| Show bbBaaarrrnneeyiss literary mcc ures magazine for november begins a novel yet interesting feature in the line of a biography of abraham lincoln taken largely from remines bences or talks with people who knew the honored patriot the last issue is devoted to Lincol ns boyhood days and is most handsomely illustrated A complete and immediate revolution of transportation mc thoda involving a reduction of freight charges on grain from tho west to new york of from 50 to CO per cent ia what is predicted in the november cosmopolitan tho plan proposes using light and inexpensive cor-rugated iron cylinders hung on a slight rail supported on polea from a cross arm the whole system involving an expense of not more than fifteen hundred dollars a mile for construction the rolling stock ie equally simple and comparative-ly inexpensive continuous lines of cylinders moving with no interval to speak of would carry more grain in a day than a quadruple track railway this would constitute a sort of grain pipe line the cosmopolitan also points out the probable abolition of streetccaarsrs before the coming horseless i carriage which can be operated by a boy on asphalt pavements at a total ex-pense for labor oil and interest of not more than one dollar a day |
