Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-03-14
NINETEENTH CENTURY ePIToMIz ID
what the Last Hundred Years Received
and Bequeathed.


and Bcqueathed.
We received the horse and OK; we
bequeath the locomotive. the automo.
bile and the bicycle.
We received the goose quill; we be.
queath the fountain pen and type.
writer.
We received the scythe; we be.
queath the moving machine.
We received the sickle; we be.
queath the harvester.
We received the sewing and kilt.
ting needle; we bequeath the sewing
and knitting machines.
We received the hand printing
press; we bequeath the cyclinder
press.
We received the typesetter; we be.
quath the linotype.
We received the sledge; we be-
queath the steam drill and hammer.
We received the flintlock musket;
we bequeath automatic Maxims.
We received the sail ship, six weeks
to Europe; we beoueath the steam
ship, six days to Europe.
We received gunpowder: we be-
queath nitro-glycerin.
We received the hand loom; we be-
queath the cotton gin and woolen
mill.
We received the leather fire bucket;
we bequeath the steam fire engine.
We received wood and stone struc-
lures; we bequeath 20-storied steel
structures.
We received Johnsons dictionary
with 10000 words; we beuueath the
modern dictionary with 240.00O words.
We received the staircase; we be-
queath the elevator.
We received 100000 speaking the
English language; we bequeath 49,
100000.
We received the painters brush and
easel; we bequeath lithography and
photography.
We received the lodestone; we be.
queath the electro-magnet.
We received the glass electric ma.
chine; we bequeath the dynamo.
We received the tallow dip; we be.
queath the arc light and the incandes.
cent.
We received the four-inch achro.
matte telescope; we bequeath the
four-foot lens.
We received two dozen members
of the solar SYSTEM we bequeath 500.
We received a million stars; we be.
queath 10O,OOO,00O.
We received the tinder box; we be-
queath the friction match
We received ordinary light; we be-
queath Roentgen rays.
We received the beacon signal fires;
we bequeath the telegraph, the tele.
phone and wireless telegraphy
We received the weather unan.
nounced; we bequeath the weather
bureau.
We received less than 20 known ele-
ments; we bequeath so.
"e received tic products of dis.
tant countries as rarities; we be-
queath them as bountiful as homo
We received history as events re.
and recorded; we bequeath
the hlHSlOScOpe.
We received the past as silent; we
bequeath the phonograph. and the
voices of the dead may again be
heard.
We received pain as an allotment to
man; we bequeath ether. chloroform
and cocaine.
We received gangrene; we be.
queath antiseptic surgery.
We received the old oaken bucket;
we bequeath the driven well and the
water tower.
We received decomposition helpless.
ly: we bequeath cold storage.
We received foods for immediate
we bequeath the can.
ming industry.
We received butter solely from
milk; we bequeath oleogargarine.
We received the pontoon; we be.
queath the Brooklyn bridge.
We received the hedgerow and the
rail fence; we bequeath the barbed
wire fence.
We received cement steel; we be.
queath Bessemer steel.
We received unlimited dependence
upon muscles; we bequeath automatic