Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-01-18

: FROM report of new lecture O
, his we take the following extracts:
! Every consumptive invalid was urpet
to throw physic to the dogs and max,
their systems strong and perfect by
little camp life at Lake Tahoe. Sale
the speaker:
III 1t don't cure them, | will bur,
them, shall be glad to bury them
snail be glad TO do it. will give
them funeral that will be a comfor,
10 them as long as they live. But /,
VIII cure them. met man there
! hcwas a man Once-now he was moth.
ing out a shadow and very Door
shadow mt that--and that man had
come there deliberately to die, and
what slcklv failure he made OF il
lie was IN dead earnest. He had heard
,hat this AR was easy and soothing to
breathe. rs God knows it is; and he
haa simply come there to have what
comfort he might whilst life ebbed
away. And he had brought along n
p'ah oil ms private graveyard, and PIC
lures and drawings of different kinds
OF cotiins and hearses. and such things
and he never did anything but sit
around and study that graveyard, and
hSure at collins, and such things, try
ing 10 make up his mind which kind he
iiAed best, or which kind would be the
most becoming. And when | saw that
man three months afterwards he was
chasing mountain sheep over noun
tam seven miles high, with Sharp's
riHe. lie did not get them, but he
chased them all the same. And he
had used up all his graveyards and
co'iins-all his plans and pictures, for
waddlng-and sent for more.
When | first saw him. his clothes
hung about him-why, they did not fit
MN any more than circus tent tits
Tue tent poles, but now they cling TO
him ike court plaster. He could hard
~ breath without starting a seam. He
weighed a ton-he weighed more than
ton. | throw in the odd ounces
eleven, | think it was. But know
what am talking about. because Hook
hun To the hay scales myself. Ihere
was a lot OF US stood on there with
him.
But, really, that was remarkable
cure have exaggerated 1t little.
ou ought not 10 have noticed il. But
NtIii 1t was 4 cure and very renarnA.
Die one. | wish YOU would not h,eI
my nonsence, but simply take note Of
worth having accomplished. I Im
really sincere about that.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP.
Ii there is sportsman in this audi
ence, | say to him, shouide. your gun
and 20 out there. IL Is the best hunt
IN place Oh the face OF the earth. You
can find mountain sheep, but YOU can
not get near them. on can see plcn-
~ OF them with a spy glass. Bat that
WAS the only game | saw worth speak
ing OF, when was there. except seven
up. will here remark that the noun
tain sheep j. our American chamoIs-
French pronunciation lie Is the same
kinu they maze the chamols leather OF
in other countries We would here If
We could catch him. He has enormous
horns, and is 4 pretty lagre animal, too.
He is 50 shy 50 very shy, that I'LL. AL
most impossible ioget within rife-shot
of him. He inhabits the rockiest fast
nesscs of the mountains
sHovELLISG SAND.
L had 10 go TO work in q quartz mill
at $40 week. A nice place truly, for
the proprietor of hundred silver
mines But was glad To get that
berth But | could not keep it. They
did not want me. | didn't know why
was the most careful workman they
had. They said SO. took more pains
with my work. was shOyelllng sand.
| The technical term is failing. The
silver rock is ground over once or
twice and they clean it up and work it
| over again Whenever | had a lot Of
| that sand to shovel | was so particular
I that would sit down for an hour anu
| a half and think about the best way TO
shovel that sand. And il | could not
! cipher it out in my mind Just SO, |
would not 20 shovelling it around heed
| less, | would leave it alone til next
| day.
MANY a time when | would be car
rying a bucket full of sand from one
pile to another, thirty or forty feet off,
right in the middle, suddeptr, a new
idea would strike nie, and would car
ry that sand back, and 1T down and
think about it. ana hke enough get so
wrought up, and absorbed in it. that |
would 90 to Sleep. Why, | always
knew there must be some tip top, first
| rate way to move that sand. AT last
discovered it, went to the boss,
and told him that | had got just the
thing, the best and quickest way to get
that sand from one pile to the other.
And he said 1 am avail glad to hear
it, You never saw man so upifted
as he was. 1t appeared to take load
of his breast-a load of sand, | sup
pose. And | said-what YOU want
now is cast iron pipe about IL or IA
feet in diameter, and say ~ feet long
And you want to prop one end of that
up about 80 or 80 feet on the ground.
And then you want revolving belt
lust work it with the waste steam from
the engine--a revolving belt with re-
volving chair to it. l am to sit in that
chair, and have Chinaman down there
to fill up the bucket with sand, and
pass it up as come around, and am
TO soar up there and tilt it into that
pipe, ana there you are. 1t is as easy
as rolling off log.
You never saw Il man SO overcome
with admiration-so overwhelmed. Be
fore he knew what he was about he dis
charged me-
THE CODE DUELLO.
From Esmarelda, the scene of his
| ,nipir1r oNnloifs Marx want To Xir.rinia n