The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-06
NUMBER ~.
PASSING SMILES.

IT is among the Indians that knowl-
edge is pow-wow-er.
QUERY for our naturalist readers
Can cat dog your foo steps?
The heart is book which we ought
not tear in our hurry to get at the con-
tents.
IT is with life as with coffee; he who
drinks it pure must not drain it TO the
dregs.
Duty is not pleasant, but cheap. Per-
severance is the best school Tor every
manly virtue.
SPEAKING of a tornado which had Wis
tied her town, an old lady said: Every
thing was swept as with the beeswax Of
destruction"
THE Hdwkeye tells of a tramp who
asked for loaf of bread, plate of POI
tatoes, and a round of beef, Ito fill
long-felt want"
THERE is wonderful power in imagi-
nation, but it gets weak in the knees
when it undertakes to shoulder circus
lemonade -BreakJast Table.
ALL prosperous men can give good
counsel, and they like to do it; it costs
them nothing. 1t is easy to declaim
against feasting, when the stomach is
full.
SAVING is a habit--like smoking or
taking snuff, or like extravaganza, If
you begin it and go on with it for
little time, you come to have a passion
for it,
WHY is playing chess a more exem-
! plary occupation than playing cards?
Because at chess you play with two
bishops, and at cards you play with four
knaves.
The only way to know the length,
breadth and thickness ov q parents luv,
is to bekum parent yurself, aud adj
wise yu to do it the fust honest chance
yu kan git. g
Tue difference between the preacher,
the builder, and the architect Of the
church, il simply this: One is the tor,
the other the erector, and the third
the director. H
BRYANT-1794-187s.
"The melancholy days have come,
The saddest OF the veal"
When he we loved and lauded long,
As poet, patriot, seer
Struck by the eerta u common doom,
| Lies pulseess on his bier
We mourn his DEATH a nations loss;
Such was the high esteem
All held the sage's household name,
That none will care TO deem
| This truaut tribute to his worth,
Aught but heartfelt iheme.
v-hirafic Enrique, In ~ Y Post.
Sir down and think it over. Did yo
ever know little man who could cut
watermelon or make motion at eau
Gus without an air of fussy Importance?
--Breakfast Table.
PROFESSOR" Miss O., tell me what
is that instrument called by which we
ascertain musical pitchY" Miss @. (hes-
itatingly) "a pitch-fork." An audible
giggling in the class.
In most quarrels there is fault on
both sides. Both flint and steel are
Either of them may hammer on wood
forever, and no fire will follow
GUsTAvE DoRE is finishing sculp-
tural group called "The Prize Of Glory"
which represents young hero dying be-
meath the Kiss of Glory. What pity
that Frenchman can't say Yum, yumP
"No man." said wealthy but weak
headed barrister, "should be admitted
to the bar who hadn't an independent
landed property" "May ask, SIR"
said Curran, how many acres make
wiseacreW
IT will be many years before the tele-
phone and the monograph succeed the
red-hair,d woman with sun-b0nnet
| who lives in the center Of the village,
and who inquiries daily over her back
fence what the news is.
THERE was period of over one
thousand years in the history of this
world when doors had no keyholes, and
citizen could be seen feeling all over
the door without exciting the least sus-
pcion against his social standing.
Two TO ONE.
| Thou hast two ears, and but one mouth;
Remember IL. pray;
For much there Is that thou must hear,
And little say.
Thou hast two eyes, and but one mouth;
Ponder the reason well;
Full many things thou art to see,
And few things tell.
Nature has rightly done,
For she has given two for work,
For eating, one.
A STORY was told Of man who got
very tipsy at county house, was
tarred and feathered and put to bed.
He awoke, still tipsy, in the morning,
reeled over to the looking-glass and ex-
claimed" Become bird, by Jove"
"WHo was the doubling discipleT'
asked the Sunday school teacher.
Peter" promptly replied the small
bad boy. "No, Thomas" said the
teacher. Then what do people always
say Petered out forp asked the smart
bad boy.
"THE Praeger Observation-Disclosures
WochenbJot recommends the sting of
bees as cure for rheumatism" But
what does it recommend for lockjaw,
caused by the patient attempting to pro-
pounce its name? Probably the kick of
a mule would unlock it.
SHE (bewitchingly)-"O Oh, I'm so glad
you are going to see me to my carriage,
Mr.. Brown" He (fattered) Indeed
And may / ask why?' She" Oh, be-
cause the girls are SO jealous, and
want to prove that do not mOnopOlize
all the good looking men,"