The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-03
EccensrIc People, ,

ss The Detroit Free Press says:
II YOUR child had three sticks OF candy
per day for q week you'd feel almost certnin
.tbat che doctor would have to be sentfor the
week after. Yet what do you think OF a
lady who has eaten full pound OF candy
per day for weeks past? There is such q lady
living in Detroit, and she sends for her
sweets as regularly as a businessman sends
for his mail. About a year ago, after re.
covering from q severe attack OF typhoid.
fever. the lady. developed sudden fondness
for raisins. Not satisfied with q handful,
she bought them by the pound and the box,
and tits q fact which can be substantiated
to The satisfaction OF any doubter that
she has been known to devonr as
many as two pounds OF the best and largest
rnisins in a. day. After 3 time her taste
changed to, CONNECTIONS, and now she ents
1t day and night on the car, ut the opera,
and even in church. She buys only the
finest and most expensive, and never less
than pound per day. One day last fall
she purchased a pound of caramels Just be-
fore going on the ferrv-boat, and In an hour
she had eaten the last one and tossed the
empty box overheard. The doctors have
reasoned, warned, and counselled in vain
she'll have candy il she has 10 go without
fre., IS 81 st1a ee|' 2'z. .h".i -. 5.
There is citizen. ffty-three years old
living on Michigan ayenue who has resided
in Detroit ever since the first street-car was
started; and yet he has never entered car
When people ask him the cause Of this &c
centric behavior be replies that bis legs are
a good enough vehicle FOR him. 1nTain afit
snow and heat be. joasalong the walk, meet
ing and being passed by cars, but yet no
thing can drive him into becoming pas.
senger. When the present post-offce build.
ing was erected the site displeased him, and
he has never vet entered the building
hardly ever passed it. In going up ant
down Michigan avenue he always walks or
the south side, and no man can remember
of ever having seen him on the other side
There is gentleman living On promt
nent street in this city who has for year:
kept hostler and man-of-all-work an0
two seryant-girls in the house, and he has
always insisted that the men should he
black haired and the females red. Circum
stances have often left him short OF help,
but red-headed man Or girl with black
hair could not have secured positions hat
they offered to work for nothing. He once
visited every intelligence Office in the city
in search Of Il servant girl with red hair,
and he would employ no other, though he
was short Of help for Il week.
1t is said that the key to this eccentrcity
is the fact that years ago, when youns
man, he passed black-haired man and :
red haired girl walking arm in arm, ant
during the next ten steps he picked vi
wallet with large sum OF money in it
which was never claimed. His good luck
brought with it the wlim that he now in.
! dulges.
There are plenty Of men and women ii
this city who win not ride after a white
horse on any consideration, being supersti
tious enough to believe that their next rld'
would be in funeral procession.
On Sixth street lives middle-aged mar
who viii not exchange single word OF con
yersation with man wearing stove-ppt
hat. He will not trade with grocer or mer.
chant who wears one, and once, after send
ing for the doctor for his wife, he refused
to let the physician enter the yard be
cause he had a silk hat on. some youn:
men. knowing OF this popularity. one
thought to playa joke on him. He hat
had one certain milkman for years, and th'
boys halted the man on the street one morn
ing and traded him good "plug' for hi
old tile. He drove around to the house II
airy style, rang his bell and ladled out hi
milk, but instead OF the usual "sood morn
ing,'' be received plump, plain notice tina
he could never sell another pintd milk
that house. He asked for an explanation
but none was given, and it was weeks after
wards before .sthe bows" enli2 2htened him