Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-01-29

For The Mnnesotian.
Boomerangs...A Remembrance.
4 If my memory serves me Alright, it was
during the winter of 1878 that the grand
project of the manufacture of boomerangs
was first seriously entertained by the Direc-
tors of the Grand Consolidated Lapland and
Tmbuctoo Railway Company.
The financial resources of this magnificent
institution, never large, were then in state
of piiable attenuation !; its very existence was
threatened and even the Herculean efforts
of the Refs Effendi himself, and the whole of
his family, seemed unavailing to support it
any longer.
In this emergency the Directors of the Lap
land and Timbuctoo Grand Consolidated
Railway, with one of the Refs family at their
head, devised scheme for the redemption of
their credit, and the success of their enter
prise. This was the manufacture of boone
rangs. .r .T
Now, Mr.. Goatherd, G. E., the climatologist
of the Lapland and Timbuctoo Railway had
discovered upon section 1874, far in the
North, substance possessing the same self
propellant properties as those commonly at
tributed to women, mules, and curses, j. e.,
that when forced never so violently in one di-
rection, they return with greater force in ex-
actly the opposite. It was proposed that the
Lapland and Timbuctoo Railway Company,
in common with other corporations should
commence the manufacture of boomerangs at
once. .l
During the month of March, 1853, the chiefs
then convened in council-having eight and
knowledge properly showered upon their hap
py heads-granted to the Grand Consolidated
Lapland and Timbuctoo Railway Company,
and other specified corporations the right to
make the boomerangs whereof have spoken.
Well do I remember the day on which the
chiefs granted this privilege. The elder of the
Refs family, bearded like Hutchinson, was
here, there, everywhere, persnading, mollify-
ing, CONFERENCE.-The fire water of the whites
was kept beneath the very council chamber
itself-and when the measure was agreed on,
1 discerned amongst those hilarious with joy,
the lath-hke form of BAIL KuIn, and the testy
visage of Behmun, the Great Animalcule.
left the council chamber, and wandering out
to the north side of the great city of Deal-in
for-it, sat down upon the side of bluff
where it was said the Grand Consolidated
Railroad would pass. The day was raw and
gusty, but the people in the suburbs were in
dustrious, and loaded wagons and vehicles o
every description con tinually ratified along tn
road, and rumbled over the bridge which
crossed the crooked little creek at the foot o
the bluff: INDUCED in some joyful anticipa
tons of the future, when the iron horse shoult
rush through the valley of the little creek
bearing the wealth of the Nort tn, and snortin
shrill defiance to the old-fogism of the past
But the savage Northwestern blew the leave
in my face, and returned to the city.
That night the friends of the boomeran
project had a grand feast at the Aboriginal cal
avansera or the Amplior, do not remember
and it does not matter now, which. Only
great deal of bad wine was drunk and som
bad breath wasted.
Winter passed away-the ice-fetters of til
. rivers were loosened-the snow-drops an
, crocuses appeared in bloom, and the Director
e of the Railways went to work. Many Mil
slams, red-mouthed,, red-visaged, traverse
the line Of the railway with vehicles supporte
S upon single wheel. The mountains wei
laid low, and the valleys exalted, crooke
places were made straight, and straight plac
. disfgured with curves. And when the a
!, tumn winds strevyed the cuts and banks Wi
e yellow leaves, the work had gone on briskl
Even northward of An Okla, and up the fe
S tile valley of the Mime Sofa, and southwal
r on the Zom Bro had the followers of Sels
+ and of the nobleman Graf done their work.
e At last the boomerangs were finishe
9 Beautiful were they to look upon, being co
It cred with choice engravings and chased wor
J. and stamped Though reluctantly by Il
) great chief Haroely al Seeb-el-y. And tn
great chief with his companions, the Refs al
d the man of displeasure whose name is I
and the man of the valley of the Cedars, too
r. these boomerangs and went great distan
T. to sell them. But the money-changers, Il
chief of whom is Dun Khan and Shur-Ml
r. laughed the boomerangs to scorn and Sal
lie Have your people considered the use of the
weapons? Will they stand, and with cour
10 geous fortitude receive the backward blow
10 Have not your chiefs in council deceived 20
y people as to the use of these missiles Al
the sellers of boomerangs were dismayed al
H. discouraged.
q. Now it is the privilege of a great and hare
d. people, in the full bone and sin ew of manhoo
D. sometimes to use this weapon without injur
IL but to the tyro it is certain destructio
J. Whereupon, in the name of a tlisgraced pa
and uncertain present, and an omin futul
t. we solemnly protest against the further use
g this deadly weapon by ignorant and unskili
5 hands. RAsoToNGA.
Letter from Minneapolis.
MINNEAPoLIs, Jan. "a.
To tho Editors of the Minnesotian:
The Pioneer of the 21st inst. declares it's
Gin favor of a small earthquake for swallo