Arizona citizen., 1872-06-22
June 22. 1S72.
MIR. WASSON'S JOTTINGs.

of Certain Nuisances--Philoso
 Observations That May be Useful. 1 PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 26, 1872. Tt was my purpose to have written
 to THE CITIZEN another time on the
 way overland, but each day acquaint-
 ances increased and the pressure to
 talk Indian or Arizona, which at pres
 ent are analogous expressions, be-
 came so constant that my leisure hours
 were all needed for rest. Silver Palace
 and Pullman cars filled with the same |people from day to day, mostly hailing
 from the great Pacific Coast in which
 they have an intense local pride,
 and nearly all making the journey
 under pleasant circumstances and an-
 ticipations, induce socia bility and gen.
 uine friendship. What one does not
 know of matters and things in that
 great Pacific empire, another does and
 is not permitted to let the facts remain
 concealed. The trip developes inquiry
 and pleasurable intercourse. Each
 waking hour the scene varies some
 and incites new thoughts and inquiries.
 Within twenty years, much of the
 route has been made characteristically
 historic, and the average traveller is
 more or less informed as to the items
 of interest. Detailed recitals cannot
 appear in THE CITIZEN, but 1t is simply wonderful to observe the leave
 takings at Council Bluffs by those who but few days previous knew nothing of each others existence, and the smallest journal may we'll allow space to record the hearty good wishes, these new made friends bestow upon each other at parting; their expres- sions of anxiety about meeting again in Chicago, New York or other prob able or even possible place their mu- tual thanks for kindnesses on the journey and real contributions to the good feeling so generally maintained, and so forth. One of our most inter. esting overland companions was a Mrs. Pinkerton, just approaching her seventy-ninth year. She is native of Boston, and has closed @ year and half of a visit to her sons in Califor- nia. She distinctly remembers when not @ rail was laid for cars in the United States-a fact on which Ari- zonans might contemplate with inn proved patience and hope. Mrs. P. wildly recollects her sensations upon first seeing train of cars, and in con- versing upon the event, and times then and now, she becomes almost skeptical, and in recounting the won ders performed in the days of her own womanhood, and of the possible accomplishments yet in her lifetime, she speaks almost with awe. It was amusing to hear this sensible old lady criticise the actions and speech of those in the cars. No girl at fifteen to twenty years could have been more observant, and certainly none so cor rectly appreciative of firtations on the train, and like steamer travelling, an overland railway trip generates such performances. The young man who cultivates mutton chop whiskers, or parts his hair in the middle, or does both, Is certain to compel any weak girl or woman he meets to ex- hibit more or less folly with himself. When a case of this k1nd gets on to certain point, the actors become blind to the amusement it affords those around, and notwithstanding the show is free, one could hardly be more in and Mrs. P. was entertained this way on her late trip. Her re- marks on this character of diversion between Ogden and Omaha were scarcely less amusing than the di- verting but innocent actions which prompted them. l
 Aside from the ease and even rest on an overland trip now a-days, there is not much to interest the traveller who is so intent on busi- ness that he only pines for the end of what may be made @ delightful pas time to almost every one; but un- : fortunately a few uneasy mortals either have scanty stock of reason or no power to exercise the faculty, for on journeys by public conveyances, it nearly always happens that the