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were evidences of the beginning of a new era 

 in electrical development. At no time in the 

 history of the world has wonder succeeded 

 wonder with such rapidity, producing such 

 astounding results that have revolutionized all ; 

 our modes of doing business and all of the 

 operations of commercial and domestic life, as 

 during the last two decades. We set our 

 watches by time furnished by electricity from 

 one central point of observation. We read the 

 tape from hour to hour, upon which is re- 

 corded the commercial pulse of the world, as 

 it throbs in the marts of trade, by means of 

 this same speedy messenger. We enter a 

 street-car that is lighted and heated, and at the 

 same time propelled by the same wonderful 

 agent. In our homes and on our streets night 

 is turned into day by a light that outrivals all 

 other illuminants. 



When we wish to speak to a friend who may 

 be a mile or a thousand miles away we step to 

 the end of a wire that comes within the walls 

 of our dwelling and we talk to him as though 

 face to face, and means are at hand by which 

 we may write a letter to that same friend and 

 <l<-livcr it to him in our own handwriting and 

 over our own signatures, so quickly that it will 

 appear before him in full form and complete- 

 ness as soon as the last period is made at the 

 ene] of the last line. 



Qne sees, and hears, and lives more in a 



