Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-04
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Somehow there has been mighty lean
picking for the items gatherer or other
chitfonier in and about the railway station,
of late months This speaks well for the V.
& T. management, but it does not stimulate
the local chronicler or help to sustain the in
terest of the reading public in the literature
of the rail. A leisurely visit to the vicinity of
the freight office yesterday revealed Mr..
Freddy in the attitude of supervising steve
dore or freightmaster- general directing the
efforts of gang of navvies who were busy
with wrecking derrick, unloading from some
| platform cars of the c. P. establishment,
sundry trucks and fats that have recently ar
rived here for the Narrow Gauge r. r. at
| the Lake. There are some twenty of these
narrow gauge flats, complete. This looks as
| if Messrs. Yerington, Bliss & Co. anticipated
busy campaign this season. This derrick
works with great ease and effectiveness The
running gear is of steel wire ropes; and when
the big hook which is attached to the lifting
block begins to tug away at any object to
which it has been attached, there is a very
certain and precipitous moving of things up
ward and downward and inward and outward
1t snatches half dozen tons of iron and
wood with the calm facility of movement
with which an elephant contiscates quarter
section of unguarded gingerbread from under
rustic's arm. At the passenger station Mr.
Chas. E. Laughton, the Auditor of the Com
pany, is to be found snugly enscOnced in his |
new quarters-the apartment lately occupied |
an Office by Messrs Yerington, Bliss & Co. |
The headquarters of this lumber and wood |
dealing firm have been transferred to their |
new building, east of the R. r. station. And |
while we are reciting what we know about R.
r. affairs, beg to direct the attention of
the reader to an item elsewhere appearing,
having reference to the movements of a GER
tain Sunday excursion train This project
will doubtless furnish very welcome means
of recreation to those who look upon the
Sabbath as Il day for such relaxations from
business finds, only, in the open air
and in the unrestrained liberty of the health
full sunlight. =. We are willing (or should be
if we ever countenanced gambling), to bet a
amount of subsidiary coins that We
have evolved, after much patient thought,
theory which will hold water concerning
frosts, frogs and fruit buds. Our theory rests
upon the validity, virtue and significance of
the croakings of the frog family. 1t is our
firm and answering belief that whenever
the night is warm enough for the frogs to
sing there will not be frost enough to impair
the fruit In the part of the city of which
We are thinking, there are apple, pear, plum,
cherry and peach trees in blossom. They
oudded out during the warm days of March
and have been exposed to all the perilous
rigors of April. But since those blossoms
began to appear, the frog has never
been postponed on account of the weather
or as much as single night, We have kept
H., ~
less, and know we rig ht. Besides we
never yet have made an erroneous prognos- =
ication concerning the weather We are as -,
rue-unless we take notion to fool some c.
)Ody by testing about the matter-as the bar Il
'meter, the divining rod, the mariners COM
,ass an old curmudgeons cOrns. 1t is i'm
possible that We can make a mistake 1t is
great faculty, and We neither abuse nor I'M
ervalue it. We can tell Just as certain, a
week ahead exactly what kind of L
weather. it is going to be as "a
we had the whole works bottled til
p in homeopathic vial. 1t is IA gift-lke he
ARTS Carson street is full of interest Just c.
ow-interest and principal. We do not NJ
now man who is not cheerfully bearing up co
nder his little load of debt and looking fate
4 the face with smile which betokens the -
aim, heroic heart of the Christian and the
atriot. There are, among them, men, yea,
nd women, who owe, and continue to owe /
ne printer with an accomplishing patience
hich is absolutely lovely to contemplate. ST.
here is much to cheer the heart of the -
cary and anxious publisher in all this 1t n
ives him the assurance, as it were, of fair w
verage between the number of those he
ives and those who owe him If there be
ny of our patrons who experience the pangs Il
neglect at our hands, they must make wi
nOwn their distresses We should look Ne
pom legitimate opportunity to puff any It,
rtuous business man struggling enter
Use as a most welcome Boon-with we'll
erited capital B. Have you bought APP
cket Urso for the concert tonight! So,