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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine) Waterville Materials 12-27-1855 The Eastern Mail (Vol. 09, No. 24): December 27, 1855 Ephraim Maxham Daniel Ripley Wing Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/eastern_mail Part of the Agriculture Commons, American Popular Culture Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Maxham, Ephraim and Wing, Daniel Ripley, "The Eastern Mail (Vol. 09, No. 24): December 27, 1855" (1855). The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine). 439. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/eastern_mail/439 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Waterville Materials at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine) by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. 1 N .1 illiecellans. I fruit is easier gathered ; in fact every renSotl is in favor of low growlli. We now try to 1 form a head not higher than lliiee feet from A VIOHT AT AS ALPHTE INN. the ground, for apples, letting iho branches groW.QuU’H . .. ■ 1 fMveRfrj! »hh)U)?h PiedMom towards ' ^ Canttftaiiuns. th« Alps, Gtitat 8i. Bernard bl^fdg ipy object • Talking of conundrums,’ said old Ilurri- of the presttnC Jaunt. Ahrang 'my iravelWiii: j cane, siretoliing • himsell' all OVeV Si«;ml Hall, eonipti'iions in the pt^seni coach—if the heavy, ' nnd sending out one of those mighty puffs pt lumtHiring thing in nhich we rode can be cntl- Havana smoke which had given bint his name. ed such'^WM •>< EinglIgbhtAti, named Fiiihern. ‘ Talking of conundrums, can any of you tell uic He had IIWteloA !>• r nearly the whole cohfi- when a ship may be said to be in love? ’ nent, and hiS comphnionltblp was not only pleas* * 1 can tell—1 can,’ snapped out Jjtlle Tur­ ani but Tatuable. We left (Jhaltillon in the tle, ‘ It’s when she wants to he manned.’ moi’ningi'Mnd'Bt itoon we stopped to dine at a ‘Just missed it,'(]uulb Old Ilurriejtnu, ‘ hy little inn some'fifteen Miles to the horthwest ol VOL. IX. WATEllVILLE, MAINE.......TUUKSDAV, DEC. 27, 1855. NO. 24. a mile. Tiy again. Who speaks first ? ’ Ayace. It was 6nly about twenty miles froln ‘ I do, secondly ’ answered teinon.^. ‘ It's St. Bernard, and directly among the Alps.— which grew a lot ot shrubbery, provided, that there 1 should be delected, nnd p'-rbaps taken diurnal motion, I produced the phenomena vul-' zwanziger lor each subscipteiil hour. Cliui'ch- when site wants a male. There was no othef boilding In sight than those ‘ Not c'orreet,’ replied nurricanc.- ‘'The ques- belonging to the inn, ftfr there was hardly a shrubbery was deeply rooted enough to liold at a di.'.advaniage. If 1 allowed the villiaiis to garly called * The Merry Dancers,’and every-j'e.-i, palaces pfctures,'gallerics, shops nnd show chance to build ariOther. A wilder spot I me. I look liOld of somo of ilie huslieS which conic up, they could not be very particular other appcaraiicf, exactly as seen in the iiaiu-.i places have been visited. The church of the * ***’•> is still open.’ ne*er saw ; but yet it was grand and romantic. * It**’*’ n*mr the top.and tmmd them firm With about their arms, as the work of killing a man rnl sky, while il disappeared as the globe j Frari, St. Maria Gloriosa de Frari, has tvio of • ‘When shesaship of great size,’ (sigli.s) a Hoick prayer 1 threw off my coal and laiots, i in Ins sleep i.s not lery dilRcuU. At length 1 turned, as ht’ing the part representing the sea (he most inictesliug monuments in ail Italy—■ modestly ptop^ndud Mr. iSmoolhly. ^ Tbe giant Alps towered up close at band, and to the points ol incidence. In corroboration of j those of Titian nnd Cnnova, both Venetians. ‘ ^yhcn shea tender lo a mnnoftcar,'(,ii\n all about tbe spot we could see the massive and then let myself down, l" found the shelf | reiiieiiibered a place in the long passage thro’ not mofe than two leel wide, and you may be-1 whieli I bad come where there were two re­ my theory, 1 have to remaik that, during my ' By a .singular coincidence, Ihcac two eminent f'*** ^loncl, regnriling the reflection of his laco crags lilting their dark gray beads altove the last voyage to the Arctic Regions (1860-1) i arti.sis—tliough one has been dead Inr two cen-]'^ i'** boots. forest trees. A wide stream went dashing lieve that it was a dubious track ; but I hur- cesses, 1 liurried out from my room,nnd glided ried on and reached the jutting lock in safely, j noiselessly along to this place, where 1 lound a we never, among the nuiiierous icebergs, saw , lories and the ollior not a quarter of one—have! .’Everyiliing but correct,’ responded Hurri- In wildly through the gorge, and its roar was at fe i Jn a moment more 1 was flat on my breast.' position which could not have been bettered.— any tlint were colored, butqll were a yellowish | both hud monuuients creeled opposite one aii- In ' first almost deafening wlicn tbe stream was ‘ When sliu’s struck uiinck by a hcAvy swell,' i and then readied over after the hoy. I caught 1 Tliese recesses were directly opposite each oth- white; and, during the following winter, the j other over their remains in Ihu same cliurcli, noticed that my companion regarded ,|,e | him by the collar nf his jacket, and lohl binTto ' er. ^ were about four fcci wide. One of aurora was exactly the same color ; nnd, when within ibo last ten years. C'ano.vn’s monument siigge.'led Siirlight. pigee with Interest. artU he took parTicular note ' '“clp h.mscif all he could. He made hi. last h^*njvas for a wtndow and the other seen^^ed llinl part of the globe was covered with bruised , is a pyramid of marble in reliel, almost twenty ‘Not ns yot,’said liur.iciiie. ‘ Ciini'f^liur- V- - ■ - ’ - . ■ j effort. 1 threw all my strengtli into that one ' to have been originally left for a closet, but it glass of tlml color, (lie phenoniena produced in feet high, standing out of tlie wall of the church ry along !' of several ibiogs wlucli seemed very common lilt, and the poor fellow Was dragged over the had no door, and was lunilxrod up with old my experiment wa.s the same, as was, also, the and supported by figure in sculpture, ’Tilimi's ■ When she tnakfi much of a Jiist sat'or,’ place to me. After ditioer we went out back cried .Sina-ilipipes. t of the Iwuse to look at ilie torrent. As far as rock and laid hy my side. j diesis. I w*viil to my room and left the lamp, Aurora Australis, in tlie Antarctic regions, monument is perfectly ..gorgeoui. Tliere arc ‘ It was Some time before tlie youngster and having once uiorc eaBuilned my pistols, 1 where no colored icebergs were ever seen. 1 liwo female figures, the size ol life, on each side IIltc there ua's if gfea’t gfon’n, and Smn.sh- the eyes could reach on either hand the water moved, after I laid liiin down; but -hen he ' returned to my\newly lound stand, i look ray | regiet that it is out of iny power to exiiibil the j tied of the most exqiii.sitc form and figure.— pipes was lliruwn out of thh window. When came and went, dashing over its bed -of rocks peace was restored. Old Hurricane ‘ propelled ’ .—tumbling, crashing, boiling and hissing, and did. I found that he was perleclly sensible. I j position on one ol the old cliesli, ana thus had i experiiiienls I have described, owing to the pe-1 The Emperor of Austria, I understand, con- asked him if be could walk, aiitf he said y8i ; a great udvaniage in my favor, fut wliils il j culinr manner in wliicb tbe room must bo Iribuled a large sum of money towards the erec- again. i soon grew diezy with.the view ; foV 1 had so I arose, and bade him follow me. We ; would he difficult for any one in the passage to , daikeiied, even if 1 had the necessary appara-1 lion of this monument, ‘Y'ou might have said, ‘ when site hugs the jiDHgined wbat would be tbe sensation of my reached the little gorge in safety, and itiade | see mo I cuul.l yet see them plainly on nceounl (us with mej but it is an experiment so simple wind,, or ‘ when she runs down for a smack,’or soul, were I to fall into the mod flood; and the our way up the bank, and when we were once .of ihe.oppusise window, against wbiub their i Ihnt il uan easily be accomplished by any per- The Frenohman and his English Studies. wlien she's alter a consort,’ or sometliiiig of Very thought was so fearful that 1 sliaddered niore on (he fnilhinl ground the hoy sank down I forms wuuhl be clearly revealed. j son inlercsled in ilie beautilul phenomena of Frenchman—Ha, my good friend, I have Iliat sort. But il wouldn't Imvo been right. and grew weak. Near at band was a narrow upon bis knees and clasped his bands. lie | 'So there I sal, and at the end of half an - dte aurora borenlis." met with one difficulty—one very strange word. Tlie real solution is'—when she’s attached to a loot-bridge, formed by three stout loge^wliicb How you call ll-o u-g-h ? buoy ! ' had been fallen across from crag to crag, and was not-ever twelve or thirteen years of age, i hour 1 heard a cieaking of the stairs.

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