ophize that genial victim as follows:

"Take, I give it willingly,
For invisibly to thee,
Spirits, Twain, have crossed with me."

Then I presume we shall go and "see a man."

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. The man who discovered America two points off the
port-bow. One day, in his garden, he observed an apple falling from its
tree, whereupon a conviction flashed suddenly through his mind that the
earth was round. By breaking the bottom of an egg and making it stand on
end at the dinner-table, he demonstrated that he could sail due west and
in course of time arrive at another hemisphere. He started a line of
emigrant packets from Palos, Spain, and landed at Philadelphia, where he
walked up Market street with a loaf of bread under each arm. The
simple-hearted natives took him out to see their new Park. On his second
voyage Columbus was barbarously murdered at the Sandwich Islands, or
rather he would have been but for the intervention of Pocahontas, a
lovely maiden romantically fond of distressed travelers. After this
little incident he went West, where his intrepidity and masterly
financial talent displayed itself in the success with which he acquired
land and tobacco without paying for them. As the savages had no railroad
of which they could make him president, they ostracized him--sent him to
the island of St. Helena. But the spirit of discovery refused to be
quenched, and the next year we find him landing at Plymouth Rock in a
blinding snow-storm. It was here that he shot an apple from his son's
head. To this universal genius are we indebted also for the exploration
of the sources of the Nile, and for an unintelligible but
correspondingly valuable scientific report of a visit to the valley of
the Yellowstone. He took no side in our late unhappy war; but during the
Revolution he penetrated with a handful of the _garde mobile_ into the
mountain-fastnesses of Minnesota, where he won that splendid series of
victories which, beginning with Guilford Court-house, terminated in the
glorious storming of Chapultepec. Ferdinand and Isabella rewarded him
with chains. Genoa, his native city, gave him a statue, and Boston has
named in his honor one of her proudest avenues. One day he rushed naked
from the bath, exclaiming, "Eureka!" and the presumption is that he was
right. He afterward explained himself by saying that he cared not who
made the laws of a people, so long as he furnished their ballots.
Columbus was cruelly put t