Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . /C- ._,..,._.,.^-;^^^;fe:s i^wl-tt SELF-BINDING HARVESTER. LOCOMOTIVE igoo—REMARKABLE INVENTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER LIII. Assassination of President Carnot of France—French Operations Abroad—Universzil Suffrage in Belgium—Italy in Abyssinia—African Af-fairs—China and Japan—Revolts in Cub


Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . /C- ._,..,._.,.^-;^^^;fe:s i^wl-tt SELF-BINDING HARVESTER. LOCOMOTIVE igoo—REMARKABLE INVENTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER LIII. Assassination of President Carnot of France—French Operations Abroad—Universzil Suffrage in Belgium—Italy in Abyssinia—African Af-fairs—China and Japan—Revolts in Cuba and Crete. A TROUBLOUS period of the world at large now demands atten-tion, marked with wars and rumors of wars, and the disappear-ance of many great figures from public life. The year 1893 sawno fewer than four Cabinets in France, with the disappearancefrom public life of many men smirched by the Panama scandals. Theconquest of a great part of Siam was effected. In the next year otherCabinet crises occurred. Then came a hideous catastrophe. On June24th President Sadi Carnot, one of the purest and wisest and best ofrulers in the world, was assassinated by a vindictive Socialist, and wasborne to the grave amid the lamentations of France and of the world. Three days after the murder of Carnot, a new French President waselected. Thi


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