Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-17

One Days Reign of Bacchus ON
the Base Raure-

One Days Reign of Bacchus ON
the Base Range.
Yesterday was a good one for DRINKS.
What it was that made the day SO prolific
in this respect we can only conjecture.
Maybe it was a seeking of consolation in
B%arleycorn, a bracing up, as it we're
against the evil day of the threatened
closing down of the R~ichmond-the dire
event which is to break the backbone of
mining in Eureka District. Be this as it
may, there was more drunkenness of the
lightly sportive and extremely mellow sort
than has been observed in town for q long
time. There was no buster, no profanity,
no noise about it. No lords at the festive
board ever got drunken than our yester-
days inebriates, nor did any lords show
up their true inwardness under the thin
covering of lettering dignity with more
naturalness than they. Terence said some
thing much like this Humanity is in
terested in everything that is human"
"a man is a man for a that" and the
least reserve he has the more interesting
he is to be ob~served-at a distance. The
expression of a Transfers face as he hunted
for a lost rein yesterday revealed the con-
scious depths of the human heart. His
horses came to a dead halt. He did not
know why, but it was because he had
refined them to with a jerk. One rein
dropped down on the dashboard and he
spent a half hour in such efforts as would
indicate that he had not a zone in his
body, trying to pick it up. He picked up
everything else that was in reach first.
Once he got hold of his w boot, and the
smile of satisfaction and pride that
illumined his features at his fancied sue
cess in recovering the lost article was
something to stimulate the genius of a
painter, while the darkness which reigned
upon his face when he at last found out
his mistake would also be a phenomenon
worthy of a great artists attention. When
he finally recovered the fugitive rein he
was as natural as a drunken man could be,
and showed no appreciation of his triumph
whatever.
We never, until yesterday, had any
proper conception of what is meant by the
slang term ''rooster." We have always
had, or imagined we had, a pretty fair
idea of what 'shoodlum," and a number
of other terms mean, Il as pill"
'tstiff," and ''gutter-snipe," but until yes
terday we had never quite realized the
poetic Specification of the term ''rooster."
fellows, whom we take to be fully de-
veloped ''roosters," issued from a saloon
in which they had got just enough fire to
give them a bird-like feeling and to set
them to capering. They went after each
other with all the preliminary maneuvers
of the barnyard fowl until they nearly met
and then. they would crow and flap their
wings and come almost to the scratch
again. If George Elston and Lew Wood
wish to make a big hit we would suggest
that they can immortalize themselves and
add to the fame of the popular Truckee
Variety Company by appearing in the new
and spirited role of two boosters"
There remains only one case of into1ica-
tion to be disposed of. An elderly, brawny
and honest looking man had one, as he
said, and got a little the worse for drink.
He was lacking home against a wind dead
He was taking the longest posi-
BILE walk in the shortest distance. He at
tracted the attention of two sympathetic
who were taking a sober walk
as the proper and wholesome way Of get
ting up an appetite for dinner. He
stopped still and began to give way at the
knees; he balanced for a while and then
came over backwards with such force that
if he had been sober he would suffer from
headache for the next six months. This
of falling seemed curious to one
of the gentlemen, who commented on it.
"Why," spoke up the other, with such
in his tones that his words carried
with them, ''don't you know
that when a man is drunk he always falls
I-well-" The two strolling
helped the fne-looking old
man to his feet. got his hat for him. which
the wind had blown away, and, seeing that
he could not navigate alone, they took
him, one under each arm, and helped
him home. He was very polite and pro-
in his thanks for the interest taken in
him by strangers, and made the statement,
above, that he was a little the
for drink. The gentleman on his
left, who explained that drunken men
tumble oyer backwards, checked
him in his efforts to apologize further, and
his agitation with the assurance:
'iOhl don't mention it. There are plenty
others that get in the same fix" This
of his, which had much of elo-
luence in it, coming, as all eloquent
do, from the heart, that the in
ebriate mentioned not another word in
He dismissed his assistants be-
fore he got quite home, after thanking
them oyer and over again and shaking
their hands, which led them to speculate
that there were those at his humble resi-
lence whom he did not wish to witness
The helplessness of his condition and the
assistance he had required to bring him
pack to them. He got there. not in d
straight line, but without q fall. What
oefell him indoors is unknown and cur
from the whole world.