The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

part in those closing years of the century, without reflecting that

almost every week in the year records more victims on our rivers and railroads,—victims despatched by us between the mouthfuls of our toast at breakfast. Such events bear the same relation to the volume of life as the capital letters, which head the chapters of a book, to its solid contents. They are the daubs of pa...