Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

"C houc I't tLiitC uldtIer), 10 keep Il nOIe -DOOh
within reach iii order that you may set down
and thus perpetuate the experiences and i'm
pressions which fleet by you, on the wing, as
it were. Bye and bye you will astonish your
self by referring to these sketches and observ-
ing what you dotted down concerning men
and things, sights and events, likes and fancies.
Here, for example, in an old forgotten pocket
diary we find the following: 81 discover that
have dislike OF those severely bookish peo-
pie who, in railway cars, on steamboats, and
other outlandish places forever pursuing
their stude5-studies of the languages, etc.
They seem to convey very quiet but wither
ing rebuke to us unschOllary people who, if
we read at all when we are travelling,
read the newspapers or lightly written story.
don't believe these ver-studious people are
SO fervently devoted to books as they, by
their much public reading would have us to
think. They are the Pharisees of literature
God be merciful to me, a Ounce" There is a
good deal of human nature in saying the things
that your feelings prompt you to, even when
they betray you. &c.. There is more satisfac-
ton in buying a book at full price in a second
hand bookstore than there is in getting it at
a discount, new and bright, at shop of the
more pre- tentious kind. You have the salts
faction of having secured prize as a reward
for the dlgglng-just as you rejoice more over
bit of nugget found by your own hands
than i'll the possessin of a piece of money or
iewelry of ten times it's value Here, for ex-
ample, is a copy of Partons General Butler
in New Orleans" all out of binding, dog
cared and disreputable- looking. We guess it
cost about much as new one (albeit new |
ones are scarce; but it has a smack of the !
library about it which no new book can have
Find me book that's been thumbed out of
its cloth or leather and Ill show you some
thing that is worth having and hiding. And |
speaking of second hand books, here is Victor !
Hugos rhine, quite as good as new and |
ever-so-much more attractive because of its
threadbare corners. Turning over the leaves
we come to famous Bingen, the locale of Mrs
Caroline Nortons well-read poem. Yesterday,
probing round among our ASH heap, we ,were
reminded of those happy creatures, the
naturalists the bug-hunters and star-gazers
Hugo, while at Bingen, came upon pale
.>orant who was in love; and so he exclaims:
Imagine Romeo looking through micro
scope and counting the seventeen thousand
facettcs of the eye Of fly; Don Juan with
an apron on analysing the properties of potash;
and Othello i'll STOPPING posture examining
the fossils of China" And, speaking of Hugo,
-lok - ! -, |
Man Who Laughs, of the night wanderings
of poor little houseless Gwynplanel 1t is
equal to the shipwreck in David Copperfeld
....... Year by year our landscape freshens
and becomes more habitable and human like.
In the beautiful park which surrounds the
Soldiers Home at Washington is a bit of
leafy outlook which they call '',The Vista.
They have. so skillfully trimmed away space,
about eye-sight high, through the thick trees
that by looking straight ahead you get a l
glimpse of the Capitol, far away, at the other
end of prolonged tube of foliage. The effect S
is very pleasing and picture-like. Now, here t
in Carson the leaves and branches are SO
thick in places that one may cheat himself c
into pleasant fancy of green and wooded S
slopes and grassy wales, beyond. We have |
managed to hide here and there, the bleak C
hills and sere brown mountains of the distant L
horizon and the underground. Standing C
near the upper terrace and looking through
the shade and orchard trees (Which are really
quite abundant), and taking III the view, t
Southwark, the illusion, as of a country of d
gentle slopes and understanding woodland is t
very welcome and almost deceptive And g
these damp mornings make the grass seem Il
dewey. But, we fancy, these impressions t.
hold their own, these chilly days, with much t.
more strength by the warmth of indoor C
fire than al fesco. Yon snow-crested Sierra S
chlls the genias all out of us, and shivering, #
we sigh for more summer-like and less ca Il
PRECIOUS cline ... 1t is with something of n
self satisfaction that we point out the very Ii
not to say cathartical and hygenic A
character of one little thing which was done Il
in the name of the editor in the APPEAL of b
morning. Under the head of u
Finding Money in the Ashes" is a mention b
Of Aragos eulogy on Alexander Volta; and Sc
in this connection the reader is invited, as it II
we're, to swallow new and untried compound al
described (by the printer) as the ''Votaic al
Pill Shades of Franklin! an has it come to 81