St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-07-05
The Sleeping Car.

The following is lady's experience
in sleeping car:
As night advanced we removed to
another car, where the sleeping APP
paratus was fixcd," and | was shown
to my apartment, and began to pre-
pare for good nj gifts rest. My bed
rom was about six feet long, and not
quite two feet high, being screened
i'll front with two movable curtains.
The bcrths were arranged similar to
state rooms" on steamboats,, which
those, however, who have been over
the road, will understand better than
| can describe. My berth was near
the stove, and the car was quite COM
fortably warm. There was a general
whispering of female voices, pulling
off of boots, and occasionally a gigglc
from some empty headed girl, as she
exclaimed, What horrid place to
sleep !" l congratulated myself on
my comfortable circumstances, quite
needless of the fact that there was an
empty berth directly over my head,
and almost touching my nose. | had
drawn to the curtain, and was on the
point of becoming torpid, when it was
suddenly pushed aside, and horrid
man thrust his head in and demanded
my ticket had previously told him
to leave, but as he didn't seem so in
clincd, explained and he left me.
Dropping asleep, did not awake UNI
til feeling something pressing heavily
on my countenancc, | started up to
find a mans left foot within speaking
distance, and the other persistcntly
holding my head down upon the pill
low so fatty rude, that it was mo-
mcnt before | could collect myself.
Sir ! Mr.!' 1 cried, "for mcrcy's
sake remove your foot !" The ugly
hoofs were jcrkcd away, and the last
thing | saw was two bare feet per-
forming the most unacCOuntablc cvo-
lutions in the air, and as suddenly
" lost to sight, with II tremendous
crash overhead, which | certainly OK
pcctcd would be the last | would hear
Of That kind. However, | was soon
asleep, and did not awake, | should
think, until morning, when about the
third hour ! was frightened half out
Of my wits, by another pedal dose,
which turned out to have been the
concussion Of that very same mans
heel against my Uranium. As soon
as he discovered this second little
freak, he lcapcd down to the floor,
and made his exit. The cars stopped
to water, and a ragged man with a
jockey cap, and altogether not unlike
the "ghost Of Hamlet" came in and
put some wood in the stove The
room was already lrarfully hot, and
the cXhalations Of dingy stockings
and worn ont boots, together with the
rcspirations of u large number Of hu.
man beings, none the less fragrant,
seemed to elevate ones spirits to a
degree of moral disgust attainablc on
| ly by a similar experience.
The minutes seemed hours, and in
stalkcd another "llamlct," who seemed
to say, inasmuch as
- | am native here, and to the manor born, -
| might as we'll poke up that fire
which he did. Morning began finally
to dawn, but not before three more
Shakspcarian heroes had had their
poke at that poor fire. At last the
cars reached their destination and
here endeth the epistlc. MAG.
Why will people suffer on and on, groan
with the baCk-ache. grunt with the rheuma-
tism, glumble and scold with pains here and
pains there, when II few applications of J. l..
Curtis Mamalukc Iiniment would entirely r..
licvc them. We wonder at it as we do ais
that those who are suffering with colds and
coughs do not at once cure themselves by us.
ing his Compoun" Syrup of Sassaflas. Hun.
drclS have done so, and other hundreds
should profit 10y their example. See advcr.
tiscmcnt. June I'm