Show TILE THE LARGEST RAIL rall railway ivAy blell BRIDGE G lg ig 13 IN TIIE TILE WORLD the proposed bridge which is to carry the south wales and great western direct railway across the river severn near to chepstow is according to the design of fowler and fulton the engineers to he be two miles and a quartet in length and is to have sufficient headway to permit masts abts of ships of 1 gyo feet in length to pass under when tim the surface ot the river is at the tile level of mean tide so as in no way to impede tile the navigation T the lie iio principal row Erin principal rin cipal opening which is to eross cross the aw water channel is to be feet span being the total width of the thames at southward South wark bridge or feet wider ihan than the span of the menal menai bri bridge dge Aless rs fowler and fulton estimate th e probable cost of this bridge at I 1 for which cochrane grosc grove grovo co have undertaken to complete the work london Zo noi nol times NEAR gittelde gittelle Gitt elde in the dukedom of brunswick called the ernst august stollen cradit or adit is the most extensive drainage funnel in the world it is is nearly fourt fourteen ipen iden miles in length and drains the whole country around zel zol berfeld ler feld Clau wildman etc one of the most extensive mining regions in europe the work was commenced on the day of july 1851 1851 under the auspices of mining engineer borchers borcherd bore Borc hers herg at ten different points point 9 I 1 to wit the tho main entrance and nine shafts and was brought to completion in twelve years and eleven months or some time in in june last the adit has a regular grade of five inches to one hundred fathoms its dimensions everywhere are ara the same it is eight feet high and six siz foet fet wide one side of the floor ia is bridged which serves for the gangway and the other side is for navigation boats made for the purpose bring out the ore etc to accomplish this gis gly gigantic an t ic work there were holes drilled in tile the rock rook for blasting which were they the placed in a row end to end would would measure miles in length the tunnel intersects some thirty or forty main working shafts it may be added that the tunnel is walled wailed up or arched with rock all its length TILE THE byc now granta GIANTA GIANT grant A china newspaper has the following description of an enormous giant our readers says tile the journal have I 1 doubtless noticed in their walks through settlements immense posters setting forth the extraordinary dimensions of the fychok giant next each of these posters is a red placard in chinese diese nese begging the curd curi curious eurious 1 ous in such matters to come and see an extraordinary ry mau man 11 over which crowds of gaping natives may be seen poring the address to the native population sets forth that this man whose name by bytheway the way is chang measures nine du or feet thal that his arm is 4 feet in length his feet 2 feet and his circumference 6 61 feet we cannot vouch for all these extraordinary particulars but we are justified in saying that this giant is by far the tallest fallest and broadest that we have ever seen he stands about 8 feet 2 or 3 inches in height and is proportionately broad his figure is good his movements as graceful as is compatible with his extra ordinary height and his ills expression is amiable I 1 VERY V ERY considerate old parson B who presided over a little flock in one of the back towns in the state of M was without exception the most eccentric divine we ever knew his eccentricities were carried as far in the pulpit as out of it an instance we relate among the church members was one who invariably made a practice of leaving before the parson was two thirds through his sermon this was practiced so long that after a while it became became a matter of course and no one save th the e divine seemed to take notice of it and he at length told brother P that such a thing must be needless but P said eaid at that hour his family needed his services at home and he must do it nevertheless th eless on leaving church he always took a roundabout course which by some som mysterious means always brought him in close proximity to the village tavern which he would enter and thereby hangs a tale parson B learned from froin some source that P as a object in leaving church was to obtain a dram and he determined to stop his leaving and disturbing the congregation in future if such a thing was possible tile the next sabbath brother P left his seat at the usual time and started for the door when parson B exclaimed brother Bro P i P on being addressed stopped short and gazed toward the pulpit brother P 11 continued pars parson on B ItI lere is no need of your leaving church at this time for when I 1 passed the tavern I 1 made arrangements with tile tiie landlord to keel keep your toddy hot until church was out the surprise and mortification of brother P can hardly be imagined THE tun SALARIES PAID THE OF eurom EUROPE the following table taken from a late english paper shows the amount of money received each year by the sovereigns of europe emperor of Anstr austria lat lal fal r emperor of france with a debt of 93 kin king ring of italy taly Th the elope rope pope total income calculated at over king of prussia about emperor of russia tiie tile the income of the crown domains Is calculated at queen of spain am king ol 01 sweden king of bavaria sultan of turkey wa 11 queen of great britain and ireland and of colonies upon which the sun never sets the queens expenditure of is thus distributed by act 0 of f parliament is allotted to the privy purne puree for the tho salaries of the royal household for retiring allowances nna and pensions to servants and for royal bounty alms etc in order to reduce the ab above OVO ove sums into our currency multiply them by five the income of the emperor of or russia appears to be more than all tile the rest of the sovereigns of europe cincinnati enquirer OBEYING ORDERs A certain general of the united states army supposing his favorite horse dead ordered an irishman to go and skin him 1 what is silver tail tall dead asked aske d pat J that to you replied the boffl do as its I 1 bid you and ask no ques eions 1 pat went about his big business and in an hour or two returned return e d well pat where have you been to all this time asked the general skinning your horse yer honor does it take nearly two hours to perform such an operation ano N 0 yer honor hut but then you see it t tuek tuck ek bout half an all hour to catch him catch him fire and furies was he alive yes gyes yer honor lionor and you kno kro know krow W I 1 c could ouid not skin him alive skin him alive did you kill him I 1 ito sto be basure sure I 1 did you sou know I 1 must obey orders ordera without asking any questions eions I 1 TILE THE YOUNG MOUSE AND TILE THE TRAPI wonder if any of our little littie readers think it is very hard to do as they are bid if they do let them remember the fable of the mouse and the trap do not put your nose into that trap though the cheese smells so good said the old mouse to her young one if you do the trap will bite you but the disobedient young mouse thought he could get a little bit of the cheese with safety the trap looked so harmless that surely he cou could ld venture in just a little way and then the cheese looked so tempting and had such a pleasant smell thinking thus to himself little crept up very slyly and put his nose cautiously into the hole but just as his teeth touched the cheese snap went the trap spring and caught him by the neck just then the old mouse returned but she could not help him the next moment he was dead punishment OP OF REBELLION IN POLAND the magnitude and the urgency of war affairs at home homo have caused us to overlook the tile sturdy but unsuccessful rebellion which prevailed not long ago in a portion of poland against the authority of russia tile the outbreak however is having a termination which is worthy of passing notice it was forced upon the unfortunate poles it will be recollected mainly by the des despo cism of their governor the grand duke constantine during the latter years of the tile reign of his father the czar nicholas policy was the denationalization of the people under his authority in pursuit of this policy he fairly drove them to revolt in the end by numberless harras ments menta and op pres and by his contempt of their national customs and even of the his torie renown they had acquired centuries before under and aud sobieski in savage christian europe etrope from hosts of mahometano i Maho invaders chese these acts of or severity so far compromised him with the russians Rus slaps themselves and they tiley j forbore to tol encourage him to a design he half entertained of setting up a claim to the paternal throne and it passed peacefully to the possession of his hia mild and amiable brother the rule of the latter has been one of extraordinary beneficence to his subjects at la large i rge excepting the unhappy poles tile tiie treatment they receive seems to be as rigorous and relentless as ever the military power of the rebellion was broken down a full year ago yet the process of de nationalizing them is still going on without relaxation it is now difficult for a pole to gain a ii living v ing in ills his own countr country tile the railways and nearly all bran branches OL s of public service have been cleared of polish employees ploy plo pio ees ces and their places given to persons from saxony silesia and other german provinces none are retained in any situate situations ions lons excel excepting ting the few who have peculiar professional qualifications ualifi cat ions and cannot possibly be e dispensed with A secre secret q tribunal ri bunal bunai under tile the presidency of general Tuc kolko is in permanent session at warsaw and the tile sentences are issued against political offenders two or three times a week few who are brought before it whether old or young male niale or female escape flo ilo flogging 9 pa olli g 1 hanging or exile to siberia A polish 8 h officer offic er who who was lately hanged went to the gallows in a condition of insanity caused by tortures he was compelled to undergo while in prison the sentences of the tribunal severe as they are sometimes receives additional aggravation from tile the russian commandant at warsaw general berg an insurgent who was recently condemned to twenty years liard hard labor for example had bad his sentence commuted by the general to death on the gallows tiie THE DRAINAGE WORKS OF op LONDON the great system of sewerage for london is nearly completed at a cost of four millions sterling on the ath of april the prince of wales opened the works by starting start ilig the engines for lumping pumping by this ne new machinery the impurities of the river are taken twelve ml miles mites es below the cit olt city y and there discharged upon the top of the tide which is equivalent to removing the foul sediment twelve miles further the works have lave lavo been formed on a scale so gigantic as to anticipate the wants wanis of a largely increased population and amford afford evi dence denee enee ence of extraordinary skill and enterprise prise london stands on the north and south sides of the thames and slopes down to 0 o the tile bed of the valley occupied by the river the enormous volume of daily refuse yielded by the capital was poured nto into a tidal river and tossed backwards and forwards with the ebb and flow u until antil the whole stream was polluted with corruption the thames in fact et wasa was a great open sewer running through tile Q centre of the metropolis and poison ing ng the atmosphere with its noisome ex ha lations the problem was to intercept this discharge and carry the sewerage elsewhere the common house sewers and local system of drains were left to do their work as before what was wanted was a substitute not for the he drains themselves but for the bed of the thames into which they ran it became therefore necessary to construct certain main sewers of great length bength and capacity by which the con tents ants of the metropolitan drains might be ae effectually intercepted from the stream these are now seen in the great sewers which on different levels run like the tile thames from west to east and mud so cut tut the drain dralus drains of the city a at right angles there are three of these enormous culverts lverts cu on the north side of the he river and two on the south on the north the three sewers converge converge at abbey milis mills near stratford and their contents are there thrown by means of a lift 11 into what is called the northern outfall dut outfall fhil fall sewer and conducted through that channel into the reservoir at the opening of barking creek on the he south side of the thames the two intercepting sewers converge in like manner at a point on deptford depthford Dept ford creek are then m iller riler arged ged in an outfall sewer jewerly of their own and so discharge their con tents enta into the southern reservoir at crossness once received in these great reservoirs the matter which has hitherto corrupted the tile air and water of tile the metropolis is to say the least completely harmless from the reservoirs the ille sewerage is discharged into the river HOW liow flierman SlI sll ERMAN REVIEWS ills HIS TROOPS A correspondent says general sherman conducts d preview as if he would rather be engaged in any other kind hind of busine business s on thia this occasion he sat ills his horse throughout the whole affair but he seemed all the while to be wishing it was over it tt appears to be necess necessary crry with him to jo do several things at once one thing at a time does not afford him occupation enough for his restless nestles nervous mind and body while sli sll t the tho e troops are going by lie he must be carrying on a conversation or smoking or nid fid getting in some way or another ot or he keeps general officers and colonels and color bearers in i n a painful state of suspense for fear he will forget to salute them or the flags they carry ondein once in a awhile while he does docs very often ho looks up just in time to snatch onn off his hat as the person or object to be saluted is across the line laid down by military etiquette and the way vay in which he puts that hat bat on again with a jerk and drag and a jam as if it were the most objectionable hat bat in the world and lie he was specially entitled to entertain an implacable I 1 grudge against it yet I 1 was told the general was in unusual good humor today to day and conducted himself with more than ordinary regard to the proprieties As a rugged corporal in the fourteenth corps who stood near me remarked to a contiguous friend old bill feels good toda today to da day y he does blamed if he aint 1 I 1 old bill means william tecumseh sherman major general united unitta states army but soldiers can seldom be affectionate without indulging in a touch of familiarity STEEL steen locomotives the maryport and carlisle company have for some time employed employ e d r teel steel to a great extent in substitution of ordinary iron for the working parts of locomotives and as we are informed with the most satisfactory results the traille traffic on the line Is principally coal and mineral athas it has been found that with tile the ordinary iron tyres on the engine wheels the distance waa was not more than miles in many cases not more than miles and the wheels require to betaken betoken be taken from under the engine for every or miles run for repair and I 1 turning up in the case of steel tyres however the wheels will run miles before they require turning up or repairing the result of a very careful examination of the effects of wear leads to the opinion that the wheels will run from to miles or equal to some twelve or fifteen years work of a daily average average of about miles the difference |