The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-11-20

;b,y have adopted system which WORKS
cy,rcmc,v well. Every tramp who receives
= NIGHTS lodging is obliged to pay for IT by
Working two hours in the morning. This
,s ;,1s, what n respectable and right-mlnded
tramp would be willing and even glad to DO,
In. that scrt of vagabond isn't too common
In this lazy world; and we are not surprised
10 learn that the wanderers do not often
trouble the Bcrks county refuge second
time.
AChicago man has invented an ocean rail-
wav. II is the ordinary steamer running on
TIC top of the water, supported on pontoons,
which run first over, then under IT. on an
endless chain, like The tread OF morse
power. 1t reminds one forcibly OF school-
cirl crossing shallow brock on two STEP
p!ng.s.ones, moving them along as she au'
vanccs.
The highest phase of Christian economy
stands ouL In bold relief in that declaration
OF .be Apostle Paul, II seek not yours, Dut
you." True zeal, zeal tempered by KNOW
edge and beeotlep By love, will md ITS own
means, Us il will also make the best OF Whal
il fnds; whereas no superlbundance OF
ntans will excite or even sustain true zeal
In Indiana on the It'll instant the newspa
pers report the presence Of the real Indian
summer, and insist that it is to this mouth
that the sweet season rishtiuiiy belongs
We believe that they are correct. There
can DC no real Indian summer until after i
pretty sharp frost, like that which used tc
send tine old Indians into the swamps.
The Cockney sportsmen Of Chicago have
such indislinct ideas about game that sine.
the season for prairie chickens has begun the
farmers in the region roundabout stick up
sims on their fences" Please don't shoot
the cows"
The English ship Challenger, which is
going around the world examining the mys
ferrous sea-deptbs. reports that 1t has found
The Atlantic depths very uniform, rarely
under 1900 fathoms, and never over 2,oOC
fathoms.
4 LAFAYETTE man drew his money from the
savings bank and invested it in pair O.
horses and a carriage, his idea being that il
we were all going to chaos he would at ieasl
90 in style.
A charitable Cincinnati mau keeps pair
Of dogs chained at his front door so that poor
people who stop to ''get bite" can be ac
coumodated without the trouble Of going
into the house.
A new sewer in Louisville is four miles
long, and large enough to admit carriage
and span Of horses. And all they want
now Is the carriage and the span OF horses
alt is Il strange and pleasing sight to SCI
sixteen wear old scowlS soften and fade iron
the faces of old Democrats as they pass
along the Streets says the Madison Owls
Journal.
A circuit court of Illinois recently award
I'd 500 damages to n young lady who was
iorcibly expelled from d high school for re-
Iusing to study one of the prescribed
branches.
They hurry things up III Dubuque. A
Young mau there met strange girl on !
stTeet-car the other day, paid her fare, and
married her three hours afterward. Bless
YOU, my childrcn..-Nelo York sun.
Sarah Jane DeFoe said that she would be
married in her old Kentucky home in spite oi
her father, and some men tied him to the
sofa, The crowd walked in, and While 1t
enashcd his teeth Sarah Jane was wed.
A well known Paris HHerateur, very
short-slghtcd, read recently for two hours
one Of his works to tree on the Boule.
yarls. mistaking it for one of his friends that
be encountered in the fog, but who bolted
after the opening chapter.
+. is reported in England that French
firm has discovered q method of making arli.
hcial sugar from materials so cheap that Ii
can be sold at farthing pound.
Tie rcIntroduc,ion Of rufs, now so popu'
La in this country, and especially in Boston,
s. dine il is sai1. to & wen on the neck OF an
English lady Of quality.
The latest definition Ola green grocer is
one VINO trusts.