The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-03

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rode on real donkey yesterday mean
one with four legs, you know. ''-f'inch.
The other day one Of the clerks IN
Wasbin gton-street store found the porter
crammed among the boxes down cellar,
with men, ink, and paper before him..
"Writing letter, eh?" quer1ed the
clerk. a. ~.
ayes; writing to the old man in Buffa-
To-" "-
He handed up the half-written letter for
inspection, and presently the clerk remark
ed: 49,. :o,.
II see you spell jug g-u-s'; that isn't
1Of course not" replied the porter;
g hut. YOU see, am writing to the old man,
and he always spells that way. II put the
other .g' to it he would think was put
ting on style over him and forgetting that L
was his son. He's good-hearted, and don't
want to hurt bis feelings"
The letter went off with only one "g" at
the end of "gug."-Cincinnoti Saturday
Might. aa-.-s s3:a:,,-
While a crowd of twenty-one men stood
around the coal-stove in the market yester-
day morning, each one facing outward ana
having his hands crossed BEHIND MIN,
Brother Gardner was asked whether lie
thought it was better for man to put
dollar in the bank than to hide II away at
home.
"Put it in de bank, sah,"' was his prompt
reply; ssput it IN de bank for two reasons.
De fust reason is because it kind O. Inns you
I'M in society to hey money in de bank. DE
nex reason is YOU kin let it lay in de bank
till de cashier ees kind o. lost track o. yer
face. an you kin walk in dar sum day when
he's busy and say, II guess Z IL take out dat
two hundred dollars to-day He'll mana
de cash over, you hez de capital to 60 into
business, an de goose hangs high. Least
ways, dats my idee bout bankin. "-De-
troit Free Press. ....r ...i 50.
Never take the trouble to study enough to
become a, sculptor. There are hundreds OF
Italians In Rome who have mastered the
business, and will make anything you want
better than you ever could, though you
labored thousand years, and, besides SELL
ing it to you for little bread and butter,
will make affidavit that you did all the tine
work on the pieee.-E1chdnge.
Men and statues that are admired in an
elevated situation have very different effect
unon us when we approach them The
first appear less than we imagined them,
the last bigger. LORD GreOitte.
A copious manner Of expression gives
strength and weight to our ideas, which ire
auently make impressions upon the NINA as
iron does upon solid bodies, rather py re-
peated strokes than by single bleW.-MeE
moth. a>a..'
The editor who can conduct newspa-
per one year without making an enemy
would make q very successful managing
editor of medicinal almanac Whitehall
Times. -... ..a!.. #...
Every one that has been long dead has
due proportion of praise allotted to him, in
which. while he lived, his friends we've too
profuse and his enemies too sparing.-Ad-
olson. ..i............ ..s .,... .'4# ..u.r
Want of prudence is too frequently the
want OF virtue; nor is there on earth
more powerful advocate for vice than pow
erty.- Goldsmith.
It requires great deal of poetry to gild
the pill of poverty, and then it will pass cur
rent only In theory; the reality is a dead
failure.-Madame Daluzy. -.
When the curtain arose in Pittsburgh the
other night the audience. that should have
greeted Janauschek was so invisible that
the lady refused to appear on the stage.
An Esouimaux chief was recently enter
tanned by the Prince of Wales. To. make
the visitor feel thoroughly at home, little
" old sledge" was introduced after dinner.
Couldn't the practice of some of our I'M
diplomaed physicians be appropriately
styled "false doct'rin' ?"-BoSton Trans
cript.
A sign in neigboring city reads" Hickre
nuts for sails" An Intelligent old gen.
tleman says he don't see any Joke in it ex-
cept that the fellow spelt "nuts " with onet.
II Russia won't fight, and Turkey won't
fight, and England has crawled into cave,
grocers might as well come down on the
price OF dried apples. Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Darlington says that Ike has bought
horse 80 spirltuous that, he always goes off
in decanter, 49,,
Kit Carson's! new drama is the ss Maniac
Hunter" Hunting maniacs must be rather
funny business Boston Post.
Ex-Governor Jewell now denies that he
opposed the electoral bill. Come in, child
rem, out OF Observation-Disclosures Times.
On . I, turch in Delaware, temporarily
closed the ioliGw1gg n 1Se nennt0
o5p osSovc rH CuuESA uHlcoo VIC PShAhey
a ~ th. isl ~ =. =. ; sorcted. Keep away"
An agricultural pap nr.sa Bfala l s1ear
Ing pays" A bald he. ,ans Renub1;cnn.
field fol. action.-Ne,o Orte> -
Chicago ia the great pork /. wind CEN
centre, sriow centre, rain centre, !: 1rsss.
tire, and counterfeit centre.-Free 4.
Men must learn now with pity to dispeA !,
Tor policy sits above conscience S'safes !,
pedre. 't&ssrzrk ~
As charity covers multitude Of sins be-
fore God, so does poiiteness before men,
Lord Greuilte. $3.50 s5Tzss
Poetry and consumption are the most
flattering OF diseases Shakespeare.
Compromise Bill says he is the VIII OF the
people. -
g; RANKS AND BANKERS.
4 sTTIZENs BANK OF RICHMOND. III