| Show Moving Telephone Pole PoleTo To accommodate the building of or a highway between two eastern cities the he local telephone company recently performed the remarkable feat of moving IDOV- IDOV Ing ng Its Us entire pole line of poles ten feet teet to one side without cutting a cir clr- cIrcuit circuit cult or interrupting on any of ho tho wires The work was done by six men In two gangs with five polo pole Jacks for tor lifting the poles from their holes sa says say Popular Mechanics It was start start- ed by raising the first five poles one foot then going back and raising the first four another foot and the first three another and then the first two a n total of four feet teet Finally the first pole was lifted clear of the ground and railroaded over to the new hole prepared for It by sliding It on oa a ten ten- foot oak plank Burritt's Remarkable Record Learned Blacksmith was the epithet epi epi- epithet thet bestowed upon Elihu Ellhu Burritt the American reformer author and lin I guist who lived from 1810 to 1879 He began his career as a n blacksmith about 1827 and worked at that trade for many years years during which time he made himself proficient In numerous ancient and modern languages According According According Ac Ac- cording to Mo Mathews Mathews' Getting On in inthe inthe th the World Elihu Burritt acquired a n mastery of ot 18 languages and 22 dialects dialects dialects dia dia- not by rare genius which he disclaimed but by Improving the bits and fragments of ot time which he could steal from his occupation as a black black- smith |
