The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-08
and Things I Remember
BYL. GAYLORD CLARK

BYL GAYLORD CLARK.
Thomas Hood says that "the domains
of laughter and tears are not divided by
an impossible barrier, but obviously
separated by a detachable land, leav-
ing easy access to either territory, and of
course subjecting the rival Kingdoms to
frequent incursions." Even grim-vis-
aged War sometimes relaxes into a grin.
At Kentucky railway station, in the
early period Of our late unhappy war, q
conversation was going on about an ex-
pected battle between Buckner and
Rousseau. 81 will bet you ten dollars"
said Secesh, that Buckner will whip
Rousseau" Don't you know, Bill"
said an individual, in q warning tone,
" that the Legislature of Kentucky has
passed an express law againstaiding and
abetting Buckner ?"
am not aiding him.
Yes, you are, though you are o.
betting him I"
The company looked round, thinking
the man had intended a joke, but he
was as serious as a judge passing SEN
tence of death.
s" I remember when in DRESDEN said
a friend to us the other day. "hearing
most capital story, which you should
book for posterity.' A few days before
we arrived at Heidelberg, Jenny Lind
had been warbling in that most ancient
burgh. All the students had gone mad;
and when she left, after having escorted
her carriage some distance out Of town,
they rushed back to the inn !; demanded
to be shown to her bedroom; swept
like a whirlwind up stairs to her Sleep
ing apartment; tore up the sheets of
the bed in strips, and wore them as deco
rations.
can hour or two afterward, a bald
headed old gentleman, of amiable APP
pearance, an Englishman, who was
staying at the hotel, came to breakfast
at the table d'hote, and was observed to
be very much disturbed in his mind,
and to show great terror whenever a
student came near him. At last he said,
in a low voice to some people who were
near him at the table: You are English
gentlemen | observe. Most eXtraordi-
nary people, these German students =
as a body, all mad as March hares,
gentlemen -
".Oh, no. some one replied, 'ex-
citable, perhaps, but very good fellows
very sensible
"s Good heavens, SIR! exclaimed the
old gentleman, still more disturbed,
then there's something political in it,
and aHa a marked man! | went out
for & little walk this morning, after
shaving; and while l was gone land
here he fell into terrible perspiration, J
they burst into my bedroom, tore up
the sheets OF my bed, and are now pa
trolling the streets of the town in all
directions, with bits of 'em in all their
buttcn-holes -"
Il need net be added, that they bad
gone into the wrong chamber
The captain Of a company which was
encamped near the house OF Secesh,
being rather unwell, had laid down to
take a nap. When he came out OF his
tent, he found two turkeys lying dead
at the door. Boys exclaimed the
Captain, in u stern voice, how did this
happen ?" " Why" said one Of the
soldiers, "they came marching through
the ealap, and when we demanded the
countersign they gobbled at us. We
arrested them, and offered to administer
the oath; but they did nothing but
gobble and we couldn'tstand it," Some
authorities state that the gobblers
were gobbledw