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

again 10 Annoy aud Shanghai. From Shang.
hal cable crosses the Yellow Sea 10 Nag
asaki, Japan, which is joined to Yokohama
and Yado by cable around the southern and
western shores Of that Empire, aud with
WladiwOdstock by cable across the Sea Of
japan. Wladiwodstock is the southern ter
minus Of the Russian line across Siberia,
line traversing the entire breadth OF Europe
and Asia, nearly a third Of the distance
round the globe!
"Surveys have been made for cable
across the North Pacific by way Of the Sand
wich Islands, to San Francisco, aud before
many years probably the girdlo Of the earth
will have been completed that way"
"Ill mark that down-when it is finished"
said Fred, demurely. THAT'S all the cables
there are, suppose"
BY no means. We have said nothing yet
Of American lines, and We have some very
important Ones"
"Oh," said Fred, "telegraph lines run
everywhere, and il would be an endless Job
to mark them all down. / may as we'll put
down the cables though"
"Well, saw bit Of South American
news not long ago which came to us by way
Of Lisbon; how do you suppose that hap
pened 2"
| aim auro 7 CANT ;,noo;ne -not if II ANNA
all the way by telegraph"
"Take your pencil then aud make line
from Lisborn to Pernambuco, South Ameri.
ca, touching the Madeira aud Cape de Verde
Island. There's Pernambuco at the extreme
eastern point of Brazil Now draw sea
line south to Bahai, and Rio Janeiro, and
extend it to BuenOs Ayres, touching at San
tos, s. Ostharina, Rio Grand do Sui, aud
Mcntevideo. Buenos Ayres is united over
land with Argentine cities and Paraguay,
and also with Valparaiso on the Pacific
Coast. From Valparaiso lines run North
and South to all the cities Of tho coast as
far as Psyta, Peru, a cable system connect
ing Calderia, Iquique, africa, Islay and Cal.
lao. Some years ago q cable was laid DO.
tween northern Peru and Panama, but it
proved failure from imperfect construction !;
so all the dispatches from that quarter have
to come now by the roundabout way Of
Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, and Pernambuco.
Formerly they had then to cross the Atlantic
twice before reaching us; but now they can
also come through system of cables by way
of Para, Cayenne, Demarara, Trinidad, St.
Croix, Jamaica, Cuba and Florida. From
Trinidad there is another cable line
connecting all the Wiudward Islands with
Porto Rico and Jamaica, from which another
limo runs across the Caribbean Sea to Aspin-
wall. From Jamaica cable crosses to San.
tiago de Cuba, which is connected with Ha-
vana overland, and also by cables touching
at Cienfuegos and Batabano. From Havana
two cables run to Punta Rassa, Florida,
touching at Key West. You won't find
Punta Rassa on the map; its merely tcle-
graph station on the coast, in Monroe county
guess that will do for one lesson" con.
cluded, as supper was announced.
IL should say so !" Fred replied, enthusi'
astically. 81 tell you what, papa! It's my
turn Monday to give lecture to our geog
raphy class, and LII just astonish the boys
with something they won't find in the book y
81 think talk about telegraphng would
be exceedingly interesting to them,-if you
do it WE'LL" l replied aud then we went L
supper.-ChriStian Union.