Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Cabling to Australia. [ARTICLE]

Cabling to Australia.

A telegraph messago from New York to Australia has to go noa lv 20,000 miles. Of this nearly 15,000 milos is by submarine cable. It takes somo little time to send a message, as on Its way It has to be handled by fifteen operators at various stations, at oavhof which it has to be relatd, honco the time of rewriting at each station uggrogatos quite an Item. Tho longest continuous submarine cables aro tho transatlantic cables, which aro somo 2,H)0 miles long. The longest continuous land lino is not, as many suppose, in America. Although there is direct communication from Now York to California, it is not over a continuous wire. Tho longest land wire in tho world Is across tho continent of Australia. Lt extends from Port Darwin to Adelaide, a distance of 2,150 miles.—St. Louis Globe-L’omocrat.