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70 PASSING EVENTS.
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" I'll put a girdle round about the eart...
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Madam, From 'A. Their H. D Houses .' Obj...
their from as severel , indifference _miich- as enduring they , but could sisters oftener and less from as deep it , is timidity l their y than duty , they they to oug fail do ht to , I puni and trust . sh that however the , sometimes oppressor that
this Journal y will serve to , bind us closer together , till . at length all English women shall form one vast society for the protection of their own sex , I am , Madam ,
Yours obediently ,
O ] _n e of the Prosperous .
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" I'Ll Put A Girdle Round About The Eart...
" I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes . " ment " Was that On line that prop day hetic memorable ? If so , the henceforth fifth of August in the , history 1858 , ushered of the World in its fulfil how
memorable . onltime , can determinethe Old World and the _JSTew , were a broug myth ht , into on that instantaneous y day added comunication one fact more , . to The the Atlanti long list c Telegrap of those marvellous h , hitherto triumphs of mind over matter which we of this prolific nineteenth century
are privileged to witness and commemmorate . " After many attempts and reached failures , b " y says the two the Dail vessels y News on We of dnesday the sixth the cable of twenty August -ei , liced " ghth the to rendezvou of the July . s The was
non next ' s morning on board the the Niagara latter . ' s B portion y noon of the the next day was , Friday sp , 265 nautical Agamem miles - were A , laid between and Niagara the two was ships increased . On Saturday to 540 miles the . distance On Sunday between it - was the
gamemnon the 884 , morning on Tuesday of Thursday 1 , 256 , and the on fifth Wednesday of August 1 , , 854 the miles Agamemnon . At six was o ' anchore clock on d
Newfoundland in Yalentia Harbour . The , two while shi the were Niagara united had b safel 2022 y miles reached of cable Trinity and Bay the , Atlantic Telegraph was convey ps ing to both crews y , the gratifying intelli , gence wellwithout accident
that their anxieties were over , and the work done , an to mar it . " and From the that evening time regular of the coinniunication sixteenth of was August kept up the between line from the two Valentia vessels to ,
Newfoundland dispatched on from working the directors satisfactoril in England y both ways to , , the the directors following in message America was : _Eurojand America are united by telegraphGlory to Grod in the
" > e . ' Hi On ghest the ; on afternoon earth peace of , Friday good will the towards twentieth men , of . ' " August , intelligence was received from Newfoundland , that into two ollision of the off Cunard steamers in , the
Arabia and of which the Europ the a passengers , had come to Liverpool c by the Cape Europa Race , would con be - sequence detained a week at St . John ' s , Newfoundland intense . The anxiet friends and of alarm the
and passeng we ers hail were it thus as of saved happy eig augury ht days that of the first intelli y _^ gence trans- , mitted should be of so beneficent a character . Further _j > articulars were and halfall set at
immediately requested , and , in two hours a , anxiety was rest The by the / UL anno and uncement the President of " _35 _To have loss to exch life anged or limb congratulations . " and we
learn that Q the < een success of the Atlantic Telegraph is hailed with enthusiasm , throug The hout Cherbourg the United fetes States graced . by the of our SovereiLadyd
anything " a great but success redoubtable . " The , , French redoubted Squadron , but presence , ( according , sunk into to comparative latest gn _intelligence insi , prove gnifi , - ) noble of and frito
cance when brought vis a vis with our men war gates , say
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/70/
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