A Dog-fight After Victor Hugo

CHAPTEK I. What is a bull-dog? It is a monster that transforms itself into a machine. It is a battering ram. It is the entrance of matter into libercy. It is a naad m;iss with the bounds of a tiger, the stealthiness of a mouse, the obstinacy of an ox, the unexpectedness of the surge, tho rapidity of ligtoing, the deafness of the tomb. It weighs forty or fifty pounds, yet rebounds like a child's ball. lts attaek is a wild whirl abruptly cut at right angles. The tempest ceases, the cyclcte, passes, the wind falls, tlie broken mast is repl iced, the leak is stopped, the Ure dies out, but the buil dog pever Iets go. Ha has more tenacity than a Stockton bill eoïlector. He is Old Tenacity itself CIIAPTEK II. You can make i mastiff hear reason, astound the buil, fascínate the boa, frighten the tiger, soften the lion, but there is no way to Christianize a bulldog. You cannot kill hinr. He is dead, and at the same time he lives. He lives with a sinister Mie bestowed upon him by lnlinity. C1ÏAPTEK III. The dogs were let loóse. Loóse? They were letfast. There were a cloud of sawdust, a muffled roar, and Grip had Tug by the throat. Ttt'o dozen shouted "Bravo!" One of the canaille recklessly threw bis -bat iutó the air aji'd exclaimed, '¦Long liva the Ilepublic." He wasseized upon and thrown down stairs. The untortunate man had committed two offences. He had broken the peace of a dog fight and had insulted the Democrats. But still the dog held on. Grip tug eed at Tug and Tug gripped at Grip. The red blood dainpened the sawdust and smoked aggre"sivbly, CHAPTEK IV. "Do you bel ie ve in the devil, Chevalier?" asked Mike McCarthy of Mike Mulroonev. "Yes, No. Sometióles." "In a tempest?" "No." "In a dog-íightP" "Yes; in moments like this," "Then only ihe devil can save Tug!" Tug writhyl fii .ie cast irongrip like a soul in dospair. A soul! Strange thing You would nut have thought ihat a bulldog had one - a soul full of hatred, and that there wascunning iu that smoking, bristling, steaming mass of dog flesh. Neither would let go, Suddenly a noise was heard at 'the door. Two commissiouers of pólice entered with drawn clubs and cloves on their breath. The eiowd fled terror stricken before the majesty of the law. CHAPT3R V. A pobble may stop a log; a tree branch may turn the avalanche, and the pólice can stop a dog-tight. The pigmy bad taken the Thunderbolt, prisoner. MuCarthy approached tho ürstofficer. "Sir. yousaved my dog's life," Tho old man had resumed his impassable attitudo and did not reply, To Marry luto a Fainous Family. The princess Victoria, seconddaughter of the Germán crown prince and grand daughter of Queen Victoria, is about to marry into a famous house Prince Leopold of Anhalt, the bridegroom elect, descends frotn Albert, the Bear, and less reciotely f rom that "old Dessauer" with vvhom readers of Car lyle's Frederick are so well acquainted, Leopold, prince of Anhalt Dessau, and Held marshal in the armies of Frederick William and Frederick IL, was nocouiuion man. He invented the iron ramrod; he inventod the equal step; in fact, he is the inventor of modern military tacúes. Tho soldiery of every civilized countrv still receives from tbis man, on parade" tields and battle field?, its word of eoruma-id; out of his rough head proceedcd the essential of al) that the inDiimerable drill sergeants, in various languages, daily re.peat and enforce. The old Dessauer further distinguished himself by marrying an apothecary's daughter first with the left hand, and aftenvard (when, as tbe reward of brilliant military achievements, he ha succeeded in f etting her ennobled) in completer f ashion. From this union is derived tho reigning lino of Anhalt.