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Show I TROLLEY ROAD OVER ICE. I Since time Immemorial the Russians have uood the River Neva, at St. Petersburg, Pe-tersburg, aa their most popular winter strtmt. The broad stream la covorcd for months with Ice ten or twenty feet spBinBffli thick, and here not only tbo skaters and alulgh riders go for pleasure, but a great proportion of tmtllc Is diverted, great loads of merchandise, fuel, etc., being hauled In mammoth sledges. With the advent ot King Trolley, the Ice-bound river has been put to a new use. Aa aoun as winter set. this year, a trolley road was laid on the ice, and has fursUhed no end of pleasure to the, peonls of tlie Russian cupltnl. The tlesj are est Into the Ice, and after the rail are spiked to thum uro mode fast by pouring water around and ovor them. '1 bus they are cumelltu( dOWn and prartlcsiiy DiadB a part of tho rivor's surface. lP nii rlon tho level track the cars , , '""nendous spued upon what is. P"Aal,y, ,he hemt t0 ,hj ldoa, roadbed tU(lt ha, yet beea founi |