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 can, at one exposure, be photographed permanently in its proper colors.

By the new system of telegraphic printing, news is set up in several cities simultaneously, in column width, all ready to be worked off en the great hourly papers, which with their beautiful colored illustrations, are a marvel as well as a convenience.

A newly-discovered process transmits from the scene of any great event, as a conflagration, convention, or battle, an accurate photograph in colors, which is reproduced in one or a hundred cities, there to be printed in the local journals, which latter have become, in fact, hourly bulletins of the on-goings of the neighborhood and of the world at large.

Telegraphic and telephonic communication with moving railway trains has been for forty years an accomplished fact, so that the business man, desiring to keep up his correspondence from and with his office, while travelling, can readily do so; and may, in fact, from time to time, talk with those at home; while a statesman may from his seat in a pneumatic or electric railway car, address his fellow-legislators in session assembled.