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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1782, 18 September 1874, Page 3

A resident of Sacramento, California, has latterly given up steam boat travel, and now when he wishes to go to San Francisco, he provides tickets by the railways. His preference for the latter method of locomotion came about in this wise :—Not long ago he had occasion to go to the metropolis pf the Pacific coast, and accordingly he started for the steamer's landing, with a carpet sack in one hand and a cane in the other, in what he supposed to be ample time. But when he came in sight of the wharf, he observed the boat apparently swinging away from her moorings, and amidst the shouts and jeers of the bystanders, he broke into a frantic run for the landing. The boat was eight or ten feet from the wharf when he had hoped to find a gang-plank, but nothing daunted and trusting to the momentum acquired during the run, he leaped into the air and gained the vessel's deck. Not without accident, however. The carpet-bag struck one passenger so violently in the stomach that he doubled up like a, jackknife, and absorbed a whole flask of brandy in getting straightened out while'the cane struck another man in the face with sufficient force to suddenly induce him to get down on his knees to look after his hat. When he had recovered it the man who had occasioned all this commotion said to him in a tone of mingled apology and self-gratulation, "Well, I made it!" "Yes, you durned old foql, this boat ant going out, she's coming in.' ;