Litchfield enquirer., 1842-04-28
OLLAPODIANA.

OLLAPODlANA.
The following piece of right excellent
foolery,' is from the pen of the facetous
Ollapodiana, Of laughter moving memory.
Who but he would have thought of dis
QUESTION upon steam mnsc from locomo-
tives?'
i have turned this subject of steam mu-
sic extensively over in my mind, of late i;
aud | married myself to the idea, after "a
very short courtship that it is "a kind Of
thing that must 60 on. At the first blush,
indeed it might appear chimerical; but
ask the sceptic why the steam whistle Of
locomotive should not discourse in tones
more soft and winning? Why cannot a
locomotive ask COW to leave the railroad
track in potter manner than in that dis
cordant shrek, which excites the animals
indignation, and awakens her every senti
ment quadrupedal independence? pro-
test against such conduct. We presume To-
conceive to buzz and vapor, and deport it,
self pragmaticaIly but its conversation by
the way ought to be chastened into some-
thing like propriety; and please Apollo, |
think it will. | once saw All animal of
this stamp killed Instantly by the crushing
transit of a train, aud | thought saw in
the singular turn of her upper lip, as her
torn out heart lay yet palpitating on the
rails, peculiar curl of disdain, in her dy-
ing moments, at the treatment she had won.
put this down, because 1 hope it will be
remembered as a warning to whis.lers in
especial, and the great generation of calves
unborn.
have lately had reverie, superinduc.
ed by looking at some observations that
had been made upon the charming theory
Of my friend. I thought Of the time when
such thing as steam-music should at least
equal the common museum music, if not
surpass it, and distance conclusively the
airs wherewith godly puritans were wont TO
chant the immortal metre of Sternhold and
Hopkins. lmag ination took wide range
and presently was in dream.
'And methought in my dream, that ]
was in the second story parlor Of the AT
antic and Pacific Hotel and United States
Halfway House, on the very top of the
Rocky Mountains. The hotel was built
of marble, with splendid Corinthian pill
lars, grazing portico nearly three hun
dred feet long. Methought had just al
rived there by railroad, in four hours and
half from Philadelphia, which remember
ed, as / LETT, was OIL each side of the
Schuylkil, that being central as the Thames
in London. We did not stop at Pitsburg,
or any of those immense metropolis, but
whiZzed at the rale | have mentioned
My destination was to the city Of Mem
phis GU the shore Of the Pacific, where I
expected to arrive at 2 o'clock the next
day.
A considerable village stretched along
The mountain, although the place was not
in exs,ence three weeks before. After a
sumptuous repasr, and beautiful view Of
the country, east and west, took up the
village newspaper. 1t was entitled the
s New Babylon Observer, and Register of
the World The copy held in my hand
bore the date Of May the seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and forty. 1t was sent
round the place by raiI-car, and was
thrown into the dwellings by Machinery,
conducted by steam. The first paragraph
that struck my eye was this, amply emilia
zoned, suddenly 10 catch the general eye:
Reported for the New Babylon Observer
Terrific Circumstance 1t becomes
our painful but imperative and extraordi-
nary duty to prOmuIgate the facts Of dis
aster which reached US to-day. by the mail
from Thebes ViG the perpendicular rail-
road. AS party were ascending with the
locomotive playing lively tune. assisted
on the piano-forte by another locomotive,
that had been hired by Gotin, prepare
tory to his first concert in New Babylon,
some religious persons of the U. States
Established Mormon Church, insisted tina,
the tune, being irreverent, should be chang.
ed. This offensive tune was no less than
the well-known popular song, (suppnsed
to have been written in England previous
to the subjugation Of the place BY the Rus.
SLAMS, entitled, Proceed it, We Crippled
Ones, Babylon's nigh This compliment
AIRY course on the part of the locomotive
and the gentlemanly engineer, its associate,
was Kissed by the Mormons, until they
were overcome by the encOres of the ma
jOrity. The locomotive was Of course en-
barrassed, but we understand, continued to
play. One Of the Mormons, enraged be-
You'd measure at this circumstance, rushed
forward through the door ways ofthe train
and wantonly turned the stop cock of
What's Become of Good Old Danielr
one Of the slowest tunes Of the day. The
consequence was that the train proceeded
with the greatest discord, because the lat
ter tune was for the back-track in descend