The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-20

baf recognized your head. OAK 10 me-
Rube, dell me you dOn't vas dead Ven,
erery Won SAID 1t vas goot shoke on Lew
Cohen. but we're vas de shoke. Seek weeks
| il vas, Herman, before | sets myself down q
chair in, und ven / sleeps it vas standing
up shust like mule.
al am in receipt OF query from Pitts
burgh," said the President, as he displayed
a letter. "axin' me wharf our dooty TO our
naybur begins an ends up. To he naburly
wild a naybur am one OF de highest an
greatest principles on airth. Our do0tY
begins when we let his chickens scratch up
our garden, bis children ride our gate. an
his dog chase our cat widout complaint.
Our doOty ends when we'bave leut him our
hoe, shovel, spade, ice.tOngs, TX, sugar, tea,
coffee, milk, an butter, and he has forgot
ten dat he owes Us anytnin' began re-
quest dat we will come Ober aG' turn grind
stun fur him to sharpen crowbar. Free
Press.
"Sweet budding germ of dawning man.
hood" the new pastor said, holding out
bis band TO the youngest son Of bis hostess.
81 love the innocent sunshine OF child
hood that plays over bis candid lace like
the dawn q a summer MORN" And just
then the child laid down its slab OF bread
and butter and moasses, and swabbed of
IT'S dimpled hands on the pastors new pearl
colOrcd cassimereS, and mOpped its clndied
mouth on his Prince Albert coat and tie
girl who let the minister out says that she
is willing to take after davis that he spelled
dawn with an en-" ss he went down the
steps. -Ne,o Orleans Times.
Rosa Bonbeur, the first woman whose pic
lures were admitted to the gallery OF the
Luxembourg, Paris, is now fifty eight years
old and failing In health. Her first picture
was received at the Salon when she was
nineteen, and she had had little tuition, but
her later works have brought perhaps the
largest prices ever paid for the work OF a
woman. AS Couture, whose celebrated pic
lures hung near her own In the National
Gallery, spent the last years OF his life in
retirement, so Bonheur lives In c0mpara-
tive secusion, and while her fame has
steadily grown she has herself added no.
thing to it for many years.
The Philadelphia North american says ::
" The recent death OF a physician in New
York from an overdose OF chlOral is a
warning against the misuse OF a drug
People who would use laudanum not at all,
or with the greatest caution, will resort 10
choral as remedy for sleeplessness with
out any hesitation. They have an idea that
chlOral is comparatively iunOcuOus. and
can be taken with little or no risk, This is
mistake. Il is one Of the most insidiously
dangerous drugs In the pharmacopGl and
should never be taken except under pro-
fessional advice"
The following paragraph summarizes all
that is TO be said about tue seaside: "The
ladies and gentlemen at this resort are en-
loving themselves In very quiet way.
There Is one gentleman ia loud plaid suit
OF bathlng.clOthes who attracts much atten-
ton. He drives other people from the surf.
Two ladies' here are making themselves free
with the waves. They get all the attention
that their clothes call for, and when they
leave the sands decent people go in bath
ing"
The statement is made that Griscom, the
Chicago faster, lost not only flesh-weigbt,
but thousand dollars worth OF pecuniary
or bauk balance by his performance. 1t is
not stated exactly how this.came about |;
Though. without any personal hostility to
true, since the result would be to discourage
any further exhibitions Of this form OF
ITnacy. The bankruptiDg Of some few
professional. pedestrians would be another
public boon.
As a three-ply, four.story, double distill-
ed, trlple-rehned, double-barrelled, copper
bottomed, squaI e-tOed, beyeledged liar, the
PettdtstmG PdttypdR has no peer. Its men,
dacity is equalled only by its envy and
malice. It's breath is SANDER; its teaching
vice. It's only happiness is in waIlowng in
the slums Of its own patrescence.-W West
ern Exchange. Will some cross.eyed son of
street scayenger please send us the adj
dress of that sheet. We want TO subscribe
for it, Derrick.
4 polished Scotch granite sarcophsgus
nearly nine feet ia height has been placed
upon the grave Of General Joseph Hooker.
in Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati, q.
TIE Commercial says that the style OF archi-
lecture is from the Grecian school, combiDed
with shields OF the medieval age, and the
whole constitutes one Of the finest specimens
Of the stone-eutter's art TO be found Ia the
cemetery. The monument cost about 81 900.
The Norwich (Con I. y Bulletin first told the
story which follows: "HenTy X. Card, of
south Windham, lost his pocket book, con-
tanning $50, Tuesday afternoon while row.
ing on the pond, bat did nbt discover his
loss till the next day, when be was. fortu-
cate enough to find his meney floating
around on The water, ard the pocket book
was fished up from the bottom"
The Providence Journal, coBtradicting a
report that General Burnside Is seriously
ii, says that Il Is true be was thEown from
his wagon last week and suffered some
brNises, but he received no Internal injuries
and no serious external hurts. He VIII
probably be out again 10 day or two.
The new British Minister is a bowling
swell, Gud numbers III his family dukes,
duchesse.s, and lords by the dozen. He is
fsty-four ind bachelor. Any American
girl spoiling 10 be a ministeress !-Neu
York Commercial Advertiser.
Nowadays, when we see young man
with his nose split open, aud four front
teeth gone. we are unable 10 tell whether he
Is q professional baseball player or an anna.
ieur bicycle rider. HoriStopn Herald.