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    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

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      The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls - Various Various

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      In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897, by Various

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      Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897

      A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

      Author: Various

      Release Date: March 11, 2005 [EBook #15325]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net).

      To the Subscribers of Current Events:

      I take pleasure in announcing that I have purchased the entire subscription list and good will of Current Events, and offer you in its stead The Great Round World, a weekly newspaper for boys and girls.

      You will receive one number of The Great Round World for each number of Current Events due you on your subscription. I make the special offer, to send you The Great Round World every week until December 31st, 1897, if you will remit the sum of $1.25 at once.

      My regular subscription price is $2.50.

      If there is any special feature or department of Current Events which the majority of the subscribers would like to have continued, I will take great pleasure in arranging for it, and I trust that you may find The Great Round World a satisfactory substitute for Current Events.

      William Beverley Harison.

      Copyrighted 1897, By William Beverley Harison.

      Vol. 1 February 18, 1897. No. 15

      There is a new cause for supposing that the Treaty with Great Britain will either be defeated in the Senate, or else delayed for some time to come.

      This new trouble concerns the building of the Nicaragua Canal.

      It seems a remote cause, does it not? but it only shows how closely the affairs of one nation are bound up with those of all the others. No matter what our speech, our climate, or our color, we are all a portion of the great human family, and the good of one is the good of all.

      The Nicaragua Canal is a water-way that will cross the narrow neck of land that makes Central America. It will connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

      With the help of such a canal, ships in going to the western coast of North or South America will not need to make the long and dangerous voyage around Cape Horn.

      Cape Horn, you will see if you look on your map, is the extreme southerly point of South America.

      There are so many storms and fogs there, that the Horn, as it is called, is much dreaded by sailors.

      Since the invention of steam, all the steamships go through the Straits of Magellan, and save the passage round the

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