Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-04-14
HOW L FIRST MET HER.

EAVeV RE6SA III EE HEX.
First love is the only true love- say
some reoTle; and Love is love forever
more adds poet of the elections. On
the other hand, there are many persons,
not without some reputation for Judgment
in commercial circles, who assert that
first love is calf love-
do not pretend to decide this question.
But, at all events, first love must happeu 10
every man before second love, and if it has
not happened at all, it has yet to cume.-
Under these circumstances, | cannot but
think that the subject is of universal inter
est, and that any new experience of this
absorbing passion will be received with
rapture By the people. Variety is rleas-
log, but novelty is what understood the
magazines are just now giving almost any
thing for. Bail ION adventures are rising
believe, in the periOdicaf scale; AID mar
TatIOns OF descCntS into the craters of vol.
canoes if aCtive) are renunerated most
handsomely. But conceive, Mr.. Editor,
what would be the attraction of q volcanic
experience, complicated, Gs the doctors
say, with an episode of the tender passion!
A !ove-scene, for instance, in the crater -
Vows of affection interchanged amid seas
OF burr ing lava, and with the mountain
throwing Roman candles over the heads of
the intrepid pnir Would not this be
ro7el w Ould not this lie striking? |
wish, for both our sakes. flor yours, Mr..
Editor, and mine, that is), that | had met
my Charlotte Elizabeth for the first time
under the ah"ise peculiar circumstances
You would hastily have written, Name
your own price, would you not, and eaclqs
ed q blank cheque by return Of pest?
though so and the idea gives me much
satisfaction, because l really did meet
CharlItte Elizabeth for the first time in
locality by no means inferior lin point of
xceptionabihty) to that of the bottom OF
crater-and great deal lower down. You
viii not imagine this to have been coal
mine, l hope. | have met very charming
persons Of the opposite sex-and those OF
the first fashiOn-many hundred feet bel W
the level of the sea, and attired in mas
culine garb, for the convenience of descen-
ding shafts and travelling upon all fuurs :;
but should not dream of sending the ac-
count of anything go ordinary to a modern
editor. | am better acquainted, | trust,
with the nature Of his expectations than
that.
Seventeen was inst the age at which
first met Charlotte Zabeth-TRde, rQtc1.
What think you of that, Mr.. Editor? Are
not such circumstances of first love new :?
Permit me also to Gdd, with nv hand
upon my heart, that they are moreover
true.
1t was on Saturday afternc on, which
was holiday at our offce in the city tai
though the early-clOsing movement was net
80 much as heard of at that time), and ]
was spending it in the improvement of my
mind at the Polytechnic. | lad sat in that
stately hall, which is something between a
theatre and dissecting-room to behold the
wonders of science had gazed upon that
wOnderous apparatus for learning to swim
upon dry land until my limbs we're on the
point of invOluntarily striking OUT for an
imaginary shore; and | had gazad upon
the electrical eel to repletion, when great
bell was ruDg, and sonorous voica ex,
claimed
Experiments connected with the diving.
bell
Upon this, great rush was made from
parts of the building to the circular pond of
clear, green water, the excessive depth Of
which has always been q marvel to me
Into whose celler does it descend What
sewers does it forever threaten with untimc-
ly flushing? From what fountains do lis
pellucid waves arise? Then the intrepid
diver made his toilet in the presence of the
company, being loaded with heavy weights,
as though he were some desperate criminal
and having on his face helmet fixed, to
be presently screwed round by the assist
ants, a proceeding which appeared to the
unscientifc eye like wringing his neck.-
Covered with pOlypi in the shape of India
rubber tubing, this monster torpedo clum-
silly descended by an iron ladder into the
pond, the bottom Of which was already
strewed with halfpence after this, we
could dimly see him waddle and stoop,
made more hidsous even than before
by the watery Northumberland Eed, at
right angles to himself, exaggerated, dis
prOportioned, slow-thc most horrible pics
ture of cupidiiy that the mind ia capable of
conceiving. Above him arose large and
noisy bubbles; and now and then he would
emerge as far as to his head and shoulders,
and tap his mental helmet with halfpence,
to let US Bnow-as though we had not
watched his horrid movements all along
that he had picked them up. Incredible
as it may appear, was attracted towards
the amphibious pursuit Of his; felt as
though should like to explore those airless
depths, and make my business in those
mighty waters. When he came ont at last,
like two truuked ses-elephant, and bowed
in his repulsive manner to the spectators, l
was almost afraid that be was going to
offer any lady or gent the loan of his
apparatus. was infinitely relieved when
l saw 1t put away in q cupboard, for now
no unnatural temptation-
ANY lady or gent for the diving-bell p
exclaimed the sonorous voice. The ma
chine is now about to descend
My heart came into my mouth, and then
retired about halfway down my throat, as
sbould judge. My extremities became
hot as fire, as l gasped cut:
Stop minute; take me in, please do.
The crowd that already surrounded the
machine parted to left and right. to let me