Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-03
NOTES AND QUERIES.

1t is very difficult to resist the impulse to
seem learned in the natural history Of the
horse 1t is as good as any other piece of
ny ucrisy to see a man who does not know
whether a horse of full age ought to have
eight or eighty teeth, elbow his way through
crowd of idlers who have gathered about
racy-Iooking horse, take him by the upper
lip and lower jaw, open his mouth and give a
quick, knowing glance at it and turn quietly
away, pretending not to be aware that the
crowd is looking eXpectantly at him, and
then begin to stare at the beast and whistle
&" How old is he, Bartholomew r asks some
body who affects an interest in horses ASK
Pete, says Bart, with a knowing laugh, and
then sides off for fear Of being colnered.
Another amateur, having looked in the ami
mails mouth, ventures that worm eaten old
evasion, Guess he's old enough to vote y
All this while, the patient creature, modest
and decorous i'll his equine strength, is listen
my in silent contempt to wiseacre talk about
his knees, his back, the set of his shoulders,
and hundred other impertinences and
conscious of his own superiority to the whole
assortment of gaping critics, healthy, yirtuous
and happy, his withers are, unwrung But a
comedy horse is always an attraction, and a
thing of Joy forever. These sleepy days his
appearance on Carson street is 4 godsend .
Mr. c. g. Mcclellan, the artist, is gone to
Virginia City His four views of the promi- |
nent features Of the surrounding scenery have |
been delivered to the Washoe Club, finished |
we believe. They are a valuable and very
truthful collection. Street scenes are not |
necessarily of an exciting character to be at
tractivc TO the crowd. We have known as
many as three large men to stand by with |
their attention closely riveted to the backing |
Of pair Of boots of merely ordinary dimen-
sions. We have seen great deal OF curiosity
evinced for the progressof whitewash brush.
4 well squirted hose is source of never
failing interest. The granting of door OF
the painting of Il sign, these are very popular
entertainments But it was d great sight,
yesterday morning. to see the crowd of iIve-
niles that had gathered about Fred Grinages
barber-shop when it was known that Tom
Thumb had gone in there to get shaved
Fred let down the blinds That made a
corner on kcvholas. There came a natural
longing for a shingle or a handily-shaped
paddle, SO many and exquisite were the
to venture upon spanking expe-
lition, We must confess that We who are
-hus inviting the criticism Of the judicious to
these sights and scenes would not be averse .
to seeing Grinage i'll the act Of putting Tom |
through his PAGES in the tonsorial art
. Easy over the pebbles, Paul, says Dick ;
enss small pretender to beard. But why \
should not travelled gentleman of forty-odd /
AXE his shave, undisturbed by the rude stare I
# the DER curious multitude 1t is not the
pigness any more than it is the age, that {
ellis 1t is the blood Charles Stratton, \
$50. has received more visitors and done !
nore travelling these five and thirty years Z
han any man living, big or little Then F
Why should he not be shaven how N
e Will $3.50? We are glad to give welcome =
o Mrs. Henry r. Whtchill who arrived
rom Philadelphia yesterday morning She
; quite restored to health. Also Mrs. Note ,
;are arrived from San Francisco Yesterday \
morning The Matinee yesterday afternoon \
'as very largely attended by the young uns Il
he Theatre was never 50 full before Tom !,
numb, unlike almost all other exhibitions, 1
always quite as much as the bills call for
md yet it is rather strange that SO little
ian should always be 50 much more, on an =,
verage, in the satisfying way, than the larger af
fractions Of the showman's profession. 1t
PES to show that large and small are merely
imperative terms Thus Theodore Tilton o,
no is six feet two in his stockings, proved til
..ailer attraction than Tom Thumb who is 70
70 feet six in his boots The race is not to
e stradtllebug nor the battle to the humble vi
re. ... We notice with satisfaction that the VI
ees on Capitol Square are thriving nicely.
The leaves expand on yonder ellums, ar
Watered by water from Rice and Hellum's of
There seemed to be good deal of an influx
ON Douglas County yesterday. Mr. Pratt, ~; IL,
If amiabe and far-stretched friend of the W
arson Valley News and District Attorney of Pc
at bailiwick, Mr.. T. j. Murphy of Genoa, he
I'd Hon. Benz. Edison late Of the House Of 10
1mmons, these were all here The fact is, mai
e metropolis is the centering point of SO We;
,,,1, tha+ o,r lie fr,,,