Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-25
Snoring in a Foreign Tongue.
Bill Nye's Boomerang. I

Ii luuuy uOW careIeSSiV tH6I get
about giant powder after they get
used 10 it, said Woodtick Williams
the other day to a Boomerang man.
It's mighty harmless looking stuff,
and you would't think if you didn t
know what it was, that it would blow
man up any quicker than ball OF
non explosive Nebraska butter.
Il know when I was sinking on
the Feverish Hornet and had a cabin
up in Slippery Elum gulch, at first
we was powerful careful about our
giant powder and kept it in II ale
in the side of the hull but after we
got more faa liar with it we got to
Keeping itin the cabin, and in about
two weeks we used to sit Qp the box
when we played Black Marian and
Pedro.
after this we found that this kind
of groceries worked better if it Was
kept kind of warm, and we used to
keep the little cakes Of Joint powder
under the mattress nights, so they'd
be kind of warm in the morning to
blast with.
ave had a,polander on the night
shaft of the Feverish Hornet I'll It
the boys called Neuralgia PhIaskoA
whiski. He was the worst man to
swear nights and snore days that I
ever saw. When he used to go down
in the shaft aud swear few times 10
the dialect of his fatherland, the 9th
er men had to come to the suryice for
fresh air. He generally swore till he
got excited and his jaw got cramped
on an imported COB of profanity, aud
then he wouh quit u while. We
called his Style of swear the Anglo
Kosciusko swear. It generally
Jared the foot wall and shattered the
vein matter 50 that we had to timber
up little after lie got through.
Ibis snore "as about as blood>
curding as his unique style of swear.
He used to snore III his own native
tongue. OF course, the force of habit
is strongest on man when he is
asleep. That's why he never tried to
snore in English.
when he seemed to be getting
the most comfort out of his slumbers
and lad his mouth open so you could
throw Magnolia ham against his
liver, and snOred so as to get IN all
the double Is and q s and Polish
dlpthOngs and Other funny business,
It made the floor OF the cabin creak,
and cook stove would fall down
and the dock used to stop, and stock
IL the Feyerish Hornet would go
down TO ten cents share.
"WelI, Neura gil, Phlaskowiski.
worlHll 6 on The nlght-shift as he d d,
b I'd to 40 his heavy sleeping du i1g the
day, while the rest OF us was to - ork
III the SHAFT. Tie day shit consis' ed
OF myself and mau named Marco
BaZzdlls Smith, and fh8 night shift
was composed OF a picked crew, con
sisting Of Neuralgia Phlas kowhiski
and man from ZIOn that we called
Anonymous, because we never knew
what his name was.
anonymous slept in a tent, be
cause he said lie was a little nervous
and tidgety like and couldn't sleep IN
a boiler factory. So he picked his
tent about mile down the gulcb,
where the sound of Neural gia snores
was partially de- deDed.
about 2 clock p. III. one pleasant
July day, there was loud crash il
slippery f N gulch that agitated tie
country for four miles around, and
filled the air with fragments of bed
c.oihes and cooking utensils. We
Went down to the cabin, but IT WASH
! there.
The conclusion of Neuralgi
PLlaskowhiski's snore had set off The
/ giant powder conceale d about his bed
and distributed the whole d0g-gont
ranch over the surrounding scene.
I'VE postponed the funeral TO.
two weeks and asked the prospector
OF the state to bring in such frag
ments OF deceased as might be found
At the appointed, the mourners gath
cred around baking powder can con
tanning all that was mortal of Neural
gla. ...
death had worked O wondrou
change in the expression of the fea
lures of the remains. Very fey
could reconlize the deceased.
"Mr. Phlaskowhiski had Away
been cursed with fear that he woul
be buried alive, and Marco Bozzars
Smith suggested that the remain
should he in the state for week 0
Two, but the rest of us felt so posi-
tive about his death that the cere
monies were allowed to go on.
This little episode seemed to U
like a solemn warning, and after ths
we kept our joint powder under ii
mattress of man who didn't sno1
in foreign language.
"The good old Anglo-Saxon sno'
is good enough for the every da
humdrum of life. When the laI
guage of this country isn't goo
enough to snore with mining cam.
it's time to adjourn"