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Show 4:30 to a mmiue, and in nrteen minutes later the crew were standing on the ice at the Point Claire boat house, after having hav-ing a plow start out of Beauhamois bay and two stops on the road down. It was one of the most pleasant and fastest sails ever had by the boys, and it is safe to say the mile a minute would have been oa3ily dune had there been no stops. Montreal Star. A French journal estimates that the total length of the tK.-graph wires of the j world, including submarine cables, exceeds ex-ceeds 500 000 miles, four-fifths of which are in Europe and Amrira. Ice joatlns In Canada. Perhaps there has not been for a long time a winter so favorable to ice boat- , ing as the last, and there was quite a boom in ice yachting, especially on Lake Bt Louis. Six members of the Valoig Boat club went out for a fast trial trip, and although the wind was not blowing agale.it was a good stiff breeze from the northwest. The clubowns two boats, one a Hudson river model, the other a new purchase last year in Toronto. The L-stter was used, being somewhat faster. The lake was lie glass, and it took but two tacks to reach Beaubarnras, tmr-teen tmr-teen miles distance. Here they were met bv three local boats, and a tnalof speed ensued which ended in the com- : plete discomfiture of the locals. The boat wa oointed homeward at ' |