Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-16
Price Four Cents.
NOT roo FUNNY.

Base ball, it will be remembered by old set l tiers, is game played by eighteen persons l wearing shirts and drawers. They scatter around the field and try to catch a cannon 1 ball covered with raw-hide. The game is to get people to pay two shillings to come in 1 side the fence.-MflaoGaGtee Sun. An East Boston father discovered that his l daughter, who has a soul for romance, pro- posed to elope. And he didn't sit up with bull dog and shot-g to waylay the fuRitives Oh, no He went to his daughter and told her he desired her to marry young man, naming her lover, and he would set him up In good paying grocery business; and the young lady at once declared she'd die rather than marry man just to please her father New York doctor has discovered that nervousness is an imaginary disease This will be cheering news to young men who have frequently thought themselves to be nervous when the sire of the beautiful being on the other end of the sofa stuck his head inside the door and remarked that it was time for everybody but burglars to be in bed.
 The knowledge that the unpleasant feeling is purely imaginary will be great consolation,
 and nerve them to even more prolonged vigils.
 Antony: ''You all do know this mantle;
 Look in this place ran Cassius' dagger
 through; see what 8 rent the envious Casca
 made. Through this the well-beloved Bru-
 tus stabbed" Brutus (aside): 'tHe's liar
 by the watch. That's the hole great Caesar
 used to put his head through, and is the hole through which the we'll beloved tailor stabbed when he made it ," Antony: And when he plueked his cursed steel away, mark how the blood of Cesar followed it '" Brutus (aside): 'It's no such thing. That's red paint. saw boy daub it on back of the scenes not two minutes ago I'm up to this little game !'' First Pleb. sOh, piteous spectacle!" Brutus (aside): "Oh, piteous spectacle your grandmothers gray cat !"- Petroleum World.
 Interesting description of the Hanlan re- ception from Le FiQdTO
 ''The America honors otherwise her cham pions.
 "One of our friends found himself last year at New York at the moment of the ar rival of a man who had had the glory of van quishing the first rover of England.
 ''He was named Allan, and was born at To- ronto on the Lake Ontario.
 ''When we knew that he was approaching we sent out to receive him two ships loaded with three hundred delegates who made him their compliments three miles out at sea. They had been preceded by the New York He2azd, which, thanks to it's steamship, gave the news three days in advance of it's con- freres.
 ''Allan descended at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He had not yet plunged into his bath when the serenades begun followed sPeoul1y ny tue procession or reporters. lie saw them from all possible streets coming to converse with the glorious Canadian, to measure his arms and especially his legs-walking on foot is one of the best methods of training for the exercise of row. ing. They weighed him, and as some placed him on the scales before breakfast, while others submitted him to the same operation after that meal, there were notable differen- ces ln the various accounts, of which the shortest was three columns long. One hun dred thousand copies of his photograph were distributed through the different States of the Union. Finally, when he went to that same garden where poor Offenbach gave his concerts, to attend the reception given him by his aquatic friends, half of the popu- lation of New York accompanied him through the streets, pushing frenzied cheers. "-Neao Fork World.