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Show Edison's New Scheme at Sea. . New York, February 5. Edison wishes to correct the impression published that his new telegraph system will enable him to telegraph between ships twenty-five miles apart at sea. This can be done only under conditions exceptionally favorable a calm sea and sky, enabling .Wpa captive cap-tive baUoon or late at height of 3,000 feet. From masthead to masthead, he says, a dispatch dis-patch can always be sent by means of a broken musical note between vessels half a S apart. As to the railroad system, he agrees o teach any intelligent man to read Kly in five days, and fP tta.n conductors, con-ductors, -who would use it l nothing to do but run the tram. He will eitherlo or send Wertnext ek and establish estab-lish the system from headquarters m Chicago. Chi-cago. ' , |