e' THE MARINE RECORD^ MlDOCEAN TELEGRAPH STATIONS. j„ lte tanb for Juno Ctambe* Jourpnl tnkou up tho recent l>oUI plim of «r. V . O. Andcron for founding -dcop .0.1 llgli - Iioubo?" ns n "lionoln! flpliemo" wlrloh, If «^3«l out "will fulfill ii wnnt which lm« .8l"k„. X foreo ' tho -ftrndSThUl wnvoB XtcdtoKl I'M^-n'lmUtlngwnlcr .«fh« lower icotlon it would nflsumo im un- l?,ht, o t'on n d rldo ihawwei like « hot- 1K CeTfIIbI. Journal referred to.ny.: fewlnR to ou" Iniulnr pofltlnn wo «ro de- ' i. If ftir our storrfl wnmtMjjn on our I S2±,,i.B«S ne Kl bo's; but If ft become* nSKCf„S a floating tclegrnpl, a.,,- Finn iw 1,000 miles from our «lipio», In Jd .'Atlantic, we could havewriilnw of So com "ng -term- odte twenty-fourT.ourB b0SKoTfrnrndlng mid-oceun flontlng toleSrnph •wtlom h» Ion? been d Mimed; h,M,o engineer Iim yet devlfed,un e.8 It be Mr And"?Bon, nny structure which wou 1 Mr. Aiiut.™ , j connected with r^grnph c b^e, would not h, .tor.ny weiither Snger them. The depth of »n ovtowhich the agitation of a wave renchek Jnl he irs a lureo proportion of the « nve'tf dSnCtherootlSnW«mtetablMHii «o- „ Sri".I progression nB tho depth Below the ,"„„ iV, .censep hi arlthmet cal. "In case . ol a nve * wr»of-i mile In breadth and ? «» £« In heliht. as Sir John Hnrschcl K/nhedlBpi?cemcntofwateratadepth of 1820 feet In its passage over It. would be U-bb than wi Inch, and would be Incapable of disturb ng the smallct grain of sand." Ab Atla lie waves Beldom attain these dl; menilon"; It Becms highly probable that So conitrnotion of a deep aen floating «la- on which can In all weather be, kept.In nlacels not a mechanical Impossibility. The ?,,cces8 with wblch gas-lighted buoys have w« maintained on storm-swept shoals on our "iTSX b" taken a« evidence that our, .,,.,,.1,1,; us Mr. Anderson devises rntia\e™^wni:.m,emodlfteatlo„.a.«o ffionndleng h,t..su»d moored to anchor blocks In deep water. If this much could be demonstrated the work of connecting tho atruoture wl h one ol tho transatlantic ca U.voiUd be simple-, and .he structure, r^UnPSd\1a^f,= ffiSSt toWnavlgaUon and to meteoro.ogl- cal science ANTHBACJTE IN VIRGINIA. tram Ihr Baltimore Sun Mr R. N. Pool, a Virginian, who for some vears'resided In Philadelphia, l» stopping in Snore »t Barnmn's. Ho has for a long mo been engaged In geological lnvesllBa- £ Into the mineral resomcesof the VI,- X vitlcv region. He broug.it with him -?oBdtln»r«i'n»l'i handsome fpeclmensof .nthrac to coal from a deposit near Itawley ?»clve miles Iron, Harilflonburg, on I o VallW Railroad of the Baltimore ami Ohio Astern. The coal la a pure white ash an- ffi, »hlch, h« B»^ "1,,,wa b,e ,cr "',"" Pen, 8v!v l» iyU.ni. Valley coal In analy¬ sis UUim older demicltilian the Pcnnsyl- ,ii ■nt incite, and this fact may liave led SStmto Major Ho-chkUsb«fo,e ho AmeS, Institute of Mining Engineers St there is noBanlhraclte deposit In Vlr- Jr.« worth anVthlng as.a commercial com- moX Mr. tool, following tho report of Boeera In 1880 on the geological resources otv'rg la,ha» labored In that field since im» and spent thoiiMind» of dollms nh .r,?,lmis He i-»ed tlio diamond drill SS'S rS^rSe. »>" « anthracite, and says ho fads established aia Inconlroyr.lb e at tho deposit exists In veins of three to See I "i territory forty miles in extent, of"which Itawley and Brook's Gap arc the Imsli.He considers the supply veiy great, a ml that tl,e coal is the purest anthracite known He believes that the established existence of tlds coal will be of great iidv.,,,- f « ,n Bnltlmore A branch of a few miles TZ Bro y on the Valley Railroad «111 Wd Into it and onool twelve miles o Raw- ay' wlU »l tho basin the,e. l'he Iron oia deposits of li,e same region are also said to bo very rich. m m_____ GKNt'liE HblUNDKR. HuBbanda are so stupid! Tho story In tho Jnno l" ver'ofaman who went to town wUhhlswIfo-to-doerrads, and was sorely Z olexed M missing something on his re - !tu muntir he reached homo and found he ' lmd forgo ten his wile, reminds somebody nf a woman In Philadelphia who gave her hustanTils commlsslonsto execute in Now Vork Ho telegraphed back that ho had ox- united Ave and forgo«ei> tho last. It was bolder for an Illuminated sentence for a aSndSy-BChool room. He a was good deal 8S,fd »lien ho received the leply: ^Tto u. this ,1^ a chlldl. bom-two feet Wide and nine feet long." TliB LUMBER INTEREST. From the SI. Paul Pnu, The lumbermen havo shared more largely than any other class of men the apprehen¬ sions foe the snToty ol the crop, and lound considerable consolation In yesterday's ruin. They have passe'd flip stage whero a rah, Is of value for Its ability to bring down tho logs, but with the over production which has taken placo, thoro Is probably no Intoiest which would suflor so flcilously ns lumber¬ ing should there not ho throughout the Northwest the present year a good Inlrcrop. A prominent lumberman remarked yester¬ day that In tho event of a crop failure thioiighotit the-Northwj!8t lumbor would bo sold as low as $10 per/fjlWO. At tho present lime very .little store Is placed upon tho Northwest trade, and tho statement 1b vory generally, made that trndo Is only fair. Stock' are about 15 per cent larger than they ucro at this tlmo laBt year, and the production since tho sawing season was commenced has not been larger than tho sales during the same time. Tho receipts of lumber at Minneapolis during tho past week were elghty-BOven oar loads, andlho .shipment* 215 car loads. Avery considerable part ot tho receipts are of hard lumber, tor which there Isii good local demand. Trade according to these figures does notvnry ma¬ terially Iron, week to week. Tho shipments of lumber do not represent more than a third part of tho sales, local sales being idoublo the amount of that of shipments. I There la no promise of an Increase of trado until alter tho harvest, and much Isdufenu'- ent then upon the yield that la secured. Logs are running in fieely, and there is a plentllul supply. This condition of affairs Ib sure to continue, and tho log matter Is no longer a problem.—Thoro will be more than Will bo needed. Tho river Is full of logs be¬ tween tho boom limits and Aitkin, and a steady and bountiful supply la assured the mills. None ot lira manutacturers have be¬ gun to run nights yot, and until compelled lo by tho necessity ot taklngenre gf the logs there Is no purpose to Increase the produotlon beyond lu natural limits. Camp & Walker have received tho last bill for tho Canada Pacllle under their contract, amounting to about *2,5uO,000. When this otder has been tilled the It, in will havo furnished about 31,000,000 leet to the rall- Kiad builders, all the timbers and lumber for more than 1,000 miles of railroa.l west of Winnipeg and to the summit of tho Rocky mountains.. ' Negotiations which have been (ending be¬ tween T. B. Walkui and citizens of Gr.ina Forks looking to the construction of an ex¬ tensive saw mill nt the Folks by Mi. Walker have fallen through. Mr. Walker annually cuts on the Clearwater and in the Rod Lake lumber country about 15,000,000 feet of logs, only about 5,000,000 ol which he will get out this year. The logs have suppIied'Win- nlpeg nulls heretofore. M'hJ. Cirrnp estimates that there will be carried over this year In tho woods and In the booms here fully 175,000,1)00 feet of logs or a near approach to supply necessary for another years sawing, W. E. JuIiuhoii, boom master, and S. W. Farnham leave ^to-day tor a trip up tho river to Inspect the condition of the drives now very geueijilly to tho main rlvor. They u 111 bo absent several days. The rear of the main chive was at Altklu yesterday, and all the logs, with the exception ot a tew old logs coining out ol'the prnhle, were on their way to Minneapolis. Maj. Camp leaves this evening to look afiei his lumber contract on the Canadian Pacllle, and till go us far as the Simkatehc- wan ciusslug. DANGERS OF BOATING Tho yachting and boating season Is at Its height, and never was tho sailing pastime mo,o popular. Rich men are proud of coBtly and tlnoly equipped yachts, and boys go Into' ccstaoles over cockleshell sailboats and on- hoes as light as a feather. In the nasslon for light ,u,d handsome oanocsand Bailboats, the danger from upsetting, and consequent diowniiig, seems to havo boon almost lost eight of, Bovb Mid men aro Bailing In ca- noes not weighing ove, 40 pounds with all their equipments. Thov got luto such flim¬ sy craft, and fasten themselves In, aaltworo, by ilcckB which shut tight around their bodies, and a«y accident which overturns tho canoe leaves the, men head downward under, tho trail cntft. The sailboats are even worae, The deairo for fast Balling has equipped such craft with canvass all out of piupoitlon to tliclrsizo and weight. J'hore has ]i.*t,bec„ built at South Boston n Ball- boat about \i feet long and 4 feet breadth of beam. It la decked tivcr, all but a cockpit largo enough tor two pcrabus to sit In. On this boat Is to bo hoisted u shouldor-of-mut- loti sail ol 24 feet hoist and 18 feet spread. Tho boat weighs 175 pounds. No ballast Is to be used, beyjind it 50-pound Biind-bag In the bow. Jwcli u boat Is a complete man trap,audivor.ltot all.lt Ib the property<ol twu boys who will use It at Martha's Vine¬ yard. It la not stninge that Boston harbor has already been guilty of 10 or 13 deaths bv drowning this season, each attributable to tho oareicaB ubo ol, or to badly-construct- od, aallboatB/ Where Is the letiiecly? Stop, the boating craze! It cannot be dqne. It must run Its dourso Jlke all other popular sports. But lllo preservers might be pro- vlded-they should be compulsory. Yet all iinvbody can do Is to BUggesfa lite preserver may become popular. A lew pounds ot cork Bhavlngs made Into a hassock forms a neat and convenient boat or canoe seat. What are Its other merits? If It holds halfa bushel ot cork shin lugs and Is madeol good can¬ vas, It has a supporting power on tho water of over 25 .pounds. The body of a good- sized man with head above water, hardly weighs 10 pounds.- A cork haBBOck sufll- clently largo for a neatatid comfortable Boat, will keen two men afloat so long as they hang onto It with both hands. It should be uroUded with beckcts or handles—handy to carrv It by—to bo seized tho moment there Is any danger of the boat upsetting. Such a handy buataeatjlllght becomo an efficient llfe-pre'aervoc, ami' every boat shoulU~|bo equipped with one for each- person. The cost would be a mere trifle. Cork shavings uie worth about fifteen cents per bushel. BAD LUCK. from llarprr'i Magailm/iir Augail^ Major C-----is exceedingly fond of iho game of whist. On one oecaslun he whs speaking ol the way In which adverse luck will somellmes pursue a man. and remarked that he once p'ayed a who'e season at iho While Sulpliui dniings ami never held a trump. Some one iu the company suggested that that »as Impossible because he must have held at least one trump every lime he dealt the cauls. But the major replied, "Every time 1 dealt It was a misdeal." lie illustrated tho same Idea In anothor way. He said ho wu* once In a party when the pinposltlou was made to throw djco for drinks and cigars. He threw several limes, null every time the dice came out aee, deuce. He *as vexed, and threw them with all his might against tho wall ot thuTuoni. When lie nent lo pick them up' fiom tho floor he was eun4roiilo.il with the same one ami tun spots. Ho went to the window and pitched hmas fur at he cmld Into tins yuul. The next day ho foil like trying 1,1b luck again, and not having anothor pair of dice, he went out into the yard to hunt them up. Stooping down and peering closely Into the grass, hise}es dually rested upon theaie. lie was so mad that he made a mental re¬ solution that If the other die was found with the deuce ui) he would swallow them, lie found It at last, and If was tho deuce. He swallowed them boil, forthwith. Five minutes later, he became dreadfujly alarmed at what might be tho consequences of his rash act, nnd took a strong emetic. The dice were soon deposited on tho grass again. "Ami as sure as you are alive," said tho major, "theie lay tho aame old ace, deuco." SUGAR* OF HOCK MAPLE. Tromllu Uulon Traveller. The following-paper on the Acer Sacchar- Inum, Is by Jacob W. Manning, Reading, Massachusetts: , , This la In a brond sense an American tree, for It extends from tho extreme castorn part ol Nortlt/Amerlea to tho Eastern Rooky Montalns, and from the highlands of tho eulf States to tho watcr-shed.between the waters of tho St. Lawrence and Hudson Bay. In all tills territory It Ib found at frequent Intervals on elevated land and along rivers, and Ib at home In all rocky formations. This tree is often from three to live foot In dlameter,jmd 70 to 80 feet high, largo and straight enough to make shlp-kcole, growing naturally wltnoufany aid trom man. I measured a tree In Northampton, Mass., that had been planted 00 years, that was 11 feet 0 Inches In circumference three feet trom tho ground; oven this la (mall com- pared with some natural trees seen In old '"riio wood is ploao-gralned and solid, and »noof tho handsomest of all light colored woods for fumlturo and house llnish. Iho bird's-eye, cnrley and branched maple vo- ncors that make such a rich and varied flu- lah are from It. I> li almost the only wood used In the manufacture of boot and shoe lasts, for which a surprisingly large amount Ib used, and lu many other Industries whoto A solid and close-grained, but light wood Ib "iccesHary. As fuel It Is but llttlo excelled bv any other wood. No other native plant giowth produces such delicious syrup as the rock maple. A sugiii o,chind Is a valuable addition ton farm I even one street and law n trees can bo tapped without Injury; they appear to grow bb finely and Uveas long as those not robbed of their sap, which ono would suppose was Ihclr vital (lull!. , , , , „ As a street, lawn oi park tree. It Is Justly valued as one of tho best Ameilcan trees, t Is tinIfty,comparatively liee from insects, nnd iBKiiio. to grow into a well-balanced tree In nearly every locality. The shado la very denae, and yet graaa will grow quito freely under" single specimens where the wind blows off Iho loaves. In planting, to prevent monotony. It Ib well to Intersperse other trees or different outline, tl'lio gorgeous autumn hues of our forests aiil hugely duo to this maplp. I wl - named aite*W N. Y., on a cloudy fall duv ,n suburban home grounds, laid out bv the lamented A. J. Downing, the -very best eflccts In tho varied hues taken on by this trco; Interspersed among other kinds each with ltfl own peoul'ar autumn color, and some Btlll green, but tho rock map|e outshono them all. ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC. " Neyroneufhas studied tho rclatlvo trann- mission of sound through air, carbonic oxide, carbonic acid, and tliumliiatliig-gas. Tho sound In transmitted through a tiibo two metres long, containing tho gas experiment¬ ed upon, and the Intensity Is studied by no¬ ticing tho distance nt which n tcnsltlvo flame, ceases to be acted upon by It. Ho finds that' air and oarbonio oxide havo the samo trans- . mlsBlvo power, air and llliimlnatlng-gns give very variable results, and carbonic acid has a much greater transinlsslvo power than air. : A tablo of results for air and carbonic acid' la given.— Cumptei rendu*. Two vessels recently built by the Messrs. J. & G. Thompson havo been compared to- determlne tliulr- relatlvo economy as a moans of transportation as affected by a con- Bldornblo dlllcreuco in proportions. One was 800 feet long, 42 feet beam, and drew 18- fectof water: the second was 875 by 45 by 20 feet. , Tho longer vessel had less flno ends- tban the broader ship. The former required' 5,100-liorse power to drive hot' 15 knots an, hour, while the latter only demanded 3,000. At 13 knots the power demanded,was tho same for both; but at higher speeds the difference became greatorand greater, anib more In favor of tho Bhorter, broader, but flner ended vessel. The gain to bo expected* from giving ships greater beam, and, nt the samo tlmo finer ends, U expected to be oh' served m. larger and faster vc"aaolB.—Mechan¬ ics. Profcasor R. R. Worner, of tho Technical high school at Darmstadt, pub'lshes a pnper describing his trial of a compound engine driving a mill in Augaburg. The engine Inn an indicated power of 182 horses. Tho cyl¬ inders have a proportion of 2.75 to 1; they aro steam-jacketed, as is the Intermeillnto reservoir; tho ratio of expansion is 14. Tim boilers carry a pressure of about 7 atmos¬ pheres, and tho Btenm supplied contains 3- per cent water. The steam-jackets coi,- deme about 11 percent ot tho steam, nnd the cylinders demand about 7 kllogramms (15.4 lbs.) of steam per horsepower and per hour, besides that condensed In the Jackets. This Is about the amount required as a mln- Imuinjj, the best-known English and Amer¬ ican engines. In thla country a .very simi¬ lar flgureiias been reached by CorlissandJ Leavltt.—Ze(t«cnr. tier, deufch. Ing., May; Grlveaux arranges a glass tube and a bar of pine wood of equal length, lor experi¬ mental demonstration of Bound, bo that tho passage of a pulau through either tho column of air In tho tube or the wooden rod shall move one of two light screws, and sp break an electric contact. The current from a bat¬ tery la divided, and passes Into the two colls of a differential galvanometor; the light screw reBtlng on the end nf the rqd being placed In one circuit, .and a similar screw,, resting on a membrane closing the end of tho tube, In the other. The resistances are bo arranged that tho needle of the differential galvanometer remains normally nndeflected. II a sound Is produced by a striking drum, the needle of the galvanometer Is deflected In such a direction as to show that tho con¬ tact Ib broken by tho movement of that scrow reatlng on the end ol tho wooden rod, thus illustrating the greater velocity of the soiind-wavo in wood than in air.—Journat \phyt., May.________ A PAPER STEAM LAUNCH. In tho Maritime Register of May 30th mention was made that a paper steam launch was being built nt Lanslngburgh. N, Y. It has been ordered by the WeBtlnghouso Ma¬ chine Company, of Pittsburg. It is a steam launch, length of keel 20 feet; breadth of beam, 6 feet; depth of hold, Steel; length over all, 24 feet; draughtol screw, 24 Inches; length of shaft, 8 leet; weight without ma¬ chinery, 1,000 pounds; seating capacity, 3 tons. Tho craft Is built in two sections nnd jointed on thc'keel. Tho sheathing Is a solid body of paper, three-eights of n» Inch thick, it quarter nf an Inch thicker than on rjuiing boats. A bullet from a revolver llied at tho sheathing, at a dlstauco of four feet, neither penetrated nor mado an abrasion. Experi¬ ments haVo shown ll Is Impossible to snitk or soften the hull or Increase the weight by the contact of walei. A paper vessel of a tiili'kncBS corresponding will, the hull of the launch, piepaied without paint or out¬ side protect Ion, was placed In the water last October and remained eight monlliB. It shows no sign of inoistue, lustdo nor evident o ol disintegration. The motive power of tho craft will a WeBtlnghouso engine of six horse power, 2,000 revolutions a minute. Tho engine and machinery will be placed In the boat at an early day, whenn tiial trip will bo made. .THE POETIC IDEA OF MAN REAL¬ IZED. "Can a man *er\u iwo masters?" Cer¬ tainly, Bailors on schooners on.—Tha Judge. A man will rant around as If mail If his better-half aska hlu, to get up at 5 a. m. on a cold day and build (be kitchen fire; but he will suffer like a martyr with Itching piles and spend an extra dollar on beer to dtown tho pah, Instoad of investing a Binall amount In Swnyne's Olntmsjit for 'removing tho Itching and soroncBs. Verily the poet has well (aid, "What fools these mortals bo." >■ m-------------- One of guxjsgchanges has tho following card. -*V ^. .,.,.,., "cms, KINO, Steamboat Butcher.' What kind ot an artist would that be? c