A BIG ENGINEERING FEAT. GREATEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD TO SPAN THE HUDSON. A Forty Million Dollar Steel Struc ture Will Connect Jersey City anil New York. * The greatest canti-lever bridge in the world is to span the Hudson River from New York to New Jersey, says a letter from New York to the Chicago Herald. It will be bigger and longer than the enormous structure in Scotland which crosses the Firth of Forth and is the most extensive structure iu existence built on the cantilever principle: It will be one-third longer ami much wider than the suspension bridge which unites New York and Brooklyn, and will cross the water at a greater elevation by twenty feet than does the East Kiver bridge. Its cost will be about §40,000,000 and five years will be required to construct the work. As the new acqueduct is the marvel of the nineteenth century in hy draulic engineering, so iu bridge con struction will the proposed structure be the wonder of the age. The 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 m 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 above the level of the Hud son, and a natural grade to the ap proaches of the bridge would be secured ■without the building of au elevated via duct. If this proves to be the site se lected the most reasonable assumption would be that the New York terminus will be in the region of Broadway and Forty-second street. Thus passengers from the South and West will be whirled into one grand union station. Into this will also run the trains of the Long Island Railroad, which will cross the East Kiver by a tunnel that will be continued under Forty-second street to the Grand Central and also to the great union station, similar to that of the Northwestern Railway in London. Being built upon the cantilever prin ciple there will be but a single span over the river, with a tower ou either shore. Grain storehouses will be under the bridge and also under the tracks along 'lie Palisades. The freight cars will unload by chutes extending to the tops of these warehouses. The bridge will be of steel, and 2400 feet from span to span. It will have six railroad tracks, its bottom will be 150 feet above the river's surface aud its top will be fifty feet still higher. After the granite pier 3 and approaches are constructed the bridge will be put together section by section, the steel being brought to the spot on floats from the mills as needed. The latter part of the stupendous un dertaking will be the easiest of accom plishment. When the Herald correspondent called at the office of the bridge commissioners he found ex-Judge George W. Green, the father of the bridge project, with Secre tary Swan both busily engaged in the ex amination of a mass of pi ins and esti mates. Judge Green said: "The cost of the bridge itself will be about $15,- 000,000 and 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 be built of steel, aud large enough to admit all trains that now enter New- York, New Jersey and Brooklyn. It will have twenty tracks, side by side, aud be 1300 feet in length. The grade Sn and out of the city over the bridge will be forty feet to the mile The roads accommodated by the bridge are the Pennsylvania; Central Railroad of New Jersey; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western; New York and Erie; New York and Greenwood Lake; New York, Susquehanna and Western; New York, Ontario and Western, and the West Shore, with the smaller roads operated by or having connection with these corpora tions. The roads enumerated reach every section South and West. Their passenger traffic is about sixty ipillions a year, and the freight reaches the enorm ous sum of 80.000,000 tons yearly. When this bridge is constructed the dis comfort and delay passengers now ex perience in crossing to New York on ferryboats will be at an end, and the cost of transportation of baggage and trans shipment of freight will no 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 the Hudson, where is an inviting field for residence. While this territory in New Jersey will grow in 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 tance of the metropolis. Within twenty years the beautiful region all about the Palisades will contain the homes of thou sands of those who will seek this quar ter to avoid the high rents and excessive cost of living in 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 "PadHj Long Logs." A curious natural phenomenon was seen at Plainfield, N. J., a few days ago. A gentleman walking through his gar den saw a living hall of "daddy long legs," as they are commonly called. There were hundreds of the ins"ots in the lump, which was fully half a foot in circumference. Their long legs were tanoied in a seemingly inextricable muss. The animal warmth of their tiny bodies probably induced the insect; to huddle so closely together. York Tdt gram. PECULIAR INFATUATION. Different Methods of Following the Inlune* tlon ••LOT© One Another." Do men ever fall In love with each other? Women do. Not long ago a young woman in New Jersey was married to a youthful la borer on her "father's l'arm. Sometime after ward it was discovered that the husband was n female; the young wife refused, however, though earnestly entreated by her friends, to give up her chosen consort. The strangest part of the discovery was the fact that the Dride knew her husband was a woman before she was led to the altar. If men do not exhibit this strange infatua tion for one of their own sex, they at least oftentimes give evidence of thefact that they love one another. There are many instances on record where one man has given his life lor another. There are many more instances were men have given life to another. It is a proud possession—the knowledge that one has saved a precious human life. Meriden, Conn., is the home of such a happy man. John H. .Preston, of that city, July 11th, 181(0, writes: "Five years ago I was taken very sick, I had several of thebestdpo tors, and one and all called it a complicatiou of diseases. 1 was sick four years, taking prescriptions prescribed by these same doc tors, and I truthfully state I never expected to get any better. At this time, I com menced to have the most terrible pains in my back. One day an old friend of mine, Mr. It. T. Cook of the firm of Curtis & Cook, advised me to try Warner's Safe Cure, as he had l>een troubled the same way and it had effected a cure for him. I bough! six bottles, took the medicine as directed and am to-day a weH man. lam sure no one ever had a worse case of kidney and liver trouble than X bad. Before this I was always against pro prietary medicines but not now, oh, no." Friendship expresses itself in very peculiar ways sometimes; but tb> true friend is th€ friend in need. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. CHOCOLATE MERINGUES. Six ounces sugar, two and a half ounces choeolate powdered, three whites of eggs. Whip the whites very stiff, then lightly stir in the sugar and choco late. Hake them on a sheet of thin white paper in a moderately heated oven. CABBAGE SALAD. Boil the heart in salted water till tender, but not too soft. Then drain well, and set in a cool place, or on icc, first pulling the leaves apart so that no wet lurks within. Make a dressing with the raw yolk of an egg, a tablespoonful of salad oil, two tablespqonfuls of cream, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and a saltspoonful each of mustard, salt and pepper. Chop the cabbage, add to the mixture, and garnish with slices of to mato. GIBI.ET soup. Ingredients—Four sets of chicken gib lets or two of turkoy, one onion, carrot, turnip, a little parsley, a leaf of sage, a little lemon juice, two quurts strong chicken or beef broth. Cut up the veg etables, brown them in a stew-pan with a piece of butter thu size of an egg. When they begin to brown add a tea spoonful of flour and the giblets. Fry them quickly for a moment, watching them carefully that they do not burn. Now cut the giblets and put all into a soup kettle, with salt, pepper and the stock. Let the soup simmer for four or five hours, then strain it. Thicken with a little llour, aud add one of the livers mashed. Season highly and add the lemon juice. Pour into tureen over the yelks of hard boiled eggs, one for each person.— Cincinnati binquirer. BIRDSNRST PUDDING. Corn and peel enough tart, well flav ored apples to cover the bottom of a round porcelain pudding dish. Put about half au inch of boiling water in the dish with the apples. Cover them with a plate and set them in a hot oven to cook for twenty minutes. At the end of this time the apples should be tender ard nearly cooked and the water en tirely absorbed. If any water remains it should be gently turned off, but so as not to break the apples. Prepare an un sweetened custard of live eggs and a quart of milk which has been brought to the boiling point. Add the eggs to the hot inilk, carefully beating them in. Season the mixture with a saltspoonful of salt, .and pour it over the apples. It should cover them. Replace the pud ding dish in the oven without a cover, and bake the custard and apples till tlie custard is firm in the centre. The oven should not bo too hot.— Boston Culti vator. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Powdered ammonia is considered ex cellent for cloaning silver. Butter is tainted by any strong smell ing odor. Therefore it should be kept by itself. Have coffee pulverized. A third less will be required and the quality much improved. There is no economy in cheap soap. Get the best; when half the quantity will be needed. To cleanse knit and crochet articles rub in a pan of flour until clean and shake thoroughly. Camphor ice is made of one ounce of lard, one ounce of spermacetti, one ounce of camphor, one ounce of almond oil,one half cake of white wax. Melt all together and mix thoroughly. To set delicate colors in embroidered handkerchiefs, soak them ten minutes previous to washing in a pail of tepid water, in which a dessertspoonful of tur pentine has been well stirred. Creamed sweetbreads, creamed fish, chicken in cream sauce, and hot crab meat may all be served in paper cases. Each case should be placed on a pretty dish and served immediately after being filled with the hot mixtures. Newspapers soaked in water, then squeezed quite dry and torn into little bits should be sprinkled over a dusty carpet just before sweeping it. The pa per collects the dust, and tncre is no dan ger of it staining the carpet. -V gargle for sore mouth and throat i> to take four large spoonfnls of good cider vinegar, four of fyatov, a teaspoon ful of common salt,and a very small por tion of red or black pepper; gargle every hour. It is worth more than all the chlorate of pouish ic tha couutry and il cannot harm you. A Norelty in Bookbinding. A novelty in bookbinding is announced in the employment in it of metal as a substitute for cardboard. A special preparation is first necessary, and the leather may be bent and straightened again without perceptible damage, a course of treatment that would destroy cardboard covers. The metal is covered with any material that taste may dictate, and the finished book shows no differ ence in appearance, excepting in a greater thinness of the cover, which is always desirable.— Picayune,, The China Sea and the Bay of Fundy are the two roughesi seas in the world. Pure soap is white. Brown soaps are adul terated with rosin. Perfume Is only putin to hide the presence of putrid fat. Dobbins's Electric Soap is pure , white and unscented. Has been sola since 1865. Try it noiv. A TOWNSHIP is thirty-six sections, each a mile square. A Pretty Severe Test. We refer to one that has withstood the most rigid adverse criticism lor a period now ex tending over forty y«ut| «nd whioh lias oi>- tained for l)r. Tobias's Venetian Liniment the proud distinction that by its intrinsic value alone it has won the esteem of all who have ever used this valuable preparation. Truly it can be said of it: "Tried and not found wanting," and 110 wonder to-day it is regarded as the most wonderful pain destroy er ever offered to the world, and that it is adopted everywhere as a standard remedy for the relief and cure of the numberless ills to which humanity is subject. Clean, quick and ettlcacious x it has never 1 ailed to accomplish that which for many years it has been warranted. The word humbug cannot be applied to "Dr. Tobias's Venetian Liniment," as it has proved itself, and by its good works assuredly fixed itself in public contidence. Never b * without a bottle of it; vou will find it more than worth its weight in gold, for whom is there amongst us at all times free from the ills that tiesh is heir to. Lee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harm less in effect, quick and positive in action. Sent prepaid on receipt of SI per bottle. Adeler & Uo.,f>£i Wyandotte st.,KansasCity,Mo FITS stopped free by Dit. KLCXF/S (JURAT NERVR RESTORE it. No tits after iirst day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and J'i t rial ij )tlle free. Dr. Kline, Ml Arch St., Phil a., Pa. Reecham's Pills cure Sick-Headache. Life Is Misery To thousand* of people who have the taint of scrof ula in their blood. The ascoales caused by the dreai ml running sores and other manifestations of t.ils disease are beyond description. There is no r. medv equal to Hood's Sara iparilla for scrofula, salt rheum and every form of uloo 1 dUoai ). Wo know that has cured the severest easea and it will Oone.it all who give It a fair trial. "Scrofula bunches In my neok disappeared when Hook Hood's Sarsaparllla."—A. K. KELLET. Parle ershurg, W. Va. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Propared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mans. 100 Doses One Dollar RELIEVES INSTANTLY. EI.Y UIJUTiIKHS, 66 Warren St., Now York. I'riro CO I HHT 50e l N Y N C—44 . IIHUC f»TUI>Y. Book-Keeping, Business Forms MUITIC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, ■ I thorougnly taught by iIAiL. Circular* free. l)ryunt'n t olleuo, 457 -Main St.. HuilaiOi N. V. ■j g| %g Shlpnto N «". Scroll Maw, with Hull I I al ' extras, only <93. Latest and II *4# fcivn* I t»ost. Send for 32-page catalogue to Bhlpntn Bngina Mlk* i 0., R-oebeatfr. v. 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Maryland hunters were recently the! witnesses of a very singular occurrence! during a fox chase. They started thoi fox in a short time, and soon the bounds were in full cry. The fox kept up for several miles and then,being hard pressed, took to a hollow tree in the woods. Axes were procured and the tree soon felled. The surprise of the hunters can be better imagined than described when they discovered they had captured a dead fox. Further investigation showed that beea, which were in possession of the tree, had stung the fox to death in the time it took to fell the tree. When the dead fox was withdrawn from the hol low the bees began to, come after and made it warm for the hunters and their horses. They decamped as speedily as possible, some of them being badly stung. —Nete York Journal. A Planning Sense Of health and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Ftm as it acts In harmony with nature to eff ectnal ly cleanse the system when costive or bilious. 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