Nevada County picayune., 1890-09-11
WONDERS OF EIFFEL TOWER.

There are four ascenseurs in the Eiffcil tower, Paris, France. These great elevators are put on the second story of the tower. They are raised by hydraulic pressure. Their rate of ascent is two metres second. An 1 equilibrium is established by the as cending and descending cars. The ropes of steel are munied, so there is no noise, and the great machine moves as silently as the velvet-shod nurse moves about the sick chamber of a child. The greatest precaution is taken for the comfort and safety of the travellers. The cables are of steel wire, six to elevate and four to lower the ear, all untitled One alone would support the weight of the car should all the others break. Under each car is a mechanism, which works automatically, to receive the car in case of breakage or the elongation of one of the cables: in other words, the car takes care of itself in case the cables give out.
 These are the express trains from the second story up to the stars. One can hardly imagine a more con- plete, wonderful and admirable piece of machinery. NJ, Edoux, of Paris, had the honor to make the first as- cent of the first story, and he has vanquished distance in an imposing manner; but here one is pushed up. Her cabins can send up 750 people an hour; their size is If square me- tres; they hold each G3 persons the weight of each car is 5000 kilo- grams; 4,0OO for the cabin and 1000 for the living freight
 Great precaution is taken to pre- vent the action of the wind. which is the enemy of the Eiffel tower.
 But they have treated the wind as Peter did his scolding wife: "Let her scold.' They allow the wind to blow through all these intersticcs, and of course the wind, finding no resistance, comes out as 1t went in.
 The tower is world by itself, where ,OO0 meals are served daily :; where paper, the Figaro, is pub lished daily; where the visitors come and go by thousands; where one has to wait in cue sometimes for two hours to take one of these lifts.
 The climate of the tower begins to attract attention. At the top the asthmatic breathe with ease. Those troubled with heart disease breathe with difficulty above 100 feet. The meteorological observations are made with great ease and are of the first importance. Scientific observations are much facilitated. The violence of the atmospheric currents, the chemical composition of the air, its electricity, its humidity, are all measured. The purity of the air, it's freedom from mist, vapor and damp ness, has led to the suggestion that a sanitarium be constructed ,OOO feet in height.
 The most expensive and the most difficult part of his vast enterprise was to glye his gigantic child foot hold. In thus building a Colossus of Rhodes with four feet instead of two, a sort of Centaur of towers. he was obliged to find a place for him to stand. There was the Seine very near a dangerous neighbor They must sound the depth of the earth where he was to strike his giant hoofs, lest he get swamped, l de- clare it is poetry 10 read how these ingenious creatures sent down their piles with chambers of compressed air until they found tune couche in- compressible. Cor. N. |. Herald