Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: COMMISSION AND DISCOUNT TABLES. 57 textit{Q textit{. textit{-1 It,, e e O m'' 'fi--iot-crii-'.o'o' m'! O 0 O O '"m"'fO m''S"'oi.o O 0 OOOOOOOOOOHMwWOOO "0-0M J;c OO'ww"'io'aoo(-oo 0 OOOOOOOOOOOOOwfOinO 0 O O "O w w 'm ci fi, r00 O O O oooooooooooooo --x OOOOOOOOOOOOO-wio . "?"o "o'"o' b o" M " T o o OOOOOOOOOOOOOww-, ' OOOOOOOOOOOOO' . . "o" O 0 0 "oo' w "MnT "" m 0' m'0 . . . o "o"o c M'm' "io o OOOOOOOOOOOOwN OOOOOOOOOOOOOwfiioO I think I cannot do better if I conclude with some of the maxims of Benjamin Franklin, which he put into practice in the course of his own life. Beginning the world without any capital, but possessing perseverance, temperance and industry, without which the brightest talents never fully fructify, he finished his career as a statesman and man of science. Were Franklin alive now, he would be surprised to see one of the wonderful results that is to be traced to his own early scientific discoveries, in the Atlantic telegraph, which unites the country of his birth to England. In the year 1747, he instituted those brilliant experiments which have given to his name such celebrity in the annals of electric science. In 1752, he succeeded in demonstrating the identity of electricity and lightning, having observed their resemblance for many years previous, although his preconceived notions on this subject, transmitted in a series of letters to London, were received with roars of laughter by the members of the Royal Society. The following preliminary address to the Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled " Poor Richard's Almanac," for the year 1758, which Franklin published for twenty-five years, will show, on a comparison with the dates mentioned above, that while conducting these interesting experi...