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~N * Sometime since the Niagara went . 8; Sandusky, 5 according to the importance of the VOL. V. NO 23. CLEVELAND, O, JUNE 9 18838. ~ $2.00 Prk ANNUM SInGLE Copixs 6 CENTS. UGS. ‘The readers of the MARINE RECORD have had opportunity recently in our columns of a glance at the Great Eastern, the Ward Line stenmer Newport, the ‘I’. S. Faxton, the Bristol, and other interesting marine sketches. In this issue the tug Iriquois, used by the Nautical Gazette in illustrating an artical on the subject of tugs, is present- ed. In the atudioof V. D. Nickerson, of this city, may be seen sketches of the Niag- ara, the first tug used in Cleveland, and of the Mary Virginia, cne of the last intro- duced. ‘I'he difference in appearance iz very significant of the changed times in which we live., The Niagara was t ble with an ocean rolling between ; we speak in our own voices to friends 100 miles or more trom where we articulate before the microphone. Under the blazing sun of July we produce ice by chemical meane, rivaling the most solid and crystaline production of tiature. Our surgeons graft the skin from one per- son’s arm to the face of another, and it ad- heres and becomes an integral portion of his body. Wemakea mile of white printing paper, and send it on a spool that a pertect- ing press unwinds, and prints, ard delivers to you folded and counted, many thousands perhour. Of a verity this is the age of in- the surface. After this had been repeated a number of times, the engine was swing- ing clear of the water, and ‘as then placed on a large float only slightly damaged, and wanting but few repairs to make it as good as before its tumble into the river. ‘The rail- road will now take charge of its fished up property and tow it to the river bank near the railroad track. ‘To that point, when the tide is high, a temporary track will Be built connecting, with the railroad, and when the tide has fallen sufficiently to place the wheels of the engine on a level with the temporary structure, the engine will then be run on the wharf and to the main track. It will be observant navigators suppose. Admiral Fitz- roy mentions “that Scoresby was skeptieal us to the reports of seamen who recorded waves thirty feet high until his last voyage, when he made measurements of some ex- ceeding thie height. According to Captain Kiddle, the height from the trough to the crest oceasionally exceeds forty ‘feet. ‘The question is one of great interest to safe nav- igation in the heavy Atlantic winter gales, and the able officers of the Atlantic steam- ships would do well to make careful obser- vations on the height, length and velocity of the “mountainous sens” they encounter, COMIC JOURNALISM. Some superannuated, dried-up introduced about 30 years ago by old fossils are shaking their wise Greenhalgh Bros. She had for- heads and deploring the increase merly been used asa packet boat of vomic papers throughout the on .the Wabash canal. Her en- country, declaring that there is too gines were afterwards taken out much levity, and that unthinking and put into the J. K. White. minds are ledaway from the deep to pieces in the old river bed. Before the Niagara came to Cleveland a few tugs had been in- troduced at other ports on the lakes. The tng interest has grown, a3 seen by. the approximate number used at ports on the lakes. . Cleve- land uses about 22, Ct 605 Butfalo, 15; Ashtakuls,-37rie, 2; Lorain, 2; Milwaukee, 12; ‘Teledo, ; Detroit, 8; Duluth, 85 Alpena, 35 Saginaw 2oand ata Other ports they vary in number place. These tugs are’ important ad- junets to commerce, facilitating the movement of vessels in port and in bringing them in and start- ing them off The business is attended with dangers from boiler explosions, rough seas, and collisions. . The ingenuity and skill of tugmer are often taxed to protect the interests of vessels they are handling. A tuginan’s life isa lard life to live because of the prolonged hours of exposure, night work, and rough weather, ji THE AGE OF INVENTION. The number ot inventions that have been made during the last fifty years is perhaps upprecedent- ed in the history of the world, Of course inventions of benefit to the human race have been made ip all ages since man was created; but looking back’ for half a hundred years, how many more are crowd- ed into the past fifty than into any other fifty since recorded history! The per- fection of the locomotive, acd the now world traversing steamship, the telegraph, the tel- ephone, the audiphoue, the sewing machine, the photograph, chromo lithographic print- ing, the cylinder printing press, the eleva- tor for hotels and other many storied build- ings, the cotton gin and the spinning Jen- nv, the reaper and mower, and the steam thrasher, the steam fire engive, the Improved process for making steel, the application of chloroform and ether to destroy the sensi- bility in painful surgery cases, and so on through a long catalogue. Nor are we yet done in the field of inven- tion and discovery. ‘The application of coal gas and petroleum to heating and cooking operations is only trembling on the verge of successful experiment, the introduction of steam from a central reservoir to general use for heating and cooking is foreshadowed as among the coming events, the artificial production of butter has already created consternation among dairymen, the naviga- tion of the air by some device akin to our present balloon would also seem to be pre- figured, and the propulsion of machinery by electricity is even now clearly indicated by the march of experiment. ‘There are some problems we have hitherto deemed impossi- ble, but are the mysteries of even the most; tinprotable of them more subtle to grasp hmn that of the ocean cable or that of the pohtograrh or telephone? We talk by ca- and abstruse problems of life, in consequence of which the rising generation will not be fitted to grapple the great questions of the day. It has ‘been said that every good, honest, hearty Jaugh draws a pail from one’s coffin, and if this be true, the humorous editors are ‘the foes of the undertakers. ‘The man who in life’s journey can see, even in disaster, “something to Jaugh at, is more. to be envied than he. wiseagre who. can never see é silver lining to.the dark cloud. Aftet wading through stories of embezzlement, polities, scandals, prize-fights, and crimes, as de- picted in the daily press—which vention, nor has the world reached a stop- ping place yet.—Cincinnati Times-Star. | aes = HCW A LOCOMOTIVE WAS RAISED FROM A RIVER. The Elevated Railroad Journal relates how the feat of raising an huge freight en- gine from the mudin Bush River, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, below Havre de Grace, was sue- cessfully acvomplished a few days ago. The engine fell through the draw bridge some time ago, The difficulties of the feat may be imagined, when it is understood that the engine was several feet below the water’s surface, and completely buried in the mud. The wreekers have been at work a week, the first thing accomplished being the plac ing of heavy chains beneath the great mass of tron. I'wo divers, sent down for this purpose, were compelled to dig several feet under the soft mud at the bottom of the river. The chains were made taut to four heavy scows which were filled with water at low tide. Everything being satistactory, the water was pumped out of the scows, thus tightening the chains about the engine. When the tide hegan to rise the engine was pulled a few feet from the mud. Then oth- er scows were brought, and whet the tide | was low, water was pumped in and the chains fastened to them. ‘The tide went up again, and so did the engine, which came te taken to Wilmington and repaired; it cost $1,000 to fish the engine out. SPEED AND 3IZE OF WAVES: The London Nautical Magazine contains ; an article by Captain Kiddle, the Atlantic steamship commander, on the height and | velocity of Atlantic waves, a subject whieh, as he says, is to the seamen one of the most important of the day. It has been asserted that the average velocity of great Atlantic waves is about nine miles an hour. But) Captain Kiddle states that he has frequently measured the speed in Atlantic gales and found it “twénty-five miles per hour, plus the rate at) which the ship was steaming through the water, when nearly or quite head to wind (say four knots an hout).” This estimate is no doubt nearer the truth than the former. Dr. Seoresby gave the rate of travel for waves of the largest size at about thirty-two miles an hour,.and Lieu- tenant Murray gave it as rarely exceeding thirty miles, while other observers mention still higher figures as occasionally attained by waves of excessive length. [tis known that some of the great Atlantic gales which assai! the British coust move progressively, as the English meteorologist Ley recorced, at arate of more than sixty miles an hour, and it is therefore highly probable that in the severest hurricanes the ocean waves may be driven with greater force than even the most may be called the dark side of lite is a relief to pick up the Ar- kansaw ‘Tr riveler, ‘The Eye, Cheek, The Drummer, or any other hu- morous papers, and forget life’s troubles and trials for a moment by gazing upon the ludicrous side of it. [fon going into a house we can see the comic papers of the day upon the table, we will guar- antee that peace, harmony and good-will abide there, and that few bickerings or quarrels occur, for “a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Life is too short not to be rationally enjoyed, andthe man who cannot smile because he sees so much to deplore, is misera- ble himself—hated while living and despised when dead. Heaven save us from the man who never laughs! —Proof Sheet. — 0. AN IMPORTANT DECISION, The Treasury Department has been informed thata firm at To- ronto propose to ran a line of Canadian stenimers this season bet seen Chicago and Montreal, calling at Cleveland and Detroit. The department was asked if it) would be i ne for the vessels of this line te sengers from Cleveland to Detroit Chicago, O1 from the last named to the first named point. Until last year it was | held that the transportation of passe gers | by foreign vessels between port and port in this country made such vessels virtually lia- ble to the tax of $1.30 per ton. The Attor- ney General has since then, however, given his opinion that there is no bar to such trans- portation, ‘The Canadian firm) above re- ferred to has been notified of these facts and has also been informed that the Treasury | Department Icoks with no favor upon the transportation of passengers between our own ports in Canadian bottoms, especially us itis known that the laws of Canada do nh t extend a similar privilege to the vessels of the United States. The firm has been further informed that though the ‘Treasury Department must concede there is no legai force in the statutes upon which it has hith- erto relied to prevent such transportation of passengers in foreign bottoms, it would not hesitate to apply in the prevention or re- striction of it, any provision or statute that woyld be found legally sufficient for that purpose, $$ _____ Renew Recorp subscriptions this month ll