The Baltimore and Ohio exhibit shows how the railroads of the world have
been thought out gradual, and come up from nothin' to what they
are--grew up from a little steam carriage that wuz shut up in Paris in
1760 as bein' disordely.

"Disordely!" Good land! there never wuz a new idee worth anything in
this world but has been called "disordely" by fools.

You can see that very little carriage here at the Fair; after bein' shut
up for two hundred years, it comes out triumphant, just as Columbus has.

Stevensonses first engine is here--an exact reproduction--and the hull
caboodle of the first attempts leadin' up to the engines of to-day.

Dretful interestin' to look at these rough little inventions and to
speculate on what prophetic strivin's, and yearnin's, and heartaches,
and despairs, and triumphs went into every one on 'em.

For every one on 'em wuz follered, as a man is by his black shadder, by
the cold, evil spirits of unbelief, malice, envy, and cheatin'.

The sun the inventors walked under--the glowin' sun of prophecy and
foreknowledge--always casts such shadders, some as our sun duz, only
blacker.

And every one of them old engines by the help of machinery is moved and
turned, just as if Old Time himself had laid his hour-glass offen his
head, and wuz a-puttin' his old shoulders under their iron shafts, and
a-settin' them to goin' agin, after so long a time.