The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-08
Humers of Railway Travel.

By the by, did you ever sit in the rear
end of the car, and look along the line
of ears that stretch the car-length in
front of youp Never? Then try it.
You will laugh, if your ribs can be
tickled. Who would suppose that there
were such broad differences in ears, and
such individuality to them? The last
time | went out of the Fitchburg depot,
on my way north, l took look at the
ears along the car. Sixteen in row;
there was the little pink ear, and the big
red ear the ear with hair round The
edges and mole on the back side; and
the ear that stood out, and the ear that
stuck tight to the head; the ear that was
big at the top and small at the bottom,
and the ear that was big both at the top
and the bottom. Funnyp 1, guess it
Sas funny. [ sat and looked at them,
and imagined the characters they rep
resented, wondered how they came to
be as theyiwere, ard who was response
BILE for some of them, f
After you have studied the ears, Just
step to the front-end of the car and take
look at the noses. Speaking of noses,
there was nose on that train. Indeed,
in my. car there were 40 noses until 10
O'Clock; after, that there was only one.
They made up the berths at half-past 9,
and it only took 80 minutes for that nose
to assert itself. There was q, trumpet,
clarionet, fish horn, snare drum, aud
a pair of cymbals inside that one nose
In fact, it was full band of itself. Its
possibilities were simply astounding.
1t was in good practice and opened
its concert artistically. Its prelude was
in the minor key; but l have had ex-
perience in such noses, and l could not
be deceived. knew what was coming
and prepared myself. At last it came
What noise 1t actually drowned the
roar of the train. l. filled the car, and
flowed out by the ventilators.
"What's that?" said heavy bass
voice.
What's Mat?" startlingly interro-
gated tenor
W4ATs THAT p tipidlylejaculated
THs anaket sook came. sAaAih sthe
torrent of sound rushed out of the mon
strops nostrils BigP Yes, they must
have been big big as a bootleg. 1t
takes rodm for such a noise to get out.
"OhP' said the bass voice.
oh :" repeated the tenor.
"OH!" re-echoed the soprano.
Then silence.
Nothing more was said for perhaps ten
minutes, while the nose warmed to its
work. 1t put forth its variations. No
two snores were alike. One would be-
gin with slight quaver, run up an ever
deepening vibration and then explode.
The next would be one tremendous ex-
plosion-no warning of its beginning no
premonition of its closing. Then there
would follow succession of claps, each
distinct, self-assertive, cumulative. Now
it was bass snore, then tenor, then an
alto, then variation between an alto
and soprano. But whatever the KEY,
and whatever mode, the force was never
lacking. TWAS strong, terribly strong.
al can't stand thisin said the bass
voice.
81 can't stand this!" repeated the
'sioaa I stand nsss' Asd he So
prano.
LaughgI hyson my bach and laughed
l rolled oysron nv side and laughed. !
showed up the window, put my head out,
and laughed laughed with spasinodic
action of the heels. 'Still the man snored
on. Five minutes passed. The nose
was executing one OF its most intricate
and impressive passages. 1t began with
a tremolo, rolled and roared itself up