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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-6-29, Page 7JUNE 20, 18 )4 LOOKS VERY FEASIBLE, FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND RY TUBULAR TUNNEL. A Napoleonic r'rrdeet to Join the 'rive (101uttt'lea by a'rune Curler the. Strain, of Hover --Trains le he Drawn 11,3, N.l.tu, arse eocentoieves, Another scheme to join England anti F.ranoe ie receiving odour' cotiaidoretion In time countries, It is 'powered - to build a. double tubular tunnel unser the Semite of Dover. The old scheme of build- ing a tunnel under the bed of the eea. Which has been advocated by Sir Edward Watkine for years,never received the sanotiou of the British Parliament, because many oonservativ'e Englishman believe such n oonetruetion would facilitate an invasion of their island by the vanquished of Water- loo, eatieeeo Cam rRaloce M,41' 9HOw'1N0 THE DIRIFCTION Oa THE Tu:r'y it It had also been propelled to bridge the straits. The latest plan has the support of Sir Edward Reed, who is a member of Parliaments and has been: Lord of the Trea- sury and Engineer.i n•Chief of theAdtni'ral- ty. It has been received with favor by a large number of members of Pediment, and therefore seems to have serious chances of success, and the more so that it avoids the • di&ieulties and objections that were urged against its predecessors. The project aimless in simply submerg- ing, between a point of the French coast situated in the vicinity of Cape Gria.Nez and another on the English coat located between Dover and Folkestone, two tubes that would constitute two absolutely separ ate tunnels, each serving for the passage in one direction of trains drawn by electric locomotives. Referring to the map it will be seen chat the configuration of the bottom in this part •of the chant el presents on each aide a regu• lar declivity that ends in a gentle slope ata ine of greater depth. The soundings made nt distances of a mile apart gave as euccee- ive depths, starting from the English coast, S2, 88, 88, 95, 98, SS, 98, 138, 160, 184, 174, 17,5 100, 13e, 98 and 82 feet. Ie will be seen, then,hat the moan slope of each tunnel wouldlnot much exceed 0,08 nob to the foot. There' would, herefore, be found excellent conditions for traction. The tube would be of steel plate with double walls, and the intervening apace would be reinforce') by 1 beams and filled inwith concrete. The putting in place world be effected by someone of 300 feet, hermetically sealed at each end and floated to tho place where they were to be sub. merged. One of the extremities of the section having been fixed upon a sort of caisson that will afterward perform the function of apier, the caisson is weighted so as to cause it to sink. The other extremity continues to em- erge, and receives theend of the following section the junction being made by huge binges. The caisson of this section is sunk, and so on. When all the sections are in place, the formation of the joints is begun. CO]in:0 TIIR000II THE TCEE. Sir Edward prefers to sink the sections of the two tubes simultaneously in prop- erly cross -bracing thein, iii order to form a Bort of rigid girder that wouid present much greater resistance to traneverae stresses. The caissons forming piers are designed to support the tubes at a elieht distance from the bottom of the sea. 70his arrange- mentposeeeeee the double advantage of doing away .vith any preliminary dredging, since it will be possible to give the piere the height necessary to avoid the slight, changes r,• s MOSS SECTION OV THE TIMES, of level of the bottom and of assuring a free circulation of the marine currents be. neath es well as above the tubes. It pee. mite, besides, of so regulating the eyetem that the upward thrust partially balances the weight of the trains in each seotion. Theatregoers to which the tube will be enb. mitted by the fact of such patoage will be diminished by so much, and therefore,muah better oonditione of resistance will be ob. tabled that in anerdinary bridge, ' CR099 SECTION O1' THE NEE, The nee of two distinct tubes will prevent all chtuces of ecoidente, and, will have the great advantage of realizing the important problem of the aeration of the tunnel, with. out any expense and in as eatlefactory a manner ns possible. Iv fact, each train will havo somewhat the e6'eot of a piston that forces the vitiated air before it and solo in pure air behind it to take the plane of the former. The total cost of the installation of the Obeli le estimated by Sir Edward at 975,., 000,000, wltioh is less than half the cast anticipated by Messrs, Schneider and Her - gent for the construction of a bridge echoes the channel. MURDERED EY A CANADIAN. ftedrelo'a Eo'(1iiy Clerk 991101 Pews by Georges 111arlI'QI"mew el' ! le*erir, OHO. ."111H6 4lurdtal'er Surrenders. A Buffalo dospatob eays t-Ex•City Clerk William le. Delaney, it prominent lawyer, and Democrat politioian, was ebot in hie apartments over the Gold Dollar saloon abeut7 o'clock on Thursday night by George A. 13ariholomow, aged 26 years, of Victoria Ont. Two women and amen were in the roost at the time of the shooting, and up to midnight the police had not captured or identified any of them, At that hour Bartholomew walked into No. 1 Police Station and gave himself up. He told the police that cue of the women in the room at the time of tiro shooting was Ifo wife and the other's identity would be made known before morning. Bartholorhety re. Need to tell the police why he shot De. Laney, butit is supposed that he followed hie wife to the latter's rooms, where he ear• priced the trio. Bartholomew told the superintendent ofpolice that he would have nothing further to say until the time to cit. gage counsel, The building where the murder occurred is in the most prominent part of Main Street, and the street was crowded at the time. Delaney's room was on the fourth Noor and to the rear o} the ;building, so the Shot was not heard on the street. George Alexander, a bar- tender in the saloon, heard the report of the revolver and ran to the foot of the stairway. As he reached it a man with a revolver in his right hand came flying down the stair. way. He struck the bartender a blow that knocked him back into the saloon, put the revolver in his pocket and walked into the street. There he disappeared and the police were unable to find anyone who saw hint after he ate peed into the attest. This man was Bartholomew. _Delaney was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where it was found that a bullet had entered the right side and passed almost completely through the body. Death occurred within 10 min- utes after the shooting. oting, TRIED TWICE TO SUICIDE But Was Prevented Each Time-Exeltinn 8cen0 at Port Credit. A Port Credit .deep"toh eey.:-Great excitement was oeeuaioned here Saturday forenoon by the attempt of a man, who was apparently out of h's mind, to commit tui eide. The stranger, who was reap. °tab e looking and about flu years old, was s en by some Grand Trunk railway men to stret h himee f flat across the tracks rear the station and p'aee his neck on one of the rails. The Railway employes at one raa to his aid ar , du11ed him off. Releasing him- self front they, however, he ran ashore' ie - once and jumped into the Credit river, where he almost tuceeeded in drowning hime 1f. He was regio .ed by a sailor named William Hare, an expert swimmer. The stranger was un onacious whe 1 brought to land,and several men, includingDr,Srttton, of Cookeville, worked ever trim several hours before he was brought around. He was taken in ch,rge by Constable Sharpe. Papers found in his po ket would indicate that the stranger's name may be Rowes, and that he is from Hamilton, and was a driver for 8, McGill . Sono. The man was ai le to explain that he bad a wife and five chiler.n, that ho had nothing to sup- port them with and that this fact had led him to attempt suicide BISMARCK'S DEBTS. Itis Aerrs Are. Teu Thousand, Rut the Mortgages Amount to $7s,00s. Nobody in Germany has felt the evil effects of the agricultural depression more keenly then Nae Prince Bismarck. His enemies say that in this fact lies the reason for his bitter opposition to the Govern aunt's policy of reducing the grain tariff by treaties with Russia, Austria and the Balkan States. To persons who have read of the mogul -lone presents given to Bis- marck by the old Emperor it has been a surprise to learn recently that his estates are heavily mortgaged. His present from the old Emperor atter the Austro.Prussian war of 1860 was .88300,000, ani with this stmt he bought his place at Yarzin. After the Franco-Prussian war he received from the same hands the Saxon forest at Friedrich- sruhe, valued at 9750,000. He inherited the ancestral estate, at Sehoenhaneen. On April 1, 1835, Bismarck's seventieth birthday, his admirers throughout the world gave him that portion of the .Schoenhausen property which his father had been obliged to sell when times were hard. The money Mee of the gift was some 9400,000. Bismarck is ales a distiller, a forester and the owner of a large brickyard. Despite all these advantngee, however, }mho found it impossible to lift the mortgagee, amount. ing to about 9750,000, which have incum- bere 1 hie estate for runny veare. Of his gross income more than 932,000 must be devoted every year to paying the interest on his debts. The burden is not agreeable to the old Chancellor, and he has often remarked to his friends recently that his ambitionto leave an unincumbared property to his children would never be gratified. T}IE HOUSE COLLAPSED. The tardy Ir,i1 o Owned the teunding was Killed, rind n Younginjured. A St. John, N. B„ despatch Bays :- About daylight on Monday morning a policeman an Waterloo street heard a oraeh, and, going in the direction of the sound, diaoovered that a small three•etorey wooden house had collapsed and fallen in a heap ofruina. He rang the fire alarm and the firemen got to the spot io a few minutes and set to work to get outthe occupants. Three families, numbering eight persons in all, lived in the house. With soma difficulty all were got out but one, Mies McCormack, a lady of 30, who, with a younger girl, slept in a room on the lower hat, wits found to be dead, 'The young girl was not seriously hurt. Deceased wits owner of the house, which had been 'propounded in a dangerous condition some time ago, Caught the Idea. Toachar-"' He who would raie must first. loon to obey.' ])o you understand that l" Bright Boy (reflectively)-" I s'poee that means that a man ought to get married before he begins teaohin' school." Broad nails belong to gentle, nervous, bashful people. 3311 7$$1L$ POST, ROAD THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS OOING ON IN THE 1+0UII CORNERS OF THE QL013E, um Old New wood hvente or Interest ChroIlleled itriell.y-IIItereetlt(g flap• penilige ar 11Ceerlt hate, Japan's orown prince le 14. Emily Faithful smokes oigµre. Jules Verne's real name is Olehewitz. Taileee eats with purple eyes are common in Slam. Paper'steokings are the latest novelty in Germany, Good wine in France Pelle as low as 10 cents a quart. Great Britain uses four time as mob cocoa now as in 1852. The King of Portugal hoe given Lisbon ayoliste land for a track. Welainghum, Eng., claims to be the healthiest place in the world. The total area of laird aorl water 113 the United Kingdom is 77,799,793 sores. About forty tone of letters daily pass through the British genera} poet -office. There are almost four tinea as many Americana living in England as there are in France. e. The authorities at St. Paul's cathedral, London, have decided to introduce the elec. tris light. Gambling .debts are recoverable by law in France, Spain, Venezuela, and sometimes in Germany. Potatoes are most greedily devoured in Germany, where the people eat$280,000,000 worth every year. The king of Portugal could sell the jewels in his crown for 86,500,000 in a case of a financial stringency. A bull ring will Il bo established in the of Mexico,the proleat having been approv. by the City Council. Students in Constantinople are forbidden from frequenting theatres, music halls and similar ar public places. The Crown Princess of Denmark is a royal " highness" by native as well as by birth -being six feet three inches tall. German editors receive an average of 86,71 salary per week ; proof.readers, 95,22; compositors, 93,96 ; the devil gets 91.42, The French Government has paid over 400,000 francs indemnity for the massacre of Italian workmen at Aiguee-eforte last year. The ticker telegraph is being introduced into many big apartment and flat houses in London by the owners for the benefit of the tenants. John Hill of Derby, England, is thought to bo the oldest living Oddfellow. He is needy 91 years old, and was i itiated in the Order in 1833. There are 28 institutions in Russia celled technical railway schools for the special education of people for all branches of the railway service. The Duchess of Cleveland is such an enthusiastic botanist that she has gone to Cape Town in eearoh of additions to her superb botanical collection. The Queen has presented a pair of hand. someand costly silver kettledrums to the regiment of Prussian dragoon of which she 1s honorary colonel. Sarah Bernhardt has earned and spent inore money than any other living actress. In the last twenty years she has eari,ed fully 82,000,0:10, and circulated it with the extravagance of a princess. The navigation of the Dead Sea isthe latest step in Oriental progress. The Sul- tan has two sailing boats there, oue for freight and one for passengers. Though Western Australia is nearly nine times the size of the United Kingdom, its population is estimated at only 59,710, with 10,000 more males than females. There hes been an improvement in the linen trade of Great Britain with Spain ane Germany, but with France and Italy there has been a considerable decrease. It is said of the fur seal of Alaska that there is noknown animal on land or water which can take higher phys:eel rank or which exhibits a higher order of instinct. Until last year Sir; Henry Tichborne was an enthusiastic' collector of cigars. and gloried in the possession of roue 80,000 of them, includiug many ram and expensive brands. All the grandsons of Charles Dickens bear the name of Charles. One of tbam, Gerald Charles Dickens, son of ---Henry Fielding Dickens, Q. C., has recently entered the nritieh navy. A motion has been made in the Brazilian senate to present medals to President Nixon and President Cleveland in cam- memoration of the triumph of the establish. ed government over the Revolutionists. Aluminum has been put into another use. The French couturieres now use the metal in the ,making of the modern gown. A hoop of aluminum is placed in the bottom of the skirt foe the purpose of making it bang well. The novelist ()Ada is decidedly plain looking, about fifty years old. She drives on the fashionable thoroughfares Florence every brightday in an orange colored batiste, much trimmed with lace, and a black gulp. ore Mall Ulla. Mies Florence Nightingale has been con- fined to the house by ill health for a number of years, She lives at the home of her kinsman, Sir Harry Vernon, in Devonshire, England, She has passed her seventy-third birthday. In the British army a colonel receives £1,000 per annum , the French Government pays £280, the Malian the same. An Eng- lieh captain receives 1212, a lieutenant£118, a privates £18, Ilia French and Iuatinne of the same grades receive from one-third to one.half as much. Electric Headlights for London 'Bases. Some of the omnibuses and trams in Lon- don are now fitted with the electric light in a very ingenious manner. Not only is the interior well illuminated, but outside, high up, beside the driver, n large globe le placed, containing a brilliant lamp, which shade a white light on the passengers an the seats behind, enabling thein to read a newspaper oomfertably, while fn front i$ a colored glace which eaves to indicate the route the oar tapes. The innovation is of irnmeueeeurvioe atnight•time, not only, to those already in the vehicle, but to people /SCIENCE NOTES,' Coral islands are never more than ten or twelve feet Above the aurfaee, that limit being assigned to them by the action of the waves. The Notation le ohareeterized bylie uniformity, the eutire Ilore coneistiug. of scarcely a score of species, It is stated that there aro' now in the UnitedStetes more than 300 mining nom, penisemalting use in theiroperationeof elec- tricity for light and power, About one. third of the groes arrlonnt of oopper refined in thiseountry is now treated by eleotrolyeic process. Seine, of the larger cotton and woolen mills are said to be contemplating the adoption of paper shuttles. 'L'11e wooden appliances et present in uee aro not only liable to crack, but are rougher along the ,tapering end and give trouble, from which it is nonordered probable that paper shut, - ties would be comparatively free, The cholera baoillue may apparently be taken into the etomeoh of a perfectly heal- thy person with impunity. It was noted by Dr. Noeebaum several years ago then the normal stomach will digest the bacillus uric that it is, therefore, dangerous only to those whose system is not in order. Pure cultures of the bacillus have been swallowed byyable exreeperimdlta.enters recently without disagree. The French industry of icing milk is an original departure in tinned commodities. The milk is frozen and placed in block form into tine, and on the part of the purchaser requires to be melted previous to use, Being hermetioally sealed, the commodity thus feed preserves its form until it is re• quired, when a minute's exposure to the sun's rays or to the heat of Ile fire is all that is necessary to reduce it to a liquid condition. During the excessive heat of last summer tine Russians seem to have shown a humane consideration for their tram horses which is worth emulating. In Odessa men were stationed at the vurions termini of the tram routes, or miaway on larger journeys,provi- dad with buckets of ice cold vinegar and water with which to bathe the beads ode of the animals, a cooling 1 nd refreshing process which they, no doubt, gratefully appro. ated. AWFUL DISASTER. - Two Ilandred Miners Killed -the Pits on Fire and the Bodies of the lead Cre united. A Vienua despatch Bays :-A terrible disaster, involving great loos of life, is re- ported from Kerwin, Silesia. Full details havenot reached here up to the time We despatch is sent, but it is believed that at least 200 miners have been killed. An explosion took place at ten o'clock on Friday night in the pit of the Franziska mines .10 the plate mentioned and resulted in the death of 120 miners. The first ex- plosion was almost immediately followed by a series of other explosions in the mines, the most disastrous of the latter being in Johannes' pit, where 80 miners were killed. A rescue party which descended into one of the pits at five o'clock this morning, also perished. The ventilator shafts of several of the pits were destroyed, and fire spread in all directions. Terrible excitement -pre- vails in the neighborhood of the pita where theminers have been killed. assistance has been sent to the scene of the disaster from all directions. The Franziska and Johannes' mines are owned by Count van Larieh The official reports places the number of killed at 180, with 20 persons fatally injured. The rescue tarty which perished thio morning was composed of ten persons. Fourteen bodies have already been recover- ed. There were five distinct explosions, the last one happening shortly after one o'clock this morning. The galleries of the mine are still on fire, and the recovery of the bodies of the miners killed is thus re. tarded. Jt is believed teat the majority, of the bodies of the killed will be consumed by fire. LIKE A MADMAN. Paddy 0olden holds a Crowd of (00 at Roy With Two !revolvers, A Chicago despatch soya :-For several hours on Friday night Paddy Golden held a crowd of 600 men at bay hero at the point of two ugly looking revolvers. Golden, who gained considerable notoriety in Chicago In 1879, whet he defeated Capt. Dalton in a 50 -round fight on "Black Jack" Yetaw's bumboat of lake -Michigan, has been employed in the East Chicago iron and steel works. Last night he approached Ald. Robert Ross, and, after shaking h:wds said he would like to talk bmineas to him. The men repaired to Silverman's saloon, when Golden drew a pistol, and, pnahing the barrel into Mr. Ross' mouth, said; " You have always been down on my race, and now I propose to get even, I havo a bullet forgot and ono for me." Before Golden got a chance to press the trigger the pistol was bruehetl aside. This made him frantic, and, flonrishiug a revolver in each hand iu the faces of the byetaodera, he phased theta out of the saloon. When :Marshal Patterson attempted to arrest lien, the act was repeated, and the ex -prize fighter held the fort for several hours, not one of the hundreds of men who surrounded the building daring to arrest him. Finally, however, he was taken, but only after a fierce &gut, inwhich several of his captors hall their heads eta. Golden declared that he would kill A1d. Roes and every member of the City Counoil,inoluding Mayor Penman. Occupations of the French. Some very interesting facts about France are quoted by one of the Paris papers. We are told that oue•half of the population of Franca is dependent on egrioulture for a living, one•querter ml induarvy, one-tenth ou commerce, font -hundredths on liberal professions, and six•hnudredtbs nn income derived from fiutded property or stock. The number sof band owners cultivating their• own land is 0,176,000; haulers and incr. Clients are set down at ;Seel° .; tnamifao• turere give employ men t to over 7,0110,000; State funotlotaries fortn at tirmy 805,00'1 strong, and there are 211,000 journalists told men of lettere. Malt and Hops. 9 wealthy brewer was one day taking his four-yeiu'•old soil round his brewery, and during the walk tried to explain to young Bun}g, the limy ale was bowed. During the tour of lespection tho cellars ere visited, when suddenly a couple of oge oroaeed their path, "Oh 1 Pa," exclaimed the ymtngeter, what are those frogs doing down here 4" "That's where we get the hops from, my n," replied the father. w fr to the etreet, who on see at Dane that the 'hue or gram they With to enter le corning. 00 • P9 The British Canal System, The Times eontende that the public dots net obtain the full advantage obtainable from the canal system of the United Xing. dom. That system ,now includes' 3,813 miles of oriel, wide)) cost about 832,7.49, 000, and yields 1;2,Q41,Q00-or eay aix per. 09111. -from Which expenses hµ30 to be de- ducted. Hie ideals that Parliamentehould buy up the whole eyetem at that price, and manage it through a Canal 0 nmieetoon which should charge uniform but low to) Is, throughout the country, 'L'her is m rit (says the Spectator) in the idea, for the country needs a cheap method of trans. porting heavy -goods, but we fear the pro. job ie impraotioable. To be thoroughly beneficial the canals must be worked at very low rates, and the railways would complain, with seine justice, that their traffic was withdrawn from them by the State, which at the same time limits their rates of charge, Eyesight Saved After Scarier heves, Dlplithorlu, Ihreumonia and otter proetruliug llseaaee, 'need's Surest-, parilitt l.o n oqualletl 10 thoroughly pur)13 tl@' blood i and i glad thief atroirgtl. Itaad-tlrlaf egywgp ' "lily boy had Searlet lrever wle1 4ycara old, leaving bins very weak and with blood pole- aced with ennloer+ Ills oyes became in- humed, his SIa'erbng9 I r 'a n `' were intense, and for 7 011ifordRlacltmnn, weeks he could not even openn-hie eyes, 1 took Mtn to the Eye and Par jnnrniary, but their remedies did him no good, I began givingllim Hood's Sarsaparilla which soon enrol him. 1 know It anved iiia ejgI.i if not bis very fife," Maim If. lltA01t- MAlt, E888.WWashington St., Boston, Masa. HOOD'S Pie ea are the best after•dlnoer Plug, assist digestion, cure headache a. d biliousness. HE ONLY SNE@ HE WORLD r, That will burn .1. � I ul ,,, ...ince•'i� OIL GAS COCl STOVE MOM MOO aimd COAL • • , Equally Well - le Ofin ell...leOFOJ) MOE i:Will doit:: Has the Largest Oren. IS A FARMER'S STOVE Is Everybody's s 5 Cee4 Stelae. See Et. without wick` Makes and Burns Its Own Cas From Common Coal Oil, NO DIRT, NO HAT IN THE KITCHEN, 4 Cooks a Family Dinner for Two Cents.. The GURNEY EMERY BRY COr, Ltd,, TORONTO, • ATIJFIE YIELDS ANOTHER SECRET! It has often been contended by physiologists and men of science gen- erally, that nervous energy or nerv- ous impulses which pass along the nerve fibres, were only other names for electricity. This seemingly plaus- ible statement was accepted for a time, but has been completely aban- doned since it has been proved that the nerves aro not good conductors of electricity, and that the velocity of a nervous impulse is but 100 feet per second -which is very much slower than that of electricity. It is now generally agreed that nervous energy, or what we are pleased to call nerve fluid, is a wondrous, a mysterious force, in which dwells life itself. A very eminent specialist, who has studied profoundly the workings of the nervous system for the last twenty-five years, has lately demon- strated that two-thirds of all our ailments anti chronic diseases are due to deranged nerve centres within or at the base of the brain. All know that an injury to the spinal cord will cause paralysis to the body below the injured point. The reason for this is, that the nerve force is prevented by the injury from reaching the paralyzed portion, Again, when food is taken into the stomach, it Domes in contact with numberless nervo fibres in the walla of this organ, which at once send a nervous impulse to the nerve centres which control the stomach, notifying; them of the presence of feed; where- upon the nerve centres send down a supply of nerve force or nervo fluid,, to at once begin the operation of digestion. But let the nerve centres which control the stomach be de- ranged and they will not be able to respond with a sufficient supply of nerve force, to properly digest the food, and, as a result, indigestion and dyspepsia make their appearance. So itis with the other organo of the body, if the nerve centres which con- trol them and supply them with nerve force become deranged, they are also deranged. 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