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  2. MILITARY.

    British military advance during a hundred years is scarcely a subject to be compressed into a short paragraph; but this condition must be adhered to, and there is no more room for apologies. ...

    Article : 731 words
  3. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Wireless telegraphy in a practical form is the result of experimental research of very recent years. In the earlier experiments upon this fascinating problem, carried out by Sir William ...

    Article : 648 words
  4. SHORTHAND.

    As an art, shorthand may be sain to have definitely established itself in 1740, when Garney republished Mason's system, first given to the world in 1672. But, though practised by a few ...

    Article : 418 words
  5. TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES.

    In 1801 electrical science was in the purely experimental stage; the electric telegraph had not been seen beyond the precints of the laboratory, the telephone had not been invented, the earliest ...

    Article : 579 words
  6. THE JEWS.

    During the latter half of the century England -- dear England -- whose banner is Liberty, whose watchword is Freedom for all creeds, whose trumpet-call is Justice for all men, has been a real ...

    Article : 331 words
  7. MUSIC.

    The 19th century witnessed great progress in music, music. The period was not on|y enrobed by the masterworks of Symphony and of Opera; it brought forth songs and choral works of a ...

    Article : 534 words
  8. MINING.

    The discovery of gold in the early fifties transformed Australia from a wool-growers paradise into a nation which is now an infant Hercules in all-round industrial potentialities. ...

    Article : 604 words
  9. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    Captain Neitenstein says that the century has been fruitful of reform in the treatment of prisoners, both from the public point of view and from, that of offenders ...

    Article : 408 words
  10. RAILWAYS.

    Your request that I should compress into comparatively few words my views as to the world's progress in power during the century just closing covers a large order. ...

    Article : 662 words
  11. THE FREE CHURCHES.

    You ask me about the growth of progress, or otherwise, of the Free Churches, as they are called, that is the non-established Churches of the Empire and of the English-speaking world. ...

    Article : 623 words
  12. SURGERY.

    The discoveries which have been made during the past century have profoundly changed the character of surgical practice and the scope of surgical aspirations. John Hunter, who has been ...

    Article : 842 words
  13. A CHINESE TYPEWRITER.

    A gentleman who recently visited the Chinese quarter of San Francisco gives, says the "Engineer and Iron Trades' Advertiser," an account of a colossal typewriter used for the Chinese ...

    Article : 224 words
  14. NAVAL.

    In place of the old wooden three-dockers which kept for England the sovereignty of the seas, mammoth iron-bound ships of war now plough the waters of the world. To attempt in detail ...

    Article : 347 words
  15. THE PRESS.

    When in a jesting hour the question arose as to the epitaphs which could be justly inscribed over certain public men, Douglas Jerrold paid the happiest and soundest ...

    Article : 373 words
  16. USE OF SERUMS IN DISEASE.

    A new era in the treatment of diseases was inaugurated at the close of the 18th century, when Jenner introduced vaccination as a means of preventing smallpox. As long ago as 1877 Raynaud ...

    Article : 832 words
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  18. MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT.

    The aggegration of great masses of men in towns was formerly regarded as an evil; but tinder modern city development -- by means of sanitation, slum destruction: by municipal ...

    Article : 817 words
  19. NEW RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS.

    The century has been most prolific of new religious organisations, some of which have attained to enormous proportions. Principal among these have been the Salvation Army, ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. SANITATION.

    The ancients were by no means inferior to the moderns in intellect; still the moderns by adding their experience to the others' knowledge have fur outstripped them in science, and the ...

    Article : 572 words
  21. THE DRAMA.

    The importance of the drama in the scheme of human existence and its increasing popularity with all classes throughout the world are acknowledged facts. There is a question as to whether, ...

    Article : 664 words
  22. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

    The Roman Catholic Church has witnessed a wonderful expansion throughout the world during the century. Mr. Mulhall computes that there are now upwards of 240,000,000 Catholics. ...

    Article : 363 words
  23. OPERA.

    Opera, like other forms of entertainment, has undergone ninny changes. Grand opera has been revolutionised by Wagner, both as regards libretto and the methods of the musical setting, and ...

    Article : 221 words
  24. STEAMSHIPS.

    The nineteenth century bears with every right the name of "The Century of Steam," as it practically embraces the commencement and all the immense developments of the same. The ...

    Article : 421 words
  25. PRINTING.

    A hundred years ago newspapers were produced by the slow and tedious process of setting single types and printing on the old-fashioned handpress at a speed of about 200 copies per hour. ...

    Article : 552 words
  26. TREATMENT OF INEBRIATES.

    It is probable that in no phase of social life has greater evolution taken place during the past century than in the attitude of public opinion towards alcoholic excess. At its commencement, ...

    Article : 510 words
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