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with that of tlie ships' voyage to and from Europe. The 

 trotting time has been reduced in the ratio of a second to 

 a day, Le., from 2:40 in 1840 to 2:8 y, in 1885, while the 

 voyages of forty days in 1840 are reduced to seven in. 

 1886, thus gaining the advantage of thirty-three days, 

 and on the trotting of eight and three-quarter seconds. 

 In this respect the telegraph and the telej^hone have had 

 a pretty close race, but whether the trotter will ever 

 exist that will reduce the time by two seconds and three- 

 quarters and thus get even with the voyages is a question 

 of great interest to breeders. That it will occur we have 

 no doubt, for there are many geldings of extraordinary 

 capacity that miglit have worked wonders in the stables 

 had they been kejjt as sires. 



Any person possessing a taste for riding or driving 

 must admire the variety and perfection of the bits manu- 

 factured in England, some of which are here represent- 

 ed. The best maker is rewarded by the j^atronage of the 

 crown, and he becomes *^ maker to Her Majesty." This 

 is his patent, and he is then patronized by the connois- 

 seurs — the rank, wealth and fashion of the land — and 

 the demand for exportation to the colonies and the 

 United States is enormous. To get the most out of every- 

 thing with the greatest facility, the very best articles are 

 used. This is so in the choice of saddle and harness bits. 



Some parents and teachers are too apt to put inferior 

 instruments or tools into the hands of children, if they 

 put any ; and if any person objects, they say, " Oh, it is 

 good enough for a child ;" so, on this principle the child 

 is expected to succeed in doing something with a tool 

 that the very best workman or professor could not use 

 successfully. Look at the box of tools that is given to a 

 little boy. There is no steel in any of them, and having 

 no edge they won't cut, and nobody would take the 

 trouble to sharpen them if they had. So the child's 

 efforts to follow the example of some man he saw at work, 



