The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS,

= In Western Nevada prospectors
pile up vast quantities of snow on the
mountairs and cover it with brush, in
order to provide water supply fer
summer use.
"A ga,.s pie containing live quails,
which flew way when the pie was CIT,
was feature of the supper at New
York children's holiday party.
Such a thingas a fashionable young
man making evening calls nowadays is
said to be unhear5 af. and it is asked
whittier are we socially drifting.-N. I.
Mil and Express.
1t is said that there are q hundred
hot springs within half a mile of the
town OF Glenwood, Garfield County.
Colorado. One of them forms pool
several hundred feet long, which is used
for bathing.
Prince Roland Bonaparte has a
novel idea. lie proposes to have a col
lection of the different uneivilized races,
IN Paris. We constantly, he argues.
bring together the various products oil
the globe; why not bring together the
producers
If any person who is liable to poison
with poison-ivy viii take pure olive Oh
after being exposed to it he will feel nd
bad effects, and the oil will neutralizf
the evils of the poison if few doses be
taken even after the poison has broken
out.-Chfcogo Herald.
What the country needs are shorter
trains and more freight to train-load.
Work in the freight yards would BIZ
reduced one-half, coal would be saved.
crews reduced, and freight-gluts made
less frequent. Steel cars would secure
these improvements Current.
The whale feeds by opening its ca.
paeious mouth and allowing the sea
water, with its multitudinous tenants,
to fill the oval cavity. Then it shuts
its lower jaw upon its horny plates, and.
straining out the water through them,
swallows the prey stranded upon its vast
tongue.
Patients suffering from whoopine
cough are taken in great numbers to
the Albany Gas-Light Works to inhale
the gas which comes from what is
known as the purifying tank. The SUI
perintendent says that five hundred per.
last summer.-Atbany journal.
All the ice that is used in Mexico
comes from the top of Popocatapetl. is
brought down the mountain ON the
backs of the natives and then sixty
miles on the ears to the city, where it is
sold at wholesale at ten cents pound.
AT the bar-rooms iced drinks are very
expensive, and ice is seldom seen any
where else.
The thimble is Dutch invention,
first brought to England in 1896, by
John Letting, who began its manufac-
ture at Isllngton, near London, gaining
thereby both honor and profit. Its
name was derived from the words
thumb and bell, being for long time
called humble, and only lately thimble.
Old records say that thimbles were first
worn ON the thumbs.-N. y Sun
Several years ago very aged man
died in the State of New York. Mr..
Schoonmaker, the man who often took
charge OF funerals, managed this, and,
in giving out the invitation at the close
of the services, said: "All who desire
can now have the opportunity of be-
holding the remains of the oldest man
living in Ulster County.-N. J. Graphic.
I do not call healthy young man,
cheerful in his mind and vigorous in
his arms, I can not call such a man
poor. ! can not pity my kind as a
kind, merely because they are men.
This affected pity only tends to dissat-
i,fY them with their condition, and to
teach them to seek resources where nc
resources are to be found, in something
else than their own industry and frugal
ity and sobriety.-Burke.
Terrible havoc, both to life and
property, has been reported from the
recent typhoon in Japan, and especially
on the west coast. AT place called
Kurashiki 500 houses were DESTROYED
and |, 800 persons killed. At Tamashi-
ma the sea walls were carried away, 10C
while at Imabari, Matsuyama and I've
| 151 houses were wrecked, 112 junks
sunk and 10 persons drowned.
There is man in Emanuel County
! Georgia, who, forty years ago, sold his
| wife for jug of whisky. Several days
| later he was presented with the wife o.
a man who had grown tired of her. The
| woman first traded was afterward solo
for a bushel of corn. All hands ther
| settled down in the same neighborhood
and have lived there ever since, sur
rounded with descendants who arr
among the most respectable people O
the county. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The force with which the gas issue
from some of the gas-wells in Pittsburgh
is tremendous, and in one instance q
drilling machine, weighing three thou
sand pounds was thrown high in the air
The pressure is irregular, too, and there
in lies the chief difficulty in utilizing the
gas for household purposes, as the dan
| ger of leakage and explosion can hardly
be overcome, though various contriv-
ances are employed to lessen it. The
gas-bearing stratum is in bed of sof
pebbly sandstone, at depth of 1,6Ot
feet, underneath solid rock. The rusf
of gas is weaker in the morning and
stronger in the afternoon, and there i
also general fluctuation correspond
ing with the changes of the moon
Pittsburgh Post.