Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — All in a Half Century. [ARTICLE]

All in a Half Century.

The discovery of the electric telegraph. The discovery of photography. The establishment of ocean steam navigation. The annexation of Texas. The war with Mexico, and the acquisition of California, with the discoveries of gold that followed. The French revolution of 1848. The rise and fall of Napoleon 111., and the establishment of the French EepubThe laying of the ocean cables. The great civil war and abolition of slavery in the United States. The unification of Italy. The great France-German war an 1 the unification of Germany O TheovsxEhrbwbf"the Pope’s temporal power. The emancipation of the Russian serfs. The extention of Russian power into Central Asia. The discovery of the sources of the Nile and Niger, and the exploration of interior Africa. The discovery of the telephone. The growth Of Life Insurance from nothing to a million policy-holders,, six hundred million dollars of assets, and two and a half billion dollars of insurance in force.