The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-03
NUMBER 3.
PASSING SMILES.

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liar, do not resent it. He may be mis-
taken Picdyune.
The man who says one bird does not
make spring, has never seen sparrow
hopping for seed.-AeW Orleans Pr
cay,tne.
THE small boy who won't make gar
den for fifty cents day will dig around
an old marsh week for half dozen
fishing grubs.
Ir was Turgot who said What l ad-
mire in Columbus is not his having dis
covered world, but his having gone to
search for it on faith of an opinion.
PROFESSOR CARPENTER has waltzed
thirteen hours without stopping. When
dinner was served he cut the wing of q
pigeon and made meal of it--Philodel-
phia RalittiR..
"PA, what does nobby mean ?"
Stylish, my dear" "Well, then, pa,
your nose must be very stylish, for
grandma says you've got the nobbiest
nose in town"
A STATUE of Bismarck was unveiled
at Cologne recently with great cere-
mony, yet a baker who made little
gingerbread figure representing him has
been thrown into jail Chicago Times.
AN ugly young lady is always anxious
to marry, AMI young gentlemen are
seldom anxious to marry her. This is
resultant of two mechanical powers, the
inclined plain, and leave her.
II you catch darkey lifting the
sheets off the fence where they have
been placed to dry, allow him to explain.
In nine cases out of ten you will find he
was merely moving them TO see II the
fence didn't need white.washing.
SILENT, patient, continuous labor does
more than noisy talk or vain Boosting.
Silent labor accomplishes and makes
visible something that is enduring;
while idle talk, like the babbling of n
shallow brook, evinces more noise than
strength.
MISSISSIPPI papers report the suicide
of a dog at Macon. The animal was
stealing grease from can, and when
caught in the act his head was too far
in the can to come out readily, and so
the brute ran into pond of water and
was drowned.
ONE who is injured ought not to
think for on no account can it be right
to do an injustice. Therefore, it is not
right to return an injury or to do evil
to any man, however we may have
suffered from him.
AN appreciative mind can throw
world Of pathos into very ordinary
statement. " Yes" said he, leaning over
fence in communion with neighbor,
she is dead. She died just as she got
ready for the spring clean. 1t is terri
BILE. "-Mcridcn Recorder.
THE elephant gam bes over the green
The funniest sight that ever was seem;
The obippy bird bellows with joyful glee
To see the buds on the gooseberry tree;
The old mule, too chirps his glad mellow song,
Denoting that warm weather VIII soon be along,
so let one and all now join In the lays,
And chuck up our hats for the bright spring days.
odd you ever see anything more
ridiculous % said lady to her friend
yesterday, criticising the dress of
another lady. Never" was the reply
which shows that women are not
close observers, for coming up street
right in front of item was a man with a
Roman nose that had big boil riding
triumphantly on the tip.
WILL somebody explain why the man
who sits perched at one side of the
House of Representatives and never
makes a speech is called Mr.. Speaker"
while the man who talks and talks, until
every body is tired, hasn't any title?
Suppose it's one of the little Jokes
handed down from our fathers, who
didn't dare to laugh at it themselves,
but risked it for their children
REFERRING to the official report of
but ten cases of profanity in Boston dur
ing the past year, b. Dadd" says: 1t
is very evident that the police never
happened in an editors Office when he
received an eight-page contribution
written With lead pencil on both sides
of the paper, and rolled. Nor were they
ever loafng in the vicinity of man who
undertook to split wood under an
extended clothes-line.
A CoBURG (Canada) woman has been
sentenced to one weeks imprisonment
for having two husbands. There is
something unjust about this sentence.
A man convicted of bigamy would have
been i'm prisoned for two years, and there
seems to be no valid reason why woman
should not in this case be accorded
equal rights There may, of course,
have been extenuating circumstances.
The first husband may have worn wig.
-Nep York Commercial Aduertiser.
AT times fragrant breeze comes floating by,
And brings, you know not why,
A feeling when eager crowds await
Before psJa-e gate
Some wondrous pageant; and you scarce would
start.
II from beech's heart,
| A blue-eyed Dryad, stepping forth should say,
Behold me, am Mayi" Henry Ttrnrod
Perhaps but then it's ten to one you'll start
A-down the crowded mart
Necklace, coat-tail and thoughts avid, when
that
Spring breeze wings of your hat.