Identifier: pacifictourist1879will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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oom LjyEJNWELAHE The meaning is, Lee Tuck makes cages, andhis workshop is at No. or room 16, in the alleyor court, and it can be reached without climbinglong flights of rickety stairs, and this being hisdwelling also, he is at home at all times. Whether they are more successful in makingpoetry, the reader may determine, from the fol-lowing, which has been attributed to one oftheir scholars, but perhaps erroneously, viz : How (loth the little husy bee,Delight to bark and bite,And gather honey ail tlie day,And eat it up at night. It is even doubtful whether it has been de-rived in any way from Confucius, or any oftheir classics. Instances are told of their honesty to an extentthat is exceedingly rare among American Chris-tians, as of one who in purchasing a knife select-ed one at a dollar and a half, instead of one athalf a dollar, and received a dollar too much inchange, and discovered the error only after hereached his home. The next day he walked backthree miles to return the money !
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^o 26 TMM ^m€lF£€ TQlTMl^.W. The Yellowstone Park HOW TO KEACH IT. Bjr Prof. F. V. Hajden, — U. S. Qeological Survej. TiiK Yellowstone Park is the grandest pleasureground and resort for wonderful scenery on theAmerican Continent, and doubtless the time isnot far distant, when Pacific tourists will makeit one of their most interesting pleasure trips.The word park, naturally brings to the mindof the reader, visions of the park as he finds itin our eastern cities, or in foreign capitals ; withits beautiful drives, and its well kept walks, andneatly trimmed grass-plats. In imagination hesees the usual sign-board; with rules and regula-tions, and the warning, keep off the grass.He sees them in imagination alone; for in theYellowstone National Park, roads are few andfar between. Animals untamed, sufficient tofurnish innumerable zoological gardens, wanderat will through the dense pine forests, or baskin the sunlight in beautiful grassy openings,whose surfaces are perfect flower garden

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