencil that is always in the first
pocket you put your hand into.
A man who has been fool some time
during his life and knows enough to
keep the knowledge to himself.
An unmarried woman who has never
lad an offer.
A man who never intimated that the
economies of the universe were subject
his movements, by saying, Il knew
1 took an umbrella it wouldn't rain"
some similar asinine remark.
A mother who never said she "would
ther do it herself" when she should
I've taught her child to do that thing.
A father who never forgets that his
hties to his children are as many and
weighty as theirs to him.
IA converted brother who does not ex-
gerate his forsaken wickedness when
ating his experience.
"a person, age or sex immaterial, who
es not experience flush of pride up
being thought what he is not and
Y never hope to be.
\ woman who, when caught in her
ond-best dress, will make no apology
her dreadful appearance.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Albert GaIlafin.

II probably impossible to discover
In the history of this country any states
man who has left behind him reputa-
ton so poorly proportional to his
abiity and influence as has Albert Gal
latin. Not especially attractive in life,
he remains singularly uninteresting
since his death. A chapter in Mr..
Adams book concerning his youth fails
to introduce him in an agreeable light.
Enjoying every advantage which the
best social position, an excellent edu-
cation, and family only too kind could
give, he yet chose at an early age to run
away. This venture, If not altogether
without an object, was at least devoid
of any sufficient cause or excuse. He
was evidently soon ashamed of il; but,
as is the freakish habit of poor human
nature in such circumstances, he visited
the punishment for his folly upon the
relatives whom he had injured rather
than upon himself, neglecting to send
the simplest information concerning
his fortunes to those who never ceased
to manifest solicitude as tender as il
was undeserved concerning these mat
ters. This GOODNESS of nature never
wore of throughout his long life. The
only evidence of warmth of feeling
which we ever find in him was shown
toward his second wife, who seems to
have made his home thoroughly happy
and attractive. In this respect, as in
so many others, he offers striking con-
trast to Hamilton, with whom it is inn
possible not to compare him. Both
landed as strangers upon our shores.
In less than year after he arrived in
New York, Hamilton had made more
and warmer friends then Gallatin ever
secured throughout his life, long, useful
and honorable as it was. And, as years
went on, Hamilton constantly and
largely increased the number of those
who, apart from their political faith in
him, dearly loved the man. Gallatin
never had so much as the nucleus OF
personal following. People met him as
he met them, with much temperateness
both in affection and in hatred. In an
age of vituperation he seldom used
those potent epithets Of abuse for
which his contemporaries must have
ransacked the dictionaries and synonym
books; in return he enjoyed an excep-
tional freedom from the moro scurrilous
personalities then in vogue.--4tla,atic
Monthly.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Precept and Example.

Great-grandpapa-"Oh, indeedl you
can lick your sisters at lawn-tennis, can
you? Well done, my boy! But be-
ware of self-conceit, and never brag.
Why, I could lick everybody at lawn
tennis when was your age or could
have done it if there had been any lawn
tennis to playl Twas the best cricketer,
the best fencer, the best boxer, runner,
jumper, swimmer and diver ever came
across, either at school or college, or
after; and in classics and mathematics
I beat 'em all clean out of the field
AS for riding, no one ever touched me;
or dancing either; let alone that was
the handsomest man in the county, and
the best dressed, for that matter; be-
sides being the wittiest and most popu-
lar. Ay, and such a song as I conld
sing, tool And yet more modest and
unassuming demeanor than mine it's
never been my good fortune to set eyes
on, man or boy, these fourscore years
and ten-for I'm all that, my boy, and
more, though you'd never believe it, to
look at me-! Beware of self conceit, my
boy, and never, never bragg