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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-12-14, Page 3ite 1tavi010 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