Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10


This time she seemed to detect a twang of
insincerity.
Clear as a Bell Overhead.
In the dining room there was group OF
crouching figures-ladies on the way to the
South of France-ladies OF high social con-
sideration-going for pleasure from lands
of snow to lands of sun"-but they had
found the terrors of lonesomeness in their
rooms intolerable, and fled to the saloon,
awaiting the worst, as they believed. Their
alarm was most touching. The laundering
thumps of waves against the broadside of
the ship were not agreeable-indeed, had
passed far beyond the range of complscent
humor. I said would report from the
deck. The panic-stricken ladies said: but
is the deck accessible?" Certainly it was
ocean was truly dismal and in q grand
| passion; there were men washing the deck,
and behold, the heavens were resplendent
with innumerable stars. Indeed, the stars
never looked more solemn and glorious.
| The ladies would not believe in the calm
| sailors at work above, and the starlight,
until persuaded them to go up and see for
themselves. They felt better for few
minutes, and descended with comparative
composure. A few minutes later we shipped
| a slamming sea, and the green water rushed
in torrent down the aft stairway, at the
very spot where the pale watcher had asked
me if there was immediate danger. 1 sup
| posed at the time that she must have
| perished with fright. But she atterward
stated that sne had sunk for time into a
| stupor of exhaustion which resembled
slumber, and she had not had the energy OF
| intelligence to be interested in the con-
version of the stairway into rapids, and the
clamor of the servants wiping up the water
had not troubled her in her nightmare. A
| humorist said in the morning that he had
accounted to his wife for the sound OF many
waters in the ship and some of the state
rooms by saying that an ice cooler had ex-
ploded. Only two persons could be found
who had slept through the night.
Revels for Rainbow Chaser.
1t was the night of our desolation. After
it came day of consoling, quieting Of the
sea, the waves softening away, though there
were sqally showers that, as the sun shone,
decked the heavens in superb array of
rainbows. If rainbow chaser had been on
board he would have had some hours of un-
paralleled temptation. One rainbow, a conf
plete arch on the Western sky, was far the
most splendid that have seen since boy,
when the rainbows were bigger than now.
This one was marvel of glory, as the rain
bow show began in the morning and lasted
all day. The signs answered all the require
ments of the old song-"A rainbow in the
morning is sailors warning; rainbow at
night is a sailors delight"
The casualty list on the ship was large.
One gentleman, leading his wife tenderly to
her sea chair, slipped, and there was roll
and bump, and they sprawled altogether
against the bulwarks, with sprains and hurts
innumerable, spectacle of discontinue
and confusion. Another man was carrying
his wife plate of grapes and oranges, when
his legs departed awkwardly and quickly
from under him, and he terribly sprained
his left hand; and the fragments of the
broken plate, and the grapes and all the
rest, were flung in the gutter as if fired
from shotgun. A stout lady ventured to
occupy q chair, and when there was fearful
lurch rose from her seat instead of sitting
down it, and she became as a great football,
and tumbled into an unintelligible mass
against the iron shrouds. Her groan would
have been a scream if she had had breath
enough.
Blaines Double Doubled Up.
An elderly gentleman, who bore strange
resemblance to both Robert Z. Lee and
James G. Blaine, stood upon the sofa bed to
look through the port-hole upon the ocean
landscape, and was flung backward upon his
berth, his head cut open so it had to be fas-
tened with several stitches and bound in
cloth until his fine and venerable face
mummy. A military gentleman thought
himself sure-footed, though he was mis-
taken, and on his fourth fall succeeded in
striking his head on the deck with the sound
OF q sledge, and he was carried below in
chair. A young man whose believes
In his bad health and the education of
travel, and sends him abroad with plenty of
money, smote the edge of bench with his
shinbone, and had limp that would have
alarmed the good lady, whose happiness and
hope he is.
That young man, wearing an expression of
robust innocence, is, must saw to his credit,
a man of affairs at the card table, playing
most cold-blooded and cousummate game of
poker with an air of juvenile simplicity.
Another young gentleman, elegantly ap-
pointed and an artist in posing before the
glauces of admiring beauty, slipped and
passed to windward and starboard, as the
young ladies going to Italy to perfect their
musical education said, spinning on his
classical ear, and his recently polished boots
seemed to sputter as they were dragged
through the wash of the deck.
Associations OF the Azores.
A good deal of interest was manifested in
the approach to the Azores. The climate is
ueIClOuS ou lLG DIIuCipdl 1SldHu, T..
Michel, there is high mountain, the old
crater OF which is lake at a great eleva-
ton, and the lake is full of goldfish. 1t
was in the neighborhood of one Of these ISL
ands that in 1911 an awful explosion oc-
CURED under the sea, and smoke and flames
burst forth in tremendous volumes. Count
less fish were thrown up in all stages of
boiling and broiling, and huge stones fol-
lowed, with incredible quantities of black
sand. Soon there was an island formed.
which, before the eruption ceased, was $50
feet high. After some months it disap-
peared, but there remained dangerous
reef This eruption has been one of the
wonders of the world.
Beyond this region, toward Gibraltar, in
the dark blue waters. is the enchanted ocean
wherein the tabled island, Atlantis, should
be found if science ever dives so profoundly
as to prove the truth of one of the fancies
as interesting as the facts that are perverted
in what we call history Through these
glittering waters Columbus sailed to immor-
tality, and was sent home in chains, and
here the navies of the great powers have
spun the threads of history. We cross be-
tween the Azores and the rock of Gibraltar,
the pathway of Columbus to the Indies he
discovered, and the track of the British ship
that sailed with Napoleon to ST. Helena,
and that of Childe Harold in his pilgrimage
that ended in Greece, and of Nelson going
to the shores of Egypt and Spain, to make
the most brilliant chapter of her history for
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