The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-04
NE WIS AND NOTES.

DR.. HENRY BLoDGETT, a missionary
in China, estimates the number of deaths
by the recent famine in the northern
provinces at ten millions.
AT Gussowka, Russia, man sus.
pected of incendiarism causing the death
of seventy horses, was thrown by the
furious populace into the flames.
The forty million people in the United
States, dispersed over an area OF
more than three millions Of square miles,
are served with mails by seventy-seven
thousand miles of railroad.
THE government of Denmark proposes
to devote one million two hundred
thousand crowns to the reconstruction
of the plantations destroyed during the
instruction in Santa Cruz.
DIR. HOWARD CROSBY, of the Society
for the Suppression of Vice of New York,
says there are one thousand seven hun.
dred and thirty-nine less low drinking
places than there we're year ago.
WHEN you are not certain that your
friend has erred, be careful not to men
tion your suspicion to any one, and if
you know that he has gone estray speak
only to him of the wrong doing.
TOURNAMENTS have always been pop
: ular among the young white men of the
South, and now the colored population
is asserting its right to enter the arena
and have its own "Queens of Love and
Beauty"
DOZENS of Congressman are running
around Washington now endeayoring to
get cheap board, and the Free Press says
it is predicted that before Congress ad-
journs dozens of boarding house madams
will be running around looking for Con-
gressmen.
THE grand juries of Missouri are pc
titioning the Legislature for the revival
of the whipping post The soothing
effect of the lash on the shoulders of a
criminal is thought to have more infu-
ence over him than any term of i'm
prisonment.
SEEK pleasures wherever you can con-
sistently do so. No enjoyment, how
ever inconsiderable, is confined to the
present moment. A man is the happier
for life from having made an agreeable
tour, or enjoyed any considerable inter-
val OF innocent pleasure.
The electric light has been introduced
In Brooklyn dry goods store, to take
the place of eighty or ninety gas Jets.
Six electric lights, each of two thousand
candle power, have been put in ut a
cost of $4,000. 1t is estimated that the
cost of lighting will be one-fourth.
IT is announced that Lieutenant
Zubowich will again put his mare
Caradoc to a severe test. He has gone
to England, where he intends endeavo
ing to cross the English Channel from
Dover to Calais on the animals back.
supported by his swimming apparatus.
The chart of life is dotted all over
with dark spots as marks where young
men have gone down by going in debt
without the means or probability of pay
ing. He forfeits his word in promises,
then he looses his pride of character
and sinks all that was noble and good in
his life.
TWENTY years ago a little girl was
born in Flemingburg, Ky. Her parents
resolved to begin from her birth and de
post ten cents per day in the bank for
her benefit. She is now twenty years
old, and the sum amounts to one thous-
and four hundred and sixty-one dollars.
The young man that marries her will en-
terrain secret wish that they had made
it twenty.
In captivity elephants have been
known to sleep for months standing up,
and in some menageries the keepers in
fer that the animal is i'll if it lies down
during the night. In fact, its legs sup
port it so well that one sportsman printed
an account of his firing at an ele-
plant over and over again, and at last,
coming up to it, found that it had died
standing up.
THERE are over seven thousand
Americans studying in German schools
aud universities. The American Consul
at Wurtemburg estimates that over
four million FIVE hundred thousand
dollars are thus annually expended by
Americans in Germany. This amount,
he thinks, would go a long way toward
building up and sustaining similar in
situations at home.