The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-19


Gust at this moment Wood was
thrown out at first base.)
s'Did Wood make base hit?"
"No, he is out"
"Why how did that happen2"
"Barnes fslded the ball to Morrill,
before Wood reached the base "
"Does that put a man out?"
eyes"
How fuunyl I'll remember that.
, If the man get to the base before the
ball does, be is out"
"No, mol It's the otter way"
There. Hanlon is out"
"No he isn't. He got there ahead
of the ball"
sis that an error?"
"No, it is base hit"
"Ohl I'm SO glad. How much
does base hit COUNT"
off he gets home it will be run"
HWho is that catcher"
Charley Snyder"
"What makes everybody joke about
Charley Snyder
81 don't know"
ooh, dearl | wish you'd go and
find out / want to know awfully
bad"
Because said the reporter, turn
ing round in his seat, "a Chicago re :.
porter wrote up the chatter Of a
couple Of silly Chicago girls who were
annoying everybody on the grand
stand with their silly 'gush' about
Charley Snyder" And she never
tumbled.
WAS it awfully funnyY"
every funny to read, but dreadful
to listen to-"
odd you hear it."
"No. 1t isn't necessary to go to
Chicago to hear the chatter of silly
girls, There are plenty of them ia De-
troit." sa
..rr.
"That's funnyl Who are they2"
excuse me, I don't propose to be
personal in my remarks"
"That's the way with you reporters.
You never tell anything that anybody
wants to knows real bad. I wish /
was a reporter. Then | could go to
all the theatres and balls and suppers
and excursions and circuses and pic
MICS and never pay cent, and nothing
to do but to write little. It must
be delightfully."- glorious"
1t was no use The reporter had
tnoughtlessly turned the torrent upon
himself and its food was resistless.
He leaped,- Detroit Free Press.
Nor GENERALLY KNowN.-Keys
we're originally made of wood, and
the earliest form was a simple crook
similar to the common picklock. The
ancient keys are mostly Of bronze,
aud of remarkable shape, the shaft
terminating on one side by the wards,
on the other by ring Keys of this
description were presented by hus-
bands to wives, and were returned
again upon divorce or separation.
Hats we're FIRST made by Swiss at
Paris, A D. 1404. They are mention
ed 10 history at the period when Chas.
VII made his triumphal entry into
RoueD, in 1449. He wore hat
lined with red velvet, and surmounted
with rich plume of feathers. It is
from this feign that hats aud caps are
dated, which henceforth began to
take place of the chaperoons and
hoods that had been worn before in
France. Previous to the year 1910
the men and women of England wore
close knit wooden caps.
The custom of browning the poets
originated among the Greeks and was
adopted BY the Romans during the
empire. 1t was revived in the twelfth
century by the emperor of Germany,
who invented the title of poet-laureate
The French had royal poets, but no
laureates. The title existed in Spain,
but little is known of those who bore it.
The tradition concerning the laureate
10 England is that of Edward III, in
1867, emulatipg the browning of Pc
trarcb, at Rome, in 1341, granted the
Office to Chaucer with yearly pension
In 1880 the laureate was made q
patent Office. From that time there