The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

The annual consumption Of Inn
ported and domestic cigars Is about
sixty for every man, woman and child
in the United States.-N y Sun.
Nearly ten thousand American cat
tie were last year thrown from Atlantic
steamships into the ocean on account of
exhaustion or injury. - Philadelphia
Press.
The women of San Francisco will
found 8 cemetery for sailors. Two
thousand sailors are known to have
been buried within the city limits since
its foundation, and the grave Of but
$50 are known.-San Francisco Call.
DIR. Settler, in the Boston Medical
and Surgical journal, recommends
beef tea, made very hot with red pep
per, for delirium tremens. A London
surgeon is stated to have treated $50
cases successfully with this remedy
alone.
Here is the last remedy for seasick-
ness, taken from one of the French pa
pers: Take no food during at least
four hours previous to embarkipg. An
hour before stepping on board drink
one or two cups of very strong coffee
without chicory)."
There rs curious coincidence in
the birth and death of two children,
named Catherine and Edward Quinn,
who were buried in North Adams, Mass.
recently. The father and mother died
of consumption. The children were
both born on the same day of the month
fxyo art afhar,pn hAsxo fktr-
teen and Edward fifteen years of age at
the time of the death. Both died on the
same day and were buried at the same
time. Boston Herald.
Honduras is said TO be a perfect
paradise for lazy people. Farmers, me-
chanics, and others can earn enough in
few weeks to support them for year,
and as a majority of the inhabitants
only care for mere support, few oil
them work more than week or two al
a time. The soil is said to be remark.
ably fertile and the climate delightful.
Centenarians are the rule, and all the
inhabitants live to an advanced age.
Little Lucy johnson, of Tucson,
Arizona, recently escaped its mother
notice and crawled out of the house into
the woods. When found by the mother
the youngster was fondly caressing 8
huge rattle snake, who made no at
tempt to harm the child. The mother
repaid his snakeship's kindness to hel
child by coaxing the baby away and
then killing the reptile. Chicago
Times.
An unsophisticated countryman
who reached town on an early morning
train, took saunter through street
where July iceman had just dotted
the sidewalks with searly deliveries. y
After viewing the deliveries" with
great curiosity the stranger stopped 9
citizen and said: He'd powerful storm
here, see.' "Why. not that l know
Of replied the citizen. aye didn'tr
exclaimed the countryman, 'then where
in thunder did them hailstones come
from P'-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The consumption of fruit must b.
increasing prodigiously in this country
ard is undoubtedly improving the ma
tional health. In addition to the enor'
nous consumption of berries and small
fruits which has grown up in the last
twenty years, there is vast consump
ton of apples, oranges and grapes and
imported pineapples and bananas
There were received at New York fol
the year ending with March, 1855 car.
goes by sail and 113 by steamer oil
bananas alone, and immense numbers
are received at other ports. During
the same time forty ght cargoes Of
pine apples and $4,000 barrels by
steamer were received at New York. :
N. Y. Tribune.