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 metal has been tempered and worked just as steel was in the century preceding.

The manufacture of anti-friction metals has been so far advanced that the use of lubricants is rendered unnecessary.

Transportation of the person and of goods, large and small, is as greatly advanced as that of ideas and images. Steam is a crudity of the past century. Pneumatic and electric railways carry people and freight with swiftness and safety, in all directions and at trifling rates. To every house and from every store, of any importance, pneumatic tubes radiate from central stations, so that packages and messages can be sent from any dwelling or establishment in the system to any other

by simply having connection made through the central office, as in the old-fashioned way of telephoning.

Great air-ships hover over city and country, and a weekly line of dirigible balloons, under the auspices of the General Government, is in preparation.

Ocean navigation is rendered both safe and swift. Great floating palaces ply daily between Montauk Point and Bristol, making the Atlan-