I met a man in Oregon who hadn’t any teeth—not a tooth in his head——~yet that man could play on the bass drum better than any man I ever met~.——He kept a hotel. They have queer hotels in Oregon. I remember one where they gave me a bag of oats for a pillow——~I had night-mares of course~. In the morning the landlord said—How do you feel—old hoss—hay?—I told him I felt my oats. CHAUTAUQUA PERIODICALS FOR 1883-1884. Special Announcement—Let Everybody Read It! The Chautauqua Assembly Daily Herald Is published every morning (Sundays excepted) during the three weeks’ Assembly at Chautauqua. It is an eight-page, forty-eight column paper, nineteen numbers in the volume. Printed in the grove at Chautauqua on a steam power press. The eighth volume will be issued in August next. It is needed by every preacher, Sunday-school superintendent and teacher. We have rare opportunities to furnish our readers with the ripest and best thoughts of many of the foremost thinkers of the country, who will deliver lectures, sermons, and addresses on the Chautauqua platform. We employ EIGHT STENOGRAPHERS, who are first-class reporters, and whose reports of scientific and other lectures for our columns have received the highest praise during the past seven years. We shall publish reports of Normal Work, the Kindergarten Children’s Meetings, Primary Class Drills, College of Music, Concerts, Denominational Conferences, C. L. S. C. Camp-fires, Class Vigils, a full account of Graduating Day, lectures on Models of Palestine, Tabernacle, Model of Jerusalem, Descriptions of Days and Prominent Men and Women, Personal and Local News. The DAILY HERALD will mirror the proceedings at Chautauqua in 1883. Addresses on Sunday-school Work, to be delivered by the following persons, will appear in the ASSEMBLY DAILY HERALD: Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., Rev. B. T. Vincent, Rev. J. L. Hurlbut, Miss Fanny A. Dyer, Mrs. O. A. Baldwin, Rev. A. E. Dunning, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, and others. Lectures on the Sciences, Philosophy, Theology, Travel, Literature, History, Biography, Music, Church Work, Political Economy, etc., etc., will be delivered at Chautauqua next August by the following persons, and published in the ASSEMBLY DAILY HERALD: Dr. Joseph Cook, Dr. D. A. Goodsell, Prof. W. R. Harper, Dr. A. Sutherland, Prof. W. C. Richards, Wallace Bruce, Frank D. Carley, Esq., Rev. Frank Russell, Rev. J. A. Kummer, Rev. Dr. J. A. Worden, Dr. J. B. Angell, LL.D., Dr. P. S. Henson, Rev. J. O. Foster, Dr. W. F. Mallalieu, Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D.D., Rev. H. C. Farrar, Dr. A. G. Hapgood, Rev. Dr. R. B. Hull, Lyman Abbott, D.D., Bishop H. W. Warren, Rev. A. H. Gillet, Dr. J. S. Jewell, Dr. Julius H. Seelye, Rev. S. McGerold, Dr. J. B. Thomas, Dr. Alfred Wheeler, Dr. D. H. Wheeler, Rev. B. M. Adams, Rev. Dr. C. H. Paine, Rev. R. S. Cummock, Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, Dr. Little, Hon. Will Cumback, Frank Beard.