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Show WONDERFUL ENGINEERING PLAN. , A Scheme to Turn the Capitol Bnlldins Around, Washington, Oct. 23. Architect Clark of the capitol, is in receipt of a ' curiosity in the way of an engineering plan looking to no less a feat than the turning around of the great marble building where congress sits. The method is somewhat complicated, complicat-ed, but the substance of it is as follows: ' " Some wonderful jacks will be placed at .short intervals under the building after sufficient excavations have been made. . Then the ground will be dug from ! under the foundations by degrees and shoved up with iron girders from end to end. Under the central portion, whore the crypts now are he will place 'a circular railway, suppoi-ted by more ; of these jacks, and upon these, with a pressure of only a few horse-power he proposes to turn the entire capitol without with-out disturbing eithter the foundations or 'its walls. |