The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

1T may not be generally known that
the disability law against Catholics still
exists In New Hampshire. No Cath
elic can hold Office IN that State. --Lisi-
cago Necs.
An electric light has been intro
nhced into 81 lighthouse at the entrance
to the outer harbor of Bio de Jane,-o.
1t is Of 1000 candle power and is visi.
BILE distance of thirty-five miles.
Z "A volcanic tree is reported to exist
In the Japanese village Of Ono. 1t is
sixty feet high, with girth of ten feet,
and said to be centuries old Every
day white smoke-like mist issuss from
the top, lasting from early afternoon
till evening.
The latest indignity offered to the
memory of Carlyle is to credit him
with having invented the word
"dude." In his journal on July Is.
1885, he wrote: 81 seldom read any
dud of book, novel or the like,
where the writing seems to flow
along like talk, without certain
pain, a certain envy"
Birds in Sweden and Norway are
better protected than in any other coun-
try, and the consequence is that they
are tame and familiar. A resident of
Sweden says that evrcy morning focks
of sparrows come into the room while
he lie eating breakfast and run about
the room picking up crumbs or wash
ing themselves in basins.
The figures produced by Mr.. Cham
berlain in his speech in Parliament ON
the Merchant Shipping bill show that
in twelve years $4,000 English seamen
were lost; that in each year, on the av-
erage. one seaman out of seventy two
is drowned, and that taking the aver
age service Of a seaman at twenty-four
years, one out of every three must ex-
pect to meet his end in that way.
Many tenement-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-
turn 102 pounds of cigars. The difference
is supposed to represent the water used
In moistening the dry leaf Complaints
are made that when the tobacco falls
short cigar stumps; willow, oak, and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency, and that in some Instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus been
made to produce 200 pounds of cigars.
M Y Star.
Mr.. w. j. Andres, of Sumter, SC,
killed hog few days ago affected
with every symptom of hydrophobia.
The hog had been bitten two weeks pre-
viously by G dog which was supposed to
be mad. The hog became so violent
as TO necessitate its separation from the
other hog, and finally had to be killed.
A farmer living near Bishopville, In the
same county, shortly after killed 4
young COW, apparently affected with
hydrophobia, supposed to have origi-
mated by the same dog passing through
that neighborhood. So Lofts Post.
An Australian squatter, renowned
Tar and wide for his extreme ugliness
had once made an oath that should he
ever come in contact with any one
palmer than himself he would shoot
him. Meeting one day with man he
thought was hglier than himself, he
ssnlained to him the nature of the oath
he had made; then, producing his pis-
toll, requested him to say his prayers.
"What'' said the man, lam / uglier
than you?' "Yes," replied the squat
Ter. "Then, for heavens sake, shootr'
cried the man.-San Francisco Ar-
gonduk
For some time the Capitol at Wash
ington has been lighted with electric
lights. 1t is now found that the build
ing presents most untidy appearance
owing to the fact that myriads of all
kinds of insects have been attracted by
the lights and have killed themselves
by striking against the dome. Bushels
Of May-flies, beetles, crickets, carvings,
dragon-flies, grasshoppers, caddis-fies,
bees, wasps, hornets. butterflies, moths,
cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice, water
beetles, whirligigs. shippers, horned
midgets, gnats, mosquitoes, and every
species Of insect known to the sur
rounding swamps and woods of the
District have met their death in this
way. = Washington Star.