Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1891 — WANDERING BOTTLES ON THE SEA. [ARTICLE]

WANDERING BOTTLES ON THE SEA.

Experiments Which Have Proved a Deal About Ocean Current*. Of all the wonders' that thogp who go down to the sea in ships are>-brought in contact with ? none is as unftithomablo or incompreheri4b!< as, tkibse mighty rive-s that flow, th duglr the ocean and M% khowM, streams wljßrs fhey are Well definetfcaitdks currtftts where they are Jipiited jEwff Hydiocrapnlc Offiee has- beeh'm’alflng, in the last- tew ytytfA £$ grpajrioA/ ■ experiments calculated,‘to test fully' the theory of streams curreods Atlant! ■. .Lieutenant Naxfo” has among his treasures in the branch hydrographic office iu th s city a little bottle which once held a half-pint of whisky. Subsequent to that it held a paper saying that it was dropped overboard from the steamship Cephalonia, 4(0 miles east of Boston, It was brought Into this port two years after iL was dropped overboard by a schooner from Ainbergis Key, little island in the Bahama group. _ This bottle, with Its paper Inside, had proved the theory 'of ocean currents. It had followed the Gulf stream until it had been caught by that current which sweeps to the south along the coast of Eastern Europe and Northern Africa, had been carried thence to the westward until it entered the Caribbean Sea, then passed between the western end of Cuba and Cape Gracias a Dios, the eastern extremity of Yucatan, and, having made the circuit of the Gulf of Mexico, was washed ashore on the western end of Ambergris Key. Other bottles which have been dropped overboard by outgoing steamers have, as a rule, been as satisfactory in the result of their drift as the bottle from the Cephalonia, but some of them have developed marked eccentricities in their voyages. Thus one which was thrown overboard from the steamship Aller off Cape Face, the southern extiemity of Newfoundland, seems to have made a “bee-line" for .the Azores where it was picked up on the beach near Fayal. In its voyage it went directly across the Gulf stream, and followed a current never before suspected. A bottle dropped overboard by the steamship Sardinian about 300 miles southeast of Cape Farewell, the southern extremity of Greenland, was picked up on the shores of Norway, and one dropped overboard about 200 miles oft the coast of Scotland, was found in nearly the same place. Both of these bottles, journeying toward the land of the midnight sun, had shown a strong current setting from the North Atlantic on the Norwegian shores. The general result, so far, seems to be that a strong current sets from the east upon the shores of the British Isles, and a strong one rushes into the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic. This is a fact long maintained by writers on physi. al geography, but never before demonstrated as it has been by the Hydrographic Office. But the experiments of the Hydrographic Office have also developed the fact that various other subsidiary currents, acting over a large space, exist which were not before suspected. “Dinner for Two. Appetite for One!” Said a dyspeptic to the waiter, ordering for self and friend. And, suppose he nad had an appetite, it would have agonized him, subsequently, to gratify it. 01 the abominable pangs that even a little meal causes the confirmed victim of indigestion. Purgatory on earth—no less. Altogether unnecessary, though. Begin at once, systematically, a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, ye unfortunates with refractory stomachs. In saying this we merely echo the recorded experience of thousands who have used the great stomachic to their lasting benefit. For the irfOctlon of a sluggish liver, and for tardy or Irregular action of the bowels, both very apt to accompany dyspepsia, this fine regulator isequally efficient. Malarial complaints, kidney trouble, rheumatism, and neuralgia depart when a resort is had to the Bitters.