The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-15

Mayor sgoore, of Cincinnati, has con-
ceived the idea Of having a grand Jubilee
in that city ln 1878. He proposes to ask the
Government for 10000 tents, and hare 200,-
600 Union AMI. Confederate soldiers camp out
near the city for an entire week. Money
makes the maRe 60, we are told; but this
Mayor proposes to make the money CO.
NorriSto,cn HeYN1d. But why this constant
dawdling oyer Aalf-Way measures p Why
not 20 the entire animal at once, and have
the whole Rebellion over again, and let the
beloved South whip us this time. 1t will be
such fun to get up a northern. policy after
wards hitodetphfe Bulletin. r. ~s '.'
The Indianapolis Aeratd, having become
workipgman's paper, thus addresses the
workers: "Don't listen to the viper Kisses
OF our enemies. We are honest. We love
YOU We want every workingman to come
in and take two dollars worth Of our sym
pathy. The Herald is eminently the poor
mans paper. Lantern-iawed, gamboge-
eyed leaders may tell you we are only after
your two dollars. It is lie. We want
YOU to have the full benefit OF our sympa-
thy, and we will let you have it at the regu-
lar rates" .~..r..~-. .--..'--- . -
He was a wild Texan, just from the
frontier, and had boarded the train at Fort
Worth for Dallas. 1t was his first ride on
the "keers," and as the conductor reached
in his hip-pocket for his punch, the sharp
eye OF Texas caught glimpse OF its pol
ished handle, and, quick as thought, he
levelled navy-six' on that conductor, say
ing, "Put Ter up, or I'll blow daylight
through you. No man can get the drop on
me."-DaAos (Te1as) Herald.
At fashionable wedding breakfast in
London, recently, an orator OF the most lu-
gubrious type, who was beginning to weep
copiously, took out, rs he thought, his
pocket-handkerchief, and was greeted with
shouts of unrestrained laughter. He had in
his hand one OF his wife's stockings, which
she had asked him to match, and which he
had forgotten to do.
A seedy-looking individual passing along
White street stopped at vegetable market,
dealer: "What are straw berries worth
now?" Strawberries Why there amt
any strawberries. Strawberries have. been
gone three months" ssIs that so?" ex-
claimed the seedy party in surprise.
elbow time fiies."-Danbury Ne,os.
II some one should write a book and cali
it "My Great Toe" somebody else would
issue "My Little Toe" follow
ed rapidly by the second, third, and fourth
toe. and probably other portions Of the pc
dial anatomy. Servile imitation seems to be
the rage among the book-makers Of the
day.-Fat Contributor,
savs ali exchange: 1.-THE more a hat re-
stmbles cart-wheel in size, vegetable
garden in decoration, and millinery estab-
fshment in general makeup the more
pleasing it will be to the more average fe-
male wearer."- Detroit Free Press.
A defeated aspirant for Office in country
town was heard soliloquizing: 81 give lot
of thin fellows me tickets, and kept me
eye on 'em, but not wan OF 'em voted for
me; now Pll shut down me beer-pump on
'em."
A WoMAN's THoUGHT.-How men would
be loved if they were only loyable; how
lopable women would be il. they were only
loved. "-La Vie Parisienne.
never had man cum to me for advise,
but before he got thru he had more advise
to offer than to ask for.-JoSh Billings