Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-15
NOTES AND QUERIES,

tame and dOmestlcated. But we are dis
turbed by a certain experience which has
brought its pulling uncertainties. We have
been visited lin personal sense) by magpie.
He came yesterday morning quite unlimited
and Unexpectedly. Either he was slightly
over stimulated with his draughts of sunshine
and the dews of morning, or he was Ger
young to leave his nanny and was an ndis-
Greet and too venturesome wanderer from the
maternal fold, or he was an escaped prisoner.
His plumage betokened an adolescent bride
groom in search of worms his gait betokened
the unsteadiness of inexperience las he was
watched by very young and curious eyes from
the kitchen door } while his seeming fAmili-
arity with the house-surroundings bespoke
him an escape from the confinement of a cage.
After cooking his wise looking eye at such
things as attracted his curiosity, he assayed to
fly. 1t is but just to the eventuality of his
first trial to say that the evidence in favor Of
his arrest on the score of intoxlcatiOn was
very vivid. He actually reeled-in wingish
way. Finally he got the better of his potables
and flew into plum tree. There the mat
ronly instinct Of 4 housewife sought his nearer
acquaintance. 1t was in vain. He flew, in
a Topping and pin-featherful fashion into
higher trees and when we last saw him, he
was holding himself at bay, being badly bad
gered by a chattering colony Of orioles who
came to look upon him as an intruder, spy
and magpious Uhlan, as it were, into the
realms Of oriolan nestitude. But out of
sense of fear that we may have been harbor-
ing lawful chattel or fugitive from rightful
custody We cause the following to be blazoned
to maggie seeking world
CAME To THE SUBSCRIBER PREMISES:
An apparently young person of the Magpie |
Family. Following is description Of the !
same Limbs seeming y perfect in construc-
ton but lacking strength humage very fresh |
and fine and with Il shade (of silk Of a change
able greenish hue about the trail PIN back.
very closely fitting; wings and winging quite
uncertain eye bright and curious bill, too
long for presentation these hard times. Should
say he meant well but actions strange, not
to say suspicious The owner can have him
upon payment of charges. THE A NNOTATOR
| t. Il. q. a
We have received from Messrs Lee &
Shepard Publishers, Boston, copy of their
lately issued duodecimo (in brown cloth), en-
titled Crossing the Quicksands or the VERT
able Adventures of Hal and Ned upon the
Pacific Slope BY Samuel Woodwork Coz
zens, author of The Marvellous Country"
" The Young Trail Hunters etc Illustrated
This is one of the Young Trail Hunters Sc
ries; is beautifully printed and nicely bound
and illustrated. 1t is volume of 317 pages.
This is a better sort of book than the Young
Pirate publications with yellow covers and
covers which are not yellow and is quite up
to the Marco Polo and Peter Farley style, {
In short this seems to furnish quite harm 8
less stimulant to the young mind, and like 3
Cowper's loud kissing urn, provides, that t
which cheers but not inebriates. Price 81. 30
sent by mail , The purling rill brings !
soothing sense of peace to the tired and a
troubled mind ; the gentle shower which fall $
eth upon the Just and the unjust, Gains the "
fretted nerves of wearied men and women
The ma lestic surgings of the mighty sea, beat c.
ng forever upon the helpless strand, bring s.
,epose to the shattered heart and the great @
oar of evor-falhng Niagara, dropping the sub
stance Of an inland sea, moment by moment
through the listening ages, into its destined ~
,ulf, brings respite and nepenthe to the visit n
ul soul of the dwellers in hot cities and be-
ide the fevered torrents of never-quiet hu-
nan action but when the Carson water n
workers. get blythe ears there is no hydropathy
,hich can assuage their lascerated riyalries,
yen though the calm philosophy and conser- is
atism of Helm plead for peace beside the
roublcd waters of the bubblesome Sweeny
'hese be hot water works, these seething of
avs, forsooth and what will come up out of
his perennial fountain of difference whether III
he cool drops of refreshment from the hyd- sh
ants of peace, or the hot offerings OF wrath
rom the cisterns of dispute, time, the great nc
vdrometer alone can tell. Meantime the
FORMING APPEAL Office and its neighbor on =,
be east have gone dry; and there is famine -
! the bucket aid an Q er dryness in the scut-
ed butt Let Us pray for rain As to NJ
ur Office cat, we have never seen more anx-
us and agitated person Indeed, she seems, mn
nee her accouchment to be wandering about r.
| an incurable state of puerperal fever An We
.casional observation of the symptoms by
armed and sagacious friend, suggests the /,
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