Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-13
THE CRUEL EARTHQUAKE.

THE CRUEL EARTHQUAKE.
That funny cuss, Mark Twain, who,
when his last hour shall arrive, will pro-
baby laugh grim Death out of counten-
ance, writes to the Enterprise the following
funny incidents which occurred in San
Francisco last Sunday:
Singular Effects OF tho Shock ON the
Rev. MI. stebbins.
Now the Rev. Mr.. Stebbins acted like
q sensible mana man with his presence
of mind about him-he did precisely what
I thought of doing myself at the time OF
the earthquake, but had no opportunity
he came down out of his pulpit and en-
braced q oman Some say it was his
wife. Well, and so it might have been
his wife-I'm not saying it wasn't, am l:
1 am not going to intimate anything OF
that kind-because how do l know but
what it ,oas his wife, I say it might
have been his wife-and so it might
wa not there, and I do not consider that
I have any right to say it was not his
wife. In reality I am satisfied it teas his
wife-but I am sorry, though, because it
would have been so much better presence
of mind to have embraced some other
woman. I was in Third street. Hooked
around for some woman to embrace, but
there was none in sight. I could have
expected no better fortune, though, so l
said, 20 certainly-just my luck.
A Singular illustration.
When the earthquake arrived in Oak
land, the commanding officer of the Con-
gregational Sabbath School was reading
these words, by way of text: "And the
earth shook and trembled !" In an in
slant the earthquake seized the text and
preached a powerful sermon on it. l do
not know whether the commanding officer
resumed the subject again where the earth
quake left off or not, but if he did I am
satisfied that he has got a good deal OF
"cheek." l do not consider that any
modest man would try to improve on q
topic that had already been treated by an
earthquake.
A Model Artist Strikes an Attitude.
A young gentleman who lives in Sacra'
mento street, rushed down stairs and ap.
peared in public with no raiment on save
a knit undershirt, which concealed his
person about as much as its tin-foil car
| conceals a champagne bottle. He struck
an attitude such as a man assume when
he is looking up, expecting danger from
above, and bends his arm and holds il
aloft to ward off possible missiles-and
standing thus he glared ferccly up at the
fre-wall of a tall building opposite, from
which a few bricks had fallen. Men
shouted at him to 60 i'll the house, people
seized him by the arm and tried to drag
| him away-even tender hearted women,
| 20, Woman 20 ever noble, unselfsh, an.
gelic woman 20, Woman, in our hours
of ease uncertain, coy, and hard to please
when anything happens to 80 wrong
with our harness, q ministcring ange.
thou), women, l say, averted their faces
and nudging the paralyzed and impossible
statue in the ribs with their elbows be-
sceched him to take their aprons-to take
sheir shawls-to take their hoop-skirts-
anything, anything, so that he would not
stand there longer in such a plight and
distract peoples attention from the earth
quake. But he wouldn't budge-he stood
there in his naked majesty till the last
tremor died away from the earth, and
then looked around on the multitude
and stupidity enough, too, until his dull
eve fell upon himself. He went back uE
stairs, then. He went mp lively.
What Happened 10 u Few Virgininns
Charley Bryan Climbs n Tele-
graph Pole.
But where is the use in dwelling or
these incidents: There are enough of them
to make q book. Joe Nongues, of your
city, was playing billiards in the Cosmo.
politan Hotel. lie went through n win.
dow into the court and then jumped owe,
an iron gate eighteen feet high, and took
his billiard cue with him. Sam Witgen'
stein took refuge in q church-probably
the first time he was ever in one in hi:
life. Judge Bryan climbed a telegraph
pole. Pete Hopkins narrowly escaped
injury. He was shaken abruptly from
the summit of Telegraph Hill and fell or
q three-story brick house ten feet below,
I see that the morning papers always
ready to smooth over things), attribute
the destruction Of the house to the Garth
quake. That is newspaper m~agnanimity
but an earthquake has no friends. Ex.
traordinary things happened to everybody
except me. No one even spoke to me-aI
least only one man did, l BELIEVED mar
named Robinson-from Salt Lake, l think
who asked me to take q drink. / re-
fused.