The New York herald., 1876-09-10

about the gaping mouths OF tae works vent down into
the darkness as Jonah went INTO the digestive appara
tus OF the whale. Immediately in the aaf blue dark
drops began to a catching the check OF our re-
porter ike bridal tear Then stream, which seems
n,in n the collar and dampens his ardor. no matter.
newspaper would risk his iifo his collar :or
hia paper in any legitimate enterprise
WANDERING AND WONDERING.
The grace turns downward into the whae-like stom-
ach Of hs great iev:athan Of tbe East RIVER Boards
here and there give boarding house sound 30 your
pathway; but you do not daro 10 step either 10 tho
right or 10 the en Tor fear you may go wrong. Tho
only guido our reporter had land he went IN, In the
he lodged as best he might Down, down, In puddes,
IN lakes in little rivers you 20 for SO many icet ihat
Shey were not IN darkness they would not DO miles.
uSDER RIVER.
At last we come 10 the end Of this wet coffin. We
lew inches OF ra rock half cracked by the blasting,
divide IRON the wafer. over our heads the water
exquisite whito yacht carecns over Us. Millions Of
ush, soon to be stunned 70 death, are swimming In
peaceulness lew feet up yondor Here We have al
though one cannot hear the sound OF ones own
breathing amid the spiashing Of the waterfall How
do Jonah ioel all alone IN The whales belly
PILLARS op STRENGTH.
N tho darkness one feels fropn8y against the giant
columns which uphold this great whales back OF
island Their eaunt, wet SIDES rcpel one II you ro-
treat In the dank dark cavern, whare your breath at
last begins to De sudibe strike your back against
another jagged, fancy column
HOW IT FEILs
Everywhere IS dampness Cascades strike your
and .piashlng twho was /, who told usi)
down Al Lodore If It were not Tor the nky darkness
maiden or ,ssiug broadway; but these Jagged columns
are not caressing policemen aud our overshoes full
OF water The sound, however, 10 magnificent one
II 10 natural-morc natural than the cascade al inc
Hippodromc Il musical. and dr:ps, drips drips
and one feels Ike quoting Coieridge:-
Water. water everywhere.
But no, drop drink
A LOOK our.
At last you turn round. and nndns yourself lost
among the many only to be ielt, columns, your eyes
get used TO The darkness and yonder comes strange
misty. cloud-Ouc light II Is far on ana 1t IS tho hole
wherein you came Indeed, It is ouiy cloud, bg-
ger than u mans hand You have descended, and this
c.oudlike light comes NJ higher than your eyes. IL
weird and beautifully blue This IS a good place Tor
be IN tor be would wish outside
OF that mauveeray orAce. that outlet into daylight
thai bright place beyond, which rs the world ive
We may be in darkness, and we may be dream
ing witE Dante, but wo are uot necessarily
where we ieel ourselves 10 uc-n Haccs As eyes
ge used TO the dim blue light tie little cascades tnat
are dropping in from the East River heaa take
hgh'-hKe lines, as II they wore pearl beads falling
downward from silver string.
The feeling is almost sleepy here The plaDtvc
FLASHING OF the water the damp drip on ones sleeve
and The blue eht VI The entrance yonder All the while
that, only ew inches above, the harsh water Is ugly
and deep and Ashes swim askcw. Here and there ones
neck ;s suddenly circled by string iA spir,.
ter or hemp:i aud one docs not start tor fear o!
piosion, though these are really explosion strings
the man who Is gong through has thought o; those
dciciu! devils oi science.
FRIENDLY LGHL
As We stand here looking into the far of blue
hole, whore daylight ls comes man. the captain Of
tne lcrcc VINO shnks THAI II man s TOOL enough to
90 IN he must with sort OF torch 20 L Tor him AS
the leader comes IN amid the splasbes oil Mlnnehaha
looking ike the sprli Of some Mills
wolisohr there - one who carries the wand OF Aiad-
cin dcfe are II once az g:noreila and torch Tie
ighi only bcIghtens the gloom. As the leader
the waterfalls ?cssess new color The great drops.
sparkling IL the glare o. .ne incoming iorch spat.
ter downward Ike falling starA Y0n have 4
skyrockes break INTO coors IN MD heavens so these
drops Of East River waters broke coiors the
ROCKS arpped, and man She has 10 view the reief
o! his cass who abor under water and under groond
lends Us umbrella With ihe obJecI oi giving Che
eeipts 10 those aho perish IN excavaiing this island
an ANCIENT BINGHAM
Fer q small price the government up 20 THIS .ine,
soic 10 Us torch aud an umbrella, ,i which, as u E
sarcasm on American hab,ss OF lending and borrowing
the umbrella was 20 be returned No arts OF AVOID
ance preclude the idea thai ihis federal umbrella 10
10 returned The dsyt we're wnen gooo ole BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN, who was Praised even BY cynica, Jearsys
salG, ''SeitheY = borrower nor lender be This
philosophy probably did nos apply 10 umbrellas But
,hn Hell Gaze umbrella snicn everybody
but reporter Lac aAd. mGsi DC returned
The federal umbrella aforesaid was rock ribbed and
worn IL might ir somo ancient time have lain upoE .
stormy shore. ,he wreck OF spanish eaIleon 10 d.
smeter snc circumisrencs u was good enough am.
breA !,s meridanai i;aes Of Longitude we're a. there
on Its broad hemisphere But the singnaIn part OF u
was iecateiy retfina II would poi have pleased
Peter Cooper or any other sanguine potca. rag man
liz point OF anatomy was az al umbrella, perhaps
or.ters Of '.sxraanapalus" snc 10 be we'll uign un
clothed Perhaps this was 10, so mucE Tho iaul, OF
the umbrella ~ Of the federal government which pro-
vdes
pMBRgLI.As AND grYoRM
Surely II Tdcn President the gigantic ngure OF
Reform would stand uskedIy above heads point
Ing its epaaciated umbrella toward the setting sac.
rRs ovrgE WORLD AyAis.
IL not cay ior WISHING but one easily reaches the
outer world that Yosemite Valley into which We
came; and while the waterfalls gstcn and the bushes
giean is Of some service 10 snov that the old
inay on the brink of the chasm still
Ia y,ns 10 down 10 aer daughter. ..n-iaw tha.
nolasses, bos NE dong up Of Qutaccs, 70