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Show AN ENGLISHMAN ON THE UNITED STATES, Mr. Yin. 'cut, I lit; f,miUH Knglish li'clurer, in e, in-hnling a mitlch of udiln'.Hi'H in S.ui Knim-ihtv, dclivcml bis vii'W.i in regard to the Unilnl Siatt'H. Wo tn It n tlui following extract from Iho Attn: Thu lenin re r said hu could not make hit, friends in tint old country understand that New York cily wart not New York; that tbe latter was u Btatp, nearly as largo us Kngland, Scotland and Wales combined; tbal Ihoro were thirty-six of llirno stales, ofusHorteil size, with territories an large, a New York and tho United Kingdom. Indeed, they would not believe it. "Como, come, Henry, that .won't do," they would nay, "wo can believe yon sometimes I" AN AMKKirAN "lNril'1 1'UTIoN. " ' Tho lecturer said ho soon discovered that every American could make a Hpeneh. Ho could go oil full cock with fivo minutes preparation mi almost any topic under the son, and lreiuonl!y with no preparation ut all. Mr. Vincont's picturo of Niagara Fulls wan lino and brilliant. I le paid a noble tribute to the Now Jersey peaches, and tho Inula, mechanism and veg.'taliltH of Ui.il nUle He vinited Jersey before h" he;ird of California, whcruilit! asparagus grows a yard long. In Philadelphia ho was struck with the Quaker-like predion of everything, coupled with brain-garden brain-garden which supplied fairy names of the very streoU Chestnut, Peach, Quince, Pino, Sprtico all savoring of flora and of fruits. On his first visit, Mr. Vincont was struck with Iho practically inexhaustible mines of iron, coal and stone in Pennsylvania. 1 lion t no inventions, uh exniniied in tho patent museum of Washington. Washing-ton. Kvery American has a patent in his uoL'kel foraometliing. tioing westward, and on the Rocky mountains (during his later journeys), tho lecturer was struck with the commanding influence of the great states aotilh of tho lakes and the valhy of tho Mississippi. The great need of many portions of the country U irrigation, and ho wart glad that attention was being directed to the great coniDrchesive water schemes of British India. |