Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-31
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CITY VARIETIES.

Bay'd TayIOr's Lecture-Infants-Fr Frank
lin Fesfiva1-Hoe's Power Press-Ne-
Eress Car Case -Business-ApoIOgy, Sc.
CINCINNATI, O.. Jan. "a, 1860.
Editors Of Telegraph: Since writing
my last letter for your excellent paper,
[ have had the exquisite pleasure of
hearing the Poet Traveller lecture at
';Smith & Nixon's Hall, on the Care
tic Regions This world-renownedlec-
turer and Traveller was escorted ON the
stage.by a1master Of ceremoniies; and IN IN
troduced to large and intelligent audi
ence, who greeted the speaker with ii
round of applause, when he commenced
his lecture by saying TIT eight years
ago he stood pom the banks of the Nile,
among palm trees, whose lofty tops
waved their graceful heads as if to in
vite the weary traveller under their cool
ing branches. ...
After giving vivid description of the
Torrids, which thrilled the vast audi
ence with delight, the Speaker, with un-
SURPRISING beauty, contrasted the spicy
breezes Of Africa with the icy blasts of
Sweden and Lapland, where the inten-
sity of the cold was SO great in winter
that it penetrated to the bones through
two suits Of fur clothing, and SO thick
that itcould be seen. In these ice-bound
regions, he said, the inhabitants were
genial in their intercourse with each
other, and hospitable to strangers. He
said that the reindeer, the Laplander' s
main dependence, are almost as intract-
able and unfriendly as the hyena For
instance, the speaker said, when he
trailed in latitude seventy north, with
that animal, fifteen miles an hour, over
snow and ice, on a trough shaped sled,
with line fastened to the base of its
horns, and the other end around his
wrist, the deer would frequently upset
the driver in huge bank of snow, and
instantly wheel about and stare him in
the face, as much as to say, "what are
you going to do about it?'' a.-.
Bayard Taylor spoke without notes,
and was easy, graceful, conversational.
He treats his subject so that it can be
comprehended by the least apt Of hear
ers; yet his lecture was gilded by the
sunny CLEAN OF poetry. Nature has be-
slowed upon him the natural advantages
of a graceful person and an intelligent
and prepossessing countenance. He has
acquired that easy elegance of deport-
ment which travel and intercourse with
the various nationalities of the world
can alone furnish. His lecture teemed
with the gorgeous imagery of lively
fancy-a warm and glowing vein Of the
richest poetry ran through it, and was
embellished with the finest touches of
humor His unequalled descriptive tai
ent painteda a landscape upon the mental
vision of his audience, and his genial
disposition found an echoing chordin the
hearts of the people. His varied and
universal travelling in the world may be
summed up by saying that he has seen
but two sorts people-men and women.
Scores of infants are murdered here,
by the. absurd and criminal practice of
sweating them in. hot-bcds nightly, and
then erposiag their naked arms and nechs,
through the day, to heat and cold.
/! Leaving a part of the human plant
nahed, is like building high, strong
fence around a flower garden and then
leaving the gate open. Children should
be uniformly clothed and their tender
arms; legs and necks we'll covered with
flannel in winter, and never left naked
When the arms are naked they become
conductors, which convey cold to their
lungs, and the result is inflammation: Il
those tender organs. or quick consump-