The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-05-11
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

PLAIN gold bands with tiny lockets
attached are the latest engagement
rings.
ONE profession the ladies are not likely
to invade-the church. They prefer
giving to taking orders.
A MARKED feature about new bonnets
is the absence of all hanging draperies.
They are made to look as compact as
possible.
FASHIONABLE ladies are making mon
ogram fans. The monograms are pasted
on black wooden fans, and are unique
and pretty.
THE man who leaves two-thirds of a
cigar in dark nook on the front stoop
when he goes to see his girl will make a
thrifty husband,--P. L hua.
HUSBAND Was the Ladies' Club
lively tonight, dear2' Wife" No ;
awfully dull, Every member was pres
ent, and of course one can't speak of
people before their faces! Solve had
nothing to talk aboutp
A FRENcHMAN Just back from trip
to Havre: You will never catch me
travelling by an excursion train again.
Why, sir, at the station at Havre | lost
my cane and my wife" Then, with his
utterance choked with tears, " A new
cane, too
The sexton of parish church in
county Armagh was about to lose his
wife, She begged him to bury her
in Tyrone, among her own kindred, forty
miles away. Indeed, Peggy" said he,
"Pll try We here; but if YOU give any
trouble, I'll take We up and bury We in
Tyrone"
LEAVES have their time the poets says, to fall;
Now why are trees unlike poor mother Eve9
Because, when rich In gorgeous glow and all
Sweet charms, the fall melted her to leave.
But then, how soon a little thought will bring
CLEAN of joy to compensate our grief;
For Ewes type well Of trees In spring,
Since she, like them, just then puts on the leaf
~ y. Graphic.
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds
of the press, explaining on scientific
grounds whya girl can not throw a stone
If some scientist would kindly point out
what is the safest position the bystander
can occupy whether behind or before
when she attempts it, he would be to
some extent public benefactor.-Nep
York Mail.
LOUISA GULICK, an old maid living
near New Brunswick, N. j., has sued
her octogenarian uncle for breach of
promise, estimating the damage to her
affections at $4,000. The old fellow
says that he never made any matrimo-
NAL offer In most States such a union
would be null and void, and subject the
parties to heavy penalties.
A MAIL agent on Southern railroad
has brought suit for ten thousand dol
lars damages for the loss of his voice
on account of exposure to cold through
negligence of the railroad company to
keep his mail car properly heated. If
it had been his wife who lost her voice,
we don't suppose he would have asked
for ten cents damages, Some men are
so selfish that way.
AT recent meeting a contralto orator
named Mrs. Clark, explained how it was.
81 know" said she. "when was sane
tilted, by this: ! made my own dresses
and when they didn't use to fit l got in
rage and scolded and stormed. Now
that ugly feeling is all taken away, and
/ could try on my dresses ten times over
to make them fit, and never get out of
patience. My brethren, that's the test"
SEA-BEAN jewelry is becoming popu-
lar in the North. These beans are found
in quantities at Key West, and on this
island also. They are of beautiful
cherry-red color, with a deep black di-
viding line, and are susceptible of a
very high polish They are, no doubt,
misnamed sea-beans, and are probably
foated to the gulf shores from more
tropical climes, where they have foated
down streams into the salt water, which
hardens them. A representative of a
large jewelry firm in Baltimore is in the
city with an order to purchase a couple
of bushels of Galveston sea-beans.-
Galveston { Teras) Nems.
YOUNG man, listen to the advice of
the st. Louis Journal, and choose wife
by the music she plays, and the way she
plays it. If she manifests predilec-
ton for Strauss, she is frivolous; for
Beethoven, she is impractical; for List,
she is too ambitious; for Verdi, she is
sentimental for Offenbach, she is giddy ;
for Gounod, she is lackadaisical; for
Gottschalk, she is superficial; for Mo-
Fart, she is prudish; for Flotow, she is
commonplace; for Wagner, she is idiotic.
The girl who hammers away at "Maid-
EMS Prayer" "Anvil Chorus" and "Sil-
very Waves" may be depended upon as
a good cook, and healtbful; and if she
includes the Battle of Prague" and
the "White Cockade" in her repertory,
you ought to know that she has been
religiously and strictly nurtured. But,
last of all, pin thou thy faith upon the
calico dress of the girl who can play
Hop,a Gwoat Homo -