Q*€)er Ocean I aLnnw, a I tCtondcrftil W Clv& 8 Indention Great things aro promised for the new century by G. Marconi, the au thor of wireless telegraphy, say 3 the New York Press. Before the first Christmas in the 20th century he will, he declares, have England and Amer ica on speaking terms without the aid of submarine cables. One big pole erected at Southampton and another at Montauk Point will, he says, be all that is needed. The cables which now connec. Europe with America will, if Marconi fulfills his promise, become as obsolete as the stage coach became when tho railroad came in. Confluence In the Work. The optimistic electrician is confident that he can establish telegraphic com munication between the eastern and western worlds by his system at a hun dred-thousandth part of the cost of laying a cable and maintaining it. Marconi says he has discovered a meth od of controlling the sound waves so that the messages from continent to continent will be flashed back and forth close to the surface of the ocean over the whole distance. Heretofore the curvature of the earth has presented a dreaded difficulty to be overcome in the transmission of wire less messages over long distances. Marconi's new control of the sound waves, it is asserted, has obviated the difficulty. How it is done Marconi docs not explain—that is his secret— but ho says that he is confident he has found a method of doing it. He con tends that the masts erected at Mon tauk Point and at Southampton need not be higher than a New York "sky- G. MARCONI. fi jiaper" in order to make the working of the system effective. He has in vented a new appliance by which he says ho can lengthen the air waves to an almost unlimited extent. A Commercial Proposition. 1" Mr. Marconi can fulfill his prom lees, what a revolution there will be in the commercial world! The mil lions invested in cables would become lost capital, for no one would use a cable at the rates charged for mes sages when for a fraction of the cost he could telegraph by the wireless sys tem. It not only costs millions to manu facture and lay cables across the At lantic, but keeping them in repair costs hundreds of thousands of dol lars. Cable ships are kept in commis sion all the time, and they find con tinually something to do in the way of repairs on the great oceanic telegraph lines. Repairing a cable is a work of skill, science and money. A defect in the cable having been located by means * known to the telegraph experts, the cable ship steams away to the part of the ocean where the difficulty is and . drags for the cable with Its grappling ' irons. When finally the cable is picked up the repairs are made and it is again deposited upon the oozy bed of the sea. The initial expense and the cost of maintenance make it expensive to talk with Europe, but it does not cost much to erect two poles and buy a Marconi outfit. It 13 obvious that if the great Italian keeps his promise the cost of talking with the old world will be trifling compared with what it is now. California to Manila. The United States is now preparing to lay a cable across the Pacific ocean from the California coast to Manila. If Marconi can make his promise good of telegraphing without wire across the Atlantic then there would be no need for laying the cable.. The wire less system could be used and all ihe tremendous cost of establishing cable communication obviated. The distance from Montauk to Southampton is over 8.000 milc3. From San Francisco to t Honolulu Is only 2.600 mllef. From Honolulu to Manila it is about 4,000 miles. If that is too great a distance over which to operate the wireless sys tem then away station, might be es tablished on Wake island, a little piece of property something more than half way over to Manila from Hanwaii, which the United States owns. Work of the <iovernmnt. In fact, the possibilities of the sys tem, if Marconi keeps his promise, are almost infinite. The war department of the United States has been for some time experimenting with wireless tel egraphy independent of Marconi, whose system, the officials thought, did not meet the requirements of the service. So successful has the signal corps been that now all the forts around New York are connected with each other by a wireless system, which is constantly being experimented with and improv ed. The weather bureau, also recog nizing the advantages which would re sult to navigation by the establishment of a wireless electric communication between vessels at sea and exposed points on our lakes and sea coasts, and also between islands along the coasts and the mainland, has made a systematic investigation of the various systems of wireless telegraphy. The progress made has been eminently sat isfactory. New appliances have been devised by the bureau experts for tho transmission of signals and receivers have been constructed that are prob ably more delicate than any heretofore made. Messages have already been sent and received over 50 miles of land which presented a rough and hilly sur- face—conditions most unfavorable to the transmission of electro-magnetic waves. From Son to Slioro. Marconi also promises tliat before long ships at sea will be able by the use of his system to communicate with the shore. Navies are now experiment ing with his system and considerable success has been obtained. Meantime in lCngland they are trying to telegraph without the use of wire from Dover to Belgium. It looks as if in a short time a message might be sent around the world without the use of wires and that all the parts of the earth and the sea would be in telegraphic communication with each other. Deserts, mountains, oceans, time and space all seem to be dissolving before the advance of sci ence. The world could not desire a better Christmas present for 1901 than the fulfillment of Marconi's promise. Stood All Night In Water. The allied column marched to the at tack of the walled city of Tientsin on tho morning of July 13, and after a very hard day's fighting, the brunt of which fell on the Japanese, tho latter found themselves in the evening at a distance of about 200 yards from the Walls and without any hope of captur ing tho place that night. Maj.-Gen. i'ukushlma Jhen Issued orders that the men were to hold their position,neither retiring nor advancing a yard. His belief, derived from his knowledge of the Chinese, was that after the losses they had suffered during the day they would probably abandon their posts under cover of darkness, provided that they did not detect any sign of retreat on the part of the assailants. The ground then held by the Japanese troops was almost wholly under water. Only a narrow causeway leading to the gate of the city stood above the level of the water, which covered the area on either side to a depth of some tvvc feet. In that water the Japanese had to stand the whole night—and thej stood.—Chicago News. Unless you have faith in your ability you can never win a battle. AN ITALIAN FABLE. .About tlio Fort, tb® Drain, tlio Fen and the Inkstand. A poet obtained prodigious success; Beated at his table, he indulged in the 1 glorious idea of his triumph. This love of glory, common to all men, kindled in his heart a secret lire. The idea of the praises bestowed upon him made the blood circulate with violence through his veins; joy filled his entire being. His brain, stung with jealousy, thus addressed him: "You are indebted to me for your success. It was I who furnished tho ideas which have gained I you so much honor. Surely, without | me you could not have written a single word." The pen overhead this claim to ex clusive praise, and, full of indignation, thus addressed the brain: "What van ity! Without me what could you have done with all your fine ideas and fine imaginations? It is to me lie is in j debted for them; to me who have com mitted them to paper." I The inkstand then put in its word; i "Without me you could have written nothing. What could you have done had I not bathed you in my ink?" The j poet, stunned by these clamors, which Would tear from him all the glory that he had acquired, said to them: "I am equally obliged to you all; to you, my brain, for suggesting ideas; to you. my pen, who wrote them; and to you, my inkstand, who supplied the means to do so." Thus the dispute ended, j A few days later the poet published a new work; but its fate was the re ; verse of the former. Everybody I turned their hack upon him ; some I wrote satires, others made invectives against him. In a short time he be j came the laughng-stock of the world. | The poet then complained of his brain I for having suggested the nonsense. He flew into a passion against the pen I and inkstand for having contributed to put it to paper; but they all denied that any blame attached to them. The brain said he did not know how to choose among the ideas which it had suggested. The pen and inkstand re proached him for being a poet, alleging that they had done nothing but obey his will, and written 'only what he pleased. The poor, unfor tunate poet had no other resource but to hold his tongue and weep over his ! disgrace in solitude. Moral. Such is the common fate of man. When an undertaking succeeds, all are anxious to claim a share in the event. But does it fail, everybody abandons him; nobody admits that he had any share in the business, and all maintain that the fault was entirely his own. A Dinnertßtion Upon Winking. No satisfactory determination has j been made of the reason we wink. Some suppose that the descent and re turn of the lid over the eye serves to sweep or wash it off; others that covering of the eye gives it a rest from the labor of vision, if only for an in appreciable instant. This view borrows | some force from the fact that the rec ord of winking is considerably used by experimental physiologists to help measure the fatigue which the eye suffers. In another line of investiga tion Herr S. Garten has attempted to measure the length of time occupied by the different phases of a wink. He used a specially arranged photographic apparatus, and affixed a piece of white paper to tho edge of the eyelid for a mark. He found that the lid descends quickly and rests a little at the bottom of its movement, after which it rises, but more slowly than it fell. The mean duration of the downward move ment was from seventy-five to ninety one thousandths of a second; the rest with the eye shut lasted variously, the ' j shortest durations being 15 hundredths * | of a second with one subject and seven -5 teen hundredths with another; and the third phase of the wink, the rising of the lid, took seventeen hundredths of a 1 second more, making the entire dura tion of the wink about forty hun dredths, or four-tenths of a second. The interruption is not long enough to interim e with distinct vision. M. V. Henri says, in L'Annoe Psychologique, that different persons wink differently —some often, others rarely; some in groups of 10 or so at a time, when they rest a while; and others regularly, once only at a time. The movement is mod ified by the degree of attention. Pe riods of close Interest, when we wink hardly at all, may be followed by a I speedy making up for lost time by ! rapid winking when the tension is I relieved—Appleton's Popular Science | Monthly. TIH Clinnnn Dabonn. j Two officers escaping from Pretoria I were about to cross a river, when they : saw 011 the opposite bank a troop of I baboons coming down to drink. ! They were so sensible of the danger of j irritatng these beasts, or of makng the j troop utter their barks and yelps of I alarm, that they remained for two I hours up to their necks in water until I the troop retired. Some surprise was expressed that the officers should pay j regard to "a troop of monkeys." Any j one who shares this feeling may see j at the Zoo, probably for the first time 1 in 15 years, a full-grown male Chac ' | ma. A soldier writing home from the I front described a locust as "something : between a bird and a fly." This bab- I oon is 'something between a monkey j and a boar." Its head, shoulders, I tusks and muscles show immense strength, and its size is greater than j the measurements given in a recent ! work on South African mammals. It Is three feet eight inches long from the nose to the end of the body, and when it stands upright its head is four feet four inches from the ground. The ba boons have maintained their place in South Africa against all enemies, in cluding man, and are likely to do so for some years to come.—-The London Spectator. i A 40-foot channel is to be dredged I in New York harbor, and the work will i be done by the two largest dredgers I in existence/ . I A Missouri judge has hit upon an ef , j fcctive plan for getting tramps to leave j town. He sentences all brought before | j him to 30 days' work on the streets and 1 gives them half an hour to get their 1 'tools. That half hour sees them well on ! j their way. ! I .STATE or Onto, CITY OF TOLEDO, 1 , j LUCAS COUNTY, I FRANK J. 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