Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-12
NOTES AND QUERIES.

grocery and Browns saloon. Mr.. Brown,
with that obliging and thoughtful manner
which is so Characteristic Of him, pointed out
the starting point, course and trend of the
said flight 1t was Sailor Jacks wood team.
Thew seem to have "turned" themselves,
taken the word go" as they swung into the
course, and so on for liberty or its conse-
quences But Jack sprang for the main
sheet, likewise the jib-dovn- haul, also the
weather-brace and the fore t'gallan' haliards,
as well Ard so the gallant tar, clinging to
the msn-ropes, took keel-haul through the
trough of the sea, manfully resisting the
prancing Of those steeds Of Neptune. But
the effort proved most perilous one; for he
was carried, by the wild steering of the craft,
plumb under her fore foot, and was momen-
tarily mourning the danger of missing his
stays, being taken aback and smashed among
the breakers off Marston's Point, when that
sturdy pilot, Evan David, hove in sight and
laid his graphing irons well aboard the lug
gers larboard Inartingale guys. But while
this averted Jacks complete wreck and cast
away, she struck Davic he heeled so that
he fetched away, with something of an ugly
thump in the bLge and here and there
stanchion strained about the poop. Nothing
like any necessity for dry-dock repairs, how
ever, we are happy to state. We omitted
to call attention in our issue of yesterday
morning to the rare opportunity offered by
Mr. R. Fred Brooks for bargains in the al
most lmitless variety of goods of which his
stock is composed We need hardly remind
our lady-friends Of what rare thing it is for
anyone to be able TO purchase, III this market
the choicest sorts Of tints Of Berlin woods for
less than actual value; we surely need not
urge upon any OF our stationery (or transient),
readers the wisdom OF improving an opportu-
nito for purchasing plain and tinted note
paper and envelopes below New York and
Chicago prices; even this far ahead of Christ
mas, the prudent protector of possible pre-,
sensations in the toy line may well take into
consideration Noah's Arks at one hundred
and fifty, and jumping jacks al two hundred
per cent under cost; and even in these hard
times one can afford to speculate in jews
harps, even for their eventual possible value in
old iron, when they can be bought at six bits |
a bushel Then how important it is to con-
slider the opportunity offered to purchase
st-class piano for a mere song by
which we do not mean to be understood as
saying that that instrument is fit for an &C
compartment only. Also there are Books
in the (running) Brooks" Possibly the rea-
son why Fred can sell so cheaply is because,
as Tennyson makes that other most famous
Of English Brooks say,
Isteal by lawns and grassy plo,s
At all events let US hope that honest
Fred Brooks may go on forever 49,.
The swell Commercial Traveller is always
study for an observant Annotator and an
earnest Queriest. Night before last, when
the usual time for the smaller devotions had
come, and here and there weary invalid had
dropped in for his regular smell Of the
jar and his pinch Of free maccaboy,
and while the O'Pothecary himself was racked
back among the lotions and tinctures waiting
for the next man with a sore shin, in ghdes,
with stealthy foot and earnest eye, sturdy
young Rusticus for good, quiet, selfrespect-
jul and self-instructive glance among the
lnguents, the elixers, the cure-alls and the
meL-g0ods, Then Munchausen blew his
lorn about what ke had seen at the Centen-
of the great Tuft sody-founting
hat cost $25, GOO, &c. &c. MAINLY for the
edifcation OF the aforesaid younker with the
layseed in his hair But Rusticus said never
word and batted never an eye; and as he
urned in the door as he went out, he dropped
gentlemanlike Good nigh" that set us all II
Q thinking that Dungaree and homespun do k
ftentlmes cover up the innate heart Of true s.
God breeding. The next minute, in marched
brace Of the Commercial Traveller class-the k
Eastern sort, We mean. One was all mutton 8
hops and cheek and the other was all cheek ~
nd mustache. "Got any Lubin's Jockey O.
Ilubl" queried he Of the Dundrearies, of the d.
bliging Martin. Ere that odorous distilation te
7uld be produced this customer proceeded to =
form his companion and (by his loud tone) tC
ne astonighed aSsemblage that he never OF
,ayelsd without Jockey Club, but that some at
blow had stolen his last-bought bottle of IN
lat perfume. Then his Lordship with the va y"
.ustache settled down on his elbows before h,
lat meek yet not inglorious little sody E
uniting Of FIVE or six modest squirts, and, p
airing it out of countenance, asked k
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