Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-18
eureka Dailp Seutinel.
TIE ZIG DITCH.

1t may not be known to the outside
world that in Eureka we have a big
ditch. 1t is a very bad ditch and ought
to be improved. There is hardly a good
thing to be said in favor Of that ditch.
1t would be a totally oxecrable thing II
it did not run along by the residences in
the aristocratic quarter of our town. 1t
ought to be improved. 1t has no water
in it at present, but has many other
things in Everything cast off that has
been accumulating since the last local,
not BiblicaD food. The privilege Of
picking about in it would be a windtall
to an olds-and-ends man of a populous
city. Old iron, suspenders, old hat,
drawers, discarded chemises, old boots,
careasses Of cats, dogs, and horses dead
Of the piukeye, can be extracted from its
depths in any quantity. 1t smells to
heaven. Its odors could not be endured
by human nature were it not that it runs
by Spring street. This fact diminishes
the stink materially, if it does not act
altogether as Il disinfectant. The louder
the cheese smells the more palatable It is
to the epieure, and in trying to be a con-
noisseur the pIebeian loses his sense Of
smell altogether ii he develops stomach
enough to be entirely aristocratic. There
is : popular story about a mar VINO, by
mistake, put an olive into his mouth tor
the first time, taking it for a plum. He
was indignant with somebody for play
Ing a trick on him, but he would not
have been indignant if his breeding had
not been low. a taste can be acquired
for things that at first seem nasty. The
stomach is i very accommodating organ.
Those who have learned to relish Linn
burger cheese sometimes actually decline
to wash their fingers after eating it, pre-
ferring, even to the disgust OF those
about them who have weak and plebeian
stomachs, to carry the smell around with
them as a material souvenir of the feast.
And there is no doubt that the garlic
eater enjoys the smell OF his own breath.
But the smell Of the big ditch is some
thing that the neighborhood can new
learn to like. Ii it were anything
that could be eaten by the grand monde,
it might be rendered tolerable by the
proper culture. Instead, however, it is 1
nuisance that ought to be abated. Il
not only smells to heaven, but it emit:
the e~t1uvia of death. 1t should hav,
been looked after by Congress, and pu.
in the River and Harbor Appropriation
(the Jumbo bill. The floods tina.
clean it out are uncertain in their com
ing. They may come to clean it on
once a year, or they may postpone thei
visits for an indefinite period. Ii Mr.
Cassidy had been informed on this sub
ject by public-spirited citizens, who ar
so rich in suggestions to their servants
this ditch would, no doubt, have beef
looked after. Had Mr.. Cassidy beeI
fully appraised OF the Importance OF thi
project, he would certainly have spen
some OF his energies in putting it through
He might have been compelled to swa.
off his vote and pledge himself to SUP
port those who wanted proper levies Oh
the Mississippi River, in order to shoy
them the supreme need OF this local i'm
provement c. the only really navigabl
stream that Eureka County, or the State
can boast Of. 1t has foated half a dozel
houses at once, and with so much vic
lenoe. in food time, as to telescope who'll
households. the members of which coult
not afterwards distinguish their owl
relations in the general wreck OF furni
ture and chaos of matter. We are con
vinced that some of Mr.. Cassidy's man
warm friends would have mentioned thi
serious affair to him, knowing that if h
should attend to it it would make tn
Base Range enthusiastic in favor of re
election, and 50 scare the Republican
throughout Nevada that they would no
have had the cheek to nominate a MAJ
against him, but would have indorset
him themselves as a man they coul,
never hope to throw down. But the,
were dilatory, thinking, possibly, tina
Congress would not adjourn, but rul
into the next, and that there would b
time enough for the suggestion thi
Winter. And it is not unlikely that tn
Phoebe Record, whose feathers somebod.
has been rubbing the wrong way, wa
deluded into delay. for some simila
reason in not informing Mr.. Cassidy tina
the Colorado River needed looking after