More Telephonic Discoveries

Still aiiothor devolopment of the powers of tho telephonc lias been made. An experiment in New York demonstrated that the current of one telephonc wonlcl divide itself into mimerous smaller current3, sufficiently strong for at least six Mephones, a disooverj ;mparalleled in the scionco of telegruphy. Connections were made between the central office aiul u's other places in the city, and i cornet played in the central office was distinetly Jieurd in tlie other eix offices. A rather embarrassiug disscovery wa raade the other day. Whilst putting up a new line, the persou engaged in tho work accidentally droppcd the wirc of a line between a biiEincss cstíibliahment and the rosidénce ot' one of the proprietor.s, and overheard a converentiou between an employé, ut the place of business, and the tvife of the proprietor, at iiome. Fortunately no dangerous secrete were betrayed. Tlic liottm or the Sea from a ISalIoon. The most entliusiastic advocates of Lmllooiiing would have liesitntoil to deslare that sabmaiine snrveys were within the province of tho aeronaut. Such, lowever, is tho casr, aince M. Duruof and liia companion, going np iu a baloon on the 25th of last August, at Oherlourg, and being at an alfcitude of 5,000 "eet, were amazed to see beneath tf u-m, with stiutliug distinotion, cvory rock, issure, and depression at tlie bottom of ;ho sea. And yet the sea opposite Cape Levy, wliere the aerial voyagers ob;aiued this bird's-eye view, hafl an average depth of above 200 feet. So limpid lid the water appcar tliat the underMivronts we re pnroeptible, while nothing would have been easier thau to sketch or map the bottom of the sea. - Chambers' Jorunal. Víctor Emmaíiuei's incomo is $3,500,000.