Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-07-12

patent ball, with handles similar to
those upon the opposite edges of a com
mon dish pan, by which device, it is
hoped, the Mandan players will be able
to bold the sphere, after they get their
hands upon it. When the Bismarckers
have the field, there will be put in play
an ordinary foot ball cover, stuffed with
cotton batting, which the Mandan play
ers hope to be able to hit by means of
their copyrighted bat, which resembles
an exaggerated frying pan, one end 0
which is nearly three feet in diameter.
Each of the fielders has been supplied
with an ordinary seamless sack, the TOP
of which is kept open by means of a
wire ring, and which will be attached to
the end of a ten.foot pole for scooping
up flies. A fine wire netting will be Ok.
tended elong the ground, from second to
third base, for the stopping of ground
ers, and the base lines, during the time
that the Bismarck team is running bases.
will be spread literally with broken
glass, carpet tacks and horse shoe nails,
with four-wire fences, three %seven-foot
hurdles and one hundred and seventy
five barrel hoops, for the base runners
to crawl over and through before the
next base can be earned. When the
Bismarck players start home from third,
Mandan will have a tenth player pro.
vided to mount a swift horse with the
home plate and ride rapidly away with
it,, the Bismarck player to catch the
fleeing base before he is touched with
the ball, or be counted out. With the
apparatus above described, and a few
rules, similar to the last one, which are
now in course of preparation by the
editor Of the Pioneer, the Mandan team
hopes to double the number of runs
which 1t secured in the Fourth of July
game.
MY DEAR GROVER: It is with consid-
cradle regret that we learn, through the
medium of the daily press, that it's a
girl. 1t was somewhat of a surprise,
too, for the excellence of crop conditions
out here, and the favorable growing
weather, led III all to believe that it
would be otherwise. It is the general
impression that you would have been
better pleased had it been a boy, but,
nevertheless, it is a matter of satisfaction
to us that you take it as we'll as you do.
You understand, Grove, that the stu
alton is one which must be met philo-
sophically and manfully. You must
meet it with that same calm fortitude
and resignation which has always char
acterized you in national crises. It is
something which is apt to occur in the
life OF the just as, we'll as the unjust,
aud you must accept it accordingly.
Having had experience upon two diff
terent occasions in the care and develop
ment OF the female infant, Grove, it is
hardly necessary at this time for you to
make a study Of the science. It is. in
deed, a subject which can be learned
only by actual experience, and not by
porting over musty tones or dense scien.
tlflc treatises. If it cries in the night.
your own p%erceptive faculties will Tell
you that it must be taken up in vour
muscular arms, and carried ID and down
the room until your wearied feet have
shutHed off all the bloom from the red
roses in the Brussels carpet. If if ia
col'cky, it must be fed from the Same
bottle which you bought for Baby Ruth.
ana II IL screams whileIyou are preparing
your next message to congress-, YOU must
calm 1t with paregoric or some reliable
soothing syrup, and then hang it safely
away somewhere until it RECEIVERS con.
seriousness: When it begins to teeth.
you should leave it at Gray Gables and
hurry on TO Washington, %devoting your
entlre Time and attention to public affairs
until the teething period is safely passed.
anu you can arrange a temporary treaty
of peace. ~
Notwithstanding the marked advance-
men which has occurred in all paths
OIL INDUSTRY IN the past few years, Grover
notwithstanding the elaborate scien-
tlAc researches which Secretary Morton
nas prepared upon various agricultural
1oplcs-notWlthstanding the better un-
~derstanding which has come r.
our farmers of the cultivation of the Dal.
o-NFO3 SAN UhO Hdl1y IOOE0 DOUAE0.H
the more careful and successful raising
OF the Cochin China hen and the Shrop.
ehlre sheep-you will find, as. the days
go by, that the method Of raising the
female infant remains much the same az
it was in the years gone by. There is
the same nursing bottle with the perfor-
ated rubber top, the same style Of pare.
gorlc which was in vogue twenty-five
years ago., the same rubber rattle with
which the founders of the constitution
were amused when they were peevish,
or suffered with a slight attack Of collie.
ana the same lusty howl which was en-.
Ployed by the infants Of q century AGO.
Q will find also, that there are the
same number of tacks in the carpet,
when you promenade in the dense dark.
ness OF the night, when the furniture
rises up to bark your shins, and when
the animated music-box which you bear
about in your tired arms refuses abso-
lutely to run down.
am gratified much to read OF your
good spirits, upon the occasion which is