Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-29
June 30. 1877
NOTES AND QUERIES.


1t is mean because it revels in the promotion
Of discomfort; it is ill-natured because it is
mean; for none but an ill-natured wind would
be mean enough to be mean. 1t is blasting
because of its cruelty toward the vegetable
kinodom-and the animal kingdom, as we'll
1t is full of bad manners, necessarily; for it
intrudes itself, constantly where It is not
wanted. losses off peoples hats, blows about
ladies dresses, futters disastrously the
clothes on the clothes-line, and plays all sorts
of unseemly pranks; it is deceitful for it
throws dust in honest peoples eyes; and it is
wicked because it is deceitful, ill-mannered,
blasting and mean. We have discovered,
moreover, that this nor'west wind produces
a sort of cuticular irritation,--a rubbing of
the fur the wrong way, as it were; and this
brings on an electrical condition electrical is
as good any other name), which fetches up
the fends of depression, blue devils and the
doleful dumps. 1t invites to the feast of life
the too intimate presence of
Loathed melancholy.
That fire up in the saddle of the Sierra,
wonder, where John McTarnahan cut off the
trees from the fluffy tract, seems to have
made smoke enough and dingy cinders
enough and bred dirty discolorations enough
to have soied our little old hold-over snow
patch almost past recognition. That tough
and hardy little fake has lasted through two
or three summers. Now it is so smutty as
almost to be lost to sight In order to make
white showing of itself it must undergo
new melting of the surface. This involves
depletion; and depletion, by the force of the
suns rays or other calorical things means
evaporation, resolving into the elementary
parts, and final obliteration. We guess it will
go away and leave us this time The per
petual snow is not quite within the limits of
our own domestic landscapes we like to
1atter ourselves it is. .....A party that went
"a fishing yesterday morning returned with
small romance of large catch and be- |
stowal of the trout on a poor widow, for
charitys sake. Anglers have always |
romanced since the days of Jonah and the
fanciful conceits Of Isaac Walton We have |
a notion, speaking of trout, that the |
shiny, spotless little fish that Abe Richey
finds in such abundance in Silver Lake is a
CRAWLING and not a trout All our music
liking friends remember Tennyson's Brook,
and the lines,
Here and there lusty front
And here and there graylng.
Webster's brief description of the CRAWLING is
that at is allied to the trout, from which it
differs chiefly by the smallness of its mouth
and increased size OF its scales. 1t is found
in the clear, rapid streams of the North of
Europe and is excellent food" Now as to
the mouth and its comparative size we cannot
say. but these Silver Lake fish are quite as
devoid of spots as a tom cod; and while they
have all the flavor and delicacy of mountain
trout, they are no more like the spckeled
trout caught in Hope Valley than a smet is.
We wish some intelligent English angler
would inform himself and let us know if these ]
delicious little fish are the English grayling I
.. The little shower which came down upon
the just and unjust. night before last, was, it r
seems, the last struggling sprinkles OF storm /
of rain which has been experienced in the a
valley of the Feather and Sacramento rivers, $
in California. An intoxicated female of :
the Washoe tribe was taken in charge yester- {
day morning by officer Stern. 1t seems to t
rs that the femenine aboriginal is quite as
much if not more addicted to the flowing
,owl than the he-one of that race. ALI &C a.
counts agree that the Lake was in most Ii
empestuous condition on Wednesday. The h
waves were very high-almost unprecedented
n violence and volume. Some passengers n
pho crossed the Lake on that day who were IL
cry sea sick inform us that they never A
reamed ofsuch tremendous commotion there
these bear testimony to the fine, sea-going n
qualities of the Niagara. Doubtless she is as G
launch as she is commodious and rapid h
)ur friends, the Carson Guards, are deter o
mined to have a celebration of the Fourth. "
There is some talk of an Grafton and other til
literary exercises, and turnout of the fire r
ompanies, ETC., etc When freedom from lie
Ter mountain heights unfurls her standard to ~
he air. she never counts the expense, and +,
ust laughs at hard times We confess that WI
-e should prefer something quiet-like, just ii
II once; but we believe i'll the rule of the
laiority and will sympathise if we don't par !,
cipate 90
Nrr, We have raceiVe6 from T pa