Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-30
THE Seven WONDERS.
THE LECTURE BY REV. JOSEPH
COOK LIST EVENING.

An Able Discourse on the ''Seyen Won
ders of the World"-NOt the Ancient but
the Modern Wonders-The Marvellous
Development Of the Nineteenth Gem
fury.
The anxiousIy looked for lecture of the
famous Boston orator, Rev. Joseph Cook,
upon his favorite topic of the "Seven Won
ders of the World" called out an audience
at Market hall. last evening, nearly suffi-
cient to fill every seat in the spacious
auditorium of the hall. By an awkward ac-
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
ture without an Introduction. It seemed
an abrupt and ungracious way
of beginning, but it was wholly acct
dental, and the audience lost a
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 clear and forcible man
ner, his voice reaching to all 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 flash
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 a little over two hours.
The following is a 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 Carlisle had said,
steam and iron and electricity we're 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 Yates S, but sent their ripples
throughout the world. Civilization had
raised its levels, and the waves broke in
foam and hundred upon allithe shores of
the earth.
FIRST OF THE SEVEN WONDERS.
The first of the seven wonders of the
world was the speed of intercommunica-
ton among nations. The Romans never
tired of sounding the glory of Cesar, who
made the circuit of the empire in hun
dred days. What then should be the won
der of those old senators to now see a
man start from New York and in seven
days and ten hours land in Queenstown,
q few hours later arrived III London a 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 a weeks time. The anti
podes were not more distant from us than
we're 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 it was
q scheme to get ahead of Chicago, which
was fast becoming the newspaper center
of the country-to have the great New
York dailies the Herald, Tri6une,and Tines
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 in the east and following
up to the west, as the day arrived.
When the guns were firing in Alexandria,
few months ago the noise of the lombard
ment was heard round the world before
the 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 in 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, the light house at Alexandria and
the pyramids of Egypt. Many wonders,
the works of man, could be named in this
age. Il 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 II
might satisfy the vanity of New York fol
time. IF III science, he might name the
wonderful workings of the cables, both
Geographic and telephone, where there
had been such perfection that four messges
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 we're in architecture. be
might find many wonderful buildings, bu
none to equal those of Sncient times, fol
the wonder now was III the small cottage:
for all the people. giving home to al
classes. We're he to speak of politica
wonders, he would refer 10 the growth Of
the American republic, the advancement Of
the Chinese empire, and many other won
ders in political history. We're he to corn
the wonders in natural scenery, he woul.
point to the Alps and the Rimalays, the
latter the grandest mOuns3in range on tht
globe. Mount Blanc was grand with 1t.
peak 1900 feet above tho sea, but Moun