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million that editors are fashioned out of cast-iron, and that they can 

 engender articles from the primary day of January to the final ditto 

 of December without experiencing lassitude or performing the mus- 

 cular action of a yawn. IsTever was there a more monstrous fallacy. 

 Solomon at least can speak for himself, that he is subject to all the 

 weaknesses of our common humanity, and desiderates an occasional 

 modicum of repose quite as much as the balance of Adam's multi- 

 tudinous family." Again : '' The rival settlements of Hamilton and 

 Toronto being witnesses, Streetsville is progressing at railroad speed. 

 Like the fabled bearer of the mythical Jack, a sharp-eyed observer 

 can twig the perpetual motion of its growth. Our grist and saw- 

 mills are too numerous to be recapitulated without drawing sundry 

 breaths ; our stores emulate the dollar-coining emporiums of King 

 Street (Toronto) ; and before long, the magic wand of an act of 

 incorporation will call into being crops of civic fathers, wise as Solon, 

 and inflexible as Brutus senior. In these circumstances, we are 

 patriotically desirous that our beloved sucking city should put her 

 best foot foremost, and exhibit to an admiring universe smooth-kempt 

 hair and a shining well- washed face. Now, nothing would tend so 

 much to improve the frontispiece of Streetsville as a sprinkling of 

 trees judiciously emplanted before her churches, marts and villas. 

 Stern truth compels us to admit that the village does not possess an 

 overly inviting appeai-ance to the stranger who, whirled past in the 

 accommodating machine of Squire Harris, snatches a passing glance 

 at her charms. Tardily doth the plasterer and bricklayer repair the 

 dilapidations which accident or senility makes in her dwellings ; 

 and too frequently doth the stocking or superannuated Kilmarnock 

 night-cowl usurp the place of plate or crown glass in the windows of 

 her sons. If all these flaws were redressed, most assuredly we 

 would rise in the scale of cityhood so far as appearance went. But 

 chiefly and above all would the arborical immigration which we 

 advocate heighten the witcheries of our far-famed clachan. Let the 

 sceptic on this head pay a visit to the neighbouring republic, and he 

 will frankly admit that we have got the legitimate sow by the ear." 

 Kossuth's avoidance of the British side of the Lakes in 1852 is 

 thus spoken of : " We esteem it as a high compliment that Kossuth 

 has not visited Canada. We thank him for the tacit admission that 

 the spurious metal which so tickled the vulgar taste of our republican 

 neighbours would be altogether thrown away upon the denizens of 



