Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-14
WANTED: A WIFE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO
TRIBuNE,-Lexington, Illinois: l am
q young man on the sweet side of
30. am rich. suppose l am
worth ns much as 100000. l have
cultivated and harvested my wild
oats. l have seen all l desire to see
Of the world. l have travelled all
over the globe. l have stood awe
struck aud dumb with astenishment
at the Pyramids. I have gased upon
the cold and smilelcss features of
Sphinx, which has stood for centuries
the mute monument Of departed
glory. I have sailed through the
streets of glorious Venice in a gon-
dolia, and been wooed to love dream
ing slumber on the bosom of the
Adriatic by the 1--we song Of gay
xondolier. l have visited the AL
hambra by moonlight, aud beheld
with ecstacy bcauteous Spanish
maidens dancing to the music Of Cas-
tinet and Lutte. Jerusalem | have
wept over, and stood within the
solemn halls of the Mosque of Omar.
The Tomb of I'll has beea drenched
by my tears. made pilgrimage
to Mecca, and have qucnched m
thirst at the we'll of st. Dustan. l
once blew my nose on the top of the
Tower Of Pisa, and l had the good
fortune to ascend in a balloon from
the summit of Pompsy's Pillar. l
have wandered through the ruins of
Herculnneum, and eaten of bread
baked seventeen thousand yoars ago.
l swan the Helicspont, and took
refuge in tho Parthenon, in Il violent
thunderstorm. | have travelled over
the Apipan Way. and slobbered on
the big toe of his Sublime Eminencc,
Pope Plus TX. Ihave passed incog.
through Teheran and Samareand,
bnthed in the Black Sea, and danced
ajig on the top Of Kremlin. I have
inspected several thousand mummies,
and made a journey to Ujiji. 1 wept
three gallons Of tears at the grave of
Heloise and Abslard, and walked
through the sewers of Paris. l
visited the battlefield Of Waterloo,
and picked up thirty-two bushels of
bullets, which now have in my Gao
met Of curiasities. | have seen the
largest Elephant in the world, which
is in the Royai Stables IF the King
Of Siam. He is onc huadred and
eighty feet high, and So broad across
the back that forty commoa ele-
phants might stand on INN, with
space enough between them To play \
game Of croquct. l have seen all
the natural curiosities in the world.
l have visited the most stupendous
precipiccs, and awful CULTS and
chasms, that aie to be found on the
globe. I was oncc at the crater of
Vesuvius when lady fell in. Filled
with terror, I jamped after her and
miraculously caught her when she
reached the depth of three hundred
feet, and we were drawn up with
ropes. i was once on the top of the
highest mountain in the world. l
got so high that my watch stopped,
and it was impossible for a human
being to breathe minute. Ire
manned over an hour at that giddy
aight. 1 am perfectly surfeited with
travel and sight-sceing-yea, l am
disgusted.
As for the fashionable world, I am
sick OF that. Ihave been at all the
society resorts and haunts of pleas
ure in the world. have tasted Of
the waters of Ems. Baden Baden
has seen my swest countcnance.
have been among the elite, the upper
ton, the bon ton. I have sat within
the luxurious and wanton courts Of
royalty; and what a'mass of sinking
humanity II all ls-faughl / can't
express my disgust. l have seen al
the pretty notsbly, Tho
Princess of Wsfes and the ex.Bm.
press Eugenie, and l am disgusted
with pretty women; am disgusted
with travel, with society, with hollow
humsnity-in short, I am disgustcd
with everything and everybody I
have ever sscn, and now want to