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§entiuel. HARLEM. GEORGIA PUBIJiUKD KVEKY THUMDAY. Ballard «*> A-Hi 1n«o»x. >-*"i«assM John Deere - , the great plough manufac turer of Moline, Illinois, 1* dead, al tho ripe age of 82. II" had boon making plough* for flfly year*, beginning with three in 1837, and turning out us many M 73,000 in re< ent year*. II leave* a for tune estimated at a million and a half. Compliments pass when quality meet, ■tore particularly when it la Chine**- qual ity. When tho outgoing Chinese minis ter gw* to call on hi* nuccriwor, he g'*'*’ In all hi* clothes, top knot, je-acock feather* ami a him: jK'tticoat. In tho houw, say* a Washington correspondent, he wear* a bonnet, which ho takes off when he goe* into the street, a* Cliim-c etiquette goes according to the rule of contrary. fVarcley anything will give one a lot tor idea of the vast extent of our coun try than the variety of its products. The rai«in industry of California is proving to be one of immense value. The “|>ack" for the present year already has boon contracted for, of which one house in Chicago is to receive twelve car loads. The California man who sets out a raisin vineyard in a locality adapted to il« growth hue a pretty sure mortgage upon the future. ~ ' T - On the eastern bunk of the Rio Grande river and aleiut six miles from low Cru ces, N. M., is a colony of people whose Customs, history and religion are the most peculiar to bo found in tho country. They call themselves "Fstithists," have a Bible written by one of themselves, have a new calendar in w hich tho days, Sab baths and holidays are changed, and tho montlts arc called signs; cut only two meals a day, while fish and flodi are for ever forbidden ns an article of food. In Bordeaux, France, workmen may dine as follows; A large plate of vege table soup, 2 cents; a large piece of bread, 2 cents; a bit'" plate of red Inri cot lu-ans, Scents; half a p'ate of roast Veal (the quantity being ample for an ordinary man), 4 cents; a plate of rice, 1 cent, and half a bottle of vin ordinaire, I cents. This is n good deal of dinner for fiitccn cent*, but it must be borne in mind that in Bordeaux fifteen cents is a good deal of money to a working man. In a recent lecture in London, Mr. .1, G. Baker estimated the number of char acteri'ticslly tropical plants ns from 40,- 000 t<> 30,000. The plants of the north temja-rsto zone embrace about 20,00(1 sjM'cles, while the higher mountain re gions pm-aibly furnish 2000 i total of 8000 species of what gardeners cull al pine*, that is, plants specially adapted to a cool, damp climate with a short sum mer. Mr. Biker csiimatr'S that 40,000 apccies of plants are represented in tho possessions of Great Britain. The Kansas City Journal remarks that the suggestion that the penitentiary should be -n ideal home for Socialists has a great deal of truth in it as well as grim humor In tho penitentiary no man can acquire property, no man can dress better or cat be ter food than another. There is to be found the most complete application of the leveling doc trine. Tho former capitalist works side by side with the railroad navvy, cats with him, sleep* in his cell, perhaps is chained to him. Let Parsons, Spies and company try the penitentiary at Joliet. It will hardly be thought that there are not on tho whole glolie fifty cities containing 900,000 people; but such is tho fact, and anyone may convince him aclf of it by consulting a geographical dictionary. It would seem at first that there must be at h ast 200 cities of 200,- 000 population, but there is not one fourth of the number. Os these, Great Britain has about 9; France, 3; Italy, 4; Germany (proper), 5 or <5; China, -ome 9; India, Bor 9, and tho United Slates, according to the latest census, 0 or 10. It is somewhat remarkable that a coun try only 100 years old should have as many (if not mon-) large cities as the oldest lauds; but it is not improbable that, before another century, we shall count as large a number of cities of 200 000 inhabitants as there are now in the whole wort 1 . We are inclined to think that old and famous capitals, like Cordo va, Granada, Cadi.’, I’l. r nc . Venice, I‘sdus, Verona, Bdogna Warsaw, Cm cow, Anlw rp, Ghent, It •tteislam. Ley den, laapsic, must lx- very large, though they really have no mon* than from 70. 000 to 140.000 or 150 000 people each. Theciti s that can lay claim to 100,000 population and upward are perhaps about 130, and three include many of those which at first though, we should supp'sc contained two or three tim s the ■limber. This planet is very little after all. Ila m Ilion* are not so near numer ous a* it would seem that they ought to be, and the l ulk of three do tel come within our idea of civilization, any more than wo came within their idea of it One of the most interesting ol modern charities in tho “Loan Exhibition" of fine picture* in the cast end show* of London. The first one was held six year* ago; a devoted clergyman of the Church nt England, inaugurated and ■till direct* the *chetno, mid so far a* popularity qud artistic merit go—and they seem to about cover the cus- -it is n great suro **. The artist* mid many owner* of gnllerici cordially a-sist in the work, an 1 tic* exhibition Is always very fine. A cntalogu • with explanatory note* is so'.d for u penny, ami licsidre oral explanations of tho pictures are given. Tn<’gallery whothe picture* are shown is continual y visited by all rhvse* and conditions of men. The promulgators of tho move do not contend that the sight of good pictures is going to reform the. Eist Eid of L ndon, but they think th" tendency of the exhibi tion is in that direction, mid that even the “smallest service i* tru • service." A match is a small thing, but in the maniifai lu <• of matches one of the great cortiorations hns grown up. It originate 1 in a combination of tin- h ading match manufacturers. Th" capital stock is about $25,000,000, and l i t year a divi dend of eight |ier cent, wus pai I. Matches are much ehc.iper now than tin y u.<d to be, by r" is >n of some out aide competition with th t reat combina tion. The Chic igo manager of this combination, referring ti th" c nstant consumption of pine, -.ays that Ir.s com pany has pine enough to l i t for twenty five years. It is loc.it"d in the Ontona gon region of Michigan. Mutches cun lie ma le out of str aw boar las well as of pine, but there is small inducement to attempt to make straw b nd matches while pine can be hi 1 in the production. Wax matches can also b ■ m ade cheaply. Southern pine cannot be used for matches, since it is too full of pitch. The dry, punk-like pine of the northern woods is the only pine which is really fit for use. The further north the supply is s-cured the better the pine for the purpose of the match maker. A Base-B ill Bog. The rival nines were made up of lioys under thirteen, and Major. As I reach ed tlie ground it was his inning, and his m ister, who claimed the privilgo of strik ing for him, wis nt the bat. The dog was right behind with one paw in ad vance, and his eyes on the striker. In ciiine the twisters, and Major made sev eral false starts; but finally, as the ball went scudding from the b it, of! he rush ed for first base, his ears flapping, his plume-like tail out straight behind. But the short stop was too nimble for the dog ami just before he reached the base the bull arrived there, and he camo slowly back, his tdl hanging low, and a very mournful expression in his great eyes. "Maji-'sout, side oq<!” cried the boys qn I imnit liately conceived a method by which he could retrieve this disaster; the dog seemed to regain his spirits, dashed into the field, and was speedily in his po sition as left fielder, before any of tho others hud reached their places. In the preliminary “pass around” that preceded tin- play, Major was not left out, and I saw that the bulls that were thrown at him directly were quite as swift as those delivered from base to base; and in justice to him, I never saw him “mull.” When a ball was thrown at him, he settled back, and dropped his great lower jaw, into which the projec tile see neil to fit; then, with tail wag ging, he would hasten to curry the ball to the next player. Ho was equally pro ficient with low balls, either catching tin in in his mouth or stopping them with his broad chest, and in fielding he could not be outdone. When he caught a ball, he carried it nt full speed to the nearest thrower, and not a few players were put out by his quick motions and activity.— St. XicMi. A Dakota Judge on Ills Bignity. We will stiqi taking testimony for ten minutes, said a Dakota justice of the |M-ace, removing his coat, during which time tho court will lick the attorney for the defence. The constable will plea*" remove the chairs and small boy, ns we propose to Imi him down on tin* floor about twenty times. When a lawyer re fers to this court as a squan or.icred sage hen of the alkali de-ert ami accused it of having been bought by the preset u tion for $2.50, he will find that this judicial body is I>a led for game found only in the tall timber, namely, bars gentlemen, largo gr.-'ly b’ars. We pro ]*>so to maintain our dignity while set ting on this hen* mii. k er lx*nch and will do so if we have t > st iv at horn cir cus day and pound lawyers. Awl if we can't do it alone wc intend to invoke the power of th" Vnited St u - c d get backed up by the .supreme court and reg ular anuy. If the attorney for the de fens' has any friend* in th room, they will lx* given an opportunity to shake hands with him and take any instructions he may wish to »end to his family. The gxmtlemen will please form ring and we would direct the constable to pull him off if he attempts to bite or pull liair. Take your |>osition for the court is a-com ing!—Kttfllinf \JKik.} Bell. The largest coffee district in the world i* the Braxilian an 1 Bolivian table land. Coffee, cotton, tapioca, rice, corn and I wheat thrive in the same latitudes. . A Fragmeat. What If, while I «it her* a'onn, A voire I have not Ix-ar l tor year* Hboul'l gr et me in the low aw et one That once wai tnuai ’ to my ear*; And I ab'ruld start from memory 1 * *way, And, turning, find you sdting there Vnchaag**!, as though 'twero yewV-nlay Your fact went tripping down the ata r. Or if, upon «ome lummer day. 'Mid « >ng of bints and bum of Inna, I (hould g'i down the w< odland way To our old tryst beneath th" trees; And, starti g liaek in glad surprise, I should Iwbold you waiting th re, Tho o d light shining in your eyre— Th" sunlight tanglod in your hair. In vain I shall not »«> the glow Os wine-brown eyes or catch tho smile Os ruby lip*; but yet I know That you are near mo all the while. For I no love 1 you in that ran o Os sunny years that my poor heart Would bleed afresh an I count it trango To think God hold u • far apart. And so, when evening shulows creep And night falls softly o'er the lea. You touch my eyelids and I Bleep, And sleeping, dream of heaven and thee. And when some sun mer morn shall break That, finds mo chid -d by d -a h's cold dew, j You need but kiss me, 1 shall wake. And waking bo in heaven with you. —Jean Ingleeide. THE ASTROLOGER’S DUPE A little old woman, gray-haired and trembling, sat a little while ago in the back office of a Wall street stock broker. Her gaze was fixed on a wide blackboard, where chalk figures showed the drift of stock market quotations; there was no lustre in her eye; her whole aspect was thatof one dumbfounded, brokenhearted. She had a sad story to tell were there only spirit enough left to her fo>a recit al. A year ago she came to this same brokerage office. Her purse was fat with bank bills and she gave an order for the purchase of 500 shares of a stock which had been active a long time. The broker ad vised her against the purchase, and told her plainly that he had what he be lieved excellent reasons for expecting a heavy decline in the particular stock she had selected to buy. But she persisted in her determination, declaring that she had information which could not be wrong that the stock was bound to go up a good deal very soon. She had her way, despite the counsels that plainly predicted the loss of her money. She left $5,000 in cash us a 10 per cent, mar gin to protect her interest and went her way with a calm confidence shown on her countenance. “I shall make a good deal of money," she said as she left, “for the information 1 have comes from the very highest authority.” The stock per perversely declined forthwith, and each day saw some fraction clipped off of the preceding day’s quotation. Within a month the original $5,000 margin had dwindled down to SI,OOO, and broker was obliged to call for unother deposit from bis customer to protect her interest, she came down town with the same self satisfied smile, and with the same expres sions of confidence produced her rounded purse again. Four thousand dollars she left in the broker's hands this time. “The advance, I am told, has been una voidably delayed a little while,” she said, with a tone full of assurance ami faith, “but it is bound to come soon now, and I feel as sure that my money is safe as if I had it all in bank awaiting my orders.” This was in response to further grave pre dictions from the broker, who, by much argument tried to convince her that she was being misled. Another short period elapsed; and another enforced call was made upon the sunny faced old lady. Just a bare suspicion of disquiet was be. ginning to show itself, but there was no backdown in her action. Out camo more money. And so a little later did more still follow. Then not long ago she came yet again; now she brought her bank book. She showed to the broker that a year ago it credited her with de posits of SIB,OOO, of which but $2,500 rem lined; and that $2,500 —every p nny of it, every penny she possessed in the world—she handed over. She was not yet utterly downcast. “But yesterday,” ■he averred. “I ha'l my information re peated again and the rise which I’ve waited for so long is to come now right away.” Down went the market, lower ami lower dropped the price of the ex pectant woman’s 500 shares of stock, till that day a little while ago when for the last time she came into Wall-street again, drop|H'd into an armchair before the quo tation board and gazed long and listless ly, as one in a deep dream, confronting the white figures that glared out at her there like the eyes of so many demons. All of her SIB,OOO was gone; she had only poverty left. But she was brave still, and when her broker approached lier she rose with the grace of a woman young and queenly and thanked him for all his courtesies and the good advice he had waisted on her. “Now, Madam, will you do me the great favor of telling me from what •ource you received th" false information on which you relied so implicitly and risked* so much money I” This was the broker's question. “Upon an astrologer. This was her amazing answer, and she nanus! a man whose “card” is flaunted publicly in the metropolis. There wasa stupefied broker, a broker who got mad. He didn't say “Fool!" but he looked it. The old lady talked then freely. It was no new thing she Mid, for her to »e<-k the advice a thi* “astrologer," her husband hud dont the same b dore t?r an I a acore of hei friends, ahc said, h i I implicit confl I nci in the revelations of the se-r. “I’ll give you $1,000,” said ’he brokci hotly, “if you'll promise me on ■ thing.” The old lady's lightening countenance showed that he need have no doubt of the promise. “Never come into Wall street again and have no more to do with this blanked scoundrel whose lies have ! cost you so <1 early.” The promise was gladly exchang ’d foi I the money, and the old lady went hei way. But this was not the only *eque< to this speculation. Three or four days ago a dapper little fellow with a face weazened around a pair of twinkling ad der eyes thrust himself into this same brokerage office. He sought the mana ger and said he want"d to buy some stock on a margin. He had brought a one thousand-dollar note along to put up as the necessary deposit. He was just ready to hand over his money when of a su Iden lie looked into the broker’s face anil ejac ulated, “You’ve got u bright eye; may I draw this bank note across them just for a second?” The broker was astonished, but to humor a customer, whom he sup posed to be only in a jovial mood, he consented, and the bill blindfolded him momentarily. The customer closed his own eyes, withdrew the bill, and ejacu lated as if io himself alone, “Correct; perfectly correct!” He deposited his money, and was about to leave when sud denly the broker, urged by a strange sus picion, called him and said: “Will you tell me why you went through that per formance of putting that bill over my eyes?” “Certainly, certainly!” ejaculat ed the sallow fellow. “Certainly; I was testing the information I had. lam an astrologer, and—” “Are you the man that sent Mrs. X here to buy stock?” “Yes, oh yes!” and the adder-eyed customer rubbed bis hands ecstatically. “Yes. oil yes! I toll her to come here.” “You swindled her, you scoundrel.” The broker’s voice wasn’t sweet to listen to, and the astrologer looked more than a little scared. “Why, I believe in the powers myself,” he whined, “or, of course, I wouldn’t be putting up my own money.” It was only because there is a Police Court in this town that the fellow was not sum marily kicked into the street. As it was the broker contented himself with saying: “Your account will be closed in this office to-night. If there is anything duo you you can have it at 3 o’clock. Get out of here now, quick.” At 3 o’clock when the gentleman called he found that something had run afoul of the market during the day and his 203 shares of stock had fallen enough in a couple of hours to wipe out every cent of his SI,OOO margin. And I betray only a little bit of confidence in saying that the fellow wouldn’t have been far wrong if he had suspected that his own broker was re sponsible himself for the sudden decline, having hammered tho market and paci fied his conscience somewhat in remem brance of the duped old lady whose fortune had gone at the idle dictation of tlie arrant humbug who now to some ex tent was doing penance for her sorrow.— Jfeu> York Times. Washington anil Bunker Hill. It was on the lot i day of Jane, 1775, that George Washington was chosen Commander-in-Chief of the American army. The next day he made his answer to Congress, in which he declared that he accepted the office, but that lie would take no pay. He left Philadelphia on his way to Boston June 21, escorted by a troop of horsemen, and accompanied by Schuyler and Lee, who had ju t been made major-generals by Congress. They had gone about twenty miles when they saw a man on horseback coming rapidly down the road. It was a messenger ri ding post haste to Philadelphia, and carrying to Congress news of the battle of Bunker Hill. Everybody was stirred by the news and wanted to know ti»t* particulars. “Why were the Provincials compelled to retreat?” he was asked. “It was for want of ammunition,” ho replied. “Did they stand the fire of the regular troops?” asked W ashington anxi ously. “That they did, and held their own fire reserve until the enemy was within eight rods.” “Then the liberties of the country are safe!” exclaimed Washington. He re membered well the scenes under Brad dock, and he knew what a sight it must have been to those New England farm ers when a compact body of uniformed soldiers came marching up from the boats at Charlestown. If they could stand fearlessly, there was stuff in them for soldiers.— St. Nicholas. Room to R nt. “Had a terrible shock this mawnin’, Awthaw. Met a low fellow who asked me if I had rooms to rent; actually took me for a beggarly landlord.” “Oh, no, Percy. I daresay he only meant to insinuate that you had an empty head.” “Do you think so? Quite a relief, I as suah you. So awful to suspect that 1 looked like a low landloard.”— CalL i A WONDERFUL FARM. •‘Lucy Baldwin’s" Great Ranch in California. A Primely Domvn. Fonrtnn Miles Long, Containing 58,030 Acres. A letter from California to the St. Louis Globo- Democrat says: Lucky Baldwin’s possession from the control of mines on the Comstock have gradually grown until now he has a half a dozen great enterprises under full headway. He owns the largest and finest hotel in San Francisco, with the single exception of the Palace, and which contains a the atre within it. He has a fine summer hotel on Lake Tahoe, and he has shrewd ly bought up a large strip of the shore of this beautiful lake, which in a few years will be sought after for villa sites. Fin ally, he owns the great Santa Anita ranch, near Los Angeles the breeding place of the string of swift-footed flyers with which he goes East to contest for the prizes on the chief racing circuits, and one of the best general fruit and stock ranches in the State. This pr.ncely domain extends fourteen miles cast and west and twelve miles north and south, and embraces 58,000 acres. He shears thousands of sheep every year, raises wheat enough to charter entire ships for conveying it to Liverpool, and makes more brandy than any one else in the State, besides turning out a large quanti ty of wine. The men who are boarded on the ranch get $1 a day, and the few Chinese who remain—-not over a dozen, all told—get $1 a day and board themselves. What . adds to the likeness to the Southern plantation is tho appearance of young darkies driving carts or herding stock. These are members of a colony of North Carolina negroes whom Baldwin brought out here from their old homes two years ago. He paid their fares and made a ; contract with them to work for him for a term of years. He built them neat houses, and here arc. installed the ten families comprising about sixty mem bers. They have made excellent hands in the field and the orchard, because tae women and children can be counted on for good work in cultivating and pick ing fruit. The man who has charge of all the practical details of this huge place is J. F. Fulby, a shrewd, energetic Californian, who knows wheat growing and fruit cul ture so thoroughly that he is a terror to all incompetent hands, and who keeps his small army of workmen under regular military discipline. Judged by the re sults, his management is the best of any that I saw in the southern country. The wine celler is always an object of curiosity to the average tourist, but even though one enjoys the companionship of the manager and the hospitality of the ranch, it is very dangerous to sample California wines. There is so much strength in the juice of these lusty grapes, even when mellow with age, that unless one is a seasoned vessel the chances are that he will be overcome before he knows it. The cellar is piled high with them ten years old. All th) latest machinery for distilling is here, and the place is in charge of a French expert, of life-long experience in wine and brandy making in his native country. After one has seen the orange groves, the orchards, vineyards, and the other features of the home place, he is prepared to extend his observations to the great wheat and sheep ranches on the Santa Anita. You may drive for miles through fields where the who it is now knee high and shows an even stand which would delight the eye of a Dakota wheat grow er. Beyond the wheat farm the visitor comes to the Puento sheep ranch, com prises about 3J,00 J acres of gently roll ing footliill land reaching back to the mountains. The old Scotchman, named Cameron, who has care 1 for sheep all his life, going from Scotland to New Z aland and from New Zealand coming here. Ho is a man of wide information, and he seemed liked an anachronism in this free and easy California life, for he adheres to the Calvinism in which he was bred. An example of the rigid insistence upon his creed was furnished last summer when Baldwin had a party of friends at the ranch. The supply of meat ran out and the millionaire sent over to old Cam eron to slaughter four sheep. The an swer was returned in broad Scotch: “There will be na killing of the sheep on the Sawbath," and Baldwin had to send to town for his meat. Ba'dwin is engaged in splitting up a portion of the ranch into small tracts of from twenty acres upward and selling them to Los Angeles people for summer villas and to Eastern people who wish a winter home in one of the most beautiful valleys of southern California. A rail road will be completed through the ranch this fall, anil then one mly reach the city of Los Angeles in fifteen min utes. The only drawback to rapid set tlement ol the ranch is the price charged for the land. With perpetual water right. $250 per acre is asked for unim proved land. The majority of those who buy this land will be wealthy peo ple, who can afford to spen I from $lO,- 000 to $20,00) in laying out and improv ing a place. Uniform prices: What the tailor charges sot soldiers’ cloths. The Sailor's Ont tit. “What is a sailor’s outfit for a i oß _ voyage?" repeated a weather-beaten old tar recently, as he munched a piece of old navy and gazed respectively into glass of grog in a Front street siloo n “Why, as for that matter, no two ors are alike. One will go to sea with * nice outfit of long togs for nights ashore and a sea rig large enough to start a s ec . ond-hand clothing store on South street and another will fire all his boodle away in a night’s jolitication, and away to sea the next day for a voyage around the Horn with the suit he stands in and a ragged suit of oilskins that have weath ered both capes and the storms of three seasons. “Well, take the average sailor, and give me an inventory of the contents of his chest. ” “I think I will tell you what we found in the chest of one of our men who died last voyage; it would hit the mark, perhaps. We had been struck by a squall of Hatteras and had hard work to get the muslin off the ship before the gale which quickly followed hove us to under close-reefed maintopsail. As the men lay down from aloft one of them was pitched headlong overboard by the parting of a ratlin, and he was astern and swallowed up by the angry waves before any effort could be made to save him. As is the custom, his chest wa* brought aft, opened, and an inventory made of his effects, that might be for warded to his friends. In addition to the heavy clothes for bad weather, and the light ones for use under sunny skies, were found many little presents which the dead man had picked up and was taking to his friends at home. There were dress patterns of rich China silks, pretty toilet boxes, and bits of fancy carving. Each was wrapped up and the address of the recipient written upon it. From letters which were found in the till of Jack’s chest wc learned that he hailed from an inland town of Pennsyl vania, and the gifts were intended for a mother and sisters there, who will wait long for the return of their sailor boy.” The Cuban Milkman; In a letter from Havana a Chicago News correspondent says: The lechero and his system here are worthy of maga zine illustration. Milk for the markets and hotels is brought into the city by immense ox-carts in cans having the ap pearance of diminutive cylindrical pago das, but a large proportion of the inhabi tants cling with obstinate conservatism to the ancient method of supply. At all hours of the morning I have met on the highways away out in the suburbs sober droves of a half-dozen cows accompanied by a half-dozen muzzled calves as they were being leisurely driven into the city by a brown-faced countryman and two or three of his barefooted boys. Arrived in Havana these rustic groups became the traveling milk supply. Almost with out guidance the animals seek tlie be ginning of the “milk route,” and on reaching the door of the first cus tomer, come to a halt, the cows and calves taking position with military pre cision, in single file, along the flag-stone footways of the narrow street. Our guajiro or countryman is now tlie city lechero or milkman. The urchins rim into the customer’s house, secures the order, and the letchero milks the requir ed quantity there and then before the very eyes of the housemaid, the portero or el senior himself. In this way from house to house the queer cavalcade passes, until cow after cow is milked clean, when the muzzle is in turn re moved from each mother’s calf, and the little tcrnerillas arc free to take undis puted passession. of the “strippings.” The system has obvious advantages, The milk is assuredly fresh. It would be difficult for the lechero to secrete a wa ter-butt about his person. Hooking a Broken Submarine Cable* The ends of broken submarine telegraph cables are picked up with an instrument called a grapnel iron. It is a stout bar of iron about two feet long, with five prongs or hooks about six inches long at one end and a swivel at the other. A rope long enough to lower this grapnel iron to the bottom of the ocean is at tached to the swivel, and the iron is then dragged along on the bottom by a steamer, which steers direct,}’ across ths place where the broken cable lies, and two or three miles, as near as may be, from the broken end. By means of tw» wires, which run down the rope and a simple device on the grapnel iron, an electric circuit is completed w’henever the hook catches on anything and a bell on board the ship begins to ring, and continues to do so until the strain on the hook is relieved. If the hook should catch on a sock the strain on a dynam ometer attached to the drag-rope sud denly increases, and the strain when the cable is hooked gradually increased A ship may have to steam across the line of a cable many times before succeM is attained. When the cable is hooked the end is brought on board the ship and a dispatch sent to the office on short to test that part of the cable. The end is then buoyed and sent adrift until the other end is secured. When this is done a new piece of cabie is spliced in be* tween the two ends and after a thor ough testing the whole is lowered over board.—New York Sun.