Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-30
NOTES AND QUERIES.

the politicals nor yet the fault finders. 1t is
KEEP .or sweeter purposes. Still this Notary
may be permitted, or may permit himself,
rather, to wish that the time might come when
we of Carson conld afford the comforts of a
coal-fre, if for nothing else, for yarietys sake.
We suppose it is not quite unreasonable to
hope that one of these days that great philan-
thropic machine and conservator of the public
veal, the Central Pacific Railroad Company,
will cease to make a charge of twenty odd dol
lart per ton for hauling coal from Carlin to
Reno while they fetch the Evanston coal nigh
eight hundred miles (from Utah to San Fran
cisco) for seven dollars per ton. This is not
complaint for and in behalf Of Mr. J. Q. A
II. any other individual it is not even
specific murmur; but it is a sort of wistful
longing for the coming Of more enjoyable
era of peace and prosperity, amity, concord
and coal. As pious New Englanders prayed
agsinst the embargo SO. do we put up voice
for the lifting off of some of the oppressive
load Of transportation charges laid by the Pa
cfc Railroad people. Why at present rates one
can't send his friend in California bag of our
delicious mountain potatoes without mourning
an expense which makes each one Of those es-
culents worth its weight i'll an irredeemable
currency. 49,. Cowper, the good and genial
poet immortalized his tea-urn by his famous
lines so often quoted:
Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And whil9 the bubbling and loud Kissing
That cheer but not inebriate wait EACH
SO let Us welcome peaceful evening IN.
HIS biographers tell us that William Haz-
lett, most gifted of English critics, was great
tea drinker; and travellers tell us that the |
breakfast drink in England is tea and not |
coffee. Then why may not this 'umble Quer
ist sing the praises Of good tea and while so
singing say word for those who make the
drinking of that harmless stilnulant posi-
bility of our remote civilization 1t is the well
ordered firm of Reinstein s. Gibson, Grocers,
King street, who have proven themselves a
joint and partnered benefaction. The CRATE
full fact appears in glowing colors that they
are importers of very superior quality of
japanese tea and these Ms and Q's are glad
to embody, give forth and illustrate decided
thankfulness for generous giving of the same
at the kitchen door, Oh but the wind is
tempered to the shorn lamb, and tea drinking
editors have their reward! Your true mer-
chant knows your true scribe quite as GER
tainly as the lion knows the true prince. .....
Fumbling about among certain rubbish which
has accumulated under the jumbling capaci- }
ties of this Notary, we have come upon a copy
of a little book entitled Kim's Illustrated
Guide to the Museum of models, Patent Of
fee. Washington. We find the following in c
teresting statement concerning that establish S
ment in the opening part of this handy little +
work: "The collection of models of Ameri t
can and foreign inventions patented under the t
laws of the United States, and here arranged t
for exhibition, is without a rival in the world,
and speaks more for the intellectual energy
and originality of our citizens, than volumes
of written history The Patent Office was q
founded in 1890, end up to December Is, h
1886, upwards of 10000 patents had been is f
sued At the latter date the museum, which
occupied q structure originally designed for i
hotel, met with an irreparabIe loss in the des y
truction of nearly the entire collection of :,
models by fire. The number of models now
reaches 155, 600 and the increase, about $50 o.
week, is so rapid that the large space devoted II
to the display of the collection has become in n
sufficient No less than 5000 rejected and W
unclaimed models have been distributed 70
amongst institutions of science, or sold to A
make room. In 1886 the Patent Office was +e
materially as it stands at present al
The magnificent building was commenced in II
1887, and completed in 1864" So it seems
that this late fire is the second one which has
come upon the museum of models We will u
wager a light amount that there are enough left y
to craze any ordinary mind. The one article u
Of looms is enough to addle the pate of any w
susceptible person. We note that our 20
genial friend Martini long time Mr.. Wllllss VI
assistant at the prescription desk, has gone to
Bodie. He will engage in the business of an ~
apothecary there, We bespeak good word ~
or Martin. He is a gentleman, and is
thoroughly acquainted with his profession, di
We trust we shall never forget the generous de
race of his ready right hand as it has, Oh so de
many times, turned on the sody and mixed wa
he restoring pill May Bodie act as an alter ma
tive rno, his fortunes. prove a tonic to his ve