Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Ocean-Cables. [ARTICLE]

Ocean-Cables.

Many of our readers, says the Chicago Tribune, whose pursuits in life do not bring before them familiarly the great and multiplying achievements in the different departments of civil engineering that are taking "place in all parts of the world, will be surprised to learn from the following table how many ocean-cables over 500 miles in length have thus far been successfully laid. The data are taken from the Journal of Telegraph: Year Quilt. From. Length of milee. 1866. Ireland to Newfoundland 1,896 1867. Malta to Alexandria, Egypt 925 1869. Brest to Duxbury, Maas., via Bt. Pierre.3,3B3 Bushire, Persia, to Jask, Beloochistan.. 505 St. Pierre to Duxbury 749 1870. Suez to Aden, Arabia 1,469 Aden to Bombay, India 1,818 Porthcurno, England, to Liabon 823 Gibraltar to Malta 1,120 Madras to Penang.....- 1,408 Singapore to batavia 557 Malta to Alexandria, Egypt 901 Ratabano, Cuba, to Santiago, Cuba. ... 520 t - Java to Australia 1,082 1871. Singapore to Cochin-China t>2o Saigon to Hong-Kong 975 Hong-Kong to Shanghai 1,100 Shanghai to Japan, and thence to Siberia 1,200 Antigua toDemarara, West Indies 1.208 Porto Rico to Jamaica 582 1873 Falmouth, England, to Lisbon I,l'o, Valentla to Newfoundland 1.900 France to Denmark 5-50 Pernambuco to Para, Brazil 1,382 Alexandria. Egypt, to Brindisi, Italy... 930 1874. Lisbon to Madeira 633 Valentia to Newfoundland 1,900 tn Madeira to St. Vincent 1,31)0 St. Vincent to Brazil ..... 1,951 to Colon, S. A 6 0 West Indies to Rio Janeiro 1,240 Jamaica to Porto Rico 582 Rio Janeiro to Rio Grande de Sul 840 1875. Ireland to Rye Beach 3,000 Besides these, there are 71 ocean-cabfes less than 100 miles long, and 40 between 100 and 500 miles long.

—A boy named Gustave Guisky accidentally hanged himself in his employer’s ice-house, in New York, a few days ago. They were talking about the negroes who were hanged a fortnight previous, when Guisky said he would like to experience the sensation of being hung.- He placed a rope over a hook in the icehouse, and, putting his bead in the noose, his feet slipped from under him and he was choked to death. He was found by his employer ten minutes after the conversation. —Herbert Spencer is fifty-five, but he has married. In preferring the simplicities of a bachelor’s life to the complexities of matrimony he refuses to follow out his own theory of evolution—from the simple to the complex. —Sally Verb is the name of a Kansas girl married the other day. As she was-a was not to be declined.