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2 THE MARINE RECORD. —— MR.GOULD’S ATALANTA. On Saturday morning we had the pleasure of strolling through fi Ahleltely beautiful steam ramp’s'yrad, in: Philade)phia, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The proposed bridge across Niagara River, r. Jay Gould’s ex-| at Niagara Falls, for the Canada Southern, yacht Atalanta at] isa decided fact. ‘he contract has been and we muat | given'to a’Butfalo bridge company to build say that in her interior decorations as a piece | a double-track stee] truss bridge, with stone of high, art in cabinet-joinery nothing to compare with her afloat, , Style is new, unique, and of the mest elabor- ate description of carvin light woods, each of the eight staterooms are finished in different woods, no two of them being alike. Not one of the crowned heads of Europe can boast of such a floating and any of them might be pardone she is'a marvel of. beauty, and has been pro- nounced go by the must critical critics. ‘The upholstery, satin paneling, silk plush mast covers, downy carpetings, are all in keeping, and as a whole the Atalanta is the creme de lacreme of anything ever turned out of an American shipyard, and certainly nothing in Europe can be brought forward to com- pare with ber Internally, Her deck finish is of the same high order of workmanship p Merit, and presents a regal appearance. espite all the richness apparent every- where, there is nota particle of gandiness to be seen. about noon on her, but later on he. tele- grpbes the Messra, Cramp he would not leave New York until the one o’clock train, which would bring him to the vessel about 5.o’clock, so we did not see her start, but leaving a faithful representative on board to noté her performances, we wended our way homeward with this question uppermost in ‘our mind: “Why did not Mr. Gould build a large steamship in “ hich to make his pro- posed trip arourd the world?’ With such a vessel he would have had more room, alace, if they coveted | total f possession of her. ‘lhe carvings are simply | Of th exquisite, und beyond pen description, and | tong the blending of colors in the native woods The 1 has been done with faultless effect; in short | g Mr. Gould was to have embarked‘ work there is| piers on each side of the river from the ‘The | watei’s edge, Work will be finished by December 1. Men have been cutting trees 8 ard blending of | from the water’s edge to the top of the river Not a brush full of paint has} bank on both sides. ‘he site is about four been used in her saloon or staterooms, and | hundred feet to the falls side ot the railway suspension bridge. The total lake shipments from the Michi- gan iron mines this year, up to date, amount to 416,268 gross tons, or lees than half the ‘or the corresponding period last year. is amount Escanaba shipped 306,029 Marquette 100,636, and L’ Anse 9,602. he iron market is largely overstocked and everal of the larger mines, such as the Lake Superior, Republic, Cleveland, and Cham- pion have reduced their forces and are add- ing to their plant and improvemerts in an- ticipation of a brisker time later in the year or ut the opening of the shipping season in 1884. f z The summer investigation party of the United States fish commission, with the commissioner, Protessor Baird, will leave for the Wood’s Holl (Mass.) station for a stay of three mohths or longer. ‘The party will copsist of the same members as during the past two years, Professor Verrill, of Yale college, being in immediate charge of the zoological work. The new steamer Al- batross will make her trips from the same | place, and the Fish Hawk will engage in dredging and trawling in the neighboring regions. Arrangements are now nearly eom- pleted for starting work upon the new wharf in the big harbor, and upon the laboratory and dormitory buildings, which are to oveu- py sites at theinner end of the wharf. ‘These structures will all be in readiness for the season of 1884,—Science. ould have made longer voyages, and in| Nowadays the children say, as they sit in “ many ways had more real solid con:fort, and | the railroad ear and look out of the windows when his tour was ended he could have dis-| When the train begins slowly to move. “It posed of her to a steamship company ‘at a | seems as if the depot is going and we stand- ood round price. It has been rumored that] ing still.” A writer tor the Boston Adver- he originally intended to build a steamship, | !iser, taking this tora text, mukes the follow- ‘but was talked out of it by some of his bro- | ing application ofit: They are notfar wrong ker friends, who wanted him-to have a sort}in this remark. Get into a drawing-room of aracing machine.—-Nautical Gazette. NANTUCKET WHALERS As ARTISTS. The Pall Mall Gazette, in a review of the United States section of the fisheries exhibi- tion in London, says: The “scrimshaw work” of the whalers and fishermen is certain to arrest attention. The carving ‘upon these pieces of ivory is simply admir- able; remarkable, too when we think of the tools, the sailors’ opportunities, and the ordinary occupation ot the artist. Well worthy of careful inspection are the figures placed upon a couple of warus teeth by Cap- tain Chester, a whaleship captain, foreman of the men emploved in the section. Captain Chester, it may be mentioned, made a re- putation in the Polaris expedition to the Arctic seas, ‘Iwo big works in this line are descriptive of whaling scenes, which are very. realistically rendered. As {it ever is with the sailor, whatever his nationality, Blackeyed Susan has been the figure most constantly in the mind’s eye of the carver. From an inspection of these the visitor will pass to the model of a whale ship, the full- sized whaleboat, the full-sized model of a whaleman engaged upon a whale, and the instruments of whaling, which stand ad- jacent. In the cases are several examples of the logs of whale ships, illustrated with stumps of whales, as they also are sometimes with profiles of islands passed or visited during the voyage. half a whale means that the vessel went on sige share system in the capture with another vessel; while the “flukes’’ or tail of a whale, iin a vertical position, certifies to the un- Satisfactory fact that whales were seen but not captured, IMPORTAN'! LEGAL DECISION. A decision of much Interest to business ‘men has just been decided by a Minnesota “court. A note was deposited in the bank for collection, and it was sent toa bank at the _place of residence of the maker for collection. The note teller of the latter bunk protested ‘the note, but supposed he had not protested Wn time. He paid the amount of the note to his own bank, which then remitted to the first named bank, and the endorsed to the teller, whi against 1 guarantor and recovered, af appeal the judgment was affirmed. The chief justice in ns opinion said: The pay- ment of the money by the plaintiff to his bank was not the payment of the note, un-| pastern exchange calls attention to the Jess it was made with that intention; and there was no relation between the plalae ury and in the banks. On last Satuaday, it and those liable on the note to give the ap latter any right to have the payment ap- propriated to their benefit, contrary to the | Were outstanding certificates to the amount intention of the party making it. Passengers on the steamships or ferry | shows the amount held, including fractional boats in the New York harbor are treated to | coin, to be $140,087,321, against which there the electric | were certificates outstanding i the amount lights on the suspension bridge and at the | of $71,578,861, leaving the net Treasury own- 4 Viewed from the bey, the are ership of silver of $68,508,460. the bridge lights is continued by | two months the increase in treasury coin has asingular optical illusion b recut formed by the string of lights along the battery. The representation of || ote was then , the best society and were familiarly acquaint- ¥ brought suit |ed with the best people of the city.— Nauti- On | cal Gazette. car where there is a family party, and you shall see pater familias wrising at the table some letters of business or social import, his spouse deep in the plot of the latest novel, the younger folks trying their “hands at euchre, or possibly chese, the old grand- mother with a stocking-led or tidy well ad- vanced in its needlework, and the grand- father with his newspaper on his knee and spectacles on the top of his head, nodding for his regular nap. Ifit bea railroad in some of the Western States, go into the next ear and you will find a well-ordered kitchen with roast,* boiled and baked under full “headway.”? Everything is about the same as if the family were at home. If they look out of the windows, indeed, they observe that the world is moving by like a panorama, but they to all intents and purposes, . are standing still. When the panorama is all unrolled, they will walk out of their draw- ing-room and visite Cousin John or Isabel, who lives quite’ near to their house, only about 200 miles away, or some such matter. The fact is, the modera world goes on wheels —railroad wheels, steamboat wheels, and, to some extent those of the bicvele, and the old maxims atout a “contented mind” and a “rolling stone,” ete., no longer apply. REMINISCENCES OF THE OLD LAKE TIMES. The present generation, in fact I might say the generation before this, can have no conception of the “old lake timea,’’? when Buffalo was the Western metropolis, the Queen of the lakes, before the era of the rail- roads, at that time, 35 years ago, some of the most magnificent vessels that ever floated upon any water were in commission on the lakes. ‘The Northern Indiana, the Western Metropolis, the City ot Buffalo, the Emptfre State, the Mississippi, the Keystone State, the Old Empire, the St. Lawrenee anda number of others, all sidewheel steamers plowed the waters, commanded by a class of men that were gentlemen of the old school. T cannot recall all thefr names, most of them have passed away to tha: other land; but those were the days when a steamboat man was one of the aristocracy, and there were but few of the old captaing that moved in ACCUMULATION OF MONEY. In reviewing the business situation an steady accumulation of money in the T'reas- pears, the United States Treasury held $192,668,821 in gold, against which there the stock of gold baa declined $3,408,839, and the holdings of silver increased $7,190,235. Whether this process of exchanging ‘lreas- ury gold for silver, says our Eastern author- ity, is to continue. uneil the latter ,«#pplants the former, is becoming an engaging ques- tion. At the rate that this exchange of met- als is going on, it will not be many months before the ability of the ‘Treasury to main- tain 2 40 per cent reserve against the green- back issue and keep up its coin payments will be brought tou severe test, ‘The banks and other repositories for money through- out the country show a continual accumula. tiostef money, indicating au immense sur: plus Of lounable funds lying idle at the pres- ent time, le ma - GENERAL ITEMs. ‘The steamship Oceanic, which arrived at San Francisco recently brought 700 exses of fopinm valued at $500,000, the duties being $172,000. The Denver Republican thinks the time is coming out West when it will he a poor man who doesn’t have his own artesian well. [t-dosen’t believe in damming rivers and surtace drainage when there is a pure article to be had by boring for it. The Canada grain crop prospects are dis- co uaging. Corn especisllv poor, and potatces rotting in the fields in all low Jands., ‘The hay cron alone is promising. If the warld conld live on grass the outlook would be good. . A writer in the Washington Capitol asserts authoritatively thatat the time of his i illness Mr. Vanderbilt lost the sight ef his right eye, and he is now entirely blind in that eye, though he takes every precaution to con- veal the facet. Prineess Ruth Keelikolani, a direct de- scendant of Kamehameha the Great, died at Honolulu May 24. She had been twice mar ried, first to a native chief and afterward to Ieane Davis, a white man, from whom she separated after two or three years. Two hundred men have been discharged from the Lake Superior mine within the last two weeks. ‘I'he company have 175,000 tons on hand for shipment. ‘he force at the Palmer mine will be reduced one-half are. 18,000 tons of cre new on July 1. ‘There hand. Star postal service is establisied between Berville and Belle River Michigan six times a week from July 1, and between Parisville and Minden three times a-week, from July J, Special service established between Rose- burg and Speaker, Sanilac county, from July 1. The year 1883 seems destined by its dis- asters from cyclunes, floods, tires, and panies to pass into hiatory asthe most calamitous ever recorded, ‘here seems to be some un- seen fatality in-the universe, and destruction and death from some quarter come as rezular as the day. The last on the list ot destructive forces is the appearance of the dreaded scourge cholera directly in its o}d line ot travel.—Chicayy Inter- Ocean, The largest steambarge that ever passed through the Welland canal was the D.C. Whitney which arrived at Kingston the other day. Her eargo to gether with that of the Wayne which she had in tow amounted to 110,000 bushels of corn and her freight bill amounted to $6,500—2 profitable trip. throngh she had to be lightened of 25,000 bushels which were re-loaded after: passing the caral. ‘The Canadians, are making a great effort to divert trade to the St. Law- rence route. The San Franciseo Bulletin savs: How many wheat ships do we want for the year 1883-4? Weeshall probably want and use all that will come. ‘The largest number of flour and grain vessels ever cleared trom Cali- fornia in a cereal year was in 1881-2, when we dispatehed 559, er an average of 47 for each month. We shall have over 1,000.000 tons of wheat for export daring the ensuing year. That means employment for 500ships averaging 1,400 tons reyister. Sealed proposals for the purchase of con- demned Government vessels will be received at the Navy Department unt 1 September 24th. ‘The vessels will be sold for cash to persons offering the highest prices above their appraised valne. ‘The principal vessels offered and their appraised value are: ‘The Congress, $25.400, and Sabine, $10,400, at Portsmouth; Lowa, $44,600; Niagara $29,000, and Ohio $15,700, at Boston ; Florida, $64,400, at New London Conn; Susquehanna. $9,- 000, at New York; Dictator $33,800, at League Island; Worcester, $25,400,' and Savannah, THE FRIGATE-BIRD. One of the greatest wonders in natural history is the flight of birds, We have been all our lives so accustomed to see birds that we are not now prone ‘to marvel at the wonders of their flight, We must meditate upon the beautiful arrangements by which they ure enabled to raise themselves in the airand propel themselves throngh it, and we must remember how utterly futile all man’s attempts to fly or make flying ma- chines have proved, and then we are ina condition to appreciate the marvel which is daily before our eyes. The frigate-bird is endowed with magniti- cent powers of flight. His wings strech to an expanse of about ten or twelve feet; his body is about three feet long his bill is very powerful, and adapted for seizing. His feet are webbed, but-very small; he has but little use for them, his home being in-the air, hundreds of.leagues away from land. He is seen high above the ocean, but on its bosom he never rests. When he seeks repose be finds it aloft in the air. His foot rarely touches land except at the time-for. pairing, making nests and rearing young. How is all this?, he expanse of his wing is so vast, ind his body is so light, that he can soar with little or no exertion, Still it is difficult to see -how this would enable him actually to sleep on the wirg, as it is be- lieved he does. A niore close examination shows, however, that his bones are: hollow, and that there is a large pouch communicat- ing with his lungs and with the, cavities in the bones. ‘This pouch he can inflate with air, and thus render himself buoyant; the sustaining power thus acquired added to that of the wings, Is.suffisient to keep him up. Me his home be in the-air, if he neither dive into the sea for fish, nor search on the land for other food, whence does he derive his $10,600, at Norfolk, and Roanoke, $37,200 at Chester, Pa. The Detroit Post and Tribune is respon- sible for the following: ‘Tuesday a humane citizen of Nashville noticed that his old horse was surrounded by the rapidly rising river and was left on a low island. Fearing that the animal would be drowned, he got him of $63,933,270, leaving the ‘Treasury the owner of $138,735,551. The silver account a boat, rowed out to the island, puta rope about the horse’s neck and started to tow him ashore; and when the horse reached water so deep that he would have to swim, he reared and tried to climb into the boat, whereupon the man dropped his oars, losing them, and yelled for help, ‘Then the horse been $3,790,334, though during this period In the past towed him back to the island and filled the boat with water, and dragged him around in the mud, till a party went out to his rescue. sustenance? Impelled by hunger, he de- scends from the lofty regions where it is his delight to dwell. Whether the sea be rough or calm, he glides over the water-and any unwary fish approaching the surface, on being detected by his keen eye. is pounced upon and instantaneously swallowed, But the frigate-bird has other resources; though he can not dive into the sea or catch fizh, he avails himself of the labors of birds which can. He watches one of the birds which dive; he sees him emerge successfully, and fly off with his prey. Instantly the frigate bird is down upon him with a swoop ot terrible velocity. ‘The frightened diver drops his fisn in mid-air; the frigate-bird poises himself again, darts . down . with another swoop, and seizes the fish ere it reaches the water.— Wisconsin Journal. SAULT STE. MARIE ROAD. The contract was let last week toa New York firm of capitalists for the. construction of the Ontario & Quebec railway from Corn- wall to Sault Ste. Marie. The documents will be signed on Saturday next. Work for the construetion will be commenced within one month of the letting of the contract. The contraetors, who consist of several Philadelphia eapitalists, will take the bonds of the company as they can get trom the various municipalities through which the road will puss. When-two hundred miles or the road is built it is to be handed over to the company. The charter calls for the completion of the road at the expiration of four years.—Kingston News, JUMPING TWENTY FEET DOWN ON HORSEBACK. : Frank Day waited at Needleton, Col. euntil the noon train passed down, and teing informed that no other train was on the road, he took the track in preference to the trail, had ridden a mile or more, when happeuing to look up, to his astonishment he saw the construetion train going around the curve and buta few rods distant. A wall of rock to the left and the river to the right and twenty feet below. A moment decided, and lifting his mare by the bridle he sent the spurs into her sides and jumped her down into the foaming water. © Fortu- nately no injuries were sustained.—Silverton Democrat. ea __ AUXILIARY SUREW STEAMERS. Speaking of these improved stenmers the Nautical Gazette says: From all accounts the owner of the aux- iliary screw steamers which have been lately introduced into our merchant marine have more than realized their expectatione, all of them proving very successful so far as earn- ings are concerned. Of course there is room for mechanical improvement in all of them and as we progress in the development of this class of vessels their value will be in- creased. ‘I'here was some hesitation in in- vesting capital in this kind of tonnage on the start, On account of the seemingly greater cost as compared with sail vessels of cor- responding tonnage, but this hesitancy is wearing away as the results of the first’ in- vestments are coming to the attention of 8 nallest capitalists in coasting vessels, $< The water of the holy well at Mecca has been found on analysis, to contain 679 grains of solid matter to the gallon, and is seven times worse than the sewerne of London. ‘This explains the prevalence ot cholera among pilgrims,