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Cuthbertson, Archibald. How to prevent and 

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Dawson. George M. Recent Observations on the 

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Hittell, John S. A Code of Morals. San Fran- 

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Holbrook. M, L. Ealing for Strength. New 

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Hydrographic Office, U. S. Navy Department. 

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Mills, T. Wesley, Montreal. Squirrels: Their 

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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Fast Ocean Passages, — It was about fifty 

 years ago, with the introduction of iron ships 

 and the screw-propeller, that the era of 

 rapid steamboat traveling began. The pad- 

 dle-wheel steamer Great Western sailed 

 from Bristol, England, April 8, 1838, and 

 reached Xew York April 23d. This was wel- 

 comed as a great achievement, for the passage 

 across the Atlantic had been made in half the 

 time formerly required. Two years later the 

 Cunard steamers began to sail, the pioneer 

 vessel being the Unicorn, a little craft, which 

 made the passage from Liverpool to Boston, 

 via Halifax, in sixteen days. Improvements 

 in the new method of navigation were made in 

 rapid succession. In 1845 the Great Britain 

 — the original ocean screw-steamer — left Liv- 

 erpool July 26th and arrived at New York 

 August 10th. In May, 1851, the Pacific 

 crossed the Atlantic in nine days, nineteen 

 hours, and twenty-five minutes. The usual 

 time for the passage was still ten or eleven 

 days in 1859. It is only within the last ten 

 years that the speed of ocean-steamers has be- 

 come phenomenal and their size enormous. 

 The strictly modern class of steamships may 

 be said to have begun with the Arizona, built 

 in 1879, which made the Atlantic passage in 

 the fastest time then on record, attaining a 

 speed of twenty and one third statute miles 

 an hour. In the same year was launched 

 the Alaska, which in 18S2 was the first ves- 

 sel to cross the ocean in seven days, gaining 

 thereby the title of " greyhound of the At- 

 lantic" ; but still fleeter " ocean greyhounds " 

 soon appeared. The Oregon outstripped the 

 Alaska, running at the rate of twenty-two 

 miles an hour, and in 1884 was herself 

 eclipsed by the Umbria, making twenty-three 

 and a half miles an hour. Then came the 

 City of Rome, which made the eastward pas- 

 sage in six days, twenty-two hours, and 

 twenty-five minutes; and in February, 1887, 

 the Etruria came to the front with a record 

 of six days and nineteen hours from Liver- 

 pool to New York. The Umbria and the 

 Etruria have made several reductions on this 

 time, and the present best record is held by 

 the Etruria, which made the passage from 

 Queenstown to New York in September, 

 1888, in six days, one hour, and fifty min- 

 utes ; but we may expect a still further re- 



