Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-16
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with umerous Illustrations aud maps. Edited
hy William Smith. LII d. Hartford: j. b Burr
COMPANY. 1861
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SLEIGHING ExPERIsNCE.-If our theory
be correct that Every human being is Graz,
at times and not responsible for his actions,
our regular lunacy day was last Saturday.
On that day we went out sleighiug under
the insane idea that it was fun. Wing &
Snively furnished us with a tip-top turn
,,uL inclnding sleiyhb,.lls. wolf-robes and
all The little etceteras supposed to be nee
essary on such occasions, aud with our plug
hat pulled down up,n our gallant brow. a
cigar describing an upward angle OF 45 de-
grees in our fine y curved mouth, We load
e in our better two-thrds, aud away we
went. The snow was falling rapidly the
wind was blowing bitterly. and seemed tn
h<,p Ia t~l I, \
through. 1t blew our nose until it looked
like frost bitten beet. Blu. sleighing is
fun. you know, and we were out for a holi-
day.
Well, it ,oas bully for while. The jim
gle of the bells. the crunching of the Sleigh
| runners over the snow, the swift rush past
OF approaching sleighs, was exciting for
half an hour, perhaps. Then one of our
big toes commenced To ache. then the other
one, then all the little ones.
We turned to our lady and was about to
remark that if this sort of thing was fun,
We were not at all funny, when chug a
pfeee OF snow from the hOofs of the ami
mails took us square on the mouth. knock
ing out the only two sound teeth in our
head. With her eyes brimful of laughter
To see us splitting out tie mouthful OF snow
and teeth, she turned towards US, when
biffl another ball tore away the starboard
side of her bonnet aud waterfall. IG was
worse tnan the bombardment of Sum er.
1t ever a hnrse understood snow balling
aud dellgnted In it, that horse did. Que
coIld almost see him laugh as he tossed
the hard pieces into the sleigh. We learn
ed to dodge him, however. We became
quite expert i'm dgiug, and do verify be-
lieve we could now dodge a creditor. AS
the snow fell it froze in our hair and whis-
kers, and our breath freezing on our nous
tache made it lo,k like miniature skating
rink. We tried to sing:
Oh. swift go
Ger The fsecy snow.
I'n xfraid that out well spill.
How the anofs neneatn,
Keep time with to tn,
As they chatter. CRATER. still.
But we cOuldn'I, We were too cold. We
e Idured this Nova q .inbla SORT of life for
about two hours, and then as we couldn't
see the fun. we gave it up. 1t certainly
took us four hours to thaw out. In point
of fact that big toe isn't thawed out yet.
Our experience is. that any one who is
not a regular sleig ghist, but who would like
enjoy all the discomtorts incident to this
sort of fun. will take seat in the back
yard, with both feet in a tub of water, have a
buffalo robe pulled up well about his ears,
and have small boy to ring a string of
ST. ighbells in front of him, he will find the
substitute equal in all PARTICULARS to the
genuine article. We are not sleighist.-
There is SO much comfort in rel hot
stove that il we ever go sleighing again we
want a sleigh with stove in it.
= RIsToRI-M'me RisJori, on Saturday
n sht. made her first appearances before a
G 'lumbus audience, at the Opera House,
her great character of Mary Stuart. Be-
cause OF the storm mainly, aud also because
the price of tickets was higher than our
people are accustomed to, the house wa
not as well fill.d as we couli wish to see
it. The effect of the play was to establish
the belief that Ristori is a great artistic. il
not the greatest of this or any other age
Notonly does her great talent fl .sh through
the play. but her close study of history is
made evident by the attention given to the
most minute article of dress, not only for
herself, but for all the characters in the
play. Looking at her, though she speaks
language we do not underst and. one for
gets Ri-tori aud remembers only the suit
fering @ ieen of Scots. In the interview
between Elizabeth and Mary at Fother-
inyay Castle she was supremely grand, and
also in the last scene of the play. The
@ Qieen E izab-th and Mortimer of the play
,turday night were finely played.
To- Knight, Ristori makes her last appear
ance here in the character of Queen Eliza
bpth!y/In it she displays profound kno~l-
.dge of the character she undertakes, pas
sion. Imagination and great intellect. Her
toilet is magnificent. and her dresses are
in themselves a source of attraction to
many, both because of their ii ielity to
| history and their extraordinary richness.
REDUCTION OF THE ARMY.-Gov. Cox
| IN : S,Surday, received the following. Gen
raj Order No. l0l, from the War Depart
nppt:
[. All the regiments of infantry and of
| irtillery, excepting the ten light batteries.
snail be r-dured to the minimum allowed
| by law of fifty privates to Il company. The
| ,,tductiOn will be by casualty. and when
,ue company falls below the mirimum. il
will be recruited by transfer from the other
:,mpanies of the same regiment until ali
are at the minimum.
| III. The General k cruiting service will
oe Immediately reduced by breaking up
| Ill. ex eptiny four prInci i,al rendezvous G"
ach arm-cavalry and inftntrv-aud by
ordering all surplus recruiting officers back
TO their regiments. No more cruiJs will
b. sent to regiments until reduced as abnve
ordarei. This or Ter will not be construed