Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-29
THE SEVEN WONDERS.
THE LECTURE BY REV. JOSEPH
COOK LIST EVEEING.


THE LECTURE BY REV. JOSEPH
COOK LIST ETENING.
An Able Discourse on the 'Seven Won
Gers of the World'-Not the Ancient but
the Modern Wonders-The Marvellous
DEVELOPMENT of the Nineteenth Gen.
fury.
The anxiously looked for lecture of the
famous Boston orator, Rev. Joseph Cook,
upon mis- favorite topic of the Seven Won
ders of the World called out an audience
at Market hall. last evening, nearly suff
Client to fill every seat in the spacious
auditorium of the hall. By an awkward &C
cident the Rev. DR.. Dana, who was to have
introduced the distinguished gentleman,
was prevented from doing so, and the
speaker was obliged to commence his lee
3ure without an Introduction. 1t seemed
an abrupt and ungracious way
of beginning, but it was wholly acct
dental, and the audience lost
graceful introduction of the lecturer
by his warm personal friend, to whom our
citizens owe the visit and lecture of this
famed and distinguished orator. Mr..
Cook speaks in a clear and forcible man.
ner, his voice reaching to ali portions of
The large hall with perfect distinctness.
He used but few gestures and most of the
time his eyes seemed closed and it was
only at rare intervals that his eyelids were
raised, when the clear blue eyes would fash
with the light of enthusiasm as he warmed
with his theme. The audience was COM
posed of many Of our leading citizens, who
listened with absorbed interest to the lee
ture which occupied little over two hours.
The following is synopsis of the address,:
He began by stating that Caesar required
100 days to make tour of the Roman En-
pire, and said that in this day a man could
make a complete circuit of the globe in
ninety days. There could be no hermit
notions and more. AS Carlise had said,
steam and iron and electricity were work
ing to prevent this. In this state of circm-
stances it was impossible to MAINTAIN the
Isolation of people from people. In ancient
times nations were like the great lakes, and
the waves that rose in one only reached the
boundaries on the shore of that lake. Now
they rose and flowed into each other so that
the waves not only touched the boundaries
of theirs own waite. S, but sent their ripples
throughout the world. Civilization had
raised its levels, and the waves broke in
foam and hundred upon all,,the shores of
the earth.
FIRST OF THE SEVEN WONDERS.
The first of the seven wonders of the
world was the speed of intercommunica-
tion among nations. The Romans never
hired of sounding the glory of Caesar, who
mado the circuit of the empire in hum
dred days. What then should be the won
der of those old senators to now see
man start from New York and in seven
days and ten hours land in Queenstown,
a few hours later arrived in London few
days later in Milan, then in CONSTANT
nople, then in China, and then in Austria
Liza, from which place he could travel back
TO New York in weeks time. The anti
podes were not more distant from US than
were the boundaries of the Roman Empire
from the seven hills. The newspapers
IN New York and Chicago and San Fran
sisco might be strong on one wire, and
the same news be printed in each few
hours later each day. In New York 1t was
q scheme to get ahead of Chicago. which
was fast becoming the newspaper center
Of the counJry-to have the great New
extend wires across the continent, and
issue from editions at different points,
each the same, answering the wants Of the
people in the four great divisions of the
country. The lecturer believed that the
newspapers would in time publish the
same great heads Of news all around the
globe beginning il the east and following
up to the west, as the day arrived.
When the guns were firing il Alexandria,
afew months ago the noise of the lombard
ment was heard round the world before
She smoke had cleared away. This was
one of the modern wonders Of the world,
but were the speaker to define modern
wonders he would place them i'll contrast
with the ancient seven wonders which were
the work of men, and say they were the
works of God.
SEVEN ANCIENT WONDERS.
The seven ancient wonders Of the world
are the hanging gardens of Babylon, the
Mausoleum, the temple of Diana, the tenn
pie of Jupiter at Athens, the Colossus of
Rhodes, thel light house at Alexandria and
the pyramids of Egypt. Many wonders,
the works of man, could be named in this
age. If it were to be of art he would
name the statue of liberty at New York
when completed, but it would not be Won
der to Chicago or Boston. even though it
might satisfy the vanity of New York for
time. If in science, ne might name the
wonderful workings of the cables, both
telegraphic and telephone, where there
had been such perfection that four messages
could be transmitted each way over the
wires at one and the same time. Lately
Chicago had been in connection with New
York by telephone when there were four
messages passing over the wires in each
direction at the same time, so they crossed
each other. If it were in architecture, he
might find many wonderful buildings, but