Show SECRETS OF or THE DEEP how the bew ne w steamer albatross will search the bottom of the sea prem the work of deep sea investigation which is really just begun will be prosecuted with intelligence and vigor by tate th c officers of theal the albatross b as every one of whom has been detailed to perform some specific scientific work in addition to his regular duties during the coming coming voyage some very interesting experiments ants will be made with rl new w apparatus aratus the result of which will sEp be e looked forward to with great interest by scientific men in this country and europe A description of the apparatus on the tile albatross will inspire interest even in the minds ot those who have paid little attention to the work she will pursue F for or the purpose of sounding she site ii i equipped with a sigsbee ali apparatus Para fitted with piano wire wire to which are attached atta clied lead and ther thermometer mome ter the wire wiro may be run out to the distance of six miles and thermometers which will mark the temperature of the water at certain depths can be attached lieutenant may has overcome a difficulty which has heretofore been experienced by in inventing ventin a ne new w way of splicing the wire I 1 when it snaps as it sometimes doea does in paying out or hauling in A V very cry ingenuous ingen ingenious tous contrivance is the trawl which ia is ordinarily used for dredging the bottom of the sea it may mayle DC sunk to a great depth being attached to a steel wire rope four m miles ilea long and is a canvas bag dragged on runners on the bottom which keep the mouth of the b bag ag in a position to catch and hold the on hauling the bag to the surface the contents are poured into a great screen and carefully classified and preserved in alcohol every particle of matter is is preserved e in the late trip from anvil wils I 1 the three particles into which a minute shell obell was broken were found by professor baird to whom everything was turned over at the completion of the voyage in three difre different rent bottles which conclusively clu proved how careful mr ir benedict and midshipman Alid shipman miner thiner are in this regard some of the deposits its from a bal half f a mile or more below bolow the surface waa WU found under the interns microscope eo e to be full ot minute and beautiful beautiful shells A fish found at goo fathoms was possessed of a body which was fully able to resist t the pressure of the mountain of water upon it estimated at pounds pound to the he square inch an and d on being brought to the surf surface I 1 the fish fisch eyes protruded from prom their sockets and it was quite dead long before it reached the top of the water through the lack of resistance which would burst an iron plate but which was natural to to file inhabitant of the great deep the fish bad had eyes though its home is supposed to be as dark as erebus paymaster george if 11 reed who is also the photographer of tho the party t will make some experiment exper experiments imen ts to determine mine the i intensity nten sity of aig light ht at different depths p abs tbs from fifty to fathoms he ile has invented an I 1 instrument I 1 ment by which ahr through 0 u li the ai aid d of ele electricity pieces of photographic plates are made to revolve e t aln and are exposed it is expected that the plates on being trea treated tedo will 91 give ve the intensity of the tile light of the sea if the experiment prove sue an interesting point which ll 11 has s long baffled naturalists natura lists and scientists will be determined the dredge as it is called is used on sandy and rocky bottoms it is a little sack made of chain with a small mouth and is enclosed in a canvas bag its mouth is set with iron teeth which tear up tho the bottom rock and force it into the bag the electric apparatus ia is very com 1 the search light is one of the most novel of odthe the wonderful inventions in vent ions of the nineteenth cantu century ry it consists of three edison electric e hectric lights of 16 candle power e each enclosed in a hermetically sealed scaled glass cs case e which is surrounded by a glass globe and capable of resisting the pressure of the water at a great reat de depth ath it is proposed to sin sink f the lamp 1 mp and illuminate the sea by turi turning g on the light this it i Is is expected will attract the fiah and a net ten feet in diameter at its mouth placed below the light li ht will bo be drawn at the proper time and the unknown fish of the low waters wate rs will be caught it ia is an improvement said one of the officers of the ship antho on the method odthe of the indian who searched the rivers at night time with a burning pine knot in the bow of his canoe and a spear in his hand band but tho the idea is really stolen from him paymaster read hns has the roost most perfect arrangements for his work he I 1 awill will be able to photograph fish and shells as soon as 03 they are taken out of the water by a vertical camera this is necessary as in some cases the air changes chanes the form of some of the curiosities of the sea the bea water will also be brought to the surface from any desired depth for during the trip of the abbati 4 abah OM oss from wilmington an arc are light has been first successfully cess fully operated on an edison circuit and an invention has been completed for lighting the surface of the sea which will be ireful for signaling and for the prosecution of all kinds of work at night the albatross will eail sail for norfolk in a it few days and after a magnetic survey she will leave for a summer cruise it is expected that tha t she will go to london during the summer as a part A americas exhibit nt at the international fish exhibition E in that city |