The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A Cleveland lady promenaded the
streets for two hours with card on her
cloak reading: Former price. $50 ;
marked down to S12 to close out. ~
Cleveland Leader
The Chinese soldiers uniform con-
sist of blue tunic and as many more
duds as he feels like getting inside CT.
A good many of them use their shoes
for breast plates and stuff cotton in
their ears to keep from being scared.
The first case Of painting the Town
led in this country was when the earli-
est Aztec settlers from Mexico celebra-
ted the completion of their first village
this side of the Rio Grande with an orgie
OF red-berries, red-paint and red-eye.
This should end all argument.-C Chicago
Herald.
"A maiden lady of Philadelphia was
witness in court the other day, and
when sworn was requested to kiss the
Bible. She refused, saying 1t was so
long since she kissed anything that she
had forgotten how 1t was done. This is
strange and interesting case.-P tila-
delphia Call.
10 those are constantly. expecting a
serious decline in the price of beef we
may say that the population of the
world is increasing much more rapidly
than the number of cattle. This is
specially true of our own country, where
the cattle trade is pursued under the
most favorable auspices.-N Y. Herald
Not long since durable monument
of cement was raised on the site, in the
Island of Hawaii, on which the famous
Captain James Cook fell in 1873. 1t is
the custom among sailors to inscribe
their names upon small pieces of cop
perplate and nail them to the trees in
the vicinity of the monument.
When Colonel Chaille Long, who
accompanied General Gordon to the
Soudan in 1874, visited King M'Tesa,
his appearance upon white hoae,
something that had never been seea
there, threw the Kings subjects into the
widest panic, as they believed the horse
and its rider to have come from celestial
regions.
In the Agricultural Department at
Washington $50 women are employed
in putting up seed, and fifty-eight men
are also engaged in the same work.
The men get $3.50 and the women S125,
although the work done by the women
is identical in quantity and quality with
that done by the men, Washington
Post.
The volcano Kiiawea, on the Island
OF Hawaii, is 1000 feet high and is said
to be again showing bad disposition.
Five years ago it gave the town of Hile
free show, which it ended by running
down the curtain of oblivion on the
town itself. The mass of lava was half
mile in width, thirty to fifty feet in
thickness, and buried Hile much as
Vesuvius did Pompeii.
The "City of Churches" is Brook
lyn, N. Y; the "City of Masts'' is Lon
don; the ''City of Monuments is Balti-
more, Nd; the "City of Refuge" is
Medina, Arabia, where Mohammed
took refuge when driven by conspira-
tors from Mecca; the .City of the SUM-
is Baalbec; the 'sCity of the Tribes is
Galway, Ireland, the residence in 1885
of thirteen tribes who settled there; the
"cleanest city in the world is Brock, in
Holland, and the dirtiest city is -. =
Chicago Herald.
Il can always tell the nationality
of an engineer by the complaint he
makes, said al engine builder and re-
palrer in one of our contemporaries
1.-The Scotchman is ALWAYS worried
about the book losh;' Englishmen and
Irishmen are always fighting the
thump, which they firmly believe was
loft hor.. for fbs,, to Al q
man is very much concerned about dem
valves, while the Yankee has a hard
time to keep her from chawin' too
much steam. IN Y. Sun.
1t seems, from all that can be
learned from the fair sex, that Worth
and his compeers in Paris charge
round hundred thousand francs, say
twenty thousand dollars, to outfit a
young lady for the matrimonial voyage
For this she is equipped from top to toe;
everything is of the best and in the
latest fashion. Of course this is not the
limit. Ladies in Paris occasionally
spend two hundred and fifty thousand
francs Tor their trousseau, and are heard
to complain, few weeks after marri-
age, that they have nothing to wear.
"A few days since, as workmen were
removing old ice from ODER & Co. S ice
house, in Dresden, Me-, says CORES
pendent of the Boston Journal, they
found large frog between two blocks
of ice that were frozen together solid
and had been in the house two years
A number of heavy blows were required
to separate the blocks, when on being
released, his frogship stretched himself
few times to get limbered up and then
hoped away as lively as ever, appa-
rently none the worse for his frigid i'm
prisonment.
A LIFE OF HARDSHIPS.