The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-24
Miscellaneous Items.

A Chicago young man writes us from tbe
Boulevard ST. Something or Other, Paris /:
Dear Old Snoozer,-We must let George
know that familiarity Of this kind is apt 10
breed contempt. Europe is bully. Been
everywhere. seen every thing-SbaDgs Eli
"a, Noter. dam, Sardine Marble, the Roman
fossils, Buckingham Palace, the Jersey
! Lilv, Wales, Berlin on the spree, and more
picture.galerIes and old monuments than
YOU could cram into the entire city OF 81.
| Louis: but for good, solid, real, what l
call frst.class enjoyment. give me Chez
cago. "-Nel1 York Commercial Advertiser.
"Your mind is in a twilight state" OBJ.
served Joseph Cook 10 Ilndoo. " You
cannot diferentiate the grains OF mistrust
| from the molecules OF a reasonable conf
dence. You are travelling the border land
the frontier between the Paradise OF faith
and the Arctic regions OF incredultty. You
are an agnOstir" And then be explained
10 a friend that he bad to clOthe his thoughts
In language OF the utmost simplicity IN or
der to make the HndOo understand
ton Post.
Mr.. Sitting Bull doesn't want any nom
sense. In his speech to M1iOr Bro'herlon
the other day the imperiouS cbieft1in said ::
al have never accepted anything from the
Government, but now | am going to see
what am going to get. | want TO be free
and 10 90 about whenever | please, and -
have a waiter. | now wish you white peo-
pie to help me to whatever | am to have.
Give 1t to me, and do not keep anything
back"
al never approached case with so much
confidence" said LAWYER Howe in New
York the other day, having reference to the
case Of the disTeputaUle woman who shot
and killed man nsmed Coles q few highs
ago. "The circumstances are so sad" he
continued. as he dashed away q tear a. large
as the diamond which embellshed his shirt
front. This Is a preliminary process in law
known as preparing the public mlnd.'
Couldn't recognize him: "GoOd morn
i'm" shouted up a voice as he gently
trimmed down to business. "GoOd morn
Well, you've got the best Of me. You're"
.'Whv, don't you know me? Pm Bin
Layofi, YOU know" possible it is YOU,
BiiIY Well, | declare. shouldn't a
known youth your shirt-sleeyes and at work
anywhere" And Bill dropped. "-Nelo
Haven Register.
The country in danger: Bill Snort. editor
Of the Crosby County Clarion and farmers
YindicdtOr, was in town the other day. In
conversation with a prominent citizen the
latter asked: "DOn't you think, Colonel
Snort, that the liberties Of the people are
endangered by the capitalists and monopo.
lists?" 81 can't answer that question until
| see il Jay Gould is going to advertise in
the ClqriOn. "-IeIdS S1tingS.
Oscar Wilde, the leading "crank" Of the
London a,thetes, asks in poem, "WhO
paints the diapered fritil ariesI" We
don't. We think they look better in their
natural color. though we wouldn't know
diapered fritil aries il we were to bump up
against one. This insane freak OF daubing
everything with paint deserves the seyerest
censure.- N0TTiStOUn Herald.
The petition OF a wife for divorce filed in
Cincinnati says that the pIrties were mar
RED in that city September 8, 1880, and yet
alleges gross neglect Of duty and wilful
absence on the part OF the husband for
more than three years. How he was mar
red while absent remains TO be shown.
Henry Ward Beecher will, 1t Is said, pro-
baby 10 the next No. OF the North Ameri.
can ReUielc, sum up the noiBtS made by In
gersOl and Black IN the last No., and make
general criticism on the views OF each OF
the distinguished debalers.
Europe has rarely known a summer so
hot as this. France is trying to keep cool
on Norman and Breton shores, and Ger
manv is seeking the shade Of Liebenstein
woods and Eisenach glades. Those who
are forced to remain in the towns are in
hourly danger Of sunStrOke.
General Benjamin f. Butler was not
dead, after ALL His finger now appears in
The Sprague estate pie, Of which lie expects
TO get a generous slice.
The last ten years bave done great things
for Spain. II is very long since her position
aud prospects have been so favorable.