Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-31
A NETWORK OF OCEAN CABLES.
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Submarine Wires About Everywhere in the
World Except In America Waters.
The world is now so netted with
cable, great and small and new ones
are laid so frequently that there is
much demand for the services of the
cable-laying ships, says the New
York Sun. A list of the worlds
cables, long and short, set down in
tabulated form, occupies twenty large
and closely printed pages. The ca
BILE map of the world prepared by the
United States navy department shows
that the Mediterranean is thickly
netted with cable west of Malta. So
is the North Atlantic between the
hirty-eight and fifty-flfth parallels.
The North Sea, the Red Sea, and the
Arabian Sea have many cables. The
only great unbridged spaces are the
Pacific, the South Atlantic, and the
great stretch of the Indian Ocean be-
tween Madagascar and Australia.
There is no considerable cable north
of Stockholm or south Of Nelson,
New Zealand. The Black Sea Is COM
pletely girdled by land lines and
crossed by one cable. The Gulf of
Mexico is crossed, though not at its
widest, by several cables, and the
waters of the West Indies are becom-
ing thickly netted with short cables.
Coast communications in the Uni
ted States and Europe are maintain
ed mainly by land lines, but in
Africa, South America, and much of
Asia the same thing is maintained
by means Of long or short cable loops.
1t thus happens that this country,
although more thoroughly equipped
with telegraphic lines than any 9TH
er in the world, has comparatively
small amount of cable within her
own waters. This may perhaps &C
count in part for the fact that cable
making Is only just beginning to be
an important industry in the United
States.
The navy of the United States,
however, has done vast deal for the
art of cable laying. Commander Sigs
bee has invented highly affective
sounding machine for ascertaining
the depth of the ocean-an. absolute
ly necessary preliminary to cable lay
ing. Lieutenant Commander l. Tan
mel. of the navy has devised an in
genious case for deep sea thermome-
tiers and also improved thermome-
ter frame invented by an Italian ma
val officer. The navy department
has also issued an elaborate treatise
for the proposed Pacific cable route.
Dangerous When He Ate Cheese.
Sam Pemberton, who had been in
his younger days captain Of a whal-
ing vessel, was invited, with his wife,
to take tea at neighbours, and dur
ing the meal some one passed the
Captain a plate Of cheese, whereupon
his wife became much agitated and
exclaimed: "Sam Pemberton, you be
very careful how you eat cheese; you
know how 1 have to suffer whenever
you dol" All who were seated about
the table were curious to know how
1t was that Mrs. Pemberton should
suffer when Mr.. Pemberton ate
cheese, and SO the Captain explained
after this manner:
@I'll tell yer what Marian means.
Ye see, about a week after I'D left tn
ship we were visitin' our daughter
Jane down in tn city, an one night
we he'd for supper some cheese er
good deal like this, and, as I like
cheese, l ate quite er lot on it. Wall,
after I'd gone ter bed / he'd tn great
est dream you ever heerd tell of. I
dreamed that was aboard tn OIL
ship, an Their cum up such er storm
as We never see. / see there wasn't
but one thing ter do, so I yelled ter
tn furst mate: 'Heave over tn bow
anchor Wall, he tried, but some
how he couldn't dol t, whereupon 1
sprung up and yelled: Stand aside,
ye landlubber, an see me heave It,
and after Juggling a good deal over it
went But would you believe me,
tibet OIL bow anchor begun ter boiler:
Sam Pembertonl Sam Pembertonl
what be yew er doin' OPP Thet walked
me up, and what dew We s'pose I'd
did? Instid of throwing over the
bow anchor, I'd pitched Marian out
of bed. The Voice.