Building Association Banquet. _Full page_ 689 Abraham Lincoln 691 Jefferson Davis 692 William E. Gladstone 693 Thomas Jefferson 695 Otto E. L. Von Bismarck 697 William McKinley 698 Grant’s Tomb, Riverside Drive, New York City 699 Duke of Wellington 700 Count Von Moltke 701 General Giuseppe Garibaldi 703 Charles H. Spurgeon 705 William Wilberforce 706 Thomas B. Macaulay 707 Florence Nightingale 712 Clara Barton 713 Sir Walter Scott 715 Charles Dickens 716 Lord Byron 717 Queen Victoria 723 [Illustration: PUCK.] WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY BY JAMES P. BOYD, A.M., L.B. I. AT THE DAWN OF THE CENTURY. When, in his “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Shakespeare placed in the mouth of Puck, prince of fairies, the playful speech,— “I’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes,” he had no thought that the undertaking of a boastful and prankish sprite could ever be outdone by human agency. Could the immortal bard have lived to witness the time when the girdling of the earth by means of the electric current became easier and swifter than elfin promise or possibility, he must have speedily remodeled his splendid comedy and denied to the world its delightful, fairy-like features. An old and charming story runs, that Aladdin, son of a widow of Bagdad, became owner of a magic lamp, by means of whose remarkable powers he could bring to his instant aid the services of an all-helpful genie. When Aladdin wished for aid of any kind, he had but to rub the lamp. At once the genie appeared to gratify his desires. By means of the lamp Aladdin could hear the faintest whisper thousands of miles away. He could annihilate both time and space, and in a twinkling could transfer himself to the tops of the highest mountains. How the charm of this ancient story is lost in the presence of that marvelous realism which marks the achievements of modern electrical science!