The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-06-06
Miscellaneous.

State over 100000 Fr inch Canadians
N. y Sun.
Sixty thousand dollars were spent
in Chicago for flowers during the recent
opera festival. Chicago Herald.
The Popular Science Mossthiy, after
careful investigation, concludes that
the human race began about 100000
years ago.
"A fire engine company of Fair
haven, Mass, stopped to elect a fore
man pro tenn in the street close to the
burning building before putting a
stream on the flames. Boston Utobe.
After repeated trials penny dinners
in London and Birmingham are be-
coming successful. though it is admitted
that, to great extent, the children of
the very poorest classes are not reached;
Half-penny dinners are now being tried
in Birmingham,
That is funny law recently passed
by the Legislature of Texas. which says
that "a person whose property is in
sured and which has been damaged Nv
policy, no matter how small the loss
may be. n-Dotroa Post
Newport is agitated over the condi-
ton of the famous old stone milf, one
OF the wonders Of the world and gen.
uine antique. The extreme cold of last
winter has so badly damaged the struc-
ture that extensive repairs will be re-
quired to keep it from failing to the
ground. Proei5evsco journal
IN. Gnlroas ,,;vas n ,aoo;,,. e. :,
popular novel: ''Hero-heroine-papa
-mamma-uncle-sis and so on.
Love-obstacles- misery = tears-des-
pair-glimmer of hope-unexpected So
luton of difficulties happy finale
Landscape for background according
to season. Plants of each month got
up from botanical calendars"
"A woman Of Middleton, Conn,
who had become exasperated at an
eagle that had stolen her chickens
and pigeons saw him taking siesta
the other day after lunching on a spring
chicken. She got down double-bar-
relied shotgun, pointed It at the eagle,
shut both eyes and fired both barrels
She brought down the bird, which is to
be stuffed as a trophy. - Hartford
COurdRt
Cocaine. the new anesihetic, is a
coiorless mud not unlike glycerlne'
Under its effects, patient at hos
pital the other day submitted 70 the
ball of his eye being pnnctured by n deli
cate. spearhead knife, and in it, place a
small suction pump inserted which
brought out some pus from a sack
which the knife had punctured, and all
the while the patient, mentally con
scous, chatted pleasantly with the oper-
ator, az insensiale of the operation as
though il were being performed on his
hat band Chicago Journal.
The saltpetre beds OF Nevada are
TAR better SITUATED for the development
OF their deposits than the nitre region
OF Sonth america, winch is desert en-
tireiy devoid OF water and all vegetable
NE water Tor all purposes. Is. ron
densed from tne ocean W. ely and car
rleo 10 the nitro helds, while fuel has to
90 procured from the mountains in the
oouth OF onll, In Nevada the salt
patre deposits are in the vicinity of a
rich farming country, with an abundant
supply OF water and Wood close at
hand. ehsJdg6 Journal
The Fenian ram that aroused con
siderable puplic curiosity through the
columns, Oh newspapers TWO years age
Is sun ds New Haven, Conn., IN
wooden building on the bank OF MIL
river IL Is about thirty rect long
cigar-shaped' ourns Petrolepm Tor Iuei'
ana can MAKE eNceiient speed under
water. III Is said TO nave cost Sl5,ooo'
NO one Is allowed TO see IL except those
IN whose charge IL Is ana they fe1ose
10 talk a6out H. Inc pnlld!ng mas nc
sac WINDOWS and the door Is strongly
parrea.-Ne@ Karen heqaSter.
An angler thus tells of his own ex-
periments as to the effect that sound
produces on trout, and he assumes that
all fishes are more or less alike in this
respect: frequently when able 70 Oh.
serve trout, whlle myself unseen,
nave screamed ana shouted at the TOP
OF my. voice; These demonstration have
lnvafiapiy peen without the sightesl
enect' "ut wheh Var'eu py Conclusion
wnlch W., Would communicate itself TO the
wafer thfs mas no longer peen the case,
ana evidence OF alarm, or at least tha'
the coneusslon was feit, has been APP
parent - CN'cd9o Herdtd.
The. use of the revolver bv women
I To avenee real or supposed injuries. is
becoming very common in France Re.
Gently Paris physician, residing in the
Rue LAFAYETTE. had a maid servan,
named Ioi1ise Chasrt whom he dis.