. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . isoa OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. was a flowery and enthusiastic writer. In the first issue of the Arrow he wrote a fancifulsketch containing a prediction of Omahas future. It was entitled A Night in Our Sanctum,and the following is an extract from it: Last night we slept in our sanctum — the starry-decked heaven for a ceiling, and Mother Earth for a flooring. * * »The
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . isoa OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. was a flowery and enthusiastic writer. In the first issue of the Arrow he wrote a fancifulsketch containing a prediction of Omahas future. It was entitled A Night in Our Sanctum,and the following is an extract from it: Last night we slept in our sanctum — the starry-decked heaven for a ceiling, and Mother Earth for a flooring. * * »The night stole on, and we in the most comfortable manner in the world — and editors have a faculty of making themselves comfort-able together — crept between art and nature —our blanket and buffalo robe, to sleep and perchance to dream, of battles, sieges,fortunes and perils, the imminent breech.* To dreamland we went. The busy huE. of business from factories and the variedbranches of mechanism from Omaha reached our ears. The incessant rattle of innumerable drays over the paved streets, the steadytramp of ten thousand of an animated, enterprising population, the hoarse orders fast issued from the crowd of steamers upon the. RESIDENCE OF J. E. BOYD. levee loading with the rich products of the State oi and unloading the fruits, spices and products ot other climes and soils,greeted our ears. Far away toward the setting sun came telegraphic dispatches of improvements, progress and moral advancementupon the Pacific coast. Cars full freighted with teas, silks, &c., were arriving from thence and passing across the stationary channelof the Missouri river with lightning speed hurrying on to the Atlantic seaboard. The third express train on the Council Bluffs andGalveston railroad came thundering close by us with a shrill whistle that brought us to our feet knife in hands, looking into the dark-ness beyond at the flying trains. They had vanished and the shrill second nei
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