Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-03-31

That evening ut the theater a large
boy rat came into my dressing room and
ate cake of soap while was dressing
Cats. it is said, cannot live at the top
Of Pixies peak. Possibly they cannot
Neither can anything else. Speakers and
singers experience great difficulty at both
Aspen and Leadville on account of the
hyperclimatic conditions there. They
gasp and become giddy, and sometimes
unconsciousness follows.
DR.. Dugan was once in the audience
when il was suddenly discovered that
the queen of the ballet had become I'M
conscious in her undressing room. He
was summoned. Around him he found
90 or more danseuses ready to faint and
clustered about the head of the ballet,
who lay there gasping in her rich pen
wiper costume. He looked at her a mo-
ment, as the physician might have done
so years ago when he told the mother it
was girl Then he called for bucket
of water, and in moment life and health
returned TO all the dancers. They were
real well and glad to go on with their
work.
The dress of premier danseuse often
costs thousands of dollars, but is more
fitted for a house dress than anything
else. 1t would I've poor costume to use
in climbing Pixies peak.
In 1868 an avalanche came down the
mountains, filing the valley with snow
and improved farm property as far as
the main entrance of the Hotel Jerome.
All that saved Aspen was that she was
not present Mt the time. Aspen is beau
tiful city. but the air is so rarefied that
a tenderfoot gasps ike dying sucker
on the grassy bank
Canyon City is also Economically stu
ated at the entrance to Grand canyon.
1t has everything that heart could wish
except more tourists. Hot and cold
springs, with or without mineral in them,
are ready for the invalid who Graves a
new kind of water to sozzle in.
There is one spring which was famous
for its healing powers centuries ago. and
the Indians came from all over North
America TO battle in it and show OFF their
new clothes.
The proprietor wishes me to say that
since then the springs have been entirely
refitted with fresh towels, combs, brushes
and soap. The change is noticeable and
agreeable.
cannot do justice 10 the Royal gorge,
which is near Canyon City and named
after the lunch counter at Omaha. Ny
pen falters.
| quote from livery stable man Of
Canyon City:
The Royal gorge! Whatever there is
in the grand canyons 10 surpass the other
canyons Of the Rocky mountains, what
ever there is to put the Swiss Via Mala'
in the shade, is found in the first five
miles that lie west of Canyon City. H>re
is where the cliffs are vertical and whc,c
rays of sunlight never enter. This abys-
nal chasm ranks with Niagara and the
Yosemite, among the greatest wonders Of
America No words can enable the i'm
agination to realize the stupenGous and
gloomy grandeur of the scene. II Is as if
the Almighty in his wrath had riven the
mountains asunder to make sepulcher
for the sun. and the ancient sun, as the
centuries roll away into the ocean of
time, comes every day little while and
shines into the great abyss calmly and
pensively, like passing martyr smiling
into his own grave.
THE impression which the scene
makes upon the sense is uncommunice-
bic. The abysmal grandeur thrills the
soul with a subtle and anxious feeling
of mysteries unfathomable, of tragedies
that have wrung the breast of nature.
The waters know the undiscovered Sc
cret of their mothers woes and rush III
turbulent anger from the scene. Wind
are born here which voice in moaning
undertones through the passages Of the
chasm some old, transmitted grief, too
sorrowful TO he spoken aloud. This
spectacle is "a majestic lamentation In
granite and may he seen from one of
my carriages, costing only e. per hour,
including food for the team"