The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


ont after illness by frequent applica-
ton to the scalp Of sage tea---Ezchange-
Physicians in the Sandwich Islands
have come TO the conclusion that the
only way to stop the alarming spread
of leprosy is to begin vaccinating with
leprosy microbes. They think the op-
Grafton will be a success.
The African elephant will be en-
tinct in another hundred years unless a
stop is put to the indisceiminate mas
sacre now going on. So says Josef
Menges. the great importer OF African
wild beasts. and probably the most en-
inent authority on such subjects.
Dennis Butler, a swimming master.
on a wager of $3.50. swan the East
River, from New York to BROOKLYN,
with his hands and feet firmly tied.
The distance was a little over q mile,
and the time was nineteen minutes.
NJ Y. Sun.
According to the statistics of the
past year up to the age of fifteen more
males die than females. From the age
of fifteen to forty-five more females die
than males From forty-five to ninety
more males die than females. At ninety
the mortality of males and females is
the same.-Ch Chicago Inter Ocean.
The tropical gooseberry, which Is
cultivated in Florida, grows on hand
some tree from ten to fifteen feet in
height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple, and the
shape hattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
Qrofalu vairoh In ht.f he, Ia,
mental.
The word consols Is an abpreviat;on
OF the term consolidated annuities. The
English consols differ from our national
debt in this way, The principal may
VAR In amount. but the interest never.
They constitute a perpetual obligation
OF the United Kingdom, bearing three
per cent. interest, and representing an
irredeemable principaa.
The story is told of Mr. Evarts that
he once sent donkey up 70 his farm
at Windsor, Vt, and about a week
afterwards received the following letter
from his little grandchild:
DEAR GRANDPA; The little donkey Is very
gentle. but he makes big noise nights Ne
Is very lonesome. guess he misses you. /
hope you VIII come up soon, and then he
WIN w 81 lou6SOHt. MINNIE.
Many knocking birds are shipped
from Atlanta every season to the North
and West. The young birds are caught
by the hundreds BY small boys who
peddle them at fifty cents each. They
are Kept in their native cline until they
are four or five months old, and then
are sent by express to all parts of the
country. A good bird, four months
old. is worth from three dollars to five
dollars. They sing well when o year
old.-AHanta Constitution.
"A Texan inventor claims to be able
to send the voice across the Atlantic
Ocean by means of a magnetic tele-
phone which he has contrived. His in
strument, which differs essentially from
the telephone now in use, has success
, fully transmitted sound seventy.five
miles. This invention, il it will DO all
that is claimed for it, will 60 far toward
assisting those devoted persons who are
seeking to bring out a universal Ian
guage. Chicago Current
There has been steady increase
III the number of convictions in En-
gland for smuggling during the last ten
years. Ten years sinee-that is, in
| 1876--the total number was LILA,
whereas in the financial year Just ended
| 1t amounted to 1880 The authorities,
however, do not attribute these facts to
| an increase in the practice of smuggling,
but ascribe them chiefly to improve
ments In the system of guarding the
| coast.
"A female office-seeker in Washing
| ton unanswered her way into the White
House with six small children in tow,
and made d most pathetic plea for an
appointment which would enable her to
support her widowed brood. 1t was a
neat bit of strategy, but it wofully mis-
carried when she was recognized by one
| of the attendants. She was never mar
ried at all, and the squad OF juveniles
had been borrowed for the occasion.
The author of so ingenious device
almost deserved success. Chicago
| Times.
The girls in the Philadelphia Mint
made fHvorite of sparrow that was
permitted to pick up their lunch crumbs.
| A little boy stole its nest the other day.
and upon drawing his hand from the
box it was found full of shining par
tlcleS. An examination OF the DOX
showed It to be f1ecked not only with
| gold dust, but that it was carpeted with
| sparkling. soft. yellow gold. The spar
row had been regularly carrying away
! gold dust in its feathers. which it shook
out when making its toilet. -Philadei-
| phia Press.
"A Tennessee man finds there are
100000 worthless dogs in that State,
which consume food enough, if fed to
hogs, to make 3O,OOO,OO0 pounds of
bacon, which would be equal to feeding
meat to 100000 able-bod ed men a
whole year. At ten cents per pound
the bacon would be worth 5000, 900,
and if in silver would load down ninety
four two-horse wagons and make a
wagon train more than half mile
long Again. the worthless whelps pre-
vent farmers from keeping 100000
sheep. the mutton and wool from which
would be worth $5,000.000. Including
the sheep annually killed, the whole ex-
pense of keeping the dogs of the State
amounts to the pretty sum of 50, 900, 900.
Chicago Herald