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6: THE MARINE RECORD. a ee a a a I A THE WORLD’S INVENTORS. From the Scientific American. Usually when a man has invented some- thing novel and useful, and has obtained a patent therefor, he is possessed of a feeling of pride that raises him in his own estima- tion, and frequently in the estimation of oth- ers, rather above the average of mortals, He imagines, or at least hopes, that his inven- tion will prove to be a lever with which the world will be elevated toa higher sphere of usefulness and happiness, while at the same time and incident thereto he fondly dreams that he has entered on the high road to for- tune and renown, and that he is to becomea millionaire. He looks upon the letters pat- ent that display the great American eagle in all of its gorgeousness, and that bear the sig- nature of those high in authority, as a most precions document, that is either carefully CURREN'T HUMOR. ‘There was a sad, sad look on her face as she sat down at the piano and deftly evoking the music of its chords, sang to him; “Dearest, I am growing old. Silver threads among the gold.” Deeply aftected by the revelation, he sald to himself: ‘Is it indeed so bad as that?” and, without waiting for the conclusion of the song, went out and bought her a bottle of hair dye. A public school teacher who. was a de- voted disciple of Ike Walton recently obtained leave of absence to go into the country. Just prior to his departure one of the members of the Board remarked to him. “It is not our custom to grant leaves of absence in the Spring season, but as you seemed desirous of Investigating the educa- tional system in the rural districts, we con- cluded to make an exception in this case. laid away among his archives to be handed down to posterity, to show how great a man and how inventive a genius he was, or ornately framed and displayed in such man- ner that all may behold and xdmire. There is nothing wrong in any of this, but rather much that is commendable. Notable inven- tions have marked the march of civilization in all ages of the world, and the epochs of history are marked by great discoveries none the less important. In fact discoverers and inventors should be classed together. Among the great discoverers of the world in phys- ical geography the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492; of Florida by Ponce de Leon, 1512; and of the Mississippi river by De Soto, in 1541: and in the arts and _sci- ences, of the circulation of the blood by Harvey, in 1619; of making pictures by the aid of light by Deguerre, in 1838; and ot electricity by Franklin, 1762, were of the utmost importance to mankind, the benefi cial effects of which are apparent every day. On the other hand, the world would not have arrived atthe high zenith to which it has attained had it not been tor the inven- tive geniuses who bestowed their wonderful gifts upon it. What would railroading be to-day without such an appliance for stop- ping the motion of the train as the air brake patented by Westinghouse in 1859, or steel rails, the cheap production of which was in- vented by Bessemer in 1856? The invention of breech-loading firearms, by ‘Thornton and ‘ Hall, in 1811, revolutionized the methods of modern warfare, even as the invention of gunpowder by Schwartz, in 1320, compelled the abandonment of crossa-bows, spears, ard slings, and subsiituted the matchlock and blunderbuss. ‘The second century of the Christian era (A. D. 130) witneseed the in- vention of the mariner’s compass, without which Columbus would never have been able to find his way against the wild, west- ern ocean, and without which, without any essential differenve from that used by the ancient navigators, extended traffie on the ocean would be simply impossible. We all appreciate the value of Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, in 1794; of the grain bind- er by Gordon, in 1872; of the grain harvest- er, by Haines, in 1849; of the knitting ma- machine by Lee, i 1589; of the common match by Walker, in 1839; of the mowing machine by Scott, in 1815; of the machine for making pins by Wright, in 1824; of the lumber planing machihe by Bentham, in 1791; of printing by Gutenberg, 1444; of the type-revolving printing press by Hoe, in 1847; of the safety lamp by Davy, in 1815; of the screw propeller by Steyens, in 1804; of the sewing machine by Howe, in 1847; of the first successtul steamboat by Felton, in 1808; of the first successful steam engine by Watt, in. 1744; and of practical telegraphy by Morse, in 1837. The world appreciates all these inventions and thousands of others of greater or less usefulness, and from which the inventors in many instances have obtained both fame and great pecuniary reward, And the field is a wide one yet, open and free to all, with as large possibilities for the future as the past has shown. But there are thousands of Inventors, who have never realized as much on their inven- tions as their letters patent cost them, and never will; not always because of lack of in- trinsic merit, but that their merits were not properly made known to the public. A man who may have a patent for a thing, no mat- ter how valuable it may be, and does not di- rect public attention to it—does not “push’? it—resembles the man spoken of in the Bi- ble, who wrapped his talent in a napkin and hid it in the earth. It occurs to us that the talents all men possess ton greater or less degree, particularly as regards their eapaci- ty for business—their adaptability for trans- acting the affairs of life—are very much like the inventions of men, One man may pos- sess sufficient talent to make him a success- ful merchant, or manufacturer, or mechanic, or artisan, and by “pushing” it he attains to eminence in his profession, while another with equal talent, who does not “push” it, lags behind in the race of life, and when the end comes ts like the man who hid his talent in the earth. It is folly for any man to say he can never find employment, if he Is pos- sessed of average intelligence, suflicient ed- ueation, good character, and an abundance of “push.” With these qualifications en- trance can be gained Into almost any office, store, or workshop in the land, but the pushing” must be done, even as the owner of a yalvable patent must “push” it before he can hope to realize any profit therefrom, May I ask you what particular schools it is your intention to visit?” “Certainly,” said the teacher, ‘if you'll promise not to give it away.” “I promise,” returned the member. “Frankly, then, the schools I intend to MARINE LAW. LIBEL FOR REPAIRS, In the United States District Court, Phil- adelphia, Judge Butler on June 15th, gave judgment in favor of A. 8, Simpson, & Bro., shipwrights, in their libel against the Amer- ican bark Nicola, formerly hailing from Pembroke, Maine, but now registered in Philadelphia. ‘he owner and master of the vessel is cap- tain Thomas Browr. He bought the vessel in Philadelphia on March 5, 1883. Prior to this date, in anticipation of buying the ves- sel, he had seen Simpson & Bro., and con- tracted with them for hauling the bark out on their dock and making certain repairs. Brown brought the vessel to the drydock on or about March the th, the repairs began at onee and the work ceased on or about the 16th, when the vessel left the dock to load under a charter for Cadiz, Spain. ‘The bill of repairs amounted to $1,884.87 which It was testified represented the fair market. value for the work done. ‘There was, the libel- Jants said, no objection made by Brown to the character of the work; that the correct- ness of the bill was practically admitted ; but that he was without funds and wanted visit are chiefly echools of trout.’ A young lady was/ caressing a pretty spaniel and murmuring: -“I do love a nice dog!” “Ah?? sighed a dandy, standing near, “I would I were a.dog.” ‘Never mind,” retorted the young lady, sharply, “you'll grow.” “When 1 grow up I’ll bea man, won’t 1?” asked a little boy of his mother. “Yes, my son, but if you want to bea man you must be industrious at school, and learn how to behave yourself.’ ‘‘Why, mamma, do lazy boys turn out to be women when they grow up? F An exchange remarks that Mrs. Canoe, ot Cherrytown, isthe mother of nineteen children. What a time she must have paddl- ing her own canoe.—[Grit. Ifshe paddled the little canoes, what was the condition of the paddle atter.the tirst round. A Cincinnati German in the furniture trade was accosted the other day by a New Yorker with, ‘Well Mr. Schmidt, they say you have made an assigninent ?”’ “Yaw; dot ish so.” “You assigned to your brother, didn’t you?”? Yaw, he vhas my brudder.”’ ‘Didn’t anybody raise objections about this family arrangemen:?” ‘Vhell, I doan’ know. Vhen my brudder fails he assigns to me, and vhen [ fails I assigns to him. Dot makes fair play, eh? I doan’ go much on some man’s who goes rack on his brudder.”’ Wall Street News. PICKING UP DEEP SEA CABLES. The laying of telegraph cables is now so common that the description of the ma- chinery for picking up a broken one will be read with interest. It consists of a rope about an inch and-a quarter in diameter, made from the strongest hemp, with inter- woven wires ot fine steel. The grapnel at the end is merely a solid shaft of iron some two feet long, and: weighing about 100 pounds, and prolonged into six blunt hooks, which much resemble the partly closed fingers of the human hand. In_ picking up the cable in deep water the Muinia, after reaching the waters near the break, lets out her rope and grapnel, then takes a course at right angles to the cable and at some distance from the fracture, 80 that the broken ends may not. slip through the grapnel. The grapnel rope.is attached to a dynamometer, which exactly measures the strain on the rope, and shows unerringly when the cable has been caught. If the grapnel fouls a rock the strain rises very suddenly to a high point; but the exact weight of the cable be- ing known, the dynamometer signals by the steady rate of increasing its hold on the cable far below. The ease and certainty with which cables are picked up in these days is amazing. A while ago one of the lines of the Anglo-American Company - was caught without trouble at a depth of two and a quarter miles near the middle of the Atlantic. Captain Trott, of the Minla, who has won great fame for his skill and in- genuity in cable matters, but recently picked up the French cable 180 miles off St. Pierre, and in four hours from the time the. grapnel was let go had the cable spliced and in working condition. The splicing is a work of great delicacy and skill, and when accom- plished by trained fingers the spliced part ean searcely be distinguished from the main cord.—Age of Steel. ll AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS. The Manchester correspondent of Tron says that American ironmasters are push- ing their way intoa market from which their British competitors are shut out through political causes. The treaty now under.consideration by the American Senate, under which all articles used in’ railroads will be admitted into Mexico from the United States, free, will exclude railmakers in this country. Naturally, this is distaste- ful to the Jatter, and the British foreign office has directed its consul to make returns respecting the trade between England and Mexico. ‘There has not been for many years any diplomatic intercourse between the British and Mexican governments, and until this is resumed, theve is very little likelihood that the latter will be prepared to enter into tany commercial treaty with the former, credit, which they were unwilling to give. They then libeled the vessel on March 22d, while she was loading at Reed street wharf. It will be noticed that the contract for re- pairs was made before Brown actually be- came the owner of the vessel. , ‘The defence was that Captain Brown is a citizen of Philadelphia, that the bill of sale was recorded and title papers were placed for registry in the eustom house on March the 5th cr 6th; that therefore the Nicola was ‘a domestic vessel, and that the work haying been done personally for the captain the suit should have been brought against him per- sonally, and a suit in rem was illegal. Apart from the fact that the captain dis- puted the amount of the bill, saying that the Great interest was manifested in the triab by vessel and steamboatmen. The court decided in favor of the defend- ants, holding the libellant’s vessel in fault for improper anchorage and other incidental faults, and that the steambarge and her tow were not responsible for having run her down, they having shown that they had done everything within the range of careful: navigation to avoid the vessel thus suddenly found improperly anchored in the channel, ‘The findings of the court are briefly: That the Sunrise was in the night-time anchored in the St. Clair river, and within the channel or roadstead usually taken at that point by vessels coming down the river at night. ‘That, althowgh anchoring in the river in the night-time or day-time is not necesearily Improper or dangerous, and al- though it may be customary to do so during stress of weather, yet when so doing in the night, great care must be used to make am- ple room and space in the channel for pass- ing vessels, and to so locate the anchorage as to avoid possible danger. ‘That the Sun- rise was anchored ata dangerous place in the river, ata point where there is a strong: current, and where her lights might easily have .been confounded with those on the Canada shore beyond her, by persons: or: vessels coming down the river, and difficult to distinguish from them; that the Sunrise: did not have at the time a-suitable and pro- per anchor watch to guard her from danger: fron passing vessels coming down the river 3. that she did not put up and keep up in guod order to the time ot collision suitable andi proper anchor lights to notify passing vessels. of her locality, so as to avoid collision with her. That she did not-comply with Rule: 10, R. S., Section 4,233, which requires that all vesselg when at anchor in roadsteails or fairways, shall exhibit where it can best be seen, a white light so constructed as to <how a clear, uniform, and unbroken light, visible all around the horizon. work was worth only about between twelve and thirteen hundred dollars, another con- struction was put forth, that under the act of June 13, 1836, the lien of the libellants was divested because the libel was not filed until six days after the bark left their dock. That act says that the lien continues only up to the time a “vessel shall proreed on her voyage next atter the work was done,” and the contention was that when the vessel started to goto her loading berth she had entered upon her voyage. . The answer of. ihe libellants was that they did not know Brown, nor where he resided. The painting out of the word Pembroke, Me., and substituting Philadelphia.. while the ship was on the dock was notimportant, because there was no registry of the veseel in the custom house in Philadelphia, until after the attachment was laid. But it is im- material, the libellants claimed, whether the vessel belonged in Pembroke, Me., or Phila- adelphia; by the terms of the Pennsylvania Act, the libellants have a lien because the work was done on the credit of the ship and not on Brown’s personal credit. Judge Butler in deciding the. case said : “IT am satisfied from the testimony in the case that the libellants meant to credit the j vessél solely. This is shown in many ways both by the words as well as the acts of the respective parties. As to the other point with respect to the vessel entering upon her voyage, I am convinced that the taking of a vessel from the drydock to a wharf in the same port for the purpose of loading, cannot be considered in any aspect, as a voyage.” He therefore decided in favor of Simpson & Bro., but left the amount to be ‘ascertained by acommissioner. ANCHORAGE RIGHTS, From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. A case of great importance has just been decided by Judge Welker, of the United States District Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Ohio. It is that of Wm: McGill against the steamship Oscar Townsend and her towbarge, the Edward Kelly. Rhodes & Co., and Hanna & Co., Claimants. The decision is of more than ordinary interest because it involves a feature not hitherto passed upon by the courts. It appeared on the trial that the schooner Sunrise, owned by libellant, proceeding up in tow of a tng, voluntarily came to anchor near the upper end of the Middle Ground, St. Clair river, and substantially in the middle of the chan- nel, which it appeared. is there about 600 or 700 feet in width. She anchored there at 10 o’vlock in the forenoon of October 18, 1881, and had an opportunity throughout the day and that same evening to leave the place and go below the Middle Ground, or up into Sarnia Bay, or close in at the docks at Port Huron, where she could be safe from de- scending vessels. ‘The Sunrise did neither, The steambarge Oscar Townsend, having the Kelly in tow, entered the river from Lake Huron about three o’clock in the morning, and took her usual course for the Alexandria House, ora little below that. Although the full complement of officers and men were on deck watching for lights, they did not discover the light of the Sun- rise at anchor until pretty close aboard, within about 400 feet of her. She made the anchor light halfa point on her starboard bow, aud the steambarge starboarded itnme- diately, and went clear, but her tow, by the force of the current, which was about five miles an hour, swung in just enough to come in collision with the Sunrise and inflict great damage for which the libellant sued, That she did not display, as it was her duty, a torch light when the lights of the: Townsend and Kelly were first «mide as. they approached her, to enable them to see’ her and avoid a collision. That immediately before the collision ~he failed to change her position, as she might have done by puting her wheel to starbuard instead of to port, and thereby cause her to swing out of the way of the ‘Townsend and Kelly; in all of which respects the Sunrise was at tault and negligent; that the ‘Tow: ~ send in coming down the river occupied the usual channel or roadstead at the: point where the.Sunrise was anchored and locat- ved; that it had proper lights and.a proper watch at their proper places, ‘The lights of the Sunrise, being so dim at the time, were not seen by the“lownsend far enough away to have avoided the collision, although pro- per diligence was used for that purpose. When the lights were seen, being close up- on the Sunrise, the master of the ‘Townsend used proper seamanship in trying to avoid the collision, and that, therefore, the Town- send was not guilty of negligence or care- lessness in causing the injury. The Kelly. being the tow, was guilty of no negligence, and therefore not liable for the injury to the Sunrise. GEORGIA PINE, Atlanta Constitution: ‘The shipment of Georgia pine to Western and Northwestern markets is no longer an experiment. Every foot that is sent into the markets of those sections finds ready sale at remunerative prices. ‘The truth is, Georgia pine has a price and a market of its own, and dealers. are not slow to take advantage of the fact. Itis gratifying to know that our railroads are making every effort to meet the expecta- tions of the millmen. With this, the foreign demand for Georgia pine remains unabated and there is also a lively demand from the North and East. The Secretary ot the Lumbermen’s Ex- char ge of New Orleans writes to the ‘Times- Democrat that the use of yellow pine in northern, eastern and western markets is. gradually assuming larger proportions and gradually becoming an important part of the South, But the tone of the Secretary’s ar- ticle leads us to suspect that the recent opening up of the West and Northwest as markets for Georgia pine, has interfered not a little with the lumber trade of the Southwest. He declares that ‘cargo: after cargo has been shipped te other markets, the returns on which barely paid the cost. “and he says this state of affairs has been brought about by a competition which injures all interested persons, The Georgia millmen may have similar complaints, but we have not heard of it, They seem to be exceedingly well satisfied with the prospects, It seems that the lum- bermen of the South lack organization, and the Secretary of the New Orleans Lumber- men’s Exchange urges upon them the ne- cessity of some mutual understanding where- by the interest of all may be advanced. We do not know whether the mill men of Geor- gia have an organization, but they have re- cently manifested a purpose to look after their common interests. They meet and consult with each other fully and freely whenever there is a necessity for consulta- tion, and they have long enjoyed the bene- fits of the co-operation that must inevitably result from euch conferences. ‘The trouble perhaps, with trade in other sections ig that the Georgia pine doesn’t prow Georme g outside of