Changes Of A Century

The nineteenth century has witnessed many and great diacoveries. In 1809 Fnlton took out the first patent tor the invention of the steaniboat. The first steamboats which made regular trips across the Atlantio were the Sirius and the Great Western in 1830. The first public application to practice of the use of gas for illumination was made in 1802. In 1813 the streets of London were for the first time Hghted with gas. In 1813 there was built at Waltham, Mass., a mili, believed to have been the first in the world, which combined all the requirements for making finished cloth from raw cotton. Iii 1790 there were only twenty-five post-offices in the whole country, and up to 1837, the rates of postnge were 25 cents tor a letter sent over 100 miles. In 1807 wooden olocks commenced to be made by machinery. This usherod in the era ot' cheap clocks. About the year 1833 the first railroad of a considerable length in the Uniled Htates was constructed. In 1840 the first express business was estnbnshed. The anthraoite coal business may be said to have begun in 1810. In 1836 the first patent for the invention of matoheB was granted Steel pens were introduced for use in 1830. The first successful reaper was constructed ia 1823. The families of the three clergyraen of the Evangblical Alliance who were lost on the Ville du Havre are removed from the tear of want by the generosity of the Protestant public of this country and Europe. The subsnription in this country Rtnounted to nearly $20,000, and abroad to abeut $50,000, collected chiefly in Switzerland. In that country the three widowa are living. Mesdames Pronier and Carrasco being at Genera, and Madame Oook at Lausanna.