Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-23


be telegraph, 50 he takes It's marvellous re-
Wits as matter Of course When was
boy IL was something remarkable TO
hear the same day Of what hsppeued in the
next town, Eve miles off, That's the way
the world goes; the miracle Of to-day is the
commonplace Of tomorrow. was about 10
say something Of the sort TO Fred, who
seemed 10 be looking at the map in careless
sort Of way, when he said, "By the way, why
don't the map makers put down the tsle-
graph lines--at least the main 7"
ut is only little while since there was
such thing as telegraph lino," l re-
piled, land the map makers have not learned
the appreciative importance Of them.
Would you like to know where they run 7"
"Very much" Fred replied, "though to
tell the truth 1 never thought much about
them before. think it would be interesting
to know how the news comes"
take your pencil then and make the lines
as point them out. We might begin with
the dispatch from Akyab, that had such q
long way to come"
"IIere's the place, on the coast Of British
Burmah. The nearest great commercial CEN
ter is Calcutta, which is 10 telegraphic con-
uectiOn with all the principal cities Of farther
India by means Of an overland line to Maui
mein. The news probably came frst to CAL
cutta, and from there across the country to
Bombay. From Bombay to Alden is a sub
marine cable across tho Arabian Sea, in iact
two Of them, for second line has just been
laid and another cable runs lengthwise Of
the Rod Sea to Suez."
mot SO fast, please; give me time to
mark the lines"
"After taking these long dives, over four
thousand miles in ALL" l continued slowly,
"tho news passed over land to Alexandria,
then plunged into the Mediterranean to
Malta; thence under sea again to Marsala,
Sicily; then took another long swim to Glib
raltas, thence by cable around to Lisborn,
and from Lisborn under the Atlantic again
to Falmouth, England. Taking to land
again, it passed to Liverpool by way of Lon.
don, probably, then dove under the Irish sea
to ireland, which it crossed without a rest,
then plunged under the Atlantic, following
one of the three cables from Valentia to
Hearts Content, Newfoundland, or the oppo-
sitiou cable to Tor Bay, Nova Scotia thence
along the coast overland to Boston and New
York"
What journey to make in one day
But didn't know there were so many ca
bles under the Atlantic"
There's still another one the French ca
BILE, from Brest to St. Perrie, aud thence by
sea to Duxbury, Mass; but didn't speak oil
that, as the news was English news. Have
you marked them down ?"
81 don't know where to put them" said
Fred.
alt will be near enough to draw three
lines side by side and close together from the
southern point of Ireland to the eastern poin,
OF New Foundland, just north Of Sc, Johns
aud another further south from Ireland {!
the northern point of Nova Scotia. Tn,
French limo runs straight across to st. Pierre
in the Gulf Of st. Lawrence, and then curves
round to Duxbury. A new company 10 Bal
timOre has just been formed to put dow
three more Atlantic cables. but their position
has not yet been announced"
THAT will do for the Atlantic though
while you are about it you may as well max
another line from Lisbon to Falmouth, fol
there are two, and another from Falmouth Il
Santander, Spain, across the Bay Of Biscay.
care there any moro lines from Englan,
to the continent ?"
"Yes fifteen or sixteen; across the En
glish Channel to France, Belgium and Hol
land, and across the North Sea 10 Denmark
and Norway.
Sand there are great many more in th
Mediterranean than the one you have mark
ed three lines from Alexandria, two b
way Of Gambia and the Isles of Greece, an
one to Otranto, Italy; besides several line
connecting Marseilles, France, with Afric
and the Belearic Islands, Corsica and Sar
diuia."
, "Does the war news from Turkey com
! through the Mediterranean cables 2"
"Some of it by way Of Greece, thence b
the deep sea cable through Gibraltar and th
Atlantic, or else overland through Italy
Switzerland, and France but generally
takes one or the other Of the more direC
! routes, by way of Vienna. Western Europ
is perfect network, of telegraph lines"
81 should think it would be nearer TO Ii
dia, overland, tco," said Fred.
} 80 it is, and there are several such line
through Russia and Persia and through Asi
, Minor. The most direct is by way Of Bru
sells, Munich, Vienna, Constantiuope Dial
beker, and Bagdad to the head Of Persia
Gulf, and thence by cable to the mouth {
the gulf and around to Kurachee at Ii
mouth of the Indus; or over land from til
' gulf through Beloochistan to the same pOin
z From Kurachee line runs to Hyderaba,
and around to Calcutta by way Of the PuI
jab aud the Valley Of the Ganges. AnOth'
line follows the southern course to Bomba
Mysore, and around the point Of the PeniI
Q sular to Madras, which is also connected wit
r Bombay by way Of the Deccau. From Ma
}, ras a cable stretched across the Bay Of Bel