The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-04-18
FOR YOUNG MEN.

by the Marquis Of Worcester, when
prisoner in the tower Of London, upon
seeing the tight cover of vessel CON
tanning hot water blown Of. His obser-
vations he sent forth to the world in his
work, Century Of Inventions" which
formed text book for inquirers until
Savary, Newcomer, and after them Watt
took up the subject practically and brought
the steam engine to its present perfection.
The coral insects have ridgcd the oceans
bottom with mountains and gemmed it
with islands. The immense chalk cliffs of
Britain are composed in the same way.
BY little and little our mighticst rivers be-
come tributary to the ocean and float ma
vies at their mouth.
Young men, we say TO you, do not de-
spise little things. They are the germs
of great results. A little deviation from
truth, little disregard of integrity, lit
tie game Of cards, little time spent in
evil company, may be the commencement
of course whose terminus is perdition.
And just so on the other hand. The spi-
ders web woven across his path gave Sir
Samuel Brown the first idea Of suspen-
sion bridge; and the first idea of Thames
Tunnel was conveyed to the mind of Bru-
mel from noticing the perforations of the
ship worm. Franklin was sneered at
when he discovered the identity of light
ming and electricity; and when asked of
what use is it? replied, "What is the use
of child9 II may become a man."
When Galyani discovered that frogs
leg twitched when brought in contact with
certain metals, who would have supposed
that so insignificant fact contained the
germ of the electric telegraph, which
unites the intelligence Of continents, and
is destined yet to girdle the world. In
the same manner the germs of genius are
discoverable in the minds of the young
from small circumstances.
The celebrated painter, Sir Benjamin
West, when boy made his first brushes
from cats tail; and Ferguson, when
poor boy watching sheep on his native
Scotch hills, made map of the heavenly
bodies, by means of thread, with small
beads on it, stretched between his eye
and the stars; and with nothing but
common penknife he made wooden clock
which measured the hours with accuracy.
When Edmund Stone was asked by the
Duke of Argyle how he, poor garden
ers boy, had contrived to learn the Prin-
cipia Of Newton, in Latin, the answer
was, One needs only to know the TWEEN
ty-four letters of the alphabet in order TO
learn everything else that one wishes
Young men, application and perseve-
rance, let me tell you, is immensely SUI
perior TO genius, and will enable you to
to make attainments in any direction that
would seem to be utterly impossible, and
TO the lazy, lounging laggard would really
be impossible. There are odd hours and
scraps of time in the daily life of all
young men, which, rightly husbanded and
applied, would accumulate fund of learn
ing and knowledge of which few have
any proper conception; but which set
apart to idleness, 10 lounging in the gro
Gerry or the saloon, will set them ahoat on
life's current like drift wood bound for the
destinies of the eternal future.
Watt, the father Of the present steam
engine, taught himself mechanics while
working at his trade of mathematical
instrument maker Stephenson taught
himself arithmetic and mathematics while
working as an engine man, during the
night shifts, and studied mechanics du-
ring his spare hours at home, and thus
by his industry raised himself to be the
companion of Princes. Elihu Burnett
taught himself forty different languages
while working at his trade Of a black
smith. In writing TO friend he says,
"Those who have been acquainted with
my character, from my youth up, will
give me credit when say that all have
accomplished, or ever hope to, has been,
and will be by that Flooding, perseyering
process of accretion which builds the ant
heap, particle by particle, thought by
thought, fact by fact; and if ever / was
actuated by ambition, its highest and