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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.
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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.