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anon a midnight dreary, ao I poudored
weak and weary
Ip sato 'oleany stupor caused by wora the
day before;
While I needed, neoely napping, suddealy I
hoard a rapplaa
-4114 of someotte loudly tea:pig,-tapping on the
— cellar floor.
es° 'Tis the gee meter," I muttered, "rapping
ineath tho c j1ai loor, a—
Galy this attd noting morei
distinetla 1eomember ! It was. in the
a.. bleak Wevembor,
And each separate flaming either only nado
my gas ein. more.
How I Lute a the to -morrow ! I still' think of it
with.eorrow,
?or 1 knear t leive to borrow—borrow to pay up
the score
-"For the vepirous gas still burning over uearmy
chamber doer --
Just the gas,and nothing more.
' Thoughts or times so duil and. dreary, on rater).
tion, made mo :weary—
.Mere weary than I think that I had ever felt
before.
, Bub that meter, still mticklug, kept on clicking
and. a-clic:king
' Till I alanost fele like kicking it clear through
, the open door--
, Through that dismal and dismantled, that
wide-open cellar (Icor—
just one kick, if nothing more.
But that meter, never tiring, never stopping,
. stilt is firing
'The biggest bine aD at ine that I ever saw be
And. the fire that's at me gleaming in the twi-
light has the seeming
r04 a demon that is dreaming of the bill that is
in store,
' Though the pein that it is causing makes my
heart reel very sore.
Will it stop? Ah, nevermore!
My Ideal.
When he shall come, the man I long to see,
The ideal of my hart, lthe cherished dream
a For whose reality I wait, I deem
W That he shall being a wondrous joy to me.
I ask not that his form have poi feat grace,
N'or that the symmetry of his dear face
Be modelled, tiaiviese, after God's first plan—
He may be strome as dome or baby -weak --
It matters not, so that his lips sham speak
In accents true and feeder, love to God and
man.
r So that his heart pulsate in tune with mine.
So that his soul be to air goodness given.
So that he know the way to nature's heaven,
reek) that the legit of. trete. in his clear eyes
shall shine— -
He shall rieo w ate the way all goodness lies,
And I shall find my heaven in leis eyes.
e
TWO LETTERS.
Serene arid cieucilmOir, like a glebe of mol-
ten gold, the Nevemher moon rose up from
among tlie Meilen: 'mode, touchingthe
eaves ef the old red -brick mansion with
tender limn ol "flight, re Caloott Brown
rained on the lo 4,eNb stop with Vieterla
sGrantai little hand in hie. Row hard it was
to sew good -he!
"And witen are •yen cerrang again 1"
reeked Vietorle, ie a low -opium
" Wheo shall I be sore ef a welcome 2" -
" Al amy a I"
He geve the little bend a farewell pree-
sum ea he relinquished hie held of is,
Vieteria wane back to the home to think
of CAPoott's ke 1 words, /bile Squire Gametal
deep ban neormg arena a seat in the cerner
kept up a eolernu unameerreat cel sorted.
Victerie Greet wee vo leager in her fiat
taaah of ginieli bainty ; in hien she was
past so, yes she as very lovely—a rose in
Me full, peefeot bloom, ratter neat a bud.
" I think he liken late," reused Victoria
aa it Meld or uteactnanly in ins to Walk
WA to the gate with him toirtight? Ought
"been bidden him gond-aye here Le the
curler! . Yet 1 &sett think be will ado-
eon:Arms my conduct, ler—I this* he
• likes 'rao."
And uacenscioeely, allneen to hereeIf, the
avveetest Mr ceetiee rare into her brain ; and1
tinto every ebitch of the falum koittleg was
wierght the pleasantest of flitting, unreal
heresies.
And what did Celoott Brown think, as he
was whirled tit:mega the's:limping moonlight
Leaulecapes by the tweift itnpoine of eteam 2
Ills thoughts were net very defiaine, to rain-
less the truth. Leaning beck en the velvet
mushiened 'seat, with folded areas and hat
• drawn down ever hie •eyee, he lived over
the lent few hoviee, seenatag once mere to
hear Victoria's low, wift venue, reed feel the
light band lying in his ewe,. And when the
• afar -hes -rind oonduoter broke in ripen the
delicieue throwi ot hie inurings with "Boyle -
villa," Caleett wocelenisi what hed become
• of the heuro. . .
" We've mad s pretty geed time, haveaib
we, coed:maw 1" he asked, stepping down
from the platform. .
" About au rieuei, Mr. Brown. I rather
geese you've been asleep, eh ?"
Asleep 1 Brown esentelly sooated the idea
•ran he stood battening up hie mixt load
watching the trate glide away like some
-orlon:none Breehreated serpent. Asleep !
• he had been in Paradiee I '
His cerriage was ready, with the swift,
alendenlanbed bays, and all the way home
' he still poielered on Vietfieie Grant's blae-
gway eyea. :
"11 she wore only waiting to welcome
• me ri Le exebilmed, half aloud, aa Mae car-
• riage stopped before tile loulo portico of the
• atately old Mimeo marinion on the hill.
• " Somehow, the plume never seemed so uti
. terly lonesome to me before."
The library fire was bureing cheerfully.
• Caloott &man eat down and kt,ezed thought.
frilly late the buraleg owns, without taking
.
•
ilk,... up e the pen bhei: lay realer to hie hated.
.
' Theee's no denying the fant—I'm in
love with that girl with the _gray eyen and
the peaebaareit cheeka 1 For I suppeae
when a fellow dreams`ot a Oat all night long
' Lama laminae nthent her., all day, it'a pretty
kodubitabie prima al' the tender pamion. To
•• ' think I ohould have 'lived to be 34 yearn old
• and iinally fell desperaiely bn lave
• "Why dian't I iisk her toiraight, when I
• stood there with her littie apple -blossom of
a, hand inanino ? Became) I was ecoward.
emeld les more have apolecti sub the ques-
tion nearest to my, heart: than I oonld have
• burst into an original Greek chorale."
He reit a few minutes in dreamy, thought.
silence-mthen drove the dents closer to
• lattn.• '
"1 will write to her 1 The words I could
nob speak in her actual prose/nee shall be
,emabodied o* paper, and (hue the moment -
Mei question baiL bo decided 1"
An when Mrs. Toes:tent !peeked at the
•,door tci enneance to her reactor that
supper was on the table, Mr. Co.loett
• Brown wars walking up emit down the room
in a very aerate said Whaled frame el
mind. ,
•
"lo Beyert down Stairs!, Mrs, Tennant?"
" I believe he is,
" Tell him to carry therm two lettere in
:the .peob immediately."
Yeis, sir."
• Mrii. Tennant leanued in hhe hall below to
• deeipher their direetions, with ell the earl-
• deity' of hex cherming sex,
Intim Plummer 1 That'n the Menthat
wank; the teestee to buy bile horse 1 •• Ikea
l'iTio-te-rate. Canna!' Who's IV/Ple 'Victoria
Crane 2 Well, I ithetad like to knew!"
• And =slog deeply, with many shakes of
• , her had, Mrs. Tennant delivered the lete
• tiers to Bryan.:
A letter
• "%Ideas Grant exatolnied the onpertiorip-
'thin And poriamerk, auct then eke ,Mole
aawdy to her own room, to read it 6.11 by
hereola ' '
• "H. hail written is tile," ehe murmured
"Ob, I weirder what he rays1"
Shelnake open theenote, and read it with
A cheek that first grow pale, and then fired
into hlattireg, buret:air eeladot i "
"1 Wish yea lio underitand, once for all,"
so ran the words, "that theta) iiii no riaa iii
any further interviewO between us. 'Your
decoying arta mid speoleue emocitlineed ore
of no avail, as tar es 1 eirM Concerned, and it
may save no both gone° unpleaeautuess if
you understand it at once. What oould in'
deco yea to mermen I care to peeeese a
orecitue o whoa) ago and appearance are
equally preperineetue 2 I trust Catenate will
do away with the noomitity of ray aiming you
again. Yours, eh:merely and frankly,
CA.T.Oorr B4owlq;"
Victoria dropped the note ao if it had
oesu
it thlog of fire. She did not shed a
tear ; she did nob relapse, womanlike;
into hyriterIce ; ohe only felt, poor oreature,
ao if a band of red-hot Irani were pressing on
her forehead, anti her heart were turned to
ice. '
The clear morning air was blue as simple -
ire, the grime wao silvered ever with hoer
freet, as Celcott Brown walked hate the
depot, his overcoat buttoned up ter the
ehroat, abeam') running against an eldeily
individual in meby garments.
"Bello, Squire 1 Gehl' to Brookfield?"
Mr. Brown nolderl otiftly.
" Weer, I was Pat mak& for your borne..
You raid you'd call and get the auswer, but
/ known my place a heep sight too web for
that, And it you'vereally teak each a dret-
MI foamy to the mare, why---"
" Confound the maul" irately excleimed
Mr. Brown, glancing at the depot clock.
" Wile on emote Wante your old mare? I
thought we had called that matter effec-
tually ?" .
" Why, 'lear rue, equiv.: Pm blest if I
koore whet you're talkie' about 1" saki
Das.° Plummer, ?enabling in his pocket for a
crumpled note and elowly settling a huge
pair of steel epeoteolea on hie nese. "Here's
your own letter in your own writhe, jest's
ratan as daylight. Priceleva treat:tun you're
gran' te az Ise ; 'long been wishbal ier it, ;
ihainai no oourage to plead far 't ; and
here you winds up by teliin' me you'll call
at my house at 11 o'oloolt this fucraia' to
gab my answer ; eo, ef comae, 1 puts en
my coin' and conaes over, to save you the
bramble ?''
The oeler nulled to Calaett Brown'a tam -
Mem as he enatched the hote from Isaac
Plummer's by saa warm lily white hand,
and hurriedly glaisced over ite contente.
Attie ! the horrasie stamina that hail slaot
tieroie his rated while the old mare was
priming over it wen bat too herreab ! The
note intended far Victoria Grant had been
sent to heap Ph:maser, the horse -jockey 1
"1 won't be bard with ye," field the old
man, taking it liege pinch of aheg bebaceo
between has grimy iingere mud thumb,
"you may have her fer $500, though ehe's
warth more'rf that, any day!"
"Fire and furies] l'' muttered Celina, aa
he though i: of the other horn of tite dilemma,
" was ever man }auk a blitel, Idiotic fool as
I have been 2 Here—a ticket for Brook-
field, quick I"
For elm whietle of the advancing train
wall already audible, and as he alining rapers
the platieem he :meld hear Ismail Plummer
bersaing after, him :
"Say $475, Squire."
Tile in -Wheat chryeenthemneas in the
garden nolded their glowing heath meani
ingly at him ars he walked up the paeh,
the Ounshine lay en the deem -atone,
namely, as he knookea on the old Iran
eagle'e head.
" aillea Grant—is :cheat lame ?"
"Miss Victoria is at home, sir, but she
bade me eity she svenlal receive ne company
to -day," Fetid staid old Hannah, eyeing the
gentleman distruetiully.
"1 must see her 1" weak:haled Calcott,
puehbag peat the old woman.
" Miss Victoria bade me say," begat t the
servant, but Galant waited to hear no more.
Tim next remnant he was fan) to face with
Vieteria Grant hernia
She had risen and stood with one hand
on the table, her face very pale, but cora-
posed.
" Victerla ! you will at Meat hear rae in
my 13/Via clefenoe ri
"1 have laeerd from you' Mr. Brawn,"
ehesald, frigidly, extendizegtowards him
the fatal letter.
He miught it /roma her hands and tore it
into a score of pieces.
"Thia note was never intended for you,
Vieteria '• it was written en busineas to e.
aurae evinihas long been annoying me ; it
was put into the wrong envelope. Whet
must you have thorigiat of me, Viotoria 2"
The color retterned once more to Victoria's
cheek..
1ii Your note was Very different," he
went on, " but perhapg it is better to tell
yen in words whab I have written in tap
colder medium of pen and ink."
And sitting clown beside her, with hoe
hand not withdrawn from LIU, Calcott
Brewn told her all.
"Yu Will be my wife, Vietarbe 2" he
asked:
" I will, Calcott."
Se ended tac remence of their Ilvse ; so
began the bright reality—R. II. K.
. The Maiden and the lienrelar.
Miss Cross, of Southwick, as to be corm
plimented upon her courage In critolaing a
burglar, sine Alfred Taylor, whom the orAW
in her bedroom in the middle of the night
It tireeld Sawn from her evidence that there
are der/rear of badnese even among burglars,
for eke volunteered the information that
thin obliging gentleman "did not eiruggle
or hurt her." There is a touch ef "Edwin),"
about this which almost redesma the dir.heristy of the man. Perhape, as Mrs.,
Bernett's sweet little heroine would have
• (malt he would not have been a burglar at
all he ha had "hed any advantages," He
might &We been a respectable outside
ateekbroker and done hie plundering whole-
sale and with safety.—Lady's Pictorial.
Grandma Was Shocked.
Grandma had net been to the drone for
many yeare, but the younger generation
prevailed upon her and she went to this
one, much againet her peinelplee. Grandma
den not appeove of eirouries and she watched
the performancewith ill -concealed perterba-
Oen, Presently there was a bareback pot
which ietredeced a masa and worn:era who
rode together in eamay and temoderful peel.
Vane. The aot ended in a burst a zip.
Dianna and latabelle turned te grandma :
• " Oh, gra:edam, waen't it grand ?"
" Perhepo it ware'? answered grandma,
severeiy. " That all I oat say iv, I hope
teley're married."—Boston Budget.
• A. nectar. angina
Ralalie--Ilave you seen Mr. Barlow
lately 2 „
Alay—YeS, he malls now about twice it
weak, and he's awfully convenient. '
tifsty Flower, how eao you
abarid him? He's to big and °limey, and
alwaye bragging about his weight.
Mity—Oh yes, that's just le. I've been
oolleetiog autumn leaves to prose, artd Mae
Barlow lies been very kind about them. All
the Weevils) hao been realtilag his call he eite
on tho book for Me, and the leaves are get.
tiogpeosited just beautifully.
• A Lewrenee (Ken.) mflktnen hao
erect milk for 27 eare. tie still delfts:WI
some ,peepie wine first': took rank feats.
Inna, :tad has woes). oat :filo , wagonti$ itx tiro
beeduese,
• MANNESTER SIR CANAL,
One• of the Greatest lindortakings of
• tho Present Century
TO BE OPENED ON TilURSDAY,
1140 Ili/story of the Work -011t119 fer Ito
fneeptiore Preperen lineldgee
That Are Unlque—Vhe Phint--lenenneue
lexcavation—The Piece Work Wotan—
nee Flgures—It Coat $75,
The great pro
Joel: of the Man.
chanter Ship Canal,
which will be
opened on Thurs-
day next, was filet
dot -handy propertied
In 1882, when two
engineers, E.
Lsreler Williams
and Hamilton Fah
ton, were %liked to
prepare plans for
salon an under-
taking. In Sep-
tember ef the f3ame year es committee of
Irlanohester citizens began a long, Parlia-
mentary fight with the (look trainees of
Liverpeol end with the railways. The oon-
attaott of the camel will hare a coneicler-
eble drool) exit the profits ef these !merman
and no the savages) wan a hard one. Twice
the eemparty was defeated, altheugh bunked,
by 38 municipal bodies, 91 inaal aoards, 31
chambers of commerce, 108 private Cern-
pfAtdea and many laudholders, Tee camel
advecatee aperat $600,000 in theao two hear-
ing% During the three-year parliamentary
struggle about $1,750,000 was spent by both
sides. Even whorl the legel eta Jult5r was
smoothed ever there were still two yeara of
deley, duo to bickering and interned
STRIFE AMONG THE PROJECTORS,
but at let, bit 1887, the Retinichilds and
Batioge put the enterprise on Mt finanoial
feet, wad a contraotor, Thema): Walker,
startled the actual work which ie nownearly
firrithea.
Thomas Welker was a remarkable man in
many respects. He not only made large
mune en his contraetra but he absci paid
geed wages, and looked out for bis men in
many material ways. When ho took held
of the work he divided lb into nine eectiens,
end gave be each an entirely independent
staff of agents, engineers Brad olerke'who
reported disease te the oeutral °face in Mane
cheerer. Than he put a small army of men
ea the work, there beteg over 11,000 In
1889. Many of them were old empieyeee ef
hie on other contraetia and the trust he
placed in them is shown by
THE "piaE WORK" SYSTEM
under which some el theta were employed.
They worked In gauge without) a foreman of
• tiaeir own; or from the oorstraotere and
divided their pay equally for the meaeured
work, ene man hem the gang reeeivina
grore amount for the work accompiithed, by
all, • Rich district was provided. with
vvoeden [tenses for the men and their famt-
lase hespitale and physiciane were engaged
aud micalesta and chapels founded by the
large -hearted oentractor. Hie working
• plane waS enermoue, He provided nearly100
• dredgers, steam shovels end excavatere, over
/50 locomotivee, several themaand cars for
UC in reeving the excavated naateriel read
other appliances too many te enumerate.
In all, his plant in estimated to have cost
him the enormoua stem of $5,000,000. After
he had perfected the organization of hia
finale and was beginalug to prase:ante the
work with the vigorous enthuotasni char:um
teristic ef the mart, he was taken sick and
died after a short filmes. Hie loss was a
seeloue one, ter to him the canal company
Wal greatly indebted. Since leis death the
work Imo beau mainly carded on by the
coraparay
• THE CANAL
s/arta from Eitathana, a point en the south
aide of the eetnary ef the Mersey River six
miles above 'diverges]. The firat section
runs for 12 anima along the estuary and
then nine militia inland, terminating at
Latchford, lettere there arelocks. Thesecona
notieu extends 7a miles to alarm, the third
twomiles to Barton, the fourth 3i
miles lo Mode Wheel, and the fifth la
miles) into Manchester, ef svhich Mode
Wireel toe ituburb. The total Meath of the
canel is 35i miles, and the total difference
between the average water level fax the
cane! at Eeethisce and at the dock e in
Mencheetor is soi feet. This difference is
equally dietrIbuted amiong the four tipper
sate of locks, making the lift at each -about
15 feeb 1 The total amount of ex-
oevaAen on the entire canal has been 46,-
000,000 cable 'yards, of which 10,000,000
yard() was eandetene reek.
EIGHTY MILLION CUBIC YARDS.
et material were dug away to form the Saes
Canal, Se miles !Gag, so that), per mile of
length, tbe work on the Manchester canal
has been heavier. The deepest cubbieg is
near Raiscorn, whore a depth id 66 feet) le
maintained for a short &mance.
Taking up the work more in detail, the
entrauce at Eastham iwe naturally, the fiat
part to examine. Here there are three
great looks side by side, &aligned to The-
cemmodate veoaela of all slam with the leash
waste of water in operation. They meaeare
600e80 feet, 350x50 feet and 150x30
feet reapsotively, and , are founeled
ea red sandstone, as are ali the ethers
ea the canal. The design of tho
group is rather unusual, an account of
special requirements to enable vessels to
enter from the Mersey, where there is at
tanner a rise in the tide of seven feet ovee
the ordinery level of water in the canal.
During suoh times the gates are open and
the water entere from the estuary. Jaet
before the tide turns the gatea aro shut, and
as the level of the river deka the water
partly (escapee through thefopeningemadefin
the pawpaws) et Ellestnero-Bort and. Runcorn,
and ie partly wad In looking at Eatathean.
THE LOCK GATEs
are of great obrongth and cleat, a stogie lea
ene ef the getes ab Eesthara eeeting se
rauch as a complete set Inc a look en the
Welland Ganal. Wooden gatea ate weal,
as him been the practice tit Seale Ste, Marie,
but while Col. Roe NMI )216 staff have era-
ploysd Norway pine, Mr. Williams has mad
greenbeert, imparted esprmielly for the
parpane from Demerara at a largo coot The
gates were framed and fiterd together in
iipeolal sheds, and, after each was examined
and approved, it was taken apart and car-
ried 'Aeneas:eel to the place whore it Wall 130
be lased, a prectice that atieme here/1y war-
ranted to our Canadian !demi of workmen -
Fillip. The • machinery for operating the
Otitis is correspondingly heavy, and oeMeti
freed the shepa W, G. Armstrong,
Miteholl 4 cio. At Easfileam steam pumps
feed° water lute a chamber trader great
preemie) to all parte of the looks Where
power is required!. •
All the look anti deck Wells are builb ef
ernorWe With
GRANITE 011 resseseeene ootiespe
es tee esiter line Where einem might strike,
and to leolug of labile above thie belt The
OeMelliP Oiled Wee reqUired to Send pretty
nlgbL oite, and Wa11 rniXed With "and and
grovel inte a connote Oolneomed ef abent
eight parts of the latter a:littera:tie for each
part of cement Where tbsr oanereto vfm
used in the !ace of the work the materlida
Were Mixed in the' ratio of four to one.
Whatever may bane been the proportion%
the content, send and gravel were mixed
tiOgether in 4 dry saint on it platforw, then
sprinkled a:deb olear Meter by Moans el a
waterlog pot, and the whole mess well
kneaded up. 'Plaiting *nigh:teem have in-
speoted thereafter' of walls made in this ways
and are practically uneanimena in praiaing
the work in whioh 1,250,000 culica yard, of
conorete were used.
The firot levels)! the canal la 21 mile)
long, as before mentioned, and la largely
operated by Masan of the water admitted to
le at Eartbam during high tide. Part of it
is formed en
ENORMOU• S anearnersunas
whiela rest against ale:rely driven piles alt
their bane, in platiee were the feendation to
sandy. At Rename it sea wall of concrete
• heti been built; from this point to the kicks
at Latchford the canal lies inland mad WA a
minimum width at the bottom of 120 feet
and it mean depth of water of 26 feet. Ab
Warrington there are to ho docket with 23
acmes of water epee° and a quay frontage of
la miles. The largestatream Farming under
the tint level of the oanal is the River
Gowey, for which 'two out iron pipes, each
12 feet in diameter are laid through the
embankment on which thief part of the canal
is built up in separate neat:loam each an Moi
thiok, which aro bolted together and then
covered with concrete. The bottom of tbls
culvert where it passes under tixe ship cesnal
is fully 50 feet below the surface of tis ad-
joiniag ground.
AN ENGINEERING FEATURE
et this portion of the work, ancl ene of
which the utility can be readily auider-
19 the ,provision made for the samara
of the surplus water entering from the
higher leash] and the tributary rivers.
Sluicas! are provided at meret pkicee the
largest number, 10, being at the reseal of
the River Weaver. These alnico:la are
wrought iron abutters or doors, moving
vertically in grooves formed in masonry
piers, mad are previded with rollers and
counterbalances, so that their operation by
hend is an easy meteor. The shutters are
made to inn up to each a height as to en-
tirely clear the enrface off the water, lerivhag
epenhigs 30 feet wide and of the full depth
required. This apparatus has been eirengly
reeommendail by engineera of the Canadian
Government for nee err the =mato in that
country, LIB le is particularly adapted for
looalitiee subject to floade.
Abeve lataltiord the canal receives add
the surface drainage of the Irwell and
Mersey rivera anl other tributaries. The
surplus waters of thin region hitherto found
their way alowly along the winding mamma
of the abreams to the estuary, perroclicaliy
flooding large areas of land along thetr
margin. Now the comparatively etralaht
and deep canal will carry off the water more
quiekly, and the provision of shakes hao to
be particularly ample.
THE ENGINEERING FEATURES
of the canal are chiefly renarirkable for
magnitude. The Maricheater raid Salford
decrial, for example, have 114 acres of
water area, 152 eines of quay°, mad ago of• of milee, mad the smaller dock
arreae along the line of the oaaal will foot
up to ouch an enormous total that it is no
ovender the Merchants of Liverpool are
looking forward to dicabantiou of owns
mere° in that port. - iThe opposition of the
railways, after parliamentary eanctlere had
beam given the undertaking, did not dimin-
ish, rued to sedgy the varlone clabme of the
companies seven bridges and lla miles of
the best kind of teach had to be built) to re-
place old lines tendered useless by the
nasal. Moreover many highway bridgee
had to be built, many of thorn of some
magnitude, rind a swinging aqueduct, the
latter it remarkablepiece of werk. The
structure replaces one of the limo= pleees
of eugineering of the last century, ?le
, aqueduct constructed in 1761 by Jameo
Brindley to merry the Bridgewater ceenal
over the Irwell canal.
• THIS NEW BRIDGE
is a swing structure, reableg on a concirete
pier in the °metre of the seip amide Thee
difference iu level between the eurfeces of
the water in the two canals Monty about 28
or 29 feet. The new loridge terno an a arz-
tem of rollers and is operated by a three.
cylinder high!presermo water engirt° and
reek and spur gearing. The making up ea
the ends of the evvinging portion with the
Ether° ie effeeted by, dropping a wedge-
shaped collar faced with India rubleer into
theme:tee between the &mei faces of the
fixed and movable ends. Whenever it is
noised to open the bridge to allow a vessel
to pan on tire ship maned below„ step gateee
are plaited on each end of the nit:ringing
aqueduct and able Mt each there end of the
canal. The water between meth pair of
Wee to then pernped out and the gators
preened again:re their Beate. The vvedge-
ehaped collare are Med out; and the bridge
is eveung open.
THE TOOLS AND MACHIN -MY
employed in the construction of the canel
deserve mention, as without thern the un-
• dertaking ovoid not have her; married out.
• First, there is the railway laid sileo,g the
whole course of the canal atal in many
planes en both sidee. lengeo, Added to
that laid fa the bottom of the cantil and
now remove is 228 radices et single lino.
The rails weighed 56 ponnds per yard, end
were laid on crests -Wee, the total mica el the
track aveeaging about $3,100 it rade. Tao
road and its rolling etoek, 170 odd Iszerne-
tivee and 6,500 ours, is en a larger sca4e
than sonao of the regular Engliels rallwaym
The. machinery used in excavating coins
prises several forme of buckets datdgeo,
eteana ehovele end clam -viten &et/pa or
"grabs," as the English call therm Tee
letter consider ef it number of shovele
hinged together and hong from the' mad of a
chin ench a way that when they
the eurface to be exeavated tbey are epee,
but as they. meipelled up again the theireare
come together pet as a Warn closes Me gareil,
and dig up more or lees earth, nc) pinta)
hereon from the end of a oratee, by vehich lls
le moved 'horn piece to plasm and lifted turf*
the car into width the earth &leered. In
suitable) Boil ill tile Menoheetee Camel ono el
them applaances would exesivate am much ea -
300 CUBIC YARDS IN nine nouns,
but they were ,aot a eueeeide where the
ground wee heevy. The Meson ohovele
were quite heavy and of eevoral makeo. This
kind moot used had it bucket) en :shovel
laoldirag outdo yards so that two alievoli
fide were oreffielent to'fill ine holding 41
cubic yarde. The abovel was oell-prepol.
Ung but required a heavy traek, comb
alleilt $6,000, and ,drig einem se muolit as
2,000 cubic: yards in top beam where the
eareh Welt favorable, although fram 600 te
700 yarde is the average &Meant handled in
that time. The bucket dredge] are of two
typso, thee° need on lend and them afloat.
Who latter typo is familiar,. being /Brady
treed on Govekrunexit work in this coontry.
It eenolitts et a isinsw en Which *hero is si
etosea,plant driving an, eadteas ohain, to
whieh batikete aro attacheitil. The einsin
rime sworn pulley et the eud of a keine,
and by loWating this ;ranee to the hek4MM,
ha a
whero. the elredgIng fe_ te be done* is
obrookysett uarprionfore4bratztehttlatoe etherteir#4:141011
tholn. The Iand dredgers are quite 410
ene. They employ a chain with bnehe
attached, but there the resemblance
tween the two types ende. The land dyed
cenobite ole heavy ear, carrying the belle
and engines necemouy tio propel the Ind
affair and operate the chain and bnoke
The on runs on it heavy track Nod& b
channel Where the excavation le M go
mitt the boo/rens out &wily the earth at rig
angles to and on one gide a the) trao
The earth ereavated by the bueltebs to di
charged at the top of the mating into ema
cientracteee' cora*,bIt whiele Ib bi remove
On tim Manctheeber canal there were tw
lYiePreminaeni, ttlehaelle/adrilbcedrgetelnim; Iroroliauldhora:did eth
Emotion, .
Roughly speaking, this great canal has
coaa $75i000.000,
or about $2,100,000 a mile. It la now
practioally oomplete except for email
amemats of, dredging. The Wearingten
docke are net finished, and probably will
not be for mune time, but thim part of the
undertakieg la nob do nem:eery to Its inie.
aces res the portiere now completed. X'reen
Ovally the aerial la one beg deck, and it la
eat:beetled that one-fifth of ate pepulatien of
Englend are nearer to the amid than any
other ocean citeamer port. The last three
and a half miles at the Manchester end have
been widened fifty feet, &lag a betel
width of 170 foot, and the entire
frontage here la weed ao otnetinueno
quay. The rise and pregame of the
eaters of Soiltporta an the line of the °anal, is
emetarkable, and les brief history reade like
that of a Olierok.ce bele eity. Eighteen
months ago it did riot (Milt, even in name.
Now amoeba arrive conotantly from Arnern
cm and European parts. Regular lines of
etes,mers seal to Leaden and Glaegow with
cargoes of Pilanoherster geode. (The trade isi
largely in lumber, of which emeiderable
quantities are etacked On the wharves or
float la the " blather pond." At Elleamere
port in a dry dook 300 feet long. The entire
berth accommodatien at the Gernbrook
docks, wleich are iritentied for Iriah and
coast trade is alreedy taken up. The
bertha nt tbite Seaford end Pomena quays
are also being rapidly taken. The difficulb
arid derigerene werke for the embankment
between the canal and tbe Manley at Run -
cora, extending over about about two !miles,
are now completed after 14 menthe of hard
work.
• Alneareati ea' Hoswewediaarn.
Solute Maxims Ameraded and Brought t
Date.
I am engaged, wenn " Linkmen" in Lon-
don Truth, upon a truly moninnerital work;
le as lesa a matter indeed than the
" Arratueny of Heavier:liter."
Oi recent years the world lase undergone
so coneidere,ble cheese that it ROW
neceSeary to revise al/ Gm fermer prejudieszt
aud principles be adapt there to the purely
commeecial conditiome of toiday. This in,
then, my excuse fer offerlez to you the fol-
lowing, emended axioms from my prepesed
new work
• 1. AU the world's it stank exchange.
2. Ali are nem hespiteble who entertain.
3. Give and you alien be reeeivech
4. Your money or your wile.
5. All the guesta at " smart" diener
nareethineogd.—good for something or good for
6. A mania fieture fa ilia effice—h1c office
bis home.
7. When the promoter coulee bit at the
door, prosperlay Leaps out of the window.
8. What is apeenistion for the public is
peculation for the broker.
9. A "grants "geese makes] a fat heat.
/O. Bail companicree deetroy good com-
pany.
11. Pot good thiage into yew: guesteat
night, and they will poe into your " goed
chimp " ira the maxehrg,
12. Every dodges hae tte day.
13. Poverim breeds contranpt.
/4. One lever maker/ many.
• 15. Don't run away with, wore than yen
can marry.
16. A "emelt " arlae le worth it coronet
to a rich linehattel.
17. Let no prey,.
or.
go
kY MU/ DYED HEE ,TEOUDODAU EDAM
tn.
AWFUL 11USUAIID
panked Xis 'Wife on Rer
riage Right
re`ntatike it Semeanon.
The lateet idea ef a well,known
inilIlon-
abne is a jeweled tamale.
About it manta ago thie niffltorinfro
walked Into so jewelierie place with a cram -
mon lend nerds or tortoise, 'which he had
captrared ha the weoSa near by, Reid it on
Usa earanter, and gave re meet mitionishing
•ordere reireigrking "I'll give the people
eomethieg be talk about."
And he certainly did, for ite ordered the
shall ef the Verde to be incruated an the
eater edge with it lacavy lager of gold
cn estrurmen &dela Int the .oentre of ita
bonny bitch he ordered an emerald ire be
Owed.
At various painin in the shell he had in -
Emitted vocal but rare diomende. A massive
silver chain woo attaohed bus the shall.
At hlo magnificent °pantry rant the er-
ratic millioestire bed conetructed on his
lawn a reproduction ha smoke, buehes and
amen of tho• epot frem which the tortotae
had been taken. is thie place, which the
rich scan called a "turticariuto," the highly
deeorated reptile le permitted to ream the
&math of Me silver ehairt.
The neighbors are now awaiting him to
have the borne of hla cattle gold -plaited, his
berues shed 'with silver and die:mead drone
pieced in the ease of hie foamy pige.—St.
Louis Globe-Demon:a,
Worvicee. In olden Times.
It le tionaliy considered a noteworthy
clreumertatice for a, men or a woman to be
married throe Wince, but in olden times the
nerriber would have been little thought ef.
St. jererne mentionri a widow who married
her two:sty-neared husband, who in his
turn had been' married to twentyitwo
wivere, A woman teemed Elizabeth Mast,
who died at Florence in 1768, had been
married to veven hueberader, all of whom she
exalt. ed. She mtereited the Int of the Seven
at the age of 70. When on her deadebed
bbs recakied the geed end bad points ef
eaoh of her htiobande, and, having impar-
tially weighed them ha the balance, oho
eingleed eat her fifbla opeuse ee the favorite,
and eletibtese Isar reinaine might be interred
neer
she atatneed Iaroretaation.
itiale the Minim of information?" said
Mere bleddergre,se to the clerk at the
World's F.Or gvelvalc " Yen, ma'am."
"Theis X wadi you'd tell me where Silas is.
told that del man of mine he'd got lost, an'
tow he ham gene ete done ih,"
Ate. Item ler neglected Nevem.
Valera an outclaseed rival throwera alien:
after notrioninarriod (Maple juat ?stetting
off 'en thole wedding , jeurney' he ilhould
al*ayebs exteemeay cerefal that he disetin't
aim itt at this swoon.' •
"1 Omni Pll cluib,44 Said it boy who wee
acre/dug itparch at a inatket floh-istand.
Pee. timed of &log butinesa usa snide Ohioan
settle." "
Seintiel Gilbert grm up hie wait bo the
Beaters Stesek needier:to to labs Sou latiti Sat-
urday atter a otorabetship itd ittios.nine
yore.
ABLE and crop,
le no the on4W.
xeeturning in the
life of Mrs, Mace
Arthur, ef Ne. ifi�
Bull street, Bnieire
lyn.
Um. kliscArtluin
appeared yeatere
day morning inthil
Cla b ea Avenue.
Pollee Court fairly framed in grief. Her
Where atria by her side,
inaree menthe monied, she warded it
warrant for the eirrest of her husband, Free
fewer Daniel MacArthur, who give! timid°
lemon% The charge is assault, Having
listened. to her tale of sables), se it might be
oallede Patfoe aftwitioe Connelly gave her ths
wuranie. and Mr". MacArthur returned to
her mother. Men Lunch, of No. 2,287
Pacific attend], Brooklyn.
Attltsngit nixie sad story Is a came er
inother-in-liew, it is the funniest eaSir any-
one ever hoaxed of, inaseesseh as mother-in-
law inne,tattly dead, but has been dead fen
twenty peers.
Little termablem Mrs. MacArthur put urs
with, ma, Ltits r. Mro. Breir Rabbit, said
nothing: On thole wedding night the pre -
fewest, abn frays, set the Rimier their future
happliesite hygivbng his little 18-yeur-old
wife a &Abet:ate, faithfuliy administered
epaultharg, la was it sad disappointment to
Alna. ItteArthar, whe had looked forward
to Um nuns tender treatment from her hos,
hand that she bad received from her fend
perenta. But she accepted in not only
them hat eften, ehe mays. It was only when
the proferxiscr invented a new torture that,
she rebelled against it. When it came
down
to the point where he notonly iodated
that she men go into mourning fer his long
dead molter' but the blackesb kint
of mournitgtrapping' at that, then
she was angered all the way
through.. She mew find one and
then another of her fine new wedding
galena dipped in the dye pot. Nob figura-
tively, raked you, but liberally, those deli-
cate wham end blues became the grizzliest
of brackm Probebly, too, they talmank
fearfully aRearrugh she did not mention that
ha her compliant. They always do. 33nt
dyed they wenn, and dyed she heal to wear
tb.enatainaill a few days age, when she net
only reset:Wad, but reairited like a woman and
it tectiotere with, the aid of it breematick.
Sbet hied threatened to leave the preleasor
andretern to her mether. This threat, she
erma, the profaner resented forcibly, and
these oho protected. herself.
Of al. reeults of that encounter Mrs.
MaeArthur a evidently net aohamed.
Having a dbetegreeabie role to play as the
wend then turned, sae played it with en-
thuellierm Urea rho went to the Inane of
her &Mead, lereving the peofessor in charge
of theft:: apartmente. Court P4)110001=1.
Janne Maoris is haelsiog for him now for the
puepeas of aarving the warrent.
Welvel HIT vcrieBre.
illuoils.oZ Ed Now /Teed in Making Veleta'
Telfroir..
The haudeeme velvets celled velours
:mimic afro their depths and riohnesa
textnee te a by no means insignificant
mann& of woollen worked up into their weft
end warp. Et would be almost impossible
isa obemirt it dueller effeet witIm c.11 silk, and
cede/stay not witho et double the expenditure
of WM?' 33.,,atarial. Formerly it was necessary
to give 85 end 67.9 it yard for a really effective
velvele, mill new $3 will purcbase a yard et
velours solrair altegether superlorin appear-
ance end hardly it whit more heavy.
Meal:ref ate egaretivelvets—the embattled
end Welded mobeete—intended for the moat
part fee miter garmente, are either inter-
woven with woo' or cottonmore often the
latteta—Bry Geode Economist,
•ataao nest Food.
bbnPorton ?cafersor W. 04 At'ilate,O
claims the knee feed in the liatiria UMW'
whit* is mid evb the highest price is rarely
• the mese cam:roman! fee people in health.
The foot that Pe best fitted to the real
went& of the neer may be the very kind
which auppilee the most nutriment at the
lowest Meta Round dealt at 15 cents a
pound conitaina es muoh protein and energy,
le ant met digestible and be frilly au nutri-
tive ea teaderlein sit 50. Mackerel him at •
high nut:tithe value as siderieta and coats
from an eighth to half as much. (Oysters
are a dello:toy. If one war afford them
there la um rears= for not having them, butt
25 coat tweeted in it pint would bring only
29 grams, about an ounce, of protein ancl
260 ealiwiewalt caorgy. The mane 25 cents
repent far fie= at $6 it barrel, or three cents
o petande simula pay far 420 grams of
protein and 13,700 caleriee of energy.
When it Caw laborer buya bread at n cents
31 pound, the [Aetnat nutritive material oases
him Minna Samos as much au it does hie em-
ployer, who buys it in flour at $6 a barrel.
Ono Screamed mad One Didn't.
TV3333 young married nava in the Salem,
excuretere to Newport laet week played it
rather astieet joke on their wives Before
entering the long tunnel at Elk City eech
was eitting with the other's wife. They
egrared tie exchange seats in the long tunnel
and each kin hie own wife. Web, they did
as agreed. One of the young wetnen
rierenaned tereibiy end attracted the atten-
Mon of the whole car, and all had a hearty.
baugh nt hee expense when the light broke,
bit upon her, resisting fiercely and in her
huabiturre axing. The other one kept per -
feebly stf11, and she end her huaband had it
geed, laugh en eaoh other when the lights
broke en them. She.eaid she did not know
hut whist it • WWI her husband and did not
want fee give It away if it was net.
Mary to Gest Oneself in Thankrat Mood,
If yurtu find it iOW minutes of leis:are hang.
I g b21y ea year hentle it will be just as well
to releesc the ennui by stepping over to a
clectertact and getting vandriated.
"Me, Mote" ocass rilizzem to an old
• cola:toil men ; 0yuso are from Virginia. I
• wish you would tell me what these words
mean in this Virgissia dialect etery.."
" Mbar heard no doh worde as dem in elle
• Vieglinsy, hew," replied Milk, after five
anfnutes' atudy.
"Theree a mom," said Smith to Jean
dividing attention to a person pestling dewn
.the, strecot,, fithereits a man who hoe deco
some geed !a this world." 4' Ali 1 itideetai""
maid Jatees; "to he a Concord pinion/eller/4*
*411o," repited Smith "he hes invented*
sere Outs for chilbleiria."
Geed Sairowitati—Don't you know better
• than tee drive that poor hong° tip hill -ear
feett tri.Tentior--Up bill, is it? Ohe
bagmen1 the gag's blind arid he can1 rise
Alt , I
1.01.ples—Tesgrist—Thrt,t's Vouvirer,
tweeItt is Peilseanan—Yex,
*y:0%111 Agm,skYme, the ;text ereptieu 'will