Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-30
1IINN ATTRACTIONS,


pose the Union can boast of equal attractions
with Minnesota as summer residence. Its
scenery is unrivalled on the continent for
grandeur and repose, it's climate is de-
lightfQl, and it possesses all the requisites
of a pleasant and fashionable home during
limits of the State are located seven hundred
and thirty lakes, varying from a mile to
seven miles in diameter, nearly all of them
fringed by beautiful groves and inhabited
by the most toothsome of the game fish of
the country, while water fowl disport them
selves in countless numbers over their placid
bosoms, tempting the sportsman to try his
skill in the hope of choice fricasee for din
ner. Many of these lakes, more especially
those in the near vicinity Of St. Paul, have
been beautiied by art and rendered attract
i've by the establishment of pleasure grounds
and commodious, airy, well-kept hotels, at
which one can procure all the luxuries of
city life without any of its drawbacks, re-
naming free from noise, and dust, land smoke,
and at liberty to skim over the lake in beau
tiful pleasure boats by daylight or moon
lighs, Willing away the time in angling for
bass or salmon, with IN occasional pickerel
or trout to haul taut the line and lend ex-
element to the sport.
The drawbacks to summer life in Mime
sofa are few, the attractions are many. While
the days are sometimes sultry, the nights are
always cool, and a nights refreshing rest
ways prepares the pleasure-seeker for a
search after fresh delights the next day. The
| means of communication with these lakes is
the best. Trains communicate with the CITY
every hour or two, so that person who may
weary of life at the lakes can spend few
hours in town and return in time to spend
the plight in his hotel.
Dozens of the lakes Of Minnesota have al
ready been improved, and many more will
be rendered additionally attractive by art
supplemented to nature, before the season is
| closed. cannot travel a dozen miles on
foot or on horseback without running across
some delightful resort in which he could
while away week or month in elegant
ease. All the attractions of the seaside are
presented by the Minnesota resorts fresh
air, good hotels, excellent bathing barring
the salt water-and scenery incomparably
beautiful. Nowhere on the Atlantic coast
has nature assumed such fantastic and pleas.
ing shapes as in Minnesota. The imagina.
ton finds new fields in which to revel al
ovarv NOW ecapo nrooon%o1. 4bo ~. $500.
wearies, for the landscape varies at every
turn of the road, and as each cloud passes
before the sun it invests it with new beauties
seen nowhere else on the continent.
Minnesota in summer is veritable para
disc of nature. Here is the utmost pro
fusion of floral and vegetable gifts-of hill
dale and lake, of pasture and meadow. L
is land in which poets can revel and artists
take ecstatic delight; where the weary ant
worn can find that rest to every sense that il
needed vacation where the lawyer can fine
no suggestion of controversy over which t,
rack his brains; where the merchant cal
find that rest from barter and sale SO neces
sary to recuperate him where the clergy
man can find relief from his bronchitis il
half the time that would be required SD,
: the sad sea waves" Our landlords have no
yet attained the habit of bankrupting ma,
for months entertainment, and there i
every inducement that can be offered *
those who desire to escape the dust ant
smoke of the city to come hither for tn
dog days. Come and abide with us, y
jewellers IN cities where pure mir is q bever
age, and We will do you good.