Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-09
,f Bridgeport, and Madam Pupin have kind

of Bridgeport, and Madam Pupin have kind ly consented to be present. A supper and 'isoiree dansante" will complete the pro- gramme, large number of invitations have been sent out.
 For long time past one of our citizens has been trying to cultivate and raise bull frogs. Saturday night one of the gentle mans friends told our 'frog raiser" that he had sent him by express that day from New York monstrous bullfrog which weighed four pounds. This opened the eyes of our 'sbullfrog raiser" and who doubted the story. He was invited to come over to the house in the morning and let his optics rest on this monstrosity. The sequel is that he beheld the next morning four pound iron bulIfrog paper weight with "ApEil Foor pinned on it. The fun over the event did not cease for 8 day or two.
 April z. MosoUTro." The .sVeneered BIacIgua rdism" ofIdis
 British Youth.
 From the London worldl
 Hundreds and thousands of young men in this country spend their whole existence in d battle with time. They have absolutely noth- ing whatever to do except to kill it. Beyond the race-course the covert and the hunting field they have no appreciable interest. The low blackguardism which was universal among the golden youth of five and-twenty years ago may be yeneered by social atfec- Cat1OAS, put IQ6 Iu0 uOT0 Hto GAo tastes of the race are unchanged. Our lnsu- lar brutality has been crossed by strain of exotic dandyism, and the attractions of two or three playhouses have eclipsed the charms of the rattlipg and the cider cellars. While, as is only fair to say, the courage of our young men remains what it has been at all stages of our history, they are as desperately unintelligent as ever. Art, literature and politics are as much sealed books as ever to the ''chappies" and ''mashers' of the period. The dullness of metropolitan dissipation is periodically relieved by rural reereations, in which flavor is given by their latent or avoWed ferocity. Our young barbarians- must, when they are in the country, have their appetites whetted by blood. To kill something during the day, to crown the sx- ploits of the day with dinner substantial Il enough for Squire Western, to lounge after wards on chairs and sofas in state soporine stupor-so runs the interesting programme The more closely the culture and civlliza tion of the age are examined the more apparent will be the basis of cruelty upon which tho 1 whole social structure rests. The condition \ of English schools, public and private, hal improved enormously in the course of thu ' last fifty years; but there are no signs what ever that the mutual intercourse of Englisl
 schoolboys is becoming purged of it's inYeter I ate taint of savagery. Our son are still brought up to believ that there can be nothing free or manly in
 system which does not accord the privileg \ to infIict a maximum of mutual discomfor
 and misery. We are told that this constitute
 an essential part of genuine English train ' ing, and perhaps that may be the case A
 any rate it is not to be wondered at if tn
 boys who start life with these ideas develop
 ed into the men to whom there can be n \ perfect enjoyment without the consciousnes
 of killing something" and if, after time
 the mere enjoyment of killing is subordinat
 ed to the legitimate pleasure of the sport.