The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-04

'eA " 'SN' SS''A Vi aliusSHleut WITH tneIl,
studying their customs. That is, they
all did except one lady. The ladies
called upon the Indians and the Indians
returned the calls almost before the ladies'
got out OF their rooms. One lady called
on chief and then went to her room and
retired, and pretty soon there was
knock at her door and she found that it
was the chief. She told him to come in
the morning. The lady unlocks her door
in the morning 50 the porter can come
in and build a fire before she gets up.
She heard knock in the morning, and
suppdsing it was the porter, she said,
"come in" The door opened and in
walked Mr. Indian She took one look
at him and pulled the bed-clothes over
her head. He sat down on the side of
the bed and said, "How?" Well, she
was so scared that she didn't know
"How" from Adam. She said to him in
the best Sioux she could command,
"Please good Mr.. Indian go away until
l get up" but he didn't seem to be in
hurry. He picked up pieces Of her wear
ing apparel from the floor, different
articles that he didn't seem to know any
thing about where they were worn, and
made comments ON them in the Sioux
tongue. The stockings seemed to par
alyze his untutored mind the most. They
were those long, ninety -degrecs-in.the.
shade stockings, and they were too much
for his feeble intellect. He held them up
by the toes and said, "Ugh!" The lady
trembled and wished he would 60 away.
He seemed to take great delight in ex-
amining the hair ON the bureau, and look.
ing at the lady as much as to say, "Poor
girl; some hostile tribe has made war on
the pale face and taken many scalps."
Finally she happened to think of the
bell, and she rung it as though the house
was on fire, and pretty soon the porter
came and invited the Indian to go down
stairs and take drink. The lady locked
the door too quick, and she will never
leave it open again when there are In
dians in town. She says her hair-on
the bureau-fairly turned gray from
fright.-[Milwaukee, Wis, Sun.
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is afflicted with peculiar kind of deaf
ness. He said to an interviewer the
other day: "My deafness is somewhat of
the nature of color blindness. There are
certain sounds never hear. / have
never heard the sound of the bird since
came into this world, and until 1 grew
up to manhood l had always supposed
the music of the bird was poetical fic-
tion. never hear the Kissing sound of
the human voice, consequently not know
ing of the existence of that sound grew
up to manhood without ever making it
in my speech. A portion of the conson-
ants never hear, yet I can hear all the
vowels. l never could distinguish the
difference between the hard sound OF the
letter s. and the soft sound, consequent.
ly frequently mix these sounds in sad
manner. 1t is the same with the soft
and hard sound of the letter 'g.' 1t was
only by accident, after my marriage, that
discovered the existence of the Kissing
sound in the human voice. I was then
taught arbitrarily how to make it, but I
never hear it in my own voice, conse.
quently frequently miss making that
sound in my speech without knowing it.
Owing to its having become second
nature to me to omit the sound OF the
letter IS, when I do make it l labor in
doing so, which in great measure gives
my pronunciation the peculiarity it has.
There are words which I pronounce liter
ally according to the spelling which gives
an additional peculiarity to my speech.
For instance, l used to pronounce the
word 'parochial' just as it is spelled un.
til I was corrected, when I now pro.
nounce it 'parokial.' cannot hear the
difference between the sounds of 'ch'
and * when embodied in word. 1
have walked by the side of policeman,
going home at night, and seen him blow
his whistle, and never could hear it,
although it could be heard by Others half
mile away. I never hear the upper
notes of piano, violin and other musical
instruments, although would hear all
the lower notes"
A new tangled locomotive, called the
Fontaine engine, went over 229 miles Of
the Canada Southern Railroad in 205