The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-07-24
Conversation in the Dark.

II We take it first and last through life, it s
really amazing what raft Of people we've
heard and never seen. Especially in hotels.
It has been Mace Slopes luck to be very
frequently quartered in rooms with nothing
ut a door betwixt his room and his neigh
er's; and whenever this happened he has
cen pretty generally about certain to hear
willing or unwilling, considerable that wasn't
spoken to him. Particularly when girls were
in the next rooml Not giving myself any
credit for special cuteness, l can't brag Of
ever having got up any wise theory on the
subject. but it does seem to me that the queer
est, widest and most amazing speeches
ever heard in all my life from mortal lips, al
ways came from persons l couldn't see. =
Noreover-and every body II agree with me if
he'll rake out his own experience little-l
maintain that no two people can talk in the
dark to one another as they do in the light
Report such talk. read it to them, and they II
soon believe they've been talking 1njun.
That's so
Which reminds Mace Slope Of talk he
once heard in New Jersey hotel. l had
quietly smoked myself inty a regular nap such
as the good alone enjoy, when l was a.
woke by hearing somebody enter the next
room Apparently he woke somebody else
up. too. who was sleeping there in advance
Of him.
"Hullv thar" saws the man bed
Hui 10 and behold!' answered the one
entering.
''Wait for your welcome afcre you come
in said No. L.
.'ln comes are always welcome" answer
ed No g
..The mixologist of tipulars directed me to
apartment &c, which, being exceedingly
weary, did uncsudelzed Yet, if you de-
sire luminosity"
"Stranger'' cried No 1, "hod thar don t
light match. for the love of God! l know
sdzactly what You look like without going
furder. You're FIVE feet eleven inches high.
got grey eyes, an coon -colored vest, short
cropped hair aud loose overcoat. nose like a
razor handle, and scar over your left eye
That's the stripe!''
''How do you cognovit?' was the amazed
reply.
"Cog-hunder" was the response How
do know how you looks Why, who the
h-ll ever heard of a mans coming to bed in
the dark and calling the bsrkeeper mxologist
hpicular fixins, unless he had grey eyes. ra-
Tor handled nose. short har', an 4 coon col
ored vest? Don't light a match stranger. on
nv account. Drummon's light would be
oaTkueSS on your iacs aiter Sueh 3 OaZe O
language as that 'llluminosity, and '.eog,
novit' That shows you've got carpet
bag in your hand aud = whisky bottle in it
Siom
There was sound like pop of a cork AND
aclesr case of drinking TO better scquaintanc,
going on a. | fell asleep. We hear quee
things in the dark That Western man rsthe
knocks me whenever think of him.-Kaick K
erbocker
Buchanan on the Cincinnati Platform
Resolved. that we regard this rs distinc
tive festure of our political creed, which w
are proud to maintain before the world. as tn
great moral element in form of gevernmen
springing from and upheld by the popula
will; and we contrast it with the creed An,
practice of federalism. under whatever nam
or form, which seeks TO palsy the will of tn
constituent, and which conceives no impos
ture too monstrous for the popular credulity
cincinnati Platform.
There was powerful FACTION in tn
U. $. opposed to the adoption of the FEEDERS
Constitution. The individuals OF which
was composed were called anti federalists
aud were the founders of the Democratic par
'y. They gloried in setting themselves i
array against our present admirable form G
government. The authors of this oppositio
were chiefly DEMAGOGUES- Grafton O
I9mes Buchanan, delirered Julu 4th, 1919