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Show ' TO TWIST THE CAPITOL. A Curloilty In tha Shape of an Engineering Plan. Washington, Oct. 24. 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, 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 around the foundation by degrees and shored up with iron girders from end to end. Under the central portion where the crypts now are the inventor will place a circular railway, supported by more of the jacks, and upon these, with the pressure of only a few horre power, he proposes to turn the entire Capitol without disturbing either its foundations or its walls. |