Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-19
NOTES AND QUERIES.

struct tunnel at the expense OF San Fran
ciso-, through the Sierra for the purpose Of
tapping Lake Bigler for its water and the
mountains for the sake Of letting through the
c. P. r. p. cars, if by such transrnontane
hole it would be possible to avert such 9
calamity SIS that which caused the detention
of the mail train yesterday. That veyatious
delay was caused by the burning Of q con-
siderable part of the snow-sheds. So we were
deprived Of our exchanges until too late for
practical use. :. The man who got a troun-
cling yesterday afternoon got what he richly
deserved, We reckon. Fellow-citizens who
Jake the liberty to abuse other fellow citizens
and accuse them on the public street Of dis
honesty must expect to provoke retaliation of
the violent kind. D1en who voluntarily de-
fame other men, whether for causes relating
to business or politics, must expect to take
the consequences We have caught Le
Commandeur Cazeneuve at one of his tricks
Something III this fashion, as follows, it
occurred 4 very small mess of mountain
trout had been put in the Commandeurs way
for breakfast yesterday morning. Upon
coming to thank the donor the clever pres
tidigitateur, taking handsome seal ring of
hisfnger said, (being interpreted by Mr.. Martin
his very clever assistant), "You see that ringl
Well, on coming round by the Lake washed
my hands in its waters, and in SO doing this
ring dropped off my finger and lost it,
irretrievably, as ! supposed. This morning
as / cut the trout you gave me, with my
breakfast knife, came upon this ring That
same identical fish had swallowed it !" The
succeeding murrler of establishment was not
died away when up spoke the Venerable Bede
and said these words "None may doubt
this pleasing narrative, Oh Illustrious Com.
msndeur, but when we reflect that those
trout were caught in Hope Valley and had
been drawn" before they came here, the
coincidence seems all the moro remarkable.
Did we say We had caught the magician at
one of his tricks} Possibly we boosted too
Soon Peradventure that trout did swallow
that ring in Lake Tahoe; and that then he
assembled a stream running through some
secret caverns, up into the rivulet which |
y
he was caught. And then it is possible that |
this particular trout was not dressed but was |
cooked at natural by way Of miraculous
French incident, SO romantical and astound-
ing in its denouement. If not (and your eff"
il well placed here) then was the Comman-
deur caught in the act Of a cute little trick
which was clever, nevertheless, also Frenchy
and gilt edged, as it were. Hank Monk
still survives. Also he has an eye for your
DER inqusitive Eastern tourist. The other
day Hank had load of em-mostly spectacled
and all eager for the wonderfuls With him
on the outside sat Arabella Mayfower Win
throp Gookin from Marblehead "What sort
Of berries are those?" querisd the spnster;
pointing to some elder bushes on the bank Of l
Clear creek. "Them'a blackberries", says l
Hank, with his face lit for prayers, "Why,
Oliver Walcott Gookin" she cried out to her t
brother who sat inside the stage with the rest 8
OF the party, edo look at those blackberry
trees" and he looked, and looking, fired the =
Of Mrs. Goo.,in and Ezekiel Gookin q
who ID fitting for the ministry, and Zedediah n
Gookin who has determined to be l,
and Harriet Amelia
Harvard Gookin who will weave her
athy form into the affections of the ologies if v
Ter gold-bowed eyeglasses do not fail her, and y
# Mrs. Gookin's sister Doctor Sarah Bunyan
1ussey Of South Danvers and they all t.
laimed, with one voice, ooh, haow wondars al
I'll !' Then the spinster Suggested to Hank al
hat " rnebbe Re haA&%YSAstopAwhile she W ".
licked some Of those blackbefries.p .:.No," W
avs Hank, they amt ripe yet, and they are al
isen when they are green" So they rode ia
II until Miss Arabella caught sight of the more p
thelookout houses on the Summit n
nere-the houses where they keep an eye on
he flume and its burdens "What is that little
ouse perched up there forl' she asked in
sohUol-house" says Hank, looking like he III
ad experienced change OF heart, =" School liz liz
ouse - says she "why, where do the sohol- kr
rs come from, pray?" "Ovor on t'other WI
de Of the mountain" says Hank. And nj
len Miss Gookin communicated the fact to ~,
er brother, and he took it in and handed it to
,und to his sister and his promising sons
I'd his wife with the iron grey corkscrew
iris, and they each and all hauled out 10
ne book about as big as hotel register gu
I'd dotted it down. Meantime Monk, who c4o
boo a,vnat r1ia an tho 1aor |