[MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.]
ARE you a base-ballist? If not, take my word and retire from the world.
You are a nullity, a nothing, a 0.
The cholera of 1866 is among us, but it has assumed the base-ball type. It is malignant, zymotic and infectious. Its results are not so fatal as last year, and manifest themselves in the shape of disjointed fingers, lame legs, discolored noses, and walking sticks.
The disease is prevalent among all classes. Editors, actors, aldermen, clerks, lumbermen, commission men, butchers, book-sellers, doctors and undertakers have it, and many of them have it bad.
Even the tailors tried to make up a club, but as they found it took eighty-one men to make up a nine they gave it up.
The only class not yet represented is the clerical.
More's the pity.