Show 4 1 IN ENO and am the engineering CC ri n g bays says ys we believe belove lieve love that nive five american e 1 ila lla chilled railway milway wheels have arrived in london and wid that they will beA baa be broken esperi mph mentally tally and that f of this sindin idd ivill he be sent over for trial under an fn angland land band rolling stock we have samples fuhei othel iron from which hese these wheels are is of magn magnificent I 1 fl cent quality the fracture is a rich dark gray medi um grained and shows great toughness the particles appearing to have been irregularly torn rather than broken short ox off the specific gravity ranges from 75 75 25 to and the tensile strength from to ibs lbs or say 14 to 16 tons per square inch the iron is that know known n as the salisbury cold coid blast charcoal e oai iron ion r and is worth about nio elo 10 per ton in new ew york HOW RAILROADS ARE MANAGED IN RUSSIA I 1 I 1 I 1 A correspondent of th the tho london eLondon times I 1 writing from moscow says the distances travelers have to perform in this country ale aie are so immense I 1 and the weather is frequently so severe th tha to the idea of giving a sort of dome domestic stid stio arrangement to the cars naturally occurred to a people laboring under such disadvantages russian railway car rials are little littie houses on wheels in the first and partly also in the second class their interior may be described as a saloon with all the necessaries and elegan cies cles of such an apartment itis it is furnished with looking glasses heated by porcelain stoves und and lit by lamps a and nd candles along the tho sides aides soft divans are ranged the middle is occupied by a mallo malid mahogany any table tabie and double windows with rei reg red curtains exclude nott not only the rude touch of the russian air I 1 but also the aspect of the wintry sky the company sits or lounges about chatting reading or playing cards chess and dominoes dominges dom inoes the day passes pleasantly enough and as flight night comes the passengers betake themselves to rest almost as comfortably as at home by a simple process the divans are made into beds and with pillows by the off omm lelous officious guard in the first class the carriages are also provided with second stories so to say reached by ah all ele eie elegant ant staircase and fitted with complete beds in the second if there are too many passengers to be accommodated on the divans part of them are lodged in berths which take the place of the raci provide pro vide in england for hats and caps at length everyone every one Is snugly ensconced the oia oid ordinary inary luary good wishes are exchanged exchanged and it is night inthe in tho the car the guard and the driver only ke keegl ep awake 4 during the twenty hours a passenger pas Vas is whirled along between st petersburg 1 and I 1 moscow the train stops twenty times at least the stations are elegant buil bull buildings dingi dlugi painted red f with broad white facings round the windows ant and anA along the eaves git without Vit hout bout the very picture 0 of f c cleanliness 1 ean 11 v they aro arc wellston well weIL stoe stoc stocked iced re cipta cles eles of the tho good things of this Ws world within the pas passenger gonger sengen enters a large vaulted hall scrupulously white washed and paved with liaga llaga on long iong tables a sumptuous repast awaits him every plate over alighted lamp to albain maier ta tain 1 in the warmth equally necessary in n this country for taste and wholesome ness the wines and beers of every c lime ilme are represented in iii numerous boar bat ties alternating on the neatly covered tables with steaming plates the hall hail id Is HI A th ebare the bare cold style so often orten met triet with inthis in this country when romp pemp ashot ia nott intended but the viands are good the waiters walters roady ready and their white gloves unexceptionable I 1 need libed not say the whole affair is dear such luxuries us as these are still regarded and anil paid for as exotic in this distant latitude tho abo station i an ad oasis roun round id about the aboriginal race of the in wooden cott cottages a g including eluding in the tha whole family and t their e I 1 r quadrupeds t tod too oa in 10 a sin single ole gle room how howth TO MOUNT A horse hoese A letter lette from peru gives a ludicrous account of the mode of mounting a horse tha tho woman do all the work and the men are a good for nothing set of gamblers and thieves the women womer ride on the hindquarters hind quarters of their h horses without a saddle cross legged with the load on 14 the horse in im front they mount the animal by taking hold hoid of his tail tall making alood by doubling it up and clasping with one hand the upper upper and lo 10 lower parts of the tail and then putting one foot in the loop and the other foot on the joint of the horses leg they ascend as if going up stairs they usually stand breer on the horse before sitting down the horses never 1 liek ilek kiek kick iek lek ick or stir RAVAGES OF CHOLERA IN TWAN TRIAM expire according to official returns more than per person soils solis shavo shave had the cholera in austria since the beginning of the month of july and about one half of them have died in vienna persons have been carried off by the cholera ch otera olera which lim hat recently become jess violent forty nine thousand persons have been attacked by the cholera in hungary and efthem of them have died the malady seems tobaie to have been more violent in moravia than elsewhere for on the october there had been cases 2762 lof bof of which had proved fatal AVE ARD arn P waldso ily lly they IC h have havo a gravedigger grave graye digger at spring grove grovo cemetery 0 abter cincinnati who is a fair match for the gravedigger graye grave digger in hamlet here is an account of him one gets some grim of living as well as dead humanity by visiting 1 a show enow graveyard such as this robere therm there is a simpleminded simple simpie minded good hearted by the name of I 1 am very fond of talking to he has given me many les sans not soon for forgotten gotton its a little grief and a good deal of pride that makes fein lein cm do it sir I 1 dont mean to say that it aint cateral na teral it is cateral na teral nater kater can be found in a cemel tery as well as anywhere Onea one afflicted filleted family puts a monument and another afflicted family wants to outdo it and they generally does ef its done at once onee ef its put off a little they get more reasonable time cutes all ills 11 well it does ise lse seen a party part Y pu put pui t in n that vault to stay till a lot could be bought and monument put up and the grief was deep impose spose there was no end to the grief and no bottom neither i r well at the end of three months the company has had trouble to get got them to take out the body and give it a christian burial I 1 there are exceptions to that in course course any finy number of them I 1 can cala show you graves here ten years old 1 and ever summer find fresh flowers strewed on iem lem em 11 more flowers than ornaments it cant say that real deep beelin grief belongs as much to the rich as the tle tie the poor leastwise I 1 find it bo but ayin isas islas natural as allvin and in course people get over it therefore it is that monuments come with the first burst them graves that have flowers over cm em for more than a year healthy graves 11 4 what do you mean by that 1 I meau mean that thattie the mourners aint in a their cateral lle ile lie alth aith or nind find fi nd their feelings directed to the care of the civin 11 STEEL L IN THE tio OI 01 alups AND BRI bridges DaEs the writer shows th abiron is likely to prove A most rost most deceptive material and if all he ays says is true wo we may look forward to some frightful calamity in ili the sudden breaking down dowil of one or another of the many important iron structures in the shape of bridges bridgeo to and viaducts viaduct a we are informed informed that a constant wearing away is going ingoing on to an enormous extent from bibin the effects of corrosion and that it is impossible to stop atop this tendency the professor gives both sides bides of the question very fairly in ill a igns long and alid elaborate I 1 article in which he says iron bud sup supplies to the engineer a most excellent I 1 material for the construction of bridges not only is i it cheaper for the purpose than stone pr or brick and more dur ablo than wood but it allows the tha construe ifon of bridges span jt it may be in of cast iron inon wrought iran ID or r steel cast iron answers well weli lit irp anini enough g h within certain spans but the soundness af the castings can neva never be entirely depended on in the form forin of or ribs engineers have bave ken ventured to employ it in spans of wio bio f feet malleable fronis iron is most generally used and invariably with very large spans almost always in plates varying from less than a quarter to little more inore than nive five eighths of an inch thickness in looking to the rapidity with which iron ron is corroded ave even ri in the atmosphere how short is the period during which these plates will retain any amount of strength without a degree of care which no one thinks of bestowing upon them the the danger from this course is not imaginary the best constructed and most carefully preserved of our iron bridges are as it were melting away P perceptibly very recently more than jor yorty forty ty tons of rust were removed from the menai mena tubular bridge but large as this quantity was it does not represent anything like the entire corrosion I 1 which has taken place in this uis bridge during the few years it has been in existence Is since it consisted only of bf the rust which had formed on the ex exterior terion how many additional tons would rould the anterior interior and inaccessible portions portio as have furnished places where corrosion may way be going on with an unsuspected but most dangerous rapidity A very small extent stent of surface deeply corroded would duffil suffice to endanger the stability of the iky ity largest constructions atio ns of iron and might abany f abr ahr moment give rise to its sudden destruction d n professor mcgauley WATERLOO the village of Water waterloo lod iod Is bitout about 12 miles loathe south of 0 brussels tho the bobbt bat hat tle field lying some two or beyond our coach set us down av arthe the famous chateau af where we were taken in charge by an am old oid guide gulde who casall was vas nil all day near the field nield when the great battle was fought helping to care for the wounded hejda beha been fittin fighting the battle over n earny every day dy since shige and wile bile one ono would thirk think ought by this time to have become ased asea to it everybody who has read understands the general fe features of ille the flem field and of the night fight how the forces under wellington were posted along a ridge and those under napoleon n along another ridge nearly parallel with a shallow shallo yr valley between how well cowx the slope 1 in front of wellington centre 1 was wa s the farm of la haye hay e sainte saing the hou houses ses of which were enclosed by a wall an dhow similarly situated in me ference to his right wing was gugov mont likewise e enclosed n e closed by a wall with a par pan park of trees 1 in n f front and an di chard orchard on the left but I 1 never imagined that the whole field was so limited and thase those important positions strongly occupied by Welling tons as troops were separated by such insignificant distances z thu tho commanders in chief scarcely needed glasses for inspecting the operations of their armies but at a glance could take tiko in the whole view while with their glasses it seemed as though tho ugh they might have looked each other in the face the days of rifled cannon anit an long ranged a muskets had not yet arrived we spent a long time in and around Hugo covered with the marks 0 of f the fighting and burning then walked through the orchard and up the ridge on which the Engli english aWline line was waa formed when our old guide fought over the battie battle again from beginning soend to end where the french cavalry in the afternoon made their frantis frantic charge on the english eora coia ing ang far up the slope on whose summit we stood along this summit runs a cour country itry road the bed of the road being several feet below the surface this I 1 thought might be the ravine victor vietor hugo represents the cavalry ax precipitating themselves I 1 asked gha tha gul gui gulde guide de about it and he be said the brenek french cavalry never reached the road bat bat but pre precipitated i themselves only anly on the unyielding squares of the english waterloo is commonly regarded ld as the greatest battle of modern history it settled the fate of empires it turned the stream of history into a naw channel channi ni al but nut regarding the battle of gettysburg as deciding in our country and nd with this wats great experiment of of self government i who may say thatis was lotof even superior importance on the field of waterloo I 1 felt ashamed that I 1 had never visited G gettysburg cincinnati Ga gazette ette titi THE COW TIME baron humboldt gives the following description tree treet on the barren flan fian flank kofa kota of a rock grows a tree with dry and leathery leaves ite its large woody roots boota can scarcely penetrate into ing the stoney soil for several months montha in the year not a single its foliage ats branches branch qs appear dried and dead yet as soon as arpan t the e trunk is Ls pierced there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk it is at sunrise that this vegetable fountain ig most abundant the natives are then seen has hastening tellin from all quat quarters teh tew furn turn furnished ishad isho d with large bowls to receive the milk which grows wand thickens at the surface some rain drain the bowls under the tree ahila others carry home horae the juice to their children and you yott might fancy as tho the tather father returned home with the milk yow y ox saw the family of a shepherd gathering gath erinC around and receiving from him film the production of his kine the milk obtained b by in incision elsion made in the trunk Is my ably thick free from all acidity of aa sm agreeable and balmy smell tim THE use or ov horse HOUSE BEEF albo taste for horseflesh honse horse fles flesh b says bays the nann maxw M ann is decidedly on the increase in paris parla therease Ther there enre eare are at present in the capital beyea bevens butcheries but cheries for the sale of that commodity and which dispose of about forty chousa thousand nd pounds weight per week the annual consumption may therefore there foro fora bo be estimated at one thousand tons or more than ten times the quantity of meat distributed to the poor antho twenty de do go 80 far horseflesh horse flesh has been exempt from the duty and sells at from nive five sous to one franc the kilo of two pounds |