Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-04-07


Winkle'- fact, he sleeps everywhere
except at tatle-open his sleepy eyes to
the prospect of something coed to eat,
and his wakefulness will be insured until
the uttermost morselis entombed in those
regions Of unknown capacity to which
he diurnally sends such astonishing
quantities of provisions. His internal
dimensions have long been favorite
theme Of speculation 10 bis friends but,
alas the problem must ever set at do
fiance all the ordinary rules of mensura-
ton. He has occasional fits of spasmodic
piety, and then tries to read his Bible,
and invariably goes to sleep and lets the
book fall into the ashes and verify be-
lieve that, though his eternal salvation
depended upon his readiug three chap
tiers of the Gospel without having fit
of somnamulism, he would go fast asleep
before he had accomplished three YER
ses I however, hoped that the usual
excitement of the occasion, and the sight
of refreshments mil ght keep him awake,
and 80 we started. Went to Smiths,
Thompsons, Tomkins, Greens, Browns,
Virgins, Robinsons, &c. in all these
places there was the same performance,
without change of programme. give
the formula---Enter-speak to the lady
of the house." happy New Year" COM
pliments---happy. returns take glass
of wine with the ladies', another of bran
DIV with the father, nibble a little cake,
exit, to be repeated "ad Ibitum." At
Jones' they had, on side-table, plate
under placard labeled "for the poer,"
and every visitor was expected 10 drop
in contribution. Some malicious per-
son has recollected that the Jonses did
the same thing last year, and his incon-
venient and libelous memory has also
recalled the circumstance, that soon af-
ter New Years the two daughters of
Jones had new silk kresses, and Mrs. J.
rejoiced in new cloak and hat of the
richest style, and he says that Bagley,
the broker, told him that, on the Sd of
January last, Jones got some stems"
and ''tventies' of him in exchange for
small money, and made him give him
! Two per cent, over because so much Of
/ If cas silver change, an in fact he in>
sinuates that ss the money was TO be for
the poor, Jones voted himself as poor as
anybody, and kept the proceeds; and
rumor whispers thai the Joneses won't
have half so many calls this year as last,
because their friends object to being
taxed TO pay their milliners' biils.
At Snooks' we found the door closed,
and basket hung outside, in which to
deposite cards thought of the founding
hospital, &C.
Odd circumstance, very, but in all the
parlors we visited that day noticed one
unvarying popularity of furniture there
was in no single parlor any two chairs of
the same pattern; but they were Of all
shapes, sizes, dimensions, capacities and
degrees of discomfort, from the damask>
covered 70 the unyarnished, which leok-
ed as if they had strayed in from the
kitchen, The effect of this arrangement
is to impress a stranger with the idea
that the owner OF the establishment has
been compelled to furnish his drawing
room from the chaotic assortment of
second hand furniture store.
And, notwithstanding the recent elec>
ton of a Maine-Law Governor, in near>
ly every house wines, brandy, punches,
''hot stuff, =" and various inebriating
drinks abounded, and every guest was
compelled, on pain of sighting the host,
to partske the inevitable result was,
that before night, many youth, whose
head not being able to endure a twenty
hours siege, gave in dead drunk while
others of harder heads and stronger
stomachs, rceled from parlor to Parlor,
proclaiming the obituary o. their res
pectability and decency, by exhibiting
the noisy clamor, or idiotic feelings of
beastly drunkenness to the refined and
polished ladies of 'our best society: in
) many eases rewarding the psudo hospi-
taIity of their fair entertainers by hber-
ely sprinkling the marble steps with an
unclean baptism from their aristocratic
stomachs
Kept Sardie awake until we entered
hack, and then let him relapse into a
, refreshing slumber, which contained un-
til we reached home entered the par
lor, and took seat IN the corner, from
which, unobscrvsd, I could get fair
view Of the performances.
!, In this city, every Young lady is skilled
in music, and an "elegant player" upon
that tortured instrument, the piano; each
can sing an assortment Of "glees" from
beautiful operas-transposing her voice
into a vocal cork-screw, and opening her
mouth so that, as general thing. you
can see those unmentionable articles
that are used, in freman's phraseology,
to eight up the hose J" and these songs,
these delectable morsels of harmony, va.
} ried by such extemporaneous 1iscords as
, the agitation or fogetfulnes Of the moment