The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-16
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Gone. and in its place stood huge fabric, labelled ssGrand Union Raj Road Hotel.n But here also it wa.
 steam, steam, nothing but steam! The rooms were heated by steam, the beds
 were made and aired by steam, and in stead ot pretty, redhpped, rosy check
 ed chambermaid, there was an accurs-
 ed machine man smoothing down the
 pillow and bolster with mathematical
 precision; the victuals were cooked by
 steam, yea, even meat roasted by steam!
 Instead of the clean swept hearth
 < With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fem
 nel gay,''
 . There was patent steam stove, and
 the place was altogether hotter than d. ny decent man would ever expect to have any thing to do with. Books and papers lay scattered on table. l took up one of the former; it was flied with strange new phrases, all more or less relating to steam, of which knew noth- l Ing, but as far as ! could make out the English ofthe several items, they raf somewhat thus:
 s' a,lotser stocking catastsophe.-As the warranted safe locomotive smoke consuming, fuel providing steam carri- age Lightning, was this morning pro- eeeding at it's usual three-quarter speed of one hundred and twenty seven miles an hour, at the junction of the flaming ton and slipsby rail road, it unfortu- nately came in contact with the steam carriage Snail, going aboutone hundred and five miles per hour. Of course both ivehicies with their passengers were in- simultaneously reduced to animpalpable powder. The friends of the deceased have the consolation of knowing that no blame can possibly attach to the intel- ligent proprietors of the Eigl1tning, it having been clearly aseertained that those of the Snail started their carriage full two seconds before the time agreed on, in order to obviate in some degree. the delay to which passengers were fun- avoidably subjected by the clumsy con- struction and tedious pace of their yehi- ele.
 MnLANeoLv ACCIDENT. As q beau tiful and accomplished young lady of the name of Jimps, a passenger in the swift-as-thought locomotive, was en- deayoring to catch a flying glimpse of the New Steam University, her breath ingapparatus unfortunatelyslipped from her mouth, and she was corpse in three quarters of a second. A young gentle man who had been tenderly attached to her for several days, in the agony of his feelings withdrew his air tube and call ed for help; he of course shared simi- lar fate. Too much praise cannot be given to the rest of the passengers, who 1with admirable presence of mind, pru- dently held their breathing bladders to their mouths, during the whole of this trying scene, &c. &c.
 A Liverpool paperst stated, that The stock for the grand Liverpool and Dub- lin tunnel under the Irish channel, is nearly filled up." And a Glasgow one advocated the necessity of a floating
 wooden railroad between Scotland and the isleof Man, in order to do away the tiresome steam-boatna tnavigation. I took up volume of poems, but the similes and metaphors were allsteam; all their ideas of strength, power, and swiftness,
 referred to steam only, and a sluggish
 man was compared to q grey hound. I looked into q modern dictionary for some lightuponthese subjects, but could 1 get none, except hundreds of curious definitions, such as these.
 Horse, s. an animal of which but lit- tie is now known. Old writers affirm
 there were at one time, several thou
 sands in this country.n
 '' Tree, $. vegetable production; once l plentiful il; il; these Pssats, and still to be
 found in remote districts
 1 sIraaquillity, s. obsolete; an unnatu-
 ral state of existence, to which the an-
 cients were very partial. The word is
 still to be met with in several old au- thors," &c. &c.
 In despair I threw down the book,
 and rushed out of the house. It was midday. buta large theatre was open. and the people were pouring in. en- tered with the rest, and found that what ever changes had taken place, money vas still money. They were playing Hamlet by steam,' and this was better l than any other purpose to which had seen 1t applied. The automatons really } got along wonderfully well, theirs speak T ing faculties being arranged on the bar