A figure in the earlier Napoleonic period i: brought to mind by the cath of a descendant of Talleyzand, the young Duc de Talleyrand-Per gord who committed si ina fit of impatience, at the age of, nineteen. He had fallen madly in Jove with a French girl, the daughter of an architect, and nothing would satisfy him but immediate marriage. When hix mother told him that he was too to marry.
id had better wait awflle, he could Lrook no delay, and shot himeelf, The bullet was extracted, but pleuvisy set in and he succumbed.
His mother, Anna Gould, the daughter of Jay Gould, the Amerijcan millionaire, was first married to Comte Boni de Cast who The Deputy Controller of the London Telephone Service, who 3 Just retiring, prophesies that ill not be long before the London subscriber is able to call up any part of she habitable globe from his residential telephone. The prospect is interesting, but not very, alluring until we know what the cost is going to be. It is already posble to telephone to San Franscise 7,000 miles away. but the cost is ibitive except to newspapers ani 1 magnates. So this advenes undertook her social ecucation—an expensive process, as she soon found out. The house, a copy of the Trianon, built for the couple at the corner of the Champs Elysees and the Avenue Malakotf, created a Jgreat sensation at the, time, Pers haps she could have forgiven' the rapid expenditure of her dollars, but, when she realized the full extent of her husband's flightiness—he was credited with keeping up seven diffi Jerent establishments at the same time—she obtained a divorce and There is no doubt that these long-distance calls are very well managed. We dre apt t6 be surprised at this London, where a trunk call to someone in Devonshire often has be abandoned because the voice comes over so weakly, but to an American it would appear as nothin; very. extraordinary However, ae: cording to the Deputy Controller, our telephone service compares very favourably with any on the Continent and, if a person in Berlin wants to call someone in California, this is done via London and then by wireless to New York.
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