The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-06
Dakota Quicksan is.

We started for Pine Ridge Tor Red
Cloud) agency. Five of our party were
missionaries. The similarity of the
country now traversed to that passed
over between Randall and Rosebud gave
much monotony to this part of our trip.
It was broken however, by two incidents.
On the second day, having travelled far
with no signs of water, we suddenly dis
covered large lake. All of us were
thirsty, tired and dusty. Our facilities
inconsiderable, and as this expanse of
water broke upon our view one ex-
claimed, s'there is sight for all eyes"
Two horsemen dashed ahead to find
spot for camping. They had scarcely
reached the shore, however, when both
horses stepped into quicksand. One
sank almost to his belly. His rider
jumped from his back and providentially
alighted on a firm spot. But it was only
| by the greatest exertion of man and
horse that they got out. The other horse
| only had two feet in and was therefore
| able to extrieate himself Dakota seems
| to abound in quicksands. Every marsh,
| the shores of every lake and river, every
creek bottom, though it be dry of water,
must be trodden with the utmost
caution. The other day one of the
young Indians from st. Pauls boarding
school at Yankton agency, who had gone
out to shoot ducks, came back with
marks of mud on his clothes almost up
to his shoulders. He had sunk that far
in quicksand. How he ever got out
was o. wonder.
One of the party managed with little
care to reach the edge of the lake, and
yvo ho wiz
alkai mud, found to his surprise that
the lake bottom was waterless. The soil,
still moist in places, had been whitened
by the sun till it gave exactly the ap-
pearance of wind-swe pt water. So per-
feet was the deception that when, little
further on, we passed another such
place, l rode nearer, wondering If this
could be lake after all.
We pushed on for several hours, and
late in the afternoon we reached welcome
water; we drank heartily of it and had
supper; but it was almost dark when the
wagon containing baggage, tents, etc.,
drove in.-N z. EUensag Post.
Observing little brothers remark be-
fore room full Of company: 81 know
what made that red mark on Mary's
nose; it was the rim of John Parker's
hat" And there are girls who believe
that little brothers never go to heaven.
She hung upon his arm SO lovingly
he was her heaven-and beamed up in
his face with all the radience of those
pale blue eyes. Her heart would speak,
and yet the tongue refused it's utterance.
But love and admiration broke the spell,
and from the rapture of her soul she
breathed forth, "Your mustache is be-
ginning to grow, George.
The following conversation recently
occurred in Boston bookstore between
a well-known poet and one of the firm:
Poet-"P People can have no comprehen-
sion of the patience and labor required
to compose an epic poem. Bookseller
-"And the poets can have no compre-
hension of the patience and labor to read
one."
A foolish man married o dumb woman |
because she could never scold him. |
Imagine his anguish when she writes out |
her curtain lectures on a slate, and when |
he comes home at ! A. NJ. makes him |
read them aloud to her, that she may
know he does read and understand
them.
In certain town in Yolo county is I
mercantile house owned by Jonas Hugg,
and he employs very amiable young
clerk, by name Sylvester Smile. They
are both represented as amiable gentle
men, and it is said that young ladies take
q peculiar delight in dropping into the
store to see the clerk Smile and Hugg
the proprietor.