Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-21
Correspondence OF The DAILY APPEAL

CORRESPONDENCE OF The DAILY APPEAL
Washington. d. c., May II. 1876.
Mr.. Editor: Looking at my bedraS-
yled shoes, on which no backing IS
or seems to have been: feeling the
twinges OF . lingering tic doioreaux.
all over my upper maxillary system !;
remem bering, with painful pertinacity
Of anatomical arrangement, my ium-
bago, my sore muscular, vascular anu
sub cutaneous economy, ! sit and
think and wink and ponder and be-
lieve myself to be as absurd, ridicu-
lous and preposte-ous an object as
ary which was displayed on Wednes-
.av at the International Exhibition at
Philadelphia. And speaking OF the
word exhibition. l call to mind the
opening words OF Chapter Xxx (2O) Of
Tom Hoods .'SchooimistvessAbroad,'
which reads thuswise, to wit. namely,
a. follows:
There is IA certain poor word in inc
English language which OF late years
nas been exceedingly i'll u>ed-and II
InUs: be said, by those wno ou@h' u nave
known better ,, .,
word was first perverted from its real
significance at the very Headquarters OF
Te,rrtng-bu: who knows what cost ana
Inconvenience the duplic!ty OF the term
may have caused to the more iSnoraht
nei.: berS of the community. just inaS-
inc. for instance, a plain, downright kh-
.rIissYaan who calls a spade spaoe-.n-
tucec perhaps by the facilities o! tne
a. ki NO a Ill v,
ami repairing to Cambridge or OXioru,
may he with his whole family, TO see ne
hoes not know what-whether COilec-
ton O: Pictures, Wax Work, via IN
,.ians. Fat OK or a Fat Child-but at
any rate an ENuIBIrIoN
AS Macaeath says, terrible snow.
/ also notice that further along in the
same essay Hood says. quoting from
a conversation OF his own sweet dsvIs-
ing, "we went abroad for pleasure
and have me; nothing but pain and
trouble"
This. tie insignificant misconse-
,uence Of an aching corn: the mean,
ing.orious seIf-importance of cold !;
Lie small and sordid remembrance of
4 so;led stocking; the self-reproach
os no: owning carriage or being prU-
dent enough to purchase-or continue
10 take care of-a modest cotton UNI
brel.a! oh how we 90 weigh our
own mean, petty troubles against the
history and likeness Of q grea. event
Vani;as vanitatunl
On Saturday, by the courtesy OF an
s-in
rode through all the grounds, saw all
the buildings and noted the grandeur
of this most marvellous Exhi-
American and Foreign Toy Shop.
TIE finest exhibit; was tha: OF the
good nature G. tie people. Great big
women in bombazine men from
Chester and Cumberland and Berks,
with children in their arms; sunny
faced policemen with a commission
for ninety days and an amateurs ar
dor for making, each himself, distin-
-uished I" children with drums
strapped round them by the fond pa
ternal ass - cheerful and inquisitive
spinsters from New6urypOrt and
Bunstown and the adjacent precincts !;
these. smiling with a mirthful gener-
osity which admired ones exhibition
Clones magnificent self-sacrifice, per-
,.isted one to stand upon the iron
vestibuIe of street car. at the usual
price, and take the drip, drip, drip,
and soak, soak, soak, and because one
was unselfish enough to treat it as
Joke to grin at one another and think
him the butt of joke Of their'n
Did I say vanitas vanitatum II
did not, seriously meant to Go SO.
Bat whom say that the quarter OF
raill;on of people were good natured'
ana each disposed to do the best he
could to serve his nei2hbor and bear his
share Of tho jsmming and cramming and
pulling and hauling and pockes-pickins
sad squeezing Of persons. I mean te
be understood Is saying Just what say
Irsvsr saw a. sober and well.tsmpsret
mob, anywhere in my life.
Ian q patient man. ''go to-" l ik'
to have great. big coarse farmers lad
With hand like the hand OF Providence
sad foot like the Cardiff Giant stand il
front Of me on little girls only Sunda,
shoes, gsping at the bowling whslp whe
il selling. with stsntorous vehemencs
st pcblic vsndus. those never working
chilled-steel limitations OF the glszier''
diamond and that ever tiresoms sapona
csous compound which extracts th'
crease from coat collars and washes
clean the foul aud filthy conscience O
the average Democratic Congressman!
Was it Vanity Fair? Yss. and 20. Il
vas 70 rao.e Vanity Fair than Pig 1sor
Kelly aai his Tariff; j; vas no more
mocksry that the yellow bunting which
was flung to tho damp brsezss along th'
line of Chestnut and Arch and Market
and all over the long miles OF marble
trimmed houses Of that City OF Brosheriy
love; it was 60 more pa!patls vanity
tbar the dismal self-crowding OF pool