Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-04-05
NO. 3

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dress himself in the most outlandish style he
can invent, he may be naturally ungainly
and misshapen, odd, ridiculous, and yet he
may travel the country over and no one will
call out after him or poke fun at him, why
Because it's dangerous! In this country
people mast mind their own business
"Jokcs among friends "-be sure you kno,o
them sceV But this rather savage picture is
only meant to apply to the population Of these
mines en- n,dsse and when mingling proInis-
cuously. There arc groups of friends, who
have by degrees venturcd together, who
laugh and tell yarns and to certain point
and on certain conditions "poke sly fun"
at each other; but nerer to the same degree
that have often seen il done in the States.
A certain degree of dignity is accorded to
every man and maintained by every man.
IF man is used as butt for the wit Of 9TH
ers il must be in such manner as not 20
croacd his dignity, but rather give him nm el.
evatcd opinion of himself; and human be.
ing thus inflated often yields quite as much
sport to full grown men as his toy balloon
does to the boy. Having travelled quite as
far in that direction as care to at present,
and as don't care particularly where go or
what do next-which | presume, also, to
be the readers "awful fix" will just men,
ton that speaking Of initiating man, or rs
is the practice of the feminine portion Of hu
manity homing him mp, reminded me of it,
| saw common bat blown up in a saloon
in California, and of all the odd ludicrous
looking specimens Of animated nature it was
ever my luck to behold | think this sooty
little connecting link between bird and
beast" took the lead by some distance. 1t
was Missourian, or Pike, as we call them,
to their great disgust, that was conducting
the operation. At first the little animals
body alone was inflated and this we conclu.
dcd was the whole shom , but Pike, taking
his mouth off the tube he was using for u
moment, said that its wings and all would
presently become inflated" u he does weii?"
In a short time to our great delight" he
done WELL" and Of all the laughing and roll
ing and stamping and paving the air you
have ever heard Of it was there. An hombre
would go up to the counter, on which rolled
and tluttcrcd ths-litoral rdrd aris, bend in
tently over it moment thon throw himself
back with such a jerk as to send his hat half
across the room, emitting at the same n sue
ccssion Of shri,ks most horrible to any but
unciyilizcd ears--thcn another and another
would venture up, take has dose and 90 EFT
in the same manner. The following recipe
fer making this interesting experiment pre-
cured on the spot ircm Professor Pike:
"Cut tiny lcc,le hole atwecn the var
mint's years. then git or leetlc, small bit Of
er holer stick, or straw an percced to bis
ncss-whcn his wings are plump, round and
tight, take out the tube, (the ncison will not
need to be stopped as no air will cscape,)
and he's fixed"
Having an idea that scme persons might
II I
TO Pike and he said in reply" Hurt 'cm
no, fact is, they rather like itl' am glad
now that thought to make this inquiry of
Pike, as small boys hearing of this expert
ment need have no compunctons nor hesi-
tate about trying this beautiful, entertaining
and instructive experiment Oh the rfgy first
bat they catch.
have several times spoken Of tho Es-
meralda" mines, perhaps it would be well
enough to give you some idea of their local.
ity. These new mines are about one hun
dred miles in southerly direction from this
place, about 90 miles northeast Of the Mon
ovile Giggings and 5 miles north Of the
northern extremity Of Mono Lake. They
were first discovered about three months ago
and are thought to be but little b.hind these
(the Washoe) mines in richness and extent.
The first lead discovered was called the
:" Esmcralda," from which the district, and
at length the whole of that section Of country
took its name There arc already seine hun
dreds OF miners in that vicinity, a city is laid
out known as Aurora and everybody is
afraid that somebody will get rich, and some
body and everybody are waiting fer every
body to rush ever from California with tho
money to make 'Cm all so. In the meantime
money Is very scarce in San Francisco and
times dull, decidediy dill owing, in great
degree, to the secession movement in the
South. The great mass of the people in
California and here, also, are for preserving
the Union-let things 20 as they WILL
A &" Bear Flag" was hoistcd on vessel
at Stockton short time since, when the citi-
zens, in order to show their dsapprobation
of the move, Immediately hoisted the Stars
and Stripes AL over the City. The next day
a second "Bear," or Pacific Republic
Flag" was raised. at foated across Main
Street" but was soon cut down. Afterwards
the same flag was raised in III Dorado Street,
and was allowed to remain.
Ofcoursc there are some few itching to
form Republic on this coast to be " heap
big Injun out here all alone clean out and
annex Mexico--the Sandwich Islands and
any other little patch Of land floating round
"kinder loose like trade with China,
Japan hunt whales and be-" Big Bear"
of the Mountains!
J. Ross Browne, in speaking Of the cligi-
bility Of the different points here for the site
for the capital Of the Territory, in Harper
for January, gives Silver City good puff
lie says II ever there was spot fitted by
nature for scat CT government it is Silver
City-the most central, the most moral, the
most promising; in short The cnly place
where the seat of government can exist for
any length Of timc.".s
Pretty well done Anti it2 But poor Browne
thought twas pretty " heavy " here last
springer had the blues "all the day long"
and part of the night he couldn't make II
win and had to git UP and dust r Poila
tout. De GUILE.
The CLEARING OF TIE CLouDs-Thcrc is
nothing in what has bcfallen, or bcfalls you,
my friends, which justifics impatience or
peevishncss. God is inscrutablc, but rot
wrong. Remember, if the cloud is over you,
that there is bright light always on the
other side; also, that the time is coming
either in this world or the next, when that