Show DURING VICTORIAS REIGN when victoria ascended the throne she governed people nowadays she governs her empire extends over square mil mi or 2 per cent of the land of the globe when she was crowned the united unite d states state had only people and now its census reports I 1 when she was a girl the city of melbourne in australia consisted of a church an inn three shops twenty I 1 I 1 huts and a kangaroo meat market tt it is now alias largest city w I 1 th inhabitants I 1 she has seen one third of africa rescued from the natives and brought under the influence of civili civilization on and great cities built where once bags 9 forests stood when she was crowned chicago was a village of like many a small town now dotting our western prairies there were no telephones in her young days das immigrants granis came to america in sailing vessels and had to provide their own food there was not flot a foot of submarine cable in existence ece the spectroscope has been invented during her reign and it has enabled scientists to discover twenty four of uie the seventy known elements thirteen crimes were punishable bable by bv death when victoria ascended the throne today there are but two treason and murder when she was young there here was no telegraph no running water in houses no street lighting was practically I 1 ignored and nine out of every ten I 1 workingmen were professed infidels there was no gas no photography I 1 I 1 victoria has been contemporary to i seventeen united states presidents tF twenty eight kings six emperors four czars azars three queens thirteen presidents ten princes five sultans and many rulers of petty states in europe and asia I 1 she has over seventy descend ants and sixty of these are alive |