The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-05-02
McGREGOR, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MAY g 1850 VIII
beer CQPdena.

beer Gardens.
The "Disbanded' of the N. 7. Sunday
Times (the best weekly paper in tic U. S.
is SO happy in the description of q German
Beer Garden that we must give our readers
an opportunity to peruse it. Those who
have seen this modern institution" will re-.
cognize the picture at once, and if the
laughs they get out Of it don't compensate
them for the time lost, they have too little
love Of. .humor to take any paper but one SC
entirely "pure" Is to be insipid.
EDDYTURs OF THE SUNDAY TIxEs:-Dutch
thirst, witch oney hes time to squinch itself
parshilly on weak days, rcches a frantick
state of salty excitement by Sunday even.
in, and drownds itself in freshit of log.
ger. Never hcvin seen the inside of
Dutchman, I am enable to state what the
fizzyology of thar innerds is, but imagin
thar lined with sand and gravel, like tur-
keys gizzard, or patent filter. line kwite
sartin the intarnal arrangements of nativ
American would be holey unequill to the
preshur of Sunday libashin at the Vokes
Gardin in the Bowery. In iack, don't no
of anything in natur or art that will koln-
pare with German throte in the way of
suckshin, onless it is whirlpool or water
spowt. Stitch onery simmerlees as wudcocks
leeches, or even duble-ackshun forcin pumps
is drorin it too mild oltogethcr. Its oney
jest to say, however that these industrious
sokers seldum gifts over the bay. They be-
cum muggy artcr the twentieth glass and
soggy when they rechs the forties; but tha
seldum git to loggerheds over thar logger
Indeed, the moar tina imbibc the better nat
ured tha is, and bi the time the nashunal
beveridge tetches the top-ring of . Dutch
mans wine-pipe, his mouth may be gcner-
ally seen beyant the tips of his moustashers
drorcd up in plesent smile to the kernils
of his yeers. Occasionally Hans attemps
tn dance in that condishun, when noise is
pcrdooced by the moshun like the wollopin
Nv duzen katfish in q buckit of hot wa
ter.
I drapt in at the Vokes Gardin witch as
stated in forgoin letter is opposit the Bow.
cry theytur) last Sunday about 10 p. NJ.
and found it chockfull Of peepull of the
dutch perswaslun, both of the male and
female sect, and of oil sizes, from the hitc
and girth Of six-gallon logger bear cask
to the full proportions Of German tub
Clowds Of tubakkur smoke, emitted from
at leest five hundred pipes, mecrshams and
Sugars, overshaddered the scene, and the
confushion of lungs wos a seckund cdish-
yum Of the Tower of Babbcl. Sum sung,
sum argured, sum larfcd, and whot with the
singin, debatin, and sniggerin, the shoutin
Of the logger bear boys, the clinkin of mugs
and the performance of full band, the row
couldn't hav been beet in convenshun of
loonaticks. Sartinly the gutteralls and but
teralls of the German langwidge, mixed in
with the brayin and blastin from 40 or so
feet Of brass hollcr-warc, is q caushun to
callithumpians.
Is'pose thare couldn't have bin less than
thousand fadcrlanders, includin frows,
frawlecns, boys and babies calnped around
Me fables, and nine -tenths of them war en-
gagged in their favorite nayshunal pastime
Il swiggin logger. The mems mus
tarshers would have been continually wet
with it ef they hadn't bride 'cm with the
smoke of thar pipes and Sugars. The VIM
min had thar small mugs, and the boys dipt
in hear and thar, as they got a chanst, like
so menny fat little bumbel-bccs bobbin
inter the hunnysuckles and evin the small
babies, not bigger'n demmyjon, tuck thar
sheer seckund hand, throo the maternal
funnill. A few of the frauleens, as wanted
to do the delexit and jeenteel, sipt Rinewine
outer green glasses; but, hottest all the
bucksom, jolly-lookin gals stuck to the log
ger like brix.
Donuts, krullcrs and i.c-cream STIMULATED
throo the krowd and was literally cncurrig-
cd the donuts bein useful as sponges to
absarwb the surplus liquid in the stummik,
and the ice cream actin on the balance of
the flooid like yeest, and promotin internal
effervesscnce. In the apartments around
the main arey of the gardin several private
partys was injyin thcmselves-at leest so
Judged from thar loud larfln and the delite-
full armorer Of lumbugger cheese, sour
krout, and jcwnipper Snaps that was waf.
ted from the naburhud.
Thar was no skarsity of manly exercises
and excitin sports. Visiters with pashun
for roolet could take turn for three-cent
prize for . shillin, and four shots with gun
that fired shots everrywhars but in the
bulrseye, mought be had for the same sum.
Thar was also considerable singn. that
sounded like garglin the throte for bad hors-
ness, with variations to the air executed
throo the nose. But the prominent attrac-
shun was chap that tied himself up in .
hard not, and then hopt of on the two ends
of it.
Olltogcthcr it was kweer way of windin
up the Sabbath day, and yet, arter oil, its
better to drink logger on Sundays and be
honest than to rob the post offiz, asa Meth
adist dckin in the west did the other day,
and was keerless enuff to be cort in the
fack with the key Of the meetin- house dore
in his pocket. At leest thcms the senty-
mcnts of Yours allus
A DISBANDED VOLUNTEER.