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— rr NAUTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC, There is at present no ice at Sand Beach. The schooner Snow Drop is being re- paired at Dunford & Alverson’s drydock. A dispatch trom Lexington reports the lake clear of ice for six to eight miles off that port. The Straits from McGilpin’s Point to the vicinity of the Foxes, is densely packed with 18-inch ice. Wilson, the sub-marine diver, is patching the hole in the bottom of the barge D. M. Baker, which lies at Bottsford’s dock. The schooner Midge, owned by Captain John Clausen, was damaged to the extent of $250 by a fire in the Green Bay canal. A hittle new paint on_ vessels, like the “Liquid Pearl” used by ladies on their taces, makes a great improvement in their appear- ance, The steambarge now building at Marine Juty for the Saginaw & Toledo Transporta- Cin Company will be completed early in tione. ‘Two steamers have.arrived at Halifax with an aggregate of 52,000 seals. ‘Khe almost to- tal extinction of these valuable animals seems imminent. 7 ‘The propeller Mary Martini will run on the Sebewaing, Caseville and T'awas route this season, in competition with shore line of steamers. Deputy United States Marshal Marshall seized the scow Prince Albert, of Egg Har- bor at Ahnapee last week ch aclaim of sea- man’s wages by Adolph Roder for $112. A petition is in circulation among’ vessel- men at Chicago, asking the United States lighthouse board to put a steam fog-whistle on the outer breakwater north: of the light- house. ‘The beam on which the tonnage and offi- cial numbers of vessels must be marked, has been decided by the ‘Treasury Department to be the one under the forward side of the main -hatch. ; Sailor’s wages out of Chicago have not yet been fixed by the union, and president Pow- ers says that nothing will be done towards fixing them until the straits are open and a basis established by the needs of the business. The lumber barge Baker lies at Bottsford - fina ged condition with a hole in her bottom, made when she settled down on a pile after the flood. As soon as possible she will be towed to a drydock and repaired. An island in Vermillion bay on the coast of Louisiana, has’a solid mass of salt ata depth of twenty feet so hard that it requires to be mined with dynamite and ground in steam mills. About 200 tons a day are taken out. The propeller Messenger has changed hands, and will run between Manistee and Cheboygan thecoming season. She was re- cently measured in Chicago under the act of August 5, 1882, for exemptions. Her old measurement (gross) was 444.57. The ex- emption under the new law is 102.95, making her tonnage now (net) 341.62. Lieutenant C. H. McLellan, of the Reve- nue Marine, having been detailed to repre- sent the United States Life Saving Service at the International Fisheries Exhibition to be held in. London next month, sailed on the steamship Grecian Monarch. He took with him bvats, buoys, mortars, rockets, and cth- er life saving appliances. The investigation of complaints of impro- per treatment of Italian steerage passengers on the steamship Viking brought out the testimony that they had soft bread and cof- fee for breakfast, macaroni, butter, cheese, soup, boiled vegetables, and bread for din- ner and meat and potatoes for supper. The passengers testified that there was not enough of the tood, and that they had to pay extra for a sufficiency. In August Nordenskjold, the Swedish navigator, will start on an expedition to Greenland. He proposes to make a com- plete exploration of the interior of that country. As comparatively but little is now known of Greenland, and as it is among the dossibilities that information so obtained may be of some practical value, it would seem that such an exploration is worthy of more encouragement than the many truitless and fatal efforts to find the North Pole. The Ottawa Official Gazette says the Owen Steamship Company have applied to Parlia- *ment for letters patent tor the purpose of running a steamships and other boats and vessels for freight and passenger traffle be- tween different ports and landings on Geor- gian Bay, Lake Huron, the River St. Marys, Luke Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake St. Clair, Detroit river, and the adjoining gulfs, and bays, and streams, including ports on the American side, and for that purpose to build, purchase, or lease from time to time steamships and otier boats, and to operate the same. HOW THE ANCIENTS SPENT THEIR MONEY. People may say what they please, but some facts of history are, metaphorically speaking, diMeult to swallow. 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