Show yellowstone WONDERS sixty years ago congress set apart square miles of land mostly in northwestern wyoming since known as yellowstone national park in order to preserve for posterity one of the most wonderful groups of natural phenomena in the world the park is situated on a mountainous plateau from six to eight thousand feet above sea level with many high peaks of volcanic origin but now extinct there are several lakes the largest being yellowstone lake about 10 by 20 miles in extent and lying feet above sea level the falls and canyon of the atone river are among the most spectacular and beautiful to be found anywhere of paramount interest to many are geysers about in number more than exist in all the rest of the world most of these spout water and steam others spout thick mud excelsior geyser is the largest flowna gallons of boiling water a minute and throwing a great column of water and steam to feet high at irregular intervals old faithful geyser discharges a column feet high every 64 to 65 minutes amounting to a million and a half gallons at each eruption good roads and modem conveniences for the comfort and pleasure of visitors are to be found in the park which annually attracts a great number of tourists hunting is forbidden but fishing is permitted the park is one of the greatest wild bird and animal preserves in the world it was with excellent foresight that this wonderful region was dedicated to public use by congress as the first of our national parks of which there are now 22 i i one consolation is that the radio campaign orator has to quit when his time is up A credit man is a fellow who directs that your order shall be shipped C 0 D t insanity is decreasing according to an alienist but bot among people who do murder just now the only desirable feature of membership on the federal farm board is the salary dont worry if your little boy is fond of playing in dirt he may become a great politician A chicago man who feared to undergo an operation got out of it nicely by hanging himself our economists know a lot about business and finance but each one knows it in a different way nearly everything about the world war has been settled except who started it and who won it the radio listeners protection against longwinded long winded advertising harangues is the movable dial A new york man fined 25 for beating his wife said he thought amusement taxes had been repealed an american expedition is seeking noahs ark and maybe uncle sam will buy it for the shipping board A magazine publishes letters requested from readers an what I 1 would do if I 1 were president the letters go a long way toward explaining why none of the writers is president |