Evening star., 1894-11-03

until 1t passes out Of sight between two
great black promontories. The scene is
gloom intensified. The river is always in
the shadow, except for two or three hours
each day while the sun hangs directly over
| head and shares its solitude with a low
| log stable and a small frame house that
| is called by courtesy hotel, where they
| give you miserable meal and bed.
Three miles above Is another fall where
| the current is divided by a rock in the
| center and then drops $50 feet.
Inc color OF the water is very peculiar
Some people insist that 1t is green, others
/ that 1t Is blue, and both are right, for. as
the sun shifts, the tints change When 1t
falls below the cliffs the river reflects the
sky and carries light like an opal or a girl
with auburn hair. The p,nsets are usually
beautiful and sometimes startling The
sky sometimes blazes with fame-bursts
and yellow banners. AS the light becomes
subdutd the clouds take on the colors of
violet and crimson, with shadings of pink
and gold. Then cool amber tirts creep over
them, which fade into gray and darkness
as the stars are lit. The effect of these
lights upon the surface of the stream is
marvellous, and / wonder that some great
artist has not been here to catch them.
although IL they were transferred truth
fully to canvas the picture would seem un-
natural ana people would criucise Il as
eXaggeration.
Strange Stories of Phenomena.
Strange stories are told of phenomena
SOme-
times when the air is perfectly still the
spray arises several hundred feet above the
walls Of the canon and can be seen on
the plains at considerable distance. Then
for days and weeks at time there is
scarcely any spray at all. Often the whole
canon around the falls will be filled with
spray and every bark and rock will drip
with moisture. Again It will be as clear as
frosty night under the same conditions
from influences that no one has been able
to discover oil explain.
Often above the monotone of the falling
waters weird sounds may be heard, unlike
any that were ever named. and can be COM
pared to no other; and again, from time to
time, sullen throbbing is audible meas
ured by regular intervals like the beating
OF human pulse. These, too, proceed from
no apparent cause and science has been
unable to solve their mystery.
At the crest Of the highest rock in the
center of the Shoshone falls is the nest Of
an eagle, and for thirty-four years the same
bird has come regularly on the 2Gth, 9th
or 2Sth of March to repair and reoccupy II
and raise brood of young. Charley WAL
here In 1860. The nest was standing then
and as long as he lived here, until five
years ago. he kept a record of her reap
pearance. She never varied more than
three days In her arrival. Since his time
the record has been kept by others. who
testify to the same regularity. This year
she appeared on the 9th of March. Last
year she was one day late.
The spray from the falls carries a sedi-
ment which clngs like frost to the windows
of the little hotel. and can be scraped off
with knife. Mr.. Keller, who keeps the
place. says that they clean the glass every
spring by laying the sashes fiat and pouring
upon 1t solution of vinegar and salt After
they have soaked for three or four days the
coating can be wiped off with a cloth, but
in a few weeks the glass is covered again
as IL IT were frosted. The scrapings look
like the dust of lime The same sediment
clings to the leaves of the trees and vege-
tables that are grown around the place, and
can be scraped off the rocks and the face Of
the bare clay.