The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-23

brings on board his own cider, chArtercase and
oytiers. ana passes them along thu table with q
he cisrsymsn, Who belongs 70 the Church hot Of
E1g19nd, elbes be Il an American, who HIS re-
sided b China Whose little daughter goes to the
same school that your correspondents lissle
reads the service on Sunday with much energy.
sod gives good advice In his sermon. Surprised
!. see the sailors 90 punctual, he inquiries If the
rrs ulsticns OF the ship demand tiff the cap-
iais gives the orderi II the command comes
present ct services No snswer. He asks an
Other. IN 10 diseusted to find that unless they
come ont TO prayers their grog will be stopped.
The pcoI m sker b about with his bets on the days
sSoslS s,;,e the hour the minute which Ies be
first puts on de,;k. He has the numbers all ready,
Is hand ana give with the officers and winks
knowingly as he passed. Our neyer-by AM ~chance
sea sick friend 10 study He s5ts asleep til the
below no nausea, no sickness; only slight
headache. When on deck he occasionally looks
over the side OF the ship to zee how fast she is
going. He sings as be walls. He Whistles, he
tries 10 look hsppy--but he isn't. He still swesrs
that he n not sea sick but there IL Iiste express
sion in bis song-little force in his whistle. The
enormous eater is punctual at every smell OF food.
Five meals Q day.. Such breakfast. anch ed
dinner-then such tea, and grisied bones and
poached eggs at supper. We call him The beef
eater. He is not an American.
THos C. DuRASr TIE PACIFIC RAILWAY KING
Didgnosis.-F First day, red aud happy; second
day, yel ow and bilious; third day, pale and mis-
cradle; fourth day, happy and contenfed, having
thrown ell his cares overheard. Saga in 1870 he
win run the Pacific express from New York to
San Francisco in five days, passengers eating on
board Of Pullman's hotel cars. -..,-.-- -.
succeeded this voyage. Walk In open air. Eat
every meal-Iie in berth. fake chloroform.
Drink champagne. Have little brandy. Keep
your feet up on the bench. p.ink lemolsde-
Eat oranges. Suck a lemon. Take cocktail.
Use an emetic.o But all have failed; for when 1t
came 10 pass that the winds blew, and the rain
descended and beat upon the Scotia, the great
iron ship did roll-so did the passengers-snd
some Of them would run to windwafd and look
over the side to see how fast she was going. 0f
course they said they were not sea sick. Kept
their berth from preferences; only slight head
ache; not very well when they came on board,
and so forth, and SO forth. 49, ,-... -.
G. f. It's DrAGHosis.-Old traveller. Three
hundred thousand miles-never sea-sick-vish he
was. Reads, writes, walks studies. Lost all de-
tiIe for organizing passengers into mutual ad
miration society, a. in former days. Getting old,
ambition dying out from too much notoriety: DC
casopally stirred I'D English passengers with long
poes-all exercised about object Of visiting Eag-
land. What il Train mp to! Street railways. OF
course; England is going to adopt them. Five
hundred pounds mile royalty on Two Thousand
| Why Union Pacific. had special meeting, sp.
| poiiting T. G. Durant and G. +. 7. special COM
nrittee 10 visit Mount Gems tunnel. What is Train
| np TO! Another understands that be has ten mil
| lions IT,. p. r. bonds for sale, forgetting that
| What is Train up to, Something from Washing
| ton ON Alabama claims What Is Train up to-
| Fenians, OF course; Stephen, J. heaney, Captain
Warren, American citizens Ia Irish jaiss., O
coarse lie will be arrested, cable dispatches
already sent over in advance; and so on with the
| shipboard gossip. All these surmises becarse
am of for q two weeks holiday.
/ Sincerely, 81, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.