Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-10
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Our first undisasterous finishing of al
Havana cigar; our first shave, at the barber 5
our first vote; our first wine dinner, and oul
first tax receipt, these were events i'll ou1
younger and tenderer experiences whose
occurrence brought no little pride and self
Importance. But the time comes when cigars
cease to be an unalloyed blessing; when the
clearing off of the stubble field of the grizzled
beard sailed most too plentifully with white,
is an inconvenience of whose recurrence We
would gratefully be relieved; when wine
dinners, in and out of the White House no
longer are an allurement, and when the
thought of ones taxes awakens a sigh and
wrinkles the brow with the burrows of anxiety.
Before us lie some of the figures which rep
resent the cost of taking, copying and print
ing of the Nevada census of 1875. We here
with reproduce the same Taking the census,
81 800; amount allowed j. G. McClinton
for copying, LAT 20; printing vol. l,
SO $50 %; printing vol 2, So, 429 10 Here
then is the total of $2S, 1897 81. Besides this
are the expense of freight, postage, &c. This
with other cares and cogitations compels the
admissions above enumerated and indicates
solid reason for not being as hilarious we
used to be at the thought of being taxpayer.
$50. We learn, semi officially, that Controller
Hobart will be here this morning; also that
moneys to pay all outstanding State warrants
will be in the Treasury to-day. This, We
infer, is the result of the bonanza tax pay
ments. We are glad to see those busy little
masOns, the caves swallows, at work III the
small temporary puddles of capitol square,
mixing their wee dabs of mud and then hastily
betaking themselves to the edge and cornice
of the State House roof, there to construct
their temporary homesteads. They are the
cheeriest of neighbors, are the swallows; and
the French peoples love for their favorite
hirondelleS is crystalized in the song,
"When the swallows homeward fly.
We will shoot any State official or
other person who shall even presume to
disturb any of those clipper little colonists
Our old gypsey friend, he of the demure cheap |
horse and modest go-cart, the knife-grinder,
is i'll town again. He makes his yearly pill |
grimages among us, bringing his woman- |
kind and his movable household gods. He |
seems to find ali abundance of small commits
sions to execute in his line. We wonder,
docs he ever grind the face of the poorl He
would, if that sort of grinding were profitable,
find many promising customer these days.
The mail got i'll SO very late yesterday
that we were quite without any exchanges
until after clock i'll the afternoon. This
fact accounts for the omission of our custO-
mary gleanings from the always sure crop of
news contained i'll our Nevada contemporaries
And this leads us to say that We do not believe
that the same number of so-called s. country"
papers in any other State of this Union
will afford quarter part of the meaty
matter that can be obtained from the papers
Of this new State. We know from
some little study, observation and practice,
hat this is the brightest local press in any in
erior community We intended a brief
essay on bonnets and bonnet trimmings but
Ne dislike to enter upon SO important sub
ect without an abundance of time, scope and
opportunity. We Will merely say in this con-
lection that the brilliant LEAKAGE which en-
wines its pretty tendrils about the sunny
resses of exultant wOmanhOod; and the 1.-the
md sinuous sprays which cling loving y
bout the passion flowers of ambitious beauty;
nd the bursting buds whose rich color and
lainty hues and radiant masses flew with so
ull melody of tint, first upon the queenly
Ose and anon upon the delicate lily, marry :
NC the warm, lush frondage of the one to the
marvellous tenderness of the other, it is time 9
D abandon the grosser sensualities of this life
nd see if your wife won't let you off with a
ell cent calico