As wuz befittin', most the first thing that our eyes fell on wuz a big, noble statute of Benjamin Franklin. He stands with his kite in his hand, a-lookin' up with a rapt look as if waitin' for instructions from on high. He seemed to be guardin' the entrance to this temple, and he looked as if he wuz glad to be there, and I truly wuz glad to have him there. For he ort to be put side by side with Christopher Columbus. Both sailed out on the onknown, both discovered a new world. Columbuses world we have got the lay on now considerable, and we have mapped it out and counted the inhabitants. But who--who shall map out this vast realm that Benjamin F. discovered? We stand jest by the sea-shore. We have jest landed from our boats. The onbroken forest lays before us, and beyend is deep valleys, and high, sun-kissed mountains, and rushin' rivers. A few trees have been felled by Morse, Edison, Field and others, so that we can git glimpses into the forest depths, but not enough to even give us a glimpse of the mountains or the seas. The realm as a whole is onexplored; nobody knows or can dream of the grandeur and glory that awaits the advance guard that shall march in and take the country. This beautiful house built in its honor is 690 feet long and 345 feet wide. The main entrance, which is in the south side, has a magnificently decorated open vestibule covered by a half dome, capable of the most brilliant illumination. Indeed, you can judge whether this buildin' has advantages for bein' lit up, when I tell you that it has 20,000 incandescent and 3000 ark lights. I hearn a bystander a-tellin' this, and sez Josiah, "I can't imagine what a ark light is--Noah couldn't had a light so bright as that is. But," he sez, "mebby the light shines out as big as the ark did over the big water." And I spoze mebby that is it. Why, they say the big light on top of the buildin'--the biggest in the world--why, they do say that that throws such a big light way off--way off over Lake Michigan, that the very white fishes think it is mornin', and git up and go to doin' up their mornin's work. There wuz everything in the buildin' that has been hearn on up to the present time in connection with electricity--everything that we know about, that that Magician uses to show off his magic powers, from a search-light of 60,000 candle power down to a engine and dynamo combined, that can be packed in a box no bigger than a pea. Josiah looked at the immense display with a wise eye, and pretended to understand all about it, and he even went to explainin' it to me. But I sez, "You needn't tire yourself, Josiah Allen; I should know jest as much after you got through as I do now.