Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-01

Another continuance is an electric cloth =
cutting machine. This is for Use In large
clothing manufacturers shops, and II Is said
TO save One-half Of the labor while giving
better results than are obtained By any other
method. 1t does its work with the greatest
ease and precision and costs for motive
power less than IS per month.
An electric bootblack is the next novelty.
One sits in a comfortable chair, ana puts q
nickle in the slot, when at once one brush
cleans the boots and another give them q IA
diant shine.
In one of the cases the advance Of telegra-
ply is shown by contrasting Morse receiver
Of 1898 with the original Morse machine OF
1897. Near this exhibit is an interesting
witness to Cyrus Fieids's labors. 1t Is the
grapnel with which the broken cable Oh 1863
was successfully recovered
By another electrical machine the speed
and direction Of ship are Indicated ms
instrument is connected with the compass IN
such a manner as not to interfere with us
movements, and at the same time TO snow
a continuous chart for each fifteen minutes Of
. the distance traversed and any variation that
may have taken place in the course.
In submarine teegraphy the Commercial
Cable Company make u very instructive ann
interesting display. After the several 1all-
ureS Of 1857, 1858 and 1865 OF the attempt 10
connect Europe and America by cable, sue
cess was achieved in 1866 Since that year
electrical communication has remained I'M
broken between the Eastern and western
Hemispheres. and submarine telegraphs nave
multiplied, until now the different lines OF
the globe have an aggregate length OF l39,6OO
miles. The Atlantic Ocean alone is at pres
cnt Spanned by ten cables IN more or less
continuous use. The Commercial Cable
COmpany's system is composed OF two main
cables from Cape CansO in Northeastern Nova
Scotia to Waterville on the southwest coast
OF Ireland. From the latter port the cable IS
laid to Bristol. with aerial lines to the chief
cities Of England, Wales and Scotland, and
another to HaVre with an underground line
to Paris. At the American end double
cove cable runs from Cape CanSO to Rock
port, Mass, with aerial lines to Boston and
New York, and a second cable running direct
from CansO to New York. The efficacy Of
the last line was we'll demonstrated during
the blizzard of 1888, when it was the only
one open from New York to the outer world,
and messages to Boston and other places
were transmitted by way of London. Inc
total length Of cables operated by this COM
pany is $685. nautical miles. In the exhibit
here the whole process of transmitting
messages between Europe and America is
shown. An artificial cable with all the prop
critics of the real Atlantic cable is employed :;
signals sent through it and received by the
recording instruments are of the same shape
and occupy the same time il sending from
one side Of the pavilion to the other as from
one side Of the Atlantic to the other.
Visitors are permitted to send souvenir de-
spatches through this artificial cable, and by
watching their course through transmission
and reception, obtain Il correct Idea or the
: whole operation. Many people suppose that
cablegrams are received by means of flashes
of light but it seems that that system is prac
tically abandoned. The messages are recorded
on paper ribbon with a fine glass siphon no
thicker than Il hair the ribbon moves at the
rate OF about forty inches per minute and the
siphOn leaves an inky trail clear and legible