The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-14

Tradition SAYS that it requires surgical
operation to get joke into Scotchman's
head. The Scotchman is malIgned. find
him Us ready to give and take joke as his
more southern neighbor. He has no wit,
but he has deal Of humor, and is ready
with the heartiest laughter. AS to hospi-
tally, the Scotch will dine you and sup you
I until you have not leg to stand upon, and
will go to NO end Of trouble to put you in
the way OF obtaining information. They
are nm interesting people to study, because
they are sui generiS. Edinburgh itself re-
minds me more Of Boston than any town in
Europe. There is the same University ele-
ment and the same literary and artistic
i coterie, though this coterie is yearly grow
ing smaller Edinburgh Letter from Kate
Z Field.
Grasshoppers are rather novelty in Tex
as, and If you were to tell Texan anywise
familiar with railroads that grasshoppers
could stop train, he would laugh at the
idea, and think you were "poking fun at
him." For all this, the grasshoppers are
stopping trains right here in Texas. Sum
day night, when Mayor Lord and Alder
man MCGOWAN were going to Austin, just
beyond Giddings, the track was SO covered
with hoppers that it took the train two hours
! :.
feet thick on the track. The wheels run
ming over them mashed them SO that the
track became so slippery the wheels re-
$Volyed without going ahead. The stencil
from the massacred insects was so great and
5oYerpowering that the windows Of the cars
bad to be closed. Houston Telegraph.
An observatory is to be built on the
American side at Niagara to enable visitors
$50 kIa will inn in,
waterproof suits. It will be 100 feet long
and "a feet wide, and will extend from the
foot Of Prospect Point inclined railway to
the entrance Of the Shadow Of the Rock.
twill be constructed Of stone and iron,
and ct the end facing the falls there will be
a parlor with large windows.
A few months ago one OF the masters Of a
country grammar school died. The school
building WINS closed on the day OF the
funeral. Johnny Smith passed the time in
playing by pond near his house. A few
days since his mother sent him to school as
usual, but Johnny preferred playing by the
pond, where he met his father, who inquired
why he was not at school. Johnny said there
was no school, and, when pressed for the
| reason, replied triumph antly, !" That man Is
. dead again"
Well, my DEAR, said good pastor ut
Sunday school to a tow-headed urchin, 81
( am glad TO hear you are getting to be bet
! ter boy Z. Why, sir," said little Joe, look
Ing up with grave earnestness, "I Amt
been sick.'
Servant Ito Irish laborer): Here is some
8 beer, Pat, u you careto have it; but Pm
afraid tie quite dead Pat: !" 0chi dead,
sisit2 Sure, then, darlint, It's Pm the boy
I 80 bury It. "
IA western judge recently constructed the
longest sentence on record. He sentenced
% murderer for life, and afterward added
70 mcre years to the sentence because the
prisoner called him q no gentleman"
seotchman being asked by his minister
nat kind Oh q man was Adam s,' re-
Mel q Oh, Just like ither folk.p The
munster inststed on having more special
Il hon: g ANseL Easbody got anything
ay HIM and many los. = . "a 80,