Where There Are No Odors

"In that country once known as the 'Great American Desert,' embracing a portion of Texas and Arizona, there are no odors," said R. P. Senter, of Dallas. "There luscious grapes and many other fruits grow, especially near the cross timber country, but there is no perfume. Wild flowers have no smell, and carcasses of dead animáis, which In dry seasons are very plentiful, smit no odors. "It was always suppoaed to be a lesa plain, upon which no plant could grow or breathing thing could live, but a large part of lt íb now successfully cultivated, and but for the rarlty of the atmosphere, causing the pecullarity I have numed, and the mirages, which are even more perfect than in the Desert of Sahara, no one would look upon it as a barren country now. Another singular feature common to the desert land is that objects at a distnce appear greatly magnifiert. A few scraggy mesguite bushes will look llke a noble forest. Stakes driven into the ground will seem like telegraph poles."