The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-13
NUMBER 26.
PASSING SMILES

JUSTICE consists in doing no injury
to men; decency, in giving them no
ohense.
CoNoEIT is like the natural oil of the
sea fowls plamage, which sheds the rain
that falls on him.
The greatest genius is never so great
as when it is chastened and subdued by
the highest reason.
FLIrs toll not, neither do they spin,
yet they have the first taste of all the
best gravies in the land.
THE elephant has the least and the
rabbit the most eyes for its size, and the
rats tail is just the size of its body.
THE roof of the thoroughbred dogs
mouth is always black. So is the bot
tom of the cats foot who is a good
mouser.
IT takes great many bricks to build
house; but the more man carries in
his hat, the less he will find his house
a-gIowing.
THE cuckoo is the greatest economist
among the birds; she lays her eggs in
other birds nest, and lets the birdshatch
them out at their leisure.
THE serpent and the crab change their
clothing each year, and the raccoon lives
all the winter long on the memory of
what he ate in the summer.
THE horse always gets up from the
ground on his forelegs first, and the COW
on her hind ones, and then turns around
three times beferes he lies down.
"IN selecting husband" said Mrs.
PufIer, "above all things choose man
of cultivation" This remark narrowed
the girl to such an extent that she went
off and married farmer.
NEVER be harsh with your children
or servants. Firmness with gentleness
of demeanor and regard for the feel
ings, constitutes that authority which is
always respected and valued.
RATS have fewer friends and more
enemies than anything of the four-legged
persuasion on the face of the earth, and
yet rats are as plenty now as in the
palmiest days Of the Roman Empire.
TRUST.
| Make little fence OF trust
ril hi the space ,Sp' With loving work
And therein stay.
Look not through the sheterng bars
Upon tomorrow
Trust will help thee bear what comes
OF JOY or sorrow.
A MAN who always hangs up his hat,
puts the boot-jack away, hangs his coat
on one particular peg, and lays his socks
on the back of chair on going to bed,
is not a man who will put in ten hours
a day unless watched.
Bob INGERsoLL asked a preacher
whether the fatted calf was male or fe-
male Female" of course, replied the
preacher, for / am now talking TO the
MALE" which was considered an excel
lent sell on the wicked Bob.
A MINISTER did wedding ceremony
cup brown" the other day when he
married Mr.. David l.. Brown, brown
haired man, clothed in brown suiting, to
Miss Minnie Brown, brown-eyed
maiden, likewise dressed in brown.
HORNETS have more fight in them
than anything Of their size, but there is
no method in their madness; they will
pitch into meeting house when they
are furious just as anxiously as they
will into sleeping baby in its cradle.
A sALooN-KEEPER, having started
business in building where trunks had
been made, asked friend what he had
better do with the old sign, "Trunk
| Factory" "Oh," said the friend, "just
change the T to a d, and it will suit you
exactly"
PRIDE is as loud beggar as want,
| and great deal more saucy. When you
have bought one fine thing you must buy
ten more, that your appearance may be
all of piece; but it is easier to sup
press the first desire than to satisfy all
that follow it.
A CLAIRvoYANT told woman in
Mankato, Mimi, who had lost fur
cape, that she had dreamed that a neigh
Dor, respectable woman, had stelen it.
The loser, acting on the dream, accused
the neighbor of the theft, but nothing
was turned up except libel suit.
AN exchange has this startling piece
of intelligence "Nothing will be worn
this spring by the fair sex, except
longitudinal striped hose" We pre-
sumo this attractive though somewhat
picturesque costume will not become the
rage until the warm weather sets in.
A CHICAGO sewing machine girl went
to Colorado few years ago and married
a man who has since died, leaving her
fortune of 100000 and 10000 head
of cattle, and yet, no doubt, many sew
ing machine girls will remain here in
the smoky city, and marry men who
will live till the cemeteries are all
crowded. and never own a goat.-Cin-
cinnati Breakfast Table.
OH l wish tiny browny bird from out the
south,
Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by
the stream
1 would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny
mouth,
And sing my tiny life away in one melodious
dream.
1 would sing about the blossoms, and the sunshine
And the tiny wife meant to have in such coy
nest;
And ii some one came and shot me dead why then
could but die,
With my tiny life and tiny song just ended at
| their best. Charles KINGSLEY.
AN unpleasant way of putting the
thing was innocently adopted by the
New York car-driver, who, blissfully
ignorant that his interlscutor was Mr..
Beecher, replied to that gentleman's
query whether he did not think it posi-
Bile to dispense with running the cars all
day on Sunday: eyes, sir, do; but
there's no hope for it SO long as they
keep that Beecher theater open in Brook
lyn; the cars have to run to accom-
modate that"
My wife tells the truth three times
day" remarked jocose old fellow, at
the same time casting mischievous
glance at his "better half" Before
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