The New York herald., 1874-08-13
SEASIDE AND COUNTRY.
Narragansett is sadly deserted.


Narragansett is sadly deserted.
Saratoga has a fine art gallery
Miss Smiley preached at Saratoga on Sunday
Newport has sacred concerts Sunday evenings.
The hotels at Lake Mah0pac are oyerrun with
visitors.
Clara Louise Kenogg's arrival at Saratoga is an.
nounced
Ladies at Long Branch do tatteing during the
band concerts.
Governor Ingerson, of Connecticut, visited Sara
toga Saturday.
Saturday last the United States Hotel, Saratoga,
served breakfast to 1902 persons.
'Chivalrien has been failure this season, owing
to the high prices maintained for sets.
Mrs. Judge Roosevelt and daughter have parlor
suit at the United States Hotel. Saratoga.
"Sylvia Meade" /" OF the Boston Globe, is one OF
the pleasant, graceful writer's from the resorts.
Madison, Wis.,, Is q popular Northwestern resort.
The society Is very refined and the climate invigor
ating.
Speaker Blaine was az Congress Hall, Saratoga,
Saturday, and left his autograph as Presidential
possibility
The Grand Hotel, Saratoga, treats its guests to
"musical poIpie" weekly. 1t Is, perhaps maze
Of humming birds.
Hon. A. J. Parker, Hon. T. J. Quinn, f. Corning
and General s. E. Marvin are an Alabama party at
the Clarendon, Saratoga.
This Is the proper form at Saratoga Of a request
for permission to call:-"WOuld 1t be asking too
much to state when you will be at homew
Among recent visitors to Palmyra Springs
Wis, were Chief Justice Noggle OF Idaho, and tam
lily, and Hon. Charles Williams, member OF Con-
gress.
Josh Billings spends most OF his time at Long
Branch instructing children in his Outlandish Or
biography and whiting boz and arrers for them
10 shoot with.
Saratoga bellies waltz the Errumrungen Dresden.
II Is supposed to be associated with bama and
sauerkraut, and possibly Scweitzer Kase, as there
are nanny shippers in It.
The Cuban ladies, whose dresses have been
creating such q commotion at Saratoga have
taken their clothes and themselves to Cape May,
to create q commOrion there.
The Boston dip is Knocked into the shade by
'The Saratoga wrggle," 'rThe Newport swing,
'The West Point strut" the Long Branch "grass-
hopper walk" the "Mahopac lift" and "The
Cape May dive"
When newspaper correspondent registers at a
Long Branch hotel they promptly show him to o
bath.-E1chdnge. Yes; they bathe his stomach
with the best champagne In the house and put
him In his little bed happy If he be q Bohemian.
TWO young ladies and gentleman, residents Of
this city, one day last week started away from
'Sconset and thence back to town again. dis
tance or eighteen miles, which they made In nve
hours and sixteen minutes.
Summer travel Is very lively through Montpelier,
Vt, on new short line from the Lake to the
White Mountains, by way OF the Montpelier and
Wells River Railroad. This route is over sixty
miles shorter than by the Central ana gives travel
lers four hours at the capital.
Itinerant performers Of all kinds are injecting
the watering places, and have gotten to be de-
ctded nuisance. People get enough OF this sort of
thing In town, and 1t occurs to US that the hotel
keepers do wrong to tolerate the annoyance But
then when business Is dull they'll tolerate anything
for money.
or DEVILS Lake, WIS, correspondent wrttes:-
''Tak Of the bathing on Lake Michigan, or Erie or
Tahoe Here Is water that one can see through
like quartz crystal OF the clearest sort at fifty
feet depth. 1t looks the color OF hook nearest che
Shores boats put out in 1t and the tint deepens
till past the halfway tree, floating down in ITS eet
soundings 1t Is the deep, clear green that tells Of
absolute purity In any volume OF water. l hope
never to be called one Of the impressDle ones but
am in love with this sacred lake OF the Devil and
shall be till die"
From Eaton Springs, Mich comes the following
story OF a young lady from Boston 1.-THE chief
! attraction at the Vaughn House, In the way OF
music is the piano playing OF young lady from
| Massachusetts, who puts to shame number OF
professionals have heard. This young lady Is a
study. She is as brown as a cocoanut, and is the
most perfect picture OF health and vitality have
seen In an age. She drives horse with the skill
OF Budd Doble, knocks a croquet ball with the
precision and very nearly the force and velocity OF
bullet, and can beat the champion at tenpins.
She Is everybody's friend, and mas accomplish.
ments enough to stock young ladies' boarding
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