The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1875-06-12
Moving i'm Danbury.

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.. Moving in Danbury.
a woman's idea of moving is to wear
n pair of old shoes, her husbands linen
duster, damaged hoopskirt, and II last
years jockey turned hind side before.
Thus formidably attircd, with pocket
full Of screws, nails and picture cords,
and n limbcr-bladed cnsc-knife in one
hand and q broom in the other, she is pre-
pared to believe that something is about
TO bc done. The first move she makes is
at the pGrlor carpet. She takes up two
tacks in about fifteen minutes, puts them
in pint saucer, in the middle of the
floor where il will not be in the way.
Then she goes into the hall to tell the
carman to be careful in bringing down
the large rocking-chair, MS her mother
gave it to her. After that she darts into
the KITCHEN, stops suddcnlyin the middle
Of the room and says: "N0w, what was
it was going to do2" and then races ND
stairs with great hustle on suddenly re-
membering that pair Of vases were not
packed away with the bedding. But they
were packed away, and when she dis
covers the fact, she comes back, saying
that she has so much to do she don't
really know what she wns about. After
wards, she draws out the glassware to
put it in n barrel, and after packing away
IL couple of tumblerS and salt-ccllar,
takes down her dresses and examines
them with rs much care "a if she was
going to ball, and the carriage was al
ready at the door. In the midst of this
survey, she suddenly thinks Of something
else, and rushcs off to attend to it
the casc-knifa in one hand, the broom
in the other. When the stove is taken
down, she is thcrc-whcn the bureau is
being lifted, she is in the exact way Of
the man who is going backward-whcn
the cnrman gets upon the best chair to
take down frame she is there to rcbuke
him. She attends to everything. She
makes her husband 90 out doors and clean
his feet. She gets in the way when they
are moving the icc-chest. She leaves The
dust-pan just where the carman's assist
ant can step on the handle, and have it
turn with him Mt most unfortunate time.
She gets the brOom-stick cntangled with
her husbands legs, which makes him
swear. She tries to lift n tw0-bushcl
bnrrcl Of crockcry, and finding she can
not do it, tells the carman she is not so
strong rs she used to be, and then con-
tents herself with carrying down m old
wooden chair which has just been
brought upstairs to be used in removing
things from the walls, and which has to
bc found and brought up ngain by some
one else. But it is loading where she
makes herself conspicuous. She brings
out n tcn-inch looking glass and wants it
laid in the bottom Of tic cart, and she don't
want anything else 10 go on until she can
get her work-basket. She thinks the
stove and bedroom set should ride to-
gcther, and is quite confident that if the
bureau is permitted to stand on the cart
as il does, it will never again bc fit to he.
seen. The carmnn steps ON her and walks
over her, and is swearing all the while
down in his throat, but she don't mind
him. She knows that that load isn't put
on rs II ought to be, and that there is
room for lois Of things yet. She brings
on clock, nnd n length of damaged
stnvcpipc, and pair of old boots coy
cred with mildCw, and small basket of
empty spice boxes, and al old gaitcr. and
the back of u worn-Out vest, and wants
them all put on the cart. She says there
is plenty of room, and the things will
come useful sometime, and they don't
tnkc up nny room anyway. And just ns
the coach is moving away she rushrs
after 1t with secondhand peach can
stuffed with debris, which she sucCcss-
| fully introduces into the lond, and then
comes back In triumph. And while the
cnrman is gone, she is just ~ busy as she
can bc telling the woman next door TINT
| she can put just three times ns much
stuff on that cart ns is on il, and if she
has got TO move again she believes she'll
| give IL right up aud die DnnJury Reles.
a GENIUS ron TEAcufNa.--A remark
able natural teacher in PENNSYLVANIA is
described by tho New York Ttacher.
This man, who was shoemaker had such
unusual intelligence and information that
the children Of his village would gather
to listen to his talk. Presently, divers
families surprised linn by cntrcatics 10
teach their children, and upon his refusal
returned To the charge with the request
on paper signed by every man and wo.
man in tho village. lie accordingly be-
gan q school in an old blacksmith's shop
and soon became so Interested in hi.
work that hc had no thought Of ending IL
lIC became known. though not through
advertisements; pupils were brought from
n distance, good school house was built
and since 1920 hc has educated 1896
scholars from abroad. The elements o
his SUCCESS arc stated t. hc sincere in
lcrcst in the welfare Of every student
placed under his charge, his enthusiasm
for everything Of q scientific character
and his desire and intention that his pu
pills shall really know what is brough
before them. lie spares no expense fo
apparatus, drawings, and every kind Of II
lustration, especially such as will enter
tain rs we'll MS SOW tho seeds Of science
a NORTHWESTERN paper accuses IBrc
llartc of the crime Of wearing pntchc,
pantnloons. Tlcaccusation Is absurd. |
the most gifted Of the nrchangcls were L
appear IN patched pantalnons aud offer tn
atlantic Monthly II contribution II woult
he rejected with scorn.-- Courier. Journal