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Show GREAT GRANITE GORGE. ! A Vivid Picture f the Scenery Along the Hunk of tlie Colorado. The great Ciranito Gorge is about forty ' . , miles in length. That portion 1'rom its head to tho Bright Antel creek, some fifteen miles, is narrow, dark and gloomy. It Bttinils at tho tipper gato-way gato-way of the great canyon as if by its very frown to keep lmck tlio intruder, and guard froiu vulgar eyes ami sordid greed tlio grandeur, the beauty and bidden treasure of tlio lower canyon. At the , Bright Angel creek cverthing changes tlio granite slopes are flatter, they are of a softer black granite, cut into bharp piuiiat lea and crags, and seem more as if formed of very coarsely stratiiied J litis. The ran von prows more and more piet-nresipu) piet-nresipu) and beautiful the farther we proceed. Tho granite hua lost its awful nnd threatening look, and slopes back in beautiful hillsides ot variegated black, gray and green. At tho nldo canyons, and from tho bends of the river, tho tipjKT portions of tho v hole gorge) ore brought into view, showing tho great niarblo and sand..tono cliff's, benched back far away from the river, whilo mountains jut in close be-l be-l ween t lie : ido canyons mid washes nearly li mile and a quarter in height. As we look down tho river, or up a low side canyon, with Iho placid water between ils polished walls of black and gray and green for a foreground, there rise abovo tho dark sandstone, tier upon tier, . , bench upon bench, terrace upon terrace, plopping back farther and farther, and higher and higher, and in immensity of height and proportion wemiiig to tower almost over our head.'. First above the dark Ramlstone romo tlie flattened slopes t'f the lime and mineralized matter, in horizontal layers of yellow, brown, white, red and green. Then rise sheer walls of stained marble mar-ble 1,0(H) feet or more, the lower portions por-tions yellow, brown and ri d, tho coloring color-ing of red growing brighter ns it, ileum tho top. Above this smaller benches of marble, at the top of each a liltlomesn i covered with green bunch grass and bushes, and above these a dozen or more terraces of scarlet and flame colored sandstone, stained on their outer jaunts with black, and the littlo benches between be-tween them relieved by tho bright green of tho grease wood and bunch grass, the whole crowned with perhaps a couple of ' """ . '""-. thousand feet of the lighter gray, yellow yel-low and white sandstone ledges, capped y pinnacles and spires, turrets nnd fiiimes, in every imaginablo f hape, size j ' nnd proportion. 11. li. Stanton in Scrib- I oer's. j Nantes. j There is a certain niilount of satisfae- j tion perhaps in giving a whimsical j name to a pet animal, but such names often require so much explanation that they become a burden. A Boston lady lately related this little story of her cat: "We had a kitU'ti who had a marvelous marvel-ous talent for escaping from all kinds of perils. lie was shut up in an oven by a i heedless servant nnd left there over : night, but although it seemed that he : must be baked to u crisp, ho came out in j the morning none tho worse for the fiery i ordeal. "lie was run over bv a railroad train, but crouched close to tho ground and es-. es-. enpod injury. lie received a charge of bird shot one day whilo ho was himself hunting birds in the woods, bnt we .,.f- picked out ns y.itny of tho shot as we could, and he began af'once to recover )and soon wasall riglt again. "Finally ha( was put into a bag with a tone and thrown into a river, but lie f '. ' managed to 6nd a small hole in 0110 corner cor-ner of tho bag, und enlarged it so that he was able to get out. Then he swum ashore and came home. - "In view of these marvelous escapes we decided to keep the cat, and gave , him the name of Plutarch, because he j had so many lives." The name was a happy one, and yet, ' as the story of Plutarch's adventures had to be told each time his name was mentioned men-tioned to a new acquaintance, his owners wished at last that they had named him ; plain Tom or Dick. Similar explanations were necessary on the part of tho man who named his two canaries Wheeler and Wilson, "because "be-cause neither was a gingor." Youth's Companion. ! I |