Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — A Nevada Sunset. [ARTICLE]

A Nevada Sunset.

This is the way an enthusiastic Nevada reporter describes a sunset: The western horizon was banked up with billowy masses of cloud-cushions, like vaporous oouches of the gods, and down into this yielding bed sank Helios! The whole con volted cloud land had, but a moment before, been bathed In the golden sheen of his dazzling rays, but as the feathery edges of the clouds disrobed him of his splendor, the beautiful Apolo seemed like a marvellous fair woman, who lays aside her jewels and her gold ornaments and appears in her natural beauty,so roseate and softly bright did he become. The cloud which concealed the sun became black on Its earthward side, as it fell into shadow, but through the lessening thickness of its margin the dazzling white brilliance of the sun’s light was seen, and from the scalloped edges the aerial darts of the god shot away to the zenith and to all parts of the skv, quivering In their flight. Around the border or the cloud, from the bank of *which this magnificent halo emanated, played all the colors of the rainbow, blending Into tints which could uot be counted for their number or described for their loveliness. There seemed to be rain foiling from one of the adjacent clouds, and. traversing the prismatic drops of the shower, the sunlight divided itself into its teven hues, which wove themselves together agfcin with the most varied and exquisite result.