The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-27
Another Interesting Letter from
Sarah Jane-DescriptiOn Of Some
People who Travel-Sail on the ~
awrance-SuusetO on the I.ake..The
1000 Misunderstanding the. Rapids
few words about Montreal X. RS.
Can't 1875


Editors Of the Register.
We have travelled down the grand old
Mississippi with its hourishing cities and
and towns, its vast tributaries, and line
Plantations; we have followed the course
of our own beautiful and winding Ono
with ITS tcrrraccd banks and rich farms;
we have on a bright sunny day sailed up
the noble Hudson with its browning pal
isades, its thrifty towns, Its elegant
country residences, and its charming
water scenery as it widens to the dlmen-
sions OF a lake, and anon contracts to a
channel halt mile wide Overshadowed by
the legendary Donderberg, st. Anthony's
hose, and Catskills, and its myrlads OF
sails looking in the distance like so many
wbite.winged birds; but nowhere have
we experienced more ecstatic enjoyment
than in sail down the st. Lawrence,
which somebody says contains the purcst
water and produces the finest foam, rs
the vessel dashes through it, of any large
river in the world. Perhaps much OF
our enjoyment on this occasion was ow-
inc to the fact that, previous to our re
cent trip, we knew but little of this mag
nilicent strca m except that 1t is the
grand outlet of the great inland seas OF
North America
1t was about 2 o'clock on one OF the
pleassntest days Of August that we
boarded the good steamer Corsican
for Montreal 333 miles below Toronto
| The boat was crowded with tourists.
There was Madame Shoddy with her
| elaborately trimmed gros-grsin silk. hair
a la POM adour surmounted bya jaunty
hat trimmed with glass cherries us big
As crab apples, and jewelry Oh, enough
to take ones breath away.
There were Madame shoddy's two
! daughters, with all the airs and exuber-
ant spirits of young misses just escaped
from Il fashionable, boarding school who
carried on a desperate Irritation with two
Canadian swells.
There was Madame. Observation-Disclosures
tocracy who smiled complscently rs { hel
beautiful and body-like daughter angled
for an English Lord soft-hcad.
There was the delightfully."- entertain
ing little Frenchmsn with whom we con
versed at table, and as he knew no Eng
Ii>h but "Will you please" snd we know
no French whatever, the conversation
was inevitably very editying.
There WAS MIR. Shoddy with his tive
daughters, who seeing no use in paying
out money to have daughters instructed
in music it they can't be ready on all oc'
casons to sing and play. compelled the
Young ladies to,pound.and screech for tie
deleciation fall who were so uniortah-
ate as to wander within hearing distance
There were the bride and groom ls-
noring all the rest of the world, because
each was all the world to the other
There were the old married olKs VINO {,
had long ago gotten over thnr:;"spo'9y
period, and had COTTON over their DIS
appointment, too, in rot finding eacn
other quite perfection, and were our 10,
a good time. ,Thora came victims OF nay
ssibma Going away from home Ito avoid
tho disease. There were the school
naster and schoomarm taking notes Of
people and things for the future
edification of their pupils to whom they
must soon return.
There Was the educated, highly pol
ished Irish Clergyman who had travelled