. The great American book of biography . MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATS OF TO-DAY. ness in one of the numerous suits which grew out of the efforts to break downhis monopoly. During his examination he was very much exposed, as the hallof the Legislature was uncommonly cold. In returning home, he crossed theHudson in an open boat, and was detained on the river several hours. Thissevere exposure brought on an attack of sickness, which for a short time con-fined him to his bed. The steam frigate, then almost ready for her engines,occasioned him great anxiety at the time, and before he had fairly recovered
. The great American book of biography . MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATS OF TO-DAY. ness in one of the numerous suits which grew out of the efforts to break downhis monopoly. During his examination he was very much exposed, as the hallof the Legislature was uncommonly cold. In returning home, he crossed theHudson in an open boat, and was detained on the river several hours. Thissevere exposure brought on an attack of sickness, which for a short time con-fined him to his bed. The steam frigate, then almost ready for her engines,occasioned him great anxiety at the time, and before he had fairly recoveredhis strength he went to the shipyard to give some directions to the workmenemployed on her, and thus exposed himself again to the inclemency of theweather. In a few days his indisposition prostrated him again, and, growingrapidly worse, he died on the 24th of February, 1815, at the age of fifty SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, THE INVBMTOR OP THE TELEQRAPH. PROBABLY no other invention ofmodern times has done more tochange the face of the world thanthe electric telegraph. The factthat one man in New York canspeak to another in Texas orBrazil is charged with stupendousmeaning. Through the telegraphthe newspaper brings the wholeearth before us at the breakfasttable. The electric wire is likea nerve in the body, bringing allnations into sympathetic com-munication, dispelling ignoranceand prejudice, and helping tomake all men brothers. To theinventor of this great system isdue a debt of gratitude that can-not be reckoned. Samuel Finley Breese Morsewas born at Charlestown, Massa-chusetts, on the 27 th of April,1791. He exhibited an earlyfondness for art, as well as studies of a scientific character, and while astudent at Yale College displayed an especial aptness for chemistry andnatural philosophy. Upon leaving college he decided to adopt the profes-sion of an artist, and was sent abroad to s
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