The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Cast-of boots and shoes are made
into wall paper at certain factories.
CHICAGO Htrald.
james Russell Lowell. speaking Ct
the new Premier Of England. says: The
Marquis Of Salisbury is a very able
leader, and viii undoubtedly make a
successful Ministry. Boston Journal.
Where one woman is sacrificed to
the ambition for higher scholarship, ten
fall victims to the frivolities and mani
ties of fashionable life. 1t is not mental
effort, but round of dissipation, that
enfeebles the health of our girls
Christian Register.
Seven hundred thousand quilts are
sent from Connecticut quilt manufac
tory each year to warm the Southern
and Western States. Mexico. Canada,
the West Indies. and even the different
cities of the South American States.
Hartford Post.
1t has been decided In Ohio that the
husband IL the legal owner of his wife's
clothes. So absolutely is the power in
vested in the husband that one man,
who wished to deed his wife's clothes to
her. could not legally make the transfer.
=C2ecetand Leader.
Recently a Government transport,
with a full crew. many wounded soldiers
and valuable horses. was kept waiting
in Suez Harbor three full days for o
mule which somebody or other had pre-
sented to Queen Victoria and without
which the ship had orders not to sail.
Two new type-writers have recently
been brought out In England. Each Is
about eight inches square. and weighs
not to exceed six pounds. They can
be carried in sachcl. and are afforded
ct so low price as to be within the
reach OF almost any person. Chicago
Times.
in the largest library In the world,
in Paris. there Is Chinese chart Of the
heavens made about 900 years before
Christ. In this chart 1,460 stars are
found to be correctly inserted, as cor
roborated by the scientists of the present
day.
Tho only countries upon the globe
to which cholera has not been carried
are the islands of the South Pacific,
Australia, the Cape Of Good Hope, the
islands Of the North Atlantic. and the
western coast of South America These
countries are all separated from India
by wide expanse Of ocean, and have
no commercial intercourse with that
country.-M r Herald.
-Tobogganning at Saratoga has be-
come summer as well as a winter
amusement, showing American enter
prise in manner that must make
original Canadian tobogganers blush
with chagrin. The sledges are mounted
on rollers and go rumbling down the
sidewalks, where the streets are steep,
to the great CONSERVATION of horses and
pedestrians. Troy Times.
The following admonitory notice
was recently published by French
editor in his paper: The wine mer-
chant who last week sold me bottle Of
lemonade favored with vftriol for
bottle Of champagne Is requested to
send me within twenty-four hours a
bottle Of genuine champagne, failing
which his name and address viii be
made public" The result was that he
forthwith received almost unlimited
contributions of first-elass wine.
An idea of the magnitude of the
cattle trade of the United States may be
easily estimated by remembering that
in 1884 we exported $40, 900. 900 Of beef
and beef products, and that this was
not more than six per cent of the total
value of these products The total value
of beef and beef products was nearly
800, 900. 900, and ninety-fopr per cent.
of this was consumed at home. Yet,
large as these figures, they represent