Show NEWS ITEMS commendable they have an excellent iron foundry in full blast at gold hill nevada employing 20 men 0 A GREAT NATIONAL WORK the tracing out of the tiie line of tile the canal between the north sea and the baltic is now terminated and the engineers chave h returned to berlin according to hesss I 1 ass gal gaz gazette betle it will be eleven geobra leial leiai miles in length commencing at ane w mouth of the elbe traversing holstein holt hoit stein ein eln and a part of Sefile schleswig seh Sch leswig swig and terminating mina ting in the bay of the depth throughout through opt ort will be 31 feet and the tide of the baltic will each beyond rendsburg TIIE THE press of vienna states that the jewish population of koeno in III western russia has established establish eda a loan society which is distinguished from other institutions of the kind by the fact that no other guarantee is required from the borrower than his word of honor since tile the foundation of the association there has not been a sin sinie single le case of a debtor having failed to fulfill his engagements gage 0 ments ROMAN ronlan catholicism is making much progress III in england Z and scotland in england the last year there has been an increase of 71 priests in Scot scotland lanil 5 and in the former 34 chur churches ches chei have been added there is in ill england a total of 1388 priests and in ill scotland there are nunneries nunn eries and 58 53 monts monas monasteries in england and 14 nunneries nunn eries in in scotland there are also 10 catholic colleges in in england and 2 in scotland ANTIMONY A company boring for oil in wirt county west virginia struck karich a nich rich vein of antimony a rare and expensive metal in great demand for type casting the sum suni of per ton was at once offered for all the owners could supply pittsburg chronicle THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE A S Hal hai lidie ha has received from a correspondent in england the first specimens and perhaps the only ones oil on this continent of allans indestructible deep sea telegraph cable for tile the new atlantic telegraph cable over halt of which is now aboard the great E eastern ostern astern the specimens represent the first two sections of the cable or miles the specimen representing tile the first section of 1260 miles has a conducting power of pounds of copper weight per knot specific gravity 1 6 breaking weight that is to say tile the amount of water it will support before breaking 0 fathoms 1 the rhe specimen for tile the second section of 2000 miles is somewhat heavier and has a conducting tin power ec equal lual jual to doo pounds of copper pw weight per mile 1000 the specific gravity and breaking weight of this specimen is the same as the other the depth at which both sections are to be laid is tile the same fathoms the cable is made in this way the copper or conducting wire is first covered with 19 strands of no 22 2 steel wire this is then covered with four alternate layers of gutta percha and Cliatt Chatt ertons compound potla potia nd which is impervious to water two layers of hemp and twine cloth cioth wire are put on oil top of this and the whole covered with 12 strands of no 10 wire S P F bulletin THE lvie LATE INDIAN A calcutta letter to the london times says 1 I see that the news of twelve thousand persons having been lost by the cyclone was received with incredulity in england the estimate was wide of the truth but only because it vastly underrated the calamity As one who knows this tills country will read ly conceive there is no possibility ofas certa pertaining ining precisely the loss of life lire because i hundreds might be swept away and leave no trace behind but we are not without data for arriving at a con elusion cl and it has now been calculated that there cannot be less than thirty thousand persons drowned or otherwise killed by that fearful storm in the island of alone before the cyclone cy elone clohe there were eight thousand two aundrea hundred persons there thelo are now about one thousand two hundred nor have an any left it to go elsewhere seven thousand were carried clean away by the storm wave all up the river the population has been swept clean off if not in the same proportion yet in very large lame numbers As we all anticipated disease is r raging ing everywhere cholera fever and aud bagi smallpox small pox the epidemic 1 fever which I 1 have mentioned in this year is populating depopulate depo de ng whole districts A magistrate told me the tho other day that lie had bad recently been rid riding ng th through rough a village hily age III in which there was hardly a grown up person left they had died aled without hope of assistance without medicine without food for the crops are rotting on the ground in many parts where when the salt water rushed in the are in a deplorable plo rable plight and the Zam indars increase the general misery by turning the erets out of their huts because they are behindhand with their rents THERE have been between three and four thousand earthquakes luring during the present century of which one hundred and ten took place in great britain and ireland |