Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-01-17


We are not altogether the heathens you
might suppose, my reader. Our good Gov
ernor set apart a day for the people of this
bowling region of rocks and deserts to cat
turkes and feel thankful We were deter
mined to do our best toward the observance
of this day, and few of us concluded to
join teams and get up dinner, and now
that the pains and pleasures incident to a
proper observance of Thanksgiving arc over
1t may not be out of place to say word in
regard to
OUR DINNER. ,,!. q
Well, we bad u dinner "as was" a dinner
one that would have caused an alderman
to sigh for greater storage capacity. AS the
saying goes, it was gotten up regardless of
expense" and may add of Mrs. Grundy, or
any other "ftmail" woman Our accom-
pished and very capable chJs de cuisine com.
menced work day in advance, and up to
the last hour care and perspiration were in
visible occupation of their brows. Their
whole souls (not Solcs), were in the work
WHAT MIR. HILL DONE
Friend Hill, sometimes known as "Oll
Hill, of Gold Hill" almost broke his heart
(and quite broke three cups and a sauccr).
in his too great anxiety ,or the wcl!beihg,
or rather well doing Of the mutton-pie to
which culinary conglomerate he gave his en-
tire mind-ah, his heart was in it
WHAT ED ALLEN DID.
This gentleman's effort in the cake line
were far from being .t,uitiess; indeed, may
Say, were crowned with success, also lot OF
other liothy stuff.
WHAT NEIGHBoR ELLIS DID.
Twas he who fabricated the pies, yea, put
in his biggest licks, and large amount O
can fruit; the crust was short-of ellis il
length, but scarce could equal Ellis in short
ness.
WHAT WRIGHT DID ANb wnIfnr DIDN'T.
But, more especially the latter, my long
suffering friends. When it came to tn,
heavy" cooking, my gentle" reader
Wright, he" fried the other fish," acarneo
the greater part Of the brandy intended 70,
the sauce, and being asked to seed the rails
ins hc did so--hc seed" en- and ate 'em
being next desired to whip the eggs, he rol,
ed up his sleeve and swore-that hc could
whip any dozon'd egg that ever came out
to Wushoc. Then he warmed some more
brandy-ior sauce everybody declared tia,
the amount of" sauce" it produced was as
tonshing Besides these labors (of love. J
Wright did great many other difficult
things with ease, invariably doing them owe,
the left shoulder.
WHAT Mr.. GEORGE N. BROWN DID.
Brown didn't do anything.
NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL GUESTS.
Ger. james Nye, Hon. W. L. Cara, Hon
j. Wilson Grier, Rec. " r. Thurlor, Col
D. Williams, WM. WRIGHT, G. N. Brown, E
L. Allen, Nathaniel Els, r. Campbell, A. C
Ayers, and Jones. IN. B. The gentlemen
whose names arc in italics were not present
those in small caps arc men Of note in thl
Territory the others are very respectable
gentlemen whose many excelencies it is not
necessary to particuarizc.)
| did intend to give you all the particulars
of the dinner, but space and deccncy forbids
suffice 1t to say we encountered nothing bu
what we managed to overcome, by looscninf
our belts, and standing up occasionally
Post !Scrrtum.--lt took Us all three days tt
eat what was cooked ON tic occasion, ant
we met every day and worked faithfully III.
I'll the task was completed. r. r. S.-Th,
above is condensed from description o
this great dinner published in the Terrific
rim Ente,prisc, from notes taken on th,
spot by the special reporter oc that newspa
per--therefore you may rely upon its cor
rectness in every particularr.
A GOOD EXPRESSION.
Among us Washoitcs ii is now the "thing,'
the ".Stilloh," to watch the conversation
our friends and as often as possible I" rim,
M the phrase" That's good expression
Well, there was certain Petit Matre, Of thi,
place dying for n certain .joIi, roguisi
Dcmoisclle, and at the first opportunit
not the best in the world either, for he wa.
yerheard-down pops the little gent upor
his knees and commences to pop-I believe
they call 1.-THE question, something as fol
ows: " Oh, Hester Ann, can't contain m,
feclins no longer! 1 must speak out jis
what. my feelins tQiard you air or bust, bus
my heart tryin' to contain 'em to myself
II, oh, Ii aster Ann thou was to only say thou
wilt be mine, only and forever mine, it wou
fill mine soul and hosd my intire systim with
the most eggstatic tic-egstatic--most particu.
iarly-egstatic -extatic-.." Here he stuck
stanmered and gasped-his wits had gone
wool gathering, articulatory apparatus
worked fully, but his ideas had ''petered." =
The Miss looked calmly--so calmly ! upon
his convulsed features, and with one of her
sweetest smiles, and said with voice almost
trcmulous with its tone of deep sympathy
and encouragement Pray, continue to
pap Mr. Biddlecum,-' ecstatic' s good ex