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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

"A warm day like this said the
nautical cop yesterday afternoon at
Eighth and Chestnuts streets, as he
shook the beads of perspiration from
his walking cane "reminds me of a
pretty warm place once got into, and
on freezing cold day. Don't know
what case whale is, do youp Well,
it's a whale that has a cavity in its
head which holds just one-third Of all
the oil that the whale produces. The
body of seventy-five barrel ease
whale yields fifty barrels ard the head
twenty-five barrels. The incident /
speak Of happened while was on board
the whaling-ship Eliza +. Mason.
"We had captured hundred-barrel
whale, and after the head was split open
] was detailed to dip out the oil. It's
just like going into big bath-tub, and
9 man stands almost up to his arm-pits
in oil. | was wading about in the mon
ster's head when was suddenly startled
by seeing the surface of the oil burst
into blaze, caused, as | afterward
learned by one of the crew accidentally
dropping box of burning matches.
The only thing to do was to dive under
the oil, and did it, with my sheath
knife in my teeth. turned my head
after ! got underneath and could plainly
see the flames jumping about three feet.
After could breath no longer at
tempted to come to the surface. but the
heat was so intense that / had to dive
back again, and made a desperate effort
to dig my way out with the knie. [
managed to dig hole large enough to
thrust my head through, and then, by a
mighty effort escaped into the sea. 1t
was pretty tight squeeze, can II
you, and my body was so warm that it
made the water hiss around me. The
Captain Of the vessel thought ] had been
burned to death, and when swarm to
the side of the vessel he was so fright
ened that he told me there was only one
thing that prevented him from turning
gray in a night.
What was taat?" asked the listener
.sHe was bald-headed. - PhilaleipAta
Press.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12
"a Will Of His Own.

One of our best local preachers
preached sermon on children, and the
way to bring them up, and speaking OF
the old idea that a stubborn child, or a
child with will of its own, was q nuis-
ance, the elder said: 81 wouldn't give a
dime for child that had not will of
its own," or words to that effect. The
time has been when a child with a will
of its own has been looked upon by tho
whole neighborhood as a terror, and
mothers have sighed and endured sor-
row when they have noticed the spirit
shown by such child. But when they,
in later years, have looked around and
seen that the most successful men
and women of the land grew up from
children that had wills Of their own, the
sadness and sorrow of the mother has
given place to pride. The Sun does
not like to see children have wills of
their own that are SO strong that they
can not be controlled by parents, but few
children who have the right kind of
parents have such wills. Take child
with a will Of its own, and guide that
will properly, and not knock the back
bone out of it with a barrel stave, and
the child will grow up to be success
in business. Children with wills Of
their own may turn out to be pirates or
highway robbers, but it will be because
parents try to break that will by severe
punishment. They may partially break
it, but it will assert itself some time in
the wrong way, while if it is guided prop
erly the will may be mountain Of
strength. The successful men in all
hrur 1ol,n of hrVc L u
"will of their OWL" in youth. They were
not pet children who never said their
souls were their own. The successful
men look with pride upon their children
who have wills of their own, before they
know by experience that such will is
worth millions in the battle of life. A
man who had no mind of his own as .
boy may be good enough to carry
shawls to q matinee, or baskets to
picnic, or he may stand on corner and
chew cane, but he could not build
railroad through wilderness or across
Q mountain, and rather than face
panic he would sit down and cry. He
could not invent anything, unless it was
a patent corset or sightseeing hair
pin, while his brother, who had will
of his own, would invent telephone or
locomotive. The child with will of
his own may be harder to raise, and he
may cause some heart-aches and anx-
iety, but when that will which was so
hard to handle in youth gets hold Of .
difficult problem of business in later
years, and clinches itself around the
problem, and begins to squeeze, it will
never let up until success is achieved.
The stubborn, '.Be sure you are ready
and then go ahead" boys are in de-
mand, and are worth their weight in
gold, while the milk-and-water, ababy-
mine' fellows have to be done up in
punches like radishes. and gotrid OF in
. lump, and half of them turn out to be
pithy and no good. II you, good moth
er, have child with will Of its own,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

the sides of the skirt, down the front
OF the waist to the point, and on the
position and the sleeves. White
Oriental net in the piece, with lace to
match, is also used for these dresses,
and is trimmed with wide strips Of
crystal-beaded net cut from the piece
and laid along the apron drapery, either
lengthwise or horizontally, as the height
OF the wearcr may determine. The
sleeves are made entirely of the crystal
beading, and the neck, whether square,
a pointed surplice or with vest, has
this beaded net gathered inside of it, 10
partly fill up the open space or form q
vest or plastron. Black French lace
dresses made In the same way, and
trimmed with jet-bcaded net and satin
ribbons, are laid as transparents over
black satin Surah, and are considered
the choicest black dresses Of the sum-
mer Antique silk guipure lace in the
piece and in trimming widths is again
in fashion for black dresses, and is very
handsome when made up over black
gros grain. The designs Of flowers.
leaves and stripes worn ten years ago
are again seen, and there are also quaint
figures Of birds, dragons and animals
woven in these rich guipure laoes.
Hayper's Bazaar.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12
White Lace Dresses, Etc.

For dress occasions, for fetes and din.
ners at the watering places, white lace
dresses are the first choice, and these
are made short, and are considered APP
propriate both for day entertainments,
when hat Of the lace may be worn
with it, or for the most elaborate dinner
party, where trained skirt was former
~ dc riguear. White French laces,
woven precisely like the well-known
black French laces that initiate Chan
lilly. are the novelties for these dresses,
and are used in piece lace for the basque
and over-skirt, and with scalloped
edges as trimming lace. These
are made up over inexpensive and
soft white satin Surah as foundation
skirt and basque lining, and are
simply fashioned as position, or else
very short basque that is even around
the hips, and trimmed all around the
edge with full frills Of the lace, or lace
ruche with rosettes, or else with soft
puffs, or it may be a panier drapery
that forms the old-fashioned panier
basque. The Surah lining is high in the
neck, and follows the outlines Of the
basque, but all lining may be omitted
in the lace sleeves. The Surah skirt has
box plaitings Of Surah at the foot, on
which the garniture lace is arranged in
thick plaits at intervals. forming q
ruche, and the spaces between the plait-
ings are filed in with 0blong
rosettest Of very narrow white satin rib
bon SO thickly clustered in loops
that five or six yards are required for
each rosette; sometimes several hum
dred yards Of ribbon are on . single
dress, as there are similar rosettes ON
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

lSS3-there has been i'm Moscow q very
important example Of this fact. In a
Russian merchants family in that city,
consisting Of father, mother, two mar
riageable daughters and one son, the
eiNest daughter, about twenty years of
age, has just died, and an outline of the
proceedings consequent thereon will be
interesting. Certainly the social posi-
ton of the family was Of the middle
class wealthy and their living was OF
fair style for such folks. On the day Of
the daughters death, immediate prep
arations were made for the burial, which
in Russia must be at once. dead bodies
not being allowed to remain among the
living for more than twenty-four hours.
The coffin was made of thin boards, but
covered with silk velvet, having Hall
marked silver handles, and 9 coffin
furniture costing over one thousand
rubles Zone hundred pounds) and ip
the hands of the corpse was placed q
small painting OF the Virgin, having .
silver frame and covering, costing an
other one hundred pounds, and which
became the property of the church
where the funeral prayers were recited
at burial The body was dressed as a
brides she had become the bride of
Heaven-and these robes and the dress
ing involved, the first two hundred
pounds and the latter one hundred
pounds. First. she was dressed
in a fine linen chemise trimmed
with costly lace; over this a
chemisette,. and then a short tunic
in white satin, embroidered with gold
and silver thread, called sar0fan.
Then the head-dress was the usual Rus
sian hat with pearls. But the greatest
expenses were incurred in prayers and
masses. In forty churches in the city
Of Moscow prayers were ordered to be
said for her, morning and evening, for
forty days, for which 16, 600 rubles were
charged, or at the rate of los. per scrv-
ice-f1, 600 being paid for 5000 serv-
ices: and at each service some one at
tended and distributed bread and aims
to the poor, the bread being to each
person cGldtch, something more than
g penny loaf. Such loaves were also
sent for forty days to all the prisoners
in Moscow. For several DAYS in the
bazars the bakers we're authorized to
distribute bread to all poor people APP
PAjth8 AZ ~ III V1C 48Alc VI Lut Qe8Q
girl and engaged to pray for her. But
even this did not suffice. To other
cities OF Russia, and also to such as
Vienna, Pesth, Athens, where churches
of the sect exist, money was sent and
prayers ordered to be said for forty
days. The funeral took place in the
well-known Holy Cemetery Of Ragoshka,
where only Old Believers are buried,
and where wooden building was put
up capable OF dining $50 guests-the
leading members Of the sect around
Moscow. The dinner was served from
the leading hotel in Moscow at q cost
Of about los. per person, to which the
expense Of the fruit and wine had to be
added, the fruit in Russia in early
spring costing fabulous prices 1t Is
calculated by some of the most intimate
friends of the family known to tho
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12
How a Doctors Bill Was Settled.

When the time for settlement arrived
the good doctor presented bill for
fifty dollars, whereupon the man Of the
house took down his trusty rife.
walked up to the doctor and in friendly
accents said You want goin oil
without settlement, was you, do torP
| don't propose to owe no man nothin'.
Here's ten, which l reckon is about
the square thing. Now, then, il you
amt satisfied jist get yer weepon and
come round behind the hill thar, SO the
old woman won't get riled up, and
We'll settle 1t. don't want no man to
60 way from MY house dissat siiod,
specially you, Doc It is, perhaps,
needless to add to the length Of this
historical narrative by saying that the
physician was man who could draw a
logical inference, and that he expressed
an opinion on the spot that ten dollars
constituted an ample and even gener-
GUS remuneration for the services rem
dered. There is way to make any
man reasonable, and in Texas they
seem to have discovered chat way.--M
Y. Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12
k The Keely Motor Sponge.

met to-day the chief support of that
psychological puzzle of the age--the
Keely motor. Mr.. Frank G. Green was
a prosperous manufacturer of iron pipe
until he became Infatuated with the
motor in 1874, and neglected his bust
ness Bankruptcy ensued. Since then
he has been Keely's chief supporter, the
treasurer of the company, and constant
friend of the widest fraud of the times.
l knew Mr.. Green when he was in the
iron business, and when we meet
never fail to ask him how the motor is
coming on. Sometimes he invites me
to little Office he has in the Boreel
building, and shows me pictures of the
motor and reads me Mr.. Keely's latest
explanations Of this great discovery,
which might just as well be written in
Choctaw for all the sense that they con-
vey. To-day it was the same story that
! have heard for the last ten years.
ats all right this time" he said;
stthere no mistake about it now. Our
5O0-horse-power engine is all ready to
be put together. BY the middle of next
month we shall give you newspaper
men an exhibition that will convert you
oil. uC StOCh Will ~ up W RO,UUU d
share within two days after your ar
ticles appear.
whats it worth now?' / ventured
to ask.
Five dollars share-if any one
wants to buy. But when our locomotive
brings train of cars from Philadelphia
to New York at cost of ten cents, then
you will believe in it, won't youp Not
only that, but Mr.. Keely has SO per-
fected his invention that, by running
wires from his generator in Philadel-
phia, say, he can work all the engines
in New York. It's the simplest thing
in the world. Next month you will see
the grandest revolution the world has
ever known"
So it has been for ten wears. II is
always to happen next month, and SO
it will be until the public tires of it. !.
For ten years Green has been collecting
money from credulous persons, while
Keely tinkered at his absurd rattletrap.
Green tells me that. about $500, 900 in
all has been subscribed, of which SUM
less than 1925, 900 has gone to Kelly, the
rest having been spent upon the ma
chimes. The Directors now are Robert
Baldwin, }. j. Smith, g. b. Collier, of
Philadelphia; +. b. Haynes, f. G.
Green, E. q. Randall, OF the Erie Rail-
way, and w. w. Wright, all men who
ought to know better The New En-
gland rights are said 10 have been sold
for $4,000, certain Mr.. Rogers, Of
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Connecticut devotes go, 900. acres K
the cultivation of the oyster.
AT a recent sale Of Alderney cattl,
in Frankfort, KY, the bull Wanderel
brought 81, IT'S.
There are now not less than IL, OO(
Cinnamon in British Columbia and the
number is increasing fully 100 pei
month by the arrival of ship-loads in
Victoria.
The Navajo Indians will have 9
wool clip this year of over 800, OOC
pounds. The hides and pelts that they
will handle will amount to about 6OO.-
goo pounds. Chicago Times.
Florida constructed more miles OF
ras lroad last year than any other South
ern State except Georgia; and at her
present rate of railroad building she
will discount Georgia this year Che
cdgo Journal.
The American railroads are worth
most twice as much as Great Britain 8
ia lroads and shipp NJ combined. The
British shipping is valued at S1,0O0,-
eOJ,000; British railroads at So, 700, 0O0,-
600; American railroads at Sc 800, OOO,-
Texas papers claim that the profits
on cattle-raising in that State have
averaged 100 per cent. in the past five
. years, while in some cases they have
reached 800 per cent, and the claim is
substantiated by an array of statistics
that abundantly. prove the case.
The FIRST steel rail rolled in Ameri-
ca was rolled at the North Chicago Roll
ing Mill Company's works in Chicago,
May rs, 1865, little over eighteen
years ago. That steel rail cost those
who made it $780, id experiments
and outlay, and when it was made there
was nothing to show for the outlay, but
the rail was ian established fact. To
day American steel rails are preferred
to those made in Europe. ~ Rhsladelphio
Times.
Something like 800, 900, 900 il
spent every summer by American trav.
elers in Europe, the New York Mai
thinks. The amount spent every sum-
mer at the New Jersey seaside resorts
is by no means insignificant. One paper
estimates that the season receipts from
Long Beach to Long Branch inclusive
are not less than $S,000,00 and the
Philadelphia Press thinks Sc. 500, 900 a
low estimate Of the receipts from Long
Branch to Cape May.
The Maxwell Land Grant Company,
of Amsterdam, Holland, has a capital
of SIC, 900, 900, and owns $500, 900 acres
of land in the northeastern portion OF
New Mexico, bought about thirteen
years ago, when it was a barren wilder
ness. Lately the tide of civilization has
flowed in that direction, and now there
are eight towns in the district, the
largest of which is Ration, which fifteen
months ago had but 100 inhabitaLts,
but now has, thousands. The AtchisoN,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad CoInpan,
has ran irs line right through the grant.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

In Moscow, as in other parts OF
Russia. dissenters are met with, and
among them we have the ssOld Be-
LEVERS, = who conduct their worship ac-
cording TO the rites of the ancient Greek
Church, not admitting the various
changes adopted by Neon and others
and now carried out in the Russian
Greek Church. These dissenters go fo
great expense whenever death enters
their dwellings; and just now March,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

Worcester, having large interest. The
patents, Green says, are to be taken out
next month-aeain the same story as
for the last ten years; and young Bea-
man, Mr.. Evarts' son-in-law, has been
retained, according to Green, to look
after the interests of the company.-M
y. Cor. Boston Journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

don worry ABOUT the child, but thanK
God and bend the will by kindness, and
where that child grows up and succeeds
where others fail, write us postal card.
All OF the successful men in the country
had wills of their own, and that was ail
the capital they had. When we see a
child with a will of its own, we always
want to take it one side and tell it the
good news, that the will is more val
liable than rich relative --Peck's Sun,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-04-12

writer that sum Of not less than
10000 was spent over the ceremony;
and none of the co-religionists look up
on this as At all extravagant. - Cham
.bcrS' Journal
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-12
Having his
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-12

4Afitifitu 'lNiSiitIRipi-
Colonel Nat Hammond said the other ia (:
"The most opposite help ever given one
speaker by another was given to me by
Judge Lawson Black. during the convention
Of Us, WAS opposing granting the legis!a-
t,ire certain powers. and cxtravagantiy eN-
claimed. Suppose the Very day this came up
the legislature should be drunk An oppo-
nent asked. Can the gentleman conceive of
such thing happeningf As quick MS thought
Judge Black arose and stated that such
thing not only can happen, hut actually did
happen, and that he WAS IN the legislature
when il occurred.
lie then explained that before the war.
when the TreZcvant claim was before the
house the lobbyists for the claim bad given
a big wine supper, at which the whole house
was present They had ilnbibed very freely
and were all drunk. Gen Toomhs opposed
the claim. At the night session the vote was
taken. and the house roared YES. Gen.
Toomhs. almost alone, voted Ne He was
shrewd enough. however, TO call division
Those in favor of the motion win rise
called the speaker. \ full half minute Was
given Not n man on the affirmative was
able 10 rise TO the division. Gen Tosmlis
did arise when the negative was called
and defeated the claim ty ONE Ia ueihing y
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-12
4 Delicate Thing.
Wall Street Newsl


II has often and truly been SAID that capt.
tai is a delicate thing. frightened a. the
slightest rumor. and tucked away at the first
note of disaster. The case was exempli,iei
again the other day when an indianapolis
man was about to put SEQ ooo into hogs His
son came into the Office with the announce
ment that Il St Lcuis cooper-shor had
busted.
All cooper-shop, eh. Coopers make bar
rels. and barrels and pork 60 together |
think I'll wait little
But that was a cooper-shop which made
only -four barrels protested the msn wait
Ing for the papers TO be signed.
Yes, thas may be. and while | can't ex-
actly see what -four barrels and hogs have te
do with each ether, III hold this matter open
for few days. There's q drop in the price
Of brissles ia there somewhere. anyhow
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-12
From Professor Snow.

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OF Kansas.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-12
4 Lucid ENriauafiou.

Mrs 4. back from the seashorel Mercy
me! John, what is the matter with your noes,'
II is rs red n lobster and shines like stree;
lamp. What have you been drinking.
Mr.. A. twho stayed in the cityi-Soda
water, my dear; nothing stronger.
But what is there in soda water 10 make a
nose shire so.'
We'll, you see, my dear, the druggist
probably ran short Of marble dust. and sup
pose ne has been charging his fountain with
illuminating gas.