The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-28

tew wears ago, when bio Lewis was the
r,sr he aid that people who ate many to-
mssoes would lose their teeth. There are
many people who are fond OF raw tomato
hut who cannot eat one with oil and Vine
| gar. The acid Of the tomato mingles very
nicely with tIne sugar and little SAT-, ana
| Is said not TO be dissgreeable 10 small guam
titles to people who suffer from indigestion
At n clyil.serysce examination OF candi-
dates Cor sheriff last week in Colorado
CITY. che venerable Judge who presided
asked an applicant from jim Creek canyon
| what were the most important duties oil bis
Office. "Sboot your mao trst and arrest
hin afterwaHl." The Jim Creek candidate
received the nomination and all hands drank
whiskey straight while standing.
| There Is story told OF Maria Edgeworth,
who was great talker how she taxed ior
hall an hour with deaf mute TO whom sue
had been introduced by arrangement, ana
who nodded and gestIeula,ed; but az ne
could say nothing. made no repiy. Ai.er
he left she desired to know who he was, Tor
he was the most intelligent talker and bril-.
liant man she had met for long time.
Edward Peacock, writing Of early Scot
land, speaks of the extraordinary prejudice
that because our forefathers lived 10 houses
not more commodious perhaps than modern
stables they were therefore barbarians. =" Ii
is,D says he, "not in novels alone that we
find men characterized as savages because
they do not use forks at dinner"
An English observer speaks Of the ten.
dency OF an increased use Of the telegraph
to augment the proportion OF news in daily
papers, while the monthly magazines, with
signed names and adequate space, devote
themselves more TO politics and less to
literature than they formerly did, or more
to information than to criticism.
An American while eating roast clans at
Long Branch the other day made bull.
While struggling hard 10 open pair OF
shells with knife and fork be exclaimed,
"Tbis is the most striking instance OF the
instinct OF selfpreservation that remem-
Der TO have seen
| A gentleman writing to spOrting-i ournal
saws Of man who was repOrtt as having
died Of hydrophobia that II it had not been
for the dog the wbi,key would not have
killed him, and that il 1t had not been for
the whi,key the dog would not have killed
him.
A seaside journal says that the nice
spider-legeed maSher, with the cOrkscrew-
toed shoes and twirling cane, is necessity
at waterlng.pllce, IN order that he may
break the mOnotony and excite the curiosity
OF the children.
| Herbert Spencer's method Of invcstiga'
ton is commented upon severely, because,
like many ethnOIogists, he is too ready to
accept the statements Of chance-trayellers
without criticism or without giving authori-
| ties.
The thrifty treasurer OF the Southern
Illinois Hospital for the Insane has been de-
tected in buying Mexican dollars at dis
count and paying them out at par to the
employees Of the hospital.
Chicago newspapers say that auction sales
OF real estate "On the premises" are again
successful, for the first time since the panic.
The New York Express says DR.. William
A. Hammond still thinks the President will
die, sooner or laler-mOst likely later.