The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-01-25

A srAoE AxxcDurz.--As may hs readily ims-.
ainsd. was often weary g exhaustion. even siu-
ring the performance On one occasion my
fatigue very nearly placed me ID predicauent ~
| awkward TO me as Il would have been smusing 10
| the audienca We were fuldlliag long engage
| ment at Niblos. was playing Lsdy Teazle In the
school for Scaudsl When LAZY Teszle, at the
| announcement OF Sir Peter, is concealed behind
screen In Joseph Surfaces library. che IL COMPEL
| ed 70 remain quarter of sn hour, rperhapstwen-
y minutes, To this confinement. was dreadfulIy
fa,iaued and glad of the opportunity to rest There
was no chair At6rs, kneit for relief Becoming
tired Of that position, quietly laid myself down,
and regardless Of Lady feazle's ostrich pluuaes
made pillow ofmy arms for my head. listened
TO Piacide's most humorous personation of Sir
Peter for while; but gradually bis voice grew
more and more undistinct, melting into soothing
niurmur, and then was heard no more. fell i1to
profound slumber.
When Charles Is announced, SIR Peter
Is hurried by Joseph into the closet Lady Teaze
(accordiag to Sheridanl peeps from behind the
screen, and intimatcs to Joseph the propriety OF
locking Sir Peter 10, and proposes her own escape
AZ the sound OF Charles Surfaces step she steals be-
hind me screen again Thecue was given, but no
Lady Teazle made her appearance She was
siumoering 10 happy unconsciousness that theatres
were ever instituted.
Mr. Jones. the prompter. surprising that had
forgotten my part, ran 10 ono OF the wings from
which he could obtain view behind the screen
To his mingled diversion and CONSERVATION he be-
held Lady Teazle placidly sleeping upon the foo-
or course, he could not reach her. | have often
heard him relate thetrantic manner in which he
shouted, ia an imploring stage whisper, Mrs
Mowatt, wake up For goodness sake, wake up (
Charles Surface is just going to pull the screen
| down Wake upi You'll be caught by the audi
| ence asleepi Wake upf Good gracious do wake
| up"
/ have some confused recollection of bearing the
words wake up! wake up T. As opened my heavy
eyes, they fell upon Mr.. Jones, making the most
violent gesticulations, waving about his prompt
book and almost dancing in the excitement OF his
aiarul The hand OF Charles Surface was already
| on the screen IsprsDg to my feet, hardly reInem
berins where was, and had barely time 10 smooth
down my train when the screen tell. moment
| sooner and how would the slumoerius Lady Tea
gle, suddenly awakened, have contrived 10 impress
| the audience with the OF her deep conirItio
/ tor her imprudence how persuaded her husband
that she had discovered her injustice to him during
her present nap Mfrs Mo'oatt's Autooiograp"y.
| IMPRESSIONS AT FIRST SrGHT.-This subject be-
| ing brought up at the supper table. was getting
| talked over" when lady whopresided "oer the
cups and tea" said 'she always formed an idea oil
aperson at first sight aud that idea she iouhd was
generally correct one.
| Mamma said her youngest son in shrlii voice,
| that attracted the attention OF all present
| We'll my dear what do you want''
| 81 want to know" said young America, what
| you thought acben you frst sac mt'"
| There was no answer TO this query but we
learn general litter prevailed, and that "Charlie"
was taken into the kitchen Immediately by the GER
| raGt.-Fcrest City Democrat.
| SCRAPS OF PoErRY-The Lincoln Democrat pub
fishes two lines OF the great epic upon Gen Jack.
son, written by western bard
"Vheu YOU see their eyes gisten then nv fire,
| Were the last dying words OF A. Jackson Esquire
| Also reviyes lament FOR Alexander Ham ilion--
| 80 Aaron Burr W hat hev you DIM,
Yuve shot great Generil Hamtun,
You got behind bunch of thistles,
Aud shot him dead with tn boss PISTOLS
The Boston Post revives the following, good as
| either, by down east bard. as an ovation on a
| presidential succession
| Come on brave boys, with coed intent,
And IRE the guns OF government,
You load and I'll tend vent,
| Touch Der OF and lent her won't"
| down east paper copying verse Ct Mrs He
| mans Pilgrim poem, made one Ele OF it read
| .srhe sounding isles OF the dim woods rang"
This reminds us of report brought from the SOU
thern ocean bya whaler, at the time it was thought
lard oil would triumph over SPERM that The Prince
| of Whales had summoned council and in a
speech had quoted Campbell he alluded to the
light
THAT rose Ger his OVID native lie of the ocean"
The listeners were SO affected that they blnbber
ed right out Boston Post.
WHAT'S IN A NAmEs- Leasing. the German poet,
throws some light on the true answer to this com
mon query, thus:
| asked my fair, one hap py day,
What shou Id call her in my lay;
By what sweet name, from Rome Greece.
Iphigenia, Clelia, Chlors,
| Laura, Lesbia Della, Doris,
| Dormene, or Eucrece.
| 'Ahl" replied my gentle fair.
beloved, what are names but air.
| Take thou whatever suits the line
Cielia, Iphigenia, Chloris,
| Laura, Lesbia, d. IA, Doris,
But don't forget " call me MiRe."
| Russo (CHARLorTE) Conc Why should the
Greeks living in the vicinity of the DardanelIes pre-
fer the Sultan of Turkey to the Russian Czara $50
lemn sience)
A-Bccausc they say this is the Boss for ne
(Bosphorus) A.
The perpetrator has escaped from the hands of
justice but he cannot much longer the penalty
| of his misdeeds.-Spirit Times.
MIR. BENTON'S GREAT WORK
| AsA THIRTY YEARS VIEW, or q History of
| the Working of the American Government for Thir-
ty Years, from 1920 to 1884, chiefly taken from Con-
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