Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-02
NOTES AND QUERIES.
JUNE = 1877

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VIII prove, a warmer season. We note that
the month brings with its coming the full
force and value of its name and traditions,
This was evident in feminine costumery, es-
pecialy calicoes, which are bright and clean
and clear -starched How do we know about
such fripperies? Know? Why shouldn't we
know, for patience sake We have not lived
these thirty years not to know what calico is
and something of what it costs and how it
will wash. Besides, calico gown is as much
a sign and assurance of summer time as any
roses or birds nests. And then the sterner
sex have ventured to bring out their straw
hats, to exhibit shirt sleeves cinched up with
brass gearings and carriers, about the elbows,
and to sit round in chairs at door fronts
and look with the true romance of their
nature at these same calicoes as they pass. A
somewhat critical scrutiny prepares us to say
that Summer has come. ..
TOM THUMB.
We pass with but small effort at ceremony
from grave to gay, from momentous to the
hghtsome, from long to short, from the pom
derous to the dwarfish. Last night Theodore
Tilton in all the long drawn effulgence of his
altitude of stature and profundity of theme
tonight Tom Thumb in the compressed and
concentrated littleness of his miniature mag
nifcence This means that variety Is the
spice of life Nature does not make stereO-
types If she did, how would our entertain
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between last nights lecture and this night
show? Do the Carson readers of the Morn
ING APPEAL need any telling of what is offered
as an attraction at the theater this afternoon
and evening? Manys the two-bit piece
sailed down by little hands in little wallets
and little corners of little boxes for this after
moons exhibit Of famous Tom Thumb
Manys the lad Of six years who will loom up
above light little Tom, of forty-odd like a
giant over pigmy. Manys the girl of eight |
or ten who will wish she had Tom for a proxy |
for her rag baby. And then there's to be a |
very entertaining show independent of Toms |
colossal littleness. But we need mt attempt |
to tell anybody anything. Everybody knows
all about it; and the younkers have got it a
good deal more to heart than any oldster.
There are no reserved seats for the afternoon
But all who like to have u close look at the
stage and who are going tonight had better
90 TO the box Office $500. We hear that there
are some of our towneys who are interested,
substantially, in the strike at jeff Davis's
Peak, White Pine county. A stockish man
told this veracious chronicler yesterday after
noon that lie and some others hereabout had
feet by the many hundred in these new gold {
liggings. There is balm III Gilead -. We
ind that there Is very general feeling of {
lopcfulness that Mr.. Sharon trip to and
through these parts Will be productive of |
urn for the better. Somehow the people !
ROW that Sharon is one Of the sort of capt. !
alists who, when they take hold of any enter Q
rise, push it along with an energetic hand b
The impression seems to be that he has taken o
new interest i'll stocks and mills and railway -
xtensions Time was when he used to be b
Doked to for an occasional g deal in stocks /
he were to snite the clouds which lower t
bout our house and break this spell of bust 7
ess depression and gloom it would be what b
here is an abundant faith to believe he, a
f all living men can do. He has the courage, II
he managing ability; the genius of inspi- a.
alton, the sagacity and the strength to do al
lore, we believe than any other one man on IL
! this coast. More power to him. We p'
eel that We are the making of amost master
il ornithologist. 1t is among the possibilities
lat we shall do for the Nevada birds what &c
eth Green has done for the fishes, if we -
eet with encouragement. We described in of
brief sketch the other day what was doing
? a pair of ambitious wrens whose acQuain- o,;
nee we have formed since the first of May tn
atterly we have been cultivating a more tn
mote but not less instructive acquaintance Ga
it'll a newly married pair of yellow birds
NUiIica Rsttta( These small friends of ours pc
rned out very early one morning quite l11
tely and before the dwellers in the house
nd by had got stirring, completed almost .
molly, a neat and cosy nest in a rose bush Vi
lich stands against trellis that is fastened !
the front porch All the infantry land the
Ter ones for that matter) were greatly I'LL
lighted at the near neighborship of these
lstful and enterprising birds;~ and there Cit
re not few plans to quietly watch the eggs
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