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BEATING TINE BY CABLE.
Publishing News in San Francisco Ahead
of English Time.


of English Time.
How he once beat time" or, rather. APP
parent time, in a remarkable fashion, is told
by Mr.. Archibald Forbes in his article in
1.-The Nineteenth Century" 1t is story of
telegraph dispatch from the battlefield. In
the early morning of the ODD of November.
1873, a British division under General Sir
Samuel Browne occupied the Afghan fort
ress of Ali Musjid. up in the Khyber Pass.
Mr.. Forbes rode back ten miles to Jumrood.
where the field telegraph was, and sent the
news to England in short message bearing
date 10 o'clock in the morning. There is
five hours difference Of time between India
and England, in favor of the latter; and the
Daily News containing this telegram, dated
10 in the morning, was selling In Fleet street
at 9 o'clock, one hour of apparent time
before it was dispatched. Its anticipation
of time, however, did not end here. Owing
to the five hours difference between the
clocks of London and New York, the mes
sage was ia time for the regular editions of
the New York papers that same morning.
1t was thence Immediately wired across the
American Continent. and, owing again TO
the difference in time between the Atlantic
Coast and the Pacific Slope, the early rising
citizen of San Francisco, purchasing his
morning paper at O'clock, was able to read
the announcement OF an event which actu-
ally occurred over two hours later in appar-
ent time some Il, 600 miles away on the other
side of the globe. Puck, as Mr.. Forbes SAYS,
professed himself able to put girdle round
the earth in forty minutes, but this telegram
sped half round the globe in two hours less
than no time at all.-Londun Times.
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TEMPERAMENT OF GENIUS.
An Eminent Writer Tells When He /
HaOnieat

An Eminent Writer Tells When He Is
Happiest.
An eminent litteratenr, who, like other
journalists, seems in the season of the big
gooseberry-the season, too, described by
leading publisher as the duliest on record
to suffer from lack of matter from his
monthly gossip, has raised. apropos of Mrs.
Ireland's new book. the old question of the
cel ibacy of writing men. He says to the
matrimOnially minded virgin, Don't marry
man Of genius" SO and ON much the same
grounds has the author of "Virginibus
Puerisgue" spoken. To quote him: "rhe
practice of letters is miserably haraSsing to
the mind; and after an hour or two's work
all the more human portion of the author is
extinct; he will bully, backblte and speak
daggers.'
But the doctors differ. day or two ago
| was talking to one Of the most eminent and
also one of the busiest of our literary men.
l asked him what norton OF life he thought
most enjoyable. Those in which l am
hard at work" he answered. without mo-
meDt's hesitation. And does it not make
you feel nervous and irritable?" was my
next query. Not at ALL" he replied J." On
the contrary, a spell of composition exhilar-
ates me like the drinking of champagne |
never feel depressed or gloomy except when
idle" One fancies that Sir Walter Scott
did not make bad husband, and he worked
about as hard as most men. Depend upon
it, the marriage of literary man is as much
a lottery as any other wedding.-London
Globe.
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A GREAT LION
TANNERS LIFE.
The wonderful Power John Cooper e.
GrtGd Over Wild Beasts.
Famous at Twelve as Being the Youngest
Trainer of Animals in the World-Feats
of Daring Which Seem Incredible,

Mr.. John Cooper divides with Van Am
burgh the honor of king of licp-kings says
the New York Advertiser.
At ten years Of age. having lost both pa
rents. little John Cooper ran away from
Birmingham, his native town, with Bstty's
circus. Now, one of the Battys was pro-
prietor OF a menagerie, and the lads strong
inclination toward everything to do with
animals soon led to his being transferred
to this service from the circus and being
apprenticed TO the business of an anp1I
Snowman.
The first occasion of the many of which
he distinguished himself-sfter losing the
top of finger at the bars of wolf cage
took place when he was 10 years Old. The
show possessed an awkward piece of stock
III the person of very large and very
savage lion. Nobody could approach this
animal, and as he made regular amusement
of breaking through the sides and bank of
his cage. he was always secured by
strong collar and chain. which was let
down through the roof. At Leeds, one
day, he managed TO get loose from this
collar, and at once began high festival by
breaking I'D first the fittings, and then
the side OF his residence. All the attendants
stood helpleSsly by, unable to 90 any
thing. But young Cooper - who. Of
course, at his age. was never allowed in
any cage, let alone this one-withOut a
word to anybody, quietly went around
behind, aud was next seen inside tha bars.
The loOkerS-0n were terrified, and Mrs.
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DO YOU TREAT2

New York Reform Movement That Has
Proved n Failure.
1t may as well be confessed that the anti
treating movement so far as New York is
concerned, is complete failure.
The movement started out with certain
luSty agressiveneSs. Nobody was to treat
anybody to anything. Primarily nobody
was to treat anybody to anything to drink;
for, said the author of the propaganda witt
a wisdom no one theoretically questions, t.
treat to drinks is to presume on similar
privilege and obligation in all the treated,
and the result will be that = man who wishes
or at least needs, but one drink will take six
or eight, according to the number in The
treated group. 1t is possible that some pee
pie may have tried to Introduce tht
new every man for himself principle in
drinking But the actual instances have
never been satisfactorily located. A strain
of ambition TO be thought well Of, not
to mention strain OF natural cOwaTdlee, IN
every man, has made it a practical lmpossi-
bility to enforce the non-treating code. The
reform had to begin outside the regions OF
conviviality. COED many tried the re-
formed way of paying car fare Dutch
treat" was always the phrase for this
method. Some people, with what authority
/ never discovered, called it the "Philadel-
phia plan" Men occasionally went out to
dinner, and instead of paying on the alter
mating treat plan, paid each for his own
meal. This practice undoubtedly prevails
TO a certain extent now. And advance =
people still struggle against conventional
ideas of politeneSs and generosity.
But among the great average the plan
fails. Men and women, especially women.
struggle ridiculously in the herse-car before
the plying contemplation of the conductor
who is skeptiea enough to believe that One
person in every pair is secretly willing to
let the other pay, but makes show OF get
ting at the conductor first
Every body who thinks is willing to agree
that treating of any kind, when it does not
shield hogs or tempt hypocrisy, Is q down.
right nuisance. But. all the same. nine
people out of ten never even question the
ancient method-hogs, hypocrisy and all.
As for New York. in particular, 1t has
entered on the great annual orgy OF treating.
For five weeks the wholesale treating OF the
politicians will liberate rivers of beer and
lakes OF whisky. This is the saloon-keepers'
and particularly the bar-tenders' harvest.
One of the taxes on candidature is an exor-
bitant price for drinks. No despotism is
more complete than that exerted by the sa-
ioon-keepers during the election season.
The most hardened candidate is often stag
gered by the lump sum charged for a
''round" In some miserable GROCERY, but he
dare not utter complaint. 1t is one of the
amenities OF running for office under our In
genious political system.
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lilies the advisers OF Napoleon suggested that
a French woman be selected, and at once n
numfer of candidates were placed in the
field, SO to speak, by their respective train
ers in the rae for the throne. To every one,
however, whose name was suggested. Ma
poleon fond some objection, and thus,
after eliminating half hundred or more,
reverted to his original choice, tie Scotch
Spanish woman whose beauty had entrhncrd
MN year before ana IN spite OF the de-
termlned opposition of all his advisers made
known his resolution to marry the Countess.
The marriage was singularly lmpoliuc,
not to say imprudent An alliance with
foreign Princess would have given Napoleon
a certain standing among the pOtentateS OF
Europe. and although family alliances seem
10 have little to do with controlling the at
fairs Of nations, might have secured for him
a less disturbed reign. Marriage with
French woman, while il would have been
Intellectual as means of conciliating for
eign powers, might have brought pOpul arty
al home. Eugene was foreigner and yet
not Princess. There were scores of fam
lies in France of more noble antecedPnts
than those possessed by the Spanish dons
through whom she traced her ancestry. BY
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whose only refuge is in tears. Several
French statesmen OF prominence nave de-
clarcd as their opinion that had she gone to
the provinces, called the Assembly to meet
her in the South of France and rallied the
scattered remnants of the French armies,
while she might not have changed the re-
suit so far as the PTuSslanS were concerned,
she might have saved the empire. But she
was fOrSaken by all; frightened memories
of former occupants of the TuilerleS came
ND before her, and to avoid their fate she
fed. In the country where her husband
once ruled with absolute power she had not
a friend. She was concealed from lmmedl-
ate danger in the house of one foreign En-
bassadOr, was hurried to the frontier by
another, escaped from France in the yacht
Of a foreigner, and, with her son, found
refuge in England.
During the captivity of the unfortunate
Napoleon at WlhelmShO he she visited him
in his place of confinement, then returned
TO England, where, after his release. he
Joined her at ChselhurSt. a pretty country
town few miles TO the south of London,
and in Camden House, formerly the villa of
a country gentleman, the twain took up
their abode, and there lived in retirement
until the death of Napoleon in 1878. Her
expectation then rested on her son, the
Prince Imperial. who entered the British
army ard was killed in a miserable skir-
mish in Zululand in 1879, and with his life
ended the last hope of the unhappy woman
OF returning to power in France.
Tue body of the unfortunate young man
was brought back to England and placed 10
til" crypt of the Roman Catholic chapel in
Chiselhurst side by side with that of his
father. Some years later more pretentiouS
memorial was deemed desirable, and he eX-
Empress proposed TO erect monumental
chapel in Chise hurst but the owner of the
property desired, being strict Church of
England man, refused to sell. Queen Vic
toria WAS interested in the matter, and sent
him personal request, but he declined to
part with his land for such purpose even
was constructed at Farnboro, where the
bodies Of the exles sleep. Some years ago
the ex-EmpreSs made an expiatory Journey
to South Africa, 10 pray on the spot where
her son fell, and at that time there was
erected a monument TO commemorate the
event which practically ended the Bona
partist hopes In France
The poor woman, even In the midst of her
splrndor, led an unhappy life for the num-
brrieSS IntrigueS Of her husband gave her
infinite distress, and more than one hasty
departure and protracted absence from the
TullerleS was caused by the presence of his
insOleut favOTites. He was never a dutiful
husband nor constant lover, for while
Offering devotion at her shrine he really
loved the English woman, Mrs. Howard.
and only by a disgrac-ful ruse succeeded
in getting the latter cut of Paris a short
time before his marriage to the Countess.
In the sTtferings of the last twenty years
Eugene has bitterly atOneI for the faults of
her previous career. but she has not grown
old gracefully. Even at her advanced years
she still exhibits an atfectation of youth. But
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ON THE GLORIANA'S MODEL.
A New Departure in The Manner Of Building
Steamships.

The new departure as embodied in the
Gloriana is of such a character that many
desirable qualities are given to the vessel
besides an evident increase Of speed. The
form of the Gloriana affords greater de-
gree of seaworthinesS and increased capacity
to carry cargo, to which may be added
many lesser advantages. Since it has be-
come an established fact that human ends
are better served by the use of steam in
the n navigation of the great oceans as well
as lesser waters, the question follows
naturally, Do the principles involved in the
design of the Gloriana apply in any degree
to the requirements of steamships for naval
or merchant service on the ocean, or to
steamer intended for coastwise or inland
water use? 1t may be answered that all
her special points would be of value in
steam navigation in greater or less degr zee.
and their adoption would be easy, adding
little to first cost nd nothing to main
tenance. 1t is demonstrated beyond doubt
that in most conditions of sea a vessel
having tine model of the Gloriana
would attain given results of speed
with less power, which means the con-
sumption of less coal. and if even a
slight saving could be effected it would be
an immense advantage. for the amount of
coal now used in the new transatlantic
steamers that perform the trip in less than
six days is appalling. In the best forms of
marine engines now in practice daily con-
sumption Of 10000 pounds OF coal for de-
velopment of 1000 indicated horsepower is
required, and when, as In Ca Sc of the large
ships now in USE, 10000 TO $4,000 indicated
horse power is required, it can easily be
seen how desirable even a slight saving of
coal would be. The same conditions that
attend the pitching and driving of vessel
of the Gloriana type would be OF prime I'M
portance to steamer navigating stormy
seas; higher speed could be maintained un-
der such conditions and drier decks would
also result, thus afforGing a greater degree
of comfort and safety to the passengers and
crew. Owing to the elongation of the body
of the vessel greater carrying capacity
could be realized, and even in part of the
oven hang some classes of freight might be
carried. The overhang could be objection
able only when in dock by requiring more
space, but at sea there is plenty of room for
any degree of prolongation, and by the
placing of suitable bnlkheads at or
near the usual water liue the over
hang would serve rs an element
of safety in collision with ship or ice,
by protecting the Immersed part of the huh
in more effectuai manner than can be
possible with the common form of bow and
arrangement of bulkhea3s. A steamship
designed with Gloriana bow would not
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air TO save you from watery grave; cuffs
and collars made of steel, painted or enam-
eled white.
Next we have trousers with double legs
on the outer legs getting sOieu or bespat-
tered you tuck them up, and behold clean
pair.
Under the head of umbrellas and walk
ing sticks we get some very laughable in
ventions. Here is one provided with win
dows, so that the occupant or user thereof
can see where he is going. Thanks to this
umbrella, a collision is avoided.
We next come to an article which the in
ventor has named (take long breath and
shut your eyes the neutrality-suspicious.
This is an umbrella which takes topieces :;
the silk and ribs being hidden within the
stick, it is thus transformed into stout
walking-stick.
Last. but not least, dear reader. we read
of sham calves in stockings. THE Strand
Magazine.
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the French people the alliance was coldly
received. There was felt for her much of
the antipathv entertained by their grand
fathers for the unfortunate Marie AntO-
nelte. On the appearance in Paris of the
bride of Louis Nannleon she was looked
upon by the populace rs a foreigner, and
even the paid shouters deceived nobody, for
one Emb iSSador after another, in writing
back TO his Government, remarked on the
lack of enthusiasm displayed in Paris at the
wedding.
The ceremony was performed in 1858 in
the great Cathedral of Notre Dame, illumi-
90 j' wax t 'rS The State carriage used
at the marriage of Napoleon [ and Maria
Louisa was brought out and dragged through
tie streets by eight Of the finest horses ever
seen in Paris, and thousands of clacquers
made the avenues ring with their we'll
meant aud well-remunerated plaudits. Ef-
forts were made by the Emperor to popular
ize the marriage. Over 1000 pOlitica
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the downfall of the imperial family hal the
Empress bern willing to reign queen OF
fashion and let politics alone. In fashion
she was supreme. She had every quality to
make her the empress of dresSmakers. but,
unfnr;unat 'ly. also every quality to render
her disturbing element at the council
board. When the Emperor Went on the
famous camI aign to Italy The En-
press was constituted Regent during
his absence. and on" taste of power
was enough. From that time on she
was constantly meddling with State affairs.
The war in Mexlrn, the French installation
OF toy Emperor. the unhappy END of Maxi
milan, the still mare miserable fate of poor
Cariutta, must all be laid at her door. As
browning crime of all the Franco Prussian
war was urged on Napoleon by his ambiti-
Gus spouse. who, directly after its COM
meneament, had the impudenee to declare
to a French Marshal. This is my war A
woman Of narrow intelligence, limited in
formation, of intense bigotrv, she regarded
the conflict as one of her faith against its
opposite, and could not conceive the posi-
Oility of defeat.
In the awful crash after Sedan the En-
press displayed the tremor OF weak woman
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The stormy day Of 1852 came on. The
best citizens of Paris, the most prominent
men of France, were arrested The en-
pire was declared by very large vote 1t be-
came polite, indeed necessary, that the
Emperor should have a partner. and for a
time the fortunes of the Countess Teba
seemed to be on the wane. The Emperor
had not forgotten his vows or his promise,
but his advisers were strongly of the Opin-
ion that a royal alliance would be greatly to
his interest and that of the State. NapO-
leon either yielded or appeared to yield, and
preliminary negotiations were opened with
several foreign States for the purpose Of
providing wife for the new Emperor. For
various reasons, however, all negotiations
came to an end. Napoleon was regarded
by some of the royal families of Europe as
parvenu, an upstart too young to
be associated with their hallOwed
names. while in the case of others, with
whom there seemed some chance of sue
cess, objections were adj yRnced by Napoleon
himself. In default OF foreign alliance
with Princess OF one OF the reigning fam
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a number of skilled seamstresses
and dressmakers and installed them
in the Tuilerles as a part of her es-
tablishment. Their rooms were imme-
diately above the royal apartments, and in
the iloar trap-doOr was eOntrived. through
which, on an elevator, lay figure, habited
in the costume she designed to wear, was
lowered for her inspection. The story OF
the dIessmakers and the trap-doOr soon got
abroad. The dressmakers were indignant,
so were their husbands and brothers and
fathers and sons. That au Empress with
the wealth Of the state at her command
should practice petty economy was not in
coDsonnanee, according to French ideas,
with the dignity Of the French Empire. In
mense mischief was done by the rumors.
the jests. the scurrilous songs that were
spread abroad News came to the Emperor
who instantly banlshed the dressmakers
from the palace. but the work was done;
the French people had begun TO laugh. and
to be- the subject of ridicule in France is
worse than to be the object of enmity.
Even this, however. might not have worked
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to balloon, the chair being connected to
the deck by a ball and socket joint. To
keep the balloon from swaying too much it
is attached to a rod above.
1.-The next piece of furniture we will take
is the bed. a man inyents four poster
which can be converted into bath. The
canopy above forms the vessel for the
the water being pumped up
through pipe in one of the four uprights.
1.-The hat or cap has received a great deal
of attention from the inventors. We find
methods patented for making it water proof,
blow-proof, for ventilating it. for draining
it and for keeping it warm, some of these
methods being as complicated and cum
brous as those applied to buildings. One OF
these hats is made of tin. another is of cop
per. Imagine the sensations Of the wearer
of a tin hat in hal-storm.
"a scientific gentleman recently patented
an electrical hat for the prevention Of head
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CAMDEN PLACE IN cH1sE1 II URsE
Insinnaritv- hnweyer

Insineerity. however greatly to be de-
plOred, is not novelty in royal households,
and Eugene might have won a measure of
popularity in spite OF her foreign birth had
it not been for curious bit of economy she
saw fit to practice. She was a perfect mis-
tress of the art of dress, siugularly ingenious
in contriviug new toilets. Her costumes
were copied over the civilized world: under
her tuition Paris set the fashion for the
globe. She was known to buy ten dresses
in a week, to wear them but once, then turn
them over to her maids of honor, or have
them ripped up to make other use of the
materials. But, though passiOnately fond
of dress, she was iudisposed to pay dress
makers prices. Indignant at the bills that
we're sent in, she determined to institute a
household dressmaking establishment of
her own. She employed designer,
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aches. Another hat has removable brim,
which can be folded up and put in the
pocket.
1.-The next novelty is the reversible hat,
having a cloth surface for fine weather,
waterproof surface for wet weather The
next has an attachment for striking matches !;
the next contains mirror.
THE next hat on my list is one intended
to protect the eyes from the sun and dust.
Just over the brim we have two apertures
for the eyes, filed with glass, gauze or other
suitable material. When the wearer is an
noyed with the dust or sun, or in the dis
tance views an enemy or dun q see | have
lapsed into poetry, he simply pulls his hat
down to his ears and goes on his way re-
jocing.
collars, gloves. stays and cri1olines have
received much attention. Here are a few
more curiosities: A child's bib with a
trough attached, the whole made of some
water proof material; pocket which can
not be picked; muff and boa filed with
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prisoners were released. He and his con-
sort made a tour Of the provinces, every
where orentng public works. appear
ing at fetes, giving balls and entertain
ments Of every kjnG, in the effort to accus-
tom his people to the thought that the new
regime was prosperity. The Empress was
not far behind her efforts to win the good
Will Of the people. The "RecolIections of
the Court of the Tuileries." by Nine. Ca
rette, are full OF stories Of the visits made
by the Empress to hospitals, to prisons, TO
the sick, to the DOOR, but in spite of the
laudatiOns of madame it is painfully evil
dent that these visits were more matters of
policy than Of benevolence. The Empress
heart was not IL the work; il was fatigue to
her. She was seen to yawn while listening
or pretending to listen to tales of distress
and people began to lose confidence in her
sincerity.