The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-02
Anan,aae statistic.

Vats are arfectionate--they illy young
chickens, sweet kream, and the best place IN
front or the tieeplace.
Dogs are faithful-they viii stick to bone
after everybody else haz deserted it.
PARROTS are eazily edukated, but they
will learn to swear well in fatt the time thes
will learu anything else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for pam
whites, but their dessert konslsts ov tne ocs'
cherrys and gooseberries lathe garden. -,
The owl liz only a picture ov Wisduth W
dalite. when he kant see emmy thing.
When it Gums mite his wisdum Wholly koh-
sis,s in ketching Geld mouse, II he eau.
The donkey is an cmblem ov pacnunce;
hnt IL YOU study them kloSscr yu VIII hno
that Iazvncss liz what's the matter oF tn I:un
The eagle is the monark oy the sK'ss,
hut the little king bird will chase Nun !"
hiz hidins-place. III, ond
that IL nil he dug kno or care about MS ii'sS-
Munkeys are tmitatiff, but il they KAN
;mlta,e sum dcsiltry they amt happy;
The goose is ike all other phoois-aii"uss
seems anxious to prove IT,.
n mules are eyer-meek it IL simply Dc
c,usc they are ashamed oy themSelfs. but
mules arc hibrid, and amt ackountable Tor
ennytbing.
he idle they will rob each other oT their
bunny. $500
The kockroach is q loafcr, and don't seem
TN live so mulch on what they cat as what
they kan Git into.
Ducks are only cunning about one thing;
they lay their eggs in such sly places that
sum,imes they kant find them again them
selves.
The nuskrat kan fore>ee hard winter
and nrovide for il, but he kant keep from
cittis' ketched IN the syllieSt kind OF trap.
Hens kno when it is going to rain. and
shelter themselves, but they will try to hatch
ont glass egg just az honest az they Will
one ov their own.
Nud.urtleS are the sloweSt ov emmy four
legged kritters, and they are alwus on the
move, tr,eing to git sumwbare else.
Hornets hay more fight in them than emmy
thing ov their size, but there IL no method
in their madness. They will pitch into
Westinghouse when they are furious IuStaz
anxious az they will into sleeping baby IN
It's kradle.
The crow liz the most nat'ra or all thiefs-
they will steal and hide what IL ov no use to
them nor loss to ennybody else.
Ants are the biggest oy all the little or
big bugs; but 4 large share ov their time IL
spent in repairing their houses, which are
bllt where folks KANT help but step on them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin, yet
they hav the first taste or all the best gra-
yys in the land.
The cuckcoo is the gratest ekonemist
amung the birds; she lays her eggs in other
birds nests, and lets them hatch them out
at their leizure.
Rats have fewer friends and more enemys
than any Of the fouI-leggcd purswashun on
the face OF the earth, and yet rats are as
plenty now as in the palmyest days ov the
Roman empire.
Ov all things lazy the sloth wears the belt,
and yet his Iazyness IL all thare liz interest
ing about him.
The frog dodgeth when 1t lightens, and
the tud gaps when the thunder bellows.
The kro bids her nest ov silk, the swalIo
ov mud, the squirrels oy leaves, the wren
ov feathers and wool, and the woodpecker
digs hole for his eggs in the rotten trees.
The sarpent and the krab change their
clothing each year, and the rackcoon lives
all winter long on the memory OF what he
ct in the summer.
The horse allwuz gets up from the ground
on his fore legs first, and the cow on her
hind ones, and the dog turns around three
times before he lies down.
The kangaroo he jumps when he walks,
the coon PAGES when he trots, and the lob
ster travels backwards az fast az he does
forwards. ...-..
The elephant haz the least and the rabbit
the most eye for their size, and rats tail
is Just the length OF his body.
The spider is the only critter that ketches
its food in a trap, and sheep will live with"
out water longer than emmy domestick ami
NAL.
The fox is the hardest to ketch in trap,
and muskrat the easiest, and the MEDIC
lark liz the shyest oy all the birds ov the air.
The crow flies miles, and the wild pigeon
80 an hour, but the humming bird beats all
things on the wing.
The horse will eat 10 hours out ov every
70; the OK lays down and chews hiz kud
haff the time; and the hog never knows
what it il not to be hungry. ..}E-
The wild turkey kan run faster than be
kan fly, and emmy man who is good walker
can tire deer out in "a hours. .a
kant think, in konkluslon, ov ennything
Just now in art, science. or morality that
mankind excel in, but what kan be found,
more or less developed, in the bugs, beasts,
birds, and fshes.-JoSh Billings. ~.