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Show A LESSON IN SPELLING. It Will Also Serve to Test Vour I'ronun-clatlon. I'ronun-clatlon. The most skillful ganger I ever knew was a maligned cobbler armed with a poniard, who drove a peddler's wagon, using a mullein stalk as an instrument of coercion, to tyrannizo overhis pony, shod with calks. He was a German Sadducee. and had a phthisicky catarrh, diphtheria, and the bilious, 'intermittent erysipelas. A certain sibyl, with tho sobriquet of "Gypsy," went into ec.-taeies of cachinnation at seeing him measure a bushel of pons, and separate saccharine tomatoes from a heap of potatoes; without dyeing or singeing the ignitiblo queue which ho wore, or becoming paralyzed with a hemorrhage. Lifting her eyes to the ceiling of the cupola of the capitol to conceal her unparalleled embarrassment, embarrass-ment, making a rough courtesy, and not harassing him with mystifying, rarefying and stupefying innuendoes, she gave hiin a couch, a bouquet of lilies, mignonette, and fuchsias, a treatise on mnemonics, a copy of the Apocrypha in hieroglyphics, daguer-reotypesof daguer-reotypesof Mendelssohn and Kosciusko, a kaleidoscope, a dram phial of ipecacuanha, ipecac-uanha, a teaspoonful naphtha for doleble purposes, a ferule, a clarionet, some licorice, a surcingle, a car-nolian car-nolian of symmetrical proportions, a chronometer with movable balance wheel, a box of dominoes and a catechism. cate-chism. The gauger, who was also a trafficking rectifier and a parishioner of mine, preferred a woolen surtout (his choice was referable to a vacillating, vacillat-ing, occasionally-occurring idiosyncrasy), idiosyn-crasy), aud wofully uttered this apothegm: "Life is checkered: but schism, apostacy, heresy, and villany, however esoteric and malign, shall be punished." The sibyl apologizingly a.iswerod; "There is no allegeable difference dif-ference between a conferrable ellipsis and trisyllable diaeresis." Pastimes. |