Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-01

were on their way to arrange for bringing
out 1.-THE Old Homestead" in London, and
there were so many amateurs in various
lines that we organized an entertainment
for the Sailors Orphans home in Liver
pool. 1t came off in the saloon on the last
evening we could be together, as we
reached Queenstown next day. Capt. Bari
presided, md with songs, dialogues, reci-
%tation, q either solo by Miss Berger and
an Introductory speech by an alleged hui
morist, it was q brilliant success. The
English all Joined in singing God Save
the Queen" and the Americans joined and
tried to sing the Star Spangled Banner"
but fear that part Of the services must be
set down as a failure. Our national an
them is a tough piece for amateurs.
There came a day, however, soon after
passing the so-called pot hole in the mid
die Atlantic, when all else yielded in inter-
est to the ocean. Indeed it compelled strict
attention, and many who had boosted of
having their sea legs on had to yield at
last and throw tribute to Blue Neptune.
There was q most peculiar "sea on"-one I
had never read of. The water would seem
perfectly smooth for quite a while, then
the ship would rise slowly and regularly
as if it were climbing a hill, and on the
larboard would appear a great basin, as it
were, apparently twenty feet deep. These
swells came from the northwest, while we
were bearing more to the east, so the ship
took them quartering, and while she was
climbing it was all very nice. But when
the bow sunk and the stern rose, and she
began to slide down the slope with a long,
trembling roll to larboard, ah, then and
there was tumbling to and fro, and rising
qualms and heavings of distress. All the
viscera not made fast seemed to flop up
against the duodenum, and with most
melancholy results. Even to one as I'M
easy rs myself it was amusing to note how
every one laughed at the last qualms and
engaged in the most lively conversation
for these swells were about three minutes
apart-and how suddenly the sentence was
cut in two when the e swell came. 1t
was:
LAS l was saying, Brooklyn is not now
distinctively the City of Churches as-Oh,
ah-ah-a-a-h, ugh, goo goo, oh, my!-(a visit
to the rai)-yes. sir, as she was twenty
years ago."
Eyes, sir; l think the bill will pass and
be enforced, and elections be made fair and
honest, and it will result in-Oh, aughl
Good Lord! Pm glad it's p~assed-result,
uld l say, yes result IN Il nlSher develop
ment of constitutional liberty"
At length the interior accumulated un-
e%asiness enough to last over the calm inter
walls and conversation ceased. Jokes were
at a discount. Even in the smoking room
the most hilarious glared on u talker, and
any man who should have proposed a song
would have been secuted as a malignant
idiot. This condition lasted about four
hours, and after it came the smoothest sea
of the voyage. The captain said we had
taken the tail end of a great storm some
600 miles northeast of us. am glad we
did not take the head end of it.
Land in sight" Such was the cry just
nine days and two hours after we pulled
out of the North river dock. All passen-
gers rushed to the larboard rail, but moth
ing was in sight save a gray mist. The
sailors explained that land was in sight,