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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
The grand oration of the day
was delivered by Mr. Heman B. Ely. It was eloquent and instructive, and
filled with promise of the future, not only for the country and Nation at
large, but for our own particular portion of it. It was admired and praised
by all who heard it save one—an Irishman named O'Brien, who had partaken
more freely than necessary of the liquid refreshments; he was heard describ-
ing the occasion to a group of his friends who had failed to reach the spot in
time to see and hear for themselves. Said he: " There was Docther St.
Clair; he was prisident of the day, and he made a tolerably dacent spaach,
good enough for any other day, but not at all suitable to the Fourth of
July.
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