The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-02
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the rage.
LOUISIANA is the only State in the
Union without Sunday law.
The best medicine for sick man
to back him up against mule. That
animal will heel him.
AN old lady, living in Loudon county,
| Va, is the mother of fourteen children,
all living, whose ages range from AZ to
70 years.
JOHN LANHAM, who shot and killed
Georgia Drake, an actress in the San
Antonio Theater, has been sentenced to
be hung.
SILVER SPRINGS, Fla, is 10ofeet deep,
covers an acre, and sends stream 60
to 100 feet wide, eight miles to the Ock-
lawaha river.
The forage for the cavalry horses in
Zululand is sent from England, a.
colonial food doesn't at first suit the
English horses.
THERE is believed to be more snow
on the Alps in Switzerland at present
than has ever before been known at
this time of the year.
| VIM. GALE, of Cardiff, has Just COM
pleted ut Bradford, England, the unex-
ampled feat of walking $500 miles in
| 1000 consecutive hours.
The last accusation against the Nihi-
lists in Russia is that they have taken
to the issue of counterfeit bills Of the
bank, and to the coinage Of false
money.
THERE are seventy cigar factories in
Florida, all making imported Havana
cigars, which ere considered very fine
by smokers, who think they are getting
smuggled article.
GEN. GARIBALDI has taken the trouble
to execute a formal notarial act renouno-
ing Caprera as his recognized residence,
and declaring his domicile permanently
established in Rome.
In accordance with the order of the
Governor General of st. Petersburg,
arms can be sold only to persons who
furnish special permit from the Mayor,
and the permits must be preserved by
the dealers in arms.
The Chicago Common Council has
voted that Sunday drinkers may enter
the bar-rooms by the front doors, in
stead of going in by the side doors.
That is to say, the Council have resolved
not to attempt to stop the Sunday
liquor traffic.
A DEEP well at Stockton, Kan, has
run dry, and is emitting sulphurous
fumes. Mr.. Dappin, firmly believing
maintains position day and night at
the opening, with an ak at hand, ready
to kill the devil when he emerges.
THE saying of an old philosopher,
that If he had lever long enough he
could move the world, leads country
correspondent to write to the Wheeling
Pa.) Leader that, if he had dried
apple big enough he could soak up the
Pacific ocean.
One more impossible thing is to be .
growing man by looking at your posi-
ton in society for influence, instead Of
bringing influence to your position.
Therefore prefer rather to climb up the
hill with difficulty to be steamed up by
power outside yourself.
THE existence of coal was known to
the sncients, although very little use
pill of Aristotle, in treatise on stones,
speaks of fossil substance called
GOALS" Probably, even before this, coal
was used by the Chinese, for their mines
are undoubtedly very ancient. The
old Britons are supposed to have used
coal in very small way.
The scholars in aBinghamton school
having been given the dangerous priv
iIege of writing about any person in the
to get hit at the teacher in behalf Of
his fellows in this wise: miss -- is
a small woman, about half as tall a.
Barnum,s giant. She jerks the boys
around and thinks she's smart, but she
don't get there" The privilege has been
rescinded.
THERE is q notion entertained by
some doctors that alcohol msy be an
antidote, or at least antagonistic to
diphtheria, as quinine is to malaria. In
supporting this view, one practitioner
gives the results Of fifteen years ex-
perlence, extending over four epidem-
les, il which he treated 1875 cases, and
lost only one patient, while the mortality
under ordinary treatment was from 20
to 80 per cent.
THE island of Caprera will know Gar
ibaldi no more. He has executed q formal
notarial act by which he renounces his
recognized domicile as being there, and
declares it permanently in Rome. He
has possibly done this in order effect
lively to contradict the statement given
forth, like thousands of others from this
spot, with all the assertion of anthem
ticity, that, disguised with his visit so
Rome, he intended returning to Caprera
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