Sketches New and Old


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tourist. Baggage checked through to any point on the route. Parties  
desiring to make only a part of the proposed tour, and thus save expense,  
may stop over at any star they choose and wait for the return voyage.  
After visiting all the most celebrated stars and constellations in our  
system and personally inspecting the remotest sparks that even the most  
powerful telescope can now detect in the firmament, we shall proceed with  
good heart upon  
A STUPENDOUS VOYAGE  
of discovery among the countless whirling worlds that make turmoil in the  
mighty wastes of space that stretch their solemn solitudes, their  
unimaginable vastness billions upon billions of miles away beyond the  
farthest verge of telescopic vision, till by comparison the little  
sparkling vault we used to gaze at on Earth shall seem like a remembered  
phosphorescent flash of spangles which some tropical voyager's prow  
stirred into life for a single instant, and which ten thousand miles of  
phosphorescent seas and tedious lapse of time had since diminished to an  
incident utterly trivial in his recollection. Children occupying seats  
at the first table will be charged full fare.  
FIRST-CLASS FARE  
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