Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-17
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Some wanderings in the Grip morning air
of Sunday up that pleasantest of strolllng
places, the railway track, teaches one how cold
these clear winter mornings are and how
healthful and invigorating is a walk in the
sharp sunshine. And one sees with admirlng
eyes tho marvels of the ice as it holds in check
the swift waters of the beautiful creek which
flows SO clear and looks so cold in these times
of frost. No wonder there has been some
most thorough and crystalline freezing there
Below zero replies Professor Friend when
we 60 at him for a share of his " Probs 4"
g Below zero" is very chill for this season OF
the year. Indeed, the cold came upon the
generation of us like thief in the night, and
rubbers were caught, " unawares like that
naughty little girl who had little curl and
who went up stairs and stood on her head
on her little trundle- bed with nobody nigh
for to hinder And also the water was caught
thus by surprise, as anyone can see who notes
the icicles how they were arrested in the act
of dripping and made to stand solid and take
part in the general freeze. Here and there
on a twig small 'snag in midstream
thus nipped by Jack Frost, the forms of
ice are very peculiar. There is a most decid-
edly cold and prickly look about these keen
projections. Perhaps the thinner ice where
it is criss-crossed by its capitalization is the
most beautiful Meantime the stream runs
dark, like as the flow of User rolling rapidly"
But thirsty man may dip himself up a most
refreshing cupful of the purest water there.
Down in the fields where ponds have been
formed the skaters are skating with merry
persistency OF delight which deies the cold,
The signs of the near coming of Christmas
are abundant on all sides; and the enthusiasm
of children is very breezy and not a little con-
tagious. Also those almost animate things,
the shop windows, they make it clear by many
sign and token that the genial holiday is
close at hand. The shop keepers, squirting
At the hard times done by the stockers, are
not expecting as rich harvest as they have
reaped in more prosperous years Shall Santa
Claus be destroyed of your Sierra Nevadas,
your Bodies and your Unions Consolidated I
Heaven forbid
Also wandering on the railroad one won
ders why the hunters are forever peppering
With bird shot the posts and fences and signs
which line that highway. But it was ever
thus. As long ago as when shot-guns were
first Invented and boys were allowed to handle |
them, all such objects as knots and boards and |
and logs and all such things as ollboards |
have been taken for targets and thus filled
full of wasted lead.
Governor Kinkead was in the city yester-
day. He has the look of man who is about |
to accept his honors modestly and with good |
grace and wear them lin manful mood. |
The MORNING APPEAL welcomes him to Car
son. State Secretary elect, Jasper Babcock,
10 awaiting the arrival of his son-in law Mr.
Chesley and wife to take up his quarters
Is to say in the Dick
Kelly hou se-that handsome cottage in the
Did parsonage lot And there are others, elect
and aspirant, who are gathering in from many
quarters. They'll be thicker, soon Mean
lime, the landlords, those hospitable souls
are preparing for the crop of customers who
ire coming among us to eat and drink and be
aerry.