The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

Workers in bleacheries where
chlorine is largely used are singularly
exempt from all germ diseases, but
suffer from special ailments induced by
inhaling that gas.
"A burglar who went into q house
in East St Louis to do little business
complains that he was held up by the
owner and robbed of S35 and gold
watch. Things is workin'" around
ell right "-Detroit Free Press.
The burrashuta, a carniverous q.
heretofore confined to South America,
has made its appearance in Florida.
Its bite, though not poisonous. is pain
full, and the loss of blood compars lively
great.
An Ohio widow refused to marry
Clarence James. and Clarence put in
the night girdling every fruit tree on
her farm. She won't raise any apples
next year. and he will be where he
can't get any to eat CHICAGO Herald
In spite of the summer crusade
against the Mother Hubbard, fashion
boldly declares that the maligned gar
ments are popular again this season,
and pretty model, made of red and
golden brown, crossed with hair lines
of pale blue, is perfectly lovely Chi
caco Times.
The alarmist views as to the in
crease of insanity, which have lately
been forced into prominence, are not
eountenanced by the Commissioners in
Lunacy of England. They state in
their report that the apparent increase
is due almost wholly 10 accommodations
in asylums of the chronic insane.
"A citizen of Burlington, Me-, man
years ago promised his sons that if they
would abstain from the use of liquor
and tobacco until they were twenty one
years of age he would give them each
five hundred dollars on their twenty
first birthday. The elder son attained
his majority recently, and. having faith
fully carried out his part of the agree
ment. his father presented him with five
hundred dollars. Boston Journal.
This is the way in which the critic
Of Montana paper described the prima
donna of q Burlesque opera company:
"From her clear, bird-like upper notes
she would canter away down to the
D6oC A0IhOp duA LuOu CuSllOH OdCk W y
sort of spiritual treble that made every
man in the audience imagine that every
hair on his head was the golden string
of celestial harp. over which angelic
fingers were sweeping"
Our scientific visitors will hardly be
able to recognize the Canadian snow
shoe idiot in his summer clothes, but he
is here all the same. We mean the indi-
vidual who has himself photographed
in fur cap, great-coat and snowshoes
whenever he wants to send picture to
his friends across the Atlantic. His
idiotic practice has had no little effect
in giving to the Old World false i'm
pressions of the Canadian climate and
the Canadian people.-7'oronto Globe.
"A funny incident recently occurred
in the New York Opera House after the
performance of the play "The Pulse of
New York" The final curtain was
rung down, but the audience sat COM
placently and made no movement to
leave the house, being unaware that the
play was ended. In this embarrassing
situation, nothing was left the manager
but to announce that the play b ID come
to an end. He might have recited
Thackeray's verses, beginning "The
play is done. "-NeU York Sun.
"A piano maker in Berlin has, by
the insertion of strip of felt between
the hammer and the chord of his in
struments, enabled the players to use
them without disturbing any one, the
sound being sufficiently distinct to in
cate false accord. but being, at the
same time, so deadened that no sound
escapes the music room. Now then, if
some consderate inventor, with the
same purpose in view, will attend to
the vocal chords of singers who sit at
the pianos. all will be well and the mu-
sic may proceed without further COM
plant Current.