How Admiral Farragut Was Lashed To The Mast-head

lady, "do teil if il was tl ue, as they said, that you wero lashed to the mast down it Mobile B;iy ?" "Wel!," said the Admiral - whom we have alrejidy said is as artltss as a chüd - " I'll teil you all about it. You. know in a figbt the smoke of the guns lies on the water, and, naturally, I would want to see over it to know what was going on. Wull, I would j.ump up on a box bo higb (indiuatiug with his hand) ; then I would get up a liltle higher, and by and by I got up to where they said. I suppone I was two hours in getting as high as that. I had a liltle ropé that I had lashed around me, jimt to keep frorn falÜDg in case I buuld get hurt. Every ono, you know, s liable to get hurt it) a figlit. " EP The population oí the European nations ia about 327,000,000 souls. - Their standing artuies absorb 4,70'J,000 of the populution, the expenses of which s uearly L100,000,000. L"S" -A. certain Mrs. Petroleum flew r a violent raga because wheo she orderod a " library" oía bookseller he sent her books of different eizes and colors. Bbe wanted them all ahkö to match her furoiture. AÍr ."