The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-11

hIRSCHNASS are Sole Agents fo7
the Mothers Friend" shirt waist
for Boys the greatest in the World.
WoRK ON the various buildings
over town which was stopped by the
recent rains has been resumed.
Ir it had not been that there was
a very heavy fog last night we
would have had bad frost. The
weather was just right for frost
but the fog kept it of.
The hustle has come in again and
once more the female form divine is
to be disagured with these artificial
deformities. The women are going
after the style in great shape. Satur-
day there was large box of the arti-
cles received in town and before Mon
day night every one Of them had been
sold and was on dress parade.
Among other trifes which Commo-
dore Dewey may look after when he
has rounded up the ] 900 odd Philip
pine Islands, are the Carolines, which
Spain got possession of by arbitration
of the Pope, with promise to respect
the rights of Americans. The prom
Use was at once thrown overheard and
the American churches and schools
destroyed. 1t might be good idea
TO restore those churches and schools.
A ssKNoT" is division of the
ships long line, which bears the
same relation to mile that thirty
seconds does to an hour, or one hum
dred and twentieth part of a nauti-
cal mile, nearly fifty one feet If the
speed of ship is such as to run 20
OF these knots off the reel in half a
minute, that means she is going at
the rate of twenty nautical miles per
hour, or about 234 common miles.
THERE are to be twenty one mem
bers of the Grafton chapter of the
Epworth League will be here as del
egates to the convention which
meets on the % and 26 of this
month. Besides these there are to
be number Of others from the same
town The attendance will be the
largest ever at a similar gathering
in the state. The local people will
entertain them in grand style.
A HohRIFYfNG accident, occurring
at Parkersbnrg, was that of babe
eleven months old. A cup of boil.
ing coffee was upset upon the baby,
scalding it so that its flesh came off
with its clothing, whereupon some
women who had come in to assist
poured bottle of earbolic acid over
the little ones body, by mistake. 1t
was afterward neutralized by pour
ing on olive oil, hut the poor little
sufferer cannot live
AWNINGS are up at the various
business houses in town, bikes are
out by the dozen, old hens are al
ready scratching up the gardens, the
chronic loafers are sitting on the
store boxes, house wives are clean
ing house and the men are eating
cold grub and swearing under their
breath and thinking about enlisting
to escape, the anglers are out with
hook and line, the johnny-jump-ups
are jumping up, the cowslips are
slipping up and everything points
to the arrival of summer
SEVERAL contractors and agents
for stone companies were in King
wood last Saturday to bid on the
work OF laying about 5000 feet, lin
cal measure, of flag stone side walk
for the town this summer and fur
nish the stone delivered in King.
wood Among them were: f. NJ.
Grant, of Morgantown; John NJ.
keene, of Grafton; Louis E. Steiner,
of Cleveland; George j. Sem, of
Pittsburg, and William Terrell, of
Cleveland, Ohio, and Messrs Shock
and Rightmeyer, of Rowlesburg.-
Kingwood Argus.