The Opelousas courier., 1885-06-20
Bill Nye and 2. Wales Son.
rHEY PROPOSE COMPARING MOSQUITO
BIrEs IN THE WISCONSIN WOODS THIS
SUMMER.

brief visit to Duluth. After
strolling along the bay of Ma.
pies and watching old Vesuyius
vomit ret hot mud, vapor land
other campaign documents, Du.
luth is quite a change.
Lake Superior is one OF the
largest aggregations of fresh
wetness in the world, if not the
largest. When / stop to think
that some day all this cold, cold
water will have to be absorbed
by mankind, it gives me a cramp
in the geographical center.
The streams which run into
Lake Superior are alive with
trout, and this summer / pro-
pose to go up there and roost
until ] have so thoroughly sat
urated my system with trout
that the trout bones will stick
out through my clothes in every
direction and people will regard
me as a beautiful toothpick
holder.
Still there will be a few left
for those who think of going ND
there. All Twill need will be
barely enough to feed Albert
Victor and myself from day to
day. People who have never
seen a crowned head with a
peeled nose on it are cordially
invited to come over and see us
during Office hours. Albert is
not at all naughty, and | intend
10 throw aside my usual reserve
this summer also-for the time.
r. Wales son and / will be
far from the cares that crowd so
thick and fast on greatness.
People who come to .our cedar
bark Wigwam to show us their
mosquito bites will be received
IS cordially as though no great
social chasm yawned between
Is.
Many will meet us in the
depths of theforest and 90 away
blinking that we are just COM
mon plugs of whom the world
Wots not but there is where
they fool themselves.
Then when the season is over
inc will come back into the
great maelstrom of life, ha to
wait for his grand-mother's over
shoes, and / TO thrill waiting
millions from the rostrum with
ny 6 Tale of the Bronco Cow
Aud so it goes with us all.
Adown LIES rugged pathway
some must toll on as from
daylight to dark to earn their
hlsagre pittance as king, while
others are born to wear a sWal-
0w-tail coat every evening, and
wiring tears of genuine anguish
from their audiences.
They tell some rather wide
stories. about people who have
gone. up there total physical
wrecks and returned strong and
we'll One man said that he.
knew d young college student
Whc was all run down and weak
go np there on the Aruls, and
sat trout and fight mosquitoes
fem months, and when he re-
Nnad 10 bis BOston home he
30 stout and well and tam
ned up that bis parents didn't
NOW him. There yYas a man
0ur car who weighed 800
bounds. He seemed to be boil
sng out though bis clothes
Everywhere. He was the hap
pest looking man / ever saw,
AL he seemed 60 do in his life
VII til sit all day and whistle
amdlaugh aud trot his stomach,
6rst Oh one knee aud then on
the other.
ETC said that he went up into
mo pine forests of the great
ze region 4 broken-doWn by
oDchondriac and confirmed con-
amptive. He had been meas
nred for a funeral sermon three
imes he said, and had never
nsed either one of them. He
new q clergyman named Brad
eg who went up to that region
aith Bright's justly celebrated
disease. He was SO emaciated
hAt he could not carry 3 watch.
a ticking Of the watch ratified
bones so that it made him
BFvDus, and at night they had
pack him ID cotton SO that he
auIdn't break off d leg when
turned over. He got to
saping cut nights on q bed
halsam and spruce boughs
I'D eating Venis0n and trout.
ben he came down IN the
he passed through q car