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Show STILL FASTER VESSELS. No sooner has the interest excited ex-cited by the launch of the great Cunarder Campania subsided than there comes the announcement that the White Star line has ordered tho construction '"of the largest and fastest .vessel in the world." The new boat will be eighty foot longer than tho new Cunarder, but about the same beam, and her tonnage will be about 2,500 greater than that of the Campania. Jt is confidently prophesied that the . gii. ship will make thirty miles an hour with her twain screw. She is expected to be the first boat to cross the Atlantic in less than five days. |