The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-04

General Bradley I. johnson was an
nounced to speak for Tilden in Baltimore
last night.
A little boy had been sent to dry q towel
before the nursery fire. ''Mamma, IS 1t
done when it is brown! 20 he inquired.
They say it is dangerous to 60 into the
water after hearty meal. But who en-
poets to find hearty meal in the water!
II the Servian troops don't fight any bet
ter they must expect to remain in state Oh
sub-Servian-cy.
Sunday was freely, yesterday was breezy,
and in consequence everybody Is inclined
to be sneeZy.-BoSt0n GLOBE.
They are getting heated up over their re-
nisters in Boston. The Globe eXplodes thus:
stRegster-register! If you can't register
your own name register somebody else's.''
-Lynch-law parties are always apt to gotoo
far. You give them an ynch, and they'll
surely take m L.-Ne,D York. Commercial!
. Advertiser.
''I am glad that am once more on terra
Gotta" said masculine Mrs. Darlington as
he stepped off from n Cunarder at East
; Boston dock.-Boston Transcript.
Railroads are so cheap now that three or
four men Of moderate means can club to-
gether and buy one and run all the cXcur-
sion trains they want to.-DetroH Free
Press. "..4 ...'
"No girl gets along we'll without Il mo-
J Their" says 4 moral exchange. This may be
: true, but hereabouts girls work harder to
;sget mothers-in-laW than they do to get mo-
-thers.- lNorristorn Herald. --'
Probably one OF the most trying times in
q mans life is when he introduces his
second wife, seventeen years old, to his
eldest daughter, who is past twenty.-Uart-
.jortl Times.
Little Robbie went to O show, and saw an
elephant for the first time in his life. When
lie came home his mother asked him what
he had seen. San elephant, mamma, that
gobbled hay with his front tall"
s.What is heavens best gift to man ?"
asked young lady on Sunday night, smiling
sweetly on plcasant-looking clerk. GA
horse" replied the young man, with great
prudence.
A negro witness, in trial the other day,
was asked what he was doing in n certain sa-
loon at q certain time. He explained that
he had gone, there to "change his bref."
The explanation was accepted.
Cider plays a great part in Norman we'd
ding. A young girl is seated upon a full
scasl;, and she must drink both the first and
the last glass it contains in order to be mar
ried within q year.
:, When the Rhode Island militia paraded
the other day you might hear the officers
thunder forth their commands: ItGuide
right; steady, men; don't push any one over
into Connecticut !"-Neac Yorhc t'onnaeT-
: ciaI Advertiser.
Some Of the young ladies in Beacon street.
Boston, are giving dinner parties, which
they prepare themselves, fairly outdoing !
the late Professor Blot in some lines. This |
certainly is healthy sign Of practical pro-
gress. Fy- ~.
Paul Mozart. Partisan manager, is dead |
HE was frequently imprisoned for debt !
One day Dumas went to the Jail to see him. !
&c He has Just been set at liberty" said the |
Keeper. Every well, said Dumas, taking
chair, "l will wait for him."
Professor Cobn, speaking at meeting OF
botanists in Germany recently, declared thati
the curative properties Of certain famousi
less alg.e, which manufacture sulph,lretted !
hydrogen.
The Turks have battle-hymn which they
lelus5 Whcu tncy 80 lutc tDatttc.siiA t.Ac teaiu
that the soldiers of the enemy put their
fingers in their ears and rush madly upon
the bayonets OF the foe, gladly welcoming
death as an escape from the singing.
The trade dollar weighs 400 grains, and
contains 37s grains OF pure silyer-the coin,
like all other coins of the United States ex-
cept nickel and copper, being nine-tenths
fine. The old silver dollar weighed 412s |
grains. and contained 371l grains Of pure
silver. Chicago Times.
Irate Young Lady: "Mr. Cox, declare
yeur machines are the worst ever saw !! |
There's not even a looking-glass I" Pro-
prietor Of bathing-machin "Why, Miss,
ii there tras looking glasses, we shouldn't |
get you ladies' out OF them 'ere machines for
hoWers and howers r.,
The g boy orator is lecturing In Mime
apoils on g The Origin OF Man . and 4. The
Destiny Of Man." lie makes it all clear in
sasfeW minutes. II is gratifying TO be,abie1
to infer that he is reseryiug his importance
subjects foss the metropolis. We yearn and
: pine for him. - &, 3. 5..s
An inebriate cot into o car and became
very Troublesome and annoying to the other
passeI gers, SO much so that it Yyas proposed
10 elect him hfIt