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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
REBUkiNG CURIOSITY,
How Stranger In q California Town BIZ
fed Imp ertInent INQUIRIES.

How q Stranger In California Town Baf-
fed Impertinent Inquiries.
The other day a MISUNDERSTANDING
stranger appeared in Petaluma and re-
manned five whole days without the in
habitants finding out his name, where
he came from, or his business. Even
the bar-room loafers were baffied in
their attempts to extract some definite
information, and the entire town Law
awake O. nights worrying over the mat
ter. At last the general agitation grew
to such q pitch that the Sheriff volun-
teered to interview the stranger in be-
half of the public veal. Approaching
the taciturn visitor, as he sat in the
Office of the hotel, the functionary re-
marked:
Fine day, SIR"
"Is. ehP" said the stranger, dubi-
ously.
"Going to stay long in these partsp"
"Just four days, two hours, and
thirty-one minutes longer" replied the
other, consulting his watch and time
table.
"Then!-may Ter ahem! may ask
what your business isp" persisted the
oherln, as the crowd gathered up closer.
"Well, l don't wish it generally
known" replied the stranger, confident
tally; "but I'm Russian Nihilist"
you don't mean itp" gasped the
official.
Fact" replied the man, mournfully.
'But-er-what brings you herep'' asked
the inquisitive Sheriff.
''Well, you sec, / was captured in st.
Petersburg last month, and-you know
how severe that Government is on Mill
lists, don't youp"
"O!-yes-of course; go on!''
''Well. they sentenced me to twenty
years in Siberia, or a week in Petaluma,
and ! was fool enough to choose Peta-
luna"
And with a.heavy sigh the condemned
man drifted in to dinner. -Petaluma
Times
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Three of the six star graduates at the
United States Naval Academy recently
are Pennsylyanens-
-Bowdoin College will expend 900. 900
on her gymnasium, and the University
of Pennsylvania $1,000 on her new ath-
letic field.
Protestant meetings at Gratz, Aus
tria, are tolerated by the police and are
well attended, but no children under
fourteen years of age are allowed to be
present
Sixteen years ago there were in this
State Of Kansas forty-three Presbyterian
churches and l.453 members. Now
tire are in that Stste 321 churches and
IA, 2S9 members. - Chicago Tines
The total receipts of the Board Of
Foreign Missions of the Southern Bap-
fist Church the past year were $751;
299.59, of which the women raised about
$4,000. The year closed with bal
ance of 1000 in the treasury. ~ T.
Tribune.
The cities of Boston and New York
pay more for school education. In pro-
portion to population, than any other
cities in the country. In the former the
schools receive twelve and one half per
cent. Of the eity's annual expenditure.
-Cbicago Current.
I'm Teheran, Persia, the tea houses
are all open to the public. and even the
schools are exposed like the shops,
often having shops on each side. The
boys sit on their heels in rows and re-
peat the lesson after the master. APP
tIxrr Of I'D h., Il
hubbub going ON around them.
The entire missionary debt of the
Presbyterian Societies is 1896. 900. OF
this amount the Home Board with the
Woman's Executive Committee, owes
$4,000 the Foreign Board S57, 600.
The General Assembly adopted reso-
luton recommending that every church
take special collection, or adopt
such other measures as shall seem best
in each case to cancel the debts. IN
Y. Examiner
The spirit of conservatism which is
supposed to obtain so firmly In Euro
pean educational institutions has
yielded to the popular demand for the
education of women to such degree
that they are now admitted to many of
INC ieauiHH uHiNtTsiiits Oh hHsSlit, GeT-
many, France and Belgium. The inilu-
ence of these examples will certainly
have great weight in America. - Cur.
rent.
The organ in the Stewart Cathedral
at Garden City is, it is said, the largest
in the world, being in fact five organs
in one-the great, the swell. the choir,
the solo, the echo and the pedal organs.
There are four manuals, 1l5 speaking
stops, 1892 pipes, and 43 couplers, me-
chanical accessories and pedals, with a
switch connecting the chimes with tho
organ, SO that both may be operated
from one key-board.-M Y. San.
The Scotch Presbyterian Church of
Jersey City has recently been relieved
of a burdedsome debt, which threat
ened the loss of their house of worship.
Mr.. George r. Mckenzie, who paid off
the Indebtedness, in modest commu-
nication to the church declaring his in
tention, simply asked in return that it
should continue to be called by its old
name, .'the Scotch Presbyterian
Church and that the music should be
that of the human voice alone.-N II
Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
FORMOSA.
Life Among the savages of the Lizard
An Interesting Account.

Life Among the Savages of the fslard-
An Interesting Account.
The INIT in which found myself. and
it was fair sample of the rest, was Of
the fudest possible description. The
doorway was so small that it was a task
to get in; the walls were composed OF
the branches of trees stuck into the
ground a little apart. the interstices
being filed with bits of chopped wood;
the roof was thatched with grass. Three
sides were occupied by raised bamboo
sleeping platforms, some fifteen inches
above the ground; there were no win
dows. AT one side was a slight de-
preston in. the ground, which served as
a fireplace, logs of trees being laid over
it, end to end, and constantly pushed
farther in as they gradually consumed
away. All the village crowded in
women, young girls and children Of all
sizes; but the male savages, with the
exception of those referred to, were all
absent on hunting expedition, having
been gone several days. From the roof
ehase-tows, arrows and deer skins
besides sundry articles of domestic use,
all of the rudest kind. Having had some
thing to eat, | strolled out amongst the
other huts. and everywhere was well
received. What particularly struck
me was the fearlessness of the
women and girls and the frankness
of the children, who were most interest
ing They came close up to me, ex-
amined my clothes with their large dark
eyes, pulled my whiskers. and were
never tired of looking at my watch.
They are bright and should say in
telligent, and incomparably more inter-
esting than Chinese childrcn-so sim
pie, natural and unsophisticated. All
smoke, from the youngest to the oldest
OF both sexes, and it was truly ludicrous
to see tiny mites of certainly not three
summers-stark naked-with pipes in
their mouths The women and girls
carry their pipes of bamboo stuck in
their hair, somewhat in the style of the
lang pat on head-dress of the Peking-
ese ladies, and keep the tobacco bags
hung round their necks. They at once
offered me smoke. Some of them
were playing upon curious kind of
jews harp. made out of a slip of BAN
boo with threads at each end, whilst
one girl, of about sixteen, danced
The dance was neither q landau
go nor a bolero, nor yet minuet, but
bore some resemblance to all three; il
was SO intensely grotesque that /
laughed uncontrollably, No sooner had
IL. III a. Al II
me, and offering me a jews harp, made
signs to me to dance. The harp alone
was sufficient mystery to me, but
when the minuet was added the tableau
was complete; the audience threw them
selves down and screamed with laugh.
ing. From this performance l passed
to a scene of somewhat different char
acter-a few yards along path, step
to one side, and stood before a scaflold
of eamphor branches on which reposed
a grinning row of human skulls, the
heads of Chinese slain in raids Good
Words
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
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GENIUS AND INSANITY.
The Greatest Minds Soonest Tired of LIES
Struggle.

Struggle.
The pessimism OF johnson, Swift,
Byron and Carlyle, of Schopenhauer
and Lenau, of Leopard and OF Lamar
tine, may perhaps be taken as signal
manifestation of the gloom which is apt
to encompass great and elevated spirits,
like the mists which drift toward and
encircle the highest mountain peaks.
In some cases this melancholy assumes
more acute form giving rise to tho
thought and even the act of suicide.
Among those who have confessed to
have experienced the impulse may be
mentioned Goethe in the Werther days,
Beethoven during the depression
brought on by his deafness, Chateau
BRAND in his youth, and George Sand
also in her early days. The last, writ
ing of her experience, says: 'Cette SEN
sation Cat the sight Of water, preci-
pice, etc fut quelquefois 81 vive, 81
subtle, 81 bizarre, que je pts bien con-
slater que c'etait une espece dc folie
don't i'etais atteinte.
Johnson's WEAKNESS of life was, it
seems certain, only prevented from de-
veloping into the idea Of suicide by his
strong religious feeling and his ex-
traordinary dread of death. which was
itself, perhaps, a morbid symptom. In
some cases this idea prompted to actual
attempts to take away life. The story
of Cowper's trying to hang himself and
afterward experiencing intense religious
remorse is well known. Another in
stance is that of St. Simon, whose
enormous vanity itself looks like form
of monomania, and who, in a fit OF de-
spondency. fred pistol at his head.
happily with no graver result than the
loss of an eye. Alfieri, who was the
victim of the s'most horrid melancholy"
tried on one occasion, after being bled
by surgeon, to tear off the bandage in
order to bleed to death. Among those
who succeeded in taking away their
lives are Chatterton, whose mind had
been haunted by the idea from early
life; Kleist, the poet, and Beneke, tho
philosopher. Nineteenth Century.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
ION Approval"

In Germany. says the academy. it is
the custom for booksellers to send to
their customers parcels of new books
ION approval. it being understood that
the books not returned are accepted,
and will be paid for. Relying upon this
custom, bookseller at Worms con-
tinued year after year to send books to
a person living in the town. None of
the books we're returned and none were
paid for. At last the bookseller sent in
his bill. which the other party declined
to pay, but offered to return the books.
This did not suit the bookseller, for the
publishers would no longer take the
books back from him. Accordingly he
brought his action for the price; but he
has been defeated in the Court of First
Instance. and also on appeal. on the
ground. apparently, that there was no
contract.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
A Pointed Illustration.

The importance of writing dis
tinctly when writing for publication
was recently illustrated in magazine
in London. In a clergyman's letter
from Asia he meant to write 1.-THE peo-
Pile Of Judea," but the printer made it
..the people of India" The manuscript
was submitted to an expert chirograph-
list, who decided that the printer was
entirely justified. The clergyman's
.Judea, as written, had an l instead
of a j, an ~ instead of a u, and it was
impossible to decide whether the next
to the last letter was intended for an
G or an 1, it being as much like one as
the other. People who write carelessly
and indistinctly, when writing for pub
LEGATION, have nobody bat themselves to
blame when mistakes are made In print
ing names of persons or places. The
printer is usually wonderfully expert in
deciphering bad writing. but he can not
perform miracles. As an experiment,
let the reader hastily write down tho
words Judea and India, without dot
ting the of the latter. and then submit
it to a company Of friends to decide
(which is which and which is-'tother."
-Chicag0 Journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
puNoENT PARAGRAPH.

An Illinois society is about to wrestle
with the question: (which goes the
fastest after being broken, a colt or q
fve-dollar billp"- Chicago Journal.
"A Keep Street old maid who keeps
four cats finds scuttleful of coal in her
backyard every morning. BY strict
economy she only buys half ton OF
coal year. -Brooklyn Times.
DR.. Hammond says that Glove and
poetry go hand in hand" Shouldn't
wonder bit. 1t is well known that the
course of true love never did run
smooth, and the same is true of anna
teur poetry.-Loweu Citizen.
ii wish / had eyes in the back of
my head" said young lady the other
evening. "Whyp' asked devoted ad-
mirer. breathlessly. so that / could
see what was going on without the
trouble of turning my head" You
can turn my head without any trouble, :"
responded the youth with a gloomy
sigh.
What one letter will do
There is word of plural number,
A foe to peace and tranquil slumber.
Now any word you choose TO take,
by aQulng 3 Will plural make.
But If you add an IS" to this
Strange is the metamorphosis!
Plural will plural be no more,
And sweet what bitter was before.
Answer: To cares add an IS" and
it will make it caress.
"A little child was besieging her IA
Their to take her to visit her grandmoth.
er, who lived at distance. To get rid
of her he said: ut costs ten dollars
every time we go to see grandma, Flor
ence, and ten dollars doesn't grow on
every BUSH" "Neither do grandmas
grow on every bush. answered the lit
tie girl promptly, and her logic was
convincing. They WENT Chicago In
terror.
-"Is there bird called Riches p Z"
asked Jack of Jill. NO." said Jill.
why" Because have heard you
say, Riches have wings and thought
that if they have wings they must be
birds or ducks or geese" You little
goose" cried Jill, as Jack started to
run. The very next moment Jack fell
down, and Jill tumbled after him, as
the reader probably has heard once OF
twice before. Golden Days.
-Uncle Nose met very dandified
darkey, who said in very dignified
manner: How do you enjoy dis balmy
wedder, sahP" Il don't know yer, sab.
You has me at disadvantage, re-
sponded Nose. you cussed ole bow
legged, lantern-jawed gorilla, yer is do
same ole mutton-headed baboon yer
alters was" Nov l knows yer. Az
soon as yer quit talkin' like a gemman
/ knowed yer right off," And they
embraced like Butcher and Wellington
on the field of Waterloo. Texas Sift-
ings.
ID asked for strawberry cream. 'said
the lady, cycling the refreshment askance.
You've got it. num-" replied the wait.
er. but what makes it look so palep"
''CochineaPs riz, mum-wav up; can't
afford to make 'em any potter for the
money" "Mercyr' exclaimed the lady,
you don't mean to say that you color
your strawberry cream with cochineal?
At the fashionable places where am
used to going they never use anything
but aniline dye. It's expensive, Of
course, but then it is so lovelym-Bos
ton Transcript.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22

1t is proposed to construct new iron
clad (the fourth) at Nicolaieff, Russia,
destined for the defence of the Black
Sea coasts. 1t is to be of steel and iron.
the under portion being cased in wood.
The center portion will be armored; for
the defense of the engines and machin-
cry a portion of the deck will be covered
with armor-plates two inches thick
With engines of 5000 horse-po in
Dictated, the speed of this new iron-clad
will reach, it is hoped, sixteen knots.
The armament is to be 12-inch guns,
firing en- bdrbette from couple OF tur-
refs on the upper deck. The estimated
cost is 1000. 600 rubles, or in round
numbers f400.000. The machinery,
ETC., will be furnished by the Baltic
factory.--N Y Post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
NUMBER A.
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
A LESSON IN BUILDING.

- How shall I habit break
As you did that habit make.
AZ you gathered, you must lose;
As you yielded, now refuse.
Thread hv thread the strands we twist
Till they bind Us, neck and wrist;
Thread by thread the petient hand
Must untwinc. ere free we stand.
As we huildcd, stone by stone,
We must toll. unhelped, alone,
TIL the wall is overthrown.
But remember, as we try.
Lighter every test goes by;
Wading In, the stream grows deep
Toward the center's downward sweep;
backward turn, each step ashore
Sballower lie than that before.
All, the precious years we waste
Lcvcling what we raised in haste;
Doing what must be undone
Ere content or love be won
First, across the guilt We cast
kite-horne threads, tlli lines are passed,
And habit builds the bridge ri lasti
John Boaie o Reilly, "a Wide 4gdke.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22

1t is proposed to have an elevated
railway in operation in Paris by the
time of the opening of the exposition
four years hence. It will have. accord
ing to the present design, two tracks.
one above the other. and will cost about
City million francs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22

-Dyspepsia is said to be unknown in
japan. So are boarding houses. - Chi
eogo Ledger.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22

Arizona sends her insane people to
the California asylum. and the job Of
taking the patient to the place Of con-
inement is given to the lowest bidder
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22

1t is curious, but nevertheless true.
says The City of Mexico THO Republics,
that horse is employed drawing a
bread-delivery wagon in this city which
is over forty years old. On his Shout
der is the brand ~. S." He was cav
airy horse in the army under General
Scott, and is risky yet, though veter-
an. In spite Of his long residence in
Mexico, he has never taken out natural
isation papers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06
preceding.

From the above statement it will be seen that
the business of indianapolis roads in March,
1880, was largely in excess of that of any CORE
spending month in the history of indianapolis
lines, as the car movement, prior to the years
published above, fell short of either one of the
years IN the aeove-shown movement 1t vii. be
seen that tins year there were % 642 more
LOADED ears handled at Indianapolis than in
March, 1884, and l. 7S3 more than were received
and forwarded IN March, 1883, in which month
the car movement of March was the largest of
any month in the year, July. 1854 excepted
Freight men certainly have no reason to com
plain of the volume Of business last month; the
unfavorable feature is the low rates at which all
through business has been carried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Northern Pacifc's earnings are showing a
decrease, and explanations are now in order.
The Baltimore & Ohio people are to put in serv-
ice their Pittsburg division the heaviest
class of freight engines
Track-laying on the, California Southern ex-
tension viii be commenced as soon as the grades
get well under way through the Cajon pass
The figures for the last quarter of the Lake
Shore earnings will be out to-day. 1t is said
they will show the smallest earnings since 1877.
April l. half-yearly and quarterly interest
became due ON $693, 0J3, sec of railway bonds and
mortgages of kindred corporations OF these
$41. S67 500 are now in default leaving $751; l35
S66. upon which interest was paid
number of San Francisco capitalists are in
terested in the construction of railroad from
Butte City, NJ, IT,, through Pipestone Pass to q
connection with the Northern Pacific. The road
is 20 be of standard gauge, seyenty-twe miles
long, and will run through Gallatin and Silver
Bow counties
While the roads of Iowa generally report a
decrease in the earnings for 1884, the State
Executive Council has raised their valuation for
purposes of assessment over 81, 900, 600. There
are over 1000 miles of railroad in the State, and
the assessments are based on n taxable valuation
of over $50, 600, 600. The most notable increase
Is in the assessment OF the Chicago, Burlington
q Quincy.
w. H. Vanderbilt says that the West Shore
reorganization plan would make no change in
the policy of the New York Central He saw no
reason why the new bonds should not share the
fate Of the present issue. He did not know who
was going to buy them. He would foreso divi
dends on the Central stock for u time rather
than quit the fight Some atler large stock
holders take the same view.
Seventeen of the principal railways of England
and Ireland show earnings from Jan. to March
10 OF E10. 297 .56S. reduction Of f23o 6S4 from
1884 Three Scotch roads, the Caledonian,
Glasgow Il Southwestern and North British,
show from Feb. TO March ID. earnings of f706,
1853. decrease of EIa,74 These Scotch roads
paid an average dividend of 4 9-a2 per cent for
the fiscal year 1884 So. decrease of little over
per cent. from 1883 81.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.

We have been compelled to yield to the do
mand, and heneeforth the SUNDAY JOUR
NAL will be enlarged to Twelve Pages and win
be sold for Five Cents, and will be sent to every
town and city in the State of Indiana and sur
rounding territory The circulation of the Sun
day edition is the largest and best OF
any Sunday paper printed in Indiana. and it has
made itself the Peoples Paper. The SUNDAY
JOURNAL is without competitor in the Stats
in the character and variety Of mattAr it pre-
sents its readers. The best writer's in the Stata
and the country freely contribute TO it's columns
In its enlarged and improved form il will be alb
solutely without rival or peer.