. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 204 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. September Eight Thousand Miles Per Second. The telegraphers have never, to my knowledge, but a single series of tests for the purpose of determining the actual amount of timewhieh elapses while a signal is being flashed from America to Europe along the Atlantic cable. The tests referred to were made at th(^ McGill university, Montreal, in June, 1891. In carrying out these experiments a duplex circuit was arranged on both land and sea along the entire line, which connects Montreal wl'h Waterville, Ireland. When t
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 204 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. September Eight Thousand Miles Per Second. The telegraphers have never, to my knowledge, but a single series of tests for the purpose of determining the actual amount of timewhieh elapses while a signal is being flashed from America to Europe along the Atlantic cable. The tests referred to were made at th(^ McGill university, Montreal, in June, 1891. In carrying out these experiments a duplex circuit was arranged on both land and sea along the entire line, which connects Montreal wl'h Waterville, Ireland. When the line was "'cleaned," a chronograph was attached to t!iO observatory wire at Mont- real and everything declared to be in readiness. The instrument clicked off the signal, while the e::perimenters watched the chronog^-^ph with breathless interest. It did not seem "like an age of sus- pense," however, for within II3 seconds! the chronograph recorded the return of the signal, while it slowly dawned upon the interested scientists prcssciut that the flash had actually made the round trip from Montreal to Ireland in a period of time but little greater than one-sixteenth of a minute. In that very short space of time, infinitesimal and almost unthinkable, I might say, that electric message was flash- ed a distance ahnost as great as one-third the circumference of the world, or, to be exact, 8,0:23 miles. Other experiments made the saine day showed a variation of from 1 secondsforthesigual tomake a round trip.—St. Louis Republic. Humor In Afghanistan. One traveler has described the ameor as "delivering .justice with a hand on his sword ; However that may be, Mr. Wheeler tells tliat a grim sort of humor not infrequently inspired the ameer's judg- ments. "Once a man was brought before him who declared, in a state of unrepressed excitement, that the Russians were ad- vancing to invade Afghanistan. 'The Russians are coming?' said the ameer.
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