The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-23
The Princess Of Wales took lessons on the


The Princess Of Wales took lessons on the
either last year, and all the daughters OF the
nobility, and all who can afford to ape arls-
tocracv, are now waking weird strains
from that instrument. And now-horrible
thought-suppose Mrs. Wales were to take
lessons on the ACCORDION this year. The re-
suit would be too dreadful to contemplate
This country would be orerrun with Eng
lish ACCORDION refugees, and millions OF dol
lars would have to be raised for the suffer-
ers at home. If there is one thing in this
world worse than the yellow-fever scourge
it is an accordion epidemic. We shall send
the Princess copy of the Herald with this
paragraph marked.-No1ristoaon Herald.
A gentleman residing near Boydton, Va,
built a rain-toWer" forty feet high and
thirty feet i'm diameter at the base, with seven
large flues, two Of which reached an alti-
tude of sixty feet. Then he built a fire III
his tower, and kept it burning several days
in order to bring on rain, but it failed to
produce the desired result. It'would have
been more certain and less expensive to
have got up camp-meetlng or hired clr-
Gus to come into town. An agricultural
fair or Sunday-school picnic will also bring
on rain nine times out Of ten. Ii the Boyd
ton gentleman il not familiar with these
methods of producing rain he. should dry
up.-.Norristo,c Herald.
There is pretty story told of Alexandra
Dumas, fills. AS he and one OF his friends
were returning from the theatre a few eve
nings ago in Paris they met poor old wo-
man who was holding out her hand for
aims. AS Dumas gave her something his
friend remarked how often people were de-
ceived, for most beggars were humbugs.
s. NV. dear fellow" said the author OF ''La
Dame aux Camelias," "when an old wo-
man holds out her hand to you for aid you
NAV give without fear, for it is almost
always proof that she has tue misfortune
to have no SON."
Professor Blackie is thorough Biiton.
Talking to his Junior Greek class at the
opening OF the winter session of the Unircr-
sity of Edinburgh the other day, he said
that, with regard TO modern languages,
French was the most useful, but at the same
time he never spoke French without despi-
sing himself-feelng as if lie was becoming
half a monkey. There~,vaS such minciDg
air about it. 1t had got.itS cars cropped and
its pose,shaven off. The next most useful
language was English, which was mixture
of all laaSuages-a hoteh-potch, but tlsst
was COED soup, as they all knew.
The Chinese in California do not seem to
be GO going" fast in the direction that
Denis Kearney would have them, but, on
the contrary, some OF them: are coming to
the front in. q manner to pui the illiterate
sand-iot orator to shame. Nne Of them,
Wah Kee by. name, has lust been elected an
insurance ;brQktr by the Stn Francisco
Board Of Underwriters, whose license is
required befoEe q company cap pay conf
missions to heikroker. at the same cleo
tion several white men were aaiec Cd
Exchange. It's 20 business that requires
great ChiE-ease ability. The esE;binayion
OF Wah-Kee and Ta;k-Kee will make ior-
tune.-Bulletin.
A correspondentgithe London Standard
gives an account of tlse fruits of Afsshanis-
tan, which recalls to ,mind the report 81 the
dSIaelitish spies on Their return frozn the
hreok OF Eshcol. We>sags: "The fIsait all
aIeag the line of march is cheap, assa in
greet quantity. AS ior its quality, haze
never seen it equalled inasly country in tie
weshl, There is one ktad OF grape q-
wisieh 1t is no eXaggeratiol TO say that eassn
one is ,tbe size OF large sSalnut, and thej
hunehes arc often 80 kong that tall mas
cannot hold them clear efAhe, ground"
"I sensember Glasgow .said Thomas
Carlyle. na2 long ago, g whentit was clean,
quiet city, fhe people cornfoHtab;e, and the
carrying on substantisl and hon.
est business. II man had ter thousand
pounds be was thought to be q perfect
crnsus. BAt now it has cabbagea out into
vast place. full of squallor and speculation,
some hungry fer bread and etaass for
geld-on the whole, supremacy ugly
sight,
At Oshkosh saslazoo-Skowhegaa Dir.
Black Swallowtail Goat to Miss white
Corded Glace Silk en- Grain, trimmed with
.au]iaowers, cnt bias. The groom wore a
pimpled face; bride was stylishly attired |
WITH blue eyes and blond trimmings. Her
shoes were gracefully ernamented with
bunions, which contrasted admirably with |
!, fashionable wart on the off side OF her rich |
nasal imp leaRent. = 0shtosh Christian i'd
yeedtes
Being interYieGed In New York, General
3ealregard said - am engaged at present
u writing q eircumstanlial narrative OF the
military operations In which took part
rom the firing Of the first gun, at Fort Sum.
er. in April, 1851, &c the close OF the war
i Greensboro, N. u, In May, 1866" /