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Show BASEBALL IN BRAZIL. Eloyd Qriscom, tho new ambnssn-lor ambnssn-lor to ItnP, described at a dinner in Washington n diplomatic gnmo of bnbcball in Brazil. "An Englishman," he said, in tho course of this description, ''caught for his side, though tho poor fellow was strange to the catcher's box. "Tho Englishman grew confused in the second inning, missed a ball, and it struck him on the nose, keeling keel-ing him ov'er. " 'What vvns it ?' he said feebly, as he came to. ''A foiil--only a fou'. said tho umpire. ' "'Jfnn nlhe, said tho English-man, English-man, 'I thought it wn3 n mule.'" |