The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
FANCIES For TIE FAIR.

lT is no longer the fashion to send
around slice of wedding cake" They
send the receipt how to make it.
GALvANIo electricity was discovered
by woman, Madam Galvani, but her
husband gets all the credit of it,
WoMAN's rights folks ought to be
proud of Hartford business firm that
employs an equal number of men and
women clerks, and pays the women the
larger salaries.
BUFFALO Netcs: am busy blowing
and can not entertain company" was
the substance of note sent by Michi-
gan belle in reply to an intimation that
a gentleman desired to see her.
OBSERVING persons say that hair-pins
are still TO be noticedi in women's mouths
while putting up their back hair They
will acknowledge, however, that these
are about the only things in their mouths
that ever are still.
THE Women's Congress of the United
States is to be held this year in Cleve-
land, beginning October 10. Among
the topics to be discussed is Woman
work in the arts and industries " This
will be the fifth annual Convention of
Women.
WHEN Cossack young woman falls
in love with man, she goes to his house
and pops the question to him. If he
refuses, her relations come and set at
him and threaten him, and they all nag
together, until at last the unhappy
youth must either marry the girl or run
away.
THEY admit women to the New York
University. How? They pen 'em off in
classes separate from the boys, and make
them pay tuition, while all masculine
students are admitted free. Not week
passes but we have occasion to remark
the chivalry of American men towards
women, and now here is some more of it.
WHY is it if the old man ard women
are so sorry at losing their daughter by
marriage, as they pretend to be at the
church, that the instant they arrive
home they dance around the tables for
excess of happiness, and the daddy goes
off on jolly old spree the first chance
that turns up?
A INTENTIONALLY inclined gentle
man in New York advertises for blonde
wife, worth from 100000 to 5000, 900.
Another, more mindful of the stagnaton
of business and the great depreciation in
values, wants one worth from $4,000 to
$4,000, complexion not specified, and
offers to give security for the property.
EAsToN Free Press And now the wo-
man who has Just moved in leans over
the fence and tells her neigbbor that
she never saw such a dirty house rs
this one, totally oblivious that the
neighbor is the absent tenants sister.
The consequence is the dissemination of
much active feeling.
MRS. MARY WILCOX, who is the
daughter of Andrew Jackson Donelson,
and holds clerkship at Washington,
and is the only pecson row living who
was born in the White House, is not a
granddaughter of Andrew jackson, as
the newspapers say she is. General
Jackson had no children. How, then,
could he have grandchildren
SACRAMENTO Bee: A Haywards wo-
man believes in having everything in
readiness. She purchased coffin for
her sick husband ten days prior to his
death, and kept it in the house; she also
had stylish mourning suit made,
in anticipation of the event. Most any
man would be willing to die if he had
sucha thoughtful wife as that
A YOUNG lady in Buffalo has Sun
day-school class of seventy-five young
oho 4
class of seven wild boys. She gave
her class weekly receptions in her par
lors, and played the piano and led the
singing for them. Now her class OF
seventy-fve have a band of music whose
instruments cost 500, boat club, and
literary society which publishes small
newspaper. She was only eighteen years
old when she started this work. She
says it is all the result of prayer, but
it is more probably the result of prayer
and works both.
HERE, cut this out quick! 1t is from
the Richmond Wing and the fellow who
wrote it has evidently been there, vigor-
GU ,ly: "The firt is the painted hyena
of society, the lamb-feecing, disguised
ravening wolf of the affectional fold
Her fangs drip with the gore of the
foolishly fond and true. Like the hideous
specter bat of the Orinoco, she drains
the last purple drop from the veins Of
the sball-hound victim, while her soft
| Establishments lull him to rest and fill
his dreams with dazzling scenes of beauty
and felicity. More cruel than the great
war god of the Aztecs, she feasts upor
the torn and bleeding hearts of her mos
fervent worshipers. With savage
ferocity she crunches the tenderes
feelings and emotions of the human
SOUL"
Slightly Familiar with Wales.