The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-12

/ '1DfSt-SeDSe' congregation, mean.' ~
. "WeIl." said Bill, throwing away
his studying-cap. "curse him LET
: him dream it out. I'll not trodble
|, him again soOn."
The conversations between VIII
liam Wilson and myself, as We rode,
J day after day, across broken noun
tains and gray, streamless valleys,
were to US twain interesting enough,
but need not, therefore, be Of interest
to other people. And yet, though 1
do say it myself, we msde some pref
ty sharp remarks on a great variety
4 ofsu6jects into which William at
times threw bis. .unbookish mind with
startling effect. Upon one occasion
he 'sgOt off," as he called it, his opin-
ion of italk.o
"Some fsllows.n he said, ''are al
ways putting up that talk is cleap;'
but I say talk is precious at twenty to
the pan. BlAb IS cheap but the first
thing 10 my mothers old Bible is talk.
God said let there be;' and them
words started off into the darkness
aud slumgullion of nowhere, putting
up stuff for heavy crops, and leaves,
and flowers, and business generally
"Why, William, you're 3 poetw
"NOt much! despise poetry. But
good sound talk set tue world 8 going,
and keeps her q humming on the pin.
I'D like TO know what would be the
use If people couldn't txlk-or didn't
talk I'd as soon be bump on log
as not to be able to talk. When =
fellow says to me: 'Oh, it's sll talk Ip
| say: You bet your life 1t is =
Newspapers and books ia talk. Law
and gospel is talk. Money is talk,
done up in tens and 'tWenties;i take
the talk out of ii, aud it's nothing"
Thus, one way or another, we Will
ed away the journey back to town !;
where left William, aud proceeded
about my business, lar away from the
nigh attitudes and dry valleys Of
Nevada.
Some months later 1 returned to
find the town in one of those mining
feyers which invariably follow the
discovery of rich silver ores. Picking
up the lively little daily newspaper
rom the clerks counter at the hotel
where stopped, and glancing over
1t, my eyes fell upon the following:
RICH STRIKEIS THE SILVER CHAMBER =
Wires, ropes, spangIes, fecks, and cakes OF
/ silver Chloride ores, by tons and tons, all
/ through the mine, with rica sulphureLs at
the water-leYeL
Nothing, except an ownership in
the property, could give US more sat
isfactiOn than We now enjoy in chrOni-
cling the grand success which has
crowned with q gorgeous silver
crown the long and tedious lzbOrs OF
the genial Brothers ROcksaw.
By invitation of Mr.. George Rock
saw We stepped into his buggy on
Saturday last, and after q pleasant
drive of two days, and q stiff climb
up the side of Pranghorn Mountain,
We were permitted to descend into the
mine. In the descent of the main
sBafG, aud for a hundred feet along the
main drift, there is nothing worth
mentioning; but at the end of this
hundred feet there opens scene more
gorgeous than the dream of the Count
de Monte Christie. All along the driit
overhead, under foot and upon the
hanging wall for q distance of 400
feet, the precious wealth of nature
glitters in the ''lsmr-light gloAting
Ger" Below this drift on the lower
level, a distance in perpendiculAr
depth of fifty feet and ia the noun
tain over 100 feet, there is even
richer picture. The mine is not de-
scriba6le except by EXPLANATIONS. 1t
is magnificent
The mine is patented under the
broad seal of Uncle Sam to George
RocksaW and Andrew ROcksaw, their
heirs and assigns, to have and hold
forever.
So Bill was mistaken after all about
that mine and the ROcksaws.-OreT-
land Monthly.
An Iowa editor who attended par
ty, was smitten with the charms of
fair damsel who wore q rose on her
forehead, and thus gushed about it:
Above her nose
There is a rose
Below that rose
There Is a nose.
Rose, nose
! Nose, rose,
| Sweet rose,
Dear nose.
Below her chin
There Is pin;
/ Above that pin
| There Is q cnin.
Pin, chin,
Chin, pin,
/ Sweet pin,
| Dear chin.
WhereupOn a rival editor thus apos-
trophisss the Iowa chap
Above the stool
There Is a fool;
| Below the fool
There Is a stool.
| stool, fool,
| Foil. stool,
| Old stool,
| Damphool.
| Below his seat
| There are two feet;
| Above these feet
/ There is a seat.
| Seat, feet,
| Feet, seat,
| Soft seat,
Big feet.
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