Excerpt from Eclectic Manual of Phonography: A Complete Guide to the Acquisition of Pitman's Phonetic Shorthand Without or With a Teacher

Modes of travel and of mental communication have in like manner changed. Steam vessels and railroads have superseded the sail and tow-boat and the stage-coach, and we now travel more than twice as fast, and far more comfort ably than did our fathers, while the electric telegraph and the telephone have far out-stripped, in speed and usefulness, correspondence by mail.

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