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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-04-25

TIM RIoHr PLAcE.--Staniord Is the
right place to visit. and the great Empori-
um Of Hayden Brothers Is the right point
to 20 in search Of Spring and Summer
goods, II you want them cheap as dirt and
Of the very best qualify. Their two-story
housc, twenty-five feet wide and eighty
fee, deep, i filled to over flowing with dry
goods. bools, shoes, hats, notions, carpets,
furniture, Wallpaper, fancy goods, etc, etc,
and every thing Is marked down to panic
figures. Don't fail TO visit the place when
you come 10 town.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Oulckened lionscience in a Dog.

A correspondent of the London
Spectator tells the following story !;
A young fox terrier, about 8 months
I'D took great fancy to small brush.
If Indian workmanship, lying on the
lrawing-room table. 1t had been pun
ished more than once for jumping on
the table and taking it. On one occa-
sion the little dog was left alone in the
room accidentally. On my return it
Jumped to greet me as usual, and /
aid: Have you been good little
log while you have been left alone?"
immediately it put it's tail between it's
legs, skunk off into an adjoining room,
and brought back the little brush in its
mouth from where it had hidden it. i
vas much struck with what appeared to
me o remarkable instance of dog pos
sessing a conscience, and few months
afterward, finding it again alone in the
room, asked the same question, while
patting it. At once / saw it had been
up to some mischief, for with the same
look of shame it walked slowly to one of
the windows, where it lay down, with
it's nose pointing to letter bitten and
torn into shreds. On third occasion
it showed me where it had strewn a
lumber of little tickets about Che floor,
for doing which it had been reproved
previously. Icannot account for these
facts, except by surprising the dog must
have conscience"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Color In Lawn.PIanting.

As rule, also, never plant large,
dark evergreen in front of and very
near a brilliant, hght-colored, decidu-
GUS tree, for thus planted it will dwarf
and weaken the effect of the latter On
some lawns however, few massive
dark evergreens may beused with effect
in the extreme, and, if possible, north
west corner of the lot. They will pro-
tect and give character to the place and
heighten the effect of the deciduous
trees. A striking contrast may be OBJ
tanned by interspersing few white
birches among and in front of these
evergreens. They will serve, in this
case, to brighten the picture both win
ter and summer, though usually we pre-
fer not to mix evergreen and deciduous
trees. This harmonious and contrast
ing disposition of color requires careful
study, and even, perhaps, anatural gift.
For instance, it is better to introduce
gay, bright colors in well-judged proper
tons. A few bright flowers of deep red,
blue, or yellow, viii have a better effect
dispersed here and there about the
lawns than in one great mass. Intro
duce them so that by means of their
different natures there will be always
during the season Few gay points in
the picture Parsons, I'M
Scribner's for March.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Swallowed His Teeth.

Philadelphia physicians report sin
gular case, which goes to show that
false teeth, which drop out on slightest
provocation, need watching. Levi
Waggenseller, of Philadelphia, was the
owner of a set of teeth that would not
stay in place. One day he swallowed
plate and all. The teeth lodged first in
the lower part of the throat, where they
remained for five days. A physician
advised the taking of gin, to dissolve
them, and the teeth moved down and
lodged about. an inch and half above
the stomach. The patient could not eat
or drink. Milk poured down his throat
exuded from ears, eyes, mouth and nos
trils. He lived seven weeks without
food and died few days ago. After his
death an examination was made, in ac-
cordance with his request. The plate,
with the teeth in it, was found about
one inch and half above the entrance
of the stomach, the hooks firmly imbed-
ded in the flesh. There were marks at
certain intervals in the throat, showing
the progress of the plate as it passed
downward, the prints of the teeth being
in several places plainly visible, Had
the plate, which was two inches long
and an inch wide, passed into the stom-
ach, in the opinion of tie physicians it
would have dissolved and the mans life
been saved. AS it was, the plate passed
down the throat in transverse form,
and once lodged at the farthest point
displacement was impossible. N
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Is Consumption Contagious 7

Tho remarkable instances now and
then seen, in which persona without
hereditary tendency to phthisis become
phthisical after long-continued attend
ance on sufferers from the disease, have
suggested to many physicians the idea
that phthisis is contagious. II there is
such a contagion, the mechanism has
been supposed to be the inhalation
with the breath of fine particles of
tuberculous sputa, atomized into the
air by the patients cough. An attempt
has been made by Dr. Tappeiner, of
Meran, to ascertain whether, by SINH
lar means, animals could be rendered
tubercular, and the result of the expert
ments, which are published Id tho cur
rent number of V6'ch6te's 4fchip, are
of great interest. The animals expert
mented on were made to breathe for
several hours daily in chamber, in the
air of which fine particles of phthisis
sputum were suspended. The sputum
having been mixed with water, the MKT
ure was atomized by steam atomizer.
In all cases the sputa We're from persons
with cavities in their lungs. Dogs alone
were employed in the experiments,
since they very rarely suffer from spon-
taneous tuberculosis. The result was
that of eleven animals experimental on,
with one doubtful exception, after PEE
Rod varying from twenty-five to forty
five days, all, being killed, presented
well-developed military tubercles in both
lungs, and, in most of the cases, tuber-
Giles were present to smaller extent in
the kidneys, and, in some cases, also in
the liver and spleen. Microscopical ex-
animation WINS in accord with the naked
eye appearances. Tho quantity of
sputur, necessary for the effect is GER
tainly a very small one, In three ex-
periments only one gramme Of sputum
was daily atomised in the air of the
chamber, and the quantity of dry
sputum must have been exceedingly
small.-4London Lancet. fatWsg1
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
foRE7GN NEWsPAPERs

A recent editorial in the Philadelphia
Press reviews at length the value of
foreign journals as compared with those
Of eur own country, and criticises very
severely the toadyism and stupidity of
the, English and the vindietiveness of
the French newspapers In support of
this characterization, attention is called
to the fact that the London Daily Netcs
gave several columns to description of
the wedding ceremonies of the Duke Of
Connaught, over two columns being
devoted alone to the cataloguing of
presents received on that occasion, and
to the fact that while the most common
place movement of any member Of the
royal family is detailed with all the
minuteness possible in the English
papers, the most important national
events in this country are dismissed
with a line. While there is less toady-
ing on the part of the Partisan journals,
they appear to labor under the supposi-
ton that France is the world and that
Paris is,the worlds capital. Outside of
Paris, news of the utmost Importance is
rejected, and space which might be
made valuable is devoted to personal
reflections and to bitter polemics against
some adverse party. The article con-
cludes with the remark, that in the
German press can be found more of the
freedom and enterprise that character
ICES American journals. Their columns
are devoted to news from all parts of the
world, and are valuable in information.
This fact may in great measure &C.
count for the greater familiarity which
German immigrants evince with
American institutions, than do those of
any other nationality. ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Grains of Gold.

Do not betray the confidence of any
one.
This world is the infant school of the
Be rigid to yourself and gentle to
others.
He who knows the road can ride at
full trot N rH
Let your word be your bond. Good
credit is fortune to begin with.
The silent eye is often a more powerful
conqueror than the noisy tongue.
To abstain from a small thing is more
difficult than to undertake great one.
Never enter the room noisily, never
fail to close the door after you, and
never slam it.
An ayaricious man is like sandy
desert-sucking in all the rain, and Civ
ing back no fruit.
There is no. one else who has the
power to be so much your friend or
your enemy as yourself.
The memory of beloved mother be-
comes tie shadow of all our acts-goes
before or comes after.
Time is what we want most, but use
worst, and for which we must account
when time is no more.
Every effect has its cause, and every
man must reap as he sows. To thrive
or suffer is his actual desert.
Never fail to tell the truth. If truth
full, you get your reward. You will get
your punishment if you deceive. . \ =
Never enter room filed with people
without making slight bow to the
general company when first entering.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
A Famous Legal Battle Ended.

The Baltimore Sun says the Circuit
Court of Cecil County, Md, has Just
decided a case which has been on the
docketa for seventeen years, during
which time it was tried several times
without RESULT The contest was over
an acre of ground, part of tract called
Mount Ararat, on the eastern bank
of the Susquehanna. There were two
suits, instituted in 1862, known as the
Brown and Heskart eiectment cases,
isaac Brown being the plaintiff, and
Jacob Tome and the Philadelphia, Will
mington & Baltimore Railroad Com
pany the defendants. The leading at
torneys of the Cecil and Hartford bars
have been employed in the case at one
time aud another, and the expenses
have benin excess perhaps OF a hum
dred such acres. The railroad occupied
the land by virtue of an act of the
Legislature, passed in 1853, for the con-
struction of the''Port Deposit branch.
When taken in possession the ground
was covered by water, and the railroad
converted it into solid land by filling up.
The claimants contended that the ad-
dition was the result Of accretion, and
belonged to the owner of the land to
which it was added. On Monday last
verdict for the plaintiff was rendered,
The Cecil Wing says: Here upon this
barren acre, SO fiercely fought over, was
located at the mouth of Heron Run, the
cave of George Talbot, when he took
refuge from the vengeance of the Vir-
ginia Governor, after the killing of
Rousby, in 1864; and upon this lonely
spot it was that the barking of his little
dog, his sole companion, betrayed him
to his pursneF. Here, too, it was upon
the cliff, of Mount Ararat that the fall
cons of that same George Talbot were
to be seen long after their master had
disappeared, not only from these hills,
but from the history Of The colony"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Found Dead In a Trunk.

One of the most horrible tragedies
which has been chronicled of late, even
in these bloody times, was accidentally
brought TO light this afternoon in the
city of Lynn. A man named Michael
DAILY, employed in manufacturing es,
adjustment on Western avenue, about
two miles from the center OF tho city,
happened TO come out from the shop.
The spot is on the border of the marshes
lying on the Saugus river, which is only
short distance away. and, as DAILY cast
his eye toward the stream, he noticed
what appeared to be large piece of
driftwood. For some unaccountable
reason he decided to investigate, and
waded ont to where the object lay. As
he approached he was Mortified to find
what he had supposed to be log was a
small trunk bound with strong WOODEN
cord, while from the half-opened lid a
human hand protruded. DAILY at once
hurried back and obtained the assist
ance of fellow-workman, and both re-
turned to solve the horrible mystery.
On cutting the cord an appalling spec
tacle met their eyes. In the trunk lay,
in distorted and cramped position
the body of young woman, entirely
nude. The trunk being only two and a
half feet long, one and half feet wide,
and fifteen inches deep, the body had
been twisted and bent in every con-
ceivable way in order to crowd it into
the narrow space. The unfortunate
girls head lay on her right shoulder.
The right leg was bent at right angles
beneath her, the left leg crossed over
her waist and the arms wound about
her neck. The nose had been cut off as
if with a knife. The body was that of
a woman of perhaps "a years, with a
pretty face, uncontrolled by the pain
which must have attended her death.
Her height was five feet one inch and
her weight about 115 pounds. The
hair was light brown. In the trunk
lay two empty champagne bottles and
four or five bricks, the latter having
probably been intended to serve as
sinker by the ignorant perpetrator of
the butchery.-BcSton Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10

Jennie Smith has been telling the
Green Street Methodist congregation,
Philadelphia, that she was cured Of a
chronic spinal disease by a miracle.
She was bed-ridden for sixteen years.
A few months ago, when she was in the
Homeopathic Hospital, she asked DR..
John G. Morgan to pray with her, as
she felt that she was going to sit up.
He did 80, and in few minutes after
ward she sat up in her chair. This was
after all trials to bolster her up by
means of pillows and hands had failed
From this time she began to have 4
strong belief that she would be able to
walk again, and at length she appointed
a certain time for miraculous cure.
Some of her friends we're invited. To
others she wrote asking them to offer
up specific prayer on her behalf on that
day. After waiting until nearly mid
night, she asked two persons present to
take her by the arms, as she felt that
the time had come. They complied
and, with barely any effort on their part
she rose to her feet and walked. Since
that time she has had complete use OF
her legs. DR.. Morgan declares the truth
Of her story.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
PetitiOning Congress.

A Washington statistician estimates
that there have been introduced into
the House Of Representatives during the
Forty fifth Congress 10,167 petitions
and memorials praying for all manner
of legislation. OF these 1907 were
claims, 668 related to commerce, 1876 to
the liquor traffic, 264 were miscella-
neous, 2,251 related to military affairs,
70 to naval affairs, 1872 to patents, 878 to
pensions, 431 to polygamy, 431 to postal
matters, 2,440 to the tariff, 1884 to tax
alton. The miscellaneous petitions re-
late to the following subjects: Woman
suffrage, adulteration of food, educa-
ton and labor, public lands, Indian
affairs, Pacific railroads and matters re-
lating to the District of Columbia. The
number of petitions presented to the
House of Representatives increases
every year, the average increase being
about rs per cent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Photographs Taken at Midnight.

The account of the successful trial, or
rather use, of the Brush electric light at
the thread mills of the Willimantic
Company is still, no doubt, remem
bered by the readers of the Coalrd,st.
The great mule ROOM" about 240 feet
long, is made as light with four of the
electric burners as it was by nearly 100
gas burners. 1t was mentioned at the
time of the visit to Willimantlc that the
electric light is similar to sunlight and
that in its rays the fine distinctions in
the shades Of color are as truly made as
in the day time. A further illustration
of this identity between the electric and
the sun lights is furnished by the enter
prise of the managers of the Whitman
tic. Company in al interesting way.
They have sent to this Office . photo
graph of the winding-room IS it APP
peared with the electric lights at work,
and thu photograph was taken at mid
night by the electric light, thus proving
that the sur is no longer needed in the
picture business The photographs,
taken by, Isaac White, OF this city, are
clear and. would be creditable to day
work. Hartford CoaArasst II L
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Infant Mortality.

It is stated that Is per cent. Of all
the children born die in the first year
This results in summer, largely, from
improper food. 1t cannot be made too
widely known that the addition of a
teaspoonful of common lime-water, to
be had at the druggists for mere trife,
to each bottle of milk adapts cows
milk to the human constitution, and
renders it perfectly digestible to either
adults, invalids, or sucking infants. For
the latter the milk should be diluted
with tepid water and slightly sweetened
with moist, not loaf, sugar. Besides the
effect on the digestion, it may be as
sumed that the lime goes to the for
nation of the bones; hence children
thus fed have none of that softncss in
their bones SO painfully displayed in
what is termed "rickets."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
The Story OF n Butterfly.

During last fall, while Mr.. Cham
payne, of Nelson street, was bringing
in vegetables out of bis garden he dis
covered what appeared to be a green
caterpillar clinging to a cucumber. He
threw it away, but one of his children
took it in secret and placed it in the
family clock. Some weeks afterward
the insect was discovered encircled by
a silken web of its own making, and
one of Mr.. Champagne's children in
closed it in a warm covering of wool.
Nothing of interest occurred until a
few days ago, when Mrs. Champagne,
who had forgotten all about the insect,
opened the clock to wind it as usual,
AS soon as the door was opened beau
tiful and perfectly formed butterfly flew
out around the room, to the surprise of
the lady, and to the great Joy of the
children, who have become much enam-
ored of their fairy pet Otta,oa (Cdn-
dda) Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Northwest Passage.

If Arctic explorers have not discov-
cred practical Northwest passage
whales have, as is shown by the fact that
whales have been captured in the North
Pacific having harpoons that were
thrown into them ON the other side of
the continent. Capt Bauldry, of the
Helen Mar, of San Francisco, has taken
whale having in it large flint har-
poon, supposed to have been put in by
natives of Cape Bathurst, or the regions
beyond the mouth of the Mackenzie
river, because the natives living to the
westward of that river never use such
weapons, but always bone or iron. A
more positive evidence is found in the
fact that the Captain of the Adeline
Gibbs took whale in the Arctic with
an iron in it which had been thrown the
same season in Hudson bay. This is
known to be the case, because the iron
bore the mark of a ship at the time en-
gagged in whaling in the bay.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10

from single instance. An English
gentleman residing at Peterhof, coast
town about sixteen miles from st. Peters
burg. one morning found his Russian
groom hanging by the neck in the stable,
and cut him down at once, Just in time
to save his life. The next Gay he re-
ceiyed a visit from the local Inspector
of Police, who, far from commencing
his prompt humanity, vehemently
abused him for daring to transgress the
law. The Englishman heard him to tine
end without word, and then said
quietly: Well, Mr.. Inspector, Pm ex-
ltremely sorry to have done anything,
'bcf Pill make all the amends in my
power. If find you hanging anywhere,
pledge you my honor I Won tscut you
down"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
THE PERIL OF r USSIA.

The New York Commercial, in review
ing recent cable dispatches concerning
Russian affairs, says that they present a
picture of the present condition of Eu-
rope still worse than that represented
in former kilograms received since the
attempted assassination of the Gar.
The Muscovite Empire, that representa-
ton par excellence of autocracy and of
the repressive of the popular classes, is
lettering ON it's base, assaulted as it is
from every side. We are sure that the
Gear does not care half as much about
the Nihilists as he does about the revolt
of his formerly faithful .Cossacks.
Twenty thousand Of the latter are in
open rebellion, and a wholesale uprising
of all the villages which used to furn-
ish those splendid sotnias or squadrons
of cavalry, SO ably used by the Russian
Governors against the foes of Czarism at
home and abroad, threatens to deprive
the st. Petersburg Government of its
principal force. The Don Cossacks re-
fuse to pay their taxes, on the grounds
that they had to take part in the recent
campaign in Turkey. Sanguinary col
lisions have taken place, and the Cos
sacks, in an engagement which lasted
two days and night at Petroskata, al
most completely annihilated regiment
of Russian infantry. On the other hand,
the reign of terror inaugurated by the
Nihilists continues to prevail every day
new murders are committed with the ut
most impunity; high Russian official
has just been shot dead by beautiful
young lady in the midst of balLn 1T
seems evident to the London papers that
the Cars Government, through its tur-
pitude and its ferocity, is endangering
thepeace of Europe by melting Mill
ist-Socialistic revolution, which can
sweep the western part of the continent
exactly as in the fifth century the
Huns, Vandals, and other barbar-
ians," coming from the same countries
around the Volga, swept, away the
Roman civilization. The British press
is, therefore, writing down Alexander
II and the whole fabric of Russian Gov
eminent, which Alexander II himself
seems to abandon to its fate, since
he is preparing with all haste to go to
Livadia, at the extremity of his empire.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Didn't IN Know VINO to Apologize to.

~ David Crockett once visited MENACE
RE at Washington, and, pausing q
moment before particularly Yhideous
monkey, exclaimed: What q resem-
vblance to the Hon. Mr.. XII" The words
were scarcely spoken when he turned
! and, to his great astonishment. saw
standing at his side the very man whom
The had ,complimented. Il beg your
pardon" said the gallant Colonel; n
would not have made the remark had ]
known you were near me, and am ready TO
make the most humble apology for my
nnpard onable rudeness; but p looking
Y First at the insulted member Of Con
gress, whose face was anything but
lovely. and then at the animal compared
to him" hang it If I can tell whether
1 ought to apologize to you or to the
monkey"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-10
Treatment Of SMALLPOX In the Olden
Time. -.-

A curious old custom still fingers in
some of the more secluded parts of the
country of placing a patient suffering
from smallpox in bed with red hang
ings. 1t would be interesting to know
the origin of this custom, and how long
it had been in vogue. The tradition
that red is good for smallpox is at least
five centuries and half old, for we read
that John, one of the sons of Edward
H., was treated for the disease by being
put into bed surrounded by red hang
ings, covered with red blankets and a
red counterpart, his throat being gar
gled with red mulberry wine, and red
juice of pomegranates being given him
to suck. This was the boosted prescrip-
ton Of John of Gaddeaden, who took
no small credit to himself for bringing
his royal patient safely through the
disease.