The semi-weekly miner., 1882-03-04
Snoring in q Foreign Tongue.

snoring IN q F0folQ0 IO080e.
From Bill Nye's Boomerang.
"It's funny how careless they get
about joint powder after they get used
to 1t, said Woe(ltick Williams The other
day to u boomerang man.
Its might harmless looking stuff.
and you wouldn't think 1t II you didn' /.
know what it was, that it would blow ..
man up any quicker than ball Of pOn-
explosive Nebraska batter.
Il know when ! WAS sinking Oh the
Feverish Hornet, and had cabin up in
Slippery Ellum G:lch, Mt first We was
powerful careful about our joint powder
and kept it in hole in the side of the
hill, hut after We got more
f~,naliar with it We got to keeping it in
the cabin, AMI in atOut two
weeks We used to sit Oh the box when
We played Black Mariar and Pedro.
after this We found that this kind Of
groceries worked better ii it was kept
kind Of warm. and We used To put the
little cakes Of joint powder under the
mattress nights ~ they'd l,c kind vi
warm III the morning to blast with.
I'VE had Il POlandcr On the night
shift Of the Feverisll Hornet that the
ln,ys called Neural in Phl:.skOwlliski.
He was the worst nlali to swear nights
and snOre day times that l ever saw.
Whcr he usct! tO 20 down in the shaft
and swear few times in the dialect Of
his filtheriand, the other men hal: to
come to the surface for fresh air. lie
generally swOre till he got excited and
his jaw got cramped on al imported xOb
Of profanity, and then he would quit Il
while. We called his style OF swear the
Angl0-1<Oscil,skO swear. 1t generally
Jared the foot wall and shattered the
vein matter 80 that We had to timber up
little after lie got through.
His snOre was about as I,l0N!-"ursll-
ing A. his unique style of swe;.r.> He
used tn shore in his own native tongue.
OF course, the force of habit is stronger
on Il man when he is sleep. That's
why he never tried tO shore III English.
"When he seemed to bc getting til"
most comfort Oot Of his sluin!er> ant! had
his mouth open 30 ~ you c.,l!tl throw \
Magnolia ham against his liver, and
sllOrcd 80 Us to get III all the r. and Y's
rs and Polish eiipthOn:s and other fun
ny business, it made the floor Of the
cabin creak, and the cOOk-StOve weui'l
fall down and the clock used t" stop, and
stock in the Fcvcrjsh Hornet would go
down tO ten cents i share.
"Well, Neuralgia phalaskowl,iski,
working on the niSht-sliiit ~ he did,
had to 'lo his heavy sleeping during the
day, while the rest Of us was tO work in
the shaft. The ,iay-shift consists of my
sell and Il man named Marco R<'zzariS
smith, and the nisllt-shitt wa> com INss-
c,l Of Il picked crew. consisting Of Neu-
r..igia Phi;,skOwski and u man from
ZiO,, that wcc:.li.-l Anonymous, ins:a,s>c
We never knew what his name w;s.
''Anonyniols slept in i tent. because
he said l,c was little nervous and ti.lg<-
ty-likc and couldn't sleep in u i'O;ier ::s,-
tory. so he pitched his tent about u
mile down the gulcl,, where thes"',nd IT
Neuralgia's snores was partially dead
enttl.
"AAx,ut , o'clock p. III. one pleasant
July day there was Il lo,,i cr'sl, III Slip
perry Elm t;u;cil that agita!ed til" coiin-
iry :"r four miles around, and filled the
air with fragments of l~tl-ciotl,cs, and
cooking utensils. We went down to The
cabin, bat it wasn't there.
1.-THE cDnc,lssiun of Neuralgia PhlaShO-
whi,ki'> snnr" had sci OH the join! pow
der concealed about his bed, and di>!ri-
ll.tc1i the whole atts,-::sscnc rancn over tic
surrounding scene.
I'VE postponed the funeral for two
weeks. and asked the pr~l"vt"rs Of the
State I" bring in such fragments "i de-
ceased :'s might bc found. At the hour
appoia .ul. the n,o,irners gathered
around i. bakimg-W,w.i.r can con;a;nin.
ali that was nort:.l of Neuralgia.
"i)c,t!l had worked a wontlr"us
change in the cxpris>iOn cc the features
ri the remains. Very few could rrcos-
liixc the 'lccr,>..
MIR. Phlaskowhiskc h:sl always lcs'n
cursed with II fear that he would lc
buried alive, and MARI" l,"zzaris Smith
suggested that the remains should lie in
state .or Il week or two, but III. rest q.
ii, cvl >o i:.'ritivc about his death Tat
the ceremonies wcrt. allowed T." =" on.
"Tl,i- little episode. seemed t" us like
!: solemn warning. and ai.cr We kept our
joint powder un.:rr :hc :lattrr>~ q! Il
n:an who didn't sliuIy in !, foreign lam
..u;;:cc.
"I!,t good o:l Angl'-;:axon sn'r" L.
.,'m! enough COR the every day h,lnI-ttl,'n
y. lie. When tho I,n"'l:!"r q: this r"uE-
Try isn't :.."sl enough, t">:l"Ir with in =