The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-03-09

The New York correspondent of San
Francisco paper, speaking of Miss Keiiogg's
recent performances in the former city, says:
She sings as well rs, if not better, than ever;
but she is growing too stout for grace or
beauty. The inpkeepers at the various pro-
yincial towns where they stop lay it to the
onion soups her mother makes for her; and
Rhile they do not deny that they may be ap-
petizipg and conducive to ena6onpoant, it is
said, for some reason or other, they object to
them, Madame Kellogg has the genius Of a
Soyer. She can broil herring or the eau
dial extremity of a Cincinnati porker over
the grate-fre Of private parlor in such q
Way as to render herself invisible for the
smoke and to make ones eyes and ones
mouth water at the same time-at least, such
is her reported ability. t
We slew man yesterday, says the Allan
ia (Ga.) Herald, for contendiDg that the
magnificent picture of Lookout mountain IN
Yesterdays Consultation was D sketch OF
Castleberry's Hill with the barracks in the
foreground. Blood is nothing to us, where
the honor of journalism is concerned. The
most casual observer, by reading the WORDS
<Lookout mountain" neatly printed ut the
bottom of the picture, could have discover.
ed at a glance what the graphic mole-hill
was intended for Thus it IL, however.
There are wre.ches who scott at all our ef-
forts to elevate the profession OF printing. I
A St Louis man went to New Orleans to
participate in the carnival, and While III that
city he visited the Legislative assembly 70 see
the colored lawmakers. de saw stai#art
negro arise to make a. speech, hoidlnS large
niece Of pie In, his left hand. AS the orator
s,roceeded he would take an occasional bile
from the pie, and, then continue his remarks.
THE specsacie of the legislative pie-biter so
amused the visitor that he laughed loud and
synmnderateiy, so as to attract the attention
snf the assembly. The pie-eating statesman
MAS highly offended, and demanded that the
3Ionde should be elected. The request was
about to be complied with, when an &C.
suuaintance Of the St. Louisian interfered
and saved him from being turned out.
Bret Harte has found French translator.
There must be wonderful fund of hui.
NOR left 10 his poems when they appear in a
foreign tongue. The wild western idosyn-
cracies Of speech, when done in French,
must be excruciatiDg funny to the ltttera.
fet1rs Of the continent. ~& ~ 4 ~
The published plan Of the western scient.
list for producing rain is to /" elevate copper
wire by balloon, or other means, until its
upper end reaches the Clouds" hitch the
lower end to railroad track, and send up
currents Of electricity. All farmer has to
do for safeguard against drought is to buy
balloon, three or four miles of copper wire,
. battery, q railroad, and some gas-works.
Boston Post !: New Orleans people sit on
their porches, dressed in summer attire,
these evenings. We could do it here if We
chose. ~
Worcester Press: A young lady who is
studying medicine in Philadelphia thinks
this prolonged autopsy Of the Siamese Twins
must be perfectly Eng. Chan'-ting.
Jones says that he didn't marry because
when he wooed she wouldn't.