Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-11-19
thing like our house flv. These set

tie on the beach to eat the worms
ashore-and any time you see there
belt of flies an inch deep and six
feet wide, and this belt extends clear
around the lake-a belt of flies 100
miles long. If you throw a stone
among them, they swarm up so
thick that they look dense. like a
cloud. You can hold them under
water as long as you please they
don't mind if-they are only proud
of it. When you let them 60, they
pop up to the surface as dry as a
patent office report, and walk off as
unconcernedly as if they had been
educated especially with view to
affording instructive entertainment
to man in that particular way. Prov
idence leaves nothing to go by
chance. All things have their uses
and their part and proper place in
Natures economy. The ducks and
and gulls eat the fiies-the flies eat
the worms-the Indians eat the flies
tile wild cats eat the Indians-the
white folks eat the wild cats when
their crops fail-and thus all things
are lovely.
Mono Lake is $50 miles in a
straight line from the ocean-and
between it and the ocean are one OF
two ranges Of mountains-yet thou
sands of sea-gulls go there every
season to lay their eggs and rear
their young. One would as soon
expect to find the sea-gulls in Ten
nessee. And in this connection let
US observe another instance of Ma
ture's wisdom. The islands in the
lake being merely huge masses ol
lava, coated over with ashes and
pumice-stone, and Utterly innocent
of vegetation or anything that woult
burn and seagulPs eggs being en-
tirely useless to anybody unless
they be cooked. Nature has pro
vided an unfailing spring of boiling
water on the largest islands, anc
you can put your eggs in there, anc
iu four minutes you can boil then
as hard as any statement I have
made during the past fifteen years.
Ten feet from this spring, is spring
of pure cold water, sweet and Who'll
some. So in that island you cal
get your board and washing free ot
charge-and if nature had gone fur
ther and furnished nice Amer
lean hotel clerk who was crusty an6
disobliging, and didn't and didn'
know anything about the time ia
bles or the railroad routes-or-
anthing-and was proud Of it
would not wish for a more desira
BILE boarding house.
Half dozen little mountain
brooks flow into Mono Lake, but
not stream of any kind flows out o
it. 1t neither rises nor falls, appar
emily, and what it does with its sur
plus is a dark and bloody mystery
All the rivers Of Nevada sink into
the earth mysteriously after they
have run 100 miles or so-none Of
them flow to the sea, as is the fash
ion of rivers in all other lands.
There are only two seasons in the
region round about Mono Lake
and these are, the breaking up Of
one winter and the beginning Of the
next. More than once l have seen
perfectly blistering morning open
up with the thermometer at ninety
degrees at s O'Clock, and seen the
sAow fall fourteen inches deep and
that same identical thermometer go
down to forty four degrees under
shelter, before 9 o'clock at night
Under favorable circumstances it
SHOWS at least once in every single
month in the year, in the little to wn
of Mono. So uncertain is the eli
mate in summer that a lady who
goes out visiting cannot hope to be
prepared for all emergencies unless
she takes her fan under one arm and
her snow shoes under the other
When they have Fourth of July
procession it generally SHOWS on
them, and they do say that, as a
general thing, when a man calls for
a brandy toddy there, the bar keeper
chops it off with a hatchet, and
wraps it UP in paper, like maple
sugar. And it is further reported
that the oil soakers haven't any
teeth-wore them out eating gin
cocktails and brandy punches. I
don indorse that statement-Is sim
ply give it for what it is worth
and it is worth-well, I should say
millions, to any man who can be,
believe it without straining himself
But I do indorse the snow on the
Fourth of July-because I know
that to be true.