The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-30

\ Danbury hat-dealer had dog cut from
wood to use as q sign in front OF his store.
He had it painted q pure white, ana SET IL
out in front after the color had dried. a
day or two after. he was surprised TO see
people come along. stop by the dog, touch
it with their fingers, then look at their nm
gers, then repeat the motion, ana hnaliy
pass on. He was so busy attending 10 Gus
toners when this sight met him, that he
could not leave to learn the cause, and TO
warn the meddlers to leave the sign alone,
as they were marring it with their hands.
When he did get out there he found the
beautiful white dog covered with niger
marks, and discovered the cause OF the pub
lies action. Some one who is careful stu
dent of human nature, rs well as given to
mischief, had attached card to the dog
bearing the warning, "Look out for
int.''-Danbury Ne,cS.
"The goose that laid the golden eggs"
A certain man had goose that laid him a
golden egg every day worth about two dol
lars. After awhile the goose could not find
much to eat and the egg kept getting smaller,
till at last it was only worth ninety cents.
"Good. for-nothing goose.'' said the man,
81 will kill you and cut you open. and get
at the eggs you have in your belly" lie
did so, and, to his great sorrow anu disai'-
pointment, found nothing. Noral.-Lct
the goose so on laying.-Nen York. World.
When General Grant sailed away from
Ostend, Britannia wiped her eye, and, re-
Numbering her Telemaque, fancied herself
Calypso, vino. ne pou udit Sc. CONSIDER du
depart II UlysSe.-lSt. Louis Globe Demo-
crat. o yes, but when the late Rev. Lem
uel Strabosh sailed from Honolulu for
Pwitahoka, the Sandwichers. remembering
their Poikoh ametopeku, fancied them
selves Blakarapakemoite, who kokere mock
pong de yackerack sag nechesmatu perks
dlpredykel. This is 4 well-attested fact
Burlington Haukeyc. .. ..
Hint to young journalists from the Phil
adelphia Ledger: "Stylc in writing is me-
dunn for imparting knowledge, for express
ing thought and opinion, for commune
eating information: but OF what Use is style
to the writer who has no knowledge to i'm
Dart, no information to communicate, and.
OF consequence, no foundation on which to
base suggestive thought or authoritative
opinion9 His style is mere sound, signify
ing nothing.
The Tobacco Association OF. ST. Louis
have resolved to make arrangements with
known and reliable planters in the State
where the qualities Of tobacco are grown
with a view OF improving the tobacco raised
in Missouri. 1t is generally agreed among
the tobacco-men that the State production
has been seriously falling off OF late years.
The good man reclineth at his case; he
covereth his head with a paper; he taketh
his rest, and his SHORES are heard in the
land. The house.ly Is not so; for his heart
deviseth evil continually, and when he has
crept under the paper he will tickle the
good mans nose. Verify, all this is vanity
and rexation of spirit Egchan3e.
A Main-Street man stood inside the blinds
the other day and spent fifteen minutes try
ing to brush streak Of sunshine off his
pants with the clothes-brush before he dis
covered what it was. de was so mad then
that he jawed his wife, whipped three OF the
children, and sulked all the rest Of the day.
Bridgeport Standard.
The editor of the Detroit Free Press has
taken to writing financial articles. "Sup-
pose that silver is at par with gold" he
SAYS, "what has that to do with the currant
worm?" 1t would have taken David A.
Wells two hours and the same number OF
columns to say that. Pittsburgh Telegraph.