The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-29
.a,,nd the tsyerns take

.bat T have seen around the tsserhs oAh0
awful long horns. ,,.,,ort r,,ovo.
But must tell you something ABOUT ole'e'
land.
CLEVELAND.
Cleveland Is dry and healthy, and to see
t,e fnl,,s po,lr down rye whiskey You would
ti,;nk the citizens were all dry and healthy
foo foo The city is rectangular, and eighty feet
above the lake. It is queer how they came
to put it up so high in the air. but they =, dlu
il. They have piece Of grass here. ihey
call it mark. It has got ten acres lnto IL.
The New York Park Hospital alone mas
more than ten acres into it. In l199 tnerc
was only one family in Cleveland, anu now
there is over fifty. It is named utter GeneIAi
Moses Cleveland, and is in Cuyaho2a county,
and it NAV have been named after Genera,
Moses Cuvahoga for all know. stoppeu
Mt n hotel in Cleveland. All hotel clerks are
esoroeous but this hotel clerk was the most
9nroeous cuss I ever saw. His moustachc
Wo,,ld have been worth fortune to shoe-
maker for wayed ends, and he had more
nridc than six George WashingtonS, Tour
Christopher Columb,lscs, and three returned
missionaries billed down into one small man
SAYS l to him, says /, Can you say pork
YVES said he, 81 can say pork-pie."
"WcIl," said /, "Fm glad ont. That up
per lin cilrls up so didn't think you could
ever get it down to say pork-pic."
II didn't like it; so he put me down tor
room s5,9GG. Then | asked him was that
room easy of access to the street. lie sald,
"very"; that all had to do to get 10 inc
street was to crawl out the scuttle ana siide
down. Then I was mad, ana l ASKED nm
did he keep balloon to send folks up theie,
and he said no. Then looked at MS SPIN
die shanks. Those legs weren't bigger tnln
hardshell Baptist pump-handle, ana L Oh
served to him it would never DO Ior hlm 10
visit New York.
"Why?" said he.
"By gosh :" says I, "you Wol'loht ne III
New York five minutes before they "oula
have them bones in them legs OF yours sawed
UP into clearinghouse checks"
saws he, "Sam, show this gentlemanto Ills
room and I commenced travelling through
i lot of halls with bedrooms OH each size:
San went ahead with my carpct-haS ana
taIow candle that belonged to the house. we
never spoke but once. We had been walking
about an hour and halt, when sam, says ne,
"thiS is nobby hotel"
.Ycs." said |, "door n6bby.'
4 H.,
and along sometime in the night | reached
NV room. Sam left me pair Of slippers for
fear nv shoes would wear out before | got
back to the office, and l was alone with my
carpct-bag.
A TALK WITH REFINED LADY.
spent Sunday in Cleveland. a lady friend
showed ME round. The hair curled down
the back of her neck like she had been living
on buffalo steaks. She was chock full Of TO-
nance. She was Of the kind that would
make YOU think chickens gizzard was an
earle. She asked me did ever see sunset
halo and | told her had often halloed at
sunset. Every time she showed me Lake
Erie she had something to say about "broad
eypansc of waters,' until I finally asked her
wasn't she sorry she wasn't born sea-Sull.
Then she talked so much about "silvery
moonbeams," that / shut her up by telling
her should think she had been feeding on
ten cent pieces for a year. We walked through
Euclid street, then by the lake, then through
Euclid street, then by the lake, and we kept
doing so until one of the trips we passed
n large building. There was murmur
coming from it, and / said to her:
81 thought you observed the Sabbath very
strictly in Cleveland"
She said, owe do"
"Weil," said I, "what is that mill rum
ming for on Sunday:"
"Why," SAID she, "mercy, that amt a
mill that's a church."
"No," said I; IF that is church, what
in the name of improved lamp-wick is that
noise!"
Says she, "That is the choir; they are
singing"
you don't say so," says I; ~ am really
glad YOU told he that that is n church and
that liza. is singing, for if you hadn't ofdone
so l would have left laboring under the i'm,
preston that they run saw-mills in Cleveland
On Sunday"
She had walked by the church purposely
for me to hear the singing, and it sot her
back somewhat, as much as ! sot bcssar
back yesterday. lie was holding out his
hands for some sponduliy, and told him lie
would take cold if he kept his "paws" open
so much.
JOHNS BIRTHDAY.
Nc and George Washington both have a
birthday this year in February. Twenty
days less Washington would have been me.
1 was born the I'd, and he the 22d. Wouldn't
have made a healthy father Of my country :