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Show r - 1ACKWARD AN"D FORWARD. I The Chicago Tribune has a column wherein presented the important happenings of one indred, seventy-five, etc., years, down to ten an-iversaries an-iversaries of the day. On the 27th of last bnth, the events noted as happening thirty years Rfore were the graduating exercises of Chicago's 10 high school and that huge wagonloads of jffalo hides were drawn through the down-town reets of Chicago for shipment to the east and i Europe. Both items read like ancient history, hicago has more than one high school now and 13 buffalo has practically passed away. On the 28th, an item of the seventy-fifth an-I'orsary an-I'orsary read that during the past six months rty-three persons were said to have reached nclnnati by boat, there having been no railroads the time. Think of that! Still it was twenty ars before San Francisco began to show signs life, and between the Mississippi and the west ast there was but a wilderness. Seventy-five ars is but the life of a man. What will another venty-five years show? Will there be three hun-ed hun-ed millions of people in the Union, and will ey all be making a rush for more money, as ey are rushing now? Will air ships reduce the 1 mo from New York to San Francisco to twenty-j twenty-j ght hours? What sort of hotels will be required J ion? What new extravagances will be in order? piat next to gold will be the popular worship? fill the United States be importing bread and leat by that time? What will the outside world ant that the United States will be producing en? Will the conflict between the money ;usts and the labor trusts be settled by that j me? Will Salt Lake City have a stubborn ight in its council as now? Will the government i framed by the fathers still remain securo cainst the accidents of the years and the muta-pns muta-pns of time, and its flag with a hundred stars Jimain "full high advanced," and panoplied with jgw glory? It will be worth while coming back tm see, will it not? |