The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-15
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.


vented the garment called the Dolman,
and petition for her pardon is being
circulated.
AT what age was you married ?"
asked she, inquisitively. But the other
lady was equal to the emergency, and
quietly responded; " At the parsonage. :"
A NOTED English surgeon says that
as accurately as men is because their
shoulder-blades are set too far forward.
FRENCH paper: At the cattle show
Gentleman, with solemnity-" Miss
Florence, do you love beastsg' Lady,
with yivacity-" Am / to consider that
as a proposals."
DETROIT Free Press. There is Just one
thing about it. The lady who insists on
carrying good share of her dress in her
hand has got to keep her shoes tied up,
or let everybody know she left home in
hurry.
TINES are so hard that gentlemen with
large families scatter the girls around
different summer resorts, so that after
having worn all their dresses once they
can exchange duds by express, and thus
keep UP appearances.
AN old gentleman who had dabbled
all his life in statistics says he never
heard of but one woman who insured
her life. He accounts for this by the
singular fact of one of the questions be-
ing, What is your agcY'
WHILE DIR. Mary Walker was lectur-
ing lately in one of the rural towns, it
is said that youth cried out: " Are
you the Mary that had a little lambT
"No" was the sharp reply; but
your mother had a little jackass"
BRooKFIELD Je6ersoniaa A North
Carolina man has invented spark
arrester, just as though the old man
yelling down stairs to come TO bed, and
asking if that sap-head intends to stay to
breakfast, wasn't effective enough.
On CITY Derrick: The moon looked
through rift in the cloud. Not just
vet, john" sighed she. A cloud passed
over the moon. Now, john" and a
smack reverberated from hill to hill, and
finally died away in the labyrinths of a
COW shed.
DETROIT Post: Our revolutionary
fathers were wiser than we in some
things. General Stark remarked at the
battle of Bennington: Boys, you must
win this fight, or Molly Stark will sleep
tonight widow Nowadays he
wouldn't be so sure about Molly.
"WHAT are those purple posies down
by the brooke" asks Gus. If you
mean," replies Clara, those glorious
masses of empurpled efilorescence, that
bloom in bosky delIs and fringe the
whipping streamlets, they are campanula
rotundifora." Gus plays billiards for
living and Clara goes to a girls college.
AT the recent examination in the Lon
don University, Miss Ellen. M. Watson
took the first prize in mathematics and
mechanics over a hundred young men,
She also won the Rothschild scholarship
of $3.50 a year. Professor Huxley's
daughter, Marion, took the prize in art,
and Miss Orme won the jurisprudence
scholarship.
SILK net mittens are increasing in
popularity. The lace-trimmed elbow
sleeves, now seen in fashionable evening
dresses, encourage the use of them. They
vary in depth from the wrist to the mid
die of the lower half of the arm, and in
some specimens are beautiful in quality
and finish. These gloves furnish abun-
dant opportunity for the display of
bracelets; nor is it neglected by our
fashionable ladies, who wear any number
of jingling bangles and all manner of
ornaments for the arms.
MRS. Morris, woman Justice of the
Peace in Wyoming Territory, heard a
case of scandalous character in which
her husband was defendant. She
sentenced him to be hung by the neck
until dead, and was anxious to have the
sentence carried into effect at once, I'M
til the attorneys explained to her that
she was sitting simply as an examining
court. She then held him in bonds Of
$18,000,000 to await the action of the
Grand Jury, and said she would shoot
the first man that attempted to raise
the sureties.
MILWAUKEE Sentinel: A writer in
the Womdn's Journal constructs a brief
catechism for boys, in which she makes
men appear very wicked creatures. She
furnished questions and answers like
these: Who rejected and crucifed the
Savior? Men" And "Who conducted
the ten prosecutions of the Christians
Men" Somehow neglects all reference
to that little episode in the orchard,
with the snake and the apple, you know
and she doesn't ask, Who caused
John the Baptist's head to be cut off and
served in a plate?"