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LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21

... fe~et or so, the consequences will he to him just the same as though ho had plunged down some of the awful steeps in the Yosemite Valley. Some- tim~es the acknowledged danger of a feat becomes' its safety. People are rather proud of haviug acopihdthe passage ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1874
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6893 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

... general good order, on'idering time popula- tion attracted; the capacity shown for growing grain and fruit; the great valley of the Yosemite; the mountains; the railway construction and steamship connections; the substantial nature of the rapid progress, ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1874
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 12063 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Our Illustrations

... York. Run up and have a look at Niagara, then by rail to 'Frisco, calling in upon Brigham Young by the way, visit the Yosemite Valley and the big trees, cross the herring. pond to Yokohama, run down the China coast, rail from Cal- cutta to Bombay, taking ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5041 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LATEST ASPECTS OF THE UNITED STATES

... JOMNSnBURT.: Wm are seated in a small, but handsome, public gallery, in front of Bierstadt's famous picture of 'the Yosemite Valley, with the glorious domes and sparkling cataract of spray, crowned by a mass of gray and silvery cloud, through thich the ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1874
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3941 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... profound comlmnotion, especially among Hindoos. Mr. Taylor, a Californian by birth, is said to have been converted in the Yosemite Valley, and baptized by immersion under The Bridal Veil. But for the truth of this we cannot vouch. t u 'The (ivil Rights ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1875
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4347 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... profound. commotion, especially among Hindoos. Mr. Taylor, a Californian by birth, is said to have been converted in the Yosemite Valley, and baptized by immersion under The Bridal Veil. But for the truth of this we cannot vouch. The Civil Rights Bill does ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1875
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4093 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE TRIAL OF LORD DE LA HAYE

... profound commn- tlor. especially among Hindoos. Ur. Taylor, a Californian by birth. is said to have been converted in the Yosemite Valley, And baptled by immer- Plon under ?? Bridal VelL. But for the trutlk of this we cannot vouch. LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COM- ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1875
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1158 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LETTERS FROM ABROAD, MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE. LETTER XX. York.—My way homo from the Sandwich Islands to London ..

... Clonds' Nest rises to height of feet above the valley, and the rock, called Le Capitaino, which to the naked eye seems to hang over, if it be not perpendicular, feet high. The highest summits of the valley are about 12,000 feet above the sea. The highest ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1875
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2627 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

VARIORUM NOTES

... from the other state. The last syllable of New Orleans rhymes with means, a fact by no means generally known; and the Yosemite Valley is a frequent trouble. The examples of such names whose correct sound has been strangely distorted, even in the House ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1876
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3608 | Page: 23 | Tags: News 

LECTURE BY DR. HAMMOND

... wives, and had about 60 living children. He was fnrther married to a number of wives by proxy. HEaving described the Yosemite Valley, with its gigantic trees, the lecturer spokn of the American school System, so opposed to Catholic feelings, and then ...

Published: Tuesday 30 May 1876
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 556 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BLACK HILLS

... shaking aspen contrasts vividly with the dark monotonous colour of the pines and spruce. To one of the valleys General Custer gave the name of Floral Valley, so completely was it carpeted with wild flowers. The sandstone region differs considerably from the ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1876
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1675 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

A DISCOVERY. --

... DISCOVERY. The New Orleans JVeM states that there was a thiilling incident in the vicinity of Yellow Creek, near the Yosemite valley. A party of merry excursionists went to bathe by the side of a little mountain lake. The two first who took headers came ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1877
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 3 | Tags: News