The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-08

Longfeliow's noble head is still matched
with mass of curly white hair. He never
carried an alteration with L female to any
great ngth.-Brooklyn argus.
Put an NJ to Orion and we have Morton
take the NJ from Morton and we have Or
ton COurier-J Journal. Put Sn to Orton
and you have Watterson on the election OF
Hayes Cincinnati Commercial.
Wendell Phillips says that but for women
we would not be mich OF Il nation and
though lie advances no argument to prove
his assertion, we are inclined to believe he
is right.-EIchange.
A man with German flute can move into
almost any quiet neighborhood and de-
preciate the value of real estate about twen-
ty-tve per cent. in one week. Andre,rS's
Bazaar.
The Pittsburgh girls have been sleigh
riding for month, and the beauX may call
it an awful hard winter. They want a
change in the weather, but the Signal Blu
reau don't offer them even an indication.
There is no longer any doubt that Zach.
Chandler is to be credited with the author
ship of the famous saying: "Give me the
returning boards OF q country and I care not
who casts its votes."-St. Louis Times.
Miss Emily Faithful thinks that gymna.
Sums and skating-rinks should be attached
to jails for the benefit OF prisoners. Emily
is kind-hearted old gal, and we wonder
why she doesn't invent snow-shoes for poor
little rabbits.-Detroit Free Press.
This is very severe winter, and the rich
man who wrote an anonymous letter to the
local newspaper announcing that "Thc
Lord loveth cheerful giver" has either
gone to Madeira or had a gateway cut in his
backyard fence Brooklyn argus.
"Haye you marble or plaster figures Of
Psyche ?" asked lady in an art-store, one
day this week. "No," was the reply OF the
polite but rather yerdant clerk; "we have
busts of most all the great men, but not Of
Sankey!" The woman did not stop to eX-
plain chicago Journal.
An admirer of the Cleveland Herald
writes to that paper: "Mr. Editor please
as / am old resident Of Cleveland and would
like to patroniz your paper as much as
posibl."
No man need wish for swceter opportu-
nifty Of revenge than Christmas offers. Buy
your enemy's child a drum, or, II it is to
atone for injuries which blood cannot wipe
out, send him an Observation-Disclosures But
letia.
The body found in the tomb Of Agamem-
non contained thirty-tWo teeth in state OF
excellent preservation, which only shows
that the leader of the Greeks never put
up at Troy clearinghouse during the
"spring-chicken +" interval.
One hundred and thirty-seven Massachu-
sets clergymeR have petitioned the Legis-
lature to pass law forbidding any one to
organize a donation party. When they want
their houses gutsed they propose to send for
the Fire Department and q chemical engine.
Detroit Free Press.
Sidney Smith once remarked: !" when I
hear rustics yawn audibly at my sermons it
reminds me of Lord Ellenborough, who, on
seeing Lord -- cape during his own
long, dull speech, said Well, / must own
there is some taste in that but is not Lord
rather encroaching on our priYi-
leges' ]"
Aegidius Naltner, OF this city, Is an old and
intimate friend Of DR.. Henry Schliemann,
the famous explorer OF Grecian antiquities.
Dr. sebliemann visited Mr. Naltper in this
eity seven years ago. adiondpo us Meas.
Yea: DR.. schIlemann was living IN retire.
nent here at that time in order to procure
divorce from his wife, who was then 10
Rnssia. - hid tandp0liS Bealstnel.