Show SHE norte NORTH SEA CANAL A wo NEXT 1 II 11 POR gNOE TO THE SUEZ CA canaii sat A egv NEW hab SAB bor BOB idt 11 i 1 Next Wednesday th c lil lii will ill V bo opened ed by theys mag fag of holland in person the greatest engineering work which this thi s country so 0 p prolific r in such works has ever undertaken shipping world Is well aware that hitherto the thornly 1 I y seay vay yay to A amsterdam m for ve vessels MIS ais of more th than an five feet draft 1 is the north holland canal connecting that with the helder holder r or diep it was constructed in the reign of william Is I 1 is fifty one miles long iong very torti tortuous and narrow and only available for vessels draw drawing illg ilig feet of water the idea of oC joining amsterdam with sea by a direct co com eom m muni cation had long been entertained and investigated by various committees and though ma many Y were incredulous of its ever being possible to carry on such a work a 1 commission was given in 1861 in 1863 a company was formed antl anil in 1865 tin th t nirm firm undertook the execution ma ion lon 0 of r the entire for a sum not s farsh fargh rt of this grgat great enterprise may be said to con eon consi s thred three parts 1 die dle tile tiie shutting out of the tidal w waters of odthe the zuyder zee from the lake X Y pronounced I 1 situated to the west of amsterdam 2 th the tho making of lb the Q canah canal proper athe 3 the ghe making ofa of a harbor on the shore of the NorthS north sea ca I 1 at tho the entrance 6 of v the canal th the fl first f st part consists of a sead sea d dike ike cutting off the waters of the zuyder zee zea to the east pf af amsterdam which ig i intercepted by large largel locks deks havi having ng three basins and a pumping station containing three powerful pumps the locka are nier fer the use of the numerous small craft and fishing smacks sailing 7 from amsterdam to the defler s ent towns on the shores of the f fra fr A der zee and the pumps are por nor tor keeping the water in the canal at its proper level th the 13 sea sen dike is admitted JO be the finest of df its kind hind in the kingdom great difficulty was encountered in im making it th the ground bil bli on which it s stands tanda i being so boft soft and for the sanle sanie reason the cofferdam broke through durin durine during the construction odthe of the locks the engines and pumps aro arc the larbes largest in Holl hoil holland bud hud being each seventy five horse pow errand alcha discharging together over 0 cubic ible f feet of water per minute the tho so second on apart part consists of cutting the canal through the sandhills sand hills or dunes near the north sea and the construction of three large locks with two basins the bigger one being able to accommodate vessels feet long 59 feet wide and drawing 27 feel of water nearly kearly cubia cubic yards of 0 sand have havo lez leg been removed from this thia part of the canal alobe niobe it then theli passes ples through the lake lae Y where bankd banki had to be made on each bide side ade and the channel dreda dredged dd to its proper depth this was dope done in a vety very ingenious and quite novel noyel way by attaching cen cell trl tri fugl fugi to bucket dredgers dredge and by their means passing the sand through rough pipes pi pes pea to a distance sometimes i of yards and more five ifft million cubio cubic yards of dredging had to be done in iii this part originally but on account of the company being continually called upon to sinice oft off the water by the ron von north orth sea sea locks to ici prevent the flooding of amsterdam was dro bro brought u into the canal to fo the extent of elearly cubic yards the land lauta on oil each side cf of the canal has been and has fetched enormously high price prices z amounting in conlo mb caes cates to an acre thare there thero aro arc to nearly acres of reclaimed cial clat land and by the concession they become the property of the company tho the canal atil whenn uly uis completed b be 23 neet feet deeb deep 26 2 y yards a z wide at fhi fhe bottom and have a ruhh fron 10 71 to yards its length is sixteen 11 mile twe the rhe fhe third portion conslato con slAts of mak ing a harbor barbor the coasts at the entrance ce ortho of tho the canal cattal this has been done by iti running out two jet ties each 1800 1600 yards long jong they statton the shore at a distance from each other of 1300 yards V ards i and converge so as to lesy leay an entrance yards in width these jetties betties are built by concrete blocks forming a wall wali with a top width of twenty two feet and have a fores horein of loose blocks on the sea side ehg the e great experience gained by the construe construction tion of the magnificent admiralty pier at dover availed but bul little for fon the shifting I 1 sailly sanu of the tho dutch coast and great tiesha ties had in the commencement to be bb overcome Mr fr Hutton succeeded in lix doing this completely by designing and constructing a giuga u gt cralle crane which answered vy ry requirement and did away with tho the usual staging or ing which in this shifting ground it i t was impossible toworu to work with an nn idea maybe be form ed by the fact that they will when quite fluis finished hed heO have consumed over r 1000 tons of concrete the south pier pien which is the most moat forward and practically con oon completed pie plo tedis is aper a perfect work of its itt kind and aoe doe greal great credit to its colstr constructors uc tons the tho area 0 of f the harbor barbor by the thesa 0 piers is about 20 acres a great portion 0 of f which has to be dredged to ita its proper depth depthford For this purpose a kind of novel redger ja in use qa of a centrifugal pump called a tl itan which raises thel sard sand to ether gether na with h a certain proportion of water and discharges it in ili the barges where jerothe the band sinks to the b bottom ottom and nd the tho water flows oyer over A glance at the map will show the we value and of this har harbor harlor lor Jor itis situated just half balf way betge between mabbet thai I 1 nook hook van varl hoiland holland en francq entrance inta notten notter rotterdam dam daw and the heider or nieu nieuwe lieuwe we diep wb which loh lob am are nearly miles apart this forms the only refugo for vessels between these two places along this Um barten baiten and arld sandy coast iho thel canal and harbor wore were farad advanced in the latter part to allow of the tho passage of the ironclad turret ship Swing der r the tho largest autt and most recent a addition to the dutch nany navy since bince then many other steamers and yachts leavo pals passed bed sed out of amsterdam this w way ay iy trade having been gr greatly an mhd decline of late years the opening of thib this new now waterway has raised great expectations in the mercantile community 06 oft amsterdam and great preparations are being made for t the tho e duechle dud due cele celebration bration of this important event hadr am correspondent london news 11 31 i the presidential election in in ille tho 1 1 honse house the possibility of or the election tor for vice bain being g thrown into the house of representatives senta ilves tives leads to td a contemplation of the contingencies which m may arase armo under o thia mst most aa absurd urd i bys tem which it would almost scerni awag was invented fot foi the express purpose of defeating the will of bf the people it possibilities 1 in the e event jentof of such an eleo b election by the house that an actual in minority Ino rity would control it E every v ery state ha bag lalit but one vote vot which is cast by the party having the majority of jf the tho state delegation as for instance if the new york Y delegation was corm corn posed of twenty democrats and thirteen de democrats would of course control a and nd east cast the tho vote As at tit present constituted d the house would in ili any event 1 I elect eidet gov tilden if the election should be tie thrown into that body and here Js is the way the states would vote for ti ehden alabama arki arfi arkansas ih isas connecticut california delaware georgia I 1 illinois iti Ili indiana ake kentucky n louisisna lour Loui sidna ir marylan maryland d mississippi bliss miss s sis tsal isil sippi i api I 1 missouri new 1 apshire newl jersey bortl carolina ohi ohto ohio 0 o oregon tennessee Tennesse 6 axas texas 23 virginia all nil and d west VIrgi virginia nila fila colorado iowa lowa kansas sab sas maino maine michigan gau minnesota N Nebraska eb NeVada ame ale 0 york rhode island I 1 south Nr carolina olna oina vermon ver Yer monti aud and Wis wisconsin conIn 14 it As 13 tha the opinion of a prominent 0 of congress that florida mald vid bave havo no vote since her p delegat Matl mati ionis ohis equally divided A glance at the tha above lists of states will qi shu sho i w U the te ridiculous absurdity 0 of r ail an election et on by the house A all ail 1 of th the in inthe the tilden list except possibly Louls louis louisiana laua ga gave lave ve P a for tor hay hayes s and y yet e t ai the vote of their delegation ion lon wo gl d bg cast cat for tilden in the hayes haye list flat we find lew rew tork York i which gave tilden a large popular f majority and nd yet her ber vote would be cast for or irh lra hayes hayea yes ves because a her dible delegation gatlon in the house stands re republicans public ai i a 17 and democrats 16 it can readily be seen been hat bat while it would not tot not be so 96 in theba the tho case of hayes and tilden if it I 1 is 8 among the tue possibilities fo for fon ti the minority y in the tp e tho the ma majority I 1 orlay vash ingish emar star jabi 15 qui QUIET over and over again are aro the sweetest mattir natured e d as well as the cleverest women stigmatized as dull duli stupid and atia prim because they are disinclined inclined dis to shriek and to show all the te teeth ethin in their head to the first firs monn ronn who ab ilan iian cond nd I 1 ter tri indicate that ho hd is dispo disposed zed to J lii luul ai with favor upon them it may as ti well be stated that to be a noisy forward self assured member of society it is necessary that a girl shall havo have no deep feelings upon any subject that bhe shall not think upon mft mattel atela fi outside the secial special sphere of at her operations and thau that she bhe shall hareno have no per person one ons welfare at hearl heart so much as her own in a it word she slid must neither possess a squeamish taste nor a tender conscience inow ow hosts hors of quiet g fa Is are burdened bened with those on mfrances hence perhaps their c instant humiliation nili milia lation tion if it you wa c uto tto to find a girl who is a treasure V I 1 i io homo in which she ehe lives nii hi i u r ligne honest st substantial work w who lio ito possesses the strongest affection of those who tho thoroughly know and understand her and who is endowed with asi ael noble a soul as us she has haa a pure mindi mindl mind look dok fora for a quiet girl itis from the tho rank the tho quiet girls that the best wa wives ve and the truest friends A and nd the hardest workers come of tuo the women who really distinguish themselves by their intellectual the majority are subdued and modest yet lively in company often treasures the e of which has b been een unsuspected have been revea ledin led in quiet girls it always niwaye will aj bo so foru fora genuine woman will never show the sterling stuff of which she 1 ia made to the impertinent inquisitor who may be unworthy alike of or he her r confidence and her hek regard slid she will continue lo 10 astonish those who pretend to td understand her by rising to tb height when she is ig thither which are unapproachable to her complacent and courted critics 1 what vhal we would indicate is that vy while lle lie noisy damsels will often turn out to be gaudy impostors many quiet ones will amply repay the time me trouble and love which any one ono may bestow upon the them mome home journal A i sociological PROBLEM A correspondent writes whites to us thus A reent of a jour journal qia ila speaking peak t ng or of the relative proportion of the sexes in rates race declare 3 that forr for every men that came into the world 72 loo women are born I 1 do not not mot dispute these figures I 1 only ask fol for light it appears accor according dind dink to this that there are some who homiare are only 72 loo of a woman what the remaining 28 are I 1 cannot imagine now what I 1 know is this if A a woman of bt this kind marries aioo a loo ddn man and has bag a daughter will the daughter be an hh woman or a os 95 loo wom woman a n and what will be bei the exact relationship relater tion ship between such buch a daughter ter nid nud ad aid a 76 aunt and her 87 loo daughters espedia especially lly liy if t the he 8 87 7 loo hils hiis gli git Is marry the br brothers otherA of lie the t 06 6 gloo loo girl and so become not no only her 98 loo first cousins s but her ber 95 sisters in law we the afo aforesaid aid ald 95 loo ml mather t her in law of her SS 88 nc nephews will w ill lii the tile let rhe me see where am I 1 it is an awful subject to tackle oh yes I 1 say if the aunt nut but ho bo the question cant be solved in any such buch way as this I 1 give laup it up the only way to get at it wl will 11 be to lid ild the sum in algebra somehow w making the tho th daughter dau ahter s z the aulty aunty litins the first cousin a an and d th the mother in then it seems to me if multiply the aunt by ae the daughter and divide the first cousin by the mother in law in some wa way arother or other or d r extract th the 0 lq square aare rodt root t of or the cou cousins I 1 ns and subtract the a result from t the aunt he keeping e PI n g the daughter as a common d denominator en 0 ina lna and atthe at the same bame time maki makl making ng a ii decimal fraction of tb the 43 1110 illo mother ther inlaw in law berha perhaps ps th the e read result I 1 t iii might bight agh t be satisfactory but I 1 am not certain I 1 am poor at mathematics I 1 alst wish the lightning calculator would get at t this or thai that prof tyndall would subject abject it to cil oft chemical ical teal al analysis aly list FW philadelphia adelphia B uze t iw I 1 I 1 |