The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

Female telegraph operators in Ger.
many receive $40 a year with no va
cation
The Horseshoe fall at Niagara has
worn away the rock and receded dis
tancs Of 100 feet In the last thirty-four
years. Buffalo Express.
"A young Southerner Who lately
moved into the Indian Territory has
married an Indian girl, daughter of
chief, who is reported to be worth Over
300, 000.- Chicago Herald
Owl, stuffed with sauerkraut, is
Jrtckee luxury, says the Territorial
Enterprise. 1t is the result of the
united epicurian genius and taste of a
Washoe Indian brave and 8 big chief
of Vaterland,
A Massachusetts iian was arrested
one day recently for stealing $4,000
pennies, the hoard of an old farmer in
Connecticut The thief had purchased
a horse with his plumber, paying the
price in pennies. Boston Transcript.
"A schooner which sailed from
Baltimore recently for the Spanish
main took out a number Of sewing ma
chimes for the Mosquito Indians, which
the dusky maidens will utilize in the
manufacture of costumes such as pre-
vail in that country.
Irish butter seems to be the best.
At the International Exposition, held
this year at Calcutta, it was awarded a
diploma and medal. The samples. ex-
hibited had voyaged from Ireland to
India and had withstood several
months exposure to tropical heat
The next in merit was a sample OF
American oleomargarine. but it was
thrown out by the judges on learning
its nature.
The last section OF the Asturian
Railway, In Spain, was completed a
short time ago. 1t consists of forty.
four kilometers' length only, and thirty
of them are tunnels. These tunnels are
| tifty-six in number, and one is the
longest in Spain. The concession for
this line was granted twenty-four years
ago The line is of great importance
to the enormous and undeveloped coal
fields of the Asturias.
Few young women begin married
life under such terrible disheartening
|
dra Williams Wynn, whose wedding
was publicly celebrated in Welsh vii
lagos named Llangadfan. Llanuwchii'
Ign, Llanrhaiadr, Llangedwyn, Rhydy
croesan, Pontfadog, Llansaintiffraid
Glyn Ceriog, Trawsfyndd, Llanyblod
well, Llangyniew, Llanbrynmair ant
Machynlleth.
"A traveller describes a Virgins
snack-tle queer lunches sold by col
ored DANES at railway stations-as fol
lows: "a nondescript-looking package
of meat, cake and bread tied togethe1
with strings of red, white and blu'
yarn. The meat portion was a half o
a chicken fried in flour. Then there
were number of pieces of fried whea
bread, a generous slice of cold hoe
cake, and large piece of plain cake. ;
Not pound of wood or coal i
consumed at Creighton, twenty mile
from Pittsburgh, where the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company have their plant
Glass factory and houses are lighted b,
natural gas. Gas was struck at ], 20'
feet in five-inch bore. A torrent o
what the owners describe as "pure nj
| tTOScu gas UuISIS Oul Will d lotCe y
$50 pounds to the square inch. an
after three years is flowing with a
much energy as ever. The visitor see
no coal, no wood, no cinders, no ashes
no smoke. In the furnaces is lurid
steady heat, regulated by clockwork.
Pittsburgh Post.
Among the ruins at Pompeii ha
been found human relic in an ex
ceptionally good state of preservation
1t is described as the full length fossi
of man who was probably struc
while in flight at the time of the dc
struction of the city. The features ar
well defined, tho mouth being slight
open, showing the teeth in either jaw
the hands are perfect, and one is sur
posed to have held two keys, whic
were found close to it, while the leg
are spread out and slightly raised; tn
left member had, however, bee
broken.