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The theories OF Atlantis.

4 RI. II. Thompson in Popular Science Monthiysl
One of the most plausible, and be-
lieved by many scientists to be the true
theory, is this: Ages ago the Americas
presented very different appearance
from what they do now. Then an inn
mense peninsula extended itself from
Mexico, Central America and New
Granada so far into the Atlantic that
the Madeiras, Azores and West India
Islands are now fragments of it. This
peninsula was fair and fertile country
inhabited by rich and civilized nations,
a people versed in the arts of war and
civilization Ia country covered with
large cities and magnificent palaces,
their rulers, according to tradition, reign
ing not only on the Atlantic continent,
but over islands far and near, even into
Europe and Asia. Suddenly, without
warning, this whole fair land was in
quilted by the sea, in a mighty convulsion
of nature. stF5 I'D
Now, this catastrophe is not impossible
or even improbable. Instances are not
wanting of large tracts of land, several
hundred miles in extent, disappearing
in like manner. The island of Ferdi-
nandea suddenly appeared, and after a
while as suddenly disappeared. In 1919,
during an earthquake, in India, an inn
mense tract of land near the river Indus
sank from view, and lake now occupies
its place. Il - yq .aH=sf ..-f.a.
The whole bed of the Atlantic, where
Atlantis is said to have been situated
consists of extinct volcanoes. The terri
BILE Lisbon earthquake of 1865, and the
later American shock, created commo-
ton throughout the whole Atlantic
area. l4l III 80 80
That Atlantis possessed great facilities
for making sudden exit cannot be
doubted. Its very situation gives good
color to the narratives of ancient Grecian
historians and Toltecian traditions, that
at disappeared by earthquakes and in
undationso n. irf -
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
Where Women Mover Go.

During eight hundred years no woman
is known TO have entered the grounds of
the monastery of Camadoli, Italy, except
once, when a princess of the house Of
Medici, who had a great desire to behold
the place, disguised herself in mems
clothing and was admitted. But so
stricken with remorse was she on behold
ing the sacred spot that she fastened to
the Popeto confess her fault, and, as a.
penance for it, was commanded to build
new cottage in the enclosure, which
she did. The monastery is one of the
few institutions of the kind suffered to
remain in Italy. A recent visitor says
that what are called cells are comfort
able little dwellings. Each is surrounded
by wall, and has its garden twenty
feet square. A little piazza, with the
trunk of tree planed and squared for
bench as its only furniture, runs along
the side of the house. Entering the
door, you find yourself in brick paved
vestibule, with an empty chamber where
a spring of water is flowing into basin
on the left, and the living rooms on the
right. These consist of study Just
large enough for one person to sit down,
dining and sleeping room, with tho
bed built into the wall in fashion of a
ships berth. A small table, two chairs,
and a cupboard complete the furnishing
Food is passed to the occupant through
a hole in the wall, all being prepared in
a common kitchen and brought to the
hermits once a day. They never eat
meat; and their portion of fish on all
except fast days consists of six ounces of
fresh or four Of salt fish.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
The Dark Continent.

Africa, from being an unknown LAID
full of dark, impenetrable mysteries, a
land whose glory lay entirely in the past,
whose wonderful pyramids, which spoke
so eloquently of race gone forever con-
stituted its chief interest in the eyes Of
the world, is fast becoming of great com
mercial importance. The travellers who
have, OF late years, penetrated Central
Africa, have found it region Of great
wealth, with vast population of from
200, 100000 to 400,000,000. The climate
of the high regions is healthy, very diff
ferent from what has been imagined in
the past, when the only idea had was
that obtained from the low, marshy
lands upon the seacoast. The soil is
adapted for the cultivation of most of
the useful plants grown in the southern
part of our own country. The mineral
wealth is great, but it needs intelligent
development by means of men and
machinery, such as are employed in
other and better known regions.
England has become thoroughly awake
to the advantages of obtaining foot
hold and influence among the people of
Africa, uncivilized as they are. In her
present depressed financial condition, it
is absolutely necessary that she should
find new lands to conquer in trade and
here is her golden opportunity. Already
her steamers are plying upon the Fam
bezi, and she contemplates placing them
upon the Niger. The plan of building a
railway five hundred miles long from the
seacoast to the interior costing $50, 000,-
600 ia Indar cousidarat ion in T,ond0n
and is most favorably regarded. It is
the hope of Great Britain that the future
development of this vast country, now
SO rapidly becoming known by the push
and courage of different explorers,-a
the consequent civilization of its people,
will open and maintain vast commercial
interests that will restore the manu-
featuring prosperity of England, and
give her again that pre-eminence of
which she has SO long proudly boosted.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
Historical.
Envelopes were first used in 1889.
The first steel pen was made in 1890.

The first steel pen was made in 1880,
The first air-pump was made in 1854
The quaint old bingham meeting.
house was built in the year 1851
Quakers were publicly whipped for
their religious professions in Boston in
1867.
Cincinnati, Ohio, was first settled in
Ass by party of adventures under
Israel Ludlow.
The first steamer on the Thames was
the Margery, seventy tons burthen and
fourteen-horse power, which run between
London and Gravesend in 1916. az
Mexico was colonized just one hun
bred years before Massachusetts,. The
former was settled by Spanish knights,
the latter by English Pilgrims,Iq
Tarquin was the last Emperor who
reigned in Rome, called Tarquin the
Proud, and he was thoroughly hated by
the Roman populace, who finally drove
him from the city.
Yale College, New Haven, Conn, was
founded in 100 as a collegiate school of
the colony of Connecticut, under the
trusteeship of ten of the principal minis
tiers of the colony. Ft
On September 3, 1888, peace between
the King of Great Britain and the Uni
ted States of America was signed. Thus,
September 8, 1888, will be the hundreth
anniversary of the termination of the
revolutionary war.
St Helena, Napoleon's living tomb"
was. discovered by the Portuguese in
1901. Afterwards it came into the pos
session of the Dutch, and finally fell
into the hands of the English in 1861,
who still hold it. ~
The Lutheran Church of st. Michael,
in Moscow, the oldest Protestant church
in Russia, has just celebrated the close
of its third century. All the Protestant
churches of Russia sent delegates to the
festival.
On May 10, 1880, occurred what has
ever since been called the dark day"
The observation in New England COM
menced at about ten o'clock in the fore
noon, and lasted until the next day. 1t
was SO dark that it was impossible to
read print in the open air. Fowls went
to roost, and cattle sought the barn-yard,
while candles were necessary every
where. s
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
A Smart Trick.


A few days since young man dressed
in the height of fashion came, with all
the other travellers, out of the train
which had just reached Paris from
Brussels. He had scarcely quilted the
car when he was accosted courteously:
edo you wish a porter, sir2' " The
very thing l was looking for. Will you
take this valise and show me the way to
Hotel de la Rounmania, Boulevard st.
Michel. As this is my first visit to
Paris, I prefer going there on foot"
cat your service, sir" On they trudged.
When they had crossed Point ST. Michel,
the porter, instead of following Boulevard
du Palais, turned to the left, went down
Quai de pHoro oge and entered the Per-
lecture of Police. He said to the owner
Of the valise: 81 am going to introduce
you to the master of the house, as he
ushered him into the Office of the head
detective. The latter no sooner laid
eyes on the stranger than he said:
"Why, good day, Mons. Vanwater. You
have just come from Antwerp, where
you stole large sum of money. You
have already spent five years in Jail for
a similar crime. What on earth possessed
you to want to put up at Hotel de la
Roumania, where lodgings are dear, when
you knew / had a chamber at your dis
posal for which / should not charge one
cent? The thief was put in cell until
the legal papers to warrant his extradi-
tion req ched Paria
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
An AnecdOte of Prentiss.

In the autumn of 1841 he Joined
hunting party with which he spent a
week or two under tent in the forests
of the Sunflower small river tributary
to the Mississippi, in the vicinity of
Vicksburg. Towering above the tent
stood one of those remarkable elevations,
evidently the work of art, which abound
in the Mississippi Valley, and are COM
Mr.. Prentiss, with the aid of the vines
and overhanging boughs, made his way
to the top of the mound, when his
friends, who were collected around the
tent, discovering him, united in the call
for speech-a speech from Prentiss.
"Upon what subjectT' Upon the
subject on which you stand" He at
once set off in. playful sally for the
amusement of himself and friends, but,
warming in the subject as he proceeded,
his creative Imagination now peopled
the forest with that lost tribe, that mys-
FERROUS race, who, ages past, inhabited
the country before the birth of the
aboriginal trees that abound upon these
huge piles and bespeak their previous
existence.
He introduced every variety of char
acter-fairies, princes, courtiers, war
riors; marshaled armies and fought
battles, going on thus for more than an
hour, in vein of philosophical refec-
ton and poetical invention, which inn
parted thrilling, almost real interest
to the imaginary scene. The gentleman
from whom the writer had this incident,
was a man of cultivated tastes, had
often heard Mr.. Prentiss at the bar and
on the hastings, and considered this one
of his happiest efforts
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
Fire.Fiends in France.

The pretty little Village of Auvers, in
the Canton of Pontoise, situated only a
short distance from Paris, and contain
ing some one thousand five hundred
inhabitants, is just now possessed by a
yeritabfe panic. Every day new fire
breaks out, kindled by some mysterious
hand, and upward of forty houses have
already fallen prey to the flames. No
sooner is one fire extinguished than the
bells peal again, and the services of tho
pompiers are required in another quarter
Do what they WILL the authorities are
unable to quell this scourge or to detect
the culprit. An invisible hand, has
traced on the wall of house the terrible
words: "Not a roof will remain stand
ing in Auvers." ahl 4n5tt sn
Suspicion has fallen upon an in
dividual, native of the country, who
ten years ago was condemned for in
cendiarism, and afterward sent to Mar
settles, which he has lately quilted with
out permission. This man was seen in
the neighborhood few days before the
first fire broke out. Diligent search has
been made after him, but he can not be
found. usb. sl|t5.ns SID ufaa|if
The most extraordinary part OF the
affair is that, although Auvers is crammed
with gems Parmes, the fires continue as be-
fore, and yesterday one started just as n
patrol was passing down the very street
in which the house was situated. A girl,
however, named Olemence, was seenrun-
ming outlof the garden door and stopped.
She is sixteen years of age and very
pretty. Clemence was unable TO explain
. to the Juge d Instruction why she was
there, so she was Immediately transported
to Pontoise Prison. 1t is thought that
she is in a position to make important
revelations. rO3 - II .9ti
Curious to relate, the father of
Clemence, seized with a sudden fury,
made dash at the Juge d. INSTRUCTION
with a knife, and, had he not skillfulIy
parted the blow, he would have been
killed. The mother, In a fit of distrac-
ton, fell fainting to the ground, and
was only revived after an hour had
passed. 1t is feared that she will 90
mad. The agitation in the country con
tinues, and there are families who have
left their houses, taking with them their
furniture and other belongings.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

THE accounts of the damage done by
the floods in Spain are peculiarly dis
tressing. Ten thousand antilles have
been made destitute The loss of life is
set down at three thousand. The loss
of money will exceed, it is said, ten mil
lions of dollars. At Alicante, which is
the chief port of Valencia, the plain is
covered with surging waters which form
lake NEARLY thirty leagues in extent"
A Spanish correspondent tells us that
the disaster is not due solely to the rain
storms, tremendous as they have been,
but to artificial obstacles ia the rivers
of the Murcian plain. The channels OF
the Mundo and Segura have been con-
tracted, by jetties, levees and the like,
so that in an emergency like the present
one they could not dispose of the fooda
of surplus water which, if unham pered,
thev might have carried away safely to
the sea.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
The FIRST Sigma! Corps.


The first records of signal corps are
found 260 years before Christ, in the
writings of PolybilIs, whose cumbersome
and immovable apparatus seems to have
been used among the armies of the East,
and, with unimportant notifications,
until the seventeenth century. AT the
siege of Vienna, John Smith, the ex-
plorer of Virginia, used the plan Of
Polyhius with effect, TO arrange with the
besieged forces for sortie, he having
learned it from the Turks. The quaint
old English works of 1850, or thereabout,
tell of marvellous device by which
those who know may converse so far as
light may be known from darkness" See
Bishop wilkins book, Mercury, or the
Secret and Swift Messenger Also DR..
Robert Hooke's Ply losophical Tran
sactions" for 1854 and Rees' Cyclopsedia.
The fact is that in the time of Polybius,
and through most of the Greek and
Roman wars, there were corps Of signal
lists or telegraphers with the army.
These were known as fire-bearers" or
more literally. fire-swingers."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
History of Hats.

How few of us ever trace the history
of the hat. The felt hat is as old as
Homer. The Greeks made them in skull
caps, conical, truncated, narrow, or
broad brimmed. The Phrygian bonnet
has an elevated cap without brim, the
apex turned over III 'front.' 1t is known
MS the cap of Liberty. An ancient
figure of Liberty in the times of
Anthonius Livy, A. ID. lis, holds the
cap in the right hand. The Pcrsians
wore soft hats; plumed hats were the
head-dress of the Syrian caps of Xerxes;
the broad-brim was worn by the Mace
DOMAIN Kings. Castor means beaver.
The Armenian captive wore plug hat.
The merchants of the fourteenth century
wore Flanders beaver. Charles VII
in 1869, wore felthat lined with red
and plumed. The English men and
women in 1910 wore close woollen or
knitted caps; two centuries ago hats
were worn in the house. Pepys, in his
diary, in 1864 wrote, " September, 1864,
got severe cold because he took ofhis hat
at dinner and again, in January, 1865,
he got another cold by sitting too long
with his head bare, to allow his wifes
maid to comb his hair and wash his ears.
And Lord Clarendon, in his essay, speak
ing Of the decay of respect due the aged,
says. that in his younger days he never
kept his hat on before those older than
himself, except at dinner" In the thir-
teenth century Pope Innocent Nv
allowed the Cardinals the use of the
scarlet cloth hat The hats now in use
are the cloth hat, leather hat, silk hat,
opera hat, spring-brim hat, and straw
hat
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

THERE is one style of importation
that ought to have the heaviest kind of
duty laid on it, and no free trade man
in the world would have a word to say
against it. rhis importation is the
bringing of the paupers to this country
from Europe. America is quite satisf d
with the number of panpers it already
possesses aud has no sort of Oliver
TWIST earnings for more. The Com
missioners of Immigration report that
the importation of paupers is constantly
increasing, and an effort will be made to
stop the evil
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
Lady's Response to the Toast Of 'sTho
as liza JdW Men,

Mrs, Duniway, of the Meio Northsoest
at a literary reunion at Salem, Oregon,
g toasted" the gentlemen as follows: e
"5God bless 'eml They lalve our Joys,
they double our sorrows, they treble
our expenses, they quadruple our cares,
they excite our magnanimity, they in
crease our self-respect, they awaken our
enthusiasm, they arouse our affections,
they control our property, and out
maneuver us in everything. This would
be very dreary world without 'em. In
fact may say, without prospect of sue
cessful contradiction, that without 'em
it would not be much of world any
how. We love 'em, and the dear beings
can't help it; we control 'em, and the
precious fellows don't know it.
"As husbands they are always conven-
lent though not always on hand; as
beaux they are by no means "matchless."
They are most agreeable visitors; they are
handy at State fairs, and indispensable
at oyster saloons; they are splendid MS
escorts for some other fellows wife or
sisters, and as friends they are better
than women. As our fathers, they are
inexpressibly grand. A man may be
failure in business, wreck in consti-
tuition, not, enough to boast of as a
beauty, nothing as q wit, less than moth
ing as legislator for .woman's rights,
and even not very brilliant as a member
of the press; but if he Is our own father
we overlook his shortcoming and cover
his peccadilioes with the divine mantle
of charity. Then, as our husbands, how
we love TO parade them as paragonsl In
the sublime language of the inspired
owen lie for them,
F-eGtna ,We'llpry for them, .Y sAs
And If we could we'd fly for them,
N.tF We'd any 4 hi nQ but die for thcm.p ID ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

A GOOD suggestion to bank officials is
offered by an eastern exchanged, to the
effect that their loans, instead of being
made TO spectators, who not only pro-
duce nothing, but impoverish those
about Them, should be placed in the
hands of men who are engaged in legiti-
mate business. Bank deposits should be
for the uses of regular customers, who
will Use the money to the advantages of
permanent business, and not loaned to
street SPECTATORS. t-'-.. ,- ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

INFORMATION has been received
that there will be two Territories knock
ing at the door for admission as
States this winter. These are Dakota
and Utah. 1t is claimed that the popu
lation of each is sufficient. The Dako
tains claim for their Territory popua-
ton of 120 $50. in 1870 it had IA 900
The increase has been IRENE ndous and
there is now no doubt but what taere
will ccrta n y be enough to make a State
by the chi of the present year. As to
the pnliiica complexion Of these Ter
ritories, Utah is Democratic while Da-
kota is Republican.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

IT has frequently been said that n
horse could equal the best record OF a
man in six-day race, The fallacy of
this notion was demonstrated in the re-
cent San Francisco contest between men
and horses. A common looking beast
from livery stable, called Pinafore,
Travelled 500 niles, beating the best hui
man performance, that of Weston, by
nine miles. Pinafore is gelding, eight
years old, without a pedigree. Two
other horses made 543 and 514 miles,
while the foremost man scored only
375.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
me River Columbia.

It may be safely stated that no river
in the world, the Nile perhaps excepted,
can equal the Columbia in variety and
grandeur of beauty. The Rhine in COM
parison with it is only rivulet, and its
most famous heights only hillocks COM
pared to the stupendous pinnacles and
chains that stretch for miles along the
shores of the great river Of the West.
What river but this can snow mountains
. mile high, rising perpendicular from
the waters edge? terraces that extend
for distance of 800 miles along its
banks, at an elevation of from one to
1000 feet? towering crags that loom up
apart to height of 900 feet? trees that
have an altitude varying from 100 to
800 feet? and an outline of its own that
spreads out in places into lake six
or seven miles wide, or contracts into
spaces 40 or so feet in width? None.
Hence it stands pre-eminent in its sub
lime grandeur.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
SECRETARY scuuRz advised delega-

SECRETARY ScHURz advis ed delega-
ton of discoutented Indians,-w,fo' APP
peared in Washington asking to be
transferred from Kansas and Nebraska
to the Indian Territory, because, they
said, the whites were becoming too thick
around Them, to go back home, send
their children to school, build fences,
cultivate the soil, end initiate th ir
white neighbors. The Indians went
away forrowful to brave the horrors Of
compulsory civilization.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

THE Chinese are doing re igious. nlis,
sionary work insalway that must make
Christians feel uncomfortable The
people Of tie Chinese province of Yu-
nan are in part Mohammedans. An
imperial decree offers freedom from
taxation to every Mohammedan who
renouRees his faith and swears by Con-
fuclus. Beautiful new idols are also to
be given as rewards for proselytes,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

IT is matter to puzzle the ordinary
man just what Anthony Comstock
thinks of Scribner's Monthly, of Novem-
Der. OF course, the illustration in
mind is classic and all that, but the
question is now being agitated by NOR
alists, whether that fact should be an
excuse for the circulation of matter
that would be prohibited under other
circumstances F.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

The new minister from the Uni Ell
States of Colombia says that neither
the Panama nor the Nicsraugusn route
for a canal has been sufficiently ex-
amined to justify a selection. He
thinks both feasible, though he favurs
Panama. He thinks the engineer row
on the ground may discover pass
through the mountains that will obviate
the necessity of a tunnel. +.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

YOUNG PoET-You have some poetic
fancy, but your poem will never be &C.
copied by an magazine in the world. il
is sufficient to say that anybody can
understand it. The poem of the period
must be an enigma, rebus, a conglom-
Grafton of the vast, the infinite, the
homeopathic, the perpetual, and the
serio-hieroglyphic. You take our mean
ing? Write for lunatics, not for men OF
sense, and you will succeed.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
Defending an Iowa Bride.

In Davenport, Iowa, virtuous mob
threw stones and antique eggs at an
officer who was guilty of the outrage of
trying TO arrest a bride just as she was
starting on her bridal trip, merely for
stealing $50 out of somebody's trunk.
The sympathetic crowd wouldn't have
it, and the ill-timed officer had to hide
to save his life. Hymen is recognized as
having very sacred rights in that State.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22

between either of them and the Repub-
licsh party, and the lines as, strongly
drawn! fBisfact has been steadily De-
veloping itself for several years past, but
never so thoroughly defined itself as it
has during the campaign just closed.