American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-03-03
CITY OF LANCASTER.
Fbnrsdny- MorninE ,'Mar.ad, 1889
Greenhorn on the Locomotive.
.TloRs .AND PROPRIET0Rs.

Mr.. Saodgrass, Juhior,ha been "scoot-
ing around" at the West, and as some Of
his experioncss are rather amusing we
copy an extract. as follows:
When we got to the depo, | went around
to get look at the iron horse. Thunder
ation!ait wasn't no more like hoss than
msetil-house. II was goin to deucribe
tho animuls I'd say it looked like--well, i'll
looked like--dArned if | know whatit look
ed liks, unless it was regular he'devll,
snoring fire and birthstone out Of his nos
trils, aud putting out black smoke all a
round, and pantin, and heavin, and sWsllin
and chawin up red hot Goals like they was
good A fellow stood in little house
like, feedin him all the time; but the more
he got the more he wanted, and the more
he ,blowed and snorted. Aflera spell a
felltr catched him by the tail, and great
Jericho he set up a yell that split the
ground for more ma mile and halt, and
the next mint felt my legs q wsggin, and
found myself at t'otber end o'yehickles.-
I,yasp,t sbeered. but ! had three chills
and a stroke Of palsy in less than. FIVE min
iis,s and my face had curious brownish-
teller- green ,blneish color in il, which
was perfectly unaccountable. "Well,"
SAYS I, s,comment is superhlous." And
took seat in the nearest wagin, or car,
ss they callit--a conoarned long steamboat
lookin thing with a row Of pews down on
zach side, big enough to bold about man
Al a half, Just as / sat down the boss hol-
Tered twice, and started of, like streak
pitchen me head first into the stomach OF a
big Irish woman, and she gave tremen-
ious grunt and then kotohed me by the
head and crammed me under the seat; and
when got out and staggered to another
seat, the cars WAS jumpin and tearin a.
long at nigh onto forty thousand miles an
hour, and every body wasa bobbin up and
down Iike a millsssw, and every wretch Of
EN- bad his mouth wide open and looked
like they was laffin,, but | couldn't hear
'ilotbin, The oars kept such rackit. Bime-
bythey stopped all at once; and then such
another lafs busted out O. the passengers
as 4 never hearu before. Lsfin at me, too
that's W hat made mad and / was mad as
thunder. too. l fis up, and shakin my
fist at 'em, says, /, "Ladies and gentlemen
looka here! Pm peaceable strauger---
and away went tha dern train like small
ipox was in town, jerking me down In my
seat with whack like I'd been thrown
from the moon, and their cussed mouths
hopped epan, and .tbe fellers, went to bob
BID up and down again. Il puton an air
r9f (magp animous contemptlike, and took
no more notice Of 'em, and very naturally
went to bobbin up and down myself.
snHEAF FROM THE STARs ,=-Dr. Lardner
says: ea,Ilisosa startling fact, that if the
earth were dependent alone on the sun for
heat, IL! would not get enough to make ex
istence OF animal and vegetable life upon
itsisnrffce. III results from the researches
of Pouillet. that tho stars make heat enough
'fnnthe course of a year to melt a crust o.
ice 75 Feet thick, almost as much as is sup
pied by the sun. 'dThis may appear
ys,reags when we consider how immeasu
iGbls small e must be- the amount o
heat, received from any one Of these dis
taut bodies. But the, surprise vanishe
Whom we remember that the whole frma
inent is so thickly sown With stars, that il
4 some places thousands are crowded togeth
etm slspace no greater than that occupied
u " ahs lplk Roon,R z enr.s asn
aliI E1r Men who have halfa dozen.iron
% the Gre, are not The ones to grow crazy
kds1hS SMa6o 6fShol6ntarEor compelled
leisure who, mopes aud pines, and think
himself id the mad house Of grave, Mo
tianhis all Natures law. Action, is q man
rs&sltation, physical and mentah. .Ando ye
hiiine out often are @wistfally iookipg fol
eaward to'ths coveted. hour whehdheyi sha'
ctAavs leisure TODD nothing OF something
sssfithse SSfeltliks it27qstbe very Syreu, tbs
has Iured to death many a, s',succcessfll
3 Sshen. He ouIy'is truly wise who 9 lay
'a'Kimself out to work till lies latest hour
and that the man who lives the longes
.,sard will live t22 most purpose. I'D
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