Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-10-11

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throw up their tickets and take another car
Frequently family enters-motler, father
nurse and babe. The same struggle ensues on
the temporary divorce of husband and wife;
but the dispute is more readily reconciled, and
the parties pile in After a while the matron
gently asks:
Are yon comfortable, Agustus, my dear.
Perfectly, is the smothered reply from an
upper tier.
Do cover up your throat, dearest, you know
you are not Welfare your feet warm?
All right gasps the husband, like man on
the top af a hayloft
Jane, what is the matter of the baby? Can't
you keep him quiet? Bless me he's choking.
Hand him over TO the; and hear squalling
package p8ssed over to the kind mother, who
very soon soothes il to rest.
Enters fat man. weighing about three hun
dred ayoirdupois. Conductor where is my
berth2
You have but one ticket, and will please get
in along side of this gentleman; who happens
to be delicate dandy, Immediately above me
on the second SHELF aud rains down upon me a
perfect shower Of mingled perfume. The
heavy passenger gets up and in, after strug-
gle, 10 which participate to the extent of see.
ing huge pair of legs, like twin anacondas
hanging before me- aud series of angry
growls and grunts; and when the mass settles
on the slender wicket bed, it shakes the whole
vicinity, aud leaves me in doubt whether it eau
Lang suspended, or will fall and crush me.
God bless me, sir, says the exquisite. but
you are very large man--you have pinned
me TO the WALL shall sulIocate
Cant help it, sir; / paid for my ticket and
intend to g,t my moneys worth
Imagine the fat ones sleep and snore, and
sweat, and the miseries Of the nice young gem
tleman Some inexperienced travellers nn6oot
and uucoat themselves, which is always mis-.
take. Bundle in as you are, this IS the true
theory OF sleeping car At last we are dis.
posed of. The whistle sounds. the engine
shrieks; the bell tolls; the great train plungcs
into outer darkness. A voice opposite:
Heavens, how hot it is. Conductor, there
is DO air. Open the door.
object, shouts u consumpiive Congressman;
| am not wcll and do not mean to contract
another cold.
Another voice: Charlie, pass me the flask;
and then hear gurgling sound, and present
ly perceive an aroma of Cogniac which excites
two persons OF various opinions a little in ad-
vace.
Stranger, said the first, pass me your flask,
and will return the compliment when we reach
Wizards; which | eau hear is being very
promptly done.
What disgrace it is, says the protesting
temperance man, that this place should be
turned into a rummy.
BY Jove, cried the cwner of the flask, here
is Cough, the great lecturer-have smile nv
eloquent friend? at which there is q general
laugh, and the consequent subsistence of the
heroic opponent of Baccheus. IA .
Before the sleepers finally adjust their
hard pillows, gather up their scanly cover
ing, AMI ascertain whether their bed fellows,
if they have any, are friends or foes, some
nice soliloquies and dialogues take place
among those " hO have not been accustomed
TO this method Of transportation.
At this moment Leard dulcct tones in
the secret end Of the car (:
Conductor draw the curtain while /
descend from my berth to take the air
Our treasure the baby, now begins to
make loud appeal to its sleeping fountain.
Good heavens, CALCULATES evidently a
bachelor, there is that child again. Why
don't people keep their children at home
when they go travelling
What an odd sight 10 go out of your
nest and pass along the catacomb of men
(for sleep is the coun erfeit Of death, and
TO watch their faces as you pass. Some
look like dead men others struggle with
the heated atmosphere of the pnce, and
are wide.awake. At last we arrive at the
river We quietly pass mp
on the top Of the great boat that keeps up
the line, and then some nervous fellow cries
out:
Suppose we slide off, Conductor and get
into this Internal water ?
At which, almost the whole company
wake up. The idea of dropping off into
The deep excites various emotions.
The fat man arouses from his apoplectic
labors, and his dandy bed fellow crawls
out, resolves to stand so greasy contact
no longer. The ladies' gaze upon the water
and Others are surprised that the superin
cumbent weight does not sink the boat
We get over, however, and rush on to
TO Baltimore, where we arrived in season.
Here we received the news of the last five
hours, shouted from mob of boys.
What a newspaper country, ssays an En-,
giSbman, who parts his curtain and buys
n Sun, they go to sleep on one battle and
wake up on another.
Damn 1t, says soldier, there has been
a fight, and l'ye lost my chance.
Why the devil don't they move faster
says a hungry voice in lower cell.
This rebellion must be cushed at all hsz,
ards, responds ris ris
Bat why the deuce don't you give Me.
Cleun change shouts deep voice in
cave beyond ....-
lie has had a hundred chanches, insists
one of tie frechy aroused slumbcrers, and
hope the next will be a victory.
Now VIC move on to Washington. The
fast men emerge violently the fat man,
steamy and haIf,alive, followed by the ex-
quisite scowliDg the politician looking
for the hack that can carry him to the
White House and the ladies, last not
least baby conquered ard asleep Au-
gustus indignant aud silent, as if be had
not known his wife, and the latter, dear
Mary, resolved to hang ou to him whether
he ruled it or no. | go home coutented
and wide awake.
Musical Intelligence. the army
changed its base the press has changed its