The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-01-12
All Sorts Of Items.

Sacramento, Cal, has passed an
ordinance making it unlawful for
any person under seventeen years OF
age to smoke cigarettes within the
city limits.
A mammoth cotton palace is to
be erected in New Orleans, in which
the products Of Louisiana and other
States will be exhibited during the
carnival week.
Mr.. George w. Childs, of the Phil
adelphia Ledger, is said to have dis
tributed nearly $4,000 among his
editors, reporters and other employees
on Christmas eve
A man can hire q house in Japan,
keep two servants and live ON the fat
of the land, all for little over $40 a
month. But country editors wives
have to do their own work.
There is an acrimonious debate
going ON as to which of the New
England States raises the finest tur-
keys. Thus far Vermont seems to
have the best of the argument.
Robert Bonner is sixty four years
old. He was an Irish lad and came
to this country to seek his fortune
in 1889. His first employment was
as 'devil' in the office of Hartford
paper, where he received $25 year
and his board.
A steam engine, just completed
after two years oflabor, for the Paris
Exhibition, is under three-fifths of
an inch in height, and weighs less
than one ninth Of an ounce. 1t is
composed of $50 pieces and is the
smallest steam engine ever made.
The Japanese Government has APP
piled to the Minister of Instruction
in France to send out to Japan two
French women teachers with Univer-
sity degrees to FIJI posts in large
girls school. There are to be two
English, two American and two Ger.
man governesses as well.
Three young women of Rapid City,
OAK, at dinner last December, it
is said, declared their intention never
to marry, and agreed to dine togeth-
err on the 23d of each December.
Since, three honorary members have
been added to the ''club." They are
the girls husbands, and all six met
at dinner on the 23d ult
When President Harrison died in
1S4l casket was inferred in his
honor in the burying ground at Dub
lin, Ca, and the ladies of the place
continued to place flowers on the
spot for many years. The mound
has been neglected since the war,
but is again receiving attention aimee
the election of the grandson of the
man for whom Georgia voted in
1910.
The leading architects of New
York are busily engaged in prepar-
ing plans for the great Protestant
Cathedral which is to be erected in
that city at an estimated cost of
several million dollars. 1t is said
that eighty-two architects are at
work on plans. The structure is in
tended not TO exceed 400 feet in
height, and will be built of some dur
able stone.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, among
his other multifarious duties as a
lawyer, cattle grower, lecturer, tele-
graph director, and after dinner
speaker, has undertaken to run a
silver mine. He is president of a
company which owns and operates a
mine and quartz mill at Silver City,
N. M. It's definite and classical To-
cation is in what is known as Legal
Tender Hill"
The champion buck wheat cake
eater, II. II. Bissell, an employee of
the New York, Pennsylvania a. Ohio
Railroad, resides in Youngstown, o.
Last week, on bet of 500 with
Charles Near, miller. he ate sixty
three cakes, none being less than
five inches in diameter Near threw
up the contest after eating fifty
eight, and Bissell secured the money
and championship.
During the past eight years the
percentage of increase of taxable
wealth in Alabama is SO per cent;
Arkansas, n per cent; Florida, 2l1 |
per cent, Georgia, 424 per cent,
Kentucky, so per cent; Tennessee,
A per cent, and Texas LOT per cent.
The total increase in the South |
amounts To $1,204, 176,604. The in
crease in population during the
eight years has been 5,4S1,S
The Mount Morgan gold mine of
Queensland has proved to be the
richest mine in the world. A public
road runs over the mountain, and it
was while repairing it that the gold
was discovered. 1t was purchased
for $4,000, just IS an acre, and the
shares are now worth $75,000,000.
1t is supposed to be an old geyser
impregnated with gold. The metal
is extracted by the chlorination pro-
cess and costs about $3.50 ton.
Jay Gould has his whims, just
like poor man. In going upstairs
he always puts his left foot on the
step first, even if he has to get out
of step to do it. If by accident or
through thoughtlessness he happens
to start with the right foot he is GER
tain to remark it before reaching the
top of the steps, and if he does will
return and start over again. Anoth-
er reported popularity of Mr.. Gould
is his antipathy to fair haired men.
There is not single blond clerk in
his immediate employ, and it is said
that he dislikes to do business with
men who have fair hair.
An Elegant Seven O'clock Dinner.