The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . -7^. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. Iiy No less marvelous are the changes in the fine arts. When our fathers would procure a likeness of one they loved they em-ployed a limner who after da\s of skilled and patient labor would produce apicture, which aided by the imagination resembled the original. Now thesun in the heavens is summoned to transfer to a delicately prepared plateevery linement of the contenance, to be thence multiplied a thousand every cabin in the land has its picture gallery. Here is found thegreyha
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . -7^. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. Iiy No less marvelous are the changes in the fine arts. When our fathers would procure a likeness of one they loved they em-ployed a limner who after da\s of skilled and patient labor would produce apicture, which aided by the imagination resembled the original. Now thesun in the heavens is summoned to transfer to a delicately prepared plateevery linement of the contenance, to be thence multiplied a thousand every cabin in the land has its picture gallery. Here is found thegreyhairs and wrinkles of old age, the freshness and beauty of matured man-hood and womanhood, and the dimples on the cheek of childhood all faith-fully delineated. By the phonograph the speech of a Clay or the song of aKellog, with every tone or modulation of the voice is recorded, and repro-duced at will in all future time. But why attempt to enumerate the inventions, and discoveries of thecentury. The hundred thousand models in the patent office representingthe
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