Show One of Nasbys Yarns Petroleum V as our readers are aware ia in Europe whence he eenda letters to his paper the Toledo Blade In a letter written just after his arrival ar-rival in England he describes one of his fellow passengers a young man from Oahkosh Vis named Tnbbets He was an excellent young man of his kind and he very soon acquired the reputation which he deserved of being the beat poker player on the ship He wag uneasy till a game was organized in the morning and be growled when the lights were turned down it 12 at nigbt Hewaa impatient with Blow players because aa he eaid all the time they wasted was eo much loss to him He could drink more Scotch whisky than any one on the ship and he was the pet of the entire crew for his hand was alw yin y-in his pocket He ruined the rest of the passengers by his reckless liberality liberal-ity His father was a rich Wisconsin farmer and this was his first experience experi-ence in travel What time this scapegrace could spare from cards and meals he devoted de-voted to writing to his mother a highly moral letter which was completed just before the vessels arrival at Queenatown This delectable epistle the writer read to Petroleum who gives it verbatim as he asserts but the following paragraph has such a true Naaby flavor that there on b3 little doubt from whom the whole composition emanated Bays the alleged al-leged Tribbets Just now the sailors sail-ors are heaving a log which they do to ascertain the speed the ship is making Mr Inman the owner cf the ship is a very wealthy man and he has everything of the best He furnishes his vessel with nothing but blackwalnut logs to heave while others use pine or poplar Captain Leitch is a very humane man and never uses profane language to the crew On other ships the men who go aloft are compelled to clime tarred rope ladders but Captain Leitch has passenger elevators rigged to the masts such as you saw in the Palmer House in Chicago in which they sit comfortably and are hoisted up by a steam engine U |