The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-08

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San Diego, would develop material
wealth quite beyond the reach of
any other Pacific railroad. The in
conceivable riches of the gold, sill
yer and copper mines of Southern
New Mexico and Arizona, the i'm
mense trade that would be opened
with old Mexico, and the develop
ment of the agricultural and min
eral wealth of Northern Texas and
the Indian Territory, are among the
results that will follow the compile
tion of this railroad to the Pacific.
MOUNTAINS AND MooNsHINE.
While we have been talking the
train has been running, and the sec
ond morning out from st. Louis
brings US into the new State of Col
orado. As we look out to the west
there seems to be a small white
cloud in the horizon, which, upon
close inspection, proves to be the
snow cap on Pixies Peak. The ris-
ing sun paints this airy vision with
golden tints, and as we advance an
other and another whitehead lifts
itself into view, until we find our
selves into close proximity to the
great central wall of the continent.
There stand "the everlasting hills"
rock built, rock-ribbed and snow
capped, just as they were heaved up
from the surging waves OF old
chaos millions of ages ago. A lit
tie farther on, and we see the dark
uneven wall, with its hundred peaks
as it extends north and south per-
feet wilderness of mountains, and
very soon we find ourselves in the
beautiful city of
DENVER.
l say beautiful IN the strongest
sense of the word. The last hun
dred miles of our journey has been
over a brown, arid plain, with its
scattered tufts of buffalo grass, and
the scene not made more cheerful
by the bleached skeletons of ami
mails lying here and there, with no
sign of life, and no sound except
the rattle and roar of our moving
rem desert we find ourselves all at
once amidst streams, fountains,
shade trees, Towering shrubs, gar
dens and vineyards, with neat cot
tages, stately mansions, handsome
churches, fine hotels, and long
streets lined with substantial busi-
ness houses. The transition is as
sudden and wonderful as if we had
been conjuring with Aladdin's
Lamp. The streets have no filthy
cutters, but on either side of the
roadway leaps and sparkles brook
OF clear water, that sings as it flows
along on its mission of love, giving
life and beauty to every tree and
shrub and flower that lines its mar
gin. Everything here lives by ir
rigation, but is none the less flour
ishing for that. The people have
no fear of drowth, for it rains when
ever they open the oluiCe gatee and
allow tie water to Aow through
thousand channels.
FAME THROUGH SMOKED GLASS.
The world is all sunstruck and
moonstruck here just now, and null
titudes of savans and scientists have
come hither with costly instruments
just to see Madame Luna throw
veil over the face of the Sun God. |
Schoolboys can figure out astro.
nOmical problems and make alma
macs nowadays, but who can give
the name of the man who first cal
culated . solar or lunar eclipse?
Such is fame! "The aspiring youth
that fired the Ephesian Dome out
lives In fame the pious fool that
raised it." So l will take my
eclipse through smoked glass and |
leave the philosophers to climb the
hills and triangulate the skies.
j. L. T.