The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-01-17
CURsoRY GL1MPsEs:
What We Guess About Some Places
and Things-Kalamazoo.

The revised edition of the travellers diction-
airy, contains the following explicit definition:
"Traveiing. A state of physical and mental
torture, suspense and uncertainty, attending
perils of transportation, which if endured
without profane murmurings, entities one to
seat among the just men made perfect" 9th
er similar meanings are also given. Conscious
of the certainty of uncertainties, We ran all
the way to the depot, the other morning, to
catch the train for the West, that was one
hundred and fifteen minutes late. Had it been
on time we would have had fifteen minutes
to wait, but then there is nothing like being
at the depot in time to ask the ticket agent
question or two, and to assure yourself that
the train from the east will positively 60 west.
One hundred and fifteen and fifteen is Just
two hours and ten minutes, for
depot reflections Hale entertained
us with an eulogy on the late Edwin
Forrest, tragedian, deceased, which he rem
dered with remarkable effect, owing to the pc
culiar circumstances under which he once
heard him in Cleveland This was once upon
a Friday morning, and all at once serious
question occurred to us, whether we would
reach the objective point of our journey in
time for divine service on Sabbath morning,
notwithstanding it was only days ride in
fair weather. We consulted vast number of
timetables, some as far back as 80, read a
treatise on the speed and capacity Of locomo-
tives, and figured out an astronomical prob
lem on the fly leaf of hymn book, a cOmbina-
ton of processes by which we arrived at the
conclusion that we would reach there in time
for the frontispieee Of the discourse.
The train being late, most of the passengers
were fast asleep, a state of things that always
causes a scarcity OF seats in a railway car, no
matter how few the occupants. We could
have mounted water tank in the corner,
without appropriating an 'engaged" seat, but
not wishing to appear as if we felt above the
rest, we refrained. A tall set man, had piuch-
ed himself into the narrow compass Of four or
five seats, and as we dropped diHidently into
one, remarked that it was "engaged" but we
suggested that we didn't care so long as it
wasn't married, and continued to sit. The train
stops twenty minutes at Toledo, by permission
of the humane managers, to give an oppor-
tunity to witness the effect of long usage upon
table linen, as displayed in the dining hall up
stairs for seventy-fve cents, or to take sta
ton at the counter down stairs, and reflect on
the last warm meal you had at home.
Beyond Toledo, the most natural pastime
for wakeful traveller was to observe. Two
feet of snow or less on the ground, and thir-
teen thousand fakes to the square inch hut.
tering and chasing each other in the air, are
not calculated to aid in forming correct i'm
presslons of towns and country, but such cir
cumstances are extremely favorable for guess
ing.
Lenawee Junction is about the size of Par
is, but isn't built up yet. Its solitary appear
ance is evidence that it was first settled by ole
maids, and has never gone out Of their posses
sion.
Adrian is noted for its great number oi
small children, and for their safety. The
town is built at considerable distance from
! the railroad.
Hudson derives its name from the fact tina
the town could Just as well have been built OF
the Hudson river, as in Michigan. Histor,
shows that the location was not the fault o
! town at all, but of the first settlers.