| Show t POINTS OF PROGRESS THE civo new england states have built so far this year sixteen miles of railroad north carolina has built THE railways of tho fourteen central and states now aggregate only miles or about miles more than the mileage of the single state of illinois of millions probably billions of dollars have been added to the value of real estate in the cities of the world by a single invention the elevator or gift inventive age ix tho six new england states persons have in the savings banks in the states of new york now jersey and pennsylvania there Is to the credit of persons whose deposits average but this large sum of is owned by men and women whose average savings amount to less than LAST year philadelphia built houses averaging in cost each in the sama time now york built houses the average cost of which was each chicago averaging brooklyn averaging boston averaging minneapolis averaging 2006 washing r ton averaging denver 2741 averaging omaha 2498 averaging MONSIEUR eiffel has invented a form of bridge capable of being used either in times of peace or war for temporary as well as permanent service it is certainly a great improvement on abo wooden pontoons pon and structures now employed by engineers it is composed wholly of pieces of steel which can be easily and can bo erected without machinery and by unskilled labor M eiffel made a test bridge in less than seventy hours one hundred and forty foot long weighing in all eighty six tons and capable of bear ing a burden of over two hundred tons 1 in fact it could carry a railway train with troops or with military stores or merchandise A method of storing grain is being introduced v bichis as ai tho invention of ensilage pits for storage of fodder steel tanks are filled with tho grain and by a suction pump 1 the air is partly exhausted and a quantity of carbonic acid gas is admitted the valves being closed the grain is expected to remain for years without decay and not liable to be injured by weevils we evils so destructive in the vast elevators where grain is now stored the cost is less the stor atre per bushel bb ing about one twelfth what it is under the present system farmers will be able to keep their grain till the markets are favorable and the proceedings of grain speculators will bo checked with a steel tank atan hatlay of five hundred dollars the wua be able to store ten t ola 0 ait |
