Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-02

the springtime. Small persons-yery small
ones In quaint hats and bonnets, and coats
which seem much too loug for them and
give them q picturesque air of ancientry-
toddle about and tumble on the grass. and
carefully pick up blossoms which have fall
len from the trees, ,and-probsbly after sit
ting down with unsteady suddenness-
ceed to examine them with a serious air of
botonical studiousness usually losing itself
in an earnest endeavor to cram them into
a small, dewy red mouth
They are very pretty as they run or tum-
BILE or totter sbout-these little springtime
things. Sometimes one sees a small one
standing under a tree and looking up, won
deringly and rather questioningly. into the
world of snowy and pink-snd white bloom
above. 1t is 40 little, and 1t sees q great
sky there are glinpses of q sky of blue;
fallen blossoms are at Its feet: flowers are
blooming all about 1t In the bower 1t plays
In. 1t Is taken home through groves of
greenery; Il looks ont on fair forest when
1t wskens. 1t thinks the world 10 made of
fresh leaves and pinky-white blossoms, and
as 1t looks up into the branches of bloom
Its snowy petal of q soul is full of the Joy
of living.
"Bottle Papers, and Ocean Currents.
tLseut-CommAndsr Sturdy. in June ST. Nicholas l
of ocean currents there are forms which
srseaIled bottle papers." On these little
papers an invitation, in ak Languages, is
extended to the masters Of vessels to enter
occasionally upon the proper lines of the
form the name Of the weasel and her cap
tain, the date and the ships position; and
then to zeal the paper in bottle and cast
1t into the sea In other lines of this form
request Is made, In the same six
Languages, that the finder will write clear
ly the place where, and date when, any bot
tie was picked up, and by whom, and then
forward 1t to the Hydrogrsphlc Office at
Washington, or to any of our consulstes
abroad. These bottles, of course, drift in
the ocean currents. Some are picked up
soon after they are thrown overheard,
Others drift for more than a year before
being recovered. They furnish valuable
records for more correctly fixing the cur
rents already known.
Day after day these reports are received
By the meteorological office; each one is
acknowledged promptly, and then given TO
the staff of workers knoFn as nautical ex-
perts.
The result of their labor Is that on the
last dsy of every month is issued chart
on which appears all the information re-
ceiVed during the month that has gone.
The chart, then, contain q review of the
past month that is to follow.
The prevailing winds to be expected, and
their strength, as forefold by men of many
years of experience. are also given for the
month to come. The various sailing routes
best adapted for that month are manned
out, as well as the steamship routes sdop-
ted by the principal transatlantic steam
ship companies. Every floating wreck, with
Its position when last reported; each Ice
berg in Its place as met with during the
preceding month, and the fog banks, de
termined In the same way, are fixed and
shown by marks. Besides all this, the
latest charts that have been issued by the
ohce, and the last Notices to Msriners,"
are mentioned. In the upper left hand
corner is either little chart prepared in
addition on some subject of timely inter
est, or some further remarks about things
upon the great chart itself.