The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-01-09
Emformation.
Extinct Animals.


reading matter has cen occupied by your CORES.
pondent from Earlviile. -s3
While he confines himself TO local news. he
aids in making your paper interesting but when
he enters upon the domain of science he is GER
tainly "grand, gloomy and peculiar"
One thing is certain, hewever: the ingenuity
of your Earlville correspondent challenges the
admiration ef all mankind.
We know that some people have an inordinate
desire to see themselves in print; but we COMES
that we have never before heard of any person
who resorted to the highly ingenious plan OF
putting himself by addressing letter to hilrselr
over pseudonym, aud then answering himself
at length. We have heard of persons trying I"
lift themselves by pulling at their boot straps,
but you Earlville correspondent most certainly
kes thu cad in all philosophical experiments OF
kind
our lille correspondents long letter in
-er to his own short letter, which short let
Try plainly recognizes your correspondents
"well known reputation as a naturalist" way
down in the Fate OF Maine,) published in the ls.!
Issue of your paper in unique, and certainly b.
longs to class of letters which are destined ne'-
er to become extinct so long as class OF lsnS
cared animals shall continue to regale the earth
with their existence and music.
1t is evident that the genius Of your Earl,ils
correspondent lis of very high order, frsm ths
fact that he wholly disregards many Of the rules
Of syntax. Genius is always untramelled. 1t
will not be banked or turned frem its burning
course by such trivial things as rules Of syntsr.
They are left to the common herd of mankind
"the people"-"Me dear people, who have 90.
"face' which "fact" your Earlville correspondent
is going to set like flint against the "Boston
quacks and Ottawa quacks." We are not very
certain what quacks he means, whether qunck.
in medicine, quacks in the legal profession, or
scientifcal qL-cks or the quacking of dvcl-.
We suppose that, among the Boston quacks, your
Earlville correspondent includes Professor Ags,-
siz. 1t is of course impossible that there should
be any quacks in the legal profession in Earl
Vile
Nevertheless wa have no doubt that if your
Earlville correspondent be left to himself and oil
impediments to the expansion of his genius b.
carefully removed he will in a short time rec Noe
quacking to a Science.
We do not propose to undertake to answer o,
notice the assertions of your Earlville corrsspou
dent for tho wise man says, ANSWER not TOOL
according to his folly lest thou alss be like uu-
to him." "Answer not fool according to. III.
FOLLY, lest he be wise in his own eonceit"
The wise man, like your Earlville correspoD j
snt, once published book, but it is very doubt
full whether the wise mans book ever "had quit,
a circulation" down in the state Of Maine.
But for the purpose Of showing how becoming
ly egotism FITS upon you Earlville correspondent
we will here make u couple OF quotations from
his letter:
"And especially in reply to the article in tn.
FREE TRADER, already alluded to, will O.,
with becoming egctism, and in the language u
a favorite poet OF mine,
The humble records of my life to search,
have not herdsd with pagan beasts;
But sometimes I have sat at good mems feast
whether they had "seen and read very little, o.
have not brains enough to appreciate what hs.
rsad.'
Letting alsne the esotism, no one car fail q
notice the remarkable clearness Of this ssntepc %
Now we are not scientific enough to ear
whether mammoth, behemoth and elephant az
III rent names for the same animal or rot
but we cannot help making the following quot,
ton from his letter:
"BuffoR says the Mammoth or Bshemoth il u,
other than the Elephant; and Button with me il
qsits good enough authority whom he and CO,
perfectly agree"
We sincerely hope your Earlvills correspond
ent will be fortunate enough to perfectly agree
with Mr.. Button. We are conservative, and q.
not want your Ear. lie correspondent to destroy
the landmarks around the hill Of science enc
make the "Mrlns' r.climb that most difacul
hill.
But the beauty and sublimity Of your EarlviI
corr 'pondent's lsttar seems to be crowded ast
c. nsed ir che closing paragraph which tx I,
VS..
am not railing against science or tho res
ientii,o, ou, am isesrin. W set the face Of tn
sople-Me dear people--like flint against th
'oston quac'Ss and Ottawa quacks; and to fix th
lttention of the inquirer after scientific truth
toward Earyille for the dawning Of that mon
ing, i'll the light of whose midday the heaven
and the earth. and all that is in them, shall b.
made plain and fully comprehended and apprs
oiated. The earnest scientific scholar stan6
nearest the morning and his duty shall be to her
aid the blessed coming Of this glorious day c..
logical and geological names are mostly derive,
by us from the Greek but knowing the difie /
ty with the Greek, as printed in our smalle
towns IN the original. the use of Greek word
or phrases, in this letter has heen ,,ur,oooI.