New-York tribune., 1889-12-24

traner at either end where they spend cent TO eaten
cent. Consequently every approach was crowded
with a waiting crowd In its own way anu e'cryoouJ
elses Free the eangway.
Nearly fifty years ago. IN his exploring expedition
round the world, Commodore Charles WILKES, u D. NJ,
found elephantlasls prevailing " to frightiu extent
in Samoa. Leprosy. eh No Cinnamon there lhen
The Hawaiians are Polynesians and speak the Poly-
nesan tongue. Why can't they have brought their
diseases from the place they got their language'
Cook attributes the scourge, which ne does ny hsc
but describes, TO the persistent use OF ava or kaVh
as a drink but that Is inference or something he
had been told
Thanks dear Springfield Union" and thanks. TOO
correspondent, Mr.. william II. Parsons who has SO
kindly referred us to Robert Treat Paine's leomeh
of Hampshire" the original source oil
" Roll on thou Connecticut, who forever mast ran,
Bringing shad TO South Hadey, ana pleasure 10 man
Only Paine wrote loved Connecticut giving bios
sons to nature and morals to man. which, OF course
is beyond the power Of shad, even in South liadley
But since asking the question in these columns. the
slad lIadeyan version has turned up IN ts haot a.
Everett e Hale called What Shall We Have for Din
nerl' and printed in The Ata9tc Monthly fay Mr Nor
sRembeF s VOL My X p 6o3 3S4 Mr. Il Hale Ieo' where Mr
did you get IT, pleasel
"a Correspondent asks: Why can't the archi-
tects and builders give us absolutely reproof build
nature incombustible, have already been burned
once. "Why do so-called ireproof buildings burn
up, or down, whichever you like TO call it1" Be
cause dear madam-there, the secret is out-we fill
them with things that burn and in burning destroy
the structure. Granite melts and iron bends " HOW
do you explain the fact that fire never seems TO
spread in Pars-in fact that there are no great fires
thoe ~ Plaster OF Paris, ma'am. DON'T iaugh.
'Ts true; her immense beds of gypsum enable the
gay capital to pack her walls ana noorS s0Ho anu
make OF each room almost freproof safe. Have ou
considered how much our bad habit Oh a' nosdow
walls and hollow floors has TO answer fOr III spreading
not only fame but smokel
Speaking of uniting New York with her stcpsister
cities what on earth in the waters under the earth
has become of the great Hudson River tunnel begun
with such hurrah about ten years agol The
distance is only a mile. After promptly drowning
twenty men in the characteristic attempt to prove
that impracticabe plan could De made 10 worh, ah
the second paR 6ea a6 600 Yards s had been eScavaed
rather elected. Cause no more "uck' ine
rest is silence.
Meanwhile without the least fuss noise, our
solid and stod cousins the little island have
begun pushed through completed, and put TO daily
use two far greater works. There is the splendid
tunnel under tile Mersey, at Liverpool, begun In
$780, opened for traffic in 1886. 1t Is mile long
between the pumping shafts, the crown Of the arch
Is thirty feet below the river bed, and the water Is
kent out by pumps capable OF lifting 81 900 gal
Ions day. The great railway systems OF Lancasllre
Cheshire and North Wales are thus united, a. , We
as the towns of Liverpool and Brkenhead, with thelr
population of 100000. When You want to cross, you
simply get into the big lft or elevator or ratner
depressor, in the middle of the town, and there You
are.
A still greater and far more difficult work Is the
great funnel under the Severn, which first suggested
Itself to the strategic eye Of Vgnoes forty years be-
fore it was begun in 1879 by the Great Western Rail
bpin flooded,
once so badly that it in serious danger Of having
to be abandoned and only saved by the greatest
skill and ingenuity the part of the engineers backed
by the ndOmitabe courage of their employers, the
tunneI was finally opened In 1886 IL IS four and
third miles in length, and was for nearly its whole
length through formations particularly n1tayorable,
being covered at the tnnest part by only thrty ieet
Of riassic mari.
Then you know the Channel tunnel has been car
ried o 900 yards coward France. Now consider the
Brooklyn and Peeksill suspension bridges, the great
cantever the Forth the Poughkeepsie bridge ana
the bridge soon to be begun over the lower Missis-
sippi-as soon, that is somebody settles the dis
nuted question of above or below ew-Oreans Then
Won can grasp the idea of the task your young TWEEN
tieth century will have to set before the young en-,
m some faint picture Of the sort Of New York you
Will in 1910 If by good fortune you be mere 10 See'
Prophecy has come to be poor trade, like another.
Don't never prophesy onless know" IS the advice
of Mr. Hosea Dglow, derived from his grandfather's
stock of wlnterstraned wisdom. But if you must
20 into the business-and really tits much like Wall
Street where the wisest. the richest the poorest the
most foolish is alike driven to take flyer now and
then-ifsyou feel you must then go in the "bull"
side IT'S "a bull country as the Commodore truly
declared For neglect of this small consideration, no
longer ago than 1850, one of the wisest men OF
Western Pennsylvania shook his white hairs at that
.ttTI,-
the thingrl he cried" All the light goods bound
to come by the COnestoga wagons, and the heavy
stuff and all the passengers that are not IN hurry
by the canal What's left for your nnovating noisy,
rlinous railroad except a sackful Of through letter
sengers that can't help themselves. Why, when / go
I'm going by the good Old national road stages to
Cumberland, sir'
What will you bet that in 1910 we 1oo,ooo,0oo
Americans without the Pam will not be eating all the
food VIC ralsel VIII you wager two to onel Done
with you them in sarcophagi Tor gusses for the crowd.
To the youth who lies prone on his back and sees
lurid lights. Dear Sir Miss What do you mean,
or what do you think you mean, when You have no
doubt but that such thing is both and novel"
What is your private understanding Of the phenomenon
that took place when you stepped up" to the wall
of the building where everything " in good shape"
and evnced good taste and chlc' and when you had
ceased stepping found that wall frescoed in oil"
Just what happened already when the rrepressible
very orator and made the bad break, and
the dcnsely packed audience which not eager for
further display of his gall either entirely inclined
TO kick and the worthy chairman stOop up and vainly
raped for Orderl Give abbreviated view Of your
notion to the force of saying casually and without
cause or wish for emphasis that he actually did do
it, and " did do that very thng"l Do don't. Get |
thee TO a dictionary.
Drink Lemonade
Made with the favOre Manitou Natural Water and enjoy
something delicious. At all druggists and gr0cers.
Liebig Compnny's Extract of Meat.