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HEIGHT RECORD. French Aviator Ascends 3,400 Feet in Aeroplane.-Belipses Form er AttemPts. Mourmelon, France, Jan. 7.-All records for height attained in a heavier than air machine were eelipsed to-day by Hubert Latham, the French aviator. The height reached was between 1,050 and 1,100 metres .(between 3,400 and 3,600 feet), which is nearly 2,000 feet bet ter than the record previously held by Lathai offieially and considerably greater than the marks made unoffi eially by Orville Wright and Louis Paulhan. Excellent weather and favorable wind favored Latham's attempt. His maehine rose gracefully and on each turn of the course mounted higher and higher until it became a mere speck in th esky. In all the aviator fle w about 40 miles, and when h(, descended he was enthusiastieally greted by the spectators. FAMOUS BEFORB FORTY. Celebrities Who Achieved Fame Ear ly in Life. The story of success is the story of young men. At 9 Paganini was composing son atas, while Balfe, the great I: h ..omposer, it is claimed, wrote "Lo ; er's Mistake,' a song which was sung by the prima donna, Mme. Ves tris, in the draina of "Paul Pry." At 16 Bacon pointed out the er -.,rors of Aristotle's philosophy; Ed ward Landseer gained fame by his pictures "Dogs Fighting" and Did bim, the writer of sea songs, staged his first comedy, "The Shepherd's Artifice," at .Covent Garden. At 17 Washington Irving was de-: lighting the, readers of the morning, Mhroniele;Halevy obtained the first prize of the Academy of Paris for his cantata of "Hermione," and Chatterton, perhaps England's great fst literary prodigy, died by his own hand. At 18 Mendelssohn produced "idsummer-night's Dream;" Mey erbeer, "Jeptha's Daughter;' Schu bert, "Er King;" Bach was courtI musician at Weimnar; Michael Ange 1o executed his basso-rilievo ~of the "Battle of the Centaurs;" Da Yin e i's work was acknowledged by his master, Verocehia, to far surpass his .wn; Lope de Vega, the Spanish dra matist, had composed "Area''e;";' Savage produed his 'first comedy, "Woman's a Riddle," and Shelley wrote "Queen Mab.". At 19 Charles XII., King of Swe den, with 10f00 troops routed 50, 400 Russianms under Peter the Great at Narva; George Washington was a major; "Carro del Cieolo'' came 'from the Spanish pen of Calderon; Wilkie, the English painter, painted his 'i Pitilessie Fair," containing 140 figures. regarded as one of the most complete canvases of the pe rod; Tennyson won the Chancellor's medal at Cambridge university for -his poem "Timbuectoo," and Klop stock conceived and composed a good part of his "Messiah," the great work which gave such impulse and impetus to German literature and req the geniuns of the Fatherland. At 20 Tinteretto was one of the most prolific and popular painters in Italy; Schelling had grappled with tre philosophy of Kant; Gilileo had disovered the use of the pendulum; Ie,fayette was a major general and Garrison voiced emnaneigatiofl for the slave. At 21 Alexander stood at thre head f his airmy on the plains of Thes al. Wilberforce. entered parlia ment. and Tasso had begun his im mortal poem, "Jerusalemn Deliver e" whieh took ten years to comn pte. At 22 Paul Potter painted "The Young Bull," now in the museum at fte Hague, said to be one of the finest animal pictures on canvas; Capbell wrote his "Pleasures of nope," on which his fame as a poet rests; Farquhar had made for him self a lasting name as a- dramatist and Conde was the most famnous mnil i*arv general of his time. At 23 Browning wrote "Paracel gus," Bailey gave us "Festus," Wagner h ~d written- "Lohengrin," met- had thrilled Ireland with his patetie eloquence, Michael Angelo ~ad comrpleted "Pieta," his master pieee ni marble and Newton had dis e.vered the law of gravitation. At 24 William Pitt was Chancel lor of the Exchequer; Ruskin had wwritten his "Modern Painters," in ive volumes, which established his renntationl es England's greatest art riti; Sheridan had produced "The Rivals." Byro-n published the first panto of "Childe Harold." a.id Ros gnij proAneed his most p)opular *pera "The Barber of Seville" b e AsehnYh1s was the most falnous poet of Greece; Coleridge had fi,iished the marvelous metrical poem, "The Ancient Mariner;" Do.i John of Austria had won Lepanto and James Montgomery had written his best compositons. At 26 Mark Aintony was the hero of Rome. Hannibal was in command of the entire Carthagenian army; Charles Dickens produced his best and most popular novel, "Oliver Twist;" Howe invented the sew ing machine; Benjamin Franklin had written his ,best philosophical work, "Poor Richard;" Milton con ceived his "Paradise Lost," though not executed before he was 40; Spenser, author of the ."Fairy Queen," published his work, "The Shepherd's Calendar;" Roger Wil liams had aroused all the intolerance of New England and proved himself the pioneer of religious liberty, the first type of a true American, and John Wesley had identified his name with Methodism. At 27 John Calvin wrote his "In stitutes of' Christian Religion;" Top lady, "Rock of Ages;" Napoleon led his brilliant Italian eampaign, and Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. At 28 Raphael painted his master piece, "The Sistine Madonna;" Thomas Moore wrote "Lalla Rookh," Polloek his "Course of Time," and Lamartine his "Poetical Meditations." At 29 $cipio gained the; battle of Zana, Watts revolutionized the in dustries of the earth by making steam the most powerful ageney in the progress, of mankind, Josiah Widgwood discovered the secret for making the china which bears his I name, and Shelley died after en riching the world of literature with his unrivalled poetry. At 30, Caesar achieved his great est conquest; Luther broke the sa ble night of the sixteenth century; Charlemange had made himself mas ter of the French and German em pires; Cortez gazed on the golden cupolas of Mexico; Alexander Ham ilton had formulated our Federal comntitution; Horace Greely had founded the New York Tribune and John Howard Payne had sung his deathless song of "Home, Sweet Home." At 31, Rennie planned amnd built the London bridge; Tescot, the [ouvre; Christopher Wren was com issioned to rebuild St. Paul's Lon lon; Champollion amnnounced his wonderful discovery of the Egyp tian alphabet; Mauriee of Saxouy eured religious liberty for the Protestants' in Germany by the mem rable treaty, of Passaa and Jenner discovered the virus ~to coujnterad. smallpox and kindred diseases by vaccination. At 32 Clive established British ower in India; Rubens painted his Descent of the Cross:" Sir Phillip Sidney, one *of the brightest figure; f the E!izabetha'm age, died; Schill-; er published his history of the Thirty Years' War, recognized as the best historical .vork of Germany: Joseph Story became chief .idieo f th1e supreme court of the United Sttes, and "The Marseillaise,'' the national hymn of France, was com posed by Cc,1. Rouget de L 'Isle, so~ called from the fact that it was~ sung in Paris by a band of men who had come up from Marseiles to 13 ist in the revolution, March 10. 1792. At 33 Napoleon was emperor of France, Phil Sheridan rode on a foamin~g steed t-wenty miles, seized his retreating army and hurling it upon Early, snatched victory out of *the jaws of dlefeat,' sendi:ng him, with his hosts, flying up the valley f the Shenandoahrj Wolfe scaled the Heights of Abraham at Quebec,! dispossessed the Freneh of their pos sessions in Canada and gave two provinces to England; Correggi had produced his three world-renowned' ietures, "The Assumption of the Virgin,'' "Ecce Homo," and "The penitent Magdalen;" George Steph eson made his first locomotive; Ed ison had harnessed electricity to the ues of man; Gray wrote his "Ele gy;" Poe 'his "Raven," aind Thom as Jefferson the "Deelaration of In dependence."' Such are some of the young menj of yesterday; their success before 40 is an inspiration to the young of to-day.--Ohica.go Tribune.I Getting Baek at Himn. 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