The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-09-23
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LAST WORDS.

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Mark Twain % The subject Of last wor1e
i 10 very we'll dose. even for AeS1
Twain; but With bis Pacific Coast s1
psrienes - wonder be did NOS call "a
mind and embellieh bis theme with
some Of the closing remarks Of varioua
Califoruisns and Nevadans. First Of
al, and whole voluns in itself, 10 the
dying sentence Of California stage
driver: "It's down grade and I cant
reach the brake"
Almost equally expressive were tbs
last words Of the miner on the middle
fork Of Feather river. A sectios OF the
bask had fallen upon him, and when
his companions reached him they found
= great stone had crushed his breast.
Rolling the rock away aud bearing the
dying man on the bank, be looked up
with = gl.se of death already in bis
eyes, and ~hispered, "I'm paoned out"
and was gone.
So again, the great crib player I've
cannot recall his name) when shot,
remarked ~ be fell, 'I'm peggsd out.
Another California sport, when told
By his ply stefan that he could not live
but . little While q the best, expressed
his disgust BY Calculating, 20. h-ll r.
Still another. when told By the A.
,esdant physician that be had but one
chance in thousand TO recover, 81
claimed, isDortor, ! II take thu: chaneer'
Another California;, when gaspisg
With his last dying breath, declared: IL
can't make the nfaer'
We believe, 100, It was . California
stage driver who. when dying, was Ap.
preached BY . clergy man and asked II
he knew who died to save sinners
With look of ine6able disgust, be an
swered, a id pretty time to be put
ting conuudl ums to fellow" aud died.
When Bob Rowland was accidentally
shot, . couple Of years since, though be
recovered, while bs thought himself
dying he made . remark which would
have done splendidly for las. wosds.
Governor Crosman, with . face foil OF
approached bin and said,
Robert you ARE badly wounded"
). Yes" said Bob, I'm . goner; bus
DO wha, you can for Uncls Nys when
The Legislature meets"
A prize 6ght in Wasboe City broke
up With . shooting ecrape, 10 which one
man was mort.lly and several severely
wosnded. The sport who was fatally
injured only exclaimed, q" Ny bung 10
out T.
Apo,her sport 10 Idaho bad bot time
% s.y-"He has got the 60 on me-"
So last Winter here, after seeking .
quarrel all day, . man was shot and
lad but time TO excIaim, IL hunted for
his all day and nov have found it I"
Auo,her we'll known sport, Who died
here Of pneumonia last Spring, when,
uss before his death, he vas told BY
his physician that be could not recover,
,aid, ''Bu, Doctor, I'll bet you . hun
lred to ten that do"
Aud the other day when Johnny Nc
slade's diaphram was shot ost, Be
imply remarked, "My goose is cooked"
THIS list might be increased inde6n-
teIy, and promises to still further H.
reass 10 the future. For instance,
Governor Blasdel will doubtless say,
. mother cop Of chocolate"
Judge johnson will probably wisd ~
nth, II dissent"
Phil Lynch, Of the Gold Hill News,
Iill probably exclaim, "Scissors!'
Willi.m Sharon will probably say,
Sorry, but Ne are not DESIGNATING
D-day.,
S-mblins will Whisper. "Tbis 10 mill
y q id sight"
And Uncle Billy, the auctioneer, will
yer tbss I'VE have . few more articles
n gentlemen.
Every one knows Fergosen's last
ords we're, MAN 10 frail."
Also, the last words Of the Demo-
'atic par,y-"Unconstitutional, Niger,
hinese.
We asked our Democratic ''local" if
Aiversal amnesty and universal SUI
age would not do for the Republican
.rty's last words, and he answered,
r; ey don't seem 10 die very fast IN
r. them yet ''-Lniand Empire.
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