The Republican journal., 1884-02-21

man; but once, when | was looking down
| through Il grating into the baggage room,
| ! noticed him pOttering around in a
curiously leisurely fashion among the
| trunks. Ii | gave the matter a thought
At ali, | have no doubt believed him,
| III his own deliberate. SententiOuS way,
engaged in searching for his own bag
gage
One evening, i'll the smoking-room, our
friend who, since his previous discour-
agement in that peculiarly trank-spoken
Tabaks- Parliament, had been very quiet
and retiring, broke out again into elo-
Quence This time he lifted up his voice
to pronounce a glowing eulogium on the
| British nationality. He avOWed himself
born Welshman, and although expa-
triated III tender Years, and admitted to
| American citizenship as soon as he had
| attained the statutory age, he was not
| the man, like Stanley, to deny the land
| Of his nativity.
| own that found q difficulty in recon-
| clllng this claim 10 Welsh extraction with
a statement be had made in the course
of his condolences to "Madam,' to the
| effect that he had been "born and raised
| i'll keokuk, la" but these little discrep-
ancies, was duly sensible, may occur in
| autobioloquial observations, without seri-
Ousiy affecting the veraclty of the aver
age human animal. The eloquence of
| the moist eyed man, il dj1use. was de-
cldCdly stimulating, and stirred the en-
| thuSiasm OF the BrtOns and Australians.
They are jocund, friendly Creatures in
| the smoking room. after the steward has
answered the bell Il few times: and at
| the close Of cheer for Queen Victoria,
| II which the Americans joined with a
tiger an Australian ieweier, kindled
INTO hospitality 10y his loyalty, called for
| champagne round. The champagne in
spired quite spasm OF international rap
proachmant Patriotic songs set in
"Brittannia Rules the Waves"-most of
! the Britons had been deadly sick for the
first two days-"IIail Columbia,0 'The
Red, White and Blue" and ''The Star
Spangled Banner Tie attempt at
yankee Doodle" was scarcely a flowing
triumph. since no one present appeared
| to know any words to that air which
complied with the requirements Of the
| strict propriety always maintained in the
snoEing-ro0m OF an ocean steamer, as,
indeed, III every part Of such d vessel
and the impromptu concert fifty conclud-
ed with 'G0d Save the Queen
Presently the smoking room thinned
| The American gentleman with the moist
| eye remained, leaning back in seeming
| slunber; the Australian ieWeler was still
on hand, tidgeting about as il there Was
somethino on his mind g;,t smnkino
silently in nv own dark corner Present.
! Iv the ieweler awake thp American ,y;,h
| y rnunh nm +hn shonldar and c,t 1nu,,,
! beside him The cantinus Australian
murnu!rel some words Of which Jcanobr
False bottom" ..Arr they very sharn y
| The American snake onf 1iI,a , man.
| .o;,,rss 7 know snlrn N iii hovs IN
seq vnu 1i,,ht thrn,1ub ,,or+n.r!",nd tbcn
| foI0veG hot todd,
rv, davs ,frn, +hi. ntis,la ira run,1
s,,prt..rIn n.as attnrdnd nf f,. moist a,,,d
man havjno afternoon tea trrn-a-tetn witb
\ ]adv in the most retired cornar of tha
! nrcat salnon Madam and ! h,d Lntb
disseminated the nuaint f,ln We had haan
| told nj the bpginninp of thp vnya.re ana
| the bio bInc-eyed man with thn f,r-of'
| eynrrssinn So often in his facn ~ rn,,ard-
ed with no litrle kindly inturnst rban
If bnca1ne nrrttv we'll known tbat ha Nod
| been in tlin ,Friern cnstnn,y en,,Ioy 9nd
THAT he was a civil uIrasa1rl lnatnrnd
scottish sort of f..llow oannr.,,lv Ills on,
frrtainpr II thn fnur n,rlnrl, taa ratactinr
was A gannt, vilher4u IttIe gri@ If ).
Scoto- New Zealand woman Who called
herself Nrs Lorne and nrntpssnd - ha !
| widow, both Of which pretentions were
considerably Inaccurate She had cor
raled' the lnoist-eyed on The subject Of
her baggage, about which, ever since
she joined the ship at Auckland. she
had been hetraying nervousness among
her intimatcs At least, | gathered this
had been her little game. from the frank,
hearty remark the most-eyed man made
as lie stood up from the tca-table:
Don't YOU skear worth cent. Mad
am. don't We. Colonel O'Driscol. TIE
boss on ne letjy, lsan old-tme crony of
nine III say one word to the Colonel,
ana you're through as slick as an eel"
Whereat the bogus widow Lorne FLUSHED,
ana looked hali-pieased, hat-confused.
Among the passen gers who joined the
Iasnlanan at Auckland was droll little
American from FIJI, hard-bltted, beech
conber style OF Old reprobate, with a
Keen Zest t0r liquor. The old fellow
protessed lightness OF purse, and arrang-