The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-24

sa1 p0 add things, which, like comm =
$500 on,hndy ia line the experience
po 49, ~ the reasoning OF life. BE can GO
.,oss,no else ne cannot tell asiory, or Wflts 9
: nsrady. or teach lessol in politics anu h.s
,ha one faculty be possesses Is orerla,o' ~
81, n;s own mr. his original publishers fohy, u.
:, +. ,,o,ost Invisible. Half OF the Dook -
rnhhis,l. the mere dregs of his better VOTE,
cooked mn. we suppose, fora market "u'c.
), III enioyed some of his rscicr odd't,es, and
has keot on hoping for some more tong aseer
rho SIMPLY was exhausted. About tehth
il mace up Of wesk platitades, ana aeout q
,wensieih OF Christian maXims OF tfe most
orthodox type, which seem usually, witn an
exception or two, wretchediy out OF pace,
though, We must add, strange as II may De,
thew appear to have come fron the inmos!
convictions of the writer, who has covered
aiike-pious advice. common place ruhp'sn,
keen ep,grams, and "pawky" proverbs
an impenetrable veil of bad spelling. Wha1
the object of this spelling can be we are Ut.
Ite,1y unable to discover. 1t is not comic, Us
trtemus Ward often was, or II it Is, IT does
not succeed. 1t is not phonetic, it IS not In
penjous: it is, in fact, motlVeless ABSURD
I ;ty. all the more to be condemnen because
| snch wit as "Josh Billings" possesses IS en-
| tire,y of the suballusive kind. which IS SO
seldom liked except among Inc enucateu'
rhe real man is not "Josh Billings" but, TO
comnsrc small things with great, an AmeFi'
can Montaigne. This sentence, Tor instance
:. We have made justice luxury Of clvillz'-
ron :" is essentially of the Sydney Smith type,
and is not made more subtle, but only unih.
| telIieible. by ridiculous spelling. 1t Nonld
| n. hardly possible to express the lTut
! ,h,, civilization has secured justice, but
has not secured it to the poor, In terser
| or more biting form, but its plthiness
ia inst of the kind which a reader capable
| If smelling els" as "iZ" would never COM
| nrehend. any more than he would this curl
| nus and quite true observation in natural MS
tory Monkeys never grow any older IN eN-
preston. Ayoung monkey looks exactly Ike
his grandpa, melted upand born over again; "
| or this. No man can be healthy jester UNI
less he has been nursed ut the breast of Wis
dom "a sentence which contains the whole
Idlfference between the humor OF a man Ike
sydney Smith or Ch3rles Lamb, ana the
tumor of Mr.. Lear. Where. again, IS the
sense. not to say the taste or proprlety. OF
Mi. spellIpg fine sentence like thsi "Hu-
NOR must fall out OF mans mouth ike
music out Of boboink," which is INTEL
iiuible only to those to whom bad spelling,
and especially artificial bad spelling, is q
mere cause of disgust. There is world OF
wisdom in the saying, 1T is easier to be
q harmless dove than decent serpent y
that is. to be a man constitutionally outside
temptation, than man, who. keenly feeling
temptation, yet resists; but in What way IS
the wisdom f1lyored by spelling dove q
"uuv" The bitter, worldly experience OF
this remark, which Rouchfoucauld might
have made, and Prosper Merilnee would
have written to I'Inconnue, if be had
thought of it, is utterly lost in cloud OF
bad spelling: '.Some men marry to get rid
of themselves, and find that the game is one
that two can play at, and neither Wln." All
the following ure suggestive shreWdness,
much better than Franklin's, whose Poor
Richard" Americans are SO inclined to
praise; but they are not the more biting,
or the more popular, or even the more racy
of the soil, for being Injured by farcica
spelling:
Time is money, and many people pay their
debts with it.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice
Wit without sense is Il razor without d
handle.
Half the discomfort Of life is the result Of
getting tired OF ourselves.
Bencyolence is the cream on the milk oil
human kindness.
People Of good sense are those whose
| opinions agree with ours.
Face all things; even adversely is polite
| to mans face.
Passion always lowers great man, but
sometimes elevatesa little one.
Style is everything for sinner, and q
| little Of it will not hurt saint. ..
Men nowadays are divided into slow
| Christians and wide-aWake sinners.
There are people who expect to escape he'll
| Because of the crowd going there.
Most people are like eggs, too full of them.
selves to hold anything else.
Even when the sayings contain an element
of grotesquere they are improved By ordl'
nary printing.
1t lis little trouble to craven image to be
patient even in tly-time. t.
| Old age increases us in wisdom-and in
rheumatism.
| A mule is bad pun on horse.
| Health is loan at call.
Wheat is q serial. | am glad of it.
| Manner is a great deal more attractive
| than matter-especially in monkey.
| Adversely TO Il man is like training to a
pugiist. 1t reduces him to his fighting
weight.
Pleasure is like treacle. Too much of it
spols the taste for everything.
Necessity is the mother of invention, but
| Patent Right is the father.
Did you ever hear rich man sing?
| Beware of the man with half.shut eyes.
He's not dreaming.
Man was bult after all other things had
been made and pronounced good. II not,
! he would bave insisted on giving bis orders
rs to the rest of the job.
Mice fatten slow ia church. They can't
live OH religion any more than ministers
can.
Fashion cheats the eccentric with the clap.
trap of freedom, and makes them serve her
in the habiliments of the harlequin.
There are farmers so full Of science that
they won't set gate-post till they have
earth under the gate.post Analysed.
When lambs get through being lambs they
become sheep. This takes the sentiment out
9< them.
Clearly printed, one sees why the cynical,
skrewdly observant man became popular
amans a people who love proverbs, and is
s.:E popular among another people who have
a,ye2rnipg for laughter and cannot find the
excuse for it; but his work requires clear
printing and good deal of condensation.
A. Csryerted Chtnaman-Tons DOOn's
Address,
From the Alta California;
At Eae Chinese picnic given at Wood.
ward,stIarden last Friday, by their Sunday