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Skillful Engineering.

The engineers and workmen in the
Manchester Ship Canal, England, had
lively time recently when the Mersey
swept away 800 feet of a great embank-
ment that diverted the water at the mouth
of the Shropshire Union Canal. Ten
million tons of earth and masonry were
swept away in moment, and it became
necessary to repair the damage between
tides. The engineers had eight hours at
their disposal and set an army of men to
work upon the construction of new en-
bankment Of rock and clay. Railroads
were laid as if by magic, and locomo-
tiyes dashed through the advancing
waters with hundreds of truck loads of
stones, refuse and gravel at the risk Of
extinguishing their fires. Up to the last
moment it was doubtful whether the
water or human skill and energy would
win the victory, but at last, when the
men were almost exhausted, the baf1ed
tide began to recede and the embankment
triumphed. 1t was made doubly secure
before the water could get back again
[Picayune.
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PATCHWORK FARMING.
The Italian Agriculturist a Poor
Specimen Of Land User.

Everything is cultivated in patches in
Italy, though with less skill and thor
Dug hness and system than in France in
localities where the same practice OBJ
tains. Corn and wheat and grass and
some sorts Of vegetables are raised in
alternate squares or paralellograms in a
space less than an American farmer
would require for an ordinary potato
patch. Preparatory to planting the land
is turned by one of those antiquated
plows that scarcely do more fhan scratch
the surface Planting is by hand, as it
was in Roman times, and the harrow,
dragged over the soil by a single horse,
wobbles and capers about as though its
purpose was to get over the clods with as
little injury to them as possible. The
clumsy, heavy-bladed scythe is used in
moving, and women take part in this as
in every other form Of agricultural labor.
Indeed, women are the best of Italian
laborers, meek drudges, who go about
their tasks with as much apparent uncon-
seriousness Of any other mission or am
bition as the brown-eyed oxen that lurch
along the country roads dragging thse
well-laden van, says traveller.
AS the ancient scythe is used for reap
ing, so is the archaic rake used for gath
ering the fallen grain for binding into
sheaves. The threshing is as primitive
as all tho other steps toward the profit
in the harvest. The sheaves are torn
apart and scattered over level, hard
ened square of ground out of doors, and
the grain is beaten out by fails in the
hands of men, women and children, is,
trodden out by tramping, or is crushed
out Of the ears by the broad wheels
of stout wooden cart drawn about over
the straw by horse, or an OK, or an ass.
In this primitive fashion is the agriculture
Of the country, so essential to the we'll
being of the masses, conducted. Though
the earth under benignant sun needs
but to be scratched to laugh out har-
vest, the prosperity of an agricultural
nation demands little fuller and more
faithful reckoning with the Mother
Earth.
The Italian masses are shiftless, ili-
dolent, happy people content. with little,
working in slow, restful sort OF way,
and feeling that they perform their whole
duty if they make perceptible differ
ence in things in the course of ten OF
twelve hours. One is reminded by their
deliberate, unhurried manner Of Charles
Dudley Warmers cobbler, who declined
to mend shoe when he had ascertained
that there was enough money in the
house to meet the days needs.
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The shields shells were left in the tun-
tunnel aud the tunnel walls laid up III
them. The American had done the most
work, and the easiest progress was to.
ward Canada, the average being ten feet
each day.
The tunnel approaches have the same
general appearance of solidity as the
tunnel itself. On each side of the great
cuttings are high and deep stone retain
ing walls. Each portal is So feet high
and 14s feet wide, about 10 feet thick
over the entrance of the tunnel, and
about half that width at each end Like
the retaining walls the portals are made
of rough, heavy limestone blocks. Over
the entrance of each portal is inscribed
"St. Clair, 1890" The diameter of the
circle is 90 feet, and flush with the
tunnel.
The average number of men employed
was 700. In the tunnel eight hours
made a days work The tunnel was
estimated to cost 50, 500, 900, including
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The st. Clair Tunnel.

The ceremonies by which the ST.
Clair River tunnel was formally dedi-
Gated were the most elaborate of any
ever held in that section. Extensive
preparations had been made both at
Port Huron, Mich, on the American
side, and at the town OF Sarnia, at the
Canadian entrance to the great tunnel
which now connects the Dominion with
Uncle Sans domains. Sir Henry Tyler,
President of the Grand Trunk Railway,
with other officials and prominent pub
lie men of both the United States and
Canada, made an official trip through
the tunnel, stal ting from the American
side. They were treated, upon their
arrival in Canada, to a royal reception,
after which they returned to Port Huron,
where banqueting and speech making
again awaited them.
The st. Clair tunnel, on the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada extending
under the ST. Clair River between Sar
MIA, Ont, and Port Huron, Mich, is one
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six feet below the level of the water; the
rivers greatest depth 40. AZ feet, and it's
width nearly half mile. The strata
were yellow sand about two feet; with
sand and blue clay mixed about twelve
feet, thence to the rock about twenty
one feet of blue cay. Plans and draw
ings were made. The St. Clair Tunnel
Company was organized in 1886 At
first the company thought of starting
from immense shafts on the shore, and
then working outward to the land APP
proaches. In 1886 test shafts were sunk
on each side of the ST. Clair River;
drifts at right angles were started under
the river, water and gas stopped work.
In 1887 these shafts were begun. The
American one will be used as ven
tilator.
The tunnel plants were erected back
from the river: in Michigan about ], SOC
feet, in Ontario about 900 feet. Each
plant contained boiler house, hosting
or winding engines, ventilating en-
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tains aside, and showed me the man who
had called upon me, sitting on bench
on the promenade, his eyes raised to
the hotel. He saw us, rose and walked
away without once turning his head.
He loved with the devotion Of res.
cued ANIMAL grateful and devoted until
death. He came every day to ask me,
elbow is she?" knowing that [ had
guessed. And he wept bitterly when he
had seen her pass, paler and weaker
every day.
She said to me:
II have spoken but once to this singu-
lar man, and it seems to me / have known
him for years.
And when they met she returned his
bow with grave and charming smile. |
knew she was happy so lonely and
dying. [ knew she was happy to be
loved with such constancy and respect,
with this exaggerated poesy, with this
devotion ready for all hazards. And
vet, faithful to her obstinate though
high-minded resolve, she absolutely re-
fused to receive him, to know his name
or to speak to him. She said, ''No, no;
LDdC WOuIU SpOll OUI SCIdHS0 lllOhu0lAA F.
We must remain strangers to one an
other
AS to him, he was of certainty a
kind Of Don Quixote, for he took no
steps to approach her. He was deter
mined to keep to the letter the absurd
promise he had made to her in the train.
Often during the long hours OF weak
ness she rose from her sofa to draw back
the curtains and look if he were there be-
low the window. And when she had seen
him, always immovably seated on his
bench, she returned to her couch with a
smile on her lips.
She died one morning about 6 o'clock.
AS | left the hotel he came to me, his
face distorted; he had already heard
the news.
81 should like to see her for second
in your presence" he said.
| took his hand and re-entered the
house.
When he was by the bedside of the
dead he took her hand and kissed ia
long, long kiss Then he fed like a
mailman. The Strand Magazine.
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plants, materials and labor, and it re-
Quired about that sum. 1t is likely that
a second tunnel will be built near this.
The present plants and experience will
then be of additional value. The second
tunnel will be of cast iron, as it is supe-
rior to brick and cement for similar
tunnels.
The st. Clair tunnel is 5000 feet long.
To the rivers edge on the American
side it is 1,716 ieet, on the Canadian,
1884 feet; under the river 2, 800 feet
The out:ide diameter of the tunnel is
81 feet, the inside 10 feet 70 inches.
tunnel nearest the river is 8, 43 feet from
the river At it's lowest point the top
of the tunnel is So 81 feet below the
level of the river. From each portal to
the I yer the grade is | foot down for
every so feet; under the river, foot
down in every 1000 feet toward the
Canadian side to that drainage shaft.
Over 100000 cubic feet of soil was
taken from the tnnnel itself. The cast
iron lining OF the tunnel weighed
"a, 600, 900 pounds. To fasten tn lining
82s, $50 steel bolts seven-eighths of an
inch in diameter were used. The Cana
dian open cutting is 3,193 feet
long; the American, 1852 feet long.
The total length of the tunnel and its
approaches is II, 725 feet.
1t is believed that the Grand Trunk
route, as thus improved, will offer facili-
ties for through communication between
Chicago and all points in the East which
will be appreciated by passengers and
shippers. There will be no more trouble
from ice blocks or other distractions in
the river and the best time will be made
for traffic of all kinds.
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CINE, an air-blOWer with capacity OF
10000 cubic feet of air per minute, d
machine shop with machines for tunnel
work, water pump for the pit, and an
electric light plant The tunnel will be
lighted by electricity. The electric plant
is in Sarnia, where permanent brick
boiler and engine rooms have been
erected.
The great cuttings for the approaches
were commenced New Years, 1889.
Each cutting was made about sixty feet
feet deep at t! e portal. The Canadian
cutting at its broadcast portion is 260 feet
wide, the American about 200 feet wide.
Into each pit inclined tracks were laid
for engines to haul out the dirt. On the
banks derricks were erected for hosting
the soil. In September, 1890, steam
shOvels began work on the cuttings On
each side Of the river two shove.s were
used, each attended by an engine and
train of fat cars Several hundred men
were employed night and day, lime
lights being used at night, and the soil
was removed in layers. The work of
these shovels was greatly hindered by
rains and numerous landSlides occurred.
The tunnel walls are made of cas- t
iron, suggested by Chief Engineer Hob
son. In the circle are thirteen seq
ments and a key. Each segment is
feet 10 inches long, Is inches wide, and
2 inches thick, with fiaeges inside of II
inches thick and inches deep In each
segment were cast 81 holes, 4 in each
end fange and IL in each side fange.
Through these holes passed steel bolts
seven eighths of an inch in diameter.
IN each section of the tunnel the cir
eular joints required 157 bolts and
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of the most remarkable engineering
feats of the present day. The Grand
Trunk Railway extended it's lines to
Chicago in 1880. About 5000 miles of
railway will use this tunnel. Previously
steam ferries had been used. Their
service has not been altogether satisfac-
tory because the rivers current is very
swift; in winter there have been ice
jams; the railway had TO deviate about
six miles; a bridge was impossible, owing
to the nature of the ground and the OPP
position of the marine interests The
ST. Clair River bears the most commerce
of any stream in the world.
In 1884 preliminary surveys were
made. Behring'S found the rock eighty
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-24

/ once knew a woman, one of my pa
tients, now dead, to whom the most ex-
traordinary thing in the world happened,
and the most mysterious and touching.
She was a Russian, Countess Marie
Baranow, very great lady, of exquisite
beauty. You know how beautiful the
Russians are, or, at least, how beautiful
they seem to us-with their delicate
noses, their sensitive mouths, their eyes
so close together, of an indefnable color,
a blue gray, and their cold, rather hard
charm They have something wicked
and seductive, naughty and melting, ten
der and severe, utterly charming to q
Frenchman. At bottom, perhaps, it is
only the difference of race and blood that
makes us see much in them.
Her doctor had during many years
known that she was threatened by a dis
ease of the chest, and endeavered to per-
suade her to come to France for the VIM
ter, but she obstinately refused to quit
st. Petersburg. At last, in the autumn
of last year, the doctor compelled her to
leave for Mentone.
She was alone in her compartment of
the train, her servants occupying an
other. She leaned against the window a
little sadly, watching the country and
the villages as she whirled past, feeling
very isolated, very lonely in life.
At each station her footman, Ivan,
came to see if his mistress had every
thing she desired. He was an old SER
want, blindly devoted, ready to obey any
order she might give him.
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VALUED LIGHTLY.

Mr.. Lakesides (of Chicago Miss
Wabash, have come to ask you to-
Miss Wabash-Certainly. | should be
delighted. I'll run up stairs and get my
things on if
Mr.. Lakesides-But / was going to
ask you to be my wife.
Miss Wabash disappointed oh,
pshaw Is that all? / thought you were
going to invite me to tho theatre
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OUR BIG BADGER STATE1
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISE
LY CONDENSED.

Game Warden Fernandex After VioIators
Of the Fish Law-Eate Of an Ashland
Mother-Boy Burglars Sentenced--Church
Sold by the SherifF-KiIled by Logging
Train-Took the Laudanum Route, Etc.
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ROVER'S SERMON.


II was Saturday night, near the close of the
year,
And the 'sglass" stood at twenty or SO;
The wind moaned without in manner most
Over FIVE or six inches of snow.
BY the stove sat the parson, with visage
severe
The dog lay asleep in it's glow.
"Oh, dearl" said the parson, with deepening
frown,
'Thislife's but wearisome jog;
Six hundred a year, and from rich Deacon
Brown
An occasional gift of logl
Unjust curtail expenses and here he looked
down
At the slumbering form of the dog.
"Rover's pretty we'll worn, from his ears to
his tail,
Though time to his teeth has been kind;
have tried hard to lose him, each time but
to fail
From Jamaica his home he could fndl
Il is out of the question to put him on sale,
For he's lazy and old and half blind"
He finished his "Contentment' the
theme,
One of which many grumblers are fond.
ayes, I'll do it." he said "'tis O desperate
scheme,
But he's grown my poor income beyond;
He's a nchant for eggs and cold mutton
and cream,
So tomorrow he goes in the pondI"
In the morning the parson, who rose with
the dawn,
Took his coffee and bit of cold pork,
While the dog asked for breakfast, with
looks moss forlorn,
AS plainly as though he could talk;
But funeral meats are for those left to
mourn,
So his master suggested walk.
With his sermon and Bible, his hat and his
stick,
couple of bricks in his coat,
And a shoe lace of leather, as strong and as
thick
As e'er bound faithful dogs throat,
He led the procession, with stride long and
quick,
To the pond with it's primitive boat
film of young ice st: etched from bank unto
bank,
Cold spot for poo. Rover to sleepl
His 'dear masters face seemed SO kind and
so frank
That he entered the boat with leap;
Then the parson pulled out, with the aid of
plank,
To place that was fearfuly deep.
When the bricks were produced DER the coun-
try was sent
Such a blood freezing sort of yell
That his pitiless heart seemed about to re-
lent,
But he managed his qualms to dispel,
''Gooverl" he said, and ego over' he went,
But the boat toppled over as WE'LL
Like fisherman's sinker the clergyman
sank
With a terrible cry of alarm
That brought Deacon Brown in astonish-
ment blank
With all haste from the neighborng farm,
Intoning the fortieth psalm.
Bnt the boat topsy turvy threw light on the
case,
Brown stood DER the dog in trice;
Still casping his neck in it's cruel embrace
Was that evil in tended device
you're in luck!'' said the deacon; he cut
through the lace,
And the noble dog sprang through the icel
When the parson ''came to- he was snug in
his bed
With the whole congregation around.
And he sobbed like child when the old dea-
con said
But for Rover he'd surely been drowned.
Then they sang sweet hymn in which Ro-
ver's voice led
In a rich diapason of sound.
When they asked for the sermon the parson
beseeched
(And his view the majority held)
That the sermon by which all their hearts
had been reached
Take the place OF "Contentment'-
held;
That edo unto others" poor Rover had
preached
With an cloquence rarely excelled.
Thomas Frost III New York Herald.
SHE SAVED HIM.
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THROUGH TO CANADA.
THE BIG TUNNEL IS NOW COM
PLETE.

Elaborate Dedicatory Exercises at Both
Ends of the Subterranean Passageway-A
Hole in the Ground Six Thousand Feet
Long-How the Work Was Accom-
DIiShed.
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SHE SAVED HIM.
I

STRANGE TALE OF A FRENCH PHYSICIAN.
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One day, as was receiving my pa
tients in my study, | saw tall man
enter. Doctor" he said, 81 come to
ask news of the Countess Marie Bara-
now"
''She is beyond hope" replied. "She
will never return to Russia"
And this man fell to sobbing; then
he arose and went out staggering
like a drunken man. That same even
ing told the Countess that stranger
had been to me to ask after her health.
She seemed touched, and told me the
tale I have just told you. She added
"This man, whom | do not know, fol
lows me like my shadow. | meet him
every time / go out. He looks at me
very strangely, but he has never spoken
to me-"
She reflected. and then added
Look, there her is, below my win
dow!"
She rose from the sofa. drew the cur.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-10

Monday evening McCabe & Young's COL
Ored MINISTRIES appear at Greenwal'S. Geo.
jackson and Billy Johnson are two of the
funniest and cleverest comedians Of their
race; the Brewer family of acrobats, and
Jalvan Pamplin and Denton Cubeaus, jug
glerS, are said to be among the very best.
THE CLEMENCEAU CASE.
This play, found on Dumas novel. will
be presented Thursday evening. Those
who have not read Dumas novel of the
same name may be told that the incidents
of the play grows out of the exploits of
banished Russian countess. There is one
scene in the play which has been much
talked of, which is where la poses as
model for a statue which her husband is
making. This scene has been much criti-
cisei, owing TO the realistic manner in
which it was presented at first. Modifica-
tons have been made without any loss of
dramatic interest. The company is COM
posed of well-known players.
EDWIN ARDEN.-Of the young actors Of,
our day, Mr. Arden may be truthfully ac-
corded the first place among the represent
atives of the heroic school of the drama of
which, in their time, Wallack and F'echter
the footlights in the company of Thomas w.
keene, and afterwards supported Edwin
Booth. After two years spent in the stock
companies of Madison square and the Bos-
ton thcater, the ambitious young fellow (he
IS not yet twenty-seven) wrote Eagles
Nest in conjunction with his father, 4 St.
Louis journalist, and took the road under
his own management. He then wrote two
other plays, including "Raglan's Way
and so has gone on winning golden opinions
everywhere. His present play, Might and
Morning. is companion picture to Rag
lan'S Way is supported by good COM
pany, and illustrated by special scenery.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-10
Given Five Years.

Mrs Maggie Magee was on trial yester-
day in Judge Beckham's court, the style of
the case being theS tate of Texas VS.. Mrs.
Maggie Magee, charged with the theft of a
horse and buggy from j. p. Woods in this
city some months since, the facts concern
ing which are well known to THE GAZETTE
readers. The trial occupied the entire day,
the case going to the jury late in the after
noon, and in 4 snort time they returned a
verdict finding her guilty and assessing her
punishment at five years in the peniten-
tiary. Mrs. Magee appeared at ease dur
ing the entire proceedings, though paying
strict attention to every move made by wit
ness or attorney, and during the argument
of the case never for moment let her gaze
rest anywhere but upon the speaker. Her
little daughter, bright-eyed little girl of
about thirteen years, sat by her side and did
not seem to realize the gravenesS of the
charge against her mother. This girl was
with her mother during the time she had
the horse and buggy in possession, and they
were in many towns and cities
in the state during that period,
which was several weeks, and was
with her mother during her stay
in jail. Mrs. Magee's defense was that she
bought the turnout from an employee of the
livery stable, and attempt to prove periodi
cal insanity. She received her sentence
with little affectation. 1t is understood an
appeal will be taken. About 1:30 o'clock
last night she was seized with an epileptic
fit in her cell Physicians We're called and
had much difficulty in bringing her
around. 1t is said to have been the severest
one she ever experienced, being subject to
these attacks.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-10
SIGNAL SERVICE.
Cut This Ont and Paste 1t in Your Hat for
Future Reference.

J. P NickS. with commendable enter
prise, has arranged to give Fort Worth cit
liens the benefit Of the weather forecasts
as taken at the bureau at Washington City,
He receives kilograms at 10 a. IN. and 10 D.
H., the contents Of which he win COMMUNE
cate TO the public by means of flags floating
from 4 twenty-four-foot flagstaff placed
upon top OF his business house, on Main
street between Fourth and Fifth. He also
has full supply of the most improved
thermometers, which he has placed in an
apartment arranged specially for them, and
Will also give the public the benefit of their
readings. Following Is an explanation
of the flags:
No. l, white tiag-Clear or fair weather;
alone indicates fair weather, stationary
temperature.
No. ., blue flag-Rain or storm: alone in
dicates rain or snow, stationary tempera-
ture.
No. 8, white and blue fiag-Alone indi-
Gates local rain, stationary temperature.
No. 4, black triangular tlag-Temperatur
signal
No 5, white flag with black square in
center-Indicates cold wave.
No with No. above it indicates fair
weather, warmer.
No. with No. below it indicates fair
weather, colder.
No with No. above it indicates warm
weather, rain or snow.
No with No below it indicates cold
weather. rain or snow.
No. with No above it indicates warm
weather with local rains.
No with No below 1t indicates cold
weather with local rains.