The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1879-07-05
A vERAcIoUs SCRIBE.
Amusing Blunders of an Englishman in
Regard to America.
m the Ne,o York Erening Post.

From the Neo York Erening Post
The June number of the 81. James Magazine, a
London publication, contains article on the
United States, in which the writer weighs this
country in the following original style although
there is much in America for any one to initiate
and admire, there are others that we cannot con-
gratulate them upon at ALL" philadelphia" he
says, sis busy commercial port, second in impor-
tance to the state of New York" "There is
sameness about it, a large extent of ground being
under marsh" This city seems religious
than New York" ''That the writer did not visit
Boston may besurmised from the following hatter-
ing generalization "a stranger can find his way
far easier in American city than at home. The
streets all run way and the avenues cross the
streets, and they are for the most part straight"
Baltimore" he remarks sis thriving town with
several very handsome buildings"
"At Washington" author goes on to say,
~ saw the White House, the official residence of
the President of America. The house is a low
twostored one, white in color, situated in the
ter of a small farm close to the town. President
Evart, the present occupant, has sat for nearly
eight years in the Presidents chair and during his
heightened term of office has been the means Of
doing much for the welfare and prosperity Of the
United States"
Concerning New York we are told that it is "a
pretty but not a clean town." ga half mile from
the Castle Gardens you come to the telegraph
Office" "The city hall is very ehaste and COM
plete building. 1 saw some really fine private
carriages, with handsome, high-spirited horses,
driven by a colored man, which to my idea set of
to advantage the whole turnout" Bribery and
corruption prevail everywhere" "0ne Tweek
commonly called Bos Tweed, who was once mayor
of New York, during his term ofofhce appropria-
ted some six millions of dollars of republic funds"
"He lodged in Jail, but escaped recently, and
has not been seen or heard from since" "The eli
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the ground covered with snow in the middle of
April"
THE HUNMING BRn.-One of the most remark
able feats performed by birds of passage is in
stanced by the tiny ruby-thrOated humming bird
of North America. This beautiful little creature
finds its way annually from Mexico, and even
South America to the United States, Canada and
Newfoundland, returning to its winter home in
autumn. This long journey is not perfO rmed in
focks, but singly, over no less than twenty de-
grees of latitude over immense forest tracts, wide
prairies, high mountains, and broad rivers. One
wonders why this Of many species of hummiHs,
birds, should form of very few exceptions, and
abandon the eternal summers of the South, to run
the risks of two hazardous journeys for a short
sojourn in lands where it has barely time to rear
its offspring before the cold of autumn compels
retrograde movement. We can suppose that the
united intelligenees of flock of swallows are more
likely to assure safer passage than the skill of
single,indivdual nevertheless this tiny creature
pursaes its course year by year for thousands Of
miles, and with great regularity as to the seasons
of arrival and departure, performing the double
Journey and rearing its offspring within four
months. How the little bird manages to subsist
during its spring migration, especially in Canada,
seems wonder, for scarcely a flower excepting
me May flower, the trillium, and few other YER
nal plants are in bloom. Often in the center of
." me vast Canadian forest, the housewife no soon
places her geranium, that has been indoors
roughOut the long rigorous winter, in order for
to catch the first warm sunshine of May, than
lzzing noise announces the advent of the ruby
.roat.-Hayper's Weekly.