Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-28
guishes himself by unwinging butterflies, un-
Logging spiders and unearthing bugs. while his

guishes himself by unwinging butterflies un-
Logging spiders, aud unearthng bugs while his
mates are chasing the flying circle Of the hoop.
As he grows older, four characteristics bud
out-indomitable perseverance, in an inverse
ratio to the utility Of any project; incapability
OF bodily or mental WEAKNESS in his pursuit a
mild skepticism in relation to everything which
his own fingers have not touched, and most
sedulous devotion to scientific reports. LetSueh
a man down anywhere upon the face of the
earth, and he is ready to 60 to work at once,
either with or without tools, hammering the
rocks, or unveiling the animalcules, to whom
he gives long names and short lives-to each
place in science, and pin through the middle
of the body. Yet why smite him? He is
seeker after truth }. and on truth, wherever
sought, the mind may expand. "The elk and
buffalo gain their stature by bending to feed
upon the grass at their feet. The giraffe lines
its graceful head to browse on the twigs above
it, and yearly, as it rises feeds nearer heaven
/" If we ridicule not those who compass sea and
land to obtain q scrap of the handwriting of
Napoleon, or some individual whom accident
has permitted to subscribe himself Rex why
ridicule him who loves to read over and over
again, whether it be in the stars above our
heads or the rocks beneath our feet, the auto
graph of the Infinite Creator 2" S H
Second, the poet-lover of Nature. He loves
not to analyze the gushings of his soul. AS a
son loves his mother, he knows not why nor
will he brook to weigh in the balances the very
life-blood of his heart.
Third, the virtuoso-he who seeks the rare
and strange the rearer of mammoth squashes,
Brobdignagian violets blue roses, &C., &C. He,
as pioneer in improvements, has his place and
his use. ,...,.
He closed with an appeal to each listener to
provide himself with this never-failing source
| Of delight and comfort He spoke touchingly
of an insane man who used to pass him when
boy, with his arms full of Natures cheapest
yellow flowers. " The poor man imagined
them gold, and hugged them as he would have
Rugged hid treasure. We smile at him; but
was he not happy in finding California on
every hillside? Then what can be the pleas
ure Of him who, with every faculty of mind in
Its perfection, finds tongues in brooks with
out paying lecturer for wagging that expen.
sive organ sermons in stones,'" &c.
| must break the tangled thread of my re-
port for | cannot wind it off in the swift,
smooth words Of the poet-speaker. May you
yet CLEAN more than these scattered fragments
from his own lips and find yourself a merrier,
if not a wiser man."
Yours truly, MARY IRVING.
The Railways of the United States.
The american Railacay Times of the lst in
stant contains list of all the Railways in the
United States, by which it appears that the
number of railways in operation is 263, meas
uring 1866 miles, and constructed at a cost
Of 1895, 150,S4s. The number of Railways in
course of construction is "a, measuring Il, ,22s
miles. The total number of Railways is 337
and the total number of miles in operation
and construction is 22,s93. Their locality, &c.
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