The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-19
A Wheeling School Teacher ON Her
Summer Tour-She Tells Her Ex-
perience I'm n Sleeping Car. and
Her Troubles at Niagara Falis-An
Interesting Letter.
TNpoCTn AuODst II

| per1ence IN Sleep1uS &aF. ohu
Her Troubles at Niagara Falis-An
Interesting Letter.
TORONTO, August II.
Editors of the Register.
Friends and brethren of my dearly
beloved Wheeling, pray pity the
sorrows of the lone, lone old maid
No darling, dumping husband to rule,
nodear, delightful offspring to rule US, it
is by wandering TO and fro upon the
face of this grand continent, and gazing
upon the wonders thereof That we seek
consolation.
Need we relate our travelling expert
ence? What sojourner upon railroads,
steamboats,, &C. has not experienced the
same2
Changing cars at the witching hour of
midnight, you follow the sleeping car
conductor to your berth, delightful Wis.
ions of sleep, rest and peace floating
across your poor, tired brain. How the
vision begins to cloud rs, taking hasty
glance at surroundings, you observe that
your opposite neighbor, with all the in
dependent airiness of the masculine per.
suasion, has his curtains spread open to
their widest extent.
How you hope he may be asleep, and as
you stoop just Il little to take second
glance, and great pair of wide-awake,
half-amused gray eyes deliberately OBJ
serve your movements. With what sud
den panic you disappear, drapcry, shoes
and all within the depths of your own
berth
Then, aftel sore tribulstion that none
but the feminine mind can comprehend,
you succeed in detaching yourself from
hair-pins, bustie, etc, and assuming
position approximating comfort.
Don't you find that with
your window closed, you smother, and
with it open you get your hair, mouth
and eyes full of dust and cinders?
Then, by and by, when, in spite of
cinders, clsng of bells and scream OF
locomotives belonging to passing trains,
you sleep, suddenly the curtain parts, u
glare of light, great hand thrust al
most into your face, and you expect to
hear, "Your money or your life both in
convenient to spare when SO far away
from home; but "rickct, madam" from
the conductor helps you realize your
| truo situation.
Again, when you make a special ar
rancement not TO be disturbed until 10
A. NJ, and the porter routs you up at a
A. NJ. 20 sec about that ticket, and re-
checking that baggage; and when it is
all settled and you are SO thoroughly
walked up that, although you want and
badly need sleep, you cant sleep one
sin : Ie wink more, my dear sister teacher,
have you never, never wished from
the very depths of your heart,
that you were man, a brother, that you
might consistently swear piece?
OF course you have seen the great
Niagara Falls. Now we did expect to
write poem on this occasion. Never
wrote poetry in our hfe-not even ma
chine poetry; but then everybody said
the sight of Niagara Falls would inspire
US. We believed, them and prepared
skeleton. noting down all the grandilo-
auent words in our vocabulary,
gorgeous, magnificent, transcendent,
resplendent for instance; but alas
for that poor finty soul that won't
enthuse to order! We tried our very best
and couldn't.
Do you recolect long time ago, when
YOU were n very little youngst,r and the
big folks took you to the show in order 10
let yo,t see the animals, how sadly you
were disappointed because the lion was
not great deal larger than h0rse, and
how you were almost disguised because
YOU did not feel the ground shake when
| he roared?
Well, we expected the great Niagara
| Falls to look about ten times MS high rs
they do, and to make hundred times as
much noise as they do. Of course, after
you got over your disappointment you
we're ready to pronounce the lion grand
old fellow after all and il we had lived
before the days o! hotels, elevators, hack.
| men, &c, when we might have
I ,oked as long and as much as
we desired without being molested
or made afraid, and had never
heard of Niagara Falls until wandering
along the banks of the river they sud
denly burst upon our view, We should
| doubtless have pronounced them over
whelmingly grand, and such a poem as
the world never dreamed of would have
been the result. As it is, every inch of
| this grand wonder belongs to somebody
or other-ialls, rapids, whirlpool and all;
and in our efforts 10 see everything that
is to be seen, we have had such frequent
occasion TO put our hand in our pocket
that we verify believe We have had an
attack of fifty on the brain. Read an
! extract from our memorandum:
Going up TO see f,lls.~~..............S 70
| Going down 10 see falls ~
Going across to See falls......... 30
| Viewing sunset at falls....-......--. ~
Viewing moOnshine NJ fallS....-.. %
| Sucezing at falls...-.--....-..... .......... ~
Throwing stone over lie falls. ~ W
Hotel bill, carriage hire, etc, etc. O,UD W
Verify, we are tempted topav our last
| ffty, lump over the Fails and thus end
| this worlds trials; but on second thought
| determined that when we are nominated
for President Of the United States, it
shall be part of our platform TO convert
the whole falls, rapids, whirlpool and
river banks for quarter OF a mile on
each side, into grand national park,
where rich and poor of every cline may
come, behold and admire without SIN
sic fifty cents TO pay.
SARAH JANE.