The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-03-11


curacy Of workmanship, and beauty 9
: design those Of modern times. TIL
view is IN part at least quite erroneous
Their works were generally for ussIes
purposes, although there are many ex
ceptions, such as their canals, waite
works, military roads and bridges
, which show that they were OCCASIONAL.
r called upon for works Of utility. Thu
: stones in the temple of Baalbeck are thu
largest save one OF any building in til,
J world. They range from Loo to l ,27i
tuns. The one at st. Petersburg is one
fifth larger. The monoliths of Egypt
are from 200 to 500 tons, aud a few 81
700 tous. The obelish Of Luxor, now in
Paris, weighs $50 tons. The 'goodly
stones" Of tho temple at Jerusalem
weighed $50 tons each. The speaker
then described. from the most trustwor-
thy sources, the probable method Of
constructing the great pyramid Of Gil
xeh, including the method of quarrying,
Transporting, and laying the stone, and
stated that, instead OF scaffolding, a
mound Of earth and in inclined cause
way were used, aud when the structure
was completed the earth was removed.
This pyramid contained Q, 500, 900 tons Of
Stone. and the embankments required
o,OoO. QUO tens Of earth. All Of the ma
eonsy Of the Erie Canal amounts to but
ons-third Of this, and al Of the earth
moved f6F the Pacific Railway amounts
to but that used instead Of scaffolding
~ this pyramid. It required the labor
d 5oO. 900 men for thirty years, and cost
s., OO, 900 600. A modern engineer
would construct such o work for $780,
OOo, 900, and use 1.-THE of the men. The
Coliseum Of Rome was but onc-third Of
the size Of the London Exhibition build.
ing, and but one-sixth Of the Paris
building. The tonnage of the Ark was
1900; of the show ships built by
Ptolemy somewhat less, and Of the Great
Eastern o 500 tons. Some of the mod
crn men war have nearly 5000 tons
displacement, and our passenger ships
5000 to 5000 tons. The largest steam
engines in the world were those used in
draining the lIarlacm Mere, with steam
cylinders of IL feet diameter aud Is feet
stroke, driving eight pumps of G3 and
- inches diameter, and 10 feet stroke.
These three engines were capable of de-
~,
great as that of the Croton. The next
largest pumps are those Of the Craving
Dock ut brooklyn, Of one-third of the
capacity Of those at Haracm Mere
The steam engines, next in size are
those of the Bristol and Providence
steamers, with cylinders of 9 feet > inches
dinmeter.and II feet stroke. The speak
er then described the Bessemer steel pro-
cess, and spoke Of the changes which it
is destined to produce in engineering
structures. Seven of the most noted
modern engineering works, to contrast
with the seven wonders of the ancient
world, are the Thames tunnel, the Great
Eastern steamship. the Atlantic Cable,
the britannia and Niagara Bridge the
Erie Canal modern ordnance and the
racine hallway. Among the great pro-
Jecis OF the age are those for building
canals, railways, tunnels, bridges and
steamers. In canals, we have the pro.
jet OF one around the Falls of Niagara
4 Encouragement Of the Erie for vessels !;
OF 900 tuns the Suez nearly complet-
ed; one across the All"ghanies in Vir-
g'nia; one through the Nicaragua Lake
or Panama, and ono from Huron TO
Ontario. In railways, we have the Pa
inc on the eve Of completion; the
Mont Gents in rapid progress: one
across the continent froln Rio .Jaueiro
begun, and many others of magnitude.
Oi bridges, we have those in PROGRESS
acr~ss our great Western rivers: one
proposed across the East River at New
lo:k, of $40 feet clear span two over
mo Hudson above and below West
FONT; another across the Straits of
MeSsIna, covering the "Scylla aud Cha.
fyodis with clear spans of J ,oOa meters
Two thlrds Of a mile each" and with
piers of 700 feet high, half in and half
out Of the sea, and finally the modern
"ions Assinorum," bridge proiec,
across the Straits of Dover. Is miges
long, in clear spans Of two Mills each
with piers Of 1909 feet depth in the
water. The project is said to he favored
by Napoleon. In tunnels we have that
OF Mount Gents, eight miles, and of the
lo0sac, five miles in length, both in
rapid progress one of wrought iron
tubes Mt London, aud another Mt Chi
cago. the latter completed; tunnels pro-
posed under the East and North Rivers
at New York, under the Ganycs at
Calcutta, and under the Straits of DO.
yer.
COLORED IDEA OF Rrs,Srs,
During the progress of trial mt Sa,an-
nah, Ca. recently, very back young
man Was placed on the witness stand hy