... unusual things. IHe went to Niagara and descended to the Cave of the Winds; to Chicago and saw the pigs killed; to the Yosemite Valley and the Yellowstone Park, where he did the usual tours. He picked out the plums of travel in the North American continent ...

... suicide as the only way out of his troubles. THE FAMOUS YOSEMITE VALLEY in California is completely snow-bound, owing to the severe weather in the Western States Snow lies four feet deep in the valley, and is from six to ten feet in depth on the surrounding ...

... Chinaman, and which has lived more in a day than many cities have in a cen- tury ; the Rocky Mountains ; the marvellous Yosemite Valley; the beautiful waterfall known as the Bridal Veil, and other places and things replete with interest in themselves, and ...

... ment at the Fifth-avenue Theatre, at the end of which Mrs Langtry goes direct to California, spending the summer in the Yosemite valley, where she has already rented a cottage. ANOTHER play, entirely new to New Yorkers, that the footlights of Monday night ...

... only to San Francisco, with its CGermnans, Chinese, and motley gathering of all the nations of the world, but to thi Yosemite Valley, and other wild spots in that almost virgin territory. He departed from San Francisco for i apar on the 1st of July, and ...

... Iditor; an account of Beloit college, from the NC XEnolanddr; the followingt striking t nes b a Siller, entitled, In Yosemite Valley:- Sound ! sound I sound I oh, colossal walls, as crowned in one eternal thunder!I sound I sound I sound! I oh,e oeoans ...

... without scruple or pity the moment they strive to escape its clutches. The author gives a lively description of the Yosemite Valley as well as of San Francisco, and his brief account of British Columbia will be read with interest. As we'have already ...

... to be too exacting, as was the case of the Yankee tourist who, when the coach pulled up at Inspiration Point, and the Yosemite Valley lay stretched out below, gave expression to his feeling of disappoint- rnent by passionately exclaiming, Thunder, what ...

... given origin to valleys, he maintains that- But for the existence of faults, joints, and other shrinkage fssures, very few, if any, valleys could have acquired their present form. Those that could be formed without their aid are valleys due solely to the ...

... evident desire to find England always in the wrong in her policy. We like best of all these stray leaves that on the Yosemite valley; but there is something to learn from them all for that omnivorous person the general reader. We have not come across ...

... There are fairly good illustrations to assist the verbal descriptions of the natural wonders of Cala- veras and the Yosemite Valley. The astonishing pro- ductiveness of the soil, assisted by the climate of California, is briefly but clearly noted, The ...

... grasp of the resources already at ouy command to extend its scope indefinitely-to make China the tourist's Egypt, the Yosemite valley his Switzer land, and Chili his Norway. To this end steam traffic must be organised on a scale not thought of in days ...