The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-05-31

; And II il singular how many tender res
! ollections return when discussing th
scenes ofyouth. II Was not Mrs Edward
! aud Mr.. Middleton, but II was Georgi
! for her name was George Washington
oddly cnougbl aud Jack. PRECISELY s
We were twelve instead Of forty.
i OF course shall tell the whole story
people laugh, why. lot them.
When l came back 10 New York
brought George with me ~ MrA Middle
ton. And that is al there il about H.
How Csbls Messages are Received.
Until the fore part OF November, tht
French cAtle. having It's terminus II North
Eastman. Mass, employed the. fash sys
tenn designating. Now the cable is worked
duplex on the Sterns system, says tht
Journal Of the Telegraph, using an automst.
ic recorder, by which the messages are re.
ceived in ink on narrow strip Of paper.
BY the system which has been displaced
the messages were spelled out by flashing
my Of light back aud forth across q
standard line, the right and left flashes
corresponding with the dots and dsshes Of
the ordinary telegnphic alphabet
In this system the light Is flashed by
reflection from an extremely light mirror.
which is turned from right to left by the
opposing influences Of positive and mega.
tive impulses. This system has the I'D.
vantage OF being operated with very slight
electric impulses. but also tho disadvan-
tage Of leaving no permanent record.
To secure the latter very important end
the recording instrument has been adopt.
ed. The press dispatch announcing the
change states that in the new recorder the
ink is discharged by the agency Of elec-
tricity, "and not by capillary attraction. as
in other cable recorders" This statement
is incorrect, electricity being now similar
ly employed in the recording instruments
used at Hearts Content, the Newfoundland
station Of the Anglo.American company's
cables.
A recent visitor to Hearts Content de-
scribes as follows the method OF receiving
messages at that point, The recorder is
horseshoe magnet, electrified by the usual
circles Of fine wire, and attracting small
coil. The coil is hung between
the magnetic poles, and by light lover
and thread almost az fine as the strand
OF a cobweb is connected with delicate
sphon hung In little reservoir OF ink.
The ink is electrified SO US to produce
repulsion of tho PARTICLES, making it flow
more readily through the siphon, which
outside is about the size OF . darning
needle and the interior tube is scarcely
larger than hair. The lower end OF the
,iphon rests against paper tape p,syiux
through rollers. The
whole machine is almost OF gossamer fine
ness and fexibility, SO as to minimize the
slectric strain necessary for working the
cable.
Let us imagine now that coming mes
,age has been signalled from far across the
ocean at Valentia The operator at first
opens the simple machinery that works
he brass rollers. On the center Of the
ape, as it passes the rollers. the siphon
It first marks only straight line. Sud-
lenly the line swerves TO the right or left.
The message has started and the end OF
he siphon has begun its record. Worked
" two keys and positively or negatively
Electrified, the coil swings the siphon point
low TO one side, now to the other along |
he tape. Responsive to the trained hand
II the operator, the filament Of ink marks
mt one notch, two notches. three notches;
hen suddenly II may bes high elevation
" depression, until the delicate line
raced on the tape looks like the tiny out
inc OF mountain range.
But it is range whose every hilltop. val.
~ and peak means telegrsphic symbol
D the telegrapher'S eye The recorder Is
be invention OF the famous electrician,
ir William Thompson. How delicate an
it is may be inferred from the
lct that ten jars work 1900 miles Of cable,
etween valentia and Hearts Content
lille twenty-five jars Of the same electric
over would be needed TO work three hun
red and fifty miles OF land wire; in other
ords, the recorder is more than twelve
mes as efficient for its purpose as the or
mary Morse instrument. The recorder
.aces its character on the tape about as
vt as slow penman copies letter. Be-
des the delicacy Of work, the recorder,
} its name imports. has the merit Of leav. (
,g the record Of the message. Il
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