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Show BEAUTIFUL MOUTVTAIN PAS Sanlcr, Slimto, ITeod and OHior ria luonutainrt of tho Tar Nortlnvcst. About CO miles sonth of Tacoma you get a view of the most beautiful mountain moun-tain peak on tho earth's surface, Motm$ Tacoma, or Eaniei, and carry it with you for three or four hours. It rises directly di-rectly from the tido level to a height oi 14,444 feet, unhidden by intervening ranges or foothills, and stands squarely against the sky, the perfection of magnificence, mag-nificence, dignity and power. It is two and ono-half times as high as Mount Washington, and I beliovo tho hight peak in tho world that rises directly from a plain. It is known to us in the east as Mount Ranier and was so called in honor of Admiral Kanier of tho British Brit-ish navy, but here they call it Monat Tacoma, tho old title given by ths Siwash Indians before tho white mat came. The base is covered with a dense forest of over living green. Above he timber line tho snow is white and smooth and perpetual, and it looks as if it were a solid block of the purest mar- j ble. Mount Tacoma is just two feot higher than Mount Shasta, 297 feofc higher than Pike's peak and 400 foot higher than Gardiner's peak. The highest in tht United States, Mount Crillon, Alaska, Alas-ka, is over 1 6, 000, but an oxact measurement meas-urement has never been taken. Mount St Elias, Alaska, is i 0,327; Mount Whitney, California, is 15,088, and Mount Williams, California, is 14,400. There are soveral other very beautif ai psaks visible from the railway, including includ-ing St. Helen, 0,750 feet, the patron paint of Portland, around whose head bangs a perpetual halo; Mount Hood, which is a shapely cone. 11,225 feet which was named in honor of Lord Bood of the British admiralty, and Mount Baker, 10,300 feet, christened in honor of Jo ?ph Baker, one of the lieutenants lieu-tenants of Petor Pngor, who discovered the sound. Theodore Winthrop ha? written loviugly about them, and they are tho subject of the purest and choicesl descriptions that exist in the classic proso of Washington Irving, although I believe ho was never nearer them than his homo oa tho Hudson river, 8,000 oiles away. Chicago Record. It fa the opinion of tho true gourmal that of all raarino paniish ihero is none to compare with the smolt (Osmerus mordax). This primary rank is its own by reason of its delicacy and delicious flavor, and when fried a light brown in very fine bread crumbs and served with melted butter there i none that disputes dis-putes its pi-cmmencfe Its delightful flavor, however, as well as its peculiar odoi is evanescent Like tho mackerel, W cannot be too fresh. It is from its odor that the smelt derives de-rives not only its familiar but Latin name, an odor so aggressive of sliced cucumbers that, if its presence be manifest mani-fest only to the sense of smell, people ire often deluded into such supposition. This odor is not marked except iu ths freshly caught fish and disappears in the cooking, giving place, however, to a fitting resurrection of the smelt to an olfactory senso still moro savory and do-UshtfuL do-UshtfuL Market Hoview |