The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-11-21
The Lsoture Tuesday Evening

Reported for the TRinvNrl
Our space forbids an extended re-
port, and therefore can give only n
brief abstract. Tho lecturer began
by saying that he camo down 10 his
audience on snow shoes from cold
aud bleakness. Now said the lectur.
er lot mo diroot you to country
through whose monumental past no
generation worthy of II, walks coura.
geously to-day. This WAS oxplaiDed
to bc British america. M ul
In order to soc the country, Mr..
Townsend permitted tho audience to
climb to the lolticst place in the
world, the saddle of an "cspccial cor.
respondent who was always on a
"high horse" Humcrously sketch
ing this species of Pegasus, he made
a rapid ride down tho ST. Lawrence
river to the sea. The FIVE great lakos
were compared to the 6vo pioneers OF
French America, jacques Castier,
Champlain, Marquette, La Sallc, aud
Frontcnac. The dominion of Cana.
da was olricatured as can infant
charity school, where the young
Knuok was to be taught to walk, to
talk, and TO cipher, Quebec was
vividly depicted with all its stirring
rccollcctions, aud also the Laguenay
river, tho ruins Of Louisbourg, the
Fishing Banks, Halifax, the land of
Evangclino, LoDgfellow's heroine,
aud tho bleak Newfoundland, with
the Telegraph Correspondent on its
EXTREMIST capo. h.-
The following was his sketch of
the Fishing Banks; .r,.....i
"Six hundred by two thousand
miles, il is as large as the State of
Pennsylvania, aud moro valuable than
any gold mine in the world. In two
hundred aud sixty years six hundred
millions OF cod fish have been cured
and sold in Newfoundland alone.
Forty thousand men. with eight thou
sand vessels FISH every year upon
these Newfoundland bauks. I have
often seen little smacks dim in the
feg, looking like tho bare poles Of
shipwreok, subject TO being run down
by steamers, sweeping out to sea, or
sunk by storms. And here. fishing,
are the whole European race--tho
Dane, the Portuguese, French, I'al.
iAns, English, Spaniords, aud Yam
KEGS, aud still the Goldfish, the her.
ring, and the mackerel swarm tri-
umphautIy to tho confusion Of Anal.
thus aud the joy of tho boarding
house keepers, But for these i'm.
menso reservoirs Of fish, what hollow
stomachs would wo have on Lieut.
and Fridays. Bencfic0nt, inexhaus.
table supply 1t is upon the New.
l0undland banks that the original
Goldfish aristocracy dwelt. Speaking
of the acquired fortunes, he said it
was Goldfish aud codliver oil that ae.
oomplisbod wonderful results.
Tho benchcont Cod fish supplies
the young ladies' with Steinway ri.
amos, gives her dowry anil a hus.
baud, gives her, in short, all the hrxu.
ries from waterfall aud chiguou, to
high. heelod shoes, aud yet the old
follow smells so bad that he can't
como 10 the table They will no more
eat cod ia Newfoundland, than viii
Pennsylvania collier cat coal
He described an Iceberg thus;
But now we see by tho p0lsine
Northern Lights, the giant Icebergs
cloaaed in fog, sauntoring like prodi-
gals toward the sun, wasting thoiI
substance -wonsling their golden ca
reer, aud staggering as with wine
A skirmisher OF the Pole ghost
from Thule--a phantow ship, firing
guns OF distress fading colsampt-
i've, most shining and beautiful when
nearest tho grave. II is, more prac
tically, a wsndering cape--a banishod
promontory--thc broken hcadland O
some solid glacier, twisted from il -
vast weights Of snow, baIlastcd Will