Show SPEAKING of the railroad of ahe an fn ture eufus hatch of new york said to a correspondent of the arkansaw Artan saw traveler that the most perfect road of the present Is the pennsylvania with the new york central as a good second the railroads of the future will show as great a ratio of improvement in tho next twenty five years as has been made in the last quarter of a century we will have perfection tracked and stone ballested ballasted from end to end equipped with eighty pound steel rails iron or steel bridges and locomotives of forty or fifty tons eliat will run up and down grades and round curves at fifty or sixty miles an hour drawing from ten to fifteen passenger coaches each the passenger cars will be made wholly of stee rods or pipes two and a half times stronger than wood while weighing only about half as much as the present ones they will be heated and lighted by electricity generated hy the motion of the wheels adding immeasurably to their comfort and doing away with much of the danger ot accidents the freight cars will be constructed on somewhat similar principles with air brakes and many now unheard of conveniences and will carry twenty five tons and upward the maximum of luxury is nearly reached it will be years before the in 1890 will end the term of years during which alie cities of boston and philadelphia have each enjoyed the revenue from a bequest of made by benjamin franklin the money was to bemoaned out to young married artificers artifice rs and the trust hag been executed although the lap ae of the century requires a new disposition of the funds it is significant that while in boston the haq grown to nearly in philadelphia the has become only and that in both cases the amount is less than franklin estimated it should be but as the natural philosophers of franklins day generally fell short of the sage in ingenuity so too the successive boards of trustees have been far from equal to him in business ability it is interesting to note however eliat the two funds will exist and that part of the boston reserve goes in alio purchase of a public recreation ground to be known as franklin park A novel craft is being built in montreal it is a steam catamaran each of the cigar shaped hulls being of steel sixty five feet long and built in two compartments one being for water ballast other for coal oil which will be used for fuel two vertical en gines will furnish the power to two propellers pel lers which are so arranged that they will lift themselves out of when the hulls strike floating ice or other obstacles the boat can be taken apart and packed on a ship and is intended for whale and walrus hunting in the arctic regions it will carry a gatling gun and a powerful electric battery A BILL introduced in congress by blair declares that any person convicted of carnally and unlawfully knowing any female under the age of 18 years shall be punished by imprisonment from five to ian years and for a second offense during his natural life punishment of ten to thirty years is provided for persons forcibly ravishing any female and for the period of liis natural life for any person who carries out his ends by means of potions or drugs the provisions of the bill are made applicable to all places within the jurisdiction odthe united states we hope the bill will pass the salmon river region appears to be infested by a band of renegade indians that are committing depredations on the ranchers causing the greatest indignation among the people of that sp arcely settled country says an exchange these indians are supposed to be a remnant of chief josephs band recently returned from the east why they are allowed to run at large butchering cattle robbing settlers and committing other acts of violence is a conundrum A NEW evening paper which has been looking into the subject of dynamite finda that about tons of dynamite are manufactured annually in the united states and that there is a growing export trade principally to south and central america |