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

We notice that the ants like to colonize
about the roots of the less healthy cotton
woods. Query? Do the ants kill the trees,
or do they seek these dead and dying roots
because of some advantages offered thereby
We suspect that the trees original cause of
decay is quito apart from any influence ex-
erted by these industrious insects. If, how
ever, the ant takes his cue from the human
pismire, he prefers to bring on the condition
which affords him means of sustenance and
an Indictment to propagation, increase and
self Importance. Mark the avidity with which
the insects who settle down upon the roots
and fibres of good and useful public mans
reputation, tear to pieces and destroy his
name and blight his efforts and strip away the
very tendrils of his prospects in life. They
swarm, do these vermin, upon the track and
in the footsteps of all who have, like goodly
tree risen above the mere grovelling things
of this world and become an ornament to the
social fabric and benefaction to the political
structure. Rising into the realms of indig
nant metaphor and asserting the altitude of
the auricular, we grind these nibbling ban
ditti into the Obliterating gravel. We note
a good many more ldlers within our cltys
gates, than usual. Stalwart fellows, many
of them with a superiority of health and
Drawn, and lackluster eye which is not en-
couraging to look at. But idleness, even
when it is forced upon men who are eager to
work, begets want of thrift and depression
of spirits. Decentralization is the word, we
suppose, tho we are free to admit that it has
been worn, by much usage, past our fancy
ing. These saunter lazlly along the walks or
sit in unattractive groups and squads at all
convenient corners and door ways; and they
are not always seemly i'll their habits and con-
versation. But in all charity it is to be hoped
that these men may find work the coming
season. Surely the wood-camps and the har-
vest-helds ought to give employment to a con-
siderable proportion of them. Has Pro
lessor Stewart or Mr. Whitehill ever given
adequate search among our hills and valleys
and deserts for any indications of possible
site of the Tower of Babel, we wonder! 1t
seems to us that the indications which point
to this country as the place of the building
of that abOrtive structure are very numerous
sufficiently so, indeed, to Justify an
archaeological commission to seek for its
relics. Certainly the confusion of tongues is
here, All the circumstances of the miracle |
which took place when abandoned the |
project of building tower which should |
reach to Heaven, are round about US. All |
the languages of this world find utterance |
daily, in the short limits and circumscribed |
possibilities of Carson street John China |
man emits his gruf gutterals to his tawny |
customer from Acadia; the Sclav chats in |
familiar fashion with the swart freedman from |
the banks of the Ocmulgee the fair haired |
son of Scandinavia, dlscarding all fOrmalt'es
of ali artificial society, talks in unrestrained |
POPULARITY with Washoe Mary, her cheek
meanwhile cOquetishly streaked with we'll
laid dabs of Venetian Red and the country
man of heroic Garibadi finds congenial com
partnership in his newly found &C
quaintance from the land of the
Blarney Stone. Yankees, Missourians, Brit
ishers, Frenchmen, Lascars, Hollanders,
Spaniards, Russians, Portuguese, Jews, all
drawl and jabber amidst a hundred other
voices and tongues, in all unceasing and end
less volubility The phase of this phenom-
email condition which breeds doubt of the
possible finding of the remains of the Tower
is that there seems amid all this outpouring
of lingo and patois, to be no confusion" of
tongues Nobody is in the least confused
as no two need any interpreter. Go into
store kept by native American and see how
he will select at once without the slightest
hesitation, just what Mr.. Chinaman or Mr..
Indian, with never word of English at their
happens to ask for. And then
see these twain go to some Germans place of
business and get along quite as cleverly.
There is no misunderstanding, much less any
confusion, We who are trying to compre-
bend and describe it are the only one of the
motley crew who are at all confused or per-
picked. We express no doubt of the a
Biblical narrative; but it seems to The profane
mind that human nature if left alone, finds
its way out of all such small hinderances to
mutual understanding as a mere difference in
the language which expresses personal wants,
desires and purposes.