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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Singular End of a Match.

The successive disablement of the
various contestants for the London walk
ing match recalls the somewhat similar
ending of rather singular match set on
foot some years ago by native Prince of
Northern India. A bear, lion, tiger,
a bull and horse belonging to one of
the Rajah's mounted guards, we're turned
into an Enclosure together and left to
fight it out. Bets were naturally
divided as to the result, but both the
Rajah himself and his English guests
were unanimous in betting against the
horse. The moment the animals were
left to themselves, the tiger, creeping
along the ground like cat, sprang at
the bulls throat, and brought it down.
The next moment the conqueror fell in
his turn before the rush of the lion,
though not without making fearful
cash in the latter's flank with his fore
paw. The bear and the lion then met,
and the former, locking his huge paw
around the neck of the enfeebled beast,
stifed him with one hug. Thus left
master of the field, the bear next turned
his attention to the horse, which all this
while had been quietly grazing at little
distance. The latter, with one kick of
his formidable hind hoofs, fractured
two of the bears ribs and broke his skull
with the second, the victory thus falling
to the very combatant whom every one
thought least likely to gain it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
A Bear-Faced Reporter.

w. Benton, the king of American
reporters, has died in Paris. He scat.
tered about his Gournals) money with
lavishness. He spoke some eight or ten
languages, and knew every man and
woman worth knowing. The Paris
Figaro says: /" He had gained admis-
sion to Prince Gortschakof's presence
as sailor, to Bismarck as a dog mer.
chant, to the Congress at Berlin as a
photographer he had gone to roval
banquets disguised as a waiter, and to
royal funerals as coffin bearer; in 1867
he made the acquaintance of Mile.
Schneider in the role of Brazilian dia-
mond miner, while du-ing the Franco.
Prussian war he figured as a Turko
(blacker than life), Zouave, or Uhlan,
according as the exigencies of the situa-
ton demanded. The accomplished
journalist was about three weeks ago in
great German city, where the sensation
OF the time wasa troupe of trained bears.
There were six of them, and they went
through their drills and other perform
ances with such startling regularity that
it was very generally suspected that
they were not bears, but men disguised
in bear-skins. w. Benton thought as
much, and offered to wager with the
manager that he would enter the den,
but the manager declined to sanction
his enterprise. w. Benton thereupon
invited all the journalists in the
city to dinner, assured them that
the bears were frauds, and invited
them to be present at the after
noon performance next day, when he in
tended to unmask the humbug. Having
bribed an employee of the menagerie,
Benton, disguised as bear, entered the
cage. His five companions seemed
furiously excited, but he attributed
this to their desire to fend of suspicion.
The public applauded most enthusiastic
cally. 1t was then that the unhappy
being, DESTROYS of carrying out his plan,
turned toward the press box, removed
his bears head and bowed politely. A
tremendous roar of laughte. ensued, fol-
lowed by an immense shrek of terror.
The bears, on seeing thishuman face, pre-
cipitated themselves upon the unfortu-
nate man. Before the tanner could take
steps to save him the reporter, fright
fully mutilated, had breathed his last.
Thus persisted poor w. Benton, whose
itor-in-chief seeks vainly man fit to
replace him." If any one doubts the
truth of the foregoing statements he
must have lost all faith in human
nature.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Something New in Journalism.

The Printers Circular says: When
the present Pope was a Cardinal, he
cherished the idea of publishing grand
Catholic journal-an organ for his
Church that could be read by all the
people of Europe aud America in their
mother languages, Since his elevation
to the Pontifcate, Leo XIII has exerted
himself diligently TO put his ideas of a
great newspaper into practice. He has
succeeded SO far as to authorize the an
nouncement that its first number will
be issued in July or August of this year.
1t will be printed in seven different Ian
guages; will discuss all the political and
economical questions of the day, and
officially represent the opinions of the
Holy See. The compositors are to be
the deaf boys educated in one
of the asylums of the Church in Rome
Alimonde will be the General Superin-
tendent. The Pope is anxious that
cardinal should be at the head of the
editorial department; he offered that
position to Cardinal Nina, who declined
it. The novel paper will start with
forty-two thousand subscribers; very
few of this number are Italians. Once
fairly under way, the grand Catholic
organ is likely to commend itself to
future Popes, and become permanent
power among the newspapers of the
Old World.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

Every town where much local bust
ness is done is periodically visited by a
class of men who represent all the kinds
of business carried on in the place; and
those which are situated away from a
railroad or river would be exceedingly
dull but for those travelling statesmen
who, in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas, are
called runners" and in Arkansas and
the South generally, "drummers."
Their advent is particularly welcomed
by the hotel and livery men, since they
always leave in their wake few loose
dollars, and bring with them the fresh
est gossip from the great throbbing
arteries of commerce and politics.
They are usually men of the world, full
of life and fresh stories, and give to
these secluded burgs something of a
cosmopolitan air during their stay. As
men they represent nearly all phases of
society and many grades of Intelligence.
" No pent-up utica confines their pow
ers," and politics and religion are dis
cussed with an abandon and dash that
make their opinions quoted and re-
spected by the simple-hearted villagers
as though they were oracles of wisdom
itself.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Just Like n Man.

Mrs. Cligho went down to the Sand
witch Springs the other day with some
friends, and after she had departed her
husband looked around the house to see
what he could do to busy himself. The
front steps looked rather brown, and he
pulled off his coat, hunted up paint and
brush, and in an hour he had completed
as nice job of painting as any house
wife would care to see He had right
to chuckle over it, and to imagine how
pleased his wife would be, but no one
can tell what an hour may bring forth.
Even before she had opened the gate on
her return the wife got red in the face,
hourished her parasol around, and
called out:
"You great big idiot! Won't you
never learn anything"
Wh-what's the matter now" he
gasped.
"Matterl Why, have invited a
dozen people to come in this evening
and eat strawberries and play whist"
eyes, we'll, can't they Gomez
"Can they? Hasn't every blessed
one of them got to come in at the side
door and see that sitting-room carpet
all full of holes, and the back hall all
torn up? I'll die before Pll let 'em,
and if you don't get soap-suds and rag
and take that paint off I'll hire it
done!"
Mr.. Cligho was just an hour and a
half at the job, and when men went past
and asked him what he was doing he
softly replied that he was using soap
suds to exterminate red ants.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
The Umbrella Bird.

The umbrella bird is truly remark
able creature, and from the extra
ordinary mode in which its pfumage is
arranged, never fails of attracting the
attention of the most casual spectator.
The bird is native of the islandsof the
South American rivers-being seldom if
ever seen on the main land-from
whence it is not unfrequently brought
by collectors, as there is always a ready
sale for its skin, either to serve as an
ornament in glass cases, or as a speci-
men for a museum. In dimensions the
umbrella bird equals the common crow,
and but for the curious plume which
adorns its head, and the tuft which
hangs from its breast, might be mis-
taken at distance for that bird. The
general color of this species is rich shin
ing black. glazed with varying tints of
blue and purple like the feathers of the
magpie's tail. Very little is known of
the habits of this bird. Its crest is,
perhaps, the most fully developed and
beautiful of any bird known. 1t is
composed of long, slender feathers, ris-
ing from a contractile skin ON top of
the head. The shafts are white, and
the plume glossy blue, hair like, and
curved outward at the tip. When the
crest is laid back, the shafts form a
compact white mass, sloping up from
the top of the head, and surmounted by
the dense hairy plumes. Even in this
position it is not an inelegant crest,
but it is when it is fully spread that
its peculiar character is developed.
The shafts then radiate on all sides
from the top of the head, reaching in
front beyond and below to the tip of
the beak, which is hidden from view,
The top then forms a perfect, slightly
elongated dome, of beautiful shining
blue color, having point of divergence
rather behind the center, like that in
a human head. The length of this
dome from front to back Is five inches,
the breadth four to four and half
inches. The food of the umbrella bird
consists chiefly of berries and various
fruits, and it always rejects the hard
stone of stone fruit AS its cry is ex-
ceedingly loud and deep, the natives
call the bird by name which signi-
fies pipe.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Incorporate Temperance.

The National Temperance Institute
met in Republican Hall yesterday to re-
organize, the officers elected last Sun
day having declined to serve. Ex-Vice
President Walford presided, and asked
the pleasure of the meeting. A mem
Der asked what was the financial condi-
ton of the society. The report of
Mrs. Conklin, the Financial Secretary,
was read as an answer. The receipts
for the last three months were $559.25;
expenses, $5S0.91, showing deficit of
$2l.66.
Mrs. Wilson" Where is the money?
How is it accounted forp claim it has
been expended illegally"
Mrs. Conklin-"I deny the charge,
and it is such persons as Mrs. Wilson
that has destroyed the influence of this
society. Turning to Mrs. Wilson and
shaking her finger.] You stole cold
victuals from our tea-party, saying you
were going to take them to your wash
erwoman, when you never did, but put
them on your own table,"
Mrs. Wilson" 1t is not so. / didn't
spend $4,000 of others peoples money,
either. In an undertone. She's a
barefaced old thing and ought to be
tarred and feathered."
Mrs. Lusk.-" If you don't stop all
thif, Mrs. Wilson, I'll call in police
man. You are making all the disturb
ance."
Mrs. Wilson" Where's that dollar
that my husband advanced to the jani-
tor? You have not given him credit
for it." Exit Mrs. Wilson, to
return in few minutes and take a seat
in the back part of the hall.
Mr.. Conklin-"I think with such
members as this society has got it ought
to die. That woman ought to be prose-
cuted for making such charges against
me. For shamel For shame to let
this society die! Go on and show to
the world that you can live without Mr..
or Mrs. Wilson"
Mr.. Able" This whole disturbance
is caused by Mr.. Wilson's great hberali-
ty to the organization, contrary to the
wishes of Mrs. Wilson,"
Mr.. Wilson" L am sorry that such
remarks have been made here. will
not sit and listen to them"
After thanking ex-President Gibbs
for coming to their rescue, and becom-
ing responsible for the expenses of the
meeting, the society became extinct
Nelo York sam.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

A CORRESPONDENCE of the Philadelphia
Bulletin writing from Rome says the
women have compilations like white
wax, which are very lovely by gaslight,
but unhealthy looking by day. See one
Roman face and you see them all. The
same vaxen face, the same nose, the
same large black eyes, the same long
black hair, the same opulence of flesh,
and the same walk, dangling from side
to side, like poor lame ducks. Whatever
the season may be, Roman women walk
more ungracefully than any other
women under Gods armament, and
they wear the ugliest shoes, and they
have the largest feet l ever saw on
women, not excepting the Dutch, who
cover considerable spread of ground
also. The way Roman girl bows to
you, also, is very funny She shrugs
up her left shoulder to her left ear, and,
turning her face over this left shoulder,
mods to you. This is the latest fashion
in bowling in Roman in high life.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Elimination.

Our bodies are in state of incessant
waste and repair. AT countless millions
of points, old material is being used up,
and instantly replaced by new material
that is as instantly cast aside.
For this reason it is true not only
that ones body is wholly changed every
year, but that it is not the same at two
successive moments. Hence the impor-
lance of eliminating organs, to drain of
this dead matter.
Arterial blood furnishes all the new
material, while the old is brought away
in the veins, from which, it having
been eliminated, the residue returns to
the heart, purified for further use.
The eliminating organs are the lungs,
liver, kidneys and skin. The lungs
eliminate carbonic acid, - the most
abundant of all the waste; the liver,
cholesterine,-waste of the brain and
nerves; the kidneys, the waste of the
muscles the skin, more or less of carbon
but especially the salts of the system.
If any eliminating organ is inactive
or diseased, so as to be unable to per-
form its Office properly. the effee matter
is left in the blood, to accumulate in
the circulation, except that some one or
more of the other eliminating organs
come to the help of the former.
The skin often does so much of this
vicarious work, that a single glance at
the diseased mans face will sometimes
enable the physician to know what
eliminating organ is diseased or torpid.
This waste matter left in the system
results in various diseases,-someti times
in blindness, sometimes in ulcers and
various eruptions, and often in death,
the system becoming at length fatally
poisoned with it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

DR.. SCHMIDT, of the New Orleans
Charity Hospital, has had numerous OPP
portunities for investigating the nature
of the yellow fever poison. He takes a
decided stand against the germ theory,
claiming it to be disease depending
like smallpox, scarlet fever and measles
upon a specific poison of animal
origin, a product of the diseased human
organism Itself. The fact that in the
case of putrefaction the poison increases
in intensity with each individual
through whom it passes explains the
fatality of the disease, which increases
as the epidemic advances. The pre-
vention of the disease involves the in
teresting question of quarantine, and
the perfect isolation of the first cases
would appear to be the mos. important
sanitary measure.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Howlish Wampo.

Chief Moses and delegation of In
dian chiefs from Oregon and Wash
ington Territory recently visited WASH
ington to explain about certain lands
that they wanted. On their way hither
these Indians assembled at Fort Van
couver, when it was found that they had
not the means to come East. Moses
said that the Great Father would pay
the expenses, and the trip needn't cost
the chiefs and braves bead. In fact,
they had been ordered by the Great
Father to go. Then up rose Howlish
Wampo, big chief of the Causes. He
held aloft much-worn valise, from
which came the sound of thinking gold.
"Ughw remarked Howlish Wampo, "me
pay for all the Great Father know then
that his children come not for the ride
and for gifts, but as men ;me pay for all !;
waghp And Howlish Wampo, whose
thousand ponies Craze on as many hills,
shrugged his shoulders and threw down
= handful Of $40 gold pieces.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

ACCORDING to late estimates, Great
Britain is not the wealthiest country on
earth, as has been believed. France
values her private property, real and
personal, at $43, 10000, 900, and her
navy, palaces, public buildings, and
other public property, excepting high
ways, at 81, AIS, 900, 900, making $44, $685.
o0e, 0Uo. The aggregate estimate for
England, Scotland and Ireland, without
reckoning public highways, is $42, $780,
100000. Real estate in France greatly
exceeds in area that of England, while
in the latter there is a great excess of
personal property over the former.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

PRINCIPAL FRENCH, OF one of the
Pennsylvania normal schools, suggests
what he callsa /" business day" in schools
lone day in month, fortnight, or a
week set aside for the learning of some
particular thing in a fresh way. He re-
commends that on one of these days each
pupil should be requested to bring some
good magazine or newspaper and read
therein something of real value which
will bring out questions from the
auditors. On another day he suggests
that each pupil should be taught how
to.write correct and entertaining letters,
and how to make notes and receipts.
Again he suggests geography, asking
pupils, for instance, to load vessel at
Boston with such articles as are needed
in the West Indies Mr. French carries
his recommendations and illustrations
through many branches of study.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26


Mr.. JAMES GORDON BENEFITS Arctic
exploring vessel, the jeanette, has sailed
from San Francisco The vessel goes
thoroughly equipped, is manned by an
enthusiastic company, and under the
command of an officer of the navy. 1t
is not likely there will be any of that
divided authority which made the
voyage of the PoIaris such miser-
able failure. Should success crown the
efforts of the gallant commander, the
enterprising and energetic editor of the
Herald will have scored geographical
victories the most brilliant ever won by
one man. The solution of the Northern
mystery would be the event of the
Nineteenth Century, and the whole
world will unite in the heartiest wishes
for the success of the voyagers and for
their safe return home.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
Profits ON Railway Investments in Diff
ferent Countries.

A work has recently been published
in London that shows the percentage of
net revenue derived from railways in
different quarters of the globe, and es-
pecially those constructed mainly with
English capital. The most profitable of
these fields has been India, where an
aggregate investment CT about $3.50, 000,-
600 has yielded a revenue of So per
cent, while the most Improbable field
has been Canada, where capital ex-
penditure of about $2l5,000,0O0 has
only yielded a return of Ii per cent. An
outlay of about SIS. 0O0, 900 on fourteen
South American railways has yielded
an average return of 4l1-16 per cent
more than the rate Of profit on the ag.
gregste railway system of the United
Kingdom, which was SIG per cent
More, than 500, 900, 900 invested in rail
way enterprises in various parts of
Europe, mainly in Austria, yields 81
per cent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
The Young Mans First Hat.
Burlington Hawkeye.l


The first time you wear stove-pipe
hat everybody looks at you. Not, as
you vainly imagine, because you are the
first young man who ever wore a stove
pipe hat, but because it is apparent even
TO the old blind man who sits in the
back pew, without any cushion, away
back under the gallery where the poor
have the Gospel preached at them, that
it is the first time ever you wore hat
of that description. Your old father
claps one on the back of his head, puts
his hands into his pockets. holds up his
head, and walks off down the street in a
gale of wind and never thinks of his hat.
But you, son, you pull yours on at the
most graceful angle it can be posed, and
you go lettering along, both hands
ready to fly at the hat at the slightest
provocation of the ghostliest phantom
of puff of wind. You don't look COM
Portable, son. Your hat is always try
ing to come off; you bump it against
everything you pass; you rub it the
wrong way when you try to brush the
dust off it; when you carry it in your
hand up the aisle, everybody smiles, be-
cause you first hold it by the brim and
let the crown tip gracefully over your
arm, and by the time you have hit three
or four worshipers in the head with it
you change and turn it under your arm
and try to carry it that way without
touching it, and the first thing you do
in that pose, you put woman's eye out
with your elbow. Then, when you sit
down, you put the hat on the floor, SET
ting it on the brim; fatal mistake
And then, before the sermon is half
through, you put your feet on it three
times. But never mind you have to
learn some time. Only don't imagine
that people never saw anything of the
kind before, because they have.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

INSTANCES of burial before death are
of rare occurrence, sensational news
paper accounts of such to the contrary
Notwithstanding. Physicians can usu-
ally tell the most perfect case of sus-
pended animation from actual death.
Of course it would be horrible to be
burie alive, and the indisputable evil
dences of death ought always to be
recognized before interment; but after
that no fear nor doubt need be enter
tanned. During period of more than
forty years, German citi es have re-
quired the dead to be placed in morru-
airy houses for several days before burial,
with bell pull SO arranged that the
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26
TWELVE sets of telephones have been

sent out to Sir Garnet Wolseley for use
at the seat of war in South Africa. The
great advantage of the telephone over
the telegraph is that the general can
carry on confidential talk with the Off
Ger at the district station, or a soldier
can creep out toward the enemy's lines
and whisper back the information as to
position. A fine wire-the thinner the
better-is all that is needed. This the
soldier carries ON reel upon his back,
a mile weighing only few pounds.
This will be the first time the telephone
has been used as an instrument OF war
fare, E-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

The Chinese are represented by a
cable dispatch as having taken glori-
Gus revenge from their recent defeat by
Usbek Tartars. The prize which is
fought for between the contending par
ties, is the famous territory of Kashgar,
which the late Yakoob Beg capture, d
from the Chinese and took to himself for
twelve years, but which was afterward
recaptured by the Chinese General Tso,
and then almost entirely conquered
again by the Mussulman Tartars, but
which is said to have just been retaken
by the Chinese.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-26

The land in Ireland is cultivated by
100000 tenants, who occupy an average
of thirty-two acres each. There are
10000 landlords, of whom 1912 own
two-thirds of the whole country. Mr..
Gladstone says that the question of
converting the disaffected Irish tenant
into an owner rises into the higher re-
gion of politics and Of moral and social
order, and goes to the root of how to
Danish Irish discomfort.