The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

There almost seventeen hundred
lorses which can trot mile in 2:30 or
better. {
The quickest time on record made
by a steamship from Florida to New
York was made a few days ago by the
steamer Chattahooche in .seventy-two
hours. ssu wH ga
"A butcher in Poughkeepsie, N. T.,
killed an OK a few days ago, and on
opening its paunch found therein a five
hundred dollar certificate of stock n
the Poughkeepsie bridge.-N.Y. Sun.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky
has decided that wife may recover
money lost by her husband at gambling.
That is more than the husband can do
for himself. -Louisville Courter-Jour-
nal.
The adulteration of Chinese teas
with American catnip leaves is not so
Objectionable, inasmuch as the action of
the added Ingredients quoting on the
nerves and induces sleep
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone has given a
large lot of land near Nineteenth and
X Streets, Washington, and 1925, 900 in
money for the erection and maintenance
OF home for needy widows of the Epis-
copal persuasion Washington Star.
"A Montreal clergyman was too i'll
to preach on Sunday, but he wrote a
sermon, and, by the use Of telephone,
heard it delivered in his church by an
other preacher as he lay on his sick-bed
in his chamber Chicago journal.
There were thousands of Irish in this
country prior to the Revolutionary war
but not five per cent. were Roman Cath
olics. Nearly all were intensely Protes-
tant. In rural New England Roman
Catholic was rarity half a century
ago.-N Y. Sun.
The Weldon IN. c. News SAYS:
Some time since we published long
unusual Christian name which belongs
to colored man living near here. We
have since heard another, this time a
woman's. 1t is: Clarissa Sophronia
Teddy Whitehouse De Appletree Bur-
| ton. s s7ssaiE t7 - eNlat
"A Vermont man bet q neighbol
that he couldn't walk half d mile with
out looking to the right or left, and
just as the man started on his walk set
two dogs to fighting about halfway
down the track, and won his money as
easily as could be.-Boston Post. 8
-Pointed-toed shoes, on. the auth
ority OF the best shoemakers, are going
out OF fashion, and ere long will only
be worn by the "commoners. A
salute of fifty guns, loaded with baked
apples, ought to be fired from Gov
ernor's Island as demonstration of
joy unconfined.-N. r. Mail.
Sir Arthur Kennedy, the Governor
OF Queensland, who has set diplomatic
circles in flutter by his annexation of
New Guinea, is seventy-four years old,
and, before assuming the Governership
of Queensland, had successfully ruled
over Sierra Leone, West Australia, Van
covers Island, the West Africa settle
ment and Hong Kong.
The stage beard looks as much like
beard that grew there as a cows tail
would if tied to the bronze dog on the
front porch. When you tie heavy
black beard on a young actor whose
whole soul would be churned up if he
smoked a full-fedged cigar he looks
about as savage as o bowl of mush and
milk struck with club. Montana
Gazette.
The following is the schedule OF
rates adopted by the trustees of the
big Brooklyn bridge: Foot passengers,
one cent; car fare, five cents; one horse,
or horse and man, five cents; one horse
and vehicle, ten cents; two horses and
vehicle, loaded or unloaded, TWENTY
cents; each horse beyond two attached
to any vehicle, five cents; neat cattle,
each, live cents; sheep and hogs, each,
| two cents.