The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-11-12

tie fingers and tell me hosts of things
about her bridal days thirty and two
long years ago, she said lounges, if
tired the decks, if inclined to prone
made; ever-changing scenery; and
over and above all, Ware at my
side with all a lovers attention and
a young husbands assiduity-why
wasn't it just as good bridal trip as
if had seen Niagara by moonlight,
or tried the ocean and seasickness to
Paris, with flying visit to London,
and dip at Vienna, and peep at
Dresden, and birds eye view of this,
that or the other European city, ham,
let, mountain or lake?
l tell you, my dear nieces and
nephews, you may all thank your
fortunes if you ever have, when the
time comes, as happy bridal tour as
your old Auntie had on the Nun1av
Lake, creeping down the Ohio,
through you may go to all the won
derful places in the world when you
take it.
1t is the atmosphere of disinterested
affection, and not the glare Of style
and wealth, that makes things look
lovely and be lovely, too, for that
matter, on bridal trips, and through
honey moons and all along the path
way Of married life, and he or she
who relies on any substitute for this
will find, it may be early, it may be
late, that a mistake has been made
hard to be rectifed.
But / am not to moralize at all in
this book, and so / break off and drop
the temptation.
At W as the Nanny Lake
passed under the bridge that spanned
the Ohio, she lowered her two pipes.
The derision was hailed with shouts
Of laughter from all aboard ; those in
the state rooms, or otherwise in the
dark or to the cause of the merriment,
rushing out upon deck or to the bal
lustrade to learn what was going on,
and then joining Justify in the peals
of laughter that one after another
broke forth from both crew and pas
sengers.
Those Of my readers who are old
enough will remember that deadly
feud existed between the bridgeites
and the steamboatites. The bridge
had been voted a nuisance by the
boat companies because it necessitated
the lowering Of their pipes in order to
pass under. In return for this, the
boat companies had been considered
stupid bats and blind moles by the
bridge company not to see the struct-
ure across the Ohio in the light of a
great national blessing. Much elo-
quence had been expended in the re-
spective causes, but neither party had
been convinced Of the error of it's way.
Ossa had been heaped upon Pelion
by the boat companies, but that
brid dge still held its own and bade de.
fance to all the world. At last the
case had gone to the court, and the
lawyers rejoiced if no one else did
What took place within the temple
Of Justice, how attorneys showed how
this and that was perfectly right, and
others showed just as clearly that il
was perfectly wrong ; how the plain
tiff proved these and those perfectly
illegal, and the defendant established
beyond doubt of q sane mind, you1
honors, that these and those were per
fectly legal; how Grimshaw's Reports
sustained this view and how Smith
upon Brown did not sustain that very
same view; how my learned frient
was contradicted by every eninen
|jurist of the land, and how the dis
tinguished counsel had certsinly for
gotten the very first principles of tn
law ; how the profound Mr.. Habea
enunciated a principle that went ik
a thunderbolt to the hopes of ever,
bridgeite present in the courtroom
and how the wise-looking Mr.. Fieri
facias, who had been engaged in ever,
important case in the State for fort,
J.; years, looked q look at the judge
that caused every boatite to quake il
his Wellingtons; how the JUNO
counsel undid long yards of red tap
from formidable looking affidavit
J and dispositions with a flourish and
professional dignity and skill VI
} equalled in the history of any preced
ing case before the courts; how tn
judge blew his official nose over tn
knots into which the plain question b.
fore him had been twisted and gnarle
by the attorneys; how whenever Nj
Debonisnon grew witty and made tn
people laugh, the crier frightened a
the female witnesses BY stentorian d.
mands of order in the court ; hoo
days were spent and recesses taken {
ten minutes each, and lunches cate
openly and beverages taken but nc
openly how the witnesses were COZ
, jured to bear in mind that they wei
sworn and the jury to bear in min
that they were men of families an
that the eyes of the entire world we,
: upon them; how His Honor the gres
> Judex Tacit per Sc summed the cas-
Z up and directed the jury to find fo
the plaintiffs if they didn't find for tt
r defe ndants, and not by any means t
, find for the defendants if they had t
}, find for the plaintiffs ;-how th