The daily gazette., 1877-02-17


four walked out of his boots, and over
the other fellows backs to, the shore;
number twenty-three walked out of his
boots and over the other fellows backs to
shore; then number twenty-five had his
| turn, and twenty y-one, and twenty, right
down TO number one; so that all their
L lives were saved, and they all marriedand
had two children, and lived happy ever
after. ~. % aefinuu 9-rgf v..sff .,t. d
But of course they didn't all marry
Mary Ann, who commenced a breach of
promise of marriage case against the in
ventor Of that asphalte pavement, and got
heavy damages too W. ''" i-i tTlal'
I Johnson's mule tried 10 cross it one
day and was captured, tight as wax, by
INC legs III, frf1r.a nGt -ffii,rt3s,iiiyrtoH
I Twas sorry for that mule, for he was
such an intelligent beast. { No one could
get to him to feed him; so, being of IAN
enterprising disposition, he set TO and
licked the asphalte. ,si9 Z, ,.ililsiio9 Si9i
BY and by he found ont that there was
no nntriment to be got out Of it, any more
than by chewing india-rubber, so be began
to sound his trumpet, beginning to neigh,
Hike horse, and then shouting wild, and
ending In q regular jackass bray. e1olsTaf
| Next day he took 10 making signals
with bis ears; for he was there still, and
he, could not walk out of bis, shoes, as
they, were nailed on. n He evidently knew
the telegraph code; for be would shoyeI
one ear forward and the other backward,
land then both forward, and end by stick
ling them straight out sidewise, which, ac-
Ecording to the book Of Military Code Sig
mails, Vol. ~, chapter ~. page 90, signi-,
fies Nov, then, arn't you going to hitch
a fellow out2Y lnldo OF Al 81 HnifrlngTig I
| But no help came; so he rested his ears,
and toek to signaling with his tail-won-
tderful g.iul3Isg Hid 9df lgql ilN0d8 ID,
l ThatItail stood right out, straight up,
sidewise, t'other side angle of 22t, per-
pendicular. slantipgdioular, horizontal,
duplex, vertical, very tickle, much more
/ tieklish. jewled in four holes, every posi-
L Last Of all his signals got so plain that
they launched the lifeboat, and 1T stuck
fast; while no sooner did they lower their
/ oars, and try to get her along, than they
stuck too, SO the crew came out, and
Iswore-powerful. ,,,-......... ..-......
Then, as the signals for help went on,
they brought out the rocket apparatus,
and fred lines over his back; but, Of
course, they were no use to mule who
could not even kick. They could not dig
him out, so they put up derrick, and a
manreached the animal swinging in the
air, and fixed the rope around under his
fore legs. Then they hoisted him, and
the mule rose with thick rope of pitch
hanging from each leg, so that by the
o mule with an extraordinary tendency
to grow in the legs. Then the tackle
slipped, and the asphalte was so elastic
that the mule few back in the old place
with "chock." But they got him out ai
last, without his hoofs.
The way the cats stuck in that asphalte
was something awful, and the noise worse
For no sooner was a cat fast by its paws
than--bow-wow-at it went a dog, and
he was fast too; when they went on talk
ling to one another till they were smoth
cred, which wasn't very soon. Ever sc
J, many cats and dogs were caught, and they
!. perished, stuck by their feet; so that after
while the whole street was filled with
boot legs and cat skeletons, and such rub
blsh, sticking upon the surface, until it
looked like a jungle. a.f.. b. ..-.-.s :.
One hot day, a boy, running. after his
top, fell on pavement, face downward
, and was clutched fast. They saved him
by cutting his clothing open in the back
and taking the boy out naked, like pea
from the pod; but he left the tip of his
nose in the pitch. f.r.-. --.-,.4. ..,..
. | OO buCIo Wto ~ AOWJ anu OnCu thC ttu
thorities thought they would take the
pavement up. 1t could not be dug or cut
, | so the werkmen undertook TO rool it owe
7 as you would roll over sheet of music
: but when they had gone forty feet i
| lsprung back over the men, and assumed
] its old snaps, except that there were fou
Jumps on the surface where the buriet
workmen lay. At last they hitcheG
twenty or thirty horses to one end of tn
pavement, and hauled it away. Thel
q they slid it into the river, and it fioate'
' down below Spring Mill, and lodged up
4 ON shoal, and there it remained per
: mantly. s- -#s----
In the coure of year soil formed ol
it, and it is now rather handsome islam
, , and it is valuable, too. -..-,...,
No doubt some day 1t will be utilize'
!. by mining company that wants to g
: into business of getting out leather
d There are veins of old boots in that Is
/ land which would MAKE the fortune o
: anybody who knew how work them; AM
/, we are not certain but that ,it will pay +
l get out the cat bones for fertilizers. ,,,
; Somehow or another there was some
t thing wanting, / cannot say what; bu
e taken altogether, Robinson's patent hy
f dro-galvanfc-terro-lig no7admanto= =unbrs
g do o-bituminous-asph cpitch-paving wa
not n success. ~, 80, 20. e. ,