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

No State among the thirty lght that CON-
pose the Union can boast Of equal attractions
with Minnesota as summer residence. Its |
grandeur and repose, it's climate is de-
ightful, and it possesses all The requisites
of pleasant and fashionable home during
the suItry days of the summer. Within the
limits of the State are located seven hundred
and thirty lakes, varying from 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, whilo 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, and 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
I bass salmon, with 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
tlS-
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 two, that person who may
weary of life at the lakes can spend few
hours in town and return in time to spend
J the plight in his hotel.
Dozens of the lakes of Minnesota have al
be rendered additionally attractive by arI
supplemented to nature, before the season is
closed. A man cannot travel dozen miles or
foot or on horseback without running across
while away week or month in elegan
, ease. All tho attractions of the seaside ar,
presented by the Minnesota resorts-frest
air, good hotels, excellent bathing barring
the salt water-and scenery incomparabl.
q beautiful. Nowhere on the Atlantic coas
has nature assumed such fantastic and pleas
o ing shapes as in Minnesota. The imagina
. ton finds new fields in which to revel a
+ every new scene presented; the eye neve
, wearies, for the landscape varies at ever
a turn of the road, and as each cloud passe
), before the sun it invests it with new beauties
= seen nowhere else on the continent.
Minnesota in summer is ve1ltable para
q disc of nature. Here is the utmost PFC
). fusion of floral and vegetable gifts-of hill
; dale and lake, of pasture and meadow.
+ is land in which poets can revel and artist
% take ecstatic delight; where the weary an
II worn can find that rest to every sense that
90 necessary to the full enjoyment of the
A. needed vacation where the lawyer can fin
: no suggestion of controversy over which |
~ rack his brains; where the merchant ca
find that rest from barter and sale so nece
u sary to recuperate him where the clerg,
=, man can find relief from his bronchitis j
- half the time that would be required st
of the sad sea waves.'' Our landlords have n,
y. yet attained the habit of bankrupting ms
for months entertainment, and there
every inducement that can be offered
10 those who desire to escape the dust ar
US smoke of the city to come hither for II
" dog days. Come and abide with us,
n. jewellers in cities where pure air is beve
n, age, and we will do you good.