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

gigantic bouI1ers. II troops along
like hing Of life, yet pitilcss, creep.
ing in the ambush Of ito fog. Il
hears the bslls Of ships, and stabs
them as they pass. Sometimes II
stands uncovered in the sunlight,
grand aud magnificent, thrusting its
head up into the blue heavens. With
in its cayorns are bands of music, the
restless billows for musicians. Five
hundred feet above tho sea, Is its top
five thousand feet beneath the sea, il
scrapes its crystal keel. Mighty as
the iceberg Of our day is, it is only
chemists miniature experiment COM
pared with the graudcr bergs that
drifted over the world in the oldon
time, to puzzle, aud then add to the
mincrolosist's knowledge.
In tho following terms he depichd
whale:
What is a .whalc2 It Is scarcely a
ish, but living oil tank eighty feet
long and as big as meeting house.
Ithas no business in the sea not being
a fish and its proper place is at the
bottom Of derrick His jaws are Of
the size Of grocery store, while his
gullet is only two inches wide, or no
bigger than an Aldorman's. 0fcoursc
he fghts nothing ofhis size but prcys
upon helpless she'll fish an animal
cnlas. You can got the following
articles out of him: Que hundred bar.
rels of oil; from his bile so pounds of
ambcrgruse; Knock hole 10 his skull
and you can take out 81 barrels of
spermj his gums arc good to cat, and
in the roof OF his mouth are fifty
hoop skirts aud an umbrella shop.
laughter.
Ho oil. himself to Slip through the water. Hc
is like most mon In blowing aud Whom the female
whale wants TO speak she Jumps out ~ tho water.
The whale IL not only coward aud glutton, but q
oronture Of speculation. His cye isno bigger
than knott hole IN barn door. II nature had
built nrc Under his tail Adam would have seen
the first steam engine.
Tho lecturer then ran up tho coast OF Salvador,
entered HudSon's B1y, aud pictured Hudson dy.
ing Ia m opon boat, his soul "hsccndng from tho
fear of Nature to Tia" fear Of God" An interesting
sketch of the IudsOn BAY Company followed.
llapidly climbing tho Rocky Mountains Mt.
1owascnl iuiulgrd In a poctic glimpse OF the
future soft civilization Of tho Pacific, "the Italy Of
America" lie showed how gold had failod to
pupulalc hrt-h Col mics, and go passed to Alas.
ka, or Yankee Russia.
After skotching the life of bearing,
the lecturer said that the value of
this purchase will probably never be
considerable, but it shows how insen.
sible and mysteriously we are made
the Apostle Of dc,nocrucy, to the
farthercst regions of the world. We
have never purchased any people with
territory. One fourth of the United
States was bought from Mexico, but
where are the Spaniards? We bought
the Mississippi valley from France,
but ofwhat political consequence arc
tho French? Tho United States are
not Institutions conquoring people,
but institutions inviting people.
He said Russian sablcs will make
moro bother than the sable African
when the wives and daughters fully
comprehend the situation.
The lecturer then ske,ched lndicrously the
admission of kaska. The minds eye, said
he, can see the first Congressman seated il
the heated capital, his feet in bucket o.
ice water, and cold coblers by his side, as b,
rises all dripping with swett, to present
petition from the North Pole, that blubhcl
he exempt from taxation. tlaughtcr) TIL,
opposite political party will sternly object
upon the Rround that his theology swrong
Amer paying glowing tribute to III,
memory OF SIR John Franklin, anil tn,
devotion Of his wife, he concluded his leetur,
by reciting poem descriptive ot lhis
''Sweet heart, sweetheart, Tam searhinl
rI for the Polc.n M ..r.. lt..