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536 of any other science since the commencement of the world’s history. The electric telegraph was discovered about fifty years ago. The transmission of messages across the ocean dates so recently as to be within the memory of those who can look back some thirty years, The electric light can only be considered to have entered the practical stage since 1880; and, though the advances during the last few years have been great, we know that greater achievements are in store for the present and future generations. It would be possible to speculate to an unlimited degree as to the future of science, but experience shows that the knowledge of to-day is as nothing compared with that of to-morrow. A few new facts often upset pet theories. One cannot but be reminded of the words spoken by one of the greatest of philosophers who ever lived, Sir Isaac Newton, who is reported to have said, when dying, "I seem only like a child playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and themn finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."



ROSES OF LOVE.

