The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A huge lemon was recently picked
at Pansoffkee, Fla Il measured twenty
four inches in circumference one way,
twenty-five inches the other, and
weighed four pounds and thirteen
ounces.
During trial in London it was de-
veloped that the plaintiff, q woman,
had been divorced from her former hus-
band because of her misconduct with
her present husband, who had been dr.
vorced from her sister.
There are at least one hundred
postoffices in Georgia that pay less
than ten dollars year. One of them
affords a salary Of only twenty-five
cents. another ninety-nine cents Yet
there is struggle to get them. - Chi
cage Times.
"A girl ten years of age has reached
San Francisco safely after having trav-
eled alone from Harwich. England, via
Liverpool, Philadelphia. Chicago and
Omaha. She tells of nothing but kind
ness experienced at the hands of the
officials all through her long journey
San Francisco Chronicle.
The ''oyster bug is declared by
Mr.. Cudington. of Fair Haven, Conn,
to be good sign, rather than one of
destruction. He saws: The story
about the brown. coral-like insects on
oysters is all nonsense. The excres-
cence found on seed oysters year old
is natural growth. and Is always an
indication that the young oysters are
healthy and vigorous"
1t doesn't make any difference how
handsome or how stylish young man
Is, he may have been an object Of ad-
miration to every woman " sne horse
car; but the instant u girl gets in with
brown panSr parcel labeled fine
miliinerxl on the outside. his charm is
gosss. No woman can resist the supe-
flor charm of that delightful mystery.
--Somerpille journal.
The yield of grain in Texas for the
present year has been the greatest ever
known in the history of the State. The
Galveston NeDs, commenting upon the
fact, says: with no untoward disaster
to the cotton crop the State is on the
eve OF the grandest period of agricultural
prosperity she has ever enjoyed. The
commercial and general business stua-
ton may naturally be expected to sym
pathize with this prosperity"
Here is hot weather conundrum:
A gentleman remarked the other day
that if he were in an elevator and it
dropped from the fifth story he would
break the force of the fall by jumping
four or five feet in the air just before
the elevator hit the bottom. And now
people are arguing as to whether he
could or not jump four or five feet in
the ar with nothing under him but
falling elevator. Could he? And
would he break the fall or notp-Chic
90 Times.
Milton Miester, formerly of Lancas-
ter County, Pennsylvania, and now of
Utah Penitentiary, remarks in letter
to a friend: II am serving out a six
months sentence for loving, cherishing
and caring for my dear families, con.
sisting of three of the best, noblest and
loveliest wives in the Union and twenty
three just as good and pretty children
as ever came from Heaven to soiourn
for season on this mundane sphere"
Chicago Tribune.
AS an evidence of the ignorance
which prevails through Wales, the vicar
OF large district writes that he gave
to poor woman. whose daughter was
i'll, little jar of extract of meat, telling
her to boil it with certain seasoning
The woman complained there was some
thing wrong with the thing. She had
boiled it for hours, and could get no
charm out of it. The fact was she had
left the jar unopened.
"A tadpole, the larva of frog, has
a tail and no legs. gills instead of lungs,
heart precisely like that of fish, a
horny beak for eating vegetable food
and spiral intestine to digest it. With
the approach of maturity the hind legs
appear, then the front pair; the beak
falls off, the tail and gills waste away;
the lungs are created; the digestive ap-
diet; the heart becomes reptilian in
type by the addition of another auricle;
in fact, skin. muscles, nerves and blood
vessels vanish, being absorbed atom by
atom; and new set is substituted
ton Budget.
The principal crops of Japan and
their annual products are as follows
Rice, 196,000,0o0 bushels; wheat, H.
100000 bushels; barley, 49.421, 900
bushels; maize, 1882 900 bushels; soy
beans, 11,556,00 bushels; buckwheat,
1867, 900 bushels; raw cotton, 1O,251,-
600 cwt.; hemp fibre, 1873, 700 cwt.; tea,
394.04S cwt; tobacco 3S2.441 cwt. /;
sugar cane, 7,149, 900 cwt. potatoes, H.
100000 cwt.; bark of paper mulberry,
$4,000 cwt.; indigo leaves, dried $780,
900 cwt The exports are annually
1876, 100000, or nearly one dollar for
each person on the island. The i'm
ports are $2S,000,000 annually.