HALLIDAY AND SON.
Tn tho cozy little private offlm ap
pertaining to their business house sat
Ilalliday and son. llallidny was a
bluff, heavy old fellow of fifty or
thereabouts, with a pair of keen, bright
eyes, which twinkled incessantly, and
was seated in his chair with heels upon
his desk. Son was a young man of
twenty-five, tall, dark and handsome,
clad in a suit of navy blue flannel, and
was seated on a corner of the desk look
ing down upon his father.
"Who is tho object of your all-de
vouring passion, eh, Dick, my boy?"
The old gentleman asked. "Some chit
of a school girl ?"
"Her name is Wilkins," replied the
young man. "She is aw idow a
double widow, I will say -for she had
been married twice,and is—come don't
let your chin drop to such an alarming
extent, for outside of all she is worth
$50,1)00, although that, in my ease, is a
feather's weight in the scales. She is
actually thirty-six, but looks ten years
young 'r, and is pretty as a picture.
She has one child, a daughter who is at
school in Paris, but as she is heiress t<
a cool $100,1)00, she is not an incum
brance by any means."
"Dick Ilalliday, you're a C>ol!" ex
claimed the old gentleman. "The
woman Is almost old enough to las your
mother."
••Not quite as bad as that."
"1 say sir. she's almost old enough
to be your mother! Have you com
mitted yourself has she ensnared
you ?"
"Don't you remember the old agree
ment, father, that when 1 thought of
marrying 1 would eonsult with you
beforo taking the step? 1 will there
fore introduce yon to Mrs. Wilkins. let
you study her character, and then
abide by your decision; for 1 have no
doubt as to what it will le."
"Ah!" saiil the old gentleman,"that's
better. That's decidedly better. You
may introduce me, Dick, and I will
promise you my unbiasing opinion of
the bewitching creature."
"All right. When will you go!"
"To-night, to-morrow, anytime you
please; but see here, Dick, to change
the subject, how alxmt this London
business? It's going to ruin."
"Weil suppose we will have to
send a man to look after it."
"Send 1" cried the old man, "that
won't doat all;onnor the other of us
must go. We've trusted entirely tin)
much of late, and home interests are
almost as bad as our foreign. Now.
Dick, I'll tell you what I'll do. If you
sill goto London and straighten things
up, I'll give you my answer concerning
your (lame the moment you return.
I'velwen over so often that the very
thought of going makes me sick.
Come, what do you say. Dick?"
"If you desire it, father, I'll go, cer
tainly."
"Then that's settled. Where are you
off to now ?"
"I was going up to the .Vstor, but I'll
wait until evening, and then you ran
accompany me."
"All right. Dirk, all right; only don't
commit yourself. Heware of widows,
you know."
That evening Ilalliday and son re
paired to the Astor House and were '
conducted to one of the private parlors.
In a few minutes Mrs. Wilkins entered,
and it was plain to l>e seen that the old
gentleman was amazed. He did not
wonder at his son's infatuation, and
afterward acknowledged h< r to be the
most beautiful woman ho had ever
seeori. When at length they took their
departure after spending a delightful ,
evening, the son said :
"What do you say, father?"
"Hive me time, my hoy, give me
time," was the reply.
The next day at 1 o'clock Dirk started
for London. The weather wax fair
the passage a" prosperous one, and he
reached his destination safe and sound.
He found the business in a terrible
state and had his hands and mind fully
occupied, ami a week slip|>ed by. One
morning he received a letter from his
father, a portion of which ran as fol
lows :
"Concerning the widow, I am well
pleased with your choice she is a
good woman -.as good nalicautifiil. A
trifle too old for you is my only objec
tion."
Another week went by and another
letter came, in whioh, speaking of the
widow, the old man said:
"I ain astonished at your extraordi
nary good judgment tn such a matter.
The more I seo the lady the lietter I am
pleased. She ia a most excellent lady
In every respect. A trifle too old for
you is my only objection."
"Good!" said Dick to himself. "I
guess I will stay a week on my own
account, now that the business is
cleared up, and go to London. The edd
gentleman seems to l>e well pleased,
and guess by tho time I get home his
only objections will have been over
come. Not that I care a straw for his
opinion one way or tho other, but
peace is preferable to war at. any
time."
And taking a picture of the widow
from bis pocket bo embraced it most
affectionately.
So Dick remained another week and
did London thoroughly. On the day
beforo he was to have sailed for home
ho received another letter from his
father, saying:
"My Pear Hoy:- I never was inorc
pleased with a woman in all my life.
I She is an angel. I don't wonder at
1 you loving her. She is pure, honest,
everything you imagine her to be, but
she can never marry you. It is impos
sible. I don't like to be severe, but it
can never be. The truth is, Dick, she
has become my wife. Don't be a fool,
now, but come home at once. A trills
too old was my only objection.
Your affectionate father,
Hn ii.vicn llai.i.ihav."
io say that Dick was enraged would
but faintly describe his findings; he
fairly boiled, lie wrote immediately
lo his father, telling him:
"In the future your foreign business I
may go to the deuce, and your home ,
interests, too."
Then, after drawing a good sum of
money, he started for the continent.
For two years he wandered from
place to place, and at the end of that j
time found himself in I'aris. Here he
! fortunately fell in with an acquaint'
1 mice he had made while in London: and |
who had since married, and w:vs then 1
doing business in I'aris.
At his friend's house, one evening
he was introduced to an American
young lady of whom he became enam- |
oreil at tir-1 sight.
The young lady. Miss Julia Kent
ridgc by name, was to start f>r New
York in a few days, and, on hearing
this, Dirk engaged passage on the
steamer. The voyage was a pleasant,
one, and before they reached Sandy
Ibsik, Miss Julia promisisl that, with
her mother's consent,she would la-come
Dick's wife. When thev readied the
city the young lady found a carriage in
wailing f.>r her, and Dick, having Uc
l t •rin in is 1 not to enter his father's house,
for the present at least, went direct to
an obscure hotel.
The next day he mountisl the stepsof
the Madison avenue mansion and rang
the hell. A servant ushered him into
tin parlor, and shortly afterward en
tered Mi-s Kent ridge.
When they Ice! greeted each other
after the usual manner of lovers. Julia j
said:
I f you w ill excuse me for a moment,
Diehard, I w ill go and inform my ,
mother that you have come."
Dick was seated under a window j
looking out, and did not notice her rc.
turn till she said:
"Mr. Ilalliday, allow me to "
I lick had turned at the sound of her
voice, ready to appear at his l-st. but '
he stagger's) back fairly thunderstruck. I
1 for there behind him stood the late j
widow his father's wife.
"I really "he gasjxsl, "I that is, 1 |
did not—"
"Of course you did not," said the 1
lady, helping him out. "How could
you? Ilut here is your father."
i "Yes, here I am, Dick, my Iwy,"
cried the old gentleman, rushing in.
i "How* are you, lad, how are you?"
They shook hands cordially, and the 1
' obi man said :
"Dick, my lad, you're trapped -you're 1
ensnared. My wife and 1 were in
I'aris to bring Julia home, and when
she told us of her meeting with you we
just put our heads together to make a
match of it. We ratne over with you
on the same steamer."
! "Iteally, though," said Dirk, address
ing his step-mother, "w hen 1 heard you
speaking of your daughter U-ing at
school, I imagined her to !>e a little*
girl, not ayoung lady !"
"Oh, no! 1 was married to Mr
Kent ridge when quiteyoung. and Julia
is now nineteen."
"I've no objection this time, lad,
none at all. A trifle too old was mv
objection Ix-fore. you know ; ha ! ha !"
and be went off In a fit of laughter that
i ncarlr choked hiin."
After dinner the old gentleman said *.
"Well, Dick, our foreign business is
going to the bad, sure enough, and I
think the Ix-st thing you can do L* to
marry at once and take your bride
abroad and look after it. I did not sell
the old house when I liought this one
and ujkiii your return 1 will have it
ready for you to occupy,"
And thus it was arranged.
The house of Ilalliday St Son still
flourish's, and the children, grand-chil
dren and what-not tearing that name,
for their relationship is rather mixed,
are numerous.
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In Australia and New Zealand 4.000,.
000 people have already 00,000,000
sheep, and have an area sufficient for
the easy pasture of 200,000,000 Rharp
at the least. With one-twelfth of our
population, they have twice our aggre
gate stock of sheep.
TOI'IL'M OF TilE DAY.
>bo condition of Hussin, according
to a St. Petersburg correspondent is
chatoic. lie thinks that the empire is
rapidly going to pieces.
Three of the Swiss canton wft<Cli
abolished capital punishment several
years ago have restored it. They think
that there is no other way of prevent
ing crime.
The United States post office depart
ment wants the name and address of
those who send transient newspapers
by mail written on the wrappers.
While in most kinds of business
capitalists, or large firms or corjtora
tious ure swallowing smaller ones, it is
gratifying to learn from census reports
that the number of farms is multiply
ing, and the soil is not becoming pos
sessed by large landholders.
since the close of the war the Amer
ican people have paid out #530,000,(MHi
in pensions. At the end of the present
fiscal year there were N5,(!'J7 names on
the roll, representing an annual outgo
of sM,2'.H>,2*", and in the last year
'27.1-11 new pensions and 16.231 in
creased pensions have been granted,
ami there are yet l2"- , .,(i7~- applications.
The world's stock of locomotive*
consists of •;;.( n K: of passenger cars,
there are 12",06°; and of freight cars
l,. r >(Jo,(!ini. The capital investi-d in
railways, which are in all2'hmhhimiles
long, isf2iHHHi.tSHi,(HNi. The commerce
of the sens is carried by 12,"' hi steamers
ami Itt","6" sailing \essels, whose ton
nage amounts to <>\er 2",th h i,(HHi tons.
Heavers are building aero s Feather
river, in t alifornia, a dam, by which
they are using larg-- cottonwood trees.
All the dams that the miners have
built for pr >t<s ti"ii against spring
freshets have Is-en washed away, ami
as it is said that beaver dams are never
thus destroyed, the miners are watch
• tig with deep interest the result -of tin
little animal'* < ngim eritig.
What is called the biggest copper
mine in tlo- world bus ls-- n discovered
in Nevada, I<hi miles northeast of
11-slie. Nearly J,'*"! feet up the
mountain alsive Soda Springs Valley
the ore bed shows aw idth of 1 feet,
and in many shafts the ore assay*
eighteen per rent. < upper. The or--
m-w uncovereil is estimated at 45,'hhi
tons, \alu-sl at over #2,""0,U00,
An obi Mormon tenqde near Kirt
lan-l, (ihi-i, has la-en ojiened after a
niiin!>er of years ->f disuse. It origi
nally <-> st #l".'H*t. There are forty
Morim-n families in the new congrega
tion. They do not practice polygamy,
their rn-ed declaring that the law of
(,-k| forbids more than one companion
in wedlock. They hold that the doc
trine of the plurality of wives was a
heresy intr-sluctsl by Joe Smith.
Since the steam-heating men 1-cgati
to get in their work, an -x< hang face
tiously remarks: "New Yorker* ran
smg with new fervor the word* of the
old hymn:
'llern-ath otir feet ntul o'er or fiends
Are i-vjual warning* given.'
When they take their walks abroad
of a morning it is with a pl- asing un
certainty as to whether an elevated
railroad locomotive will tumble on
them, <-r an underground pipe explo
sion send them kiting skyward in an
environment of paving stones, apple
stands, curbstone verniers, and other
wreck and rubbish."
Although Secretary Teller was una
ble to grant the request which the
Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians
brought to Washington not l->ng ago.
he was compellM to pay a tribute to
the antiquity of the band. He told
them that their claim to the Turtle
Mountain country had leen traced back
two hundred years, but that they had
no Is-ttcr claim to this tract than the
other Chippewa*, la-cause they could
base their claim only on the tribal title
of immemorial occupancy. There are
ten thousand white set tiers on the tract
claimed by the Turtle Mountain t'hip
jiewas, which embrace* nine million
acres ,d desirable land in Northern Da
kota.
M. Hauteur, a French scientist, for
tho last ten years lias la-en spending
much of his time in the company of
mad d->gs, in order to test the value of
his inoculation theory. He has just
communicated the most recent n-sult*
of his investigations to the French
Academy of Sciences. He states that
all the flogs which ho had inoculated
with the virus, and whirh hail la-en
cured of the disease thus communi
cated, enjoyed perfect immunity from
a second attack. llence he argues that
dogs, l*>ing the originator* of hydropho
bia, should l*> roin|a-lled to pass
through the ordehl of Inoeulation in
order, that they might thenceforth be
powerless to drive men mad.
Those people w ho have suffered from
I having their trunk* smashed while
traveling will lie gratified to learn that
redress has been obtained by at least 1
one virtirn. Josejih Mitache, of San
Frum-isco, sued the Union Paeifio Hail- ,
road Company for damages inflicted on
tils trunks while in rare of that corn*
pany, A verdiet was given in his
favor, and damages assessed ul 1123.73.
The court charg-sl that, when a rail
way company assumes charge of a pas
senger's trunk by giving him a check
lor it, it becomes responsible for its re- i
to him in good condition. This
ruling, with a statement of the dama
ges awarded Mr. Mitache, should be
posted in large type in every baggage
room in the country.
(iver 4,606,660 ounces of quinine are
consumed annually throughout the
world, and it has become the universal
medicine sinoc its discovery in 1610,
when it was introdueed into Kurope by
the Countess Cinchori, after whom the
liark was named. Its abundance or
scarcity may be said to be a matter of
international concern. Wars and epi
demics operate to advance its price. It
occupies about the same place in ma
teria medic,i that brcadstufTs do among
articles of f.Msl. Vet it is said the nat
ural supply of the cinchona bark is
failing, and that resort must be made
to cultivation in order to supply the
world's demand. Cultivation has al
ready begun in the Kast ludies, but
must be extendixl to ••very country pro
ducing this indispensable bark.
At the crematory in (iotha. which is
located in the new cemetery, and is the
only one in Germany, erected at a cost
of |22,inmi, the incineration is started
with the Imhlv incased in metal, usually
tine. The zinc case rapidly melts, then
the garments are consumed and the
body burns for a peri "1 lasting from
one hour and three-quarters to two
hours. The ashes fall into a receiver,
wbe li, afti r tbe burning, is draw n out
from Is-low. They arc then placisl in
an urn and stationed in the column
barium, or in a tin cylinder prepared for
the purpose, and taken away by the
friends of the deceases!. It takes a
day and night to heat the apparatus
thoroughly, so that Isslies that re.eh
(lotha one day cannot lie cremated till
thonext. Those who d'-sire cremating
generally belongrotlie wealthier - l.i ■
of society. The charge for < rematmg
is 137.50, paid in advance.
\ New York man has invented a
machine for playing the piano. It is
not an organette or an orchestrion, but
a case placet| over the ki-vls-ard with
strikes that lut toe keys, which are
turnisi bv a crank that is moved by
jiedals. The etirres|Minilent >f ttie I'hi
laibdpiiia ml. who lias heard it.
savs that all the time he was listening
he felt as though he was at a Imartl
ing-schiMil "commencement," and the
crat k pianist of the school was playing
her crack piece. There was a lataired
attempt at expression and a girlish dis
regard for time; but, aside from that,
the touch was powerful and thccxccu
tion brilliant. Mr. (ially. the inventor,
says that he ran imitate the playing of
any pianist in the world, and he war
rants to give his patent all the tire ami
passion of Liszt if any one orders it.
When this is jMTfis ted, with an electric
motor to turn the crank, a man who is
able to own a piano w ill not have to
spend the ri -t of his fortune islucating
his daughter to plav it.
Since the astronomers who originally
prislictisl terrible things from tin- fall
ing of the great comet into the sun a
few months hence have found out that
the comet is not coming bark in nearly
H(*i years, popular interest in the celes
tial visitor has rapidly waned. The
comet, however, says the New York
.S'uri, continues to l-o a puzzle to the
men of science, who do not ap|>ear to '
l>e much nearer the solution of the'
question what comets are rom|H>scd of
than they were years ago. The world
was formerly scared by stories of
comets that were almut to strike it,
and of comets whose tails, sweeping
the earth, would produce pestilence
and death. The latest scarecrow of
this kind a comet which was going
to burn the surface of the earth by
falling into the sun and st irring up his ,
fires has turned out to be as harmless j,
as the old stories. When astronomers
have found out what comets really are,
it will la* time enough to predict what
harm they arc going to do to the earth.
(leneral Sheridan's explorations in
Wyoming, Idaho and Montana last Au
gust and September, of which he has
recently sent a report to the adjutant
general, suggested to his minil a new-
Indian policy. The Crow nation num
bers 3,470 souls, and its reservation, on
which a few cattle graze and a few ber
ries grow, contains 6,000,000 acres of
valuable land. "1 would recommend,'' :
writes General Sheridan, "that the gov
ernment give eighty acres to the head
of each family, hoy the balance from
the Indians, paying them, say, half a j
! dollar per ucre, if thought proper, then
purchase government bonds with the
' money, and each year use for their sup
port, through the commissioner of In
i dian affairs and their agent, the inter
est upon the bonds, without touching
the principal. This interest would I*
very much more than is now approp
riated yearly, and tin- Indians by these
( means would have a perpetual fund,
the principal of which should never be
touched except by acts of Congress. In
fact, if all Indians ami their reserva
tions were treated In this way a better
system of government for the Indians
could be obtained, it would also be a
good bargain for tbe government, as
• the purehasi-d land could be sold to
actual settlers for an advance, and be
occupied by people paying taxes, to say
nothing of the opening up of tie
country."
That the country is healthier than
the city is generally umb i lood, but
tbe mortality statistics of tic- census
furnish data upon which to base an
opinion as to the difference in their
sanitary advantages. The death-rate
in the census of 1860 was 12.5 per
thousand of the population, 12 8 in the
census of 1870, and 15.1 in the census
of I*Bo. The increase is attributed to
the greater accuracy in the work of the
enumerator* for each suc< essivecensus
rather than to any increase in tht
actual mortality. It i* believed that
the enumerators have yet failed to ob
tain the full mortality statistics, for a
canvass in two States has shown that
about thirty per per cent, of the deaths
are not included hi the census statis
tics. It is therefore supposnl that, the
true death-rate is not far from eighteen
[M-r thousand of the population. As
the death rate for our cities averages
about twenty-live per thousand, the
ebam es of long life .ire va-tly greatei
in the country than in the town.
Skoheleff.
Skols-lefT has b< • ti - ailed the poet of
war. lYrhap* it would l>c inori accur
ate t<> define him as the military llvnin
of Hussia. A more daring, a more in
sulMirdinate. am! a more original mind
it has not la-en the f.t<- of Kurojw to
see for many a long day. If we want
to find bis < qual it is almost n*ce,sary
to go back to the times of Charles
ML. for we shall let fin 1 him withm
the limits of our conventional nine
teenth century. 11 < -delighted in 1 attic,
yet confessed frequently that it was
ii"t the bubble reputation, but a sol
dier's grave, which he nought at the
cannon's mouth. 11• went forth la
battle in his newest and hrightc t uni
form. mounted on his famous white
charger, and waving his white rap in
the air. Skols-leff was a wonderful
military artist. He must have studied
the soldier closely t*i have acquired so
accurate a knowbslge of his heart, (in
one occasion, at the third battle of
Plevna, he met his troops flying panic
stricken back to the ramp. On M-eing
him they drew up and saluted. "Ah,
my line fellows," he exclaimed, "you
have fought like lions!" The troops
recov erisl their M-lf-r"-|-rt. Seeing
the cffe< t his words hail produced upon
them, Skols-lefT pretended only t<> have
discovered that they were without
their muskets. "Where are your mus
ket*?" he shouted. No one dares]
answer. "Coward*! Ido not want to
command such dogs as you. Come,
pick up your musket* and follow me
at once!" and. pr< idling in the direc
tion where the Turkish tire was thick
est. lie put them through tin ir facings
as though they were raw recruits
drilling in the quiet back yard of a
provincial barrack. When they had
gone through their evolutions he hxl
them against the enemy, and not one
of them thought of running away.—
Lomlon A thr tmrttm.
A Remarkable FUh.
During the recent scientific cruise of
the Travailleur there waataken off the
coasts of Morocco, and from a depth of
alxitit 1.270 fathoms, a fish of very
singular character. It is at tout afoot
and a half long and of a deep black
color. Its most distinguishing feature,
however, is a huge mouth cavity, which
is quite disproportionate to the small
tapering body, and capable, through
the arrangement of the jaws, presence
of extensible membranes, etr,, of very
wide enlargement of the cavity. It
may be fitly compared to the well
known pouch of the pelican, and M.
Vaillant thinks it probable that food
accumulates in the pouch and is there
partly digested. The locomotive organs
are of the most rudimentary nature.
The paired fins are represent <<d merely
by two very small ap|>cndiccs, which
may Ih- considered pectoral fin*; therr
are no ventral fins, hut a dorsal and
anal are present. The respiratory ap
paratus is of unique com|tositinn
| There is no swimming bladder.— Lon
' <lnn Timet.
A young lady at a ball called hei
partner an Indian Itecauso he was o
i her trail all the time.
ACIKTRMC WRAPS.
It in asserted by a lirazilian that
coffee in a natural antidote to alcohol,
and that tho consumption of alcoholic
stimulant* is comparatively small
where coffee in a popular drink, an in
hi own country.
What hiM Ijeen culled "Hewer pan" is
composed of air, vapor and give-s in
constantly varying jiroportions, Ur
pettier with living germs vegetable
and animal and minute particles of
putrescent matter.
The skeleton of a Dirioeaurin reptile
thirty-five feet long, has lieen unearthed
in the Had Lands of Dakota. The
creature is supposed to have stood
twenty-five feet high. The weight of
the skull is 'IPJ pounds, and of Die
whole skeleton 1,900 pounds.
Logs, under favorable conditions,
live to an age much beyond that which
is usually assigned to them. Mr. If.
' ordiner, of Oxford, Dr.gland, knows a
black ratriever aged thirty-one, and
! there is no doubt that others are ac
quainted with like aged individuals of
| the canine species.
It is well known that minute metal
, lie particles are often collected in
places remote from tcrr<-strial sources
j dust. Ifer ent iiivestigation shows
that many of these particles must have
undergone fusion, whi'h evidently
proves that they have come from the
smoke of factories, from volcanic fires
jf that they had a meteoric origin.
A mixture of twenty parts of hard
soap, forty parts of kerosene, and one
part of fir balsam had been found very
effective in destroying the insects
which damage the orange tree. Pro
fessor V. Jtilev x the authority.
Other valuable plants, notably the vine
might l-e similarly protei ted by a -pr.iy
from an application of the same rwi{e.
It can be dilutod at will with w at-r so
| as not to interfere with the constitu
tion of the plant.
The coal supplied to the Nagasaki
market comes from a laid in Japan
situated along the oast hne Utwo n
< ape Momo aiei the mouth of Nagasa
ki Ifarls.r and theme t marly the
most northerly of the fioto Islands. It
is referred to the tertiary period, and
is highly bituminous, of irregular frac
ture, but somewhat cubical. When
fr- -hlv broken it has a lustrous black
appearance, which changes 1 \ pro
tracted exp.isure to the atmosphere to
a dull, rusty bla< k.
PEARLS < IIIOHWIT.
On the day of vietorv no weariness
Is felt,
Aw ise man reflects b< fore he sjicak -,
and reflects on what he ba> uttered.
The lo ad, however strong it may be,
can accomplish nothing against the
heart.
The most important part of every
hasim-ss is to know w hat ought to 1*
lone.
It i 1 letter to lrf> reproachcsl by a
friend than complimented by a flat
terer.
'I he wiseman looks for happiness
lieyond the narrow ken of personal
interest.
Infinite toil would not enable you to
sweep aw ay a nest, hut by ascending a
little you may often look over it
altogether.
Never leave what you undertake
until you can reach your artns around
d and clench your hands on the othef
side.
You can't judge of the value of a
man by his talk any more than you can
judge of the value of the tree by its
bark.
One should le careful not to carry
any of his follies of youth into old
age ; for old age has follies enough of
its own.
I>o not despise the opinion of the
world ; you might as well say that you
care not for light of the sun liecauso
you can use a candle.
Some minds an- so constructed as
not to le amanalde to the ordinary
rules of judgment; they deserve pity
rather than censure.
Sorrow itself is not so hard to I tear
as the thought of sorrow coming.
Airy ghosts that work no harm do
terrify us more than men in steel with
bloody purpose.
An average day's work for a brick
layer is 1,500 bricks on outside and
inside waits ; on facing and angles and
finishing around wood or stone work
not more than half of this number can
be laid.
It is estimated that not less than
19,000,000 barrels of ale and beer will
le brewed in the United States during
the current year, an increase of abont
17 per cent, over the rear prevtoua
Fortress Monroe, Virginia i the
largest single fortification in the world.
It has already cost the government
over 13.000,000. The water battery is
considered one of the finest military
works in the world.