The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-12-02
Frem the Boston Mercantile Journal.

neighbors, with characteristic energy and en-
terprise are vigorously prosecuting towards
completion, the work on the various great rail !
roads which are soCn to intersect Canada
They seem to be fully convinced of the truth
of the old adage that whatever is worth doing
is worth doing srell, and the work done is of
the most durable nature. The iron railway
bridges which have been and are to be con-
structed in different parts of the provinces are
said to be among the finest structures in the
country. We have already given sketch OF
the bridge of the Grand Trunk Company, OPP
posite Montreal, and we now fad room for a
brief description of two of the bridges built
uroa the line OF the Quebec and r .chmond
railway, taken from the Portland State of
Maine:
THE one over the Silk River is made Of boi-
Ter plate. the tops. bottoms, and connecting
plates being of double or treble thickness. and
in form of construction, like wooden trestle
bridge, the interstices being filled with COM
mon boiler plate. The river, at first glance,
seems to be spanned with an ordinary steam
boat boiler, on which road is placed. 1t is
however. inconceivably strong, resting as it
does upon substantial stone piers.
We came next on the bridge over the Etch
min. The span is immeus'. a tubular iron
bridge OF l56 feet span, rests upon two solid
stone piers of some fifty feet in height one of
which is connected with the left bank of the
riverhy an iron girder bridge fifty feet in
length. the same as thrown across Silk Bridge
but of more than double the strength. The
tubular bridge, which is like q square boiler
strongly arched in the interior. Is only the
width of the road on the very centre of which
the rails are laid and to which two iron gal
leries are attached, for the employees of the
road to pass over when necessary, and about
ten feet from bottom to top--in " ord, it is as
it were solid bar of irOI seven feet i'm width
by ten in depth, and Of onehundrcd aud fifty
five feet IN length. laid across two stone piers.
for the structure is scientifically put togeth-
er, that the immense weight of large locomo-
tive. on being put on it. only caused Il pcrma-
nent depression of an eighth of an inch in the
whole span"
10 The Peno3scot (Ic.) river was frozen
over at the Sunkhaze dead water on the night
of the 9th inst.
rs" The Detroit Free press learns that the
propeller St. Joseph had sunk near Mauiton
Island. and all the hands on board excep. the
clerk, were lost.
WoN'T PAr.-The Farmers who bring their
produce to town at present can hardly realize
for it to pay the expense of raising, so abund-
ant have the crops en- this yea.
- The new cemetery in Cambridge, Mass
near Mount Auburn, was consecratcd with APP
propriate religious services recently. The
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of $4,000.
S- In the town of Crockett, Texas, there
is said to be not q single marriagcablc female.
re- The uoraclsv lie Tribune learns
that c. p. Ward, of that place has just closed
contract for railroad constructions in OHIO
amounting to nearly two millions of dollars.
:HS- The proprietor Of the gold placer in
plymouth, VI, says that 5000 4 day can be
realized there. with one washing machine.
1T At Oshkosh, Wis, there is floating
pottery. with lathe turned by bears. They
are said to be contentcd looking animals, ard
do dot seem to dislike the occupation.
WISE PREcAuTIoN.-Thc y. Y. Post says: "as
one of our reporters was passing BY the Third
ward polls in CORTLAND Street this morning.
he observed an individual emptying his peck
cts into the hands Of friend, with the follow
ing injunction. Take it, Bill. my honey, take it
all. I'm going to be drunk to-day.''
70 \ writer in the " y. Journal orCom-
mercc says that when the accident to to the
Arctic was discovered, had the boilers been
blown clear OF steam and filed with air. which,
could easily have been done, their bulk would
have sustained the entire fabric in which they
rested. The builders Of the engine confirm this
opinion.
JeS-Fivc members of the Canadian Parlia-
ment are natives of the United States
10 Jenny Lind lately wrote to a Boston
friend that it was not improbable that she
should again visit America.
10 There have been several heavy failures
in Montreal.
10 John Ross, an experienced apiarist OF
Warren, Mass. has a hive of bees from which
he has taken during the past year, two hun
cred and forty pounds ofeytra honey! The bees
were fed upon preparation made by himself
and by the use of which they do far better than
when left to collect their own food.
Gs- The n. Y. Evening Post says that be.
tween four and five thousand persons took out
naturalization papers, within few weeks o,
election.
10 The railroad between Sprinicld and
Delaware, in Ohio. having failed to nav eypcn.
scs, the trains have been Withdrawn and the
road is now lying idle.
~ a farmer named Mcdonald in the
townshipof Godcrich, Canada, succeeded in
freeing four bears on the 4ih and then shot them