Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-25
NOTES AND QUERIES.


which come to us in the New York Sun We
do not know who wrote them They have g
familiar sound, but the sunshine and clouds
air and calm of each succeeding day are new
tho they seem so like old acquaintance
Possibly this little poem, which is entitled
Autumn is an original effort of Mr. Dana's
or some one of his associates. Here are the
lines:
The summers breath is faint upon the hills,
Her feet are weary in the wales and woods,
And autumn with drowsy incense fills
The hooks and glades and leafy solitudes
Soft on the grassy bank the sunshine sleeps;
The air wealth OF misty radiance holds
Nature with dreamy eyes her vigil keeps
And all the scene in pansive beauty folds
Lowell, 1--WE think it ISL has defined the
classics to be that which is of unquestioned
universal acceptability: The stock work of
literature and art. This little poem (none the
less full poem because there are but eight
lines of it), has SO universal an application as
to entitle it to the name of classical, under a
broad Interpretation of Mr.. Lowell's defni-
ton. Certainly it describes things here
round -about as well as in the locality where
it was written. 49,. Per contra we hustle up
at statement made by writer in the Fort
nightly Review to the following effect: &C The
cat" he says, "is more sensitive to rarifed air
than any other domestic animal. And he
proceeds with his facts and figures as follows:
"Attempts to acclimatize it at Potosi, Bolivia,
$4,000 feet above the sea, have failed: 1t
has remarkable tetanic fits, beginning like
St. Vitus's dance, and after spasms, in which
it leaps violently up the side of house, dies
in commissions. Cats born 300 feet above
the sea are deaf y. We are very skeptical
regarding this writer's conclusions. This No
tary knows cat or two himself Carson is
pretty well up in the world-nearly 5000
feet above the sea level; and yet the very
faithful, conscientious and efficient Mouser
of the MORNING APPEAL office not only never
had fit tetanic nor Titanic, but she has
twice performed the functions of maternity
within the half year last past and even now
purrs with remarkable emphasis of satisfac-
ton over the six kittens which have come to
give fruition to her hopes and ambitions
The fact is. Tabby, as she cuddles her strenu-
GUS flock is living resentment of the theory |
that rari6ed air has any deleterious effect
upon the feline family. And we have no |
doubt we could bring great deal of the very
best of testimony to prove tire exceeding
healthfulness and fecundity of the cat tribe in
Carson Indeed We know lady of unex-
ceptionable character whose sitting room is
on the ground floor of her dwelling house
and who, in the hearing of this Inquisitor
has frequently expressed establishment Dor
dering on alarm, at the violent and long con-
tinued noise produced by what seemed to be
Conventions resulting in noisy debates by So
cieties or cabals of cats of both sexes held
at unreasonable hours under the floor Not
only loud and angry vociferations found vent
at these meetings, but Judging by the angry
sounds against the floor boards, actual con-
ficts between the disputants. Now if rari-
fed air produces any deleterious effect, it
makes one short of breath. But will any
competent witness come forward and declare
upon his oath that the cats of Nevada are at
all wanting in strength of lungs? AS to lon
getilp look at OH Irl61lu LON aC w Ills s..
He has known every ointment, every lotion, {
every bolus, every tincture and every pre-
scription made, kept or fabricated at that
apothecary shop these twelve years that we
know of. His teeth are pretty badly worn,
but his hearing is marvellously acute. Now
what more need be said in refutation of the |
absurd theory advanced by this Fortnightly
Reveiwer3 Moreover, it will strike the reader
as very singular that an animal with nine
whole lives of its own cannot manage to
make at least one of them take root even on
the upper levels of the Cordilleras. Further I
more, does not the wild cat, "a very near re- :
lation to the domestic animaD flourish in alb f
normal yigor on and about the very highest r
attitudes of our mountainous regions?. -.
This humble wanderer in the pensive field ::
hereby thankfully acknowledges the receipt, !,
by mail, of complimentary ticket of admis- a
sion to the Fifth annual Fair of the Hum
ooldt District Agricultural Mining and Me-
;hanical Society (Which is dreadfully long
lame, it seems to us.) The ticket directs
vhonsoever it may concern to GO Admit Edi- r
or and Lady'-what lady is not specified.
We are greatly obliged. Also we wish the
Samson of our own local enterprise could be
reused to take such action at would give us