FKKAKS OF LIHHTNINO.
The Itev. J. B. Evans and his son-in
law, of Brookville, Pa., wero killed
while planting corn. 1
In a storm at Ist Hullo, 111., ono man,
thirteen head of stock and a largo
amount of farm machinery wore de
stroyed by lightning.
There were twelve horses in a barn in
Bloomington, 111., when it was struck
by lightning. A WiOOO stallion, the
% only animal of value, was killed.
At Lynn, Mass., lightning entered the
honso of Mrs. Charles llawkes, ripped
up the carpets, upset the furniture and
set clothing in a closet on lire.
Two brothers named Bowen, plow
ing in a tleld near Clarksville, Ark.,
wero instantly killed by lightning.
Every bone in their bodies was broken.
Mra. Alexander and her three chil
dren were instantly killed at their home
at Habersham, (a., and John Lanuone,
of Calloway county, Ky.. aged twenty
years, was killed while standing beside
a crib with arms folded.
During a recent storm at Troy, N.
Y., Jacob Thersduetrof went to the tel
ephone to answer a call. As lie was
replacing the receiver on the hook the
lightning struck his hand, mangling it
terribly and paralyzing his arm.
The first death by lightning ever re
corded in Nevada occurred recently in
\ irgiuia City, the victim being a China
man. In the same storm a bolt chipped
out fifty tons of rook from a cliff and
sent it down the mountain into the
valley.
Robert Burns, living near Now Hamp
ton, lowa, while planting corn, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
John Pry, while herding cattle near
M illiamsport, Pa., hid just reached a
tree for shelter when a lightning flash 1
struck him dead.
While Frank Patterson, u bachelor
residing on Big Creek, Kansas, was
cooking his breakfast his clothes were
peeled from him in an iustant and he
was hnrled naked upon the Hoor. The
same l>olt passed ont of his heels
through the flo >r and killed five chick
ens. Patterson recovered.
When lightning struck the residence 1
of Dr. M. F. Baldwin, of Genesoeville, |
Mich., every window in the house was
shattered. The bolt entered the chim
ney, followed the stovepipes and mine 1 '
every stove in the house. The doctor
had a two-year-old child in his arms.
The fluid struck him on the shonider,
passed down between him and the
child, scorched his entire side and went
into his boot and tore it into pieces.
As it left his foot a cloud of smoke
burst from it.
Color of Lightning.
The color of lightning is altogether
tine to the nature of the substance
which is made incandescent in its track.
The blue, red, purple or silver tints,
which are ordinarily much more bril
liantly marked in warm climates and
intertropical countries than they ever
are in England, are due to the" same
circumstances as the color which is de
signedly commnnicated to the light of
different kinds of fireworks.
It is a result of the intrinsic natures
of the vaporized particles which are
made to shine. The vapor from iron
has one kind of sheen and the vajior of
snlphnr another. Each different foreign
ingredient that floats in the air has its
own proper hue, which it can communi
cate to the lightning.
I he broad flashes of light that appear
in the clouds during a thunder-storm,
and that are distinguished as sheet
lightning, are very often merely the re
flections from the clond mist of the dis
charges that pass from ono part to
another with each redistribution of the
internal rharge, as the tension at the
onter surface is changed bv an external
flash.
This redistribution of the internal
charge is sometimes also marked by
very beautiful lines of corrnseation
plying npon the dark lwckgronnd as
the storm drifts away.
There is a table mountain a few miles
away from Piertermaritzburg, in Natal,
over which this kind of display is con
tinually exhibited.
The retreating storm clouds linger
over the flat top of this mountain,
where tbey can be seen from thecitv in
the advancing night.
In this dark canopy of the mountain
bright corrnacat ions, accomjwny ing each
redistribution of the electric charge,
can be watched for honrs at a time—
now assuming the form of coronals of
electric Are, now running along in mn
chiolated horizontal lines just above
the flat top of the mountain, and now
radiating out in all directioua from a
central loop, like the cracks of starred
glass.
A IHme-Novel Hero.
The dime-novel readers would rejoice
in Buckshot Bill, of Nevada. He speaks
twenty-five Indian tongues. Ouoo he
saw eleven comrades burned alive by
the Comanches, signed with bia blood a
vow to have the scalps of eleven Indians
who killod bis brother and stole bis dia
mond pin, and has on exhibition 117
scalps taken by his own hands. He is a
scout after the boy'a own heart.
" MOONLIUHTINM."
Our of iSr Peculiar Inrtsulrlra or Ihi- I'rnn
•OUIIIIIII Oil Itrulon*.
" Moonlighting" is a peculiar indus
try that owes its existence to the patent
laws. The late Colonel E. A. Roberts
introduced the use of nitro-glycerine
torpedoes in increasing tho yield of oil
wells. When tho great flowing wells of
Oil Creek, after draining tho petroleum
pools of the lower Held for three years,
h"<l exhausted the supply, ns was sup
posed, Colonel Roberts experimented
on an abandoned well with a quantity
of nitro glycerine, confined in a tin
shell and exploded by concussion. The
explosion was followed by a flow of
oil, and the old well yielded thirty bar
rels a day for several years afterward.
Tho nitro-glycerine had shattered the
oil-bearing rock and opened tho puraf
tine-clnggoil veins. While serving in
the army Colonel Roberts noticed that
a bombshell exploding beneath water
invariably spent its force on tho bottom
of tho stream, throwing up mud and
stones in great quantities. This was
due, he supposed, to the solid fluid
tamping above the explosive. It was
this idea that led him to try the experi
ment of nitro-glycerine at tho bottom
of oil wells, beneath hundreds of feet of
fluid tamping—oil and water collected
in tho well. He obtained patents on
his device. The validity of the patents
was questioned, and nitro-glycerine
torpedoes wore used by others without
paying royalty to Roberts. He brought
nearly S,(MM) suits to protect his rights.
One of these, ns n tc->t, was carried
through all the State courts and to the
I'nitixl States supreme court. Roberts
won in every court, and nearly a mil
lion dollars in royalties was recovered.
The monopoly in nitro glycerine tor
pedoes led to the illicit use of them in
wells. Men without fear of death or
regard for law went into the business of
"shooting" wells for producers who did
not care to pay tribute to Roberts. \nv
ono has a right to manr.'i -turn nitro
glycerine and to place torpedoes in
wells. In the '• ploding of them li s
the liability to prosecution ami penu'ty.
The moonlighter is alw iv-* ready to con
tract for the shooting of a well. He
carries his nitro-glycerine in wagons
made especially for the purpose. They
are backboards, with cushioned apart
ments under the seat, into which the
cans are placed. The roads of tho oil
regions would scarcely be called roads
elsewhere. When not hub deep with
mud, they are stretches of deep nits
and galleys and projecting roeks. Drawn
by powerful horses, theso wagons,
loaded with sixty or a hundred quarts
of one of tho most destructive explo
sives known, and which a sadden jar is
at any moment likely to explode, are
driven ly their reckless owner* over
these roads in the darkest nights at the
top of their horses' speed. The men
work at night always. Th y are called
moolighters, but the ah- nee of the
moon does not prevent them from un
dertaking a job. The Itoberts company
has a wonderfnl detective system, which
is constantly employed in ferreting out
the trespassers in the torpedo patent. It
frequently happens that a moonlighter
is spotted as he starts nut on one of hi*
nocturnal missions. The in<> edightcr
rarely fails to be awaro of the fact when
he is followed by one of Koborts' men.
Then it is a race between tho two. If
the moonshiner cannot evade the detec
tive and finish bis job, ho manages to
secrete his nitro glycerine in the bushes,
old buildings, liarns, or other outbuild
ings of farms, or in any place where he
is most likely to recover it for use on a
more auspicious occasion Tims it hap
pen* that these dangerous storehouses
are liable to !>e come upon nt any time
by people ]>a*aing through the woods or
along the M reams, or by tho farmers
whose premises have lieen utilised.
The cost of tor]>cdoing a well under
the ltoWrts patent averages $250.
The moonlighter will shoot it for less
than half of that. Tims the saving
e flee ted if the work is not discovered is
a great temptation to a certain class of
producer*. If detected, however, tho
penalty is heavy. The ltoWrts price
for torpedoing must be paid, and what
ever damages may be assessed. If the
well is an old one and has been shot to
increase its yield the value of the in
creased yield up to tho time the dam
ages arc a*sc**<*l is added to the cost of
detected illicit torpedoing.
When Colonel ltoWrts died recently
■ hi* income was about tl,ooo a day.
Ho had Wen serrated from bis wife
and family for several years. Mm.
ltoWrts had Wgnn proceedings against
him and they were pending at the tune
|of his death. A nephew of the deceased
man, a resident of Bradford, Pa., was
made his heir. Tho nephew volun
tarily transferred at bird of the wealth
, be inherited to each of the two children
of the dead inventor, keeping the other
third himself. Appraisers of the estate
of Colonel Itoberts have been seven
weeks engaged in fixing its value.
Their duties are accompanied with a
risk tliat flie appraisers of no dead
man's property ever rsn Wfore. They
are obliged to visit all the nltro-gly
uerine safes in tho oil region, examine
and place s value on their contents.
There are thirty of these magazine*
| connected with the estate in the Brad*
-,,\ . r ■
t • 1 •" 5
ford field alone. These magazines each
contain from 1,000 to 10,000 pounds of
tlio explosive. While tlio appraisers
were cautiously creeping about in one
of them which contained 2,000 pounds
a driver of a Bobcrts nitro-glycorine
wagon came tearing np to the safe with
his team at the usual break-neck rate.
He lmd been out torpedoing wells. Ho
had seven twenty-pound cons left.
These ho brought into the magazine
carrying two under each arm, one in
each hand and rolling the other along
on the floor of the safe with his foot.
The six cans ho tumbled on the floor as
if tlicy wero (dicks of wood. Tlio ap
praisers lost no time in getting out of
that magazino.
When a nilro-glyccrino wagon is met
on the road every other vehicle gives it
all the way its driver sees fit to ask.
The carrying of this oxplosivo in any
but the wagons arranged for its trans
portation in forbidden by law, but it is
not an uncommon thing to see some
dare-devil driver jolting over the rough
roads with cans of it knocking about in
the bottom of an ordinary wagon. Car
rying uitro glycorine through towns iH
punishable by heavy tines; but as it re
quires a rather bold officer to chase n
man who is carrying with him material
that may explode at any moment, it is
not an exceedingly rare right to see
drivers on their way t > \. !.* luking a
short and easier cut through towns and
villages with tlu-ir stock of nitr - glycer
ine, A driver wax some time ago dis
covered passing through one of the
Bradford suburbs with a load of nitro
glycerine. The residents protested, and
an officer halted the man to arrest him.
The driver took one of hix cans, r.x <-d
it above bis head, and informed the
crowd that if any one attempted to in
terfere with him ho woul I throw tin
can against a rock by the roadside not
three feet away* The ma i wax a moon
lighter, and fnm Lis imputation th<- .
crowd believed that he would like noth
ing better than blowing i p the town
and its inhabitants, even if he disap
peared in pieces at the same time; so
they allowed him to pass on. \e>r :
I 'irk Sun.
I'EAKLS OF TIIIM l.nr.
Belief i-i not in our power but tmtip
fulness is.
Life is too short for its possessors to I
wear long faces
A sensual disposition deforms the
Landsonicst feature*.
Divino xengeciice comes with feet of
lead, but strikes with hands of iron.
He need* no other i osary whose thread
of life is strung with beads of love and
thought.
He who, with good health, ha* a true
friend, ma;, laugh adversity to ■■ ru
and defy the world.
Tree benevolence i* to lovo all men 1
Uccompetixo injury with justice, and
kindness with kindness.
Thi i- the present reward of virtnou"
conduct that no unlucky eonM-qnf nc<
can oblige its to regret it.
Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice tin
eye, link n witli nature and innocence,
ami are something to love.
Venture not into the company of those j
that arc iufected with the plague; no, i
though thou think thyself guarded with !
an antidote.
To pronounce a man happy merely
Iwcanse he is rich, is just a- absurd a* j
to pronounce a man healthy merely be
cause lie has enough to eat.
No man ought *o complain if the '
world measures him as lie measures ;
others. To measure one with his own 1
yardstick may Is- hard, but it is fair.
Sw hunting.
Every !>oy and girl should h„ taught ■
to swim, and be trained to it. Most
boys learn of themselves, while the re- '
verse is true of most girls. This latter
fact is a grave mistake. Tlio mistake is
more serious than formerly, liecatise so
large a portion of onr population S|>end
weeks or months every year at onr i
watering-places, and because travel on
river, lake and ocean, and sailing in
Imataand yachts for pleasure have in
creased to snch an extent. For these
reasons as well as others a knowledge of
the art has become a necessity. The
lives that were recently lost in conse
quence of the collisions and burning of
steamboats might most of them have
lawn saved had all the jiasnrngers
known how to swim.
The mere consciousneas of ability to
swim and the feeling of familiarity with
deep water that it creates, would either
prevent or greatly diminiah the panica
that are so disastrous in cases of acci
dents on the sea. Besides this the in
ability to swim of persons who are in
the wstor when a disaster has occurred,
greatly imperils the lives of those who
can swim and are abundantly able to
care for themselves; for the swimmers
are often overpowered by the wild
clinging to them of the luckless persona
who are drowning near liy. The time
to learn to awim is in childhood and
youth, and every parent should aee to
it that all his children beoome experts
in the art. It is an easy art to learn.
There are people who live in boats
whose children even swim like kittens.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
(ilavr*.
In gloves for summer wear the mitts
of black and colored sewing silk,
netted and embroidered, are exceedingly
popular and are duplicated in mohair
and cotton for those who cannot afford
the more expensive grades. Hilk and
lisle thread gloves and mitts come in
all the new lace designs, and are either
with long or short wrists, as may bo
most desired. Homo liavo long, loose
rumpled wrists, without buttons or
elastic, that are never expected to he in
place, but nre considered very stylish.
* Very I'rrlly Srrnii tins.
One of the prettiest scrap-bags for
sit ling-room or bedroom is made in a
simple manner by taking a good-sized
Japanese parasol, or small umbrella,
take a piece of fine wire and make in a
ring, catch it to the partly-opened par
asol with thread, tie a bright ribbon to
the handle. Of course this ih service
able only .for bits of paper and light
scraps.
% Noti l Ihf
< ue of the ladies at < ( >ueon Victoria's
latest drawing room was dressed like a
pursnivuiit or herald, emblazoned all
over with her own coat-of-arms. Ib-r
gown was of a sort of lavender satin,
v-ith a train of the same lined with
block velvet. All down her bark was
heraldic devices—coat, supporters,
••rest, motto and all. Across her breast
she wore a sash, rejieating the coat-of
arms smaller. The whole turn out is
said to have been " a trifle loud."
Xew itnd Nofr lot Wornrn.
Two girls at Waupaca, <>r , tossed np
for a lover, and the loser acted as bride
maid at the wedding.
A sentimental woman at Mayvillo,
Canada, has put a strong iron fence
aronml the tree wherein a sweetheart of
youthful days once carved her name.
A woman of fifty seven isapplying for
her third divorce from a man of sixty
four, in Davenport, lowa, the grounds
l-i:ig the aui" ax in two previous cose"
cruel treatment.
A mat! jiistilies his meanness toward
hi* wife by asserting that h<- and *ho an
nuo, and, therefore-, by r< fnsin • to fur
ni-di her money he practice* the heroic
Iv.rtne of self-denial.
In Tdnis, as elsewhere in Africa, ex
, ceosire stoutness is considered a mark
of female ls-auty. Women are fed for
this purpose like cattle when training
for an agricultural show.
A sixteen-year Id daughter of Eichard
Misner, of Griffin's Corners, N. Y.,
weigh* only thirty pound*. She is only
three fee' in height, and peak* in such
a jiecnliar manner that few except her
parents can understand her.
A Washington girl has highly inter
esting hair. Its color ti-- I(„ J*. „ light
blonde. Dr. I). W. Trenti-* reportK to
tbo Smithsonian institution that he gave
her jaborandi. a Brazilian plant, as a
cure for blood poisoning. Her hair
' soon l>egan t<> darken, and in four
months ##< almost black
Pn*hlnn FtNfif*.
Blue and white mattings are liked
! for Ix-drooms by ladies who are tired of
green anj white and red and white
I checks.
China crape dresses with printed
border* are made up over slip* of silk
matching the crape, and over white
• satin slips.
Hoftnes* is essential in black ailka
this summer. A gown that can stand
alone is usually left t* stand without
being worn by any woman.
Fans match the costume and are
made of the same material of the dress.
Very often this idea is carried ont with
regard to the shoe* or sandals.
pins are mors necessity than
ever this season, for nearly all of the
innumerably pretty things worn al>out
the neck require somo fastening.
Evening dresses for yonng misses are
made prinoesse style, laced np the l>ack,
and are worn high in the neck with
a Htnart collar and short sleeves.
The summer woolen stuffs with wide
stripes liear a more painful resemblance
to furniture covers than any material
that has appeared for some time.
The high Medicis collars shown upon
imported costumes are covered with a
seed pearl, jet, cashmere or iris-tented
beads, or rich embroidery, and are
stiffened with fine wire to keep them in
place.
Ijadio* who posooas the lace sacks of
thread or lama, at present so completely
ont of style, are making them over into
the pretty Htnart collars, pointed fichus,
and antiqne shoulder capes now in
vogue. .
Crape draperies and waists of crape
appear on the colored dresses made for
yonng ladies to wear in the evening.
The idea originated with a dressmaker
who appreciated the beoomingness of
the crape waists worn for mourning.
Muslin is msde into soft pnffa with
sberringa in the oenter for oollarettes,
which ere exceedingly liecoming, sod ss
they require no ironing, needing only to
be washed and to here a pencil paused
through thorn in order to ronton- them
to their printino freshness, they are
likely to be favorites with ladies who do
not like to pay heavy laundry bill*.
There in a new quality of natoen called
nateon foulard, which greatly resemble*
Indian nilk in its appearance. It corn ex
in a variety of designs, Egyptian, baya
dere stripes, check* and plaidn- multi
colored over grounds of almond, gray,
pale blue, etc. I'rincen.Hc polonainenare
mode of these fabric*, trimmed with
fancy lace. They are worn over linen :
skirt* of a monochrome color, tlie skirt*
being trimmed with tiny rallies of the i
name goods.
American an well ax European ladies
are scintillating in a perfect armor of 1
jctn and beadn. Whole cuirass bodice*, j
tabliern, skirts, panels, dolmans, xlioul
der capes, bonnets and slipper* arc !
covered with beaded embroidery. Ele- j
gant costumes of black arc sparkling '
like "coats of mail " with a dense cov- i
ering of jet and steel, and delicate
toilets of white brocade, satin and tulle,
are embellished with marvelous designs
wrought in beads of pearl, gold, silver,
crystal and other beads resembling
costly gems. Tabliers, panels and por- !
tions of the corsage are each worked
with a special design composed to suit
its particular shape although uniform on
the whole.
Why Persons Snore.
It may not Is- generally known that
it is the vibration of the velnm pendu- \
Inm palati which causes snoring, but it
is no less a matter of interest to a great
many people who either snore them- j
selves or are annoyed by snorera.
lJr. Lewis 11. Havre, of Fifth avenue,
New York, was asked by a ><tn reporter
why people snore.
"Because they don't shut their l
mouths," he said.
" What is snoring?"
" Well, it's common enough.' said
l)r. Havre; and in an off-hand fashion
he explained that snoring is a noise
j made in the posterior jiart of the mouth
and nasal foas:i during tne moments of
inspiration. It is due to a relaxation of
the levator palati mollis and the cir
cumfl axna jialati in sleej-, by which tie
j velum pendulum palati is left free to
> vibrate or flap in the two currents of
| the air which enter at the same time
, through the nostrils and the month.
Besides the vibration of the velum pen
dulum palati or soft palate there is also
a vibration of the column of air itself.
, Thus is produced the rasping, snorting
; noise so well known anil s<> unpleasant
to every one within earshot of tb< placid
; snorer himself.
I>r. Hayre was asked what caused
snoring.
" When a man is fatigued." he said,
: "and hi* self-control is unusually re
j laxed in sleep, he i apt to let his lower
jaw drop down. No man was ever seen
or heard to snore with his mouth shut
| The moral is obvious. The soft palate
flaps like a sheet in the wind, and the
near neighlmrs of the snoring slee;>er
are correspondingly disturbed. Now.
| the Indians never snore. They think it
a disgrace. An Indian believes that if
he anores when he is young lie will
grow up to lc oveu leas handsome at
maturity than nature originally intend
ed. His vanity, therefore, is enough
to make a savage sleep in a proper po
| sition."
A well-known physician uptown,
whose practice largely in rases
of affection of the respiratory system,
was asked whether snoring is a disease.
"Not so much a diaeaae a* a bail
habit," he said; "but I am frequently
called upon to prescrile for its cure."
"Can it be cured ?"
"Easily."
"Why do elderly or corpulent people
commonly snore?"
" Beranso their systems are generally
more relaxed in sleep, and their months
then fall open. Any one will be I'kely
to snore if he aleejis with his month
j open, and no one will if he shuts it."
" How can .the habit be cured ?"
"First, yon must give s person a
chance to breathe through the nose,
and then make him do so. If there is
any obstruction in the nasal passage
that must l> remove*] by treatment.
Then if a snorer can't keep his month
shut np by force of will, his jsw must
|be tied up. A harness for the lower
jaw is sometimes employed in bad cases
of snoring A skull cap worn upon the
j head serves to hold a system of straps
under the chin and keep the month shut
until the patient can form a habit of
j sleeping on his side, or with his head
sufficiently elevated to hold his jaw."
"Ia it an easy matter to hold one'*
jaw when asleep V
"Hardly more so than when awake."
" Why is snoring, than, so common if
it is so easily cored V
" Because catarrhal troubles are so
common, which prevent free inspiration
through the nostrils. In sleeping-car* 1
and in hotels one frequently hears the ,
resonant more, became people in those
places usually go to sleep tired out An
old doctor used to advocate sleeping on
the face to guanl against the possibility
of snoring."
Mr. Edwin Booth dined with the
Prince of Wales.
HCIE.NTIPIC HfBAPH.
<'arbonic acid forme about 1-1000 of
the entire atmosphere.
< bernical ac tion is always accom
by increase of temperature.
Bet WOOD WJO and 700 different forms
have been distinguished in snow cry*
tula.
Pure water may bo obtained from that
I which i* impure, or from brine, by dis
: tiiliition.
i
Article* of food which won Id noon de
cay if exposed to the air uuiv be long
i preserved in a vacuum.
In Switzerland thetemperature of the
bottom of deep, snow-fed lake* remain a
uniform during tbo year.
Inspiration in alow combuation, in
which carbon and other ingredients of
| the blood combine with oxygen.
To produce a change in the pitch of
notes we have only to make a difference
| of 1-1200 of an inch in the vocal chorda.
A composition of two m<tal* may be
more tenacious than either of them s<-p
-strately. linos* made of zinc ami copper
ha* more tenacity than either.
Why will not graft* grow under our
(tree*? M. I'au] Bert ha* ah own that
green light hinder* the development of
plant*. Plant* inclosed in a green glass
frame wither and die as though they
were in darkrieaa. M. licgnard find*
j that plants specially require the red
rays. If sunlight is deprived of the red
rays the plant* soon cease to thrive.
Electric lamp* are extremely attract
ive to insects of various orders. The
writer noticed cloud* of them alout tfce
lights used for the illumination of Pros
pect park and Niagara Falls last snm
, titer. Their shadows on the lawns and
walks, sharply defined, gigantic, and
fraz.ily active, made a pantomime as
fantastic and weird as it was amusing.
This artificial sunlight is likely to be
come a favorite hunting ground for the
entomologist.
Snine el the Ureal Bridge*.
Itobert Stephenson, great engineer a*
he wa, rejiorted that suspension bridges
would never do for steam. John A.
Iloebling answered with the Niagara
suspension bridge, the cheapest structure
and one of the lx-*t ever built for such
a necessity.
In Menai strait, which divides an
island from the northwestern corner of
W ales, the tide rise* to the height of
thirty feet sometimes, and generally
twelve feet. The British government
err-ctf d a bridge on the grea' high road
from England to Ireland over thi* strait
in 1820. It is a suspension biidge built
b;. Telford on chain*, and cost $600,000
(g 'ld) at that time. It i* UK) feet idmve
water. Twenty years afterward Geo.ge
Stephenson Wgan to build the tubular
bridge three miles a>ove, spanning the
sane strait. It took five years, and
train* crossed it in 1850. It ha* four
spans, the tan in the middle Ireing itiO
feet wide each, and the whole bridge is
alsiut I,K|O feet long. It is 123 feet
al>ove high-water mark, and cost
$3,000,000.
The Niagara snspension bridge, liuilt
by lioebling in 1852, cost only e-VKI.-
000, i* 800 feet long, 2 50 feet above the
river, and its towers are about eighty
j four feet high. The Niagara foot
bridge, built in- IH<®, cost $175,000, and
was said t<i be, when opened, the longest
suspension bridge in the world or
i 1,208 feet between towers.
The Cincinnati suspension bridge, by
lioebling, stands next to the East river
bridge, and is 1,057 feet between tow
ers and 2,252 between the ends; the
bride is 103 feet above low Water, the
towers are 230 feet high, and eu.-h i*
taller and larger than the Bunker Hill
; monument, and the structure coat
$1,800,000; it wis built by a company,
I and charges three cent* toll per man.
| This bridge ha* Wen in most useful
operation since about 1807; it was
1 eleven years Wtweeu its commence
ment and opening.
Hoehliog, the projector of the Brook
lyn bridge, was the greatest bridge
j builder in the world. He started the
making of wire cordage in America, and
built suspension bridge* to carry the
acquedncts of canals across rivers, and
, engineered the Pennsylvania railroad
across the mounta as. The Brooklyn
bridge, Wtween towers, ia 1,595 feet
long. Behind the towers there are 940
feet each side, Iwck to the anchorages.
The whole length of the bridge and ap
proaches is <>,O(X) feel. It is one of the
widest bridges in the world, eighty -five
feet, with a promenade thirteen feet
wide, two railroad tracks and four car
riage and two home-oar tracks. It is
135 feet in the center aWvv the water.
The rock on which the towers rest is
sbotit ninety feet Wlow the surface of
the water on the New York side, and
half that depth on the Brooklyn side—
the moet stupendous thing about the
structure. Each tower is 134 feet long
• by fifty-six wide, and at the top theae
dimensions are reduced to 190 feet by
forty, or the siae of a very Urge house.
Each tower ia 208 feet aWve high Water.
It ia 1,336 feet from the beginning of,
the causeway on I'bat liam street out to
the anchorage on the New York shore.
The architect of the bridge received his
death wound almost at ita inception.—
Balda in'* Monthly.
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