148 ; Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
years. The main poin ee: ut forward by Prof. Stockwell in’ his 
Cambridge memoir has not been accepted by astronomers, but this 
his results for past time, a low maximum o urred about 100,000 
years back; a iene, 200, 000 years; a tower, 4 300,000; a rathe er 
low minimum 410,000; a low maximum, 475 000; a very low min 
ae Nee a maximum 570,000; two maxima, the aioond 
: 5 : 
950, 000; ete.—In Saban vite there will be a very low minimum, 
24 000 years on; a low maximum, 150,000 years; another low max- 
ithum, 250,000; a very low minimum, 300,000; a low maximum, 
400,000; avery high maximum, 515 000; a minimum, 560,000; an 
extreme maximum , 610,000 years ; and so on, Some of the minor 
oe eg and most of the minima, are not here noted. 
on an Electrification of an Island ; by F. JenKin.— 
A aioe discovery has been made by Mr. Gott, the superinten- 
dent of the French psn, | ’s telegraph station at the little island 
of St. Pierre Miquel ere are two telegraph stations on the 
island, One, w worked in in connection with the ane merican com- 
any’s lines by an American ee ny, receives 
ments, the invention of Sir William Thomson to receive 
messages from Brest and Duxbur ese very. — instra- 
ments were found to be seriously affected by ea rents; 1. 
insulated wire, the messages sent b e rival company 
clearly indicated, so clearly ean that ae have been automat 
cally recorded by Sir William Thomson’s syphon recorder. 
nexed is a fa e of a small part of the message concerning the 
oss of the steamship Oneida, stolen in this manner [here omitted. ] 
“Tt must be clearly understood that the American lines come n0- 
where into contact, or even into the neighborhood of the — 
