The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-09
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PANCIL AND SCISSORS.
LAVENDER felt the spring influence, .
few days ago, but the bad weather con-
fined his muse 70 the following COMES
sion:
love but one-but onei
How dear that ones TO me
I'd tell no one beneath the sun,
Because that oneis me.
II you tall into misfortune, disengags
yourself as well as you can. Creep
through those bushes which have the
fewest briers.
NEW York Nail: Whatever else may
be said against the Chinese, no one can
trulhfully say that he ever saw one who
parted his hair in the middle.
TAILoRs say that there are ten
thousand stitches in dress coat, which
is pleasant thing for them to remember
when they fail to collect their bill.
A GEORGIA ma walked iofay-four
miles to see his brother hung, and when
the criminal turned out to be another
man the Georgian WAS disappointed.
SUFFER not your spirit to be subdued
by raisfortunes but, on the contrary,
steer right onward, with courage
greater than your fate seems to allow.
The Illinois Legislature has passeda
bill appropriating $4,000 to complete
the monument to Stephen A. Douglas,
and the Governor has signed the bill.
SINCE the war the expectation Of
cheese has increased. So of beans, which
have recently advanced 100 to 100 per
cent. In nine months our exports have
exceeded cur imports $l56, 100000.
EUROPEAN MOTHS.
Gaily the troubadour twsnged his guitar,
As he was yowling loud, touching the war,
Marching from Kischensf toward 6iobodEe,
Reared he Of lsaktschi, nigh to the sea.
Husch, to the west, was still Bolgrad was hare ;
Kustendji swore ut him, KiA did glare;
Turtokai raised herself clear from the map;
Jatputsch Rent and Pruth purled at his tap.
Loud twanged the troubadour his old gutter;
Bender saluted him, thought him the Car;
LaIarasch, Tokschani, Ghenyap and Rir-
Hail To geography lent him their ear
- Louisville Cowisr-Jcurxak
IT is about time for the regular annual
scientific paper on the presence of deadly
poisons in all the prevailing colors of wall
paper-followed, as usual, by the an
nouncement of new shade of wall paper
in the market.
NEW YORK Herald: A Chicago girl II
80 modest that she refuses to let the
clothes remain on the line during the
day. In our neighborhood the tramps ~
fuse to let the clothes remain on the linz
during the night.
The name OF many mercantile house
is never seen by the majority OF the
people of the city in which it does BUSH
ness, until the bankruptcy announces
ment appears. That is an advertisement
which cannot be lodged.
A WEEKS WAR NEWS.
On Monday morn the news arrived,
There had been bloody WORK,
But no one knew which lied the most,
The Christian or the Turk.
On Tuesday morning Russia claimed
A victory for her side;
On Wednesday, from Turkish source
The victory deuied.
On Thursday each side swore 1t had
The other put to rout,
And fridays news the fight eonhrme
Without single DOUBT.
On Saturday twas Whispered round
Tue whole affair small,
And Sundays cable news declared
There'd been no fight at ALL
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin: When the
foreman of the mposing-room knocks
| form into "pi now he doesn't have
it reset as of yore. He simply slaps #
into the press as it is, and the newspaper
is run of with war map up to the
average.
THINK the treatment Of little chile
rem is oftentimes the best treatment soE
the larger ones. think used to get =
much good when Charles was whipped =
whenI was whipped myself, and, on ne
whole, think preferred it.-Hsmy
Ward Beecher.