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Show "An' that's the pillar of Hercules,?" she said, adjusting her silver spectacles. "Gracious! What's the rest of his bed clothes like, I wonder?" Reflection of a profound and pessimistic philosopher: "the first man was duped; the first woman deceived her husband, and the first child turned out a murderer. Such were the origins of humanity, and yet people allect to be surprised that the world is no better than it is." An Englishman who had just passed over the Union Pacific railway, and who had arrived at Laramie the other day, was forcibly struck with the romantic scenery along the road. He was also forcibly struck on the head by the wild, peculiar beauty of a snowshed. Tourists should learn not to open the windows and stick their heads out nine? feet? when they are passing through a shed, as it knocks off the scrolling? and disfigures the shed. |