The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-13
ANECDOTES.

D1pN'r GET RIDE.-The day Mr.. Ruby
across the way was to be buried Mrs Mort
aty told her daughter Clarinda that she
guessed she would attend, as she wasn't
feeling very well, and ride would do her
good. She knew there would be several
covered carriages furnished at the expense
of the family, and she was equally confident
| it could be so managed that she would &C.
cupy portion Of one of them. She was
among the first at the house, and occupied
prominent position. AS the other friends
arrived she took occasion to recall remnis-
cences of the late Ruby that brought tears
to their eyes, and when the services were
over, as the first coach drove up for its load,
the distress of Mrs. Moriaty at the death of
Mr.. Ruby was so marked as to excite the
liveliest sympathy. Then the second coach
came up. Mrs. Moriaty had got down to
the gate by this time, and as the door of
the second coach was opened, and call
made for the occupants, it seemed extreme
ly doubtful if she could hold up another in
slant. She leaned against the post, and
stared into the coach, and over its rich up
holstering, and said the late Ruby seemed
more like son to her than a neighbOr.
Whereupon the usher looked appropriately
sad, and called up the third and last coach.
This had yellow cushions and pink straps,
and Mrs. Moriaty didn't hesitate to protest
that in the death of Mr.. Ruby the commu-
nifty had met loss it was not possible to
recover from, and that she would follow
him to his last resting place if she had to
do it on her hands and knees, and would
feel grateful for the opportunity, Then the
third and last coach filled and drove off to
take its place in the line, and Mrs. Moriaty
dried her tears, choked back the sorrow of
her heart with one mighty gulp, and strobe
into her own house, shutting the front door
without the aid of the knob. She told
Clarinda that it was the scaliest affair she
ever went to, and had it not been for the
body there would have been no funeral at
all.-Ddnbuyy Ne,cS.
ANEcDoTE OF JOSEPH BoNAPARTE.-A
correspondent of the Times, writing from
Northern New York, gives some interest
ing incidents connected with Joseph Bona
parties residence in America. He owned
large tract of territory on the borders of the
Wilderness, whether he used to repair dur
ing the summers between 1920 aud 1880
for sport, and the people in that vicinity
still entertain visitors with "reminiscences of
his hunting excursions. Here is an anec-
dote which the correspondent vouches for
as authentic : On one of his journeys from
tidewater to his northern retreat, the count
the ex-king was known as the Count de
Survilliers) and his retinue stopped for
breakfast at a wayside inn on the Mohawk,
kept by thrifty Dutchman. The land
lord knew who his guests were, and bestir-
red himself to furnish good entertainment.
The meal over, as the party was about to
proceed, the counts secretary brought him
the report that the extravagant charge of
one hundred and twenty-five dollars was
made by the host. The items were demand
ed, and after putting down a round price
for everything provided both for men and
horses, the items footed only fifty dollars.
The Dutchman was in quandary. Like
some other and later landlords, he intended
to graduate his charges by the abilities of
his guest to pay F.; and, knowing that the
guest could pay, he was not the host to
abate anything. While he puzzled over
the bill, the count again called impatiently
from his carriage for the items. The land
lord desperately scored down few words,
and sent the bill back by the secretary.
The count glanced at it, and found that I'M
der the charges, amounting to fifty dollars,
the following had been added, " A dam fuss,
seventy-fve dollars" His sides shook
with laughter as he read it and he said to
his secretary, in French, "The fellow de-
serves that, and more, for his wit and impu
dence. Give him five hundred dollars"
THE CHoLERA.-We perceive in the pa
pers that an Atlanta doctor advises persons
who wish to avoid the cholera to stand on
their heads for a considerable time each day,
for the purpose of causing abdominal de-
preston" 1t will be an affecting spectacle
for man to come home in the evening and
see his wife and children and his aunt all
standing on their heads in row in the en-
try waiting for abdominal depression. We
cannot couscientiously recommend the pre-
scrption, but it is much better than that
offered by Bethlehem doctor, who advised
persons to get some one to sit upon their
stOmachs for few moments each day.
Ridgely was struck with the idea, and he
asked his next door neighbor, McGann, to
assist him. Mccain weighs over two hun
dred pounds, and when he stopped to sit on
Ridgely, he came down as it were with
=" squash" which knocked the breath out of
Ridgely and made him totally insensible.
But Mccain was not aware of the fact, so
he took paper from his pocket and began
to read. He gradually became so much in
terested that he forgot himself completely !;
and he studied up the commissions in France,
and devoured the editorials on Gen. Butler,
and guessed the conundrums, and he chuck
led over the Indian massacres, and informed
himself about the prices of marketing, and
cried over the bad grammar in the locals,
and tried to parse the marine intelligence,
and poisoned his mind with the certificates
of patent medicine cures He was thus alb
sorbed for four hours, and then he happen
ed to think of Ridgely. Ridgely was be-
ginning to look blue about the mouth, and
he was only brought two by soaking him
for day or two in brandy and hartshorne.
And now he is not only conscientiously op-
posed to compression of the stomach as a
cholera preventive, but he is praying that
the cholera will break out in the Mccain
family and rattle the entire concern into
the silent grave. Mccain has left town
for the summer, because he knows Ridgely's
shotgun never will scatter.-Mnr AdeLeT.
A wife wrote to her husband, absent in
California, that the longer he stayed the
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