Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-04-02
VARIETY.

hHGdfrnsmSons ON Erht GoccoaonH.A
Mr.. Spcdgpss, Junior, has been 5000.
tiny orpunT 1T the West, and rs POM of
his experiences are rather nmussing I've
copy an extract, which. is as follows;
.SWhsn we got % thc depo' Iweot around
,uzui, a look a, the iron hoss. Thundera-
tisn,it wash, no more like a hoss than d
iinfetin house, I'll was gbin TO describe
die animule, I'd say ii looked likc-wel
Il looked hke--darned If | know what d
looked like, unless il was'a regular he
devil ssncnorlpg ere and briinst me out Of
his ncsuils, aud pulling out black smoke
aIlhrcundI and hevin and swelhn, aud
rhawin MP red hotcoals like they was good
A,felIow stood in q little house hike, feed.
in him all The time; bat the more he goI
,be more he wanted, nnd the moro he
blatyea aud shorted. After aspell the
,fetler caiched him by the tail. and great
Ier;co!he set up yell that split the ground
for more a mile and a half, aud the noxl
mint I feb my legs wuggin, and found
mysol a, t'other end Of the string Of We
hiclexai 1 wasn't skeered, but ] had three
chills aud n stroke of palsy in less than
Ave mini,s, and my face had a Curious
.hrownish, yellcrrgr een-blueiSh color IN it,
(which was perfectly maeGounIabIe.--
siWclrSays |, %''eonnnent IS super-iiuous'
And f,tbois a seat IN the nearest wagin, or
car, MS uIey call il, a consarned long steam
bohtvtookin thing, with a string of pews
down each side, big enough to hold about
n man and a half. Just as ] sat downthe
,hoss hollered twice aud started of like a
streak, pi,chin me head first atthe stomach
OF big Iffsh wopnn, and she gave a
TREMENDOUS grunt and then ke,ch'd inc by
the hoad aud crammed me under the seat,
the cars WAS . jumpin and tearin along al
nigh onto forty thousand miles an hour,
and every body was a bobbin up nnd down
like n mill saw, aud every wretch of EN-
bad his mouth wide open and looked like
they was a latin, but ! couldn't hear Moth
an, the cars kept such rackit. Bimeby
they stopped oil at once, md such another
iaf busted out o. them passengers as j
reevet hearn before. Latin at me-, too,
that's what made mad, and | was mad as
Muide, TOO, ] ,ris up, and shakiif my
fs, at 'em, SAYS I "Ladies and gentlemen,
look a-here! LIN q peaceable stranger
aud away the dern train went like the
smallpox was In town, jerkin' me down
10 the seat with a whuck like ia been
thrown frsm the moon, and their cussed
mouths Topped open and the ~fellers went
40 bobbin' up and down again. put on
an air -of magnanimous contempt like,
and took no more notice of them, and
very naturally went 10 bobbin up and down
myself.cS 81 .s9tols 1hl rl .4r.d
10 RuLtSo, Passion PARRY SrRoSo.-
The Russian ambassador, Nj. de Koura-
kin, visiting the prison Of St. Lazare, in
Paris, had his snuff box in his hand al the
m,praent that he entered that portion of the
prison in which women were confined for
theft.@ One7of the women, seeing it, fell
iuru, fits" After she had been brought
round, she was questioned as to what had
such an effect upon her, at is SO fright
full" she said, r'to see n gold snuff-box,
and not to be able to take it," The Prince
dssnihng, at is impossible to alter the
vocation of some people; this n has the
further fuultof an exceeding sincerity"
3NN OF lNHt -LlLl- .t" t.||.
,OsIruARY OF THE "CorrER."-As the
old .tred cent" is about Il be called in
some Of our c~otempornries are writing il:
hi~story;and obituary.. The cent was pro
posed in 1882 by Robert Morris; the grea
iinanoier of the Revolution, and was nam
ed by jefferson. two years later. 1t begaI
10 make It's appearance from the Mint il
1892. 1t bore then the head of Wash
ineton on one side, and acclaim of Thirteen
links on the other. The French Reyolu
ton soon after created a rage for Frencl
ideas in America. which put on the cent
ins,ead Of the head of Washington the hea,
of the Goddess of Liberty-a French Lib
'erly, with, nee Thrust forward and flown,
locks. The chain on the reverse was re
paced by the Ollie wreath of peace. Blu
the French Liberty was shortlived, an,
so was her portrait on our cent. TIL,
present staid, classic dame, with a file
round her hair, came into fashion nbou
.thir y or forty years ago, and her inel
.chiseled Grecian fe lures have been bi
slightly altered by the lapse Of time.
pdl AxncDorE OF Rev. DR. BARNEs.-Be
ing some times (as even younger meI
nigh, be- inclined TO sleep a little durin;
the sermon, a friend who was with hin
in his pew n Sunday lately, havin,
licked hun on his having nodded now an,
then, Barnes insisted that he had beef
awake all the time. We'll them said hi
friend, can you tell me what the sermon
was about?oo Yes, can, he answered
cit wa about an hour and a half too long,
81 The whole of the stock Of the Arlanti