Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-02
The Talk of the Day.

| What. You have written new cook
book for your wife? How did you do it?'
Easy enough. 1 wrote the name OF
! each dish, and underneath II the restau-
/ rant where it can be had bestr'-Flie-
gende Batter.
! Cautious Man: Were you able to sell
I old Billions a lot?' asked the superin-
| tendent of the cemetery. The agent shook
his head. He was afraid he might not
get the full value OF it," he explained
But hang IL all a man has got to die
some time" exclaimed the superintend-
ent. That's what / told him. but he only
answered. Suppose | should be lost at
sea- Chicago Post.
A man who has just returned from
Canada reports that Americans have 50
generally secured accommodations at the
summer resorts there-including cottages
as we'll as hotels-that Canadian patrons
have been literally crowded out, and are
bound to come to the Maine coast this
summer This is not said to keep up the
courage. but is an actual fact. The
Americans are going largely from the
Middle and Eastern States.-Kennebec
Journal
The French Government has decided 10
issue a nickel coin, with value between
piece. II was suggested to NJ. Daniel
Dupuis, who is to design the new coin,
that 1t might have a hole i'm the centre,
like certain Chinese coins Of small de-
nominations, which are strung together
on a string NJ Dupuis, however, OBJ
iected that this would interfere with his
artistic handiwork. and the idea was
abandoned. New York Tribune.
Nh. n
to dig Mr.. Gladstone's grave in Westmin-
ster Abbey came upon a leaden coffin OF
some unknown person. They also found
remains Of other persons, of whose burial
there is no record, among them a skull
very much worn away but seemingly
that Of a young man; shoulder bones
and small bones of the arm in excellent
preservation, but completely Drowned
through age And at a greater depth
skulls were found, which. like the others.
were only kept free from disappearance
into mould by the dryness Of the SOIL
New York Tribune.
Until recently the English colony Of
Western Australia was enthusiastically
province Of Spain. The last two Roman
Catholic bishops of Perth. the western
metropolis. DR.. Sierra and Or. Griyer.
were both Spaniards, although their
priests and congregations were almost
entirely Irish. Spain has now been ousted
from the ecclesiastical supremacy. and
an Irish prelate rules at Perth, although
the Spaniards are still in possession at
New Norcia, where they have a remarka
BILE monastic colony, governed by the only
mitred abbot I'm Australia, DR.. SalyadO,
one of the original Spanish missionaries
who went out more than half century
ago. New York Journal
In THE Life Of Admiral Duncan" by
the Earl Of Camperdown, the following
story is told: 1.-The Belliqueux, sixty-four
guns, had been among the most mutt
nous Of Admiral Duncan's ships, but she
took this occasion to redeem her charac-
ter: Captain Inglis, a Scotsman, belong
ing 20 East Lothian, who had rather
hasty temper. had neglected TO make
himself complete master Of the signal
book. and on the morning OF the battle
found himself more puzzled than enlight-
sned by it. At last, throwing 1t upon
the deck. he exclaimed in broad Scotch:
'Confound the book, Up wi the hel-lem,
and gang into the middle OF! New |
York Tribune.
ANY news from him yit?" asked a |
woman at army headquarters, reported |
By the Atlanta Constitution. mo news |
yet" shore he hain't been killed?' his |
name doesn't appear on the list"
well! she exclaimed, as she moved |
away, "ef he thinks I'm goin' to be livin' |
In this suspense he's nightly mistook! |
Ef he's killed ne orter write an say so; |
an ef he's Twin he orter write, anyhow! |
As il is, thar i5 John Jeems a-settin' |
roun' my house day after day, waitin' fer |
me ter say the word, an me not KNOWN
whether I'm a wilder or Jest a poor. |
lonely. forsook wife that needs comfort
in! This here government is about as
slow as pine sap in springtimew-New !
York Tribune.