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Show FROM THE NEWSPAPER OF FIFTY YEARS HENCE' .v. Considerable anxiety prevails over (lie nou-nriival of the sieimslnp "Electric Impulse" which left Liverpool for lliis poit 47 hours ago. She is now 19 minutes over due. Her owners say, however, she is a slow boat; and it may he possible that she was detained at Cable Station No. 10, in niid-ccean, where the African mails for America are transferred from the boats enrouie to Greenland. She was last reported Irom Ocean Station No. 6. Her electric niotots, of whi;h she has 20, are ot 10. ooo hoise-povver each, and are ot old pattern. This boat, as slow as she is, is a wonder compared wilh the slow craft that ploughed the ocean 50 years ago, when steam was the motive power. TI10 rMilu. Mart rfnl rir-il v oturl. ..mr! nn The only part electricity employed on steamers in those days was to light the boat, and the lamps gave a very feeble light as compared with the present system sys-tem Llectric Age. |