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Show A Water Railway. Sir Edward Watkins has, on behalf of tho Metropolitan Railway company of London, offered the managers of tha Western Railway company a piece of ground near London on which to lay down a piece of their unique railway, two miles in length. We shall therefore, there-fore, if the accounts are true, soon have an opportunity to know what the "poetry of motion" is. On this remarkable remark-able railway the cars are to run on skates, or slido. The rail will be an iron trench filled with a thin film of water, which will prevent all jolting, bumping and shaking, and in fact make the cars skim along as a boat does over the sea. Then, too, the speed is to be 100 miles per hour! Think of sliding through the air down an iron trench at such a pace! If the new style railway is really practicable prac-ticable all of England will be but as a suburb of London, even Manchester would be but a little more than an hour removed from the great metropolis. St. Louis Republic. |