The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A SARDINIA, (Pa-) physician he
taken forty-six needles out of the arms
of Mrs. Seeley. She don't know how
they came there.
1t is said by an authority that in
stead of being lean and lank as hereto
I fore, American women are growing
round and buxom.
In Germany a man dare not cut
down the trees on his own land without
consent of the proper authorities, SO
jealous is the Government in preserving
the forests.
"A recent estimate, made by means
of a very intricate testing apparatus,
places the rate at which an electric dot
travels over telegraph wire at $1,000
miles per second.
"A wonderful chasm has recently
been discovered in San Luis, Obispo
County, California. An adventurous ex-
plorer was lowered into it to the depth
of 1000 feet without finding any bottom.
The sides of the chasm are covered with
magnificent cream-colored stalactites.-
San Francisco Call.
"A very simple plan for street rail-
road has been devised by DIR. II. 6.
Davis, of Newton, Mass, by which a
track and pavement can be put down at
about one-half the present cost, and yet
be more durable; it will also save large
percentage in repairs. Post
Richard Hoodum, poor man who
resides in Westmoreland County, on the
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, found
package of money three years ago.
He advertised it, but it was never called
for, and few days since he opened and
appropriated it. The amount is said to
be about $25, 000.-Pittsburgh Post.
"A young lady, recently "out," at
tended her first wedding the other day.
On going up to congratulate the bride,
her mind became somewhat confused,
and having been at birthday party the
day before she could think of nothing
better to say than to wish the blushing
young matron ''many happy returns of
the day" And then she wondered why
the newly-made husband looked so sour
as she passed on Chicago Rambler.
One of the most remarkable arti-
Giles for export ever dispatched for
scientific purposes from any country is,
without doubt, says Nature, the con-
signment which lately left Norway for
Germany. 1t consisted of fifty-two
skeletons of Laps, which had during
the summer been unearthed at Utsjok,
in Russian Lapland, and which an en-
terprising dealer of Vardo sold to vari-
Gus Museums and societies on the CONT
nent at the price of $50 apiece.
Hitherto it has puzzled eminent
surgeons to account for sudden death
caused by apparently inadequate
wounds in the heart, such as those made
by the prick, without penetration even,
of needle. Herr Schmey student of
the Physiological Institute, Berlin, has,
however, just discovered that when a
needle pricks a certain small spot on
the lower border of the upper third of
the septum cords quite instantaneously
the movements of the heart are arrested
and forever set motionless in death.
Figures are wonderful things. Here
is a sample of what can be done with
them: By placing one grain of corn on
the first square of a chess board,
doubling the number of grains for each
succeeding square, the quantity of corn
required for the whole board of sixty
four squares would fill 1,844,375 barns,
spch holding 100000 bushels of
100000 grains each, bushels round
numbers If the United States grows
1900, 900, 900 bushels each year, it would
require little over $50 years to make
enough Chicago Herald.
When Chinese boy is one month
old his head is shaved and bladder is
drawn over it, and as his head grows
the bladder bursts and the queue
sprouts forth. The first shave is made
the occasion of magnificent banquet
and the guests are expected to make the
host handsome present in coin for the
newly-shaven baby, with which bank
account is started to his credit. This is
the most pleasant feature of the affair
for the baby, as the razor always pulls,
and he can not take part in the f
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