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Job work cmS b atllwr. ,tt r,rTTT -t on rrTAVTOT A T A W17. n V tfQH A V NOV. 10 1 Ron ftl.Kft PF.TI A "NTTCTTAT According to tho Chicago JViiei, the loading newspapers in Havana, Cuba, advocate reciprocity with tha United Stab. 1 Italy has ordered the study of English to bo added to tho curiculum of all Ital ian universities, and has endowed the necessary professorships for the purpose. It is ostimatod that the railroads of the United States lofo 12,000,000 yearly by landslides, $5,000,000 by floods, 000,000 by flro, and $9,000,000 by col lisions. At a banquet in Sheffield, England, the other day, Lord Wolscley, in address ing the yeomanry cavalry, advised them to-fuake themselves good shots and effi cient to fight on foot, because the days of fighting on horseback in England were past and gouo. ' It seems to be a fact, states the New Orleans Tim-Democrat, that as the ur Iwn population increases, marriage de crease. The increase In the urban popu lation of the United States during this century has been from four to twenty two per cent. 1 "Tho romance of diamond mining is all gone," laments tho St. Louis Star Saying. "It is now a matter of excava ting vast beds of blue clay by machinery, washing it and sifting out the diamonds, which, after being roughly sorted for size, are sold in bulk by weight." The - number of trumps has decreased seventy-five per ceut. in the last five years, and it is the laws passed by tho different States which have done it, opines the Detroit Pre Press. When you make tramping a crime you oblige a tramp to go to work and make an honest living. - Statistics show, that thcro are some two million peoplo in this country do pendent upon tho railroads for support. The Dumber of employod is put at 704, 743. la case of a general strike, re marks tho Boston Cultivator, the number of people to suffer direct loss is thus shown to be vory large. The salary list of the staff of the great Word's Fair is interesting. It is as fol lows: Gage, President, ?G000; Bryun, Vice-President, $12,000; Buttorworth, Secretary, $10,000; Scoburgor, Treasurer, 15000; Palmer, National President, $12, 000 j Davis, Director General, 615,000; Dickinson, Secretary, $10,000. This makes a snug total af $70,000. L . . An institution has been founded in Paris, which is likely to prove a blessing to foreigners who may become ill while sojourning in tiie gay capital. A Danish lady, Froknr Neilsou, is the originator of this plan to supply for the sick trained nurses speaking the principal luuguugcs. These nurses will be sent to all parts of France and even to other countries when desired. In connection with tho institu tion is a school for the training of nurses. The following figures are published in a German publication that stunds high u an authority on railroad matters. The table gives a summary of the world's railroad mileage last year as compared with the figures of four years ago : - Dee. 31, "84. Dec. 81, '89. Mile: Mites. America HI), 600 19J.OO0 Europe 116,000 133,930 Asia..' 13,200 17,800 Africa '. 4,600 5,200 Australia 7,000 10,500 tal -i03,000 357,400 In San Francisco the sewing girls have to compete with Chinese labor, asserts the New Orleans Picayune, and their wages amount to $4.50 a week. In New . Iferk the American girls have been driven out of the clothing shops altogether by the Polish, Hungarian and Russian wo men, who work ten hours a day, seven days in the week, for $4. The average wages paid the factory girls by suit, cap, (Qcloak, feather, flower and underwear W manufacturers is $3.70. Perhaps 300 ' forewomen get $25 a week, aud a num ber are able to earn $6 after ten years' service, but there are thousands of little girls and young women who begin on $1 and are raised at the rate of seventy-five cents a yeur. There is a prejudice in the rural dis tricts of this State against bachelors, says (he Portland Oregonian. People in every out-laying settlement are opposed to bachelors taking up claims in their vicinity. An exchange says: "There are some splendid claims on Deadwood Creek not yet taken, as good as any on the coast. The citizens want men with families to settle on them. Three of these claims were taken by bachelors last fall. The ladies of Deadwood passed a resolution placing a three years' limit ou celibacy iu that district, aud provid inc all bachelors not married at the end c? of that time be run out "f the settlement or hanged." Five bachelors moved out oue got married and two have gone into the spaikiojr busiuebs. THE PATHWAY THROUQH THE woods. 'Twos only little pathway. Bordered with marigolds sweet, With the green leaves overarching The marks of unfreqtient feet. The golden tints of the autumn Brought one of my saddast moods, As I took that lonely pathway Through the solemn, silent woods. Chirp, chirp, said the wee brown songster, As he hopped from limb to limb. Stealing one look at the stranger, Then seeking the shadows dim. Anon, a sound that was sweater With fairy like interludes Came over my soul like ether And charmed that path through the woods. Thereafter there came a vision As bright as a fabled fay. A maiden of wondrous beauty Btood right in my narrow way. She blushed, and twilight grew rosy Down through the soft solitudes. I had met my fate, and knew it. In the pathway through the woods. Many happy years have blessed me Since that quiet gloaming hour And to-day beside my home hearth, I dote on that woodland flower. There is sunshine in her presence No matter what care intrudes, And dear for her soke, forever, Is that pathway through the woods. Wiliiam. Lyle, in Detroit Free Press. GABE IIARDESTY'S "II ANT." BY UE.NBT C. WOOD. In Taylors Cove, ono bleak March night, the sceno presontod a striking coinomation oi ureanncss and cheer. Tho mountain-sides were snow-clad and deso.ato the lonely pines huddled together 1l little groups, with bowed heads, as if trying to ward off tho wintry blasts, while snugly built within the sheltered cove a comfortable loot-cabin nestled close to the overhanging rocks HKe a swallow s nest under the caves. From the two small windows in the cabin's front tho bright glaro of a gener ous fire within shone forth, aud now and then, as the door opened, a broader path way of light streamed out across the dreary waste of snow and mado a gigantic jocko-lantern amid the dense shadows of the surrounding hills. On a nearer approach the sound of rev elry might have been heard withiu tho cabin the see-saw of a squaky fiddle the patting of hands in rhythmic accom- paunnent and tho noise of dancing feet mingled with gay voices. It was a fitting time for merriment and goodly cheer, for Sam Taylor's pretty daughter, Mollie, was to wed Gabe Har desty, one of the tallest, sturdiest lads to bo found iiiitnnfr the hills. Tho most Cf tho company had already gathered to witness the hnppy event, and only tho groom and a friend or two were yet to arrive. "I lowed cr, Gabe would a beenhans- in' 'round afore sundown a'most," ob served the bride's aunt, a withered, wiry damn, who assisted in an inner room where her niece awaited tho belated groom. "A body burnt been ablo-ter stir round hyer for th' past month fer stumblin' over "ira," she added in her high-pitched toico, "an' now when he s wanted lie haint ter be foun'.' "I'm noways skeerod but what he'll be on han' whe th' weddin' comes off," said the bride, with sniff of affected indif ference. "If ho haint, yo kin take Milt Spur- lock," one of Mollie's youug companions remarked, with a meaning I '.ugh. "lie's in t'other room yonder now, tryin' ter look ez chip an' peart ex if he wouldn't givo his right ban' this very iniuuit ter Stan' in Cube's boots." "Well, ex I didn't take m when thar war two ter pick from, I 'low I won't break my neck ter choose 'iin now, even ef hit is my las' chance ter ketch a man, which I don't cnckcrleto hit is," replied Miss Mollie, with n siminer. "Iin glad ter know, though, that 'Hilt don't bear me no ill grudge, an hivs come ter see me married, even ef hiwis ter a rival o' hisn." "Thar's some more new comers," said her aunt, partly opening tli door leading into tho laigcr room aud peering curi ously beyond. "I 'low ez Giibo hcv come now. As she spoke there was a confused murmur of voices, among them being that of Link McCord, wSio was to be Gube's best man, while a chorus seemed to be iuquiring concerning the tardy groom. Link s voice suddenly dropped to a lower key, and some one, near the part ly opened door, called out warningly to Mollie's stmt: "Shet th' door! don't let her hear." The bride's attentivo ears, however, had caught these words, aud before her aunt could obey thtm she had pushed her aside and entered the larger room. At her coining a sudden hush fell upou the earrulous company the dancers stood iu little groups upou the floor and even the tiddler stopped with a wailing cry of his instrument. "What's th' matter!" cried Mollio, looking anxiously from one to another. "Where's Gabe?" Instinctively tho crowd fell back and made way for her as she crossed over to whero Link McCord stood, sileut and embarrassed with tho burden of ill news he bore. "What's becomo o' Gabe?" she asked in a shriller tone. "He he's been mered Link at last. kcrried off," stam "Kerriod off 1" echoed the brido wonderly "where?"' expectaut "Iduuno the Government officers hcv tuck 'iin," responded Link, now grown loquacious since the icu of his reserve was broken. "Jes ez he war gottiu' ready ter come over hyar, a lot o' pot cutters rid up mi' kctched 'iin an' tuck 'iin way with 'em dowu ter th' valley kentry. They foun' his still, too, an' burnt that up. Ilu got word ter me ter comu right stiet orlong an' let yer all know 'bout his bad luck an' why he couldn't Coma hisse'f." It was all too true, even then this hap less groom was being hurried furtlief and further away from his waiting bride and the merry company who had gnth ercd to witness his marriage, as the offi cers, with their Unlucky prisoner, rode along the winding mountain way toward the valley lands and the Federal court, in which ho was to be tried for illicit still ing. While his fate under ordinary circum stances would have been a matter of com parative indifference, it was now a thing of the utmost moment to him, and the young mountaineer was beset with har assing fears. This anxiety of mind lasted him throughout tbo slow, tedious journey down to tho valley lands, and through tho imprisonment which followed, until tho slow process of tho law had fixed his punishment at two years in the State prison. Two years of captivity to him who had been as frco as the bird and beast of his nativo hills, yet even he fniled at first to realize how many weary days could bo crowded into two long years of waiting. If ho could have bidden his sweetheart good-bye, and whispered into her ear how lasting was his lovc,and entreated her to be of good cheer until be came back, fate would have not seemed so cruel, but to be thus dragged away on his very bridal night, that war, indeed, a trying ordeal. Nor was this lessened, when one day there came to his knowledge, through a guard, who had been among tho raiders when he was captured, the fact that he had been betrayed into their hands and the secret location of his still revealed by oue of the mountaineers of that region On closer questioning, and after i more minute description of tho man by the guard, Gabe Hardesty suddenly guessed that his letrayer was none other than Milt Spurlock, his rival in the af fections of the pretty girl he was so soon to have wedded. From this moment the tortures of jeal ousy were added to his already unhappy lot. He had so nearly gained tho coveted prize, that, until this moment, ho hvl never onco doubted her constancy or love; but now a thousand horrible fears lashed him with their relentless scourg ing. He grew hollow cved and thin, while his customary lethargy gavo placo to a fierce restlessness, like some captive ani mal pining for its native jungles. His very dreams were filled with un- happincss and unrest. Again and again the fair vision of the pretty mountain girl disturbed his slum bers, yet now it was ever marred by the dark shadow of Milt Spurlock, which seemed to hover always near. Once he dreamed that his marriage was taking place in the cabin by the hill side, yet after the ceremony was over he saw, all at once, that the groom was not himself, but that Milt Spurlock had usurped his place, and be awoke iu a great tremor. Ohl how slowly the days and nights wore away. They seemed to grow longer and longer. Poor Gabe I And what of the pretty bride-elect during all these unhappy days? For many weeks Mollie refused to be comforted and was most miserable, while her friends and neighbors, aud even her discarded lovor, Milt Spurlock, did all that they could to cheer her and make her less tearful. At last there came vague ru mors of Uuue s trial ana impris onment, and - one day Milt Spurlock confirmed them, after he came back from a trip to the valley country, whence he had gone to sell various products of these hills, such as medicinal barks and herbs. While on this journey ha had met with bne who knew of Gabe's trial and imprisonment, which was for a term of ten long years, ho said only think of it the .cry best part of one's life to bo spent wicluu prison walls, for when oue came forth from ten long years ot confinement, there was little of youth or hope left in one's bosom. All this Mult Spurlock managed to impress most deeply upon his eager list ener, aud after this fresher grief had worn away, ho began to renew tho pledges of his own love and fidelity, and though, at first, she turned a deaf car to his pleadings, thero came a time when she was less unwilling to listen to his wooing, while gossips began to wag their tongues and say thut the once jilted lover would yet win the pretty bride he had come so near losing a year before. So run their tongues, and finally the neighbors were once more bidden under Sam Taylor's roof to witness tho mar riage of his daughter. Again thero was mirth and revelry, while the squeaky tones of old Luke's fiddle, and the sound of many voices and time keeping feet weut out into the silence of the night. One might well have imagined that it was the self-same period at which tho story opened so similar was the scene, and so nearly alike the company as on tho former occasion, and when, finally, the bride aud groom came forth from an inner room and stood before the honie-spun-clad preacher, it was difficult to re alizo that the groom of a year ago was languishing behind relentless prison walls, far from those wiutry hills, aud the fair fickle one who was soon to be tho brido of another. A sileuee fell upou the company, the simple marriage service began, and the couple clasped hands, yet ere the two were made mun and wife tho outer door suddenly swung opcu and a cold blast blew into the room. As the bleak night wind greeted them, both looked up almost at tho same mo ment, when suddenly the bride uttered a loud cry, while the groom staggered buck, pule with a great consternation. Then all eyes turned toward the open door, and there, against the dark back ground of night, pale, and thin and wan, they su .v the ghost-like figure of the man whose place Milt Spurlock now occupied. He looked uueurthly aud unreal iu the flickering light, which tho lire and the dim blaze of the tallow candles east on bis pale face, while his eyes glowed with a fierce, wild glare, which the witnesses 1 of the scene never fofgot, And oftimcl spoke of afterward In nwed And impres sive tones. Before nnyone could stretch out A hand, or divine the purpose of this strange apparition, it had glided to where Milt Spurlock cowered in abject terror. Its arm raised swiftly and something bright glittered for a moment, and then was sheathed in the bridegroom s bosom. As he staggered back and fell, almost without a groan, the ghastly figure turned and silently vanished into the darkness, and no one present that night ever saw this strange Counterpart of Gabe Har desty again. There were strange rumors afterward that tho Governor, hearing tho story of Gabe's arrest on the eve of his marriage, and learning of his subsequent good con duct in the prison, had pardoned him be fore tho expiration of bis sentence, and that it was Gabe himself who had como back on this eventful night and meted out such swift vengeance to his betrayer. There were few, however, who did not shake their heads Incredulously at these rumors, nnd say they knew a thing of flesh and blood from one that come out of the darkness and the grave, for did not several who were present at tho merry-making stoutly aver that they had even clutched at this vanishing figure after tho fatal deed was accomplished and their fingers had closed on the thin air? Drake' Magazine. Tlio Inventrcss of Luce. , In the churchyard of Annaberg, near an old lime tree, there is carved in relief upon a chaste marble tombstone an angel placing a crown upon a woman's head, while beneath is inscribed: :' ' Here HeBARBAKA UTi'MAN,' died: :14th of January, 1575, whose invention: ;of laee in the year 1501 made her the: : benefactress of the Harts Mountains. '. ; An active mind, a skillful hand, ; : Brings blessings down on the Father-: ; land. ". This Barbara Uttman, who introduced pillow lace into Germany, was born in tho year 1514 in the small town of Ettor dan, which derives its name from her family. Her parents, burghers of Nurem berg, had removed to the S.ixon Hurtz Mountains for the purpose of working somo mines. Here Barbara Etterdau married a rich master miner named Christopher Uttman, of Annaberg. The Protestant tradition says that Barbara Uttman "learned" lace making from a native of Brabant, whom the cruelties of the Duke of Alva had driven from his country. But as the Duke of Alva did not go to the Netherlands until 1567, and as Barbara Uttman was teaching lace at her school in 15U1, this report must be taken out of the domain of fact. At all events while wo know that Barbara Utt man did not invent lace, since it ante dates any record we have and is as old as the hills, one might say, to her we must givo the honer of not only introducing pillow laco into Germany but of improv ing, renewing and fashioning new stitches and making new combinations uniting with a fresh beauty tho compos ito laces of other countries. New York Herald. Military Utility of Swiminiiiir Cavalry. An important feature of the recent cav alry manoeuvres in England was swim ming ci.viilry horses the Thames. Twenty officers of the Guards determined to 6olve the problem for themselves. Dashing into tho river with great excitement, several succeeded in reaching tho oppo site bank iu safety, while three riders fell off and had to be rescued by boats. It is held that the trial proves the futiflty of attempting to swim cavalry horses across a stream in a body. Whatever, how ever, may be the ultimatum in regard to the swimming of cavalry horses, there is no doubt thut swimming, as a part of the drilled soldiers, is likely to be brought largely into requisition. The officers in attendance with the Emperor William at tho Hussiau military manoeuvres are said to have been surprised at nothing so much as at the swimming exploits of the Russian soldiery. "Boots off I" exclaimed the Colonel, when bis battalion reached tho river bank. Then, making tho sign of the cross, he plunged in himself, and the wholo force followed him, swimming to the other side. Though swimming, as a part of military drill, has not been heard of in this country, the facts that the ancient Greeks understood its value is shown by the fact that so few of them perished iu tho naval fight with Xerxes at Sulumis. Courier-Journal. A Camel's Reservoir. Admiral I). D. Porter, who onco went to North Africa to secure camels for in troduction into America, gives some in teresting points about the 'value of these ugly but useful animals. Ho says: "In their campaigns against Algiers the French wero surprised to see their camels although reduced to skeletons, making forced marches with their loads. Mules in their condition could not have curried even their saddles. "A camel's fiesh is as good as beef. You can hardly tell one meat from the other. Camel's milk is very good, as I cau testify, because I used it in my cof tee. "A camel generally drinks onco in three days, and, besides his four stomurhs, he carries a sort of reservoir in which he stores water. I have been told that even ten days after the deuth of a. camel this reservoir can bo'opeued audtfen or fifteen pints of clear, drinkable water taken from it." Dlphtheretic Birds. Diphtheria, which bus been lurking about Paris ever since the iutlueuz epi demic, has attacked the birds. The dis covery seems to have been inude at the Jardiu des Pluntes. Tiie men of science are said to have satisfied themselves thut these birds do not cunimuuicute the dis ease to mankind. It bus prevailed amongst pigeons, and some pigeons iu the markets were proved to have suf fered from it; but in uo case did the disease wpread to persons who cuiue in contac t with the infected birds. Com menud Adetitisti: SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The first electrical railway in Sweden has been completed. The astronomers on Mount Wilson, Cal,, report a snowstorm on tho planet Mars, An analysis of tho steel made in Chat tanooga, Tcnn., showed it to be of good quality. A surface of only two square yards sustains a blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to fifty-four tons. The State Geologist of New Jersey do dares that the State is sinking at the ite of at least two feet in a century. A plant has been established at Por tage, Ohio, lor manufacturing a substi" tuto for lumber from rico Btraw, an abundnnt and burdensome product. Charles D. Young, a Denver (Col.) boy of fifteen, has just built the smallest coal-burning locomotive in existence. It is about five feet long and weighs 235 pounds. The submarine boat, introduced into Italy recently, which is spherical in shape has thus far given greater promise of success than anything that has been ex perimented with. Miss Flora Grace, of Iowa, is tho in ventor of a cooking thermometer which marks the boiling point for meat, the gently simmering altitude and the vary ing baking points for meats, bread, cake and pies. A recent contract provides for street liirhtinff in Paris on a novel plan. Power is distributed by the compressed air sys tem to a great number of small motors, each of which supplies current for a small number of lamps. Crushed steel made by crushing in a stamp-mill high-carbon steel quenched in cold water from an excessively high temperature is being used for cutting stone. It is very hard, aud cheaper and more effective than emery. Incandescent lumps placed near the ceiling will cause it to blacken, contrary to gcuerul belief. The blackening is not due to unconsumed carbon, but to o cur rent of hot air which deposits black particles on contact with a cold surface. The aerophor is a new invention from Germany of great importance in textile factories, and is being introduced into the factories of England as well as Ger many. It is an apparatus to diffuse mois ture necessary for spinning without injury to health or machinery. Tests of aluminium bronze have been commenced at the Watcrtown Arsenal, Massachusetts, under tho auspices of the Government. The tensile strength was shown to be over 90,000 pounds to the square inch, and the transverse strength 6(1,000 pounds on a one inch square bar. The projected new way up the Matter horn, in Switzerland, is interesting engi neers. The rails will cease at the base of the "sugarloaf" and the ascent is to be accomplished by a succession of eleva tors from one point to another. It is supposed that the work of construction will occupy about four years. An important innovation has been in troduced in the shape of a machine for preparing molds for casting. Tho ma chine is designed to produce a complete mold at one operation, aud thus to re place skilled hand labor in making molds from pattern plates. It is claimed that a lad can operate the machine with the as sistance of a laborer, and is able to rain and mold as many as 1000 boxes per day. By means of an electric wire at Do meue, France, the power of a waterfall is transmitted three and a quarter uiilci from its source, to a paper mill, aud there utilized to the extent of two hun dred horse-power. In the winter, when the deep snow for about two months prevents any but electric communication between the generating works and the mill, the power is sent as usual, and the machinery of the paper mill is kept iu motion. The Largest Rose Bush. The largest rose bush in the world is probably that which adorns the resideace of Dr. h. B. Matthews, of Mobile, Ala. It was planted in 1813 by the doctor's father when a youug mun and is green and flourishing after its eighty-seven years of summer's heat and winter's suow. Its brunches have entirely cov ered the house and extended to tho sur rouuding trees, so that wheu it is iu bloom it form a perfect bower of roses. Its trunk for upward of five feet from the ground is nearly a foot in circumference, and it has been estimated that if grow ing as one continuous viue its branches would extend a mile in length. During the past spring three aud a half bushels of roses were gathered from it in one week, while when shedding petals in the autumn the ground about it is white with its fragruut suow. It is of the variety known as the cluster musk rose. It is said that this vine several times suved the residence from being burned during the lute war, the doctor haviug been a surgeon iu tho Union army. I'hUadelpkut Time. A Chance Friend Made His Fortune. The Boston Keening Gillette tells a pleasant story about the son of a very prominent man. When he was a student at Harvard he took a trip West on one of his vacations. He wus greutly in tercsted in railroad affairs, and happened to full into conversation with an elderly man who also seemed to know a little about this subject. Ou the way to Chicago they tulked about railroads a good deal, and the young mun acquitted himself very creditably. His new friend hud introduced himself simply ai Mr. Smith, let us say. Mr. Smith and the youug college mail exchanged personal cards before the trip was ended. Shortly before he was graduated the youug man received a flattering oiler from a big rail road company, through its President, the same Mr. Smith, cult him again. Thai was several years ago. That youug man to-duy is a risiug railroad man, who has already climbed many rounds ol the rail road ladder. A BIG ENGINEERING FEAT. GREATEST BRIDGE IN THB WORLD TO SPAN THE HUDSON. A Forty Million Dollar Steel Struc ture Will Connect Jersey City r.d New York. The greatest canti-lever bridge in the world is to span the Hudson River from New York to New Jersey, fays A letter from New York to the Chicago Herald. It will be bigger and longer than the enormous structure in Scotland which trosses the Firth of Forth and is the most extensive structure in existence built on tho cantilever principle. It will be one-third longer and much wider than the suspension bridge which unites Now York and Brooklyn, and will cross the water at a greater elevation by twenty feet than docs the East River bridge. It cost will bo about f 10.000,000 and five years will be required to construct the work. As the new acqueduct is the marvel of tho nineteenth century in hy draulic engineering, so in bridge con struction will the proposed structure be the wonder of the age. ( Tho engineers, Thomas C. Clarke and Charles B. Brush, have practically deter mined upon the location of the approaches on the opposite shores, but of course they decline to make that knowledge public as yet. The law says that the bridge must land in the metropolis between Tenth and 181st streets, on private property, to be acquired under the right of eminent domain. In New Jersey it will prob ably start from the lower part of Palisade Ridge in Jersey City, where the ground is 100 feet obovo the level of the Hud son, and a natural grado to tho ap proaches of the bridge would be secured without tho building of an elevated via duct. If this proves to be the site se lected tho most reasonable assumption would be that the New York terminus will bo in tho region of Broadway and Forty-second street. Thus passengers from the South and West will bo whirled into one grand union station. Into this will also run the trains of tho Long Island Railroad, which will cross the East River by a tunnel that will bo continued under Forty-second street to the Grand Central and also to tho great union station, similar to that of the Northwestern Railway in London. Being built upon the cantilever prin ciple thero will be but a single span over tho river, with a tower on either shore. Grain storehouses will bo under tho bridge and also under the tracks along he Palisades. The freight cars will unload by chutes extending to the tops of these warehouses. The bridge will be nf steel, aud 2400 feet from span to span. It will have six railroad tracks, its bottom will bo 150 feet above the river's surface and its top will be fifty feet still higher. After the grauite piers and approaches are constructed the bridge will bo put together section by section, the steel being brought to the spot on flouts from the mills as needed. The latter p:ut of the stupendous un dertaking will be the easiest of accom plishment. When the Herald correspondent called at tho office of the bridge commissioners he found ex Judge George W. Green, the father of t'.io bridge project, with Secre tary Swan both busily eugaged in the ex amination of a muss of pU:is and esti mates. Judge Green said: "Tho cost of the bridge itself will be about $15, 000,000 aud the total cost including ap proaches and stations about $40,000,000. Of this sum $10,000,000 will be raised by sale of stock and $30,000,000 by the issue of bonds. The passenger stations will bo built of steel, nnd large enough to admit all trains that now enter New York, New Jersey aud Brooklyn. It will hare twenty tracks, side by side, and be 1300 feet in length. Tho grade in and out of the city over the bridge will be forty feet to the mile. The roads accommodated by tho bridge are the Pennsylvania; Central Railroad of New Jersey; Delaware, Lackawanna aud Western; New York and Erie; New York and Greenwood Lake; New York, Susquehanna and Western; New York, Outario aud Western, aud the West Shore, with the smaller roads operated by or haviug connection with these corpora tions. Tho roads enumerated reach every section South and West. Their passenger traffic is about sixty millions a year, aud tho freight reaches the enorm ous sum of 80,000,00) tons yearly. Wheu this bridge is constructed the dis comfort and eWlay passengers now ex perience in crussiug to Neiv Yo.-k ou ferryboats will be at an end, and the cost of transportation of baggage and trans shipment of freight will uo longer exist. "It is evident that New York is reach ing the limit of its resident population. While the latter can extend north and to Long Island, it will also naturally ex tend to the west of tho Hudson, where is an inviting field for residence. While this territory in New Jersey will grow iu population it will not take from New York any of its population which it can more favorably accommodate. There will have to be provided a system of rapid transit over the bridge to accom modate those living within a short dis tuuco of the metropolis. Withiu twenty years the beautiful regiou all about tho Palisades will contain the homes of thou sands of those who will seek this quar ter to avoid the high rent and excessive cost of living iu this city. In every as pect the bridge will be a blessing to the metropolis and to the commercial inter ests of the nation." A Ball of"l).nHj Lou Less." A curious natural phcuomeuoii was seen at Pluinrield, N. J., a few days ano. A gentleman walking through his gar den saw a living ball of "daddy long legs," as they are commonly culled. There were hundreds of the insects iu the lump, which was fully half a foot iu c ircuinfercucc. Their long legs wero tin vied iu a seemingly inextricable miss. I'lie animal wurnith of tlii-ir tiny bodies -irobnbly iuduced thu insects to Uuddlu ) closely together. -ej i'uri. TrU- INSPIRATION. Narrow and steep the pathway we must tread. And even then the crown may be of thorn. Which all the years thereafter must be borne, Till silence numbnrs us among the dead; Hard must we toil to win this bitter bread. And through the clear flash of the radiant morn, Oft see the clouds, with edges tempest torn. Rise in dense gloom, by disappointment led. Yet is not all this strife a better gift Than aimless wanderings through sunlit days? Does not each upward struggle sorve to lift The soul to where God's clearer radiance plays. Till through some storn and rock-e mbattlod rift, We reach at last life's firm and level ways? Thomas S. Collier.xn Yonth'n Companion. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. A convict never hurries. He just takes his time. Lawrence American. Enough may be as good as a feast, but a feast is good enough for most of us. Yenowine'i Neic. Why doesn't an English syndicate buy Canada's debt! There's millions in it. Pilttburg Telegraph. Ladies, never powder a dimpled cheek. It can do execution well enough without being loaded. Puck. Unless a man is agreeable to all tho women he meets they go around pitying his wife. Atchison Glole. U "What makes Smith so straight?" I "I don't know, unless it is his circum stances" Texa Sifting: Austin has a very precise buiinew man who never pays a visit without demand ing a receipt for it. Teins Sifting. -. Marriage is not a lottery ; it is a raflle. One man gets the prize, while tho others get the shake. Indianajiolis Juuriuil. Book Ageut I have just the kind of work you want." Chappie "But my deuh fellow, I don't want work of any kind." lndiamipolit Journal. First Girl (proudly) "Our baby cau say pa and nm." Second Gni "Dut's nurlin. My cousin, wot's rich, 'us got cr wax one wot kin do dat." Life. Of all the queer men of the times And unto oranks the nearest, The man who asks you questions ' Undoubtedly the querist. Munsey't Weekly. Mrs. Dobbins (reading') "Countess Maria von Keusky, of Bohemia, has bagged 138 hares iu one day." Dobbins "Her husband will soon be buldhcaded at that rate." Epoch. "Kitty," said tho lover, as they sat in the dark corner of the piazza "Kitty, close your eyes." "Why so, George?" "If you don't everybody will bo able to see us." Harper' Bazar. An exchange says there are 250,000 women married anuutilly in Londou. The average Seattlo woman thinks her self lucky if she is married four times iu a lifetime. Seattle I'res: "Dream on, dream on," the singer crleil, And roused him from his trunee "Ob, how I wish that you," ha sighed, "Would givo me half a chance. ' lKojiniii!roa Post. A Canadian doctor bos just been testi fying that a murdered man's heart stopped "right in the middle of a beat." That's nothing; policemen often do the same thing. Lrtien Herald. Sho "There goes poor Miss Prico with her fiance. Why, tho muu is old enough to be her father aud ugly enough to bo her brother!" Ho "Oh, but he is rich enough to bo her husband." Life. A studont who ncted as a waiter at a White Mountain hotel the past summer is about to marry the daughter or a family at whose table he served. All things come to him who waits. iiotton Post. Silver and gold bands for the hair aro very popular among fashionable ladies, but the brass baud makes more uoiso iu tho world especially if it contains a buss drum and a bassoon. JctccLrs' Circular. He's surely a ditlleult person to kill, His frame seems of adamuut; He's dying each day, but remains with us still, The "oldest inhabitant." Huston Courier. Miss Passee (examining the medal of a receut graduate "I have u medal, too." Youug Friend "You huve? Why on earth don't you wear it?" Miss Pussee (with a sigh) "I would, but I can't get the date oil of it." Harper' Jlatar. He "Shall we marry in October or April?" Sho (carelessly) "Really, I don't know. Let's toss up and see." He (feeling la his pockets) "By Jove, I haven't a peuny." She (frigidly) "Ah? It isn't necessary to toss." iVtie York World. Smithers (who had just proposed) "Why do you Biuilet Is my proposition so utterly ridiculous that" Lizetto "Not at all, Mr. Smithers. I am only looking pleased. I bet Mr. Hicks a box of caudy I'd have the refusal of you with in a week." A'ex York Sun. A youug muu had beeu talking to a bored editor for quite a quarter of an hour, and at lust observed: "There aro some thiugs in this world that go without saying." "Yes," said the editor, "and there are still more persons iu the world who say a good deal without going." ImwIoh Iflobe. Miss Terriut "Wheu moinnier and I were iu Yurrup, oh, the awfulest thing happened ! There was a prince ami a count and and they fought a duel about poor me with pistols." Yubsley "Ah! were they loaded I" Miss Ter riut "No, they wereu't! They wtro just as sober as could be." hnlUntapoli Journal. Mils Flora (forty-five aud homely) "Oh, Mr. Blunt, I had such a strange dream lust night." Mr. Blunt "What was it, Misa Flora?" Miss Flora "l dreamed that we wero married and ou our wedding tour. Did you ever have such a dream?" Mr. Bluut (energetically) "No, iudeed. I never hud the night mare iu my life." Tt uat S.iting: While hair is the court color throii : out Europe.
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