Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-23
PROFESSOR CUNNING AGAIN.

In the play full department of yesterday
Enterprise we find the following:
We are in receipt of another letter from
Professor Cunning, dated San Jose, Califor-
MA. 1t is III reply to paragraph In the Car.
son Appeal, to the effect that letters address
ed to the leading scientific men in the East
had brought replies that they knew nothing
of Professor Cunning or his scientific works.
The Professor replies in substance that he
did write book-'Life History of the Pas"
which was very favorably reviewed by
prominent Eastern journals, and that ref
erence to the files of the Hartford papers will
show that he was temporary chairman, at one
time, of the American Science Association
We cannot publish the letter i'll full, for two
reasons: In the first place, we informed Pro
essor Cunning some time ago that OUR columns
bad been closed to the controversy between
him and Professor Whitehill; and, secondly,
he referees to the editor of the Carson Appeal
as 4 horse-thief and villain, and professional
courtesy lmpels us to refuse publication to
language SO Incorporate and aggressive,
whether true or not.
We honor the sensation which produced
the difficult and unusual effect of self-retention
upon the pickering strings of our emotional
contemporary. The manifestation does honor
to it's head as well as it's heart.
AS to Brother Cunning iand there is a
warmth of brotherhood among thieves which
is thicker than water), did it ever occur to him
that the lesser should never assail the more
comprehensive culprit? Shall surreptitious
pedler of peanuts blaggard wholesale calico
merchant for selling wares that wont washl
When we stole our last horse we little thought
that temporary chairman of the American
Science Association, escaping prosecution in
the municipal court as we did Indictment by
the Grand jury, we stealing horse and he a
specimen of gay lussite, little did We
think, we say, that so distinguished larcenst
would put us to our purgation in this merciless
fashion. Life History of the Past is the
name of your book, is it Mr. Temporary
Chairman! Is this in the nature of an autobi- |
ographyl Does this contain, in detail, the his |
tory of our grand and your own petty larcenyl |
Does it relate how you, at the cumbersome
age of fifty your ightness of finger gone
but your greed intensified with impotency, |
attempted to steal bit of sage brush be-
jeweled with some rare and curious crystalsl
Does it speak of your unparalleled poltroonery
and the wilderness of your liver and the fever
ish Odor of your guilty sweat when the honest
custodian of Kelly & Hofer's cabinet confron-
ted you with charge, which, bnt for that
considerable senae which constrains all gentle
men from prosecuting even pretender to the
gentlemanlike character, would have fetched
you, grinning and pale before the municipal
magistratel Does it allude to your unmanly
attack, self confessed over your own signature,
upon blameless and most estimable lady? If
30, then shall the horse or horses, one or
many we have stolen (but not been caught at)
serve you as something to mount when next
you ride to Hartford to assume the oppres-
Hive dignities and take upon yourself the large
of the position of Temporary
Chairman of The American Scientific Associa-
ton.