Show IIVSIS BIG CANAL l1usl Is the European country where Perhaps the least excitement on Account or the present war exists With the exception of an occasional brief utterance III Ilia press no notice teems to be taken of the fact that events ore taking place that are likely to change the political map ot the world Undisturbed the great giant continues to close In hN embrace the part ot Asia on which ho has set his heart arid at the same time to I strengthen his position ot hOllle with a view ot making It finally unassa able The latest project under serious con rlderatlon Is I the instruction of n canal to title the n11I0 and the Black tell with a view of affording nn outlet to the mack sea fleet as well as a short route for the Ualllc fleet to the Iluxlr This Is I an undertaking perhaps AS rent as the trollSlbrlan railroad but as It can bo put through without any debates by parliament or press It can ho commenced 09 soon as tho government gov-ernment Malls the time brut com The Baltic end of the canal It Is sell will be nt Plca and the opposite terminus nt Kherson on the mack sea The entire distance will be 1000 mile but artificial excavations will have to be made for only 125 miles The Dwlna will be used ns far as Dunsburg I ruin there 0 canal will be cut to Lepl on the llereslna and that river which flows Into the Dnieper and the last named river itself will finish the course to Kherson The beds ot tile Dwlna Dnieper and licreilnT will be deepened deep-ened and broadened BO that the waterway water-way mill have a uniform surface breadth of 210i feet and a bottom brlth of 116a feet The depth otter ot-ter In average seasons will be 23 feet so that heuv jdraught ships can sail the entire length It Is believed that the work can be accomplished within ten Years arid at a cost not to exceed fi 000000 The canal will be ot great value to the commercial Interests of Itussla as It will bring half a dozen centers of the grain trade Into close touch with the sea anti reduce the cost of transportation trans-portation but its strategic Importance Import-ance probably will have more weigh with the czars advisers and Insure Its completion In the briefest possible period pe-riod tit time |