Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-15

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black BILL white breast, black and white back
and webb feet. It was taken to the Opera
House restaurant where it soon attracted an
excited crowd Of ornitholog lists. 1t was pro
nounced loon, lyup- the-ereek, mud hen,
a crelcow and buzzard by as many different
persons. The majority, however, settled on
the IDEA that it was loon. Ex-Sherltf Swift
having taken fancy to the bird bought it and
proposes to put it in pond near the Hot
Springs He is celebrating whether he will
clip its wings or tie ball and chain to his leg
to keep him.
The bird is no other than the great northern
diver loon (Coiyn,bus GLacraiis) 1t is a reg
ular sea bird, living on the coast, but fire.
quenting large fresh water lakes and ponds
in the interior for the purpose of breeding.
These birds, in their migration southwark
late in the Fall and on their return north
ward in April and May, visit our rivers and
mill ponds. They are very shy, wary and
difficult to kill, euding the sportsmen by their
dexterity in diving and swimming under
water, even against the current, The princ
pal food of this peculiar bird is fish, which
renders the flesh unfit for our tables, it being
rancid to the taste and its oder disgusting.
| The natives of Greenland use the skins of
| these birds for clothing, and the Indians
aoout Hudson Bay adorn their heads with
crclets of loon feathers. The caught
yesterday was male.
THE BLACKsMIrH's DREAA - There is now
on exhibition at Harris Hail arlington Block,
novel and interesting affair called the
" Blacksmith Dream, which is cembina-
ton of ingenious mechanical devices which
represent all sorts of mechanical pursuits as
follows: Carpenters on ladders hammering,
showing natural movements Of the arms;
boiler-raakers rlvetlne boiler; boy bringing |
rivets from the fire; train of cars passing
through tunnel, stops at stations for passen-
gers, conductor signals train to move on; |
steamboat travelling on miniature lake, stops |
at the landing to connect with the train; boys |
and girls running races with velocipedes: man |
chopping wood; man saving wood; lady run
ming sewing machine; carpenter saving; old |
lady tending the baby; lady working with old |
fashioned spinning wheel; boy working
blacksmith's bellows; black smiths working at
the anvil; man grinding ak; man grinding
scissors; colored man working Spite driver;
minstrel troupe. over forty figures in al
working and acting as natural as you would
see in every day life. The man has now ad
de6 some very complicated figures in which
Tilden is represented writing his famous
CIPHER dispatches, aud the Democratic ma
nipulators of the various State conventions
are represented circulating the sack and cap
turing a majority vote. The phonsgraph is
also on exhibition, together with automatic
Punch and Judy, which ''Hinglshmen pro !
nounce as the real thing. The admission is
but 10 cents, and everybody should 60 and {
see the performance, which is indeed some
thing quite extraordinary.
New GYMNAsIUM-It is proposed to start
a gymnasium in Carson. A place where ath-
etic exercises can be INDUCED in is fully as
good as free library. 1t is grand pro-
noter of good health, and man who swings
Indian clubs, puts up dumb bells and goes
through an hour of good solid exercise day c
n methodical way, can soon tell all the doc c
ors to GO to the deuce, and look Sam Wright, t
The undertaken, deiantly in the face when c
,ver he meets him in the street. A hall can I
% rented quite cheaply, and $3.50 will furnish [
t i'll good style with all the improved appli- e
noes and apparatus used in gymnastic exer- :
Uses One hundred subscribers could be found g
rho would pay 81. 30 to the cluband monthly a
ee from each member would keep the place a
n good repair. 1t it to be hoped that the citi g.
ems of Carson will take enough interest in G
his matter to push it through. During the
oming campaign there will be an endless r
mount of breils, and the man who attends -
he gymnasium regularly will be able to A
trike straight frem the shoulder This is o.
here good gymnasium comes in during o,
aese troublesome times ::
BRING BACK THOSE Spoons When the Re- 81
procal party was e ven week before last the ii
cookery was borrowed from the Episcopal N
hurch. 1t came back in an unwashed ID
condition. and ont of the seven a
ozen spoons winch went with the dishes only fr
bout dozen aud half have been seen again. al
[rs. Davis, the Recturs wife, is now vocifer-
ing loudly for the spoons, and assures US .,
lat they were all of the most orthodox pewter &C
I'd only intended for ice cream service at %