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Show j SIXTEEN TAJt AGO. I He. The first piece,, bT'WsmjWcf it was the nowitiatiortQr Juries ,61k to? President, rbadb;at J?au!?5J0 n?A a'T ' nounccd In Wadii'ngtb,'two hours in ad: vftnee of thcvlriaii-!' ' , Sfp onVof tliaiW, "probably not, even the-Professor blmsclCdreamed how closely close-ly the electric wirc.buld- bo luterwoVCu vvith' our ildiiy life. Tow, rdilroan trains t arc run byilectricity. Tliieves arc LHiight , by electricity. liost children arc foitnd , by' elcctricltyr ;Flrc ifclls ao rung by 1 electricity. ATmies. march and fleets sail 1 atits bidding. Treaties are negotiated at - its word. 'J.Vo friends-lit xcmbte towns, 5 by its fielp, sit down! Wd have araratly game of chcssf Two EmpcrDrs, a thou-i- sand miles apart, by its help, carry on the siege of a distant city. - By night it "flics all over the world, gathering news to serrc.np to us at break-: fast. By day it flies all over the world, hero, congratulating n bride, there ordering order-ing a funeral; here warning of disaster, there summoning aid to a wreck; here bnyiug pork by tho hundred barrels, there-selling there-selling grain by the thousand bushels, arranging ar-ranging for feasts and fights, for sermons and stock bargains; for tho harmonies of ii concert and tho discords of a conyen- lion; for law-making, for law-breaking; , tho fall of empires and the fall of the thcr,, rabmctcr; the candidates for the Jrcr . dciicvantltlio -candidates for tho pcniten tiary". Truly tho romance of tho Arabian , Rights is tamo bctfde the rpahtj' Of tho electric : wire.-ltfany Journal- |