The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-01-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

A Shopkeeper IN EnllaCelpnla mas
righteously been fined fifty dollars for
selling a pistol to boy.
Coffee at wholesale in New York
now is lower than it has been at any
time since the panic of 1887.
Jay Gould said it would take rapid
writer eight hours per day the year round
to answer the begging letters he receives.
David Davis says he is never inter-
viewed SO that any reported interview
with him is to be treated as a fancy
sketch
when | was a student" said a
distinguished professor of medicine, II
thought had remedy for nearly every
disease; at present l only wish l pos
sessed sure one for a single malady."
Strike any town in the United States
you will and you can run across the man
who had only fifty cents to his name
after getting married. Some of them
can now show dollar and a-half. Ed
change.
"A Connecticut genius is at work on
a new cannon which he thinks will carry
a nine-pound shell twenty eight miles.
BY and by a General may be able to stay
at home and fight his battles. Detroit
Free Press
The Acknowledgement of Pennsyl-
vania has written an opinion to the
effect that the Governor has not the
power to restore TO citizenship person
who has lost the franchise by reason of
conviction for violation of the election
laws.
Called and sore shoulders in horse
are often caused by the name working
under the collar while pulling. This can
be avoided by plating the name and
tying it up in such a manner that it can
not touch the collar. 1t not only Injuries
the shoulder, but the name also, which
is one of the beauties of the horse.
The New York Herald estimates that
a man in respectable society in New
York City ought to be able to get married
and begin housekeeping on an expend-
iture Of $4,000. Those who have to
exc out miserable existence on 81, 600
q year will refrain from such a luxury
as marriage.
-Nelaton, the great French surgeon,
once said that if he had but four minutes
in which to perform an operation on
which life depended. he would take
one minute to consider how best to do it.
make hast slowly" says Goethe, which
is another way of putting the motto of
John Wesley; always in haste, but
never in hurry"
The London Echo mentions General
Sherman's recommendation that the
United States army be increased to 3d.
600 men and then signs: Happy land,
that finds 10000 men enough for the
protection of half a continent, and that,
consequently spends its taxes in making
such educational provision as altogether
puts our English cities to shame"
The Interior ascribes the frequency
of divorce in New England, so much
commented on in Massachusetts of late,
to too much attention to the head and
too little to the stomach. 1T is not in
human nature to stand so much of
George Eliot with SO little to eat. Who
ever heard of getting a divorce from a
girl who knows the mysteries of fried
chicken and waffles?''
The new combination letter-sheet
and envelope, and postal card, which
have been authorized by the Govern
ment, will probably be in circulation in
January. The inventor of the combna-
ton has received an order for 20, 600 900
of them; the price being $4,000. The
letter-sheet is about the size of ordinary
letter-paper. When written upon it is
folded twice from the bottom and once
from the right-hand side. which makes
it the size of an ordinary envelope. The
folding postal-card is half the size of the
letter-sheet and has only gummed flap
at the top.