The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-08-15
From Niagara Falls.
CATARACT HOUSE, I
p.H 100

II the DAYS of the first Caesars, to have
4 visited Athens, where the Acropo-
lis and the Pafthenon haunted out
: their marbled architectural beau
ties; to have visited Rome, with it's
temples and its statues and its
+ CoIliseB5n, each turret and dome of
(which was an anthem sung in
r sculpture, and whose fair ladies,
with their perfumed robes, clapped
. their beautiful hands at the barba-
rian feats of the gladiators, was
considered to be the extreme ez-
: trezae of pleasure and travel But a
a greater pleasure, a greater glory
4 was not there, never has been and
never will be Youchsafed to those
inhsOphistieated and heathenish set,
/ as represented by Julius Cesar, the
man who built the ''pons -asinorum"
+ land of whom some Of you have
heard J, FOR at All those periods
was denied them this glory, etc,
which now crowns my laurelled
4 brow.
am Mt Niagara Falls
not in the sense that Ccssa, the
Roman eonspirator, meant when he
] exclaimed, Caesar fails" on the
memorable "Ides Of March" ~
don't mean he fell onto those ides
of Mhrchl. but the .faIls of Niaga- /
"a, where a vast bod. of water,
more in fact than is contained in
''Richland" or Pigeon Roost,'
PUSHES down hill much larger, or
ut least equally as large and longer (
than Fort WoI thless, and goes
"haR-amnon' over q bluff, and [
strange to say, when it gets over it /
/ still keeps on its rushing"
Being somewhat Sallyvated upon
nay first arrival, I frantically rushed !
to the first edifiee that attracted my |
attention, which had neither mar
/ bic nor brown stone Fifth Avenue /
| front, but over whose humble but
honorable portals were inscribed !
in characters and letters. as vivid /
and inspiring as the ..Know Thy |
selfhuon the temple Of Themis,
these words: Lager Beer and |
Cox's Wine" and then and there
had myself very much vaccinated.
After having sufficiently subsi-
tled from the effects Of that vile /
! discovery Of DR.. Jennings, / arose
to take up my valise, or s'ter-runk, -
(as the case may be, and found it
mon est inventus"; whereupon,
with justifiable dignity, APP
preached the dispenser of the afore-
said vaccination, and throwing my
self in a tragic attitude, vociferous-
~ quoted the language of the. irate
Dutchman who had been placed in
a similar position to myself, and
said thusly to him: at is got tam
seldom what is become or dat, car
pet-baggage-alsO and Whereupon
the said ''dispenser" being also II
little irgts, l gave him the pass
word, which being whispered, is
translated Seer Rats Brown" If
my Herlise arrives before do,
please ask the fighting editor to
grig her, for I am afraid 1 never
will soielnnlY passed ON.
Il then started for the point des- fS
ignated in the caption OF this epis-
tie, the Tennessee flo I mean
the Cataract House, but upon con =
sideration thought it best to be l
vaccinatsd again. as I was sail alone, |
my dearest dear" and so "high up
the river" Iwas again Jenningssa.
-.. SECOND. pay, same place.
= / stepped right !
out Of the door of the. Cataract" l
and with. q few steps was on the T
bridge OF size that teIeoraphs s
Niagara village with aGoat Island. .
From the middle OF, the bridge ] :
looked toward Lake Erie and Buff
falo, and beheld the wa sers Of 'S0Ei-
lgara and the Lakes" seething,
raging down q very decidedly pre- <
,ipitous hill, in comparison With "
which ''Riley Hilp'is but
when the spring time cOmes, gentle K
Annie" 1875
I approached Goat Island.
'eached the said island Of goats and
Tas politely requested to register B
ny name in q dirty book, and for h,
Which I had the inestimable priv "
ego Of paying two New York shil- al
ings (to-wit: % cents in currency bI
and of such is the Kingdom of o.
he Cannibal Isles. I proceeded :
lown a YeFtigris walk, SET al around
With pOpliBs. approached the
Ribbon Falls and saw many
utter of Ribbons, for it is compare
lively rather a quiet place. There \
'ere several members Of both
sects" present. I went on; ]
oted the place where sam Patch
Tmped of with an umbrella. Sam
idn't come back, but heard that en-
e didn't steal the lumber ella. A pII
Dung man wanted to take my pho Nv
lgraph with a lead pencil Il mean pc
c wanted to take my lead pencil tic
it'll n photography in a minutes
at 1 dissented, and told him I at
ould prefer being vaccinated, but J
was not.naI travaaed on across =
e Island of Goats; l reached the =
Flower" which overlooks the \
(not the bcarl, and was Z
.livered Of this sentiment, which :
&C with no applause save by the
Issian clements: =
'Sich is lifc-a-lcw"
I sadly retraeed my steps. N
The bridge aforesaid mentioned +
not the Aliuerum & Co. bridge. =
the advice and kindness of a e
ntle hackman Z was induced TO
With him to the Canada Sure" 6
went with him He carried me =
'oss the wire (insention) y
idge" Just below the Falls, and =
ded me at the Clifton House. -
intimating to nc that if y
wanted to see Lunday's Lane a
| Drummondsrille and General =
,tt's ''seen Of early piety '--thar
! ''cvil to him who don't believe P Iso',,
saw it all at a glass-a Wit,
bee is what l mentioned. ] saw ed
a all, zaud acknowledged myself KIM
unwilling victim of the hack I'm IN
{. And ct there be peace. t y 1l
his IS the finale to my expert Pen,
). Forty h uudred and several Pete
sand letters could not express III
on what I no. V feel. I haven't Pete IS
the place / rs, Nd to be at last. -