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Show Wonders or the World. The Berlin Lokal Anzelger lately ;eerit an Invitation to its readers to name the seven wonders of thfe modern mod-ern world, and received 151,764 replies. re-plies. Wireless telegraphy obtained the greatest number of suffrages, viz., 17,118. closely followed .by the Panama Canal with 1G.259.. Zep- pelin's dirigible airships had ;12,S2S votes and the arcoplane 11.-42S. Ra- j dlum In medicine was voted (for by 11.296. the cinematograph by 6.347. 1 and the monster steamship, the Im-perator. Im-perator. obtained G.276 votes'. The seven wonders together only account ac-count for 81.5S2 votes, and the Lokal j Anzleger merely states hat the re- J malnlng votes we're given in favor j of wonders none of which wero j strongly enough supported to be deserving de-serving of serious consideration. tJ These seven marvels of the mod- tJ? ern World as selected by the Ger- a mans may be compared with what men thought wonderful In bygono times. Thc Pyramids. Babylon's hanging gardens, Mausolus' tomb, j the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, ; the Colossus of Rhodes, Jupiter's statue by Phidias, and Uhe .Palace i of Cyprus these were the , seven wonders of antiquity. They were, you note, the work of men's hands, whereas the modern wonders aro chiefly the outcome of man's craft in enslaving the forces of nature, and already wireless, for instance, has become an adjunct tc every day life, till familiarity has all but killed wonder. Yet what man to this hour can gaze on tho Pyramids without a sense of awe? |