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...Horse. In 2 minutes, 37 seconds, Papyrus covered 1 mile 4 furlongs 27 yards and won the English Derby. The record is 2 minutes 34 1/5 seconds by Spion...
Fortunes. Mrs. Ford, Yorkshire woman, mill worker, made $150,000 in a sweepstake. A rich Londoner won $60,000; he gave one-third to charity. A stenographer won $46,000. A Plymouth hotel man drew Papyrus in three sweepstakes and is said to have made nearly a million dollars. There were others...
...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous to the name-giving and selecting intervention of the East...