TELEGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5461, 15 August 1879, Page 3

TELEGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY.

Will wonders ever cease ? Certain it is that marvels in scientific discovery are following one another in rapid succession. The most ret'ent and the most wonderful appears simply incredible* A New York Cable Company has secured fhe Exclusive right to the use of an electrical discovery wherewith at least two hundred and as many as two thousand words a minute can bo signalled through a submarine wire ! It is said that what could at the maximum speed be sent through the conducting wire between London or Paris and New Fork would be equal to the number of words contained in one number of tho Times or the 2Vb?o Yorh Herald, and it is also asserted that, by this process, an ', entire number of either of the abovenamed journals could be despatched through the cable from New York to Lon-< don or Paris, or from London to New 1 York, and be reproduced at those points in few simile] on a stereotyped block or plate, complete and ready to be printed from, in thirty minutes, and at a trifling expense. Not only it is possible to do all this, we are assured, I but furthermore, secresy and despatch may be obtained in this wise : — The sender writes on a piece of prepared paper, places it in a box, a handle is turned, the message returns to the sender, and at the end of the wire a blank sheet is sent to the person addressed. When the paper is healed the message appears on the blank sheet. To a Dublin gentleman whose name is well, known in the scientific world — Mr Thomas A. Dillon— belongs the credit of the invention, certain improved electric batteries controlled by the American Cable Company serving as the basis of the new discovery. With the combined use of these two inventions it is believed that the Company will be enabled to reduce the tariff for cable messages between New York and the five different countries to be directly connected with its cables, to the extent of from three to five cents per word. We have the further statement that the Anglo-American. Company offered to buy the invention for £400,000 ; and -that, as that Company, lacked the proper electric instruments for giving effect to the new process, it would have been lost to the public world. GLADSTONE'S IDEA OF A HERO. Mr Gladstone, in an address on ( f Dr Hook," recently gave his idea of a 'hero. He holds that a hero is a man who must have ends beyond himself, in casting him : self, as it were, out of himself, and must pursUe these ends by means which are honorable and lawful, otherwise he might" degenerate into a wild enthusiasm. He must do this without distortion or disturbance of his nature as a man, because there were cases of men who were heroes in a great part, but were so excessively given to certain ideas and objects of their own that they lost all the proportion of their nature. A man to be a hero \ must pursue ends beyond himself by legitimate means. He must pursue them as a man, not as a dreamer. He must not give to some one idea a disproportionate ' weight which it did not deserve, 'and forget everything else which belonged to the perfection and excellence of human nature. If he did all this he was a hero, even if ho had not very great powers, and if he had great powers then he was a consummate hero. A greater hero than Napoleon was the captaiu of a ship which was run down in the Channel three or ' four years ago, who, when his ship was i quivering and the water gurgling round her, and the boats had been lowered to ' save such persons as could be saved, stood by the bulwarks with a pistol in. his hand and threatened to shoot dead the first man who endeavored to get into the boat until every woman and child was provided for.