Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-13

MOrphOgraPhics.
LINCOLN Sent. LIST. is

LINCOLN, Sept. lst 1873.
On the 18th day of May, 1906, Lewis
and Clarke, heading the first party of
whites who ever crossed the continent in
our latitude, held a council with the
Chopunnish Indians, far mp the Column
bia river. Half the day passed before
they could convey much information,
for, said they, '.in the first place, we
spoke in English to one of our men,
who translated it into French to Cha
boneau, he interpreted it to his wife in
Minnetaree, and she put it into Shosho-
nee. and Shoshonee prisoner explained
it to the Chopunnish in their own dia-
lect.''
At length, however, the..pale' faces, be-
thought themselves of the universal
language, and drew map of America
showing the situation of its parts and
places on a mat with piece OF coal.
TIE difficulty of communication was
half gone, and the vivldness of impress
sion doubled.
The age of pictures completes what
the age Of printing began. 1t rises upon
it /" like another morn risen on midi
noon." The Harpers alone, have pro-
duced more pictures than all the presses
in the world had yielded before their
time. In our most yoluminous diction-
aries the illustrations outnumbered the
pages. In Honolulu met with an edi-
tor who, during our rebellion had four
folded his circulation by glorifying each
of his issues with one or two block prints
which he bought of the Harpers for a
trifie.
| On solitary ride throughout the jun
| gle and lava up the volcano of Kilauca
[ came to Kanaka "grass house," ten
miles from all other dwellings. The
owner hearing my horses hoOfs, stood
at the entrance, dressed only in mar
rover girdle than Father Adam ever
wore, and beckoned me in. 1 had some
little fear of cannibalism, yet accepted
| the invitation. AS soon as L entered the
savage pointed admiringly to London
paper with full page illustration tackled
ON the inside of his door.
On an Oriental tour from Dan to Beer
sheba, l daily maryeled at one of my
1 Yankee fore-runners, who, though
doubtless ignoraht of all languages but
two, namely, English and prOfane, had
left ON every ruin san epistle known and
read of all men," How could that be
He had carried, in his pocket stencil
plate, showing a locomotive bearing q
flag with stripes and stars, and by thai
bit of copper and a little red paint haG
made his meaning intelligible to all ma
tionalities.
But photography rivals the pictoria
fertility of the press. 1t may well bt
doubted which of these sisters will prov,
the most prolific. OF the one hundred
and one pilgrim fathers of New Eng
land, who landed at Plymouth, no singl,
one has left us his portrait, while w,
have those of every individual Of thei
descendants who composed the congre
gational council which was lately photo
graphed mt the rock of landing-th
Yankee Blarney stone.
AS to this matter also, the Catholic
more than a match for the Puritan. I'll
: tells us that before Raphael painted, b
, who would behold the Madonna mus
go to Heayen-that after Raphael's time
one could see her by going to Rome an
that now. thanks to photography. YER
few dimes enable all who will, to set u
: as their household god, not unworth
, presentment of "our tainted nature
only boast" No wonder then a poe
sings:
G 'sBe mine TO pl aise that rare mechanic skill,
= Which stamps repeats and multiplies at will
And cheaply propagates to distant climes,
= The fairest products of the noblest times. -
q The Burlington and Missouri RIVE
Railroad Company are in nothing bt
= hind the age; in matters pictorial the
are before it. They have obtained view
n of all that chiefly interests travele
f who surveys the Missouri slope. both
. Iowa and Nebraska-the valleys of tn
. Platte and the three Blues,--villages lik
Red Oak, Ashland and Crete, cities lih
: Plattsmouth and Lincoln, with chara'
i teristic specimens of the agricultur;
i country through the South Platte r,
gion, rolling praries, bottom land an
timber-skirted streams, where thrt
n thousand buyers of railroad land, an
+ more than ten thousand times as man
it homesteaders and pre-emptors have lat,
- ly found, and founded new home
Some of these views illustrate, that I
u bring into lustre the letter-press of I'll
o B & NJ. railroad land circulars, Z" 81
d hundred thousand more'' of which ha,
lust been issued from Burlington an
Lincoln.
a From thus showing his land, Ian
&c Commissioner G. s. Harris, will fin
d letters from land hunters so multipl,
), ing that he will need more clerks tina
. ever in his offices in each of those citie
l. ''rhe eve affecteth the heart"
= j. ID. BUTLER.