Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-02-01
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""fy winter Reflections ON Mlas.mus.
=, ana Autumn Pleasures.
The great bowIder. earth ia .aa,.
gyrating along the colder curve Of lie
ellipse. " Avn
or' disearding padding, autumn Is
on its last legs.
Inc forest trees no longer appear in
highly-lllumined tint and color
The land-turtle. with new lie of N
oio date pen-knifed on his hull bv the
summer boarder, scratches grave, he,
meath the frost line to get n wipta,
home. 'oi
The house-hy is no longer here ia
commit his little errors Of Judgment in
regard to the solidity OF the cream. the
temperature OF the gravy, or the sticki.
ness OF the execrable catch-'em-aIivo
paper.
The pretty-good-ha-ha MOSQUITO Joke
mas disappeared from the papers, and
new Jersey real-estate mem venture
to reopen shop.
The CHEEKY mower goes no more ont
Horn 10 CLIP the
Whiskers from the face of the earth.
lie puts no more the little brown iuo
IN the cool hedge, as a pleasant recoI.
iection during the burden and heat OF
the day.
The Italian organist ceases his mon.
key business.
The Stock Exchange fellows now
try their hand.
| Awnings come down and in. Storm.
doors go out and up. The turbulence
OF baseball and watermelon is for
gotten. At the elevated station we
catch the early fall worm in the fresh
roasted chestnut.
The theatrical people, also, show up
with their chestnuts. They have with
them the prehistoric "Oh-don't-mind-
me" intrusion upon the lovers, Just as
hugger and huggee are dreaming of a
palace lifting to eternal free rent.
Then they hare in stock, the regular
sofa-1op with I'm better-now' recoy-
cry; also, the Thus-do-f-drink-t
thee" from silver goblet made OF
tobacco tin-foil
There's the same villain pursuing
the same steamboat bursting (which
blows out the foot-lights), and the
same Observation-Disclosures diving with
rafting glass accompaniment. The
whole concluding with the usual
lunatic dance by all tbs talent, while
the audience are putting on their
wraps and saying: "a didn't like il
very much, did you?"
The ministers have had theii
"much-needed rest" while their CON
gregations have had some of the same
The price Of coal, except to people
living on the Lehigh Valley railroad
who always own big baskets and chill
dren, has unhappily increased. Fol-
the accommodation of city familie.
whose head has still ''ticket in the
drawer" (being so much out for out
ing, the pailful business will be con
4 tinued at the usual three hundred PEE
cent advance on ton price.
The ice-cream man has given tn,
a NOL bIlG Ids
, cold shake; bought soma Japanes,
paper napkins, and opened up with T
there. oysters!
Empty and desolate, hushed an,
still is the summer hotel, and tn,
+ Waterman is keeping his long vigil
In the baggage-room few trunks re
main. but they are held for skippe,
bills.
. Gone, alas! is the summer girl who's
laughter is still ringing in our ears
she Of dress the daintiest, of hat tn
jauntiest, of shoes the toniest. W
remember her arrival with the hug
, van of trunks. The dreams of tn
| previous year were unrealized and sh
was ready for other lips and othe
hearts. Ma had said it would be tn
, last fussing on her part; and Pa, he
!, never stand the swindle again; an
!, younger sister blpntly wanted her OF
:, of her way.
= Poor grill
Each morning she watched the res
> lister for Few names. each evening sh
was ready for hop-order scribbler
q The season waned, the sublime walt
of Strauss. like her wardrobe, gre
=, old The harvest passed, the summe
ended. Now, what we want to kno
is, did she get engaged, or was
again spoon, spoon, nothing but spoor
II B. StocktceN, in Pack.