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Show STILL FLOATING. i Editorial Corresponaeric." OVERTHK CaUVORMA LlNE. May 171. Before bidding gcoi-bv to .Nevada, the little station of Humboldt has a feature which claims attention. One solitary house by the side cf tie track invites tie passengers to refresh, and here neatness snd taste preside. A i little circular fountain iu front of the building, uimly kept, sends up lity sprays of crystal W3ter ; while the hotel ho-tel for it is the e3ting station is in keeping. Everything is clean and neat, "celestial" waiters in the whitest of overalls, are obsequiously a:terjtive, and the food is well cooked and palatable. pala-table. Not having spoken to the proprietor, pro-prietor, nor enquired his tame. I cannot can-not give it.nor dees it matcer; the simple sim-ple fact that bis place is an oasis in a gemi-desert, a spot of verdarit beauty in a tags plain, and comfortable quar- tere for the hungry passenger, is all tie public care to know. "See Naples and die,'' ejaculated the enthusiastic Neapolitan ; to which a California might add, "Cross the', Sierras before you slide off."' "Bui . 'twas, your woundrcu, lea-i'v set rce ' on," -ail the or vA-la-Ud Kl.-ha.-l to the widowed Ant.e ; anl thouu ! b-avyoftl.e ill fa-el la iy m. e'i.eria! and I.-.,, materia! u.xn tnal wbieh tiieeti tie eye L.-re ,,u every -i ie, it was no ni re atrra .'.ive, r. r s .' "ifidrotiily 1j . t,;n a;..jv .n the- n.O:Jirain l-z'x n -riuvr Ul.w iu tie mo-t wi'rlin J. !.. .!!: a (' : surjri-.: i, b'irrn-!.ii;. with k'.li'.-n spb.-iid'.r .-a!c ai.-l dell, i.u''..- tl.e green of tl. : !,: pia..-, .:h r.at.ir's ifon.ra'i'; K.,'. ,riu, . iu,; g '.-Ua --n-,'-.tAi-. on ti.e- -ilve-r (,,, a:. 1 iLak::.. pkt:m f,r the art:,-.', br-nh an tio; poet s p-ii. The triu.'il h of ti..;ir,r.:ri-... oii by the (.'. 1'. Couiauy L, f'aml.iir to a.l who have p-..;! ,jV,:r the r.a l. but a u.rh! d d '-..Tip'lvfi of it and tt th-s ti.i.'til:: -.-l.t eTiery thr l.Ji hi-.L the l.i.e rurj-i h- ;. ,t to b gi.eti l :.: p'ibitc. lJe-.:ritive write rn w,il carry you in iu.ainati'jri, Ly tl.eir tenpic-firea tenpic-firea of s-. -lies and v.-enery, to the Aq tl.e p.-im.i-, an 1 tl.e' romatitle vie', ol ' .Siiterljii.l, Norway or Italy; )et tLe s'lhiilnlty a:. I b.:auty of th--r jtl tl.ru.;!i wi.i.h the great lactic la-ctic road pa es trim the Ml.-siuri ti the- oe. an, are di-po-ej of ty limited guile L-,jki. "Allien ciney bat the-most the-most (aiut eoin'e-pti m of what await-the await-the tuuri.-.t. True, there are Ion? and ohee-rle-B-loofclli-r sa-'e plains to be pa-.-eJ over, with ea-iiit, bare and forbid for-bid ling lolli to be roiled through, where the eye becomes wearied with the insipid sameness, liut in contrast with the-e, the beauties of scenery which abound are all the more attractive attract-ive and appreciated. Here, too, photography pho-tography had done more to make the uritr-vcled public familiar with the most striking scenes than the brief attempts at-tempts made at de-eriptive writing; but the views are laekiug in the combination com-bination of hues and coloring, the weird surroundings that so enhance the beauties of a particular spot, and that general picture of diversified loveliness love-liness which no camera can include in one nor even a series of views. The American who crosses tho Atlantic to least upon the beauties of European 1 scenery, before he has passed through and gazed upon the grandeur of sublimity sub-limity and wealth of pieturesqueness to be found in h's own great Republic, commits an error which will yearly become more apparent. The stream of tourists this season across the Con-( Con-( tinent will swell into a flood with coming com-ing summers, for (he attractions are of unfading permanency. 1 With the eye dwelling in pleasure . on the scenery around, as the train 'speeds on, . description of particular points may be excused for the present. E. L. S. |
