Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-26
THINGS LOCAL-WISE, WEATHER.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

The rain which poured down upon US al
on Wednesday and threatened US all day
Thursday, sprinkled the earth and dashed
itself upon all windward window panes yes
terday morning. In the afternoon there came
upon yon mountain crest great vapor and
then there blew up out of the South a strong
wind and the strong wind brought snow
and the snow fell upon the earth and whitened
it. And the evening and the morning were
the seventh day. But the men of the law,
they who make the statutes, 10, they were dis
persed far and wide, and many of them were
gone even so far to the city which sits upon
The hill to partake of its wickedness and be
tempted by its temptations. Never was there
80 much quiet during the session of any
Legislature before. Is the modern Scion a
wiser man than his predecessors Is he more
continent and under a more complete self
control2 Or is he older, and with passions
cooled and appetites less eager is he given to
. more obvious and habitual temperance2. go.
We note that Florence, the celebrated
actor, has lately been in Virginia City. Why
may We not expect him here, ere long2 If
the truth may judiciously be confessed then
il it to be said that We have had enough of
the leggy drama. A pretty womans shapely
underpinning is very comely to look upon
from an artistic point of vlew-but there are
other legs than ours! The sterling drama,
that which embraces within its limits such
comedies as ''The Rivals, "Still Water Runs
Deep" 'The School For Scandal and the
like is no more 1t is hidden and buried
under great mass of rubbish of the modern
school, specialties, like Davy "Crockett,"
exit" "Great Expectation" and the like-as
pernicious in their influence upon correct
dramatic taste as those other things which are
of the leg, leggy Come among us, oh We
comedians Of the old school and let US, before
we die, be reminded of the classic eccentric
tiles of Malvalio, the sweet character of
Juliet, and the quaint humors of Touchstone
and Falstaff and his motley followers. Indeed
our new opera house, handsome and we'll ap-
pointed has never yet been bsptised in the
name of the legitimate drama. 1t languishes
in this regard The Chinese New Year par
takes of the prevailing gloom. John iollfying,
like unto that Of his Christian neighbors, is
limited by the dimensions of his wallet
Money makes the cracker fly; and when John
is hard pressed for money his New Years
Day goes begging Still he keeps up with a
pleasant religious zeal his love for the lily
which never spins nor tolls but yet groweth |
with hardihood upon bed of moistened peb- |
bles and bloometh all in season " The ex-
egencies and unusual channels of the Legsla-
tive season divert the the local man from his |
accustomed paths and cause him to visit the
dulness which comes of his pens disuetude
upon his readers. Hence the somewhat
famine like appearance Of this department of
the MORNING APPEAL. We shall bloom out
With tho crocuses and datfodils of March, and
wing again with the April skylark-if, happily
this present Generalization shall depart and
leave us unscathed by the glaciers of winter
aud still susceptible to the reviving sunshine
# vernal spring =. Nothing is doing in the
Sheritf's office; the courts are as dead as a
.reat, black, empty Theater after the play is
played and the lamps are out; man goeth
bout tame and no longer pugnacious or given
o brawls; and all Nature is serene, save as it |
nds vent for its woods in the dropping rain,
he taking snow and the driving wind.