. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . sposedere was sich a dog. Werry well, spose away dere was a dog with his head inNew York and his tail in , when 1 tread on dat dogs tail inPennsylvania,he would bark-v>.:.\ in New York, would nt he? I )at *s de lectrictelegraph. When gas waslirst introduced,an old lady inE d i n b u r g lit lire w up herhands, exclaim-ing, Ah, me,what is to be-came of the puirwhales? Scarcely any important invention has started at once into being, and it iscurious to trace their progress from the inception to the fin
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . sposedere was sich a dog. Werry well, spose away dere was a dog with his head inNew York and his tail in , when 1 tread on dat dogs tail inPennsylvania,he would bark-v>.:.\ in New York, would nt he? I )at *s de lectrictelegraph. When gas waslirst introduced,an old lady inE d i n b u r g lit lire w up herhands, exclaim-ing, Ah, me,what is to be-came of the puirwhales? Scarcely any important invention has started at once into being, and it iscurious to trace their progress from the inception to the finalgrand practical result. Dr. Johnson saw a lamplighter inBolt Court, trying unsuccessfully to light a lamp, until therewas a Mack vapor on the wick. Ah, said the DOne of these days we shall see London lighted by hundred and fifty years before gas was used, Dr. Claytondistilled coal in a retort, but could not condense the pis thusobtained. He amused his friends by burning gas, as it is-sued through holes pricked with a pin in a bladder in which. EXPLAINING DE LECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PUFFED UP WITH PRIDE. 389 he had confined it. The history of steam invention is famil-iar to all. Jonathan Hulls did actually make a model of asteamboat in 1736; it failed, and the boys sung this doggerelin the streets where he lived: — • Jonathan Hulls,With his paper sculls,Invented a machineTo go against stream,But he, being an ass,Could not bring it to pass,And so was ashamed to be seen. Yes, there is much to excite our wonder in the giantstrides of progress in the last fifty years, and there is a clearcall to a real festival of hope, gladness, and rejoicing in thepresent light. But what should be our attitude in thissteadily growing radiance? If we stand now in the flushand gold and hope of the morning, instead of the shiftinglight and shadow of the night, is it not the wisest courseto take frequent observations, look close to our reckonings,while we are going so fast, and see just where
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