How Electricity Travels

How long does it take to traiismit a message through the Atlantic cable? The New York Journal of Cornmerce has been investigating this question, and, simple as it looks at first sight, there are many singular and interesting points ia the answer. WKen the electricity is applied to the cable at one end, two-tenths oí a second pass bef ore any effeot ia feit at the other end, and threo seoonda are cousumed before the fuil of the ourreiit ia in aotion, The fint hírüh] jh f-ü ii tour fvniliH of a second, but the laUowing onos go througli more rapidly. As many as sevcntcen words have been sent over the Atlantic cabio in one minute ; fifteen can usually be sent under pressure, and twelve words have been sent all the way from New York to London in two minutea. A fact not yet explained by the scientists is, that the electricity does not move as rapidly from New York to Lojidon as in the opposite direction.