Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-03-11

Ups and Downs In she World.
"Sir, bria, ms good plain dinner, said
. melsnc Aoly looking individual to waiter
at one Of the principal hotels in . Western
State.
"Yes. sir"
The dioner was brought and devoused,
aud the eater called the landlord aside and
thus addressed him:
"You are the landlord
eyes"
"You do . good business here ?"
Eyes" lin astonishment
you make probably ten dollars day
clear"
"Yes"
"rhen am safe. cannot pay fer what
have consumed. have been out OF
employ ment for seven months. but have
engaged 10 work tomorrow. had been
without food four and twenty hours when
I entered Jour place. sill pay you 10
week"
II cannot pay ~ bills With such prom.
ises." blustssed 10 landlord land do
not keep . peor houss. Yes should address
the proper authssitiss. Leave ne some.
thing for security"
~ have nothine."
Il will take ysur coat"
III 70 into The street without that |
viii get my death, such weather - this"
"You should have thought Of that before
you came here"
"You a,e seriousf We'll, l so'emnly
aver that ono week from nov ! will pay
you"
~ will take your coat"
The coat was left, aud week aftcrward
redeemed.
Seven years after that wealthy man en-.
ter, tho political arena. and vac presented
to the caucus ~ On applicant Tor Con-
eressionsl nomination. The Chairman OF
the caucus held his peace. lie heard the
name aud history Of the applicant. who
VAS a member Of the church, and one Of
the most respectable citizens. The vote
was tie, and he cast negative, thereby
defeating the wealthy applicant, whom he
met en- hour afterward. and to whom he
said
You don't remember mss'
ono"
Il once ate dinner at your hotel, and d.
though I told you | was famishing, and
pledged you my word and honor 10 pay } ou
in week, you took ny coat and saw ms
60 out in the Indictment cir, 1t the risk oil
my life, without it,"
"Well, sir. what them"
mot much You call yoursslf Chris.
tian. To night you were . candidate fO'
n. minAtion. and but for me you would have
been elected to Congress-"
Three Yeas after, the Christian hotel
keeper became bankrupt. The dinnerlesl
wretch that was, 10 now high functioss
~. The ways Of Providence are indeed
wonderful, and the worlds mutations 81
most beyond conception o. belief.
COOP ADVICE TO vASDERsILr. - Mark
Twain writes an open letter to Commodore
Vanderbilt. in Pdekard's Monthly for March,
in which, alter :rev;swing tho many silly
anecdotes and Hunkcyism sketches Of the
brilliant but psnurious old capitalist. he
gives him this advice, gratis:
All wish to urge upon you now 10
that you crush out your native instincts
and 60 and do something wo'thy Of praise
go and do something yon need not blush
to see in print-do something that may
rouse one solitary good impulse in the
breast Of your horde of worshippsrs-prove
one solitary coed example to the thousa ds
Of young men who emulate your energy
aud your industry; shine as one solitary
gram Of pure gold upon the heaped rubbish
Of your life. d. this, I beseech you; else
through your example we shall shortly have
in our midst five hundred nderbilts,-
which, God forbid Go, nov; please 70.
and do one worthy act. 90. boldly, grand
iy. molly, and giro four dollars to some
great puohc charity. 1t will break your
hesrt, no doubt, but no matter, you have
hut l',,le while TO live, and il is better to
die suddenly and noblv than to live on the
same Vanderbilt you are now. Do this,
and dec are 1 will praise you too.
A lIsAvY BLAST Mining in California
som, times has recourse to Powerful sgen.
c,.s 10 further its interests. The last great
operation was the tunneling Of q gold
noun ain aud leveling il to the ground 1t
length, in which weis placed 200 kegs Of
powder. An electric wire threaded the
maz,s of the tunnel and tapped each keg.
Alta distance Of 600 feet the battery stood
c,nnec,cn and charged. When the people
living in tho neighborhood had been duly
warned aud had left their homes, Q young
lady applied the electricity. Fifteen feet
up in air rose the solid mountain, ana fell
. crushed and broken mass.
In the Charles Resde libel suit, brought
by tho author Of Griffith Gaunt against the
EDITORS Of the Round Table. for harsh crt-
icism. the council for the plaintiff intro/
dacsd George vandenhoff. the Shaksper-
ian reader, TO read tthe jury the entire
work. The judge. the opposing counsel
and the jury, al objected At drst, but very
shortly became deeply interested and ad.
j,urned over 10 the next day, in order to
hear the conclu>ion.
A CHICAGO paper srys that an intimation
Of what will be frequent sight next sum-
mer, on the completion Of the Union Pacific
Railroad, is given in the appearance yester-
day Of number Of freight cars, with the
following inscription: "From the Atlantic
to tho Pacific; New York. Boston, Chica-
60, Rock Island, Des Moines, Council
Bluffs. Omaha, c., R. l. & P. II. r.; Red
Line Through car-N0 Transfer."