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one of the safest and pleasantest in the coun- spent on the beautiful Lake
than which Ge-
try. Detroit is a fine old town with some neva, in Switzerland, is not more
beautiful-



broad and beautiful streets, such as as few I and in visiting the S5tate
Agricultural Vottege
cities can  boast, a large number of fine of New York at Ovid.    Of this
delightfully
business establishments and a good many peo- situated college, as of the
other, hereafter.
ple of the right stamp.                       Sabbath at Syracuse, one of
the handsomest
  Made a pleasant call upon our agricultural and most active business places
in the interior
and editorial friend, R. F. Johnstone, Editor of 'the Empire State. Especially
famous for
and Publisher Michigan Farmer and Sec. Mich. its extensive salt-works and
the superior qual-
State Ag. Society. A good man in the right ity of its immense yield of the
saline product.
place. There are many such in the Peninsular Has one or two of the handsomest
streets we
State.         *                            have yet seen in this country.
  Michigan has about the same population     Found the Voorhees House a capital
hotel;
as Wisconsin, but is considerably ahead of the proprietors, Messrs. Sprague
& Gage, em-
us in educational and agricultural enterprise. ceedingly obliging and attentive.
              NIAGARA FALLS.                  At Albany about 3 p. m. of
Monday, after a
  Through Canada by night, reaching Suspen- straight and fast drive through
a handsome
sion Bridge just after dawn. Pleasantconpa- country and a multitude of thriving
villages.
ny beguiled the hours, which but for the sad The State of New York never
seemed so grand
news of Hooker's retreat across the Rappahan- before. She is rightly named.
Farmers were
nock, would have held a choice niche in the just plowing and getting ready
to plant. Soil
memory of the years.                        not so good as ours af the Great
West; and
    The unrivalled Bridge over the fearful hence her farmers deserve the
more credit for
 depths, though a score of times crossed, had their almost equally large
crops.  Never roal-
 lost none of its wonder, and the mighty Niag- ized before how Albany is
built upon undula-
 ara, with its thundering roar and heaven- tions of land which deserve to
rank among
 reaching clouds of mist, poured its ceaseless hills. Fine in some parts,
dingy, and quite
 floods as sublimely down the wild deep gorge too odorous of the past in
others. Capitol
 of the river as in the days of yore. Mrs. H. buildings scattered and cramped.
 was seeing the river and Falls for the second  We called, of course, and
we may say chief-
 time only, and they who know her enthusiasm  ly, upon our highly esteemed
and very able
 can judge of her delight now that she was agricultural friend, Col. B. P.
Johnson, Secre-
 seeing them for the first time with clear vision. tary of the New York State
Agricultural Soci-
    Twelve hours were spent at the Falls-in ety. Found him in his well furnished
Library,
  standing in solemn awe, in running like chil- and were delightfully entertained
by him in the
  dren up and down the swift rush of waters, Agricultural and in the Natural
History Rooms
  throwing in sticks to see them plunge over the of the State. These halls
together constitute
  awful cataract, and in shouting ourselves an entire and very handsome building,
erected
  hoarse to deaf comrades on the rocky shores. by the State at an expense
of some $30,000-
  Niagara, Mount Blanc and the Ocean-there a noble monument (especially if
the contents
  is nothing so grand on this planet. Let no be included) of the enterprise
and wisdom of
  American die until he has seen Niagara.    the greatest of the great states
of the Ameri-
      SENECA LAKE, SYRACUSE AND ALUANY.       can Union.
    The night of that golden day found Mrs. HI.  In all parts of Europe wc
totind the intelli-
  at Syracuse, our individual self at Havana, gent people familiar with the
name and mirac-
  seat of the People's College, on the Canadai- ulous progress of the State
of New York; their
  gua & Elmira R. R., and three miles by rail knowledge of its resources
and progress being
  from Lake Seneca.  The day following was chiefly derived from the widely
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