THE GREAT EASTERN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 3

THE GREAT EASTERN.

The correspondent of a Northern paper fuggests the following method to prevent hornes from "bolting," which may be found useful at the present time :—"As there appear to he causes for » horse running away, more especia'ly in summer, such as flies, irritation of the skin, fcc, in any case causing irritation in temper and a disposition to holt, our >A the golden rules of horsemanship shou'd be kept in view—take it for granted that your horso may bolt at any time, the more so when left standing in the sun. I reipeetfully suggest the following precaution to stop his gallop. Through a loup, such as the hind part of a dashboard, or any similar opening in the fore part of any cart, let the reins lie passed, and ■with a strap or cord be ftvtene' to the top of the wheel It if eVHant that, if the bone moves foiwnrd, ihe revolution of the Mheel will pull him up short, and that more cffcctual'y tbati by any hoy left in charpe of him. The or.ly thin; requisite is that the opening for the reins should bo of cuch a nature as to assist lie slrairj, and of Bach ft Oifpe as cot to »l!otr the icfV.s to jfcni, that is, V slmpa

j Th> Baying that "everything ha* its i use," was nevor more magnificently illustrated than by the Great' Eastern. For years after that giantess was launched with so much difficulty, disaster appeared to dog her, she scalded her stokers, blew up her own cabins, ran aground, failed as a passengers ship, failed as a merchantman, ruined two or three sets of proprietors and was gent rally pronounced a colossal mistake. But her day arrived along wth submarine telegraphy; and now she has become a sort of terreatial machine a ship of the planet—without whose mighty aid it is not possible to carry and lay a deep ■ea oable. Since she has thus found her proper mission, folk have found also what a splendid piece of shipbuilder's craft the vast vessel is. The Great Eastern is in reality one of the handsomsst and han.iiest tea-ships afloat, and does all her duty well whethsr you load her with an extra ten thousand tons or not. She never pitchc while she rolls but slightly, and in. the most stately way to a heavy cross sea. As she now lies in the Medway, with her tropical suit of bright white paint, and the Indian Telegraph Cable aboard she is at last as her worst calumniators must own an absolute success. Business in fact comes in upon her faster than she can transact it. for having just laid the French Atlantic cable she is now off to deposit the Indian line and she will then return immediately to lower the Malta and Falmouth wires into the sea bottom. Everything points to the fact that instead of disregarding Brunei's grand lines, we must rather build larger and steadier ships than even the Great Eastern—at the same time constructing docks, harbors, and other appli ances to match these crafts of the future. The great steamship lias demonstrated one faet among many others—namely, that wo could build an island of iron and wood and cruise about frotn latitude to latitude with'invalids or navigate the ocean with huge and motionless bote's, the pesscn;rers in which nee I never know that they were at sea, unless they chose to look out of the upper-deck windows.