The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-11-22
Look about You.

People go through the world in
/ different ways. Some with their
eyes shut-not absolutely, but
! tigurativcly. The lid is raised, a
picture is formed on the retina, bnt
/ the inner sense is closed What
! they see makes no impression. They
never look about them A ulan,
/ for instance, returning from 4 nip
/ to Chicago or San Francisco, will
tell YOU about the hotel where he
had the best dinner, and the rail
road that took him quickest over
7 the ground and the store where he
made his cheapest purchase, and
The rascal who cheated him out OF a
/ FIVE dollar bill II he has been to
Eu ope, the Alps with their snow
capped SUBMITS, and the green val
ieys whore the ripping brooks made
perpetual music, and the Rhine, on
which the gray old castles tlown,
and the battle-ticlds where the
destiny OF nations was terminated, g,
and the gorgeous palaces in whose
hat,s knights and warriors and kings
!revelled, and the stately cathcdrals
/ full OF solemn memories, and tie
galleries and musevmS radiant Eith
, beauty and crowdcd with all the
treasures Of art, and the glorious
mornings and the crimson sun sets,
and the mighty storms that diYcrsi-
fed the way,-all this appears TO
hnve had about the same impress
sion on his mind that it would upon
I the brain OF an OK.
Il one can tell how much the
world is indebted to those who look
well about them.
/ Thousands Of persons have seen
the old lamp SWING in the cathedral
OF Pisa, and nothing came OF it !;
( but when Calico, who was always
looking about him, watched its re-
gular oscillations, the thought ot
pendulum came to him, with all
The scientific results which it IN
wolves. Montgolfier sees the smoke
using from a chimney, and the
thought comes to him that, by con
fining the heated ar in a bag OF
paper OF cloth, he might be able to
lift weight into the air, ana aerial
navigation is the result. Ey watch
ing the habits of insects, birds,
fishes, and other living creatures,
many a valuable lesson has been
learned. The beaver has taught us
how to build dams in the tail of
the fish we find the propeller ; the
mole made the fist tunnel the
hornet was paper bag-maker long
before man went into The trade ; the
birds knew how 10 sGW, and weave,
and cement, and glue and plaster
before the human race had any tools
to wOrk with. For the fruits and
vegetables and cereals which load
our tables, and for the rich flowers
that adorn them, we are indebted to
men who looked about them, TO see
what was growing wild in the field
and the forest, and the wit 10 trans
plant the crude apple and the bitter
esculent TO a richer and meIlower
soil.
Many persons will wander all day
in the woods and bring home
nothing, because they have seen
nothing worth bringing nome,
while others return with their arms
full of the most exquisite wild
flowers, and swcet-seenled shrubs
and delicate ferns and scarlet ber-
ries. Pebbles, and rocks, and
earths may be very dull and sterile
things to most of us, but not to the
skilled and keen-sighted geologist.
His eyes are open, aud he reads the
records of the worlds earliest days
in these lodges OF sands and clays !;
he strikes with his hammer the
round, rough pebble, and reveals a
lillle world of beauty hidden there
with his magic key hc mIochs the.