Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1878 — CHEAP TELEGRAPHY. [ARTICLE]

CHEAP TELEGRAPHY.

A New Company Organized—The Capital Placed at Ten Million*. [From the Philadelphia Times.] _ A new telegraph company, with the title of Continental, and with a capital of $10,000,000, divided into shares of $25 each, and having for its avowed object the reduction of telegraph rates, has filed articles of incorporation with the County Clerk of New York city. A number of prominent Philadelphia capitalists are moving actively in the organization of the new ooncem. Said a gentleman yesterday: “The capitalists having the matter in charge claim, and back their argument by forming the company, that a perfect system of sac-simile or autographic telegraphy has been invented, which will forward the message in the original handwriting of the sender, making a more accurate and reliable transmission, also a much more expeditious one, than is possible under the present system. It is guaranteed by the sac-simile invention that, compared with the present general system, the capacity of a wire can be quadrupled; and this, together with the remarkable improvements in batteries, the development of currents, and other cheapening inventions, has lessened the cost of telegraphing to one-tenth of what it was twenty years ago. The Continental Company is thoroughly organized—with Alfred Nelson, former Treasurer of the Atlantic and Pacific, as President; Albanus L. Worthington, of Trenton, Treasurer; J. G. Case, Secretary, and James G. Smith, inventor of the autographic system, as General Manager—and will begin operations at once by running a line from New York to this city, as a sub-section of the first section, which will eventually include all points between Boston and Washington. It is the intention of the directors of the new line, and it is understood to be necessary under the Smith system, to place forty poles to the mile, with No. 6 wire weighing 560 pounds to the mile. The loss of insulation by the increased number of poles is more than compensated by the superiority of the Brooks insulator, made of Le Bastie glass, which is nearly flexible, and, consequently, less brittle and less liable to break than the ordinary glass insulator. of way has been obtained through New Jersey, the most difficult State iu the country in which to obtain chartered rights, and the company iB prepared, or will be in a short time, to begin the work of construction between New York and Philadelphia. In time it will be made a national line, extending to all parts of the United States, and the corporators claim that they will bring telegraphic facilities within the reach of the public generally, through medium rates and fair profits to the company.

American Millionaires in Paris. An American millionaire, Mr. Mackey, has opened the dancing season in one of tho most beautiful mansions in Paris, with a reception that took the proportions of a court ball. The fact makes the moralists who send letters across the channel rather uncomfortable. One of them is surprised to see with what a rage the French now throw themselves into tho vortex of American society. A few years ago it was necessary for even the richest American to be patronized by a noted person of high French society, who sent out the invitations, and who presented host and guests to each other. Then the guests almost felt they were honoring the man whose champagne they drank. Now, however, all is changed, and King Dollar has asserted his undoubted sway over Paris. The oldest coat-of-armß and the fairest of French lilies bow to him, as soon as he appears. He has no longer to seek introductions, everyone seeks to be introduced to him. He has no longer need of a chaperon to issue invitations; the post brings him daily perfumed, eoroneted billets, asking for the favor of an invitation to his next reception. There is consolation, however, for the British moralist. Americans are declared to be “innately English,” though they will not confess it. Hence it is that the American millionaires in Paris adopt the English style of housekeeping, and we have English servants, English gray livery, English cooking and English clothes. If they are imitated in everything, as the moralist suggests, the Americans are obviously doing Great Britain a good turn by introducing and sanctioning English modes. —New York Tribune.

Webster and Hayne. Webster once told his friend Harvey that several years before the great debate with Hayne he had investigated the whole subject of the public lands for the purpose of opposing a resolution of Mr. McKinley, a Senator from Alabama, proposing to cede the public domain to the States in which they were situated. The question never came up, and Mr. Webster Said: “I had my notes tucked away in a pigeon-hole, and when Hayne made that attack npon me and upon New England, I was already posted, and only had to take down my notes and refresh my memory. In other words,” said Mr. Webster, “if he had tried to make a speech to fit my notes he could not have hit it better. No man is inspired with the occasion. I never was. ” Of the many anecdotes about what took place between Mr. Hayne and Mr. Webster afterward, Mr. Harvey says were many stories which Mr. Webster characterized as untrue, but he vouches for the following : Mr. Webster met Mi. Hayne that night at the President’s reception, and, as he came up to him, Mr. Webster remarked pleasantly: “How are you to-night ?” “ None the better for you, sir,” was the General’s humorous reply.

Conkling as a Boxer. Senator Conkling, when at college, is said to have had manners so reseveed that they provoked his fellow students to tease and torment him. He was then a tall, slender youth, and not strong, and feeling his inability to protect himself properly, he quietly procured a teacher in the art of self-defense, and soon became an expert boxer. After he had held a few Emphatic interviews with divers aggressive students, they concluded it was the better part of valor to let him alone, and he finished his college course with no more molestation. It is added that the Senator takes pleasure in putting on the gloves whenever he can find anyone to spar with him. —New York Tribune. The pineapple flavor furnished to ice creams and oandies is reported as produced from butyric ether or acetate of butyle, both produced from coal tar.