Show miscellaneous THE LONDON TIMES PRINTING OFFICE A correspondent of the evan evangelist clist has paid a visit to printing house square and passed through b h the various offices of the london times excepting the ello ILlo lions ros iOs deny den 12 which no one ia is permitted to enter or have communication with unless by writing this is the office of the three editors in chief the writer says at the right hind hand of 0 the square is the office foi bof advertisements looking like a busy and crowded post office the advertising of the times ig li immense everything about the times effii office is done with the utmost system and economy there is a place for tor everything and every hing is in its place there ia is a perfect division oe of labor and ani a place for each division you enter a long roon room on the ferst first floor where is got ready for stereo typing for wun with the exception of a single page left open till the last moment for the latest intelligence every particle ot of the paper is stereotyped before it goes to preb pros A part of this room as well as one of the ibe same size above it is used by the compositor compositors these are always at wok work day and night having two sets of hands in another room were two tele telegraphic apparatuses one communicating wi with t t the e office of reuter the king of oe telegraphs the other with both loth houses of parliament what comes cornea irom itom louis napoleon or Palmera tona brain is bere here almost as goon soon as anitis it is there thede the department part faTt ment kent of the proof readers ia is prominent and complete every word and point undergoes 9 oe s the utmost scrutiny the stereotyping was tome to me the point joint of c culminating later latema cot to det up a single page eaga of the times takes six men eight hours and there are sixteen pages from the moment the form yorm la Is finish d until it is reproduced in stereotype is exactly twenty five minutes away it is whirled to the press and another page quickly follows in stereotyping tissue paper ia Is laid on the types and over that pasteboard the whole is subjected to heavy pressure the impression thus obtained is enclosed in a mould the metal is poured on it and the work is done exteen S eteen tons tens of paper are consumed each day from the times office sheets are sent forth daily I 1 have not noi time to speak of the luxury of the reporters room of the library or the multitude of things curious and useful that were shown to me and now said 1 I when the gentlemanly conductor had bad taken me the establishment can you let me see jupiter the head bead 12 he answered solemnly he is invisible he is to be communicated with only by writing JI THE POPES TIARA A letter from rome in th the c T temps e contains the 1 the festival of 0 the golden rose ia Is approaching 1 that at da day is ls called in the ecclesiastical style ide Ice tare j rejoice Ze Joice 0 Jerusa lemil leml the rose is not given every year it is sent about once in every five years to some princess sanctuary or city the empress eugenie eugenic and queen isabella of spain have bethre both received e elved it pope alexander VI kept the golden rose in his bia own family given to caesar and lucrezia borgia his son and daughter henry hinry VIII of england received it with wilh the title of defender of the faith A general error prevails concerning the tiara hornby worn by the pope it is a tall conical close fitting cap having on it three crowns place dabove each other the whole surmounted by a cross until the time of boniface VIII in 1300 the tiara of the roman Pon pontific pontiffs tifis had but one crown boniface added a second probably to signify by a crown over a crown his sovereignty over kings A french pope benedict XII added the third certain mystical reasons are aro area aroa a tri trl tributes buted to him for so doing he is bup sup supposed rosed to have imagined that the gret first signified the church militant the church suffering and he be wished also to represent the church triumphant the tiara designates the material empire and the mitre the episcopal power before the pope begins officiating be he wears the tiara but during the service it is placed on the altar and the mitre replaces it on his head bead all the popes have not had a tiara made for them expressly the tiaras alaras to the number of seven or eight since the great schism have passed successively to each pontiff in of the vatican and are state property before the revolution until the time of VI the pontifical treasury contained the famous tiara of jules 11 II paul III lil gregory XIII and clement VIII they were of great varue value aue as pius VI at the treaty of tolentino gave them to represent several millions of francs by that treaty the papacy lost all the giaras tiaras after the french concordat napoleon I 1 presented a new tiara to pius VII in the making of this tiara which was effected at paris a number of diamonds belonging to the old tiaras alaras were used as well as a bup sup superb erb emerald belonging to gregory I 1 XIII the napoleon tiara as it is called ia is still in the service of the papacy it has been repaired repa uepa red ted several beveral alveral times and now serves for plas pias P IX X ana B nd was albo also made mada use ot by leon lson xa plus pius VII and gregory XVI its HB value ia Is and its we weight waight I 1 is alb of gold rubies pearls and diamonds this tiara ia is rarely worn the napoleon tiara was the only one possesses ed by the pope when in 1855 1555 the queen of spain sent another weighing alb and worth about the three crowns in the Isa isabella beila tiara are similar while in the napoleon one they are varied it contains precious stones the top of the crown consists of a single sapphire GREAT GAIN 11 IN THE OF THE UNION ARMIES durigg DURING THE LAST FouRT FOURTEEN een LEN MONTHS washington correspondence dated h february to the new york tribune says it appears from official figures that the gain of our armies in men bia sin bine sine e january let ish 1863 appears to have been as fol tol follows loAs ioas volunteer recruits from january 1863 to november 1863 volunteer recruits from november 1863 to january 1864 te to february 1864 product of draft of 1863 deserters returned to the army from may to december 1863 1663 invalid corps re enlisted veterans total it if we add to this number the colored troops now org aried zed and doing service we have a grand total gain since january let iet 1863 of men deducting from this number the loss of men official by the casualties of last year disease and battle we still have an aggregate gain of over men in the stated period the greater portion of which was obtained between november 1863 and the present date from the above table it also appears that the ag aggregate gregath credits of volunteer recruits and re enlisted veterans to be ghen gh en on the two last calls for and men respectively will reduce the number to be conscripted in the coming draft from the country at large to the secretary of war is reported to have said some time since that our armies will be larger in point of numbers bombers in the coming spring than at any previous period of the war the above official cial clai exhibit should satisfy the public mind midd that his predictions predict ions iona will be realized LAWS OF or HEALTH the cornhill AM magazine for february hab haa an excellent paper on training in relation to health healtha healthy written from the common sense point of view the writer protests against the absurd and as regards children cruel idea that there are absolute rules of training which would it obeyed benefit everybody everybody for example tells telis the dyspeptic to take more exerciser the simple reflection fiet flet tion that exercise exercisers is a call upon the energies and uses up a proportionate amount of nervous and mus eniar enlar force will suggest that to task energies already over tasked is very injurious after a walk of twenty or thirty miles or any other fatiguing exercise no one thinks of sitting down to his books and papers and beverly working his brain for bome some hours agurs but there are many who would urge a walk of twenty miles after severe brainwork brain work in the belief that exercise would be so strengthening 1 some exercise is necess necessary arys of f course but its limit is the sense of fatigue natures own protest against further exertion the writer too adduces a remarkable and is as far as we can remember a novel point the pette perfect CA health and ana superhuman digestion of most moat servants who are actively employed all day but who live almost entirely in doors the illustration would seem to prove prore that the air is not exactly the panacea w we e are accustomed to believe and in fact there is ao no such thing as a panacea the great majority of the nervous over cultivated seden tary ary men who require these rules know each nan man for himself what suits him best beat and the benefit which one gets from a dose of sea air the be other obtains from a dose of iron an observation ib of the class continued for some years rears inclines a writer in the spectator to believe in four empirical rules oe of which per haps laps only the last is absolutely certain 1 toba tobacco Fo bacco c harmless harmless in itself is lo 10 0 o all such men most injurious 2 brandy is better for them hah han than wine beer better than brandy abstinence better than all the three 3 tea is poison loison 4 change ia is as essential to them is as to the great majority of women and for the he same reason the preponderance of the nervous element in their frames or in more correct langua language gep the tendency of the spine oward toward an irritable condition DE DEATH atit OY THE KING or BA bavaria atia aLIA maximilian 11 II king ot of bavaria who expired at munich on the loth of march after a very short illness ia in the year ot of hib hia age was the he third king of bavaria being a granason grandson at of maximilian 11 I 1 who in 1805 exchanged his hia title tille of elector for that of king and a son of king ludwig 1 I who gained considerable popularity by his liberal patronage patrons ge of the fine arts Maxa millan succeeded to the throne in in march 1848 in consequence of the abdication of his father the political history of bavaria during his reign attracted but little attention abroad during the last years of his life he took an active part in the negotiations about a reform of the federal constitution of germany in the conflict with denmark maximilian strongly opposed the policy of austria and prussia and insisted on the right ot of the federal diet to decide the difficulty without regard to the london treaty cf of 1852 at which the diet was not represented and whose proceedings had haq ad never been ratified by baa bavaria aria arla in vi in this I 1 view ew maximilian saw himself supported by a ma majority arity ot of the governments Goven ments ot of germany 1 and thus he for some bome time controlled the decisions of the federal diet the brother of maximilian 0 ho was wag ele bated in 1832 by a successful revolution to the throne of greece but bat again deprived oe of it by another revolution in 1862 like his faher father maximilian distinguished dished himself as a liberal patron of literature and fine arts and appointed to the chairs of the bavarian universities and especially to that of his bis capital munich many of the most distinguished hed scholars of germany such as liebig siebold carriere and giebel he is outlived by his bis father king ludwig born 1845 who succeeds him under the title of ludwig 11 II and prince otho born in 1848 CRIME AND VICE IN CHICAGO the chicago tribune gives an alarming picture of the prevalence of vice in that city it bays says not a train arrives in chicago that is not freighted with prostitutes of other cities and their attendant cavaliere cavaliers cava liers roughs boughs pimps and villains of every degree the painted d harlot hariot walks our streets unblushingly and elbows her way into the railway cars sitting on the same seat and talking familiarly fa with those who if they knew knevi her character would regard speech and touch as moral or physical contamination citizens visit their houses bouses because they know they run no risk of detection young men and boys are sowing the seeds of moral and physical disease will one day ripen in a rich harvest of crime and death innocent girls are seduced the sanctity of the family circle invaded houses of ill repute and houses bouses of assignation spring up tip al all ail over the city and the men whose sworn duty is to suppress vice and irr lir morality have taken wicked men and women into their confidence and in the abundiat ce ot of thir th ir evil designs have accorded to crime the same protection they extend to virtue P FRANI franl FRANKLINS CLINIS MOUE mode franklin had bad a capital mode of deciding difficult qu questions scions st ions lons ile lie took a sheet of paper ruled a line down the middle in red ink and then entered on either elde side the argument for and against this er he be kept on his writing table for several a ays and keit kent when any new argument presented it itself yit e to b him in he wrote it immediately in its Us proper place when he ho found round thatus that no more mor reasons presented themselves that the subject BO so far as hla hia capacity and facts went appeared to be exhausted he tie began the labor of sifting this mass it he found an article in one column balanced by one in the opposite he struck off both if he be found one that took two to balance it he erased two on one bide side and one oa on the other by this process he finally found himself with no arguments left in one column or with but a few and these greatly greata dis proportioned to those in the other by empting adopting this method on all difficult and and important occasions he acquired that reputation for soundness and judgment in which he has no rival either amoia among our revolutionary sages or their successors except in washington alone if men generally would adopt this plan or one similar to it there would be fewer erroneous opinions formed what the world needs is not so much books looks as more accuracy in thinking not so much more learning as more knowledge which though often confounded with learning is a much better thing reading like conversation is only a means to arrive at an end men alen who live in coteries by themselves or peruse only books and newspapers of a particular sect or party are invariably one ope sided in their op opinions nion s H he e who studies only one bide side of the question ia is realy as ignorant as one who does docs not study it at all and is infinitely more be belt self I 1 fl f L sufficient he is like the knight who saw the silver side of the shield and aria was ready to fi ht to the death earb thinking the whole shield was waa silver with saw the golden side and was as ready to do battle that it was golien there are more of us than is generally known as foolish as the two knights in politics and social sciences and even religion we are apt to 0 run riot in delusions simply because because we are too oo 00 lazy to get at the truth or do not know how low LExa examiner miner THE MUSEUM or OF MONARCHS the emperor napoleon III lii has established at the louvre already so rich in curiosities and treasures of art a museum of monarchs here will be collected all the personal memorials which can be secured of the sovereigns who have lave ruled over france among those now to 0 be seen in this interesting c collection ol lection are the following arms and fragments of royal ornaments belonging to ChU deric a curule chair ot of Dag Dago dagobert bert beit the prayer prager book sword and tre of Charlemagne the breviary and baptismal vase of st louis the armor worn by francis L on the famous field of pavia the tha prayer brayer book of |