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NAUTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC, electric light. Every steamer on the seas, ' ne te and rivers too, should glitter with it. in ibe Sere arMakine a Oia The following officers of the Toronto yacht The mill started at Algonac again last soy Baye bees elected sar she onsutng i boall week sawing ship timber mostly. 6. P. Magann: captain, G. F Duggan: The Amertcan Luraber Company will put | secretary, H. F. yatt; treasurer, W. H. in a $16,000 dock at St. Ignace, Parsons; committee, H. W. Hanlon, I. Qos- Captain’ Kiah, is to sail the Celtic next] grave, C. J. Townsend, J. George, W. Dick. season in place of Captain George Malcom-| gon, ‘The club is in a flourishing condition, son. ; General Grant and Senor Romero have Captain Burroughs, who formerly sailed completed the Mexican treaty and delivered the Dromedary, has purchased an interest] it to the Secretary of State. It is not pub- in the propeller St. Magnus. lished, but is understood to allow sugar, The propellers Cuba, Armenia and Cali-} tobacco and hemp to enter our borders free, fornia are expected to turm a line next sea-|and to allow us to send agricultural and son, between Montreal and Duluth. pining taplem sale and Y-rtiaoyl 4 bd peering The schooner Matthews, of Rochester, | fee. er articles are of course enumerated, wintering at Ogdensburg, is receiving ex-| but these are the more important. tensive repairs. The new American steamers building by The Armstrong is maintaining her trips, John Roach for the Brazil line are now ready terrying cars between Brockville and Mor-|t© commence monthly service stopping at ristown with great diilicuity, Newport News and the India Island going ‘Yhe schooner L. J. Carney was wrecked | U4 and returning direct. ‘The projectors of © SO NOCN EL. Hey «Varney il the new enterprise expect to open a valuable on the New Brunswick coast and all on} narket for American products, including board perished manufactured articles in considerable vari- The Marityne Register complains that ety. $5 % New York harbor is being seriously injured Three immense dred . A Fi d 2 ges for excavating by ashes and refuge dumped into its waters | t¢ Panama canal are being constructed in almost daily. 4 . Philadelphia. One was recently launched. The enormous sum of $202,000,000 is in-| It is believed that this is the largest dredger vested in the sub-marine cables of the worid, 4 in the world, being 100 feet long, 60 feet in supposed to aggregate 64,000 miles in length. breadth, and 12 feet in depth. It is named Captain Alex. Cuthbert will build a hand-| the “Count d’ Lesseps.”? ‘The second of some steamyacht for J. W. Champion, of | these boats will be launched this month, and Belleville’ Ont. She will be 63 feet keel and| the third in March, ‘They will cost, with 936 feet beam. their machinery, alcogether $400,000. in the twenty-mile ice-yacht race for the The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette has championship of America, KE. Harrison San- collected some interesting statistics of the ford’s Avelanche, of the Poughkeepsie Club, | calamities occurring in 1882, The deaths won in fifty-seven minutes, are given as follows: Railways, 820; tor- ‘The ice harvest on the Hudson has been nadoes, 396; boiler explosions, 198; floods, completed, and the crop is the largest ever | 163; deaths on lake, 150; mining explosions, gathered, while the quality was never 132; fires, 128; powder explosions, 83; snow- equaled. ‘I'ree million tons are under roof. a slides, 81; falling buildings, 72; fiieworks The gunboat Redwing, with provisions explosions, 49; lighining, 26;’dynamite ex- for the starving people of {nnismurray, was ! plosions, 11. prevented by heavy seas from reachingthe| The jetty work at Cumberland Sound island. : seems to be in the same condition as that at ‘Two hundred and fifty teams crossed the | the mouth of the St. Johns. ‘The appropri- ice between Ogdensburg and Prescott on ation is just about enough to keep the work Friday, and a still larger number on Satur- | Where it is, and there is no hope of its being day. pushed to completion at either point very The Ohio river is on a big boom. Wednes- soon unless Congress shall recognize its im- day evening it was over 65 feet high, which portance and give the contractors enough was the greatest height it has ever been money to do something more than repair known to attain. damages. ~The scriptural doctrine, “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” will not ‘The Ogdensburg Journal says that some people in that city nailed up their win- work in the building of jetties. r = ps dows in anticipation of Wiggins great storm The Oswego Post says six gentlemen of promised tor last Friday. Fulton are having sleepless nights over the p b . ‘ +o = beans appointment for superintendent. Captain Archie McMaugh ie to remain|They might as well cease their anxiety as ashore next season to look after Mr. Neelon’s | the thing is as good as settled, and Mr. P, ew composite ship now building by the ShickJuna’s. McCann has a sub appointment under Mr. Nellis, and Mr. Baker has presented him During the month of January 33 steamers | with a horse (for which he is very thankful) of an aggregate tonnage of 46,649, cleared | to drive. Oswego Fallscan take care of the the port ot San Francisco with wheat and | canal business, and those Fultonians might flour. ‘he wheat weighed 1,429,720 centals and was valued at $2,333,570, and the flour as well go to sleep, even if they have to take aggregated 31,541 barrels, valued at ¢265,781. an opiate. E : Nearly $300,000,000 is the estimated cost McCormick & Co., the new owners of the steamer Hawley, will vastly improve her for of the proposed ship canal from Bordeaux, the season’s business. ‘I'he old engine will on the Bay of Biscay, to Narbonne, on the . | Gulf ot Lyons, a distance of about 240 miles be taken out and a new one of much greater power put in; also new wheels. ‘The. boat —thus making a direct connection between " ¢ the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It is will be thoroughly rebuilt and put in first Proposed to tow vessels by steam engines class trim. running along the banks, and the voyage is The keeper of the life saving station at | expected to be made in three days. In addi- Cape Gregory refusé% to go to the wrecked | tion to this vast engineering scheme ig that steamer I'acoma whose crew of nine were | for uniting the Loire and Rhone by canal, lost, or allow the lifeboat to go. He said he could not go without an experienced crew, with, of course, a similar purpose. u N According to an English paper there are It is thought if the volunteer crew had been allowed to go, all on the ‘f'acoma would have now being built on the Clyde, Scotland, four been saved. steel steamers, to make thirteen knots an hour, for the Canadian Pactfic Railroad. It is stated in the North Atlantic record waves have been observed ot. 24 and 30 feet They are to runon Lakes Huron and Su- high, highest being 43, mean 18, in westerly perior. After they areconstructed and test- ed in Scotland, they are to be taken down, gales. In the Pacitic 32 feet is recorded; South Atlantic, 22; Cape Horn, 32; Medi- shipped in sections and put up in this coun- try. The Mechanical Engineer thinks that rranean, 143¢: German Ucean, 1344; and rench sailors mention 36 feet in the Bay when this extra work is taken into account of Biscay. they might have been made as cheaply in The steamer Princess Louisa is now lying this country. At raits barely ten miles in width sepa- near Collinsby, having twenty feet added to her length. She has been cut in two amid- rates Isle Royale county, Michigan, from Cook county, Minnesota, but the width of ships, and the new portion will be built in between the severed purts. As the new Lake Superior separates Isle Royale from length will be nade wider than the boat used the mainland of Michigan at the nearest point. Another geographical curiosity is to be, it is expected she will be steadier in a sea. the northernmost point of Kittson country,* Eplgies which lies ee the west gige ot ue - ake of the Woods and is entirely detache Rema aches of an ea trade of Montreal) trom the United States having the Dominion Oe ee Or er ereie, Sxports.48| on the north-and weat’ and the lake on the compared with previous years, uring 1882 the entire grain exported only/Amounted to 8,600,000 bushels, against average of south and east. 18,000,000 bushels for the ten préVious years. The annual meeting of the Dominion Sal- vage and Wrecking Company was held at In one year the export reached 19,000,000 bushels, and in another, 16,000,000. the head office, Montreal, on ‘Thursday after- Kingston Whig: Ata meeting of the noon. The yearly report was read and adopted, and gave the greatest satisfaction. directors of the Richelieu and Ontario Navi- gation company the steamer Passport and The election of officers took place, and re- Magnet were leased to the ‘l'orontu, Grey sulted in the re-election of the old board, with the addition of Mr. Batterbury. The and Bruce railway for five years at $5,000 perannum. ‘I'he steamers are to be run on directors subsequently met, and. Mr. H. Her- riman was re-elected President, Mr. James the Georgian Bay in connection with the railway. G. Ross, Vice President and Mr. F. W. Henshaw, Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. Greg- ory, manager at Kingston, was prseent. The great peril of the ocean, under con- ditions of modern navigation, is Tog, th which steamers that, though bifilt of steel, The Algomah has now been tce-bound for to resume trips at the present time, this has | are frail as eggs, destroy each other. Steam- over two weeks, and the Free Press, of St. Ignacé, admitting that the passage of the something of the air of pure cussedness about | ers musc-keep in motion, fog or no fog, and it.?? ‘ ; there is nothing that penetrates fog like the AROUND THE LAKES, KELLEYS ISLAND, ‘There are but two craft laid up here this winter one of them, the scow Julia is at the Store dock and the other, the steambarge Manitoe ie at the North dock. ‘here is a large force of men at work in all of the quarries and we think there will be a good demand for vessels in the apring. ‘The American Eagle has been compelled to lay up On account of the heavy ice, having made here last trip on the 18 of January, and since then the mail has been irregular, At present writing we have been six days without mail Captain O. E, Moore has been confined to his house for somewhat over a month with a fever but I am glad to say he is much better now. Captain E. Robinson ot the barge Manitoe is on Pellee Island making some improvement on his farm, Captain A. W. Dwelle hasa young son at his house and con- sequently we see very little of him at the “lodge”. ‘The “lodge” is E. K. Huntington’s store and a medley, having the postoffice, telegraph office, custom house office, in- surance office, township treasury office and notary public, as well as several other offices, and isin facta general wews and near | place for all the islanders, and I shoul judge from the number of empty beer kegs that are displayed in front of the saloon that “ some of the boys spent both time and money there. There are six first class. ice yachts here, and the severe cold weather has set them all running. ‘lhe Captains have been trying to see now fast they can run, some of them making a mile a mineute. Jhere are two large ice boats here one being suiled by the Dwelle Brothers and the other by Lester Carpenter. Of course each thinks that his boat is the faster and itis to be tested as soon as.the ice is smooth enough torun. ‘The ice bergs at the east end of the island are twenty-five to thirty feet high and are ‘ounded in thirty feet of water. The oldest inhabitents say that they have never seen such large ones here before. It is very likely that they will remain here until the warm weather of spring melts them away. If there is any artist that wants a first_class picture “he had ‘better come here and view them. The cold weather has not injured either the grapes or peaches here yet. Ay DULUTH. Captein Joseph Lloyd has recently pur- chased from Houghton parties the Estelle, a small passenger steamer which ie intended for the Duluth and Superior ferry route. The Lake Superior News’ says a gentle- man living in Duluth—too modest to give his name ?—has purchased the tug Agate and two lighters from Hon, James Mercer, of Ontonsgon. Said outfit to be employed ‘on Duluth Harbor work next é6ummer. Agate was built as a companion bgat to t! Amethyst, and was familiar tu Dyluth wa- ters in quite early days. Our steam tugs and other marin craft are undergoing extensive repairs th\s winter, giving employment to something like 100 men. Now that the weather has moderated ; the work is being pushed forward with re- j newed vigor. i The steamers Margaret aud Peerless. of the Ontario and Richelieu navigation com- -_pany, are to run between Owen Sound and Georgian Bay ports next season. Work on the new steam ferry Hattie Lloyd is progressing rapidly and it is confidently expected that she will be ready for launch- ing in time to take her place on the Duluth and Superior ferry route upon the opening of navigation. ; Captain Burlington, of Bay City, will bring the tug Evergreen to this port as soon as possible upon the opening of navigation. He has contracted to do the towing for two of our lumber companies during the com- ing season. road the right'of way ai the straits. Go a little slo is an interest which has a people of the valley of the gi not submit to any reduction of% of the straits, much less to a brid must manage your matters so} way. Careful experiments made at the co works of Messrs. Frost, of Shadwell, EK land, and rerorted in iron, give the follov ing figures as the results of the trial. The experiments were made with fifty yarns of each kind, all spun 26 thread, and with the same machinery. Five tests were made with each kind, and the avarage breaking weight ofeach given, as follows: Manila, 2, 459 1bs.; Italian, 2,212 1bs.; New Zealand, 1,433 1bs.; Sisal, 1,280 1bs.; Russian, 1,228 lbs. It will be observed that the strength of Manila hemp is more than double ey or Russian: The experiment isa very in ting and t useful one. The total emigration to the United States for 1882 at all ports was about 735,000. This estimate is based on custom house’ official retufs for all months excepting December, the jivals in which month are Placed at about 30,000. The total emigration at all ports for 1881 was a little over 719,000, show- ing an increase of about 16,000 in the past year. The countries from which the im- migrants came, and the number contributed by each, were as follows: Germany, 232,000 England and Wales, 81,000; Scotland, 17,- 000; Sweden, 59,000; Norway, 27,000; Can- : ada, 89,000; all other countries, 160,000. a The arrivals in the last three months show a decided falling off, those of December show- ing a decline of about 20 per cent. | AMERICAN MANUFACTURES IN ENGLAND. William Marples & Sons, Sheffield, Eng- land, in the preface to their new novelty catalogue, say: “Many American goods ; have not continued in demand for the home } and colonial trade to the extent we at one time anticipated. This is due to various causes. One is that many of their notably better class locks and some cast iron goods have not been found to stand the wear which England goods at about the same price wil! do; but another, and, we think, the chief reason, is that the prices of many American manufacturers are liable to such considerable fluctuations. This is, of course, not the case with all American goods, and there is no doubt that the demand for’some, to which we have given a place in this book, will increase rather. ‘pan diminish. Amongst a: these may be e erated Jennings’ patent auger bits, which fully keep up the splendid reputation they have held tor many years. The cheaper American locks also sell well, and lock furniture-is in great and growing request, as, taking both price and quality into consideration, they are far superior to the English make. Iron planes, iron spoke shaves, wood handled coach wrenches, Barber’s braces, best claw hammers, hatchete, axes, fret machines, Canada and Washita oil stones, brackets, hay and manure forks, ex- panding bits and many other tools and various articles of hardware are also called for in large quantites. American scythes and scythe snaths have also become steady articles of commerce in this country.’’ MONSTER CANAL DREDGES. Probably the largest dredging machine ever constructed will be landed in Phila- delphia within the next few weeks. ‘The dredger is one of the three now being con- structed for the Panama Canal Company, and the aggregate cost. of which will be over $400,000. ‘I'he one here considered is 100 feet long, 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and when all the machinery isin place it will contain 350 tons of iron. Each dredger will be provided with eight engines capable of developing 550 horse-power. The dredges are of a new patent, and work with a series of buckets on an endless chain. ‘There are 18 of the buckets to each machine, which can dig and dispose of 1620 cubic yards of dirt an hour, or a combined capacity per hour for three dredges of 4860 cubic yards. Thus in tour months, working 12 hoursa day, they could dig out 9,290,000 cubic feet. or acanal 80 feet wide, 12 feet deep and nearly 60 miles long. After the dirt is scooped up in ths buckets it is run up the long arm of the dredge 15 or 20 feet and dropped into a hopper several feet below. This hopper is made of iron, and weighs 614 tons, From the hopper the dirt is forced by machinery into and through a huge pipe, 3 feet in diameter and 150 long, to its place of b deposit. ‘Ihe pipe has a full of 18 feet, and the ony passage of the dirt through it is effected by the introduction of a stream of water. The dredge rests upon a “epud,”’ or pin, upon which it can be revolved without stopping the dredging buckets, thus enabl- ing the operaters to dig from side to side at will. The machinery for the firet dredger, which was manufactured in California, is now in Philadelphia, and as soon as the hull is launched will be placed on board. Beforé taking the dredge to Aspiuwall a number of preliminary tests will be made with it in the Delaware river. ‘Che second dredger will be commenced as soon as the first i6 launched, and work on the third will be started as soon as the second is finished. a The following earnest endorsement of the plans of the Mississippi River Commission -: was unanimously adopted by the Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans Pilots’ Associ- ation of St. Louis, and coming from such a body, the endorsement is ‘particularly valu- able: : Wuerxas, We have been eye-witnesses of the work being carried on for the improve- ment of the Mississispi river, under the di- rection of the Mississippi River Commission, and feeling satisfied thereis wisdom in the method adopted to reach a desired end; therefore; be it ‘ Reso.vep—First, That we most heartily and cheerfully approve of the work of im- proving the Mississippi river by. the Com- mission, assfar as that work has progressed. Second, That we repose the greatest con- fidence in the wisdom and ability of the men who compos @ tlie commission ; also, the en- neers under them. Third, That we earnestly appeal to the representatives in Congress, regardless of litical prdclivities, to unite in voting the Missise-ppt River Commission the needed money to complete this great national en- terprise. The ice has been opened for the transit of ferries at Ogdensburg, and pedestrians have -to go one mile anda half to get over’ the river,, The Journal says: ‘Considering the improbabllity ot the steamers being able straite in winter by a ferry is impracticable, demands that the United States take im- mediate steps to give the D., M. & M. rail- x