Show om gil lit lyt fit corach buffalo 27 at meadville pa yesterday the entire block of wooden buildings on dock street et wis was was destroyed by fire it was occupied by some of tile the most important business houses in this city i the loss is estimated at from to 11 stores several minor shops and the journal printing office were destroyed it is supposed to be the work of an incendiary insurance small new york 27 the commercial washington special contains the following A well vell known contributor to the press pr s is not the only new yorker who believes the collector of your port still lives and that a method in his madness enabled him to successfully deceive his friends and the public A lady whose husband occupies ladi a high agh po political 1 rank has written a most liy lly ingenious genious paper on the subject and forwarded it here under injunctions injunction of the strictest se cresy as is she endeavors to prove that mr king if unmolested in the retreat which he provided for himself will in iii a few weeks leeover recover his reason impossible as this may seem at first sight the theory is supported by some curious facts not generally known OPENING OF THE PNEUMATIC DISPATCH RAILWAY october loth a train of tw two 0 trucks containing a quantity of goods was driven through the pneumatic dispatch tubular bular buiar line of railway from the central station at the bull and gate holborn to the terminus on the premises of the london and northwestern railway at el uston euston the carriages in their transit passing 01 beneath the thoroughfares of holborn new oxford street totten ham court road the hampstead road and drummond street to their destination the time occupied in running between the two stations a distance of a couple of miles was some five minutes the driving power is stationed at holborn and consists of two powerful 24 horse power engines these set in motion a disc the alameter diameter of which is about twenty two feet and this immense in circular fan revolves revolve with great r rapidity city in an immense air chamber creating tin g an almost ir atmospheric pow power er which by the use of valves can be used either for blowing the trains through the tubes or literally sucking them back again again goods that are to be 10 dispatched from holborn to euston wa will I 1 I 1 be taken from the street to the platform which is on the level wath with the latter lowered to the trucks lying on the traversing tables and shifted to the tube entrance of or which there are two euston and the other for the post office with in which the train will be placed and then liter ilter literally ully illy blown to its intended stopping place the height and width of the completed iron tube are respectively aft gin the width between the rails being aft 82 sin ain lin in the course of the week the duke of buckingham the chairman and several of the directors of the pneumatic dispatch company inspected the works and were blown in a ol train of three carriages under tinder the superintendence of mr ram Bam mell meli the engineer from the holborn station through the tube to euston in about five minutes their arrival being announced at Hol hoi holborn bornt borut by one telegraph ap pratus the wires of which are carried through the tube lloyds newspaper A JAVANESE JAVANE sr HOTEL A travale writing from batavia batavia iii in the island of java thus describes one of the hotels at that place the hotel des indes at which I 1 am now stopping 0 the main building two stories high with an immense plaza riaza in front is connected on each side by buildings like railroad de depots ta three or four hundred feet long va each ch suite of rooms contains room enough to make two three or even half a dozen ordinary rooms such as we get in the hotels of the united states in front and back are bath houses fountains flower gardens and out houses for cooking booking and for servants marbled floor tiled roofs ceiling from 20 to 25 feet high no carpets and but few curtains meals licals are served up in about the same sama style as at the first class hotels in new york the habits of living are quite uit different at daylight coffae coal ee an and tea are taken to your room at eight tho the same with light refreshments twelve breakfast and at seven dinner commee coffee and tea are always ready da day and night kameas same as baths no extra narge change charge take them or not as you may choose the hotel is situated in the new or upper town some half dozen I 1 miles from the water it is a fair sp specimen of or five or six others half a mile off each ot other her my hotel and grounds cover ten i aeres acres the whole ground dike like ilke the rest of the eity city is one lt immense mense forest of tree oree ciar and eana cana canals 8 |