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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
The Overthrow Of Fire Worship.

A curious story is current in the east
ern portion of Central Asia respecting
the overthrow of the Guebre fire worship
once predominant there by the Buddhist
creed imported from China. 1t was the
custom of the Guebres to insist that
whenever any attempt was made to
introduce the worship of a foreign god,
the new-csmer'simage should be brought
into direct contact with their sacred fire,
and that the votaries of the CONQUERED
deity should at once quit the field. For
many years the fire had the best of it,
and the unfortunate gods who faced it
either crumbled to ashes or melted away
in a stream, according to the material of
which they were composed. At length
colony OF Chinese Buddhists came in
from the East, and the usual test was
applied to their sacred image. But the
high priest of Buddha, thinking that
the latter's divine power might be none
the worse for little secular aid, had
previously filled the image with water,
and stopped with wax the tiny holes
which perforated its sides. Accord
ingly, the moment the wax melted, the
hitherto invincible fire began to hiss
and spatter in very unpromising way,
and finally went out altogether, where
upon its crestfallen worshipers in
stantly Abandoned the field to their
opponents.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
Potatoes the Cause.

The Boston Transcript has the follow
ing: One cause of the sort of apathetic
indifference and lack of industry which
up to twenty-years ago were to be found
among a considerable proportion of the
population of Ireland, south and west,
was the quality of their food. The
subject was discussed by DIR. Lyon Play
fair some years ago in his work entitled
"The Food of Man in Relation to his
Useful Work" The harmony Of animal
life requires mixed food, and the habits
and character of population must depend
on the manner in which this mixture is
habitualiy made. The Irish peasant
who can only do labor worth seven or
eight shillings week on potato diet
could earn double or treble when well
fed. On the diet to which he was
formerly accustomed, idleness was often
times physical necessity rather than a
moral delinquency. If the potato had
become the diet of Scotland the same
defects might have characterized the
Scotch peasants, but, fortunately for
them, their ancestors took to oatmeal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

AS a practical issue to the yellow
fever investigation set on foot by Mrs.
Elizabeth Thompson, that lady is
devoting much attention and giving
countenance and encouragement to a
project for proving the effects of
artificially produced frost in limiting
the spread of the disease. She has
taken up and earnestly supports the
proposition of Professor John Gamgee,
of London, to provide refrigerating
and ventilating ship to be propelled by
steam and filled with powerful refriger-
ating and ventilating apparatus, to be
stationed at New Orleans and moved
thence from point to point as required,
and test the effects of the low tempera-
ture in extinguishing the germs of fever
on board of infected ships and other
localities. 1t is urged that Surgeon
General Woodwork should have means
of proving once for all, whether frost
kills or only scotches the deadly virus,
and to that end Congress is to be
asked to make the necessary appropria-
tioDs
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
Origin OF Carpets.

Carpets came from the East and were
manufactured by the Babylonians away
back in remote antiquity. Turkey and
Persia had them long before they were
known in England. These Orientals
needed them because they knelt many
times a day in prayer, and sat cross
legged upon the floor. Necessity is the
mother of invention, and hence rugs
were manufactured.
The custom in Oriental countries,
copied largely by France, is to have car
pets in one piece, and to only partially
cover the floor, or to use rugs merely be-
fore the principal pieces of furniture.
II is only in the United States, England
and Germany at the present day that
carpets are universally used covering
the entire floor, and where the plan of
waxing floors, as in France, is almost
entirely unknown.
Those who have painfully walked
through some of the palaces in Europe,
shutting along in felt slippers, or en-
deavoring to stand upright without
them, realize the comforts Of a well-cov-
cred floor, as we'll as the great addition
to the beauty of well-furnished house.
1t is somewhat singular that the Eng
lish should have been so late as they
were in discovering the utility of car
pets, for while they did not need them
for the act of worship, the climate
would naturally suggest such an addi-
ton to warmth.
Yet we learn from history that as late
as the reigns of Queens Mary and Eliza
beth rushes were used even in the
palaces, though carpets had been i'm
ported to some extent from the East.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
Japan Water Torture.

II is difficult to imagine more cruel
device than what is known as the water
torture in Japan, the originators of
which relied upon the torments of thirst
as more powerful than mere corporal
suffering. The prisoner is for several
days confined to an extremely salt diet,
without rice or water. When two or
three days have passed the craving for
water becomes incessant, and the suffer
ings of the tortured man approach the
bounds of insanity. Efforts are then
made to obtain confession by subjecting
the sufferer to the agony endured by
Tantalus when in the midst of the in
fernal lake, whose waters he could not
touch. On all sides the thirst-dis-
tracted prisoner beholds water-water
for which he would sacrifice everything
but which he can not touch except
upon the conditions of confession.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
A STRANGE CRAFT.


Yachtsmen and tourists who visit the
Isle of Wight or Southampton have
often been puzzled by a strange craft
that cruises in those waters, and which
invariably slows down to ordinary speed
when approached by other vessels. She
seldom appears to have anything more
serious on hand than a party of gay
pleasure seekers, but watermen and
others who have watched her closely tell
of bursts of speed in which she flies
through the water like an express train.
She is the vessel with which all the
later experiments have been conducted,
and the results to which these expert
ments have led are as follows: One
spindle-shaped steamer, five hundred
and eight feet longer than the Great
Eastern, or twelve hundred feet in
length, is already designed and to be
built. 1t will have engines of one hun
bred thousand horse power, and will be
propelled by twin screws under the after
quarter of the vessel. The main speed
of this vessel is expected to be over
twenty nautical or twenty-three statute
miles an hour. She is to have tower
one hundred and fifty feet high, con-
tanning in part staterooms looking out
on circular balconies, but having within
a hollow cylinder extending vertically
throughout its entire length and
traversed by an immense weight sus-
ceptible of being adjusted at any desired
height. This is an invention of Mr..
William l.. Winans, and the effect that
it produces upon the motion of the YES
sci is precisely the reverse of that which
one would most readily infer. When
"scaled" to proper height, in proper
ton to the "beat' or motion of the
waves prevailing, it absolutely prevents
all rolling. The great length of this
steamer will prevent pitching, so that,
presuming it justifes the claims and ex-
pectations of the inventors, it should be
very advantageous for purposes of
ocean travel. 1t is designed for the
trans Atlantic mail and passenger SER
vice, and their port of entry in this
country will be New London, Connect
cut, of which a special survey was made
three years since with this view. Mil
ford Haven is expected to DE the port of
entry for Great Britain. That it will
revolutionize ocean travel is the con-
viction of the Messrs. Winans, and on
that conviction they have expended
millions, and are about to expend still
more, it being their int, ntion to con-
struct three other similar vessels as soon
as operated. The estimated cost of con-
struction of these vessels is one million
sterling each, and it is confidently be-
lieved by the Messrs. Winans and many
of their friends that they will ac-
complish the passage of the Atlantic in
less than six days at all seasons and in
spite of any weather which has been
known az vet on that ocean.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
A Scotch NObleman ON American
Manners.

Lord Ronald Cover thus writes in the
London Vanity Fair: You have asked
me to give you in few lines my i'm
pressions of the American people. This
sounds to me like asking fly 10 give his
impressions of the mind of man on
whose head he has alighted. Altogether
/ was but fortnight in the Imperial
City-as / believe New York is now
called-on my voyage to and from San
Francisco; for hurried across the vast
Continent, only stopping on my voyage
out day at Niagara and one at Salt
Lake City, on my way from the shores
of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific.
In New York l saw but little of the
society of that place, not caring for
dining out or for calls of ceremony, and
passing my days in walks about the
town and my evenings at the theater or
ia theatrical club yclept. The
Lambs, in the Union Square, where
poor Harry Montague, one of the best
fellows that ever stepped, had, on the
day after my arrival, entered my name
as honorary member. Not being a
parsonage, and not caring to appear in a
white tie and fine linen every evening,
and having wished to see the social life
in the American city, not as guest,
but as traveller, | think l can more
impartially judge of what would be the
impression made on a cosmopolitan than
had traded on being an Englishman
with handle attached to my name, as
probably most Britishers with such an
impediment would do. / mixed with
all classes, in the street car or omnibus
(Which, in its American form, is az
superior to our London bus as is a
Partisan Victoria to "growler ~, in
the Union Club-the Travellers, of New
York-and in the palatial steamer OF the
Hudson River, to which steamer and to
which river we have nothing to compare
in the Old World. Wherever | went |
found all classes of the Americans not only
civil, but highly civilized, as compared
class for class with the English not only
amiable, but, as rule, kind and
courteous, and, with rare exceptions,
well informed, well-bred and having
more refinement of manner than any
other people / have come among.
What struck me especially in New York
was the invariable civility shown by all
classes of men to women, whether the
women rustled in silk or wore linsey-
woolsey or homespun; however crowded
the car or the fo0tway, room was at once
made for lady. Does not this some
what contrast with the surly, grumpy
incivility that is shown to the fair sex
in our public carriages and streets
This politeness is not, as in neighboring
country to ours, mere lip and eye
civility, but it arises, l believe, from a
mutual and intuitive good breeding
with which, as said before, the Ameri-
cans of every class are endowed.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

The papers have recently been un-
usually full of accounts of runaway
girls, elopements, etc. Two young
misses, the children of respectable
parents, left Philadelphia for New
York in search of adventures, taking as
sumed names. Crying and terrified,
they were arrested at night by police
man, wandering in one of the worst
purlieus of the city, exposed to dangers
the horrors of which they could know
nothing.
Another girl of sixteen, the child of
an eminent lawyer in New England, es-
capped to New York and besieged the
theaters with entreaties to be allowed to
go upon the stage in leading parts.
The saddest story, however, is that of
child of fourteen, living in the suburbs
of New York, whose head was fill ed
with the romance found in cheap literary
papers. She made an acquaintance with
a young man on the train which brought
her to the city every day to school.
Her father was wealthy, and the fell
low, who earned paltry sum as brake
man, hoped to establish some hold upon
her by which he could make money. He
was coarsely bred, illiterate and dis.
honest, having recently been an inmate
of the Honse of Correction; but the
foolish girl did not look beyond his
black mustache and paste-diamond pin.
He told her that he was Russian of
noble birth in disguise. They wrote to
each other as vladimir" and "Stella,"
and finally the infatuated girl married
him.
The fact was discovered at once, the
girl brought home and divorce OBJ
tained but her name had been dragged
through the public prints, and her whole
life is befouled and ruined by this one
irreparable mistake. ~ ar Is. a,
Now where shall we look for the cause
of these miserable tragedies? Our girls
read too many frivolous and impure
stories. They promenade the streets
alone too much. They are allowed, if
not encouraged, to talk of and attempt
to feel love at too early an age.
On the fashionable thoroughfares OF
every great city, you will see girls in
their teens, almost children, who should
be in the nursery, aping the dress, the
manners and the fiirtations of very vul-
gar class of their elders. They appar-
emily have no mothers to teach them
that every step they take on this path
diminishes their chance of happiness in
the future. They will find plenty OF
men to iiirt with them, but the most dis
solute man does not choose the woman
to marry, whose heart has been the sport
of a dozen passions or so-called friend.
ships.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
THE BEDOUINS IN AMERICA.

The Apaches, who have given us so
much trouble = though not near so
much, probably. as we have given them
still claim to number from eight thou
sand to ten thousand. When the Span
iards, in their search for gold in the high
lands of what is now New Mexico, first
met these Indians they found them
proud and independent, though harm
less and even kindly. Wronged and
outraged, the Apaches at last retaliated,
and the Spaniards were never able to
conquer them. To this day they hurl
defiance at all government and civiliza-
ton. They are the Bedouins of this
continent, and are all mounted on small
ponies capable of great endurance.
These savages, fierce and untamed as
they are, do not scalp their enemies.
They are fond of smoking and of cards
and when idle have strange monoto-
nous chant. In battle they keep their
ponies in motion, and are themselves al
ways changing position. They seem to
be Monotheists, and Montezeuma, or the
spirit of God, is blended in their mind
with some sort of religious aspiration
They have superstitious regard for the
eagle and owl, and will not kill or eat
the bear or the hog. Rattlesnakes they
dread, imagine them to be evil spirits.
They never cultivate the soil, live prin-
cipally by plumber, and are in the main
Informed, emaciated, and miserable in
appearance.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

THE New England Journal Of Educa-
tiom says: No body of women in Amer
lea has now such an opportunity to dc
any good thing in public as the women
teachers to educate and lead the people
in this new campaign for the children.
If they will only realize the fact, come
out from the seclusion of their present
life and reasonably improve the of-hours
with the parents and the people in gen.
eral, they can wake up the country in an
educational revival. The American
schoolmistress, in city and country, has
two whole days of every school week, ten
waking hours of every day, and vaca-
ton period from one to two months in
duration, outside the scboolroom. Long
fellow and Taylor and Bryant have
made national reputation for literature
in smaller number of leisure hours"
When does the journal propose that the
women teachers shall sew and go to
church, not to say eat7 .-..
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

The custom of eating eggs at Easter
has been traced up, not only to the the
ology of Egypt, but to the philosophy OF
the Persians, the Gauls, the Greeks, and
the Romans, all of whom regarded the
egg as an emblem of the universe and
the work of Deity. The early Christians
of Mesopotamia had the custom of dye
ing and decorating eggs at Easter. They
were stained red in memory of the blood
of Christ shed at his crucifxion. The
Church adopted the custom, and re-
garded the eggs as the emblem of the
resurrection, and is evinced by the bene-
diction Of Pope Paul about ITO, which
read thus: "Bless, 0 Lord! we beseech
thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it
may become a wholesome sustenance to
thy faithful servants, eatingit in thank
fulness to thee on account of the resur.
rection of the Lord" Thus the custom
has come down from ages lost in anti
uuity.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01
Michigan Eccentricities.

There is lady living in Detroit who
has eaten pound of candy daily for
weeks past. About year ago, after TO
covering from severe attack of typhoid
fever, she developed sudden fondness
for raisins. She bought them by the
pound and the box, and she has been
known to devour two pounds of raisins
in a day. After time her taste
changed to confections, and now she
eats them day and night, on the car, at
the opera, and even in church. She
buys only the finest and most expensive,
and never less than pound per day.
There is a man fifty-three years old who
has resided in Detroit ever since the
first street car was started, and yet he
has never entered a car. In rain and
snow and heat he joys along, meeting
and being passed by cars, but nothing
can drive him into becoming passenger.
When the presentpostOffice building WAS
erected the site displeased him, and he
has never yet entered the building. In
going up and down Michigan-avenue he
always walks on the south side. There
is man living in this city who has for
years kept two men and two women ser
wants, and he has always insisted that
the men should be black-haired and the
women red-haired. 1t is said that years
ago he passed a black-haired man and a
red-haired girl walking arm-in-arm, and
during the next ten steps he picked up
wallet with large sum of money in it
which was never claimed. His good
luck brought with it the within that he
now INDUCES. On Sixth-street lives a
middle-aged man who will not speak to
man wearing stove-pipe hat. Once,
after sending for doctor for his wife,
he refused to let the physician enter be-
cause he had silk hat on.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

The annual production of rice in the
Carolinas and Louisiana averages eighty
million pounds. But this is a small
amount when compared with the pro-
duction in the great eastern countries
where large part of population of
eight hundred million people use rice
production in these Oriental countries,
where it reached last year total of
twenty-five billion pounds, according to
estimates furnished by parties claiming
to be we'll informed. This is three thous-
and times more than is produced in the
United States, and is about ten times
the weight of the largest crop of wheat
produced in the United States.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

THE Yellow Fever Commission has
brought out great diversity of opinion
among doctors as to many interesting
facts relating to this dread malady.
Some hold to the germ" theory; others
do not. Some declare it to be indigen-
GUS, while others think it imported.
Some believe it can be effectually quar-
antined; others claim that thorough
sanitary measures-local and general
cleanliness-will prevent it. Thus we
see that while much has been done, the
inquiry is not complete. The plague
holds the field. Let the Investigations
proceed until we know more certainly
the cause and the possible prevention of
yellow fever.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

FROM the British fleet in Eastern
waters: A young midshipman went
out to join his ship, commanded by a
gallant officer, otherwise rather a Don.
He was met on deck by the captain, who
said "Well, youngster, SO you've come
to join U.S., Isuppose it's the old story
the fool of the family, eh? Haw, haww
To which the MILDLY replied, in q
squeaky voice. "Oh, no, sir; it's al
changed since your day. Exit captain
London World.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

THERE has been a great deal of con-
fusion not only as to the height, but the
spelling of one of the volcanoes of Ice
land, which is Hekla. Hecla is wrong;
Hekla, in Iceland, meaning hooded, in
allusion to the snow or cloud which rests
on its summit. The height of Hekla is
sos English feet, and it is not the
highest volcano, though the most fire.
quent in eruptions. Orefa Jokullis the
loftiest of the volcano chain, having a
height of 6,466.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

A MAN may be consistent, conscien-
tious Christian and model of religious
life in the church and the community ;
he may faithfully read the Bible instead
of the Sunday papers, and cheerfully
support his mother-in-law and her six
children; but it is one hundred chances
to one that his pure human nature will
ripple in wave of tingling pleasure
when he receives letter through the
mail on which he discovers a stamp that
the postmaster has forgotten to cancel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

THE Omahs NeDs gives as reason for
the delay of Union Pacific train into
that city that cattle blockaded the track.
1t seems that herds of cattle, numbering
three hundred or four hundred, get on
the track at different points to enjoy the
shelter afforded by the snow piled high
on each side, and pay no attention what
ever to the train. A number are gener-
ally killed before passage is effected.