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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1879)
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Practice regular iu the Bruusvrici Circuit. ©ct3i-Iy J. C. NICH0LLS, AT „ * AT - _ . LA arc* irJ, 1 z . .” ’ ' [ .. pierce, Ware, aud Wayne. octsi-iy W. R. PHILLIPS, ATTORNE - i ArLATu f AT A _ LA - .... w, ’ ©ct 3 My BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1879. LIFE ON THE RAIL. Pon Picture* ol Traveler*. Bob Burdette, the pungent paragraph er of the Burlington Hawkfye ,, has bsea traveling a good deal by rail lately, and he supplies his paper with the fol¬ ple lowing amusing pictures of some peo¬ he met on the cars : FINDING A SEAT. A woman with three bird cages and a little girl, has just got on the train, Bhe arranges the threw bird cages on a seat, and then -she and the little girl stand up iu tlfl aisle autU she glares around upon th»Jungallaut Mien who re¬ main glued to their seats and look dreamily face out of the window. I bend my down to the tablet and write furi¬ ously, for I feel her eyes fastened upon me. Somehow or other, I am always the victim in eases of this delicate na¬ ture. Just as I expected. She speaks, fastening her commanding gaze upon me. ~ t % “ Sir, would it be asking too much if I begged you to let myself and my little girl have that seat ? A gentleman can always find a seat so much more easily than a lady. ” And she smiled. Not the cliarming est kind of a smile. It was too trium¬ phant to be very pleasing. Of course I surrendered. I said: “ Oh, certainly. I could find another seat without any trouble." She thanked me, and I crawled ont of my comfortable seat, and gathered up package, my overcoat, manuscript, valise, my shawl strap my my overshoes, and q he and the little girl went into the -■ looked happy and comfortable. Then I stepped across the aisle; I took up those bird cages and set them along on top of the coal box, and set down in the seat thus vacated. I apolo¬ getically remarked to the woman, who was boded gazing at me with an expression that trouble, that “it was much warmer for the canaries by the stove." She didn’t say anything, but she gave me a look that made it much warmer for me, for about five minutes, than the stove can make it for the canaries. I don’t believe she likes me, and I am un¬ comfortably confident that she dis¬ approves of my conduct. ETHICS OF CONVERSATION. A friendly passenger wants to talk. I am not feeling particularly sociable this morning, anil consequently I do not propose to talk to anybody. He asks how I like this kind of weather, and I, say, He “splendidly." laughs and feebly, but encouragingly, says there has been a little too much snow. Isay, “Not for health, it was just what we needed.” He asks if I heard of the accident on the Central railroad, and I say, “Yes." Then he asks me how it was, and I tell him, “I don’t know ; didn’t read it.” He wants to know what I think of Hayes, and constable.” I say, “I think he made a very good “ Constable: ’^ he says, “I mean President I say I tho <;ht he meant Dennis Hayes, of Peor.a* Then he asks if I “ am going far ?” I say, “ No.” “ How far ?” he asks. “ Fourteen hundred miles," I say, tmblushingly. He thinks that is what he would call “ far,” and I make no response. Two babies in the car are rehearsing a little snd in rather faulty time, but with fine expression. And the man. with one or two “ dashes,’’ asks it if doesn’t bother me to write with a lot of “ brats squall ing around. j 1 iooKea up at Him very severely, for i it . always makes mad to hear me a man I call a baby a “ brat,” and I say to him, * n a B l° w i impressive manner, that “I would rather listen to a baby cry than hear a man swear.” This eminently proper and highly- moral rebake has its effect. The man forsakes me, and lie is now wreaking a cheap miserable revenge on the smiling passengers father's Clock,” by whistling “ My Grand accompanying himself by drumming on the window with his fingers. JUVENILE INGRATITUDE. A woman gets on the train and says a very warm-hearted good-bye to a great cub of a sixteen-year-old boy, who sets down her bundles anil turns to leave the car with a gruff grunt that may mean little good-bye or anything else. There is a him: quiver on her lip as she calls after “Be a good boy; write to me often, and do as I tell you.” He never looks around as he leaves the car. He looks just like the kind of a boy who will do just as she tells him, but she must be careful to tell him to do just as he wants to. I have one bright spark of consolation as the train moves on and I see that boy performing a clumsy satire on a clog dance on the platform. Some of these days he will treat some man as gruffly and rudely as he treats his mother. Then the man will climb on to] him and lick him— pound the very sawdust out of him. Then the world will feel better and hap¬ pier for the licking he gets. It may be long deferred, but it will come at last. I almost wish I had pounded him my¬ self, while he is young and I felt able to do it. He may grow up into a very d\s oouragingly rugged man, extremely’dif¬ ficult to lick, and the world may have to wait a very long time for this act of justice. It frequently happens that — ™ ^ -“fcfnr Skating on Artificial Ice. The whole interior of Gilmore’s gar¬ den is to be floored. Besides the lumber 50,000 ioet of iron pipe have been carried into the garden. These are to be grid ironed across the whole floor and filled with a freezing mixture. Then the floor will be flooded and the whole surface transformed into a glassy sheet of ice for skating. Mr. T. L. Rankin, who for many years has been making ice artificially at the South, has the enterprise in charge. The large steam engine, now in the building, will pump the freezing mix¬ ture from a tank 250 feet long, now plan building under the north gallery. The is to cover the wooden floor with n water proof material or tarpaulin which may be readily taken up. Upon this the pipes will be laid. Ice, pipes and srs r&nssr^jss dried by steam. Professor Gamgee's rink of artificial ice in London measured 14x23 feet. The ice lake in Gilmore’s will have a surface area of over 16,000 feet. The first cost will be large, but Mr. Rankin thinks the cost of mainta nance will be little. The garden will be warmed as it is now, and so rapid is the congelation from the use of the freezing mixture, that one of the features of the exhibition will probably be the spraying or flooding of the surface each and the freezing of the water in twenty minutes. The plan is to throw the garden open daily for all who may wish to skate, reserving seats for such as may wish to look on. Frank Swift has been engaged to attend daily and give lessons in skating, and he and others will give exhibitions of their skill. It is intended also to make a “speeding track ’’ nine feet wide on the present course, on which long-distance skaters may show their speed and en durance. Before Mr. Vanderbilt would consent to this new enterprise he insist ed upon a trial experiment. A tank thirty-two feet long was built, in which the pipes were placed. By forcing the freezing hand-pump mixture through them with a water was turned to dry ice inside of ten minutes, and when a fresh surface was asked for two buck etfuls of water thrown upon the ice became dry, hard ice in the same nmn- NO. 51. ber of minutes. During the holiday week this pond was maintained, and so well satisfied was Mr. Vanderbilt with the test that arrangements were at once made with Mr. Rankin for the use of his appliances. Mr. Rankin says the lake will be ready for nse three days after the floor is laid. Next snmmer Mr. Rank in will remove a portion of the piping to Coney island and establish there a skating do rink, while another section will duty at Long Branch.— New York World. They Missed the Boots. The good folks of Agen, a small French ^ town, were not to be so easily cheated out of what they came to see. A strolling troupe, of whom yonng Hortense Schneider was one, announced ‘ ‘ Le Tour de Nesle” for their last per¬ formance. An overflow resulted. The actors were in high spirits and full of fun. Mademoiselle Schneider, dis¬ covering hind an old pair of russet boots be¬ the scenes, put them by way of a joke into the hands of Bnridan as he was going on the stage. Accepting of the awkward handful, he placed the boots on u table on the stage and another quietly went through his part, when actor of the name of Philippe d’AuInay took possession and made his exit with one under each arm. In the next act, Marguerite de Bourgogne en tered, carrying the mysterious boots, and passed them to Ganltier d’Aulnay; he turned them over to Orsini; in short, before the curtain fell, the boots, though foreign to the piece, had been borne in succession The audience by every personage. watched for their ap meant, and applauded players to their hearts’ content. Twelve months afterward another company set up their bills in Agen, and “ La Tour de Nesle” attracted everybody to the theater; but before the first act was over there were symptoms of displeasure, whioh gradu¬ ally increased, until the uproar was so great that the curtain fell on a half played lights piece; benches were torn np, the put out, and only the arrival of mayor at the head of a troop of soldiers put an end to the tumult. Then the mayor turned on the poor manager, who protested his inability to understand how the riot came about. “That is all nonsense," returned the mayor. “ Your conduct is disgraceful. You have misled the people and mutil¬ ated a masterpiece. Where are the boots ?” One night at the theater of 8 ;, n Carlo, Naples, Dumas tho elder (the oelebrat ed French novelist), found himself chat ting familiarly with a stranger who, when the play was ov:r, said to him patronizingly I have : sation, “ sir, greatly enjoyed your oonver and hope to see m jre of you. If ever you visit Paris call on me. I am Alexander Dumas.’’ “The deuce you are! So am I! " re plied the novelist, with a roar of laughter. By the way, Dumas left Naples under peculiar circumstances. One fine morning he printed an arti cle in which he handled the Italian people in a manner more vigorous than courteous, by At eight o’clock the paper came ont * ten Dumas received thirty chal lenges ; by noon, sixty. At one p. m. he called a meeting of tue 120 friends of his challengers, and said unto them : “ Gentlemen, I leave Naples to-night ali and therefore have not time to fight your principals singly. Nevertheless I am anxious to give them all the satisfac txon that is in my power, so as I have the choice of weapons I propose fight ing with pistols ; your sixty principals will be collected into a group, anti on re ceiving I’ll the word fire a volley at me and blaze away into the crowd." The proposition was not aooepied,
