The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-11-22

dington and Exeter is faster. Between
Psddington and Swindon the distance is
w miles, and both the up and down
trains travel it in 81 minutes, including
the starting anG stopping, or at the rate OF
1862 miles per hour. At full pace, the
speed is as nearly as possible a mile min
ute. The Great Western railway is built
on { feet gage, but many parts of the
line have third rail, allowing marrow
"A feet 3! inches) gage trains to run on it
also.
PROPOSED TUNNEL BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND
IRELAND.
For many years there have been pro
jects more or less before the public for
uniting Scotland and ireland by means OF
tunnel; and the scheme has recently
again been put forward, this time, howev-
er, with some reasonable probability Of its
being carried out. A single line tunnel 10
feet wide at base, % feet wide az maxi
man, and p feet high, the side walls Of
which would vary from 4 to feet IN
thickness, is estimated by the present pro-
iectors to cost nearly S23, 00O, 900, with the
approaches. The length of the tunnel
would be about twelve miles, and it would
extend from point on the north shore OF
Ireland, near Belfast under the Irish sea
to the extremity of the peninsula oppo-
site, in Scotland.
THR British Government have pur-
chased the lines of the telegraph compa-
MES at cost Of %, BAT ,347. The odd
tioual sum Of f5S6, S53 has been paid for
the lines Of q English and Welsh rail
ways. besides contracting various sums
aax-
Twelve Scotch companies have been re-
Gently contracted with for about f275, 600.
Forty four railway companies still remain
unsettled with most Of them involving
large amounts. Mr.. Scudamore's original
estimate was e3,00O,0OO. The Roii,cdy
NcrS remarks ITO the sums paid, and
To be paid, must he added the cost Of al
terations and extensions necessary to con
centrate the separate systems. When all
these matters are settled, we shall not be
surprised to find the aggregate cost repre-
scented by capital sum Of twelve millions
sterling equal to S65, 000, 900, or four
times the amount of the original estimate.
THE WATER SUPPLY OF PARIS.
Two new artesian wells have been III
course of construction for some years III
Paris. one at Butte-des Cables, the other
On the Place Hebert. The former has
been sunk to depth Of ,725 feet, and il
Is expected that water will be obtained at
| $50; its cost will be about Sl25, 900. The
other well, like that completed after So
many years labor at Passy, presents great
difficulties; and although the work is
pushed on with activity, the progress is
not more than Ii feet per month; and it is
believed that Is months time will be re-
CURED TO finish the work The boring
tools now in use are worked by means Of
steam engine Of 40 horse power; load
Of excavated soil takes from seven to eight
hours to raise it to the surface. The OBJ
lect Of this well is not so much the in
crease Of the water supply Of the city as
the establishment of public baths and
wash houses at cheap rate, as the water,
as it issues from the well, will be of about
the temperature Of % : Fab.
PROFESSOR HITCHCOCK. of Amherst col
lege. recently explored Miles Cave, in
Salisbury, Mass, with guide. Hundreds
of fest below the surface their torches were
suddenly eXtinguished, and as there was
no means of relighting them they remained
below for hours. The professor tainted on
emerging