The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-05
Miscellaneous Items.

"Wbat is your age?" asked friend Of
Nine. de c. the other evening. "Thlrty-
one" promptly replied the fair Sapphira.
60 Oh, where do you expect to go when you
die 7" gasps another lady. 81 am thirty
four, and you told me last winter, with
your own lips. that you were just my age,
my love-" 81 know | old, dearest, but it
was only to console you !"-French WI.
General Robert Patterson is lying Sc
riouSIy i'll at his residence, in Philadelphia.
On Friday last he was in very precarious
condition, and growing steadily worse, Il
was thought on Saturday that he could not
survive. His trouble is an af, ctiOn OF the
heart and general debility incident to eX-
treme old age. He had improved at latest
accounts.
The New York Herald says: Rockaway
Beach this season swarms with gamblers,
blacklegs, and swindleTs. They flourish,
too, without mOlestatation. They are like
sharks-eyer on the hunt for victims. They
watch the eXuberant country people and
picnic parties as they come by boat and
train, and fleece all who are simple enough
TO listen to them.
A French chemist says the much-abused
cucumber is more healthy than the banana
And so it is. A cucumber may be knocked
around three or four days and II will come
I'd smiling for business; whereas the ba-
mana must be eaten almost ne soon as pur.
chased, or it is unfit for duty and soon be-
comes hOpe!essly ill.-AOrTiStOUn Herald.
"Come, now, guess what my flyorite
flower is" said The spinSteI housekeeDer to
the widower's little boy, as they were walk
| -, AoIH 10 lYn u
kept his wits about him and his eyes open,
50 he answered as he looked up with an
arch expression, Poppy. brooklyn
Eagle.
A Kansas doctors manuscript contains
such words ms smallpox" " skart-
feaver" and " rumatis," aud yet he charges
81 for looking at a sick mans tOngCe.-
| Detroit Free Press. Well, would you want
to be called out of bed at midnight for less
sum il you had such "bad spells Nor
riStO,on Herald.
| "What," asked the Lowell lawyer, care
you kicking about? Didn't | win your
case for you?" Said the client: eyes,
you won the case. Butyou didn't insinuate
| that the man against me abuses his wife or
steals hens. Do you think that was earning
your money g"-BoStoR Post.
A worthy deacon in a town not far away
gave notice at prayer-meeting the other
night Of church-meeting that was TO be
| held Immediately after, and uncOnscOusly
added: "There is no objection TO the
female brethren remaining !"-Sprinqfeid
RepubtieGa,.
A very intelligent lady in San Francisco,
being asked what she considered the cause
OF the looseness Of the marriage-tie and
frequency of divorce in California, replied 4:
(" The power OF money, that eXtnguishes
| true affection, sentiment, sense Of justice,
and chastity"
An Albany man has rented vacant lot
near his residence, fenced it ia, and fitted
1t up as a playground for the boys 10 the
neighb0rhoOd. In other words, be furnishes
playground to avoid having a plague
round. Catch the dea?-BOSf0N Post
The deadly lemonade has been at work
again. This time it has carried off young
ady OF New Brunswick, who died after
| drinking fifteen glasses OF the stuff made
with tartaric acid, on recent excursion.
! A considerable trade is done 10 cold chip
ped fried potatoes, which are sold in large
quantities by the box, or, perhaps, the bar
rel, to New York bar-rOoms where free
lunches are given.
Feather beds are not healthy, at least in
summer. Even goose covered with feath-
ers will stand all night on one leg rather
than sleep on bed OF fealbers.-Heto Or
leans Picdsatne.