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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
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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
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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,
