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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

H. United States. certainly, and per-
i in the whole world, for no other
canals. but one great railway, and
lNpnSiyr system OF dykes, docks or
!, are now in course of construction
lhcre These statements may cause
SURPRISE but they are true neverthe-
A similar state of affairs has not
nrl in this country for q score and
of years.
/ big ditch now under way in lii
is the forerunner of various similar
i 70 be undertaken in response to n
demand for a method of moving
/ freight at lower rates than the rail-
/, can afford, even if at less speed,
lsh the primary use of this great
h. which is known as the Chicago
age canal. will be to furnish an out
the sewage of Chicago, so that
III no longer pollute Lake Michigan.
e the city gets its water supply.
he canal is being built with special
snce. also, to it's forming one link
1 chain of channels, artificial and
a1I, that shall connect the great
with the Gulf of Mexico, and be
and wide enough to enable large
to reach Chicago and thence all
upon the shores of the fresh water
Ii chain of deep water channels will
s,mposed of the Chicago Drainage
the Desplaines and Illinois rivers
the Mississippi from Grafton, ILL.,,
to the Gulf. The completion of the
will open to going boats the
extensive system of inland naviga
in the world, LOO miles of lake.
j niles of large river navigation and
niles of canal and improved rivers.
altogether. or one-ifth more miles
Ahom New York to Southampton.
u Chicago Drainage canal proper will
5cty miles long, reaching from Ash
q Tenue Chicago. to LOckpOrt. ILL.,.
q Tossing tho divide that separates the
q of the great lakes from the valley
q Mississippi. Ten miles of it are
q trough solid rock. often bed rock.
s. lying tough boulder clay, and the
lder through river muck and gla-
4 NIT, to a maximum depth of 3S feet.
9 hex cut is 100 feet wide, with verti-
Il eS. The portion traversing hard
s III clay is 30 feet wide on the bot
q With sides sloping out in prism shape.
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is blasted out, and then the machine cuts
to further depth of ten feet, leaving only
six inches of offset to show: where the
new stope begins. The rock is thus ex,
cavated in three SLOPES or layers. The
top layer is removed by carts and tram
cars, the traction for which is usually sup
piled by steam hosting engines. The
lower lifts are taken. out by the use of
cableways, high power derricks, and can
tilever conveyOrs.
The cross section Of the earth excava'
tons shows a width of 2O2 feet on the bot
hom, with the sides sloping out, so as to
make an extreme width Of 300 feet at the
top of the prism. This wide portion of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

A still more imposing device spans the
canal near Willow Springs. 1t is proba'
bly, the most unique piece of machinery on
the continent, and can be seen for many
miles. 1t is a piece of iron bridge work
in the shape of an enormous chair rocker,
nearly 700 feet long and over 100 feet
high 1t spans the channel, with its horns
running up over each spoil bank, and is
moved on track as the work progresses.
Under it runs an, elaborate and expensive
belt to convey the excavated material
to the ends of the horns and dump it
over the spoil area. Nothing like this
machine was ever seen before on land or
sea. AS it has failed, however, to work
as economically as the simple cantilever.
it is probable that it will not be dupli-
Gated.
One of the favorite pieces of apparatus
is the galloway This consists of two
towers, over 100 feet high, one on each
bank of the canal connected with Il run
ming cable at the top, by means of which
the buckets of spoil are rapidly conveyed
to the dumping place The causeways
first constructed were not very successful.
but experience has led to several radical
improvements, until now, by the adoption
Iocher, one Of the contractors, they. have
been brought to state of efficiency which
makes them worthy competitors with the
cantilevers.
Curious Machinery.
Another curious and successful contriy-
ance that stands on the edge of the chan
mel and dominates the prairie in the re-
gion of Lockport, is a turning tower with
n derrick and hoist on eachSside. 1t looks
more like a big. old-fashiofed windmill
than anything else. The buckets or cages
of one derrick are loaded by the workmen
with blasted rock debris at the bottom of
the channel. Then these are hoisted high
in the air. and the whole tower Is set re-
yolving. like swing bridge. bringing the
loaded cages over the spoil bank. to be
dumped and throwing the opposite derrick
over the channel to receive its load. This
machine worksirapidly and economically.
on these sections which are partly in
earth and partly in rock all the usual
methods of excavation are in vogue. and
several that are entirely new. On the
rock sections the sides are cut down verti-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

through glacial drift" Glacial DRIFT
n,.;sas the top soil, earth, muck, sana'
e spaYel. clay. hardpan, boulders-all the
1aosa debris deposited upon the bed rock
l boz the prehistoric glaciers that gougea
.ho;,. trail along the Desplaines valley.
M work ON sections A, Is and portion
- = +raverses the old bed of the Des-
n river and has to deal with oo :,
pi a!nI oorers the clay to a considerable
I'll This is managed very etiicacious-
u u. ~ tho nse of hydraulic dredges that
y ~ CONTINUOUS stream of water and
s'.ao,, mick flowing through twenty
oiasA ,,;nn to any required distance within
u ono Poo fpe+ Each of these dredges has a
o oanocity of $500 cubic yards in ten hours
By an ingenious use Of revolving snls tns
one contractor is also pulv err and 'i Is
b barder material beneath the ooze' anu =
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woe portions make up twenty OF
~,F-eIGht miles. The remaining
~''e> which traverse soft eartn
' easily be drcdged out to fuil
,-'l width later. are but ITO feet
H., - NE bottom, with sloping sides.
~ ., depth of the whole stream
: feet.
:, IN Proceeding Rapidly.
", " more years this great artificial
,5r III De draining Chicago into the
NJ gt. and robbing Niagara of 3Oo.-
teet of water per minute, for the
!, The Gulf of Mexico-and OF
~1Tooltants of Chicago who drink
r,i ts( It is but two years since the
Ill., %tul of earth was thrown. The
Ers mat have been overcome III
h "e lar greater than would nat
4 eApected in a country without
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cally by channeling machines, leaving
the sides of the canal, after the channel
has been blasted out, as smooth as if
made of the most neatly finished concrete.
OF course. steam drills are used in blast.
ing, and on the sections which are doing
the most profitable work these are worked
from a central power station by compress
-ed.a air. The channeling machines cut the
sides down vertically to a depth of ten
feet at each cut. This layer or "stope,"
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pumping It out along with the water. This
river ooze, by the way, is proving bo-
nanza to the owners of celery farms in
that region.
The apparatus used for exeavating the
glacial drift varies on different sections.
according to the ingenuity Of the various
contractors. But the most striking and
also the most successful device for rails
ing the spoil from the bed of the canal is
an enormous cantilever of bridge-like con-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

section O being that which connects with
tho Chicago river From the Willow
SPRINGS road southwestward the sections
are numbered from 1 to Is. These in
Guide the rock cut and were the first to
be put under contract Sections NUMBER
cd from / to IA were let in July, 1892;
section IL was put under contract last
August. ~. ~.
The lettered sections running up to Chi
cago are, with some exceptions, cut
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

c.o Millions Already Spent.
b;ccest ditch in the world is being
< Illinois, and from 5000 to 5000
~ bsre been employed upon the work
=, constantly for over two years. This
arrest number of laborers employ
,,n 9nv single work of improvement
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down, being successfully loaded by steam
shovels. drawn swiftly up the incline by
a steam hoist and automatically dumped
over the spoil area. By this combination,
of devices an output of 100 cubic yards OF
earth per hour can be maintained all day.
The material is taken from the steam
shovels by cars fitted with pneumatic
dumping apparatus, the power for which
is supplied from the locomotive. The en-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

1t is believed that the new penny
party. which is so popular, really
means penny ante.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14

If a young fellow has three or foul
girls. he gives the most expensive pres
ent to the newest one.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14
1cAGO'S BIG DITCH.
.,,o1ION OF THE GREAT
f. DRAINAGE CANAL.

,.1mpressed a Correspondent for
SAG York Journal-Described as
| VAST Extensive Piece of Engi-
.no Work Under Way in World:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14
HUMOR OF T lie WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

odd, Curious and Laughable Phases
of Human Nature Graphically Por-
trayed by Eminent Word Artists of
Our Own Day-A Budget of Fun.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-11-14
American Historical BANQUET.

At this banquet are seated fift,
guests, all eminent In the history anC
development of America:
1. The Genoese sailor to whom W.
are most indebted.
2. The Revolutionary genera
whose grave could not be found wher
congress wished to put a monument
over it.
3. The most truthful of jnvenilt
tree-trim mers.
4. "Old Hickory"
3. "The Wizard of Menlo Park,
6. THE Jean Ingelow of America. =.
7. "Old Rough and Ready"
8. "Black DAN"
8. "He who discovered his burial.
place."
10. "The Sage of Monticello"
IL. The most successful kite-fiier
in America"
II. 1.-THE Old Man Eloquent"
13. "The Quaker Poet"
IA. The Lady Rebecca."
10. 1.-The Nations Guest"
16. "The Pathfinder"
IL. 1.-THE Nations Elder Brother" ;"
iO' f.
10. "She Builder of the tree. dam
In the Mississippi"
20. The commander of "The Rag.
ged Grenadiers."
81. Unconditional Surrender"
22. The inventor of the cotton gin
23. The chief who never sleeps.
"a. The Leader of the Green Noun.
tain Boys.
25. He who was lashed to his yes.
sel's mast while he directed battle
&c. He who saved the day by q
twenty-mile ride.
81. "Old Put"
%. "The Inventor of the Mag
netic Telegraph"
20. He who said, "Give me lib
erty or give me DEATH"
30. 1.-THE Hero of Quebec"
81. He whose life was saved by an
Indian princess.
32. The first English tobacco
smoker.
33. "The father of New France"
81. The " Easter Sunday Discov-
erer."
35. He who said, Go West, young
man."
SO. "The Great Admiral"
81. She whose jewels were pledged
that America might be discovered.
38. The first American author rec
ognized at home and abroad.
80. The builder of the Brooklyn
bridge.
40. The Indians Quaker Brother.
Al. He who first sailed around the
world.
AZ. He who said, " Don't give up
the ship"
43. "The Plumed Knight"
A. "Old Tippecanoe."
As. The author of &" Uncle TOMS
Cabin"
46. "He who said, 1--WE have
met the enemy and they are ours"
AZ. "The Little Giant"
4S. "The Bayard of the South"
40. He who said, Millions for
defence, but not one cent for trib-
ute."
so, UI LIGHT Horse HarrvD
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WHERE THE PRESIDENTS OF
OUR COUNTRY LIE BURIED
George Washington Is buried at Mt.
Vernon, Virginia John Adams at
Quincy, Masss chusetts; Thomas
Jefferson at Monticello, Virginia ;
James Madison at Montpelier, Vir-
ginia James Monroe at Richmond,
Virginia; John Quincy Adams at
Quincy, Massachusetts, Andrew
Jackson at Nashville, Tennessee
Martin Van Buren, at Kinderhook, (,
New York; William Henry Harri-
son at North Bend, Ohio; John Ty-
ler at Richmond, Virginia; James
X. Polk at Nashville, Tennessee
Zachary Taylor at Louisville, Ken.
lucky; Millard Fillmore at Buffalo,
New York; Franklin Pierce at Con-
cord, New Hamsbire; James Buch.
anan near Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Abraham Lincoln at Springfield,
Illinois; Andrew Johnson at Green
vile, Tennessee; Ulysses 8. Grant
at Riverside Park, New York Ruth.
erford B. Hayes at Columbus, Ohio
James A. Garfield at Cleveland, Ohio;
Chester A. Arthur at Albany, New
York.
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Queer Answers.

Since wit has been defined by Noah
Webster as "the felicitous associa.
ton of objects not usually connected
30 as to produce a pleasant surprise, u
may not the pupils Of some Of Bos,
toms public schools, who gave the
following answers to their examina.
tion questions lay claim to it? The
record as here given is bona fide,
having been read during the gradua-
tion exercises Of one of the leading
grammar schools Of the city:
First-Who were the pilgrims ?
"A dirty, filthy set who lived under
the ground.
Second-Name domestic animal
useful for clothing and describe its
habits. The OK. He don't have
any habits because he lives in sta.
BILE.
Third-If you were travelling
across a desert, where would YOU
choose to rest? 1 would rest on a
chair.
Fourth--Mention four races of
men. Men, women, children and
babies.
Fifth-Describe the white race and
show that it is superior to the other
races. A white man will nod at you
When he meets you on the street.
SiXth-Of what is the surface of
the earth composed? Dirt and peo.
Pile.
Seventh Name fruit that has its
seeds on the outside. A seed cake.
Eighth-Name five forms Of wa.
ter. Hot water, cold water, well
water, faucet water and ice water.
Ninth-Name and locate the five
senses. The eyes are in the northern
part of the face and the mouth in
the southern.
Tcnth--Who were the mound
builders? History cannot answer
these questions. Science only can.
Eleventh Define finch and use
1T in sentence. Finch, to shrink.
Flannel fiinches when it is washed,
Twelfth-By what is the earth sur
rounded and by what is it lighted ?
1t is surrounded by water and lighted
by gas and electricity.
hirteenth-Name six animals of
the Frigid Zone. Three polar bears
and three seals.
Fourteenth--What is yeast p
Yeast is vegetable flying about in
the air and hitching itself on to any.
thing.
Fifteenth-Why do you open the
hampers in stove when lighting a
fire? To let the oxygen in and the
nitrogen out.
SiXteenth-What did the constitu.
tion do for the country? 1t gave
the president head.
Observation-Disclosures are the last
teeth that come to a man? False
teeth.
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POETRY
TO A USURPER.
EUGENE FIELD.

Aha tratier in the camp,
a rebel strangely bold
"A llsplng, laughing, toddling scamp,
Not more than four years old,
To think that l, who've ruled alone
So proudly in the past,
should be elected from my throne
by my own son at last
lie trots his treason to and fro.
AS only babies can.
And says he be his mammals beau
When he's "gweat big man :"
\ ou stingy boy, you've always had
a share in mammals heart;
Would you begrudge your poor old dad
The tiniest little part?
That mamma, regret to see,
lncllnes to take your part
AS if dual monarchy
Should rule her gentle heart
But when the years of youth have sped.
The bearded man, | trOw,
Will quite forget he ever said
He'd be his mammals beau.
Renouncey your treason, little son,
Leave mammals heart to me;
For there will come another one
TO claim your loyalty.
And when that other comes to you,
God grant her love may shine
Through all your life as fair and true
AS mamma's does through mine.
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POETRY.
WHEN DAY Is DONE.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

When, as tho garish day is done,
Heaven burns with the descending sun,
"Tis passing sweet to mark,
Amid that flash of crimson light,
The new moons modest bow grow
bright,
AS earth and sky grow dark.
Few are the hearts too cold to feel
a thrill Of gladness DER them steal
=, When first the wandering eye
Sees family, in the evening blaze,
That glimmering curve of tender rays
Just planted in the sky.
The sight Of that young crescent brings
thoughts OF all fair and youthful things,
The hopes of early years
AND chtldhood's purity and grace,
And joys that like rainbow chase
The passing shower of tears.
The captive yields him to the dream
or freedom, when that virgin beam
Comes out upon the air;
AND painfully the sick man tries
To fix his dim and burning eyes
On the sweet promise there.
Most welcome to the lover g sight
Glltters that pure emerging light;
For prattling poets say
Ihat sweetest is the lovers walk,
And tenderest is their murmured talk.
Beneath it's gentle ray.
And there do graver men behold
A type of error, loved Of old,
Forsaken and forgiven;
And thoughts Of wishes not of earth.
Just opening to their early birth,
Like that new light in heaven.
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down commenced precipitate re-
treat across the Ohio to their towns
on the Scioto. The victory was in
deed decisive and many advantages
were obtained by 1t. But they were
not cheaply bought. The Virginia
army sustained in the engagement a
loss of rs killed and 140 wounded,
one-fifth of the entire troops. The
loss of the enemy could not be as
certained. My father, was wounded
in that battle, when stepping over a
log or drawing back his leg to take
aim he was shot on the cap of the
knee the bullet ran down between
the bones Of the leg and lodged just
above the ankle. The surgeons of
the army prObed his leg but could
not find the bullet. MY fathers
mother was a strong minded woman
and Of great energy. She heard by
the return of some of the soldiers
that my father was wounded. She
went on with led horse, through a
wilderness country about 215 miles
and brought him home, about six
months after he was wounded. His
leg felt somewhat uneasy. He dis
covered blue place just above the
ankle, he lanced it and out came the
bullet, a good deal mashed up, The
calf of his leg had all shrunk away. =.
1t healed up, but he always limped
little. After about forty years it
broke out in small yellow pimple,
no larger than the head of a pin at
first, then it became inflamed. He
did not regard it as any serious con-
sequence until il became running
sore filled with fungus or proud flesh.
1t was burnt off with caustic but with
out effect. He doctored it about elk
years and as it was still getting worse
he came to the conclusion to have it
cut off. He went to Staunton to see
l)r. Mcintosh, a celebrated physician.
lie could not come out to my fathers
home. He consulted DR.. Bayo, but
made no engagement with him. He
returned home down spirited, This
was in December, 1920. He was ad-
vised that if he did not have it taken
off 1t would mortify next Spring in
the warm weather. He then con-
cluded to have it taken off. He sent
to Lynchburg for Chas. Lewis, an
eminent physician, formerly of the
the Sweet Springs, now West Vir-
ginia. He came out, examined the
sore on his leg, found it affected the
knee joint, cut it off above the knee
and remained six weeks with him.
This was forty-siX years after he was
wounded. He was a great hunter,
as all the backwoodsmen were in the
early settlement of the country. He
was magistrate between As and
fifty years. Was High Sheriff twice,
two years each term. He had a
memory almost equal to record
Had strong constitution. never
knew him to take a dose of medi-
cine. He never drank liquor or cof-
fee. He died serene and calm.
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He had fingered at the gate in the
enhancing presence of the girl who
is all the word to him. Her father
had slammed the front shutters sew
eral times, but in vain. At last she
murmured, " Herbert" "What is
it ?" "You have said goodnight
several times" Why-er-so I
have" "I want to trust you-but
l can't help wondering whether you
mean other things you say to me
any more than you do that.n
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THE sarcastic Justice Maule did
not spare his judicial brethren. 81
do not believe" he said to the coun.
sci once, "that any such absurd law
has ever been laid down, although
1t is true that have not yet seen the
last number of the Queens Bench
Reports" When a witness was tell
ing an impossible truth and declared
that he could not tell a lie, for he
had been welded to the truth from
infancy, Justice Maule observed !:
" Yes, but the question is, how long
have you been a widower? ?n The
counsel who objected to a bill of
costs in case before Justice Maole
and jury declared that the account
was diabolical bill" The Judge
told the jury, however, that even if
the statement of the counsel was true
1t was still their duty to "give the
devil his due.D
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SING a song of penitence fellow
full of rye, four and twenty serpents
dancing fore his eye. When his
eye was opened he shouted for his
life, wasn't he pretty chump to 90
before his wife? His hat was in
the parlor, underneath chair, his
boots were in the hall, his coat was
on the stair. His trousers in the
Kitchen, his collar on the shelf, but
he hadn't any notion where he was
at himself. When the morn was
breaking, some one heard him call,
his head was in the icebox, and that
was best for all.
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81 WANT to thank you, Doctor
said Mr.. Cawker to Rev. Doctor
Thirdly, for the admirable sermon
on the higher criticism"
i am very glad you liked it,n re-
piled the minister, modestly, but
much gratified.
" Yes, Doctor, 1 like to hear dis
courses which make their hearers
think, instead of sermons which 90
in at one ear and out at the other.n
"I like to have attentive and
thoughtful hearers, and it gives me
great pleasure to hear you say that
it made you think, Mr.. CaWker. -
added the minister.
=" Well, l can honestly say that it
did, Doctor. BY the way, there is
one question l wanted to ask about
that Sermon"
"Go on, Mr.. Cawker."
" Which side of the question do
favor?"
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AT a certain assize held recently
in the south of England the jury
could not agree and were locked up.
After long and animated discus
sion a division was taken, when ten
were found to be for conviction and
two for acquittal.
Another long and acrimonious de-
bate followed, and eventually big,
burly farmer. who was leading the
majority, went over to the diminu-
tive individual who, with a compan.
ion, formed the minority and assum-
ing his most aggressive attitude said {:
Now, then, are you two going to
give In 2"
"No," defiantly replied the small
man.
every WE'LL" was the answer,
"then us ten will" And they did,