The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-07

The snhailnr ot iiiumi mating gas ns ssa
sfav for syi1ootl lis tesfe ID on "a
large scase aat rorsiansi, he gassr
WORKS essfei i, and, according TO The testt-
flsofsy ot ,,i,ss com enre OF per-
Tnancst RELIEF is felt at Vie tirst trsal, says
Boston paper.
There d 4 band OF two btlhdred Indians
ioJit on the plains, ~ no arc suffering terri.
hiy. Thcy want to ioin sitting Bulls
Warriors and go on the war-pnth against the
whites, but they have no ammunition ana
their nluskets are old, dilapi dated concerns
that miss fire fourteen times instead Of
ipoinr otf at the first click Oh the trigger
md killing q white man. Our Government,
iWher, nc IL apprfscd OF their destitution,
Twill, OF course, supply them with improved
arms and plenty Of ammunition - Norris
toea Herald. &. &
Ciothes-pins are now shipped 70 New
zealand. The natives use them for ear
rings. but an old chief who got bold OF one
with a llalf-hosse power spring In its back
and booked il on his nose was looking
around ten minutes aiterward for q mis-
sionary to Kill. No'ristoe5n Herald.
It may be difficult to IS catch a weasel
asleep,O but the ease with which nm infant
will catch measles, asleep or awake, neither
exci,es astonishment nor proyokes admira-
ton. 1;
nDo you Know remarked rather fast
Newark youth the other day to suffering
| friend. TO whom he was slightly indebted,
| &C do Vol, know Chat intend to marry and
settle down 2" "Tdo-don't know anything
about it,o was the reply; /" bu-buI think
you had b-b-better stay single and settle
up."- Ne,cork Call.
The man who was caught in the act.was
member Of the Legislature. -SmaH Idt6.
You should make things more plain. That
man might only have been caught IN the
act OF irving to pass an act to amend an act
entitled an act to amend an net amendatory
to an act. -Neacport Local.
"What's the difference" asked the teacher
| in arithmetic, "between one yard and two
wards -, "a fence said Tommy Beales.
Then Tommy sat on the ruler fourteen
times.
| Our ancestors the monkeys couldn't have
been SO ignorant after all, Mr.. Darwin.
They were all educated in the higher
branches. -Neao York Commercial Aduer.
tiser. But did they know how to harangue-
a-tang-led audience ?-Balletin.
A word to the wise is sufficient; but no.
body is wise Buffalo Express.
The praises lavished upon the Tarifi,yille
bridge are calculated to awaken feelings OF
regret on the part Of those bridges which
have never dropped a railway train into the
water.-Neao Orleans Pacdyatne.
There is one thing calculated to develop
| all the latent pedestrian abilitya woman has
| in her, and that is to be caught out in a
shower with her Sunday-bonDet on, and no
umbrella. Commercial Advertiser.
Holland every year makes $15,000,00C
from Jaya.-NeU YORK; Herald. Add this
to the salary he receives for editing Serb
ne,'s MAGAZINE, and it will be seen that bis
yearly Income is heavier than taat OF any
other literary man in this country, IL not in
the world.-NorristoNn Herald.
The New York Tribune does not adver-
tise to give away a Gail Hamilton to eact
new subscriber, but it offers 4 dictionary as
a premium, and that amounts to about The
same thing.-BoSton GLOBE.
MANY mothers raise their daughters Oh
the principle OF teaching them first to play
the piaho, second to dress, third to dance
and sew fourth.-NeD York Commercial
Advertiser.
cit seems hard that q strong, we'll man
should haveto 60 for a dog."-Dying nords
ofa Ne,o England hydrophobia patient.
J. Madison Wells may not be vassal
but he certainly does not a-peer.-Lo,oes
| Courier.
Some husbands, it is said, write &c WI .'
| In the corner OF their letters, which mean:
| "wife permitting"