The Wilmingtonian., 1888-02-25


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tracted attention.
He has number of relatives there who
note with pleasure the fact that Mr.. Gould
is not frittering away his means during his
lifetime.
In the office of Mr.. Nish, of Walton, there
Is map of the county made by Jay Gould
while in the surveying business, and several
years before he became monarch of all he
surveyed.
In Franklin there is an old wheelbarrow
which Mr.. Gould used on his early surveying
trips. In this he carried his surveying in
struments, his nightshirt and manicure set
Connected with the wheel there is an ar
rangement by which at night the young sur
veyor could tell at glance, with the aid of
a piece of red chalk and barn door, Just
how far he had travelled during the day.
This instrument was no doubt the father of
the pedometer and the cyclorama, just as the
boy is frequently father to the man. 1t was
also no doubt the avant courier of the Dutch
clock, now used on freight cabooses, which
not only shows how far the car has Travelled,
but also the rate of speed for each mile the
average rainfall and whether the conductor
has eaten onions during the day.
This instrument has worked quite change
in railroading since my time. Years ago /
can remember when 1 used to ride in a ca
boose and enjoy myself, and before good for
tune had made me the target of the alert and
swift flying whisk broom of the palace car,
it was my chief joy to catch a freight over
the hill from Cheyenne, on the Mountain
division. We were not due anywhere until
the following day, and so at the top of the
mountain we would cut off the caboose and
let the train go on. We would then go into
the glorious hills and gather sage hens and
cotton tails. In the summer we would put
in the afternoon catching trout in Dale creek
or gathering maidenhair ferns in the bosky
dells Bosky dells were more plenty there at
that time than they are now.
1t was a delightful sensation to know that
we could loll about in the glorious weather,
secure a small string of stark, vanished
trout with chapped backs, hanging aimlessly
by one gill to CORY willow stringer and
then beat our train home by two hours by
letting off the brakes and riding twenty miles
in fifteen minutes.
l saw Niagara falls on Thursday for the
first time. The sight is one long to be re-
membered. ! did not go to the fells, but
viewed them from the car window in all
their might, majesty, power and dominion
forever.
Niagara falls plunges from huge eleva.
tion by reason of its inability to remain on
the sharp edge of precipice several feet
higher than the point to which the falls arr
now falling. This causes a noise to make it.
appearance, and a thick mist, composed Of
minute particles Of wetness rises to its full
height and comes down again afterward
Words are inadequate to show here, ever
with the aid of a large, powerful new press
the grandeur, what you may call the vertigo
of Niagara Everybody from all over tn,
world goes to see and listen to the remark
of this great fall How convenient and pleas
ant it is to be cataract like that and hay
people come in great crowds to see and hea
you! How much better that is than to be
lecturer, for instance, and have to folio,
people to their homes in order to attract thei
attention.
Many people in the United States an
Canada, who were once as pure as the beat
tiful snow, have fallen, but they did not a
tract the attention that Niagara does.
The officer said that had nothing in IN
luggage that was liable to duty, but state
that l would need heavier underwear
Canada than the samples | had with me.
Toronto is stirring city of 10000 peopl
who are justly proud of her great prosperit,
only regretted that could not stay there
long time.
| met man in Cleveland, O., whose nan
was Macdonald. He was at the Wedde
house, and talked freely with me about oil
country, asking me great many question
about myself, and where | lived and how
was prOspeling. While we were talking
one time he saw something in the pap,
which interested him and called him ava
After he had gone l noticed the paragral
he had been reading, and saw that it spoke
man named Macdonald who had recent
arrived in town from New York, and wi
was introducing n new line of green goods.
have often wondered what there is abo
my general appearance which seems to dra
about me cluster of green goods men VIII,
ever go. Is it the odor of new mown ha
or the frank, open way in which seem
measure the height Of the loftiest buildin
with my eye as penetrate the busy haul
of men and throng the crowded marts
trade Or do strangers suspect me of bel
man of means!
In Cleveland l was rather indispos
owing TO the fact that had been sitting
until or 8 o'clock a. IN. for several mig
in order to miss early trains. | went tc
physician, who said | was suffering fr
some new and attractive disease, which
could cope with in a day or two. told h
TO cope. He prescribed large 4?-calil
capsule, which he said contained medi
properties. 1t might have contained t
atrical properties and still had room left
baby grand piano. do not know why
capsule should he 50 popular. ! would rat
swallow n porcelain egg or a live tur
Doctors claim that it is to prevent the
taste Of the medicipeS, but | have never
participated in any medicine which
more disagreeahle than the gluey shell OF
adult capsule, which looks like an overgrt
hOtt and tastes like a r"ncid nightmare
doubt the good taste Of any one who
turn up his nose at castor oil or quinine
yet meekly swallow a cIysalis with varl
on the outside.
Everywhere | go find people who S,
pleased with the manner in which have
Ceeded in resembling the graphic picsl
made to represent Inc in the newspapers
can truly say that | am not u vain man,
it is certainly pleasing and gratifying to
greeted by glance OF recognition ami
Of genuine delight from total Stramg
Many have seemed to suppose that thu i
sive and unlraped head shown in these /
ureS was the result of artistic license or il
lence and a general desire to evade the
of making hair. For such people the Il
of joy they feel when they discover that
have not been deceived is marked and
uinc Bill Nye in New York World
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We don't know Of anything that is lie,
more than mince pie trust. Rochester l