Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-27
Sir Arthur Sullivan Unpopular.
 From the Brooklyn Eagle,1

Sir Arthur Sullivan Unpopular. From the Brooklyn Eagle.]
 Another Englishman who has been over here and who has not left a very pleasant impression among New Workers is Sir Ar thur Sullivan, the composer of 'tPinafore, J Pirates, Patience" etc. The effect of a title upon S'arthur has not been good. When he was over here few years ago, comparatively poor man and much interest ec ln the success of his first comic opera of importance, he was hard-working musician and clever enough man. Success has not had the effect upon his manners and appear ance that might have been hoped for. He is extremely short in stature, with a pudgy face, side whiskers and a moustache. He commits the unfortunate mistake which small men occasionally make of thinking that he can appear taller by standing up very straight and lifting his nose high in the air The result IS he struts. A titled man of very low stature who struts is not impressive Sir Arthur certainly has more difficulty with the single glass than any other Englishman or Anglomaniac that I ever saw Despite the most fendish of scowls, determined of gl1maces and interminable of squints, the glass will insist upon falling out of his eye as often as he sticks it in, and he is kept busy constantly lifting it up to his eye again. This also in measure detracts from the dig nifty of Sir Arthur's appearance.
 The View From Roan Mountain
 Correspondence of the Washington Star.
 The extreme point of our visit was to Roan Mountain, on the border between East Tennessee and North Carolina, the highest peak save one Mount MitchelD east of the Rocky Mountains, if the recent measure ments and greater accuracy do not destroy it's prestige. Leaving Abingdon we changed cars at Bristol, Tenn, and had the peculiar sensation of setting our watches back one hour, having reached ninety degrees meridi- an time. At Johnson City, where there is an immense tannery, we took narrow-gauge railroad (called from it's tortuous course the 'sStemwinder'), built to open up the rich Cranberry, N. c. The road runs through a narrow gorge, called Doe river canon, four miles long and fifteen hundred feet deep, passing under four tunnels and over five bridges and amidst romantic and ever vary ing scenery. A comfortable hotel at Roan Mountain station prepares for the twelve miles ride to the summit of the mountain. When possible the ride should be on horse back. We started at ten o'clock with dri- yer and pair of horses in an open spring wagon, and it was six o'clock before we reached our destination, an average If the energetic and public-spirited owner, General Wilder, gives the distance accurately of one and one-half miles per hour, The ladies of the party concluded that the distance was not less than twenty-five miles, but some thing must be allowed for their fatigue in ati fha 1artyth of ho
 Every step of the way is of great beauty and interest. The road "zig- -zags'' backward and forward, gradually creeping higher and higher, and following up as we'll as it may Doe river, now diminished to an impetuously headlong mountain brook, hiding itself at times in csol recesses and then, like a play full child, bursting upon us with chatter and laughter, tumbling over rocks and forming cascades that fill the air with coolness and delight Acres of ''forget- me nots," ferns of thousand shapes and sizes, azaleas, rhodo- dendrons, laurels and other flowers and shrubs line the way peep forth from cool and sequestered hooks and inaccessible ra- vines. The woods are magnificent. Sugar naples, cucumber trees, the wohoo, with it's large leaves, chestnut, ash, oak, walnut and the American poplar or tulip tree grow abun- dantly and of huge proportions. Poplars thirty feet in circumference and nearly one 4COo feet in circumference and eighty feet high, are sometimes seen. The wild cherry is abundant and very valuable, and is largely cut for the manufacture of furniture, being now the fashionable wood. One owner has railroad incline worked by stationary en- zine, stretching down into the valley, and is said to have one million feet of sawed lum- Der ready for market. As our altitude in creased it was interesting to observe the de- creasing size of the timber and change in the character of growth, evergreens and sub Alpine plants taking the place of deciduous sionally we would catch glimpse through or over the forests into the hay distance, giving foretaste of joys to come.
 When at length we came out upon the open summit, sixty-four hundred feet above the level of the sea, we stood mute in speech less amazement and wonder. single ex- clamation, ''Glory" burst from the lips of one of the party. Range upon range, peak after peak, valley beyond valley extended until all the world seemed laid at our feet. Far across the valleys of East Tennessee were the mountains of Kentucky; in other directions we looked into Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. "An area of fifty thousand square miles in seven different States, with one hundred mountain tops, each over four thousand feet in height" dazzled and awed the beholder. Peaceful iowlands in the remote distance basked in the sun, while near at hand clouds poured through the gorges, now ri ing and sweeping around and embracing us and deluging us with rain, and now, like airy sprites, as if to compensate for their rudeness, floating grace fully down the richly wooded slopes, taking on every shape and hue that imagination could suggest or fancy dictate. Black Dome, Mount Mitchell, the Unakas were at times concealed, then emerged again from their hay coverings clothed with added sublimity. Language is powerless to convey any ade quate idea of the grandeur, the transfor- nations, the soul-flling effects of sojourn, however brief, in this 'sLand of the Sky'' The firs and spruces near the crest show the marks of their terrible struggles with the blasts of winter, and their heads are bowed and their limbs are turned from the storms,