The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-08-27
INrrREaTIXa PARAGRAPHS.

A CABIN was first built to vessel in
1923.
KITCHENS in South America have been
known to DO furnished throughout with
utensils made Of silver.
"VoIuMMossry aud "funipotent"
are two new English words which have
inst appeared. The last is applied to
spilitualists in Pollock's "Spinoya."
A NEW safety lamp for miners emits q
loud souad whenever an explosive mix
tue Of gas and mir entars it, thus giving
Warning of tho presence OF fire damp.
TUE favolite day for marriages in Paris
is Saturday, on the morning of which
there may he seen on the streets landaus
and barouches with white horses driven
with white reins.
LIZ girl has pretty teeth she laughs
often, ii she's got pretty foot she'll
wear n short dress, and if she's got neat
baud, she's fond Of n gamo of whist, and
if the reverse, she dislikes all these small
affairs.
1T is related that California pioneer,
seeing Chinaman coolly draw "navy
six and shoot n white rnifian neatly
through the abdomen, exclaimed with
much earnest enthusiasm: "Them Chi
nese is takin on Christian ways surprisin
fast!"
YoUEa man, don't be afraid that hon
est, legitimate overwork will shorten
your days 1t is better to wear out in q
home, built up by your own eti'orts-at
the age Of sixty.iiyo, than ii is to rust out
in tho poor-house five years later
UhitehaN Times.
WHITTIER says that the frat money he
ever earned was paid for q copy Of
Shakespeare, and that it proved TO he
the best Investment he ever made. "The
long years since" he adds, "have only
deepeued my admiration of The great
creative poet.
A MONTREAL thief had thrown bun
die of goods out through the rear window
of store, and would have followed in
safely. had he not stopped to read par
agral,h Which caught his eye in q news
paper lying on the counter. The delay
caused lis capture.
RALPH NIcKBEuY was a hard, cold,
selfish man, without grain Of generous
impulse. Newman Noggs was kind
hearted man, without grain of self in
his composition. Niekleby was rich;
Noggs, poor The one was q wise man;
The other, fool. Question for debate,
Which was the happier of the two?
II CnINA literary property is On the
same footing as other property. A per-
son printing and selling the works of au
author without his permission is liable
to "a punishment of 100 blows of the Dam
boo and three years deportation. If he
has stepped short at printing and not
begun to sell, the penalty il fifty blows
together with the forfeiture of books
and blocks for which it is intended to
print
"DrAs" BUCHANAN tells in his con-
fesson Of fortnne-tcller in Phila lei
piia Who reads destiny by the light Of q
c,iidle made Of human fat of doctor
who goes 10 Europe annually and brings
back love powders, which he represents
are compounded at the shrine of Cupid,
in Minerals temple, and of concern
which sells the pulverized gizzard of a
chicken as compound to produce arti-
fetal digestion.
The site Of an ancient camp Of Indians
at Cambridge, Mass, has for many years
been occupied bya Baptist Church. The
spirits of the red men haunt the spot,
because they cannot rest under the wrong
done item by the whites, and three times
they have burned the Westinghouse.
On each occasion all Indian war-whoop
was heard, mingled with the cracking Of
the flames. Old residents tell this story
with great solemnity.