Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-25
NOTICE.

The Bulletin says of Bob Ingersolls lecture
in Platt's Hall on Tuesday night
He is a fluent speaker, and is possessed of
an unlimited fund of humor, which is hber-
ally distributed throughout his lecture. He
is no doubt a superior specimen of the best
type of Western stump-speakers, but lacks
the polish of many public men who have
taken to the lecture field. His English his
pronunciation and his elocutiOn will not al
ways bear a very critical analysis, but he IS
brimful of animation and earnestness, and
manages to maintain the interest of his audi
ence unfagged through an hour and thirty
minutes discourse. The subject of his lee
ture last night was The Liberty of Nan,
" oman and Child. 1t was in brief an attack
ON all religious belief and particularly on
that which is the foundation stone of our civ
ilization. AS, for Instance, between the Bib
lical narration of creation and the barbarian
story of that event, he was disposed to give
greater credence to the latter Our civiliZa-
ton and our liberty was simply the result of
the intellectual development of the individual,
and due solely to that lndlvlduals efforts.
| He is an ardent believer III the Darwlnlan
theory of evolution, and was prepared to ac-
| cept the wri9glng tadpole as the primary
!
| the latter portion of his lecture to the rela-
tionship of husband and wife, parents and
children. Marriage, he regarded as the hoh-
est, the grandest aim of life. Husband and
wife stand on the same plane, and should en-
Joy the same freedom of action and of
thought. The family circle ought to be 4
mutual partnership, III which members ENJOY
the same privileges and rights, Childrcl
ought to be trained by kindness and not by
the use Of the rod. He would give every
child absolute freedom to act and think it
chose-to go and to come at will. The lee
turer was enthusiastically appauded at fire
quent intervals.
The laws delays find other Jarndyces than
those who linger about the hopeless halls of
the British Courts Of Chancery. Read this
romantical relation from the land of the
Muscoyite:
At the beginning of the reign of the EN-
peror Nicholas a noble Russian lady gave
birth to a son for whom a suitable wet
nurse could not be found. A young noble
man, a neighbor, however, offered one of his
serfs The offer was accepted, and the child's
life was saved. The young nobleman said,
Madame, You owe me the life of your son,
and, | hope, you will, i'll return, grant me
favor. What the nobleman ask ed is not |
known, but, whatever it was it was refused. |
He threatened to take back his serf, and the |
mother appealed to the highest tribunal of |
Russia Nicholas died. and Alexander II |
began to reign, but the case dragged slowly |
along. The other day, during a brilliant
review, a messenger dashed up on horseback
to the handsome young Colonel of the Cars
staff, and presenting an Otficial-lOoking en-
velope, saying, Colonel, here is the judg-
ment Of the Senate. The Judgment What
judgment! Then the Colonel, opening the
envelope, read: The Senate, i'll its high
wisdom decides, after ripe deliberaton, that
the wet nurse of Baron X. shall nurse the
son of the noble Baroness 4. for the space of
twelve months and six weeks, The baby
in the judgment was the Colonel.
He was then thirty four years OF age.
OF the successful outcome of an unequal
conflict between a brace of reptiles the
Tuolumne (Cal) county Democrat relates as
follows
A party of trOut-hshers camping near Lyon
Dam few days since witnessed very novel
Incident large rattesnake was attempting
% swallow a somewhat diminutive horned
Dad, and seemed likely to succeed if given
sufficient time. The hind legs of the toad |
orotruded from the saliva-fecked jaws of the
make, and were occasionally agitated with
,onvulsve movement, as if the little animal
vas inpatient of the delay in going down
he reptiles throat Just as the legs were
the body of the snake just be-
ind it's villainous- looking head began to I
well. Its eyes began to bulge and its spirit
eemed troubled. The parties, watching the
process of mastication then became aware
hat the plucky little toad had tired of fooling
round in rattlesnakes jaws and wanted to
ct out The swelling continued and the -
make squirmed until the four little horns
ihich form the crest on the toads back burst ]
through the scales of the snake The snake
oundered and wriggled i'll agony until he
as dead, when the toad withdrew from his L
avs and quietly hoped away
The funniest joke we ever heard of in the
ony way is related as follows,
Hanover, On. H. }, May 14.-The skeleton \
Evans, the Northwood murderer, which Il
as been for several years in the medical Al
useum, was this morning discovered sus-
ended by the neck at the hight of thirty
et; between two tiagstatts of the campus,
tired in a buster and tall hat; with UNI
,ella and carpet bag, the latter labeled
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