The results obtained by these operations
are of great significance, since they may
aid toward the solution of thatvexedques
tion, How shall the economical irrigation
of the Western plains be effected ?
To THOSE unlearned in the mysteries of
female apparel, the names nowadays given
to different shades of color are puzzling
and meaningless enough. What idea, for
instance, does Ashes-of-Roses.as applied to
color, convey to the ordinary mindi Is
Moonlight-on-the-Water any less puzzling,
and do we really get any conception of a
fabric's hue from the more descriptive
London-Smoke? But fantastic as these
names are, those which were current in
Paris three-quarters of a century ago were
stranger and more unsuggestive. What
would one conceive such colors to be as
Toad-in-love, Scared-Mouse, Wonderful
Lamp, Last-Sigh-of-Jocko, Suppressed
Sighs, and Mud-of-Paris? Yet all these
appellations, and many more equally
bizarre, together with some that are so un
refined as to be positively offensive to mod
ern tastes, were in common use in the
French capital at the beginning of the nine
teenth century.
