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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
Credita5le animation.

Miss Eva Slingerland, Carson raised
girl, was before the examining board
for teachers in Storey county, the other
day, and passed an excellent examina-
ton. Eighteen applicants appeared for
first grade certificates, out of which
number two were rejected. Of the six
teen successful ones Miss Slingerland
took third place, her per centage max
ing the splendid showing of 9O4. Miss
Eva's many friends in Carson are
pleased with her creditable examina-
ton. .
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
Conc to California.

Mrs. II. r. Jones and her sister Miss
Helen Crawford left for the Golden
State yesterday. Mrs. J. will after a
family reunion in Carson, Nevada,
oscillate between Oakland and San Fran
cisco until the cooler days of Septem-
Der. Miss Helen will enter Miss
Fields Oakland seminary to remain
until she graduates. Both are ladies
that will be greatly missed while absent
and warmly welcomed on their return.
Salt Lake Tribune.
The ladies' arrived ia Carson lest
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
Important Decision.

The Supreme Court has decided the
so-called Asylum Act Constitutional,
Justice Belknap rendering the opinion,
Justice Hawley & concurripg. Chief
Justice Leonard is in San Francisco.
The Act of our last Legislature au-
thorized the Commissioners to borrow
$4,000 from the School Fund and
place in the Treasury four per cent.
bearing bonds, for the purpose of erect
Ing an Insane Asylum at Reno. The
decision of our Supreme Court re-af-
firms the decision of District Judge
King, rendered some time since.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
The Golden Stair Aseended.

A singular Society has been organized
in Empire, bearing the name of The
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil
Club" The Society experienced the
first loss, the other day, in the death OF
one of its charter members, Mr.. A. R..
Rottomfelt. The sad occasion led to
the passage of the following preamble
and resolutions:
WHEREAS, Death has removed one
of our members, therefore, be it ...i.
Resolved, That the loss Of his COM
panionship falls less heavily upon us
than the loss Of the money which" we
are obliged to pay to his widow, under
the rules of the Society. --..-.--
That, As citizen, he was no better
than his neighbors, for he grumbled
when his wife asked for the price of q
new dress for herself, or for a rig-out
for the children, the same as great
many men do; and wasn't saint by q
long chalk, any more than any Of US.
That he could have been q better
man than he was If he had not been
born q human being ana inherited the
frailities of human nature. '.
That we congratulate his widow on
being still young and good looking; and
also on being the recipient of hand
some sum from this Society, which will
render her very desirable match when
the regular period Of mourning has
passed. .... ...
How many have gone to their long,
last slumber,
Who could trace the cause to green
cucumber?.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
State Medical Society.

The following are the newly elected
officers Of the Nevada State Medical
Society, their official term being six
months: DR.. H. Bergstein, President !;
DR.. II. L. Herrick, First Vice Presi-
dent; DR.. J. s. Hammond, Second
Vice President; Dr.. F. H. Engles,
Recording Secretary; DR.. A. Dawson,
Corresponding Secretary; Drs. Geo. II.
Thoma, C. B. Briefly, N. Robinson and
NJ. Rockman, Censors.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
Attention, Young Smokers.

For the benefit Of some very young
friends in Carson, youths who smoke
cigarettes, inhaling the smoke and
making q pair Of miniature smoke
stacks of their nostrils, we give the
following from last evenings Western
kilograms to the Virginia Chronicle:
/" David Foley, aged II, was committed
to the insane asylum on Wednesday
last. Cause Of insanity, smoking
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

a & p
Milton Mobiles goes to Europe this
summer. AZ &.Ae FL .
f. J. Buckley plays next season with
the Deacon Crankett party.
Russell Bassett, fair actor but bad
manager, is playing in Chicago, III. =.
Phil. Fl. Kirby, San Francisco man,
is now manager for Willie Edouin.
The above items have been condensed
from the New York Mirror of the I'd
instant.
Lucky Baldwin is to run his own
theater, probably using Tom Mcguire as
nominal manager.
C. E. Blanchett and G. e. Locke have
engaged Emelie Melville for three
years. term Of comic opera.
Alice Dunning Lingard will star it
next season as Rosalind, Julia and
Juliet, and will he supported by strong
company.
Sheridan Corbyn, who went East
with the California Through Death
Valley Combination, is managing for
the summer season theater at Revere
Beach, Massachusetts,.
Frank Roche, who did not come to
this coast with Keene, plays leading
support to Henrietta Vaders, no also
was not here with Keene, next season.
Rose Stella, late of the Soldene Com
pany, has organized party, calling
it the Rosa Stella Comic Opera Company,
and opens in Cincinnati, Ohio, next
week. Hs.tsa f f' $50:
Two New York papers are having an
uninteresting quarrel over Edwin
Booths middle name One says it is
Forrest, and the other insists that it is
Thomas, and Thomas is the favorite in
the pools. 81 & III q
Mrs. Pacheco, wife Of Congressman
Of California, who has written
several successful plays, is now in New
York City making arrangements to have
> new play brought out there. Fred.
Lyster will superintend it's production.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
vUenovieh.

When the fruit season opens Ia CSa-
.ifornia it also makes it appearance In
Carson through the medium Of the wide
awake VucanOvich, who places on the
Carson market every conceivable thing
that the palate Graves, from q straw
berry to . pine apple. In the way OF
nuts, candies and fresh vegetables heis
In the front rank as usual. His prices
are low and bis wares fresh. myS-in
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
Tho Party Last Might.

The threatening weather of yester-
day, toward evening, looked like a
literal damper on the moonlight party
Of the Ivy Social Club. But the attend
ance, although not large, was fair, and
the, young ,meoplighters and their
friends had good time.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
At the Lake.

J. The tourist season at Lake Bigler is
booming, SO to speak. At the princi-
pal points, Glenbrook, Tahoe City,
Yank's and McKinney's, the public
houses are well filed. The private
quarters at other points, chiefly owned
by wealthy Californians, are all occu-
pied. The Lake seems to be better
appreciated this season az a place Of
summer resort by Pacific coast people
than formerly, while the Eastern tourist
never wearies in praise of the natural
grandeur of Tah-hoe. No cases of ex-
tortion on the part Of landlords thus far
reported, fact the APPEAL is glad to
note. The practice of "playing tricks
upon Travellers" so extensively followed
at Yosemite and other sightseeing
points in California, has worked injury
to those places. and we hope to hear of
no such q" carryin's on +" at the Lake.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
ne Opiun nneker.

A friend who Is familiar with the
peculiar ways Of the opium smoker, and
who has made this unfortunate creature
study Of late, says opium sm0king has
phases unlike all other species of dissi-
patton. The slave to liquor drinking
deplores his sad condition, and, whether
drunk or sober, Is anxious that others
should not follow his bad example. The
most earnest temperance lectures are
often delivered by the drunkard. The
opium smoker, lost to every feeling Of
shame and deadened to every manly
impulse, wants to pull others. down to
his besotted level. The beauties of the
drug, "the3 CiEcean enchantment," as
De Quincy calls it, are pictured by the
opium hend with gorgeous oriental COL
oringA The woman lost to virtue is no
admirer Of the xirtuous of her. sex, and
the opium smoker looks contemptuously
on his fellow man who has not enjoyed
the "Lethean drug" The slave to the
opium habit is rarely happier than
when initiating some one. into the snys-
terious of the opium den. Another, Pc
cularity Of the opium smoker is that as
the habit grows on him the desire for
liquor drinking decreases. After All
opium debauch his taste rebels against
alcoholic drinks His saloon friends
know of his recent dalliance with the
extract of the poppy by his refusal to
drink anything stronger than lemonade
or cider. . He listens to the badinaRe
of his friends ON this subject with a
stupid indifference. The opium smoker
has a jargon or slang of his own as
marked as the~ernacular Of the London
as given by Rulwer in his Paul
Clifford. He never speaks of opium |
it is "striking the joint"
with the bamboo" or chit
ting the pipe" A professional smoker |
Is ga joint hitter" A policeman is ga |
celestial cop,i. and opium is 'kdope."
The opium smoker is not a pleasant |
person to contemplate; his habits are
not good for imitation either by indi-
viduals or communities, and it is we'll
hat the law has stepped in to suppress
him like other nuisances.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

| nrDRIRF.
9a III ~
General J. r. KittreIl is in the city
All the hotels at the Lake are full O
guests. 1T
General C. C. Battermanhas returned
from Arizona.
The. District Court has adjourned t.
the 18th Of August.
And still the comstock stocks art
getting : blacker eye.
There are now eight patients at the
County Hospital.
It is expected that over one thousand
strangers will Be in this city Tomorrow.
Ssslz sss Fl e
N. W. Staining. OF. the Mint, is con-
fined to his home with rheumatism.
J.7Q A. Moore, the pioneer saloon
keeper of Carson, has retired from the
business. - ID, s.sa.a u.
/ DR.. !. p Mooklar, formerly Of this
city, is now the resident physician at
st. Gabriel Springs, California.
The current report that there will be
races at Treadway's on the occasion of
the Turner'S picnic is unfounded.
Millard's laundry team ran away yes
terday afternoon, breaking the shaft Of
the wagon, but doing no other damage.
Mr.. Lawrence Gattig, president Of
the German Savings Bank of San Fran
cisco, a $40, 200, 900 concern, was in the
city yesterday.
There are millions of catfish and
perch now in Washoe Lake; but they
will not be fit for table use until year
from this time. ...
There will be moonlight excursion
to Lake Bigler tonight. A band led
by Lyman Frisbie will accompany the
@ ft''"'
Three coaches full Of tourists came
down from the lake last evening. They
are all stopping at the Ormsby, and will
visit Virginia, this morning.
The loss by the fire in Harry Sum-
mer's saloon, which occurred few
lays since, has been settled, and the
place Is again open for business.
Major w. w. Mccoy, a gentleman
we'll known in this city, died in Shasta
county, CAL, on Thursday. In 1873 he
was Senator jones' Democratic opponent
ior the U. s. Senatorship.
The many Carson friends of Judge
J. C. Goodwin will be pleased to learn
If that gentleman's restoration to
health, and that he has resumed his
editorial labors on the Salt Lake Tri-
rune.
Constable Pine has concluded that
he emoluments of his Office are not
with the trouble and
annoyance attached thereto, and will
.esign. He opens the Lake House at
Reno next Monday. -.
The blind colored expounder of the
gospel nightly attracts large crowd Of
listeners on Carson street. He appears
o be as familiar with the bible as Bob
only that he reasons from a
lifierent standpoint.
Nat Dow, Baggage Master on the
Nevada Central Railroad, between Bat
lie Mountain and Austin, arrived home
Nat was warmly welcomed
" his Carson friends, all of whom are
,leased to know that he is well and
Icing well.
Who They Are.
Several of the members of the Hazel
l.>I
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

1t Is stated that II the VOltaire mine
venture proves successful, prospecting
in the vicinity Of this mine will be prose-
cuted more vigorously than ever, ana
there is no doubt hut what rich min
eral deposits will be found.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

A new Singer sewing machine, with
latest improvements, will be sold cheap
for cash. Apply atthe Bank Exchange
saloon, corner Of Curry and King streets.
Carson City Nevada
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

James Crawford, q son Of Israel
Crawford, Il home on q visit.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
NOTICE.

II. MMsRSON. OF THE EA0L0
eDs Market, will pay all claims against 1t eontraessl
prior to July 1881, I'D all in iebted up tbs
date are requested 70 settle with him immedia ely.
J. M. IMMERSION
Carson, july :, 1881. "
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

The gentleman who superintends the
conundrum department of this paper,
and whose speciality is answering politi-
cal puzzles, is out of town. In his
absence we refer our evening cOntem-
poary to another paper in his block.
Doubtless Stalwartism and other SUBJ
jects will then be explained. =
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

A one-horse top buggy, nearly new,
cheap for cash. inquire at this Office"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09
M SIC TEACHING

ia OWENS
NUILL TAKE 4 Few 0CHOLADO n
1netPuRensal Hasls
Diving ne eummif = piano a. asAn. orasrs.lsis .
1Us boek stoss q senS tArsaoA Ne rsaas1es.. vSn -
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-09

NEW ADVERTI0EIENT4.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11
Our Young Folks.
TROUBLE.

CONE, you little maiden. hush awhile your fret
Surely, you have trouble With your ribbons,
And trouble with the rain-which always Is
forgetting
That you want to 60 to church-aud with
many other things. intfi rs Fl
Iou have trouble with. the suu, which, instead
OF being pleasant
Only .pleasant, nothing further-ts too grs-
And there's trouble with the moon, which 3
sometimes just q crescent, Z,
When it should shine full and golden through
the shadow at your feet. ta6lls
You have trouble with the blossoms, which
keep lying close and curly,
Afraid OF wind and all that, although You
A bud Of rose Or violet, that's "out'' little
$40 early, .s.r..s-t 81
To some beautiful pert party. in your mus
You have trouble. through your books, With
some hundred Thousand cities,
with q spicy lot Of Islands. and stormy set
With your moods sometimes imperative; and
certainly one pities ~ afta s9T,t''E
golden head so sadly vexed with unknown
quantities.
You have trouble with all nations, too. through
history or tradition. ,{ a -,
with their manners. dress. religions, with
their kings and with their wars;
And perhaps, somewhat remotely, through the
telescope vision
OF Professor This, or That, you have trouble
with the stars.
Now, since you must have trouble. since to
bear 1t you seem able, i4t
Il fancy even trouble may be made little
sweet). 'ul IG}4
Suppose you take your trouble and arrange it
on the table;
Let the china, glass and silver show that
trouble can be neat.
Suppose you try with trouble If you cannot
Please the baby; -
Z He has many petty failure, and many
grievOus loss;
And suppose you dust chair or two, as charm
ingly as may be,
And suppose you teach q housemaid just how
not to be cross.
su-i;. Ds.r Tho Plrsu.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11
japanese Carriage Runners.

p THE Japanese shack" is large, two.
wheeled baby-carriage drawn by man.
It is called jin-ri-ki-sha, Chinese for
man-power-carriage," or Kurunad,
Japanese for wheel or vehicle. 1t was
invented but a few years ago, and al
ready there are nearly twenty-three
thousand in one city. Men make so
much more by drawing them than by
other kind of labor that thousands of
young men flock to the towns to let
themselves out as draught-animals.
Over level ground good runner can
trot forty miles day, at the rate of
about four miles an hour. The average
duration of runners life is only five
years, as he is liable to heart or lung
disease. Formerly the runners went al
most naked. But European ideas have
influenced the Government to decree
that they shall wear clothes, under pen
atty Of severe punishment if found I'M
clothed. But when away from tho
cities and towns, the runners return to
natures costume. A lady, while being
drawn In. jin.ri-ki-sha through the
interior, met a policeman. As soon as
her runner saw the officer, he fell down
on his face, so suddenly as nearly to
throw her out, and began wrigglipg into
a garment, which he had carried on the
cross-bar. The young men drawing
the two carriages behind crouched be-
hind her vehicle and tried to get into
theirclothes. Her man groveled in the
dust, and every time the policeman
spoke raised his head q little, to bow it
more deeply. He knew that he was
liable to be punished for not having his
clothes on, and this was his method of
,supplicating mercy. The lady's inter-
cession, and her plea that the day was
very hot, propitiated the policeman.
As soon Is . turn in the road took the
policeman out of sight, tho two young
men, throwing their clothes in the air,
gamboled in the shafts and shrieked
with laughter. The old runner, how
ever, did not recover his spirits nor take
off his clothes. He felt that he had had
q narrow escape from the clutches Of
the law. Youth $ Companion. D : ? -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11

The boys with The degs were dgnaled,
the doors opened, and tho hungry CO
mines let in on them. The unfortunate
rats seemed to be under . spell, and
made no attempt to sgok their holes.
For fiveA minutes slaughter freigned
supreme, and whom it had subsidized the
floor was covered with the bodies 81 forty
three rats. Again were the drums called
into requisiti0n, and the same scene en-
sued again. This time thirty eight rats
bit the dust. The boys continued their
operations with their drums and dogs all
the afternoon, and when evening came
there were piledunp in front of the stable,
cut, and stozn, th6 bodies Of
four hundred and seventy-nine rats; in
fact, all the rodents which had lived and
thrived for years on the grain in the mill
had been totally exterminated.-Neso-
castle (Pa.) NeUs. hk ~
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11

come when some moro powerful man
will get fame and fortune from my In
yenti0n. But nobody win believe that
poor John Fitch can do anything worthy
OF attention" This prediction was YER
lied before the thirty years expired. In
1878, when Robert Fulton brought suit
in New York to enforce his claim As the
inventor Of steam navigation, he was
defeated by the production in court Of
enc of John Fitch's pamphlets. A COM
mittee of the Legislature of New York,
after thorough investigation, decided
that the boats built by Livingston and
Fulton were In substance the invention
of John Fitch. Judge Rowan, of Ken
lucky, Fitch's executor, says: 81 was
convinced from his statements, explains
tons and papers, that Fitch was the IT,
ventor of steamboats,.
q The last days Of poor Fitch were sad
enough. When his farm was reduced
to 800 acres he contracted with q tavern
keeper to give him one half of his farm
to board him while he lived and furnish
him with pint Of whisky per day. He
afterwards increased the land grant on
condition that he should have double
supply of liquor. At the age of S., de-
feated in his plans, disappointed, and
demoralized by drink, the poor fellow
died, unwept, unhonored, and I'M
sung" He left no family. His ashes
repose in the old graveyard. at Bards-
town. No stone marks the spot, but
many years ago, when the precise local
ity was known, q survey was made and
recorded in the county clerks Office, by
which the exact spot is ascertained.
Within the past few years some CORE
spondence has been had with reference
to tho removal of his dust and the erec-
ton of suitable memorial.-C0r. Gin
ci,a,a1ti E,a0uirer. -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11
Imagination.


THE following story,is told by an old
physician of Worcester County, Massa-
chusetts.
Il was called into neighboring town to
visit a patient. 4. It being about the mid
die of the day, the old gentleman of the
house (over sixty years old) invited
me to stop and dine. Atedinner he
Z i.I don't know as you like my din
ner."
"Why, yes" said I; 81 do; I like it
very well; it is very good"
81 guess you don't know what you are
eating?' 2a'i af S
t"Why, yes I do" said I; sit is some
new corned beef. :" - -
"Ah," said the old gentleman, sit is
horse beet"
"Idon't believe it," I replied.
SIT is" said he, 81 declare tits some
of my old mare.''
/ was not much acquainted with him
at that time; I looked at him, supposing
him to be joking, but could not discover
q muscle of the face to alter1or change:
/ had Just taken another piece on my
plate and q mouthful of the second slice
in my mouth, and in fact it was horse
meat sure enough-I could taste it as
plainly IS, my olfactory nerves would
discover the scent of an old horse. The
more / chewed it the mere disagreeable
it tasted. 1 continued picking and tast-
ing little sauce which I could swallow,
but the meat, as the negro said, would
not 90. I atlast gave swallow as I
do with dose Of physic. I thought
that would have thrown the contents
of my stomach up at the table. l after
ward tasted q little sauce, bat took care
not to put any, more meat into nay
mouth, and kept time with the family.
Glad was I when dinner was over. It
being cool weather, the old gentleman
went to sucking and telling stories. At
last he says: -v
81 won't leave you in the dark about
your dinner. I told you we had horse
meat for dinner, and so it was. I told
you it was some of my old mare, and so
it was, for I snapped her away for q
steer, and that was some of the beef"
/ have ever since been glad that the
old gentleman put the joke on me, for l
never should otherwise have known
how far imagination could have carried
me-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11
John Fitch, the Inventor Of Steam.
boats.

TIE most interesting historical fact
connected with Bardstown, KY, is that
it was the last residence and burial place
of John Fitch, the inventor of steam
boats. This wonderful genius was born
1898. He was a. clOck-maker, silver
and gunsrnith, and was a Lieutenant in
the Revolutionary war. He made him
self very useful in repairing the guns of
the soldiers. For some real or supposed
slight he left the service, emigrated to
the wilds of Kentucky in 1778, and en-
tered one thousand acres of land in this
county. While sitting one day on the
bank of the Ohio River in 17SOhe was in
spired with the idea of propelling boats
by steam and, Immediately set to work
to accomplish it. He made sketches,
drafts, models, and experiments, and in
1875 memorialized Congress in refer
ence to his steamboat. He petitioned
the Legislatures of half . dozen of the
States for the exclusive privilege of navi-
eating their waters by fire and, steam,
In 1879 he built several boats, and sue
ceeded in making trips between Phila-
delphia end Burlington, NJ, at .
speed of seven miles per hour. His
success was only temporary. His ma
chinery was too light and often broken,
and finally the bursting of boiler on
one d his trips compelled him tS aban-
don his scheme. In 1870 he petitioned
Congress to grant him q patent for his
invention He sought aid in vain from
England, France and Spain. Discour-
aged and poverty stricken. he returned
to his Kentucky farm. and gave himself
upto habitnal inuoxication. He deposit
ed in the Philadelphia Library large vol
umes of manuscript, sealed up, with di-
rections that they should not be opened
for thirty years: When, opened
they were found to contain q
full history of his trials, emblr-
easements and disappointments. He
confidently predicted the final success
Of his plan. He said: "The day will