The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-01
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oneenSto~n O-one~pondsnos q the New
York Evening Post
There IRE 200 Of us, and Is many
more we're turned away for lack Of
siaee. Tie tourist's cry is the French
cry az 1sT0-"a Berlinl'' OF course, in
this large ships company an observer
can ind many types. / notice:
Two young people. whom l take to
he bride and groom, from several signs,
chiefly the fact that they eat sugar
plums out Of a fancy box with a chrome
ON the nd.
A party Of bicyclists-from Boston, L
judge; at least n OF them passes his
time very prohtahiy in reading Emer-
sons essays.
The passenger who walks. He has
estimated the length Of a clear space
on the deck, and does his FLAPS" at
stated times.
An Italian. who nrads n copy OF La
Liberia assiduously, hooking up with a
pleased expression, however, when a
Lady plays Verdian melodies ON the
piano in the saloon.
An invalid with a hacking cough that
suggests a conin.haek.
A beauiy; n who has been a beauty
for, fear, these many years. All,
time, intrepid time, that ever advances
and never retreatsi The poor lady seeks
oppressive her charms, as we do timber,
10y judieious coats OF paint, but she
must find a better ruse than ceruse IL
she Is To deceive us longer.
Another beauty; an honest one. Alas,
she exemplifes the Japanese proyerb:
The beautiful woman is unhappy"
She ate n salad ut lunch, and now she
Is pouring oil on the troubled waters.
BY her side. another passenger by
rail. asked him a ! passed what was
up, ''My dinner" was the laconic re-
Spouse.
All, this sea -sickness, It is like love
sickness in many particulars. Both
maladies are common To man both are
very violent, uncomfortable, transient
and ludicrous, the first to the victims
friends. and soon after Ia the sufferer
himself. But 10 resume:
The card-players playing whist, the
game that five play ut, four holding the
cards and the fifth looking over your
shoulder and asking, Why in the world
did you play this and didn't play thatr
But cards are a good game, of great
antiquity and biblical associations.
Yes, and their sinful tricks date back
TO the prophets, for we read In Isaiah,
xiv. 10, that :" the treacherous dealers
have dealt treacherously." still, what
would whist be without its tricks?
A party Of actors. most of them bois-
terously well, but one so sick that 1
hear be has thrown up his engagements.
The man with an appetite like the
sasracenia. The purser regards him
ruefully, and his table-neigbors with
admiration, not unmixed with awe.
A cry-baby. Stanley tells Of a snake
in Africa so deadly that when IL APP
pears, in the village the village moves
off. SO when that child appears the
adjacent passengers gather up chairs
wraps and books and leave.
4 young man wishing TO see the
world, meaning more particularly there:
by the flesh and the devil. He wants
to see %''life," and will pay for his en-
tertainment in the wages of sin, which
Is death.
A few pretty children tumbling about
the decks in n very tipsy manner, and
evidently happy. The little dears;
much they know about going TO sea or
the nature Of thingsi Once, when in
mid pacific, the dismal news came that
our steamship had broken her crank
pin. There:was grumbling and griev-
ing, in the midst of which q little maid
felt in her pinafore and said, "No mat
ter, mother, I've got a pin I'll give the
captain"