Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.