The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-21


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IuE NTw huEUCAs CYCLUP.fDIA was completed ~
lS3, since which tune the wide circulation which il ha
attain IN All pIrs tie United States, aud the zig
branch Of scirnce literature and art, have induced tn,
editors an'i publishers 10 submit II 10 al exact :nt
thorough REVISION, and to s5ie edition sntit
HE AMERICAN CICLoPEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress Of discovery
in every department Of knowledge has made n Rev
work OF rtiervrCc ia imperative want.
Inc movement ofp0itical Affairs has kept pace viii
tnn 10 the industrial and u> fHi arts and the csn-
ycnence and refinement Of social llr Great wars an
consequent revolutions haye occurred, involv NJ
national changes Of peculiar moment. he civil wal
81 our uwn country, which III lis height when iht
last volume of the old work appeared, has h 'ppA,
been ent Il, anda new course Of nm, rcIal aid IL
dustri4l activity has been coInm' need
LARGE To- our geogra hicai knowe1gr hsVs
The gleat political revolutions of the lat decade
with the natural result of the lapse of time, have
brought inio public view a multitude Of new men
whose names are in every one mouth anu OF who's.
lives every IL curl Us TO know the particulars
Great battle. have been fought and important si-ges
maintained OF which the details vet preserved
only IN the nrwspa crs or in the transient publcatIons
ofthe day, but which ought now 10 take their place i
permanent a.ii authentic history
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lore" 10 the explanations IN the text. They -mbrse.
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