Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-16
A Night in the Country.
AhOut II o'clock the dogs take

tongue in. The faithful watch-dogs
generally form themselves into oranges,
each containing about 700 dogs, for
mutual aid and benefit in the distilla-
ton of mutton. Every night 100 dogs
steal away silently to kill sheep, while
the other 600 bark furiously, to induce
their owners to believe they are, like
the Hon. Elijah Pogram, "active to
their trust" and to cover the bloody
operations of their fellows. at mid
night the COW whose calf has been reft
from her, having reflected upon her
loss, lifts up her voice and laments.
The lament of a sorrowful COW In O
barn is something sal gerleyis in the
matter of sounds. In the first place,
it fakes her long time to become loud,
and an equally long time to fill .he barn
with noise. But when the building is
filed with "moo," and it begins to
leak out at the windows and doors in
muffled and melancholy thunder, she
has a long interval of rest to prepare
another blast ere the first ululation has
been exhausted. About two In the
morning she is drowned out and silenced
by jackass somewhere in the country,
who, having nerved himself for the ef-
fort by silence of twenty-four hours,
delivers himself by bray that makes
the sky bright responsive shower
of shooting stars. There is an awful
silence for about twenty minutes, no
animal daring to call his voice his own ;
then the jackass sings again. Just as
the countryside is congratulating itself
that the infiction is over for another
interval of twenty minutes, he dis
charges thirdvolley, and then is heard
no more. You, however, do not know
that he has broken a blood-vessel or
gone to sleep but, with dreadful un-
certainty as to when the next bray Will
occur, put your head under the clothes,
and your thumbs il your ears, and wait.
A Fish Story.
The curious fate of a fish caught In
the Sassafras river, in Kent county,
Maryland, is thus related by a CORE
sponpent A fish-hawk stole a very fine
pickerel from the seine of some fisher
men, when an eagle who had been
watching the operation gave chase, and
compelled the hawk to drop his prey.
This was seized at once by the eagle
and appropriated to his own use. Will
lam Shallcross, who resides there, hao
been looking on, and succeeded IL
frightening eff the eagle. As the fish
was not injured, he took it home, in
tending it for supper. While the cool
was looking another way the cat in hel
turn captured the pickerel, and begar
devouring it. Just then hound be-
longing to the family came along, ant
concluded to assert his rights In the
matter. He drove away the cat and ate
the fish himself-which closes its his
tory. And this is true fish story.
The ORIGIN OF "GRoe. Until the
time of Admiral Vernon the British
sailors had their allowance of brandy
or rum served out to them unmixef
with water. This plan was found to bt
attended with inconvenience on some
occasions, and the Admiral therefore
ordered that in the feet he commanded
the spirit should be mixed with water
before it was given to the men. This
innovation at first gave great offense t.
the sailors, and rendered the com
mander very unpopular. The Admira
at that time wore grogram coat, ant
was nickaamed cold Grog." This
name was afterward given to the mixet
liquor he compelled them to take, ant
it has hence universally obtained tn
name of grog.