The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-24
A friend at q pinch-A snuff-box.

A friend at pinch-A snutf-box.
The moaning of the tied-A husbands
grumbling.
High tied-A top-knot.
\ Schenectady justice lately decided that
verbal contract requires a stamp.
Josh Bllings's Farmers Alminax has
reached Il sale Of 900 copies.
A California paper abuses man be-
cause he backed out Of fight after getting
both cars bitten off.
4 California hotel-keepcr was lately shot
dead by one Of his guests because q scat
was not saved for him ut the first table.
If your papa aud uncle were in Africa,
which would be nearer England Your
uncle, for your pa would be father away.
A contemporary speaks of the Akron
Daily Deacon, but doubtless means the
Daily Beacon.
AT birmingham, one Thomas Grove, who
was not wondrous wise, put powder III his
cook ing -stovc, and blew out both his eyes.
The New York Ercning Mil heads col
umn of foreign gossip, "Iransatlanilcali-
ties"
Tunch'S "IIe smole ghastly smile " and
" Many wink lie wunk" lave been imi-
tatcd by minstrel wit, who said, "Iou
sneezed snooze and said | snoze it,"
The man who discovered that Paducah is
a corruption Of Pat Dugan, tho name OF its
first settler, has just asceltained that Die
10 shout for RipNo nd pntot0
A Philadelphia reporter wrote: "Why
not have covered ash-carts ?" The COM
positor set it up for him: "Oh that had
loved art early.'
The word State spelled backward is ctGts
in French. 1t is not safe, however, to uH-
dertake to learn French simply by going
back on your English.-Neto York Sun.
Do you know any word that contains all
the vowelsY Unqucstiouably.- Canton
(Ohio) Repository and Republican.
observation-disclosures Journal.
Thomas Carlyle, having been asked by
letter whether he had ever investigated the
phenomena of modern spiritualism, replied
as follows: " BY volitn, or except passive
ly, and by accidt., never did nor have
the least intentn. of ever doing. T.C."
Somebody says that Ike's last trick was
to throw Mrs. Partington's gaiter into the
alley and call the old lady down from the
third floor to see an alley -gaiter. He might
have called to her just before he threw the
gaiter from the window, and asked her to
see Shoe Fly."-Boston Aarertiser.
A youthful clergyman, addressing q sun
day school in Springfield, Ohio, last Sun
day, said there were two ways to spell lie
lie, lie, was one way, and f-i-b, lie, WAS
the other way when little boy in back
seat piped out in q shrill voice, ''That's q
tib," much to the discontinue of the youth
full clergyman.
A picture in Holland church, "The
Sacrifice Of Isaac represents Abraham on
the point Of accomplishing the solemn act
of iufanticide with muskct. This ana
chronism was equ,Iled III this country some
years ago by popular magazine in pic
ture representing the giving of the law to
Moses q neat post-and-rail fence was
shown running along the base of Mount
Sinai.
The following letter comes to the surface
in Texas paper:
"GALvEsT0S, January the 7th, 1870.
My Lovin Wyfe,-Ime comm ONE mex week
an hav forgiv you for jawin me. I'll come
on the o'clock trane, an shall stay ONE
hereafter tri to be altered man. want
peace and so do yew, why shoodn't We love
each other, as we ueed ter when we were
first jined together in the wholly bands Of
maddox, i've jined temperance sosiety
but if you ever jaw me agin for commin
ONE I'll wollap you like City for We must
heVe pcese as grant ses."
We read recently Of stage line in Mas
sachusetts where passengers were carried
nine miles for ten cents--the result of COM
petition. They beat this in Wisconsin.
There are rival stage lines on the shore of
Green Bay, where two days journey of
sixty miles each day, with twelve relays of
horses, costs only one dollar! From War
saw, Wis, there is route of some fifty
miles on which there is combined opposi-
ton to the "bloated bondholder" and
" monopolist " who has run stages for many
years. One line carries Tor nothing and
gives dinner to each passenger the other
carries for nothing and gives dinner and
pair of buckskin gloves to each passcn-