The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-27

leStPrudN forenoon lUtIc Wa putty VI
five persons on the wharf waiting to take
the boat for Biloxi, and each man had hsh-
ing tackle and other preparations for good
time. After looking the crowd over from
his seat on barrel, an old cynic OF dock
loafer approached one Of the gentlemen and
inquired:
"GOin' a.fshin' 2"
eyes, sir"
"Expcct to catch any?"
81 hope So"
"Goin' to lie about their size ?"
"Sir!"
"Goin' to lie like bIozes about their 4ize
and NUMBER"
"Sir! am a truthful man."
"Ob. YOU are, eh Then you'll let the
other fellows do the lynn, and you'll swear
TO i'll I see, see !"-Ner Orleans Times.
Mrs. Constance Cooper WOOlsOn, in
Gamma" shrewdy observes Some per-
sons pass through all of life without strong
temptations; not having deep feelings, they
are likewise exempt from deep sins. These
pass for saints. But when one thinks OF the
cause OF their faultessness, one understands
perhaps better the meaning OF those words,
otherwise mysterious, that 'iOy shall be in
Heaven over one sinner that repenteth more
than over ninety-nine and nine Just persons
which need no repentance
"When we are old, Claude, we shall still
be lovers" she said, gazing into his eyes
with the rapture OF a gifted woman who
writes poetry for the Boston papers. The
warm hues OF our youthful affection shall
never fade, but only grow brighter as we
draw nearer to the sunset; we shall still
| sit out in the hush Of the summer ewes and
feed our souls on the poetry Of the stars 4"
Well, hardly" answered Claude. "unlesN
YOU want me to remain up till daybrcak
basting your old back with arnica."
At an evening party a lady was called
upon for song, and began, "l'll strike
again nv tuneful Tyre" Her husband was
observed to dodge suddenly and start bur
riedly from the room, remarking, "Not If
know IL she won't. She belts blue blaZes
out of me at home, and i stand it like q
man: but when she threatens TO bit Iue In
a strange house, and calls me liar before q
| whole crowd, I'll run as long Is have q
spark Of manhood left"
The young woman who desires TO have
herself published in the newspapers as
fascinating, beautiful, aud accomplished"
Will please pack up her clothes in a dirty
|
dow SOME dark, rainy night. and elOpe with
the man who curries and feeds her dads
horses. It's biz price TO pay for cOnpli.
ments, but 1t will bring them Just as GER
thin as a dirty rain-water barrel will beget
mosquitoes 10 July.
The sudden changes In the fashions OF
women are very embarrassing to fashionable
men about to marry. Thus, at present,
big mouths and blue eyes are the height OF
the STYLE, and small mouths and black eyes
are not at all in demand. But suppose the
latter should shortly become the rage again
what could a man do with his big-mOulhed
and blue-eyed wife.y Take here into society
he could not. and he would find it difficult
to get rid OF her in any way Brooklyn
Eagle.
The favorite flower OF the Emperor Of
Germany Is tue kOrn-blume or "kaisel
bnmchen," known in the United States az
the bachelors button, ragged robin, oil
French pink. The story in regard to the
liking Of the Emperor for this flower Is thai
after bis marriage 1t was worn at ball by
his first love, the Princess Ridziwill, who
knew that he Is so color-bhnd that be recC e
nizes no color but blue.
When you see young man sitting beside
a much changed" or frizLled young lady
in a railroad. ear or a theatre, and his aru
sort Of iHstinctively erawls around the tor
OF her seat In close proximity TO her dollar
store necklace aud baek-hair, you may fee
assured that be i not her brother, and tht
chances are less than one IN a hundred tha
they are married
When one OF the Indian basket. makers Al
| NIT i'm oil or
by pale-faee the other day he Immediately
exclaimed: Oh, the diyi take ye for hay
then. Ye can't fool the son Of old Kill
muck. a-muckey wild yer dirty quather."
And it is pretty hard TO fool an Indian after
he becomes civilized N0rriStoleH Herald.
Mrs. Jane Swisshelm says The President
Is being Improperly treated. "Fwhaps
that" says Denis McHooligan. The
President Improperly trated? shure al
the docihers give him rum wild his medi-
cine. on wees wouldn't call that improperly
traiedl The trateiuent Is i'what I'd be
altar anl1Int rnasal( ~