The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-08-23
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for our honeymoon little house
sixteen miles or SO from any other
habitation of white men-that stood
on the steep white cliffs Of the Ner-
budda River, which here flows
through q canon Of pure white
marble. Close beside our house was
a hut, where holy man lived in
charge Of an adjoining shrine, earn
ing money for himself and the shrine
by polishing little pieces OF marble
as momentoes for visitors. 1t was q
wonderful place altogether, and
while my wife went in TO change her
dress, the servants laid breakfast on
the yeranda overlooking the river.
At the clatter of the plates there be-
gan to come down from q big tree
that oyershadowed the house, and
up the trees that grew in the ravine
behind it, from the hpuse-roof itself,
from everywhere, q multitude Of
solemn monkeys. They came up
singly, and in couples, and in fami-
lies, and took their places without
noise or fuss on the veranda, and sat
there, like an audience waiting for
an entertainment to commence. And,
when everything was ready, the
breakfast all laid, the monkeys all
seated, | went in to call my vile.
Breakfast is ready, and they are
Nil waiting" ea;d.
"Who are waiting?" she asked, in
dismay. 81 thought we were going
to be alone, and was just coming
out in my dressing gown"
Never mind" l said. "The peo-
pie about here are not very fashion
ably dressed themselves. They weev
pretty much the same all the ye
round.
And so my wife came out. Imagine,
then her astonishment. In the
middle of the veranda stood our
breakfast table. and all the rest Of
the space, as well as the railings and
She Steps, was coveredswith an inn
'nense company OF monkeys, as
grave as possible and az morionless
ard silent as if they were stuffed.
Only their eyes kept blinking and
their little rourd cars kept twl.clsing,
Laughing hsarti!y-at which the
monkeys only looked nj the graver-
my wife cat down.
''Will they eat anythin2?" asked
she.
"rry them" I said.
. SO she picked up a biscuit and
threw It among the company. And
the result Three hundred monkeys
jumped up in The air like one, and Just
for one instant there was riot that
deiies description. The next instant
every monkey was sitting in their
place as solemn and eerious as if it
had never moved. Only their eyes
winkcd and their cars twitched.
Ny wife threw them another
biscuit, and again the riot, and then
another and another and another.
But at length we had given away
all that we had to give, and got up to
go. The monkeys az once rose, every
monkey on the veranda, and advanc-
ing gravely to the steps, walked down
them in solemn procession, old and
young together, and dispersed for
the days occupations.
UtIisxing r~scn rsss.
s,rolling along River street early
every morning Tor the past few weeks
might have been seen a gray-haired
ron Of Italy with q good stout bag
over his shoulder. His eyes were be-
ing fIst cast frcm the sidewalk to the
gutter and then vice versa. Now and
then would he stoop and pick up q
peach stone and put il in his bag and
then move on as before.
What do you do with them ?"
was asked of him the other morn
ing.
me cracker de nutter, seller de
same candy store" was his response.
"The man, it appeared, would
gathera bag full Of these peach stones,
and, going home, would set his
family to work cracking them open.
The shells, or outsides, are used for
fuel purposes. while the kernel is
saved until after the peach season,
when they are sold TO druggists and
confectioners, where they are known
rs bitter almonds. The price paid
the Italian for the gatherings 10 about
twenty cents per pound.
Dummy wo,neA.
Women, especially those Of the up
per class, who are not obliged to keep
themselves in condition by work,
lose. after middle age, sometimes
earlier, considerable amount of their
height. not bv stooning, as men do,