Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10

frank enough to state that II the court
overrules the motion I will remain and
assist my client as well as I can under the
circumstances. ---a -~
court then" was the courts s. decision.
II am anxious that the case should be
disposed of today" explained counsel.
while it is true that feel :indisposed, I
for the court and jury. My alfment is con-
tagious and 1t might be that somebody in
court will take the disease should 1 have to
engage in lengthy argument, facing the
court and jury"
1.-THE court is not afraid" the Judge in
formed counsel. land presume the Jurors
are not"
The Jurors nodded their approval and
the case was tried.
.
The dropping Of line from a manu-
script often creates much confusion, an
example of which was shown during the
past week. when President Roosevelt's first
statement in relation to the closing of the
post office at Indianola, Miss, was given
ont. In that statement he quoted a tele-
gram he had received from citizens OF
lndianola. In the transmission Of this
statement to newspapers of the south and
west a line was dropped from the copy
which caused the President to say what
made good many men open their eyes
very wide to see the President S sentiments
as Identical with those of some Of the peo-
pie in Indianola. Inquiry developed the
fact that there had been a mistake in the
transmission>of the message, and eXplana-
lions have followed.
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"The latest use to which electricity is
being put in this city is to light up OBJ
structions in the Streets remarked citi-
zen who possesses a Sherlock Holmes pro-
clivity for taking note of small things in
detail. Il was passing by big down.
town hotel few evenings ago when my
attention was attracted to an lncandescent
electric lamp attached to a stick which was
imbedded in a huge heap of ashes in the
roadway near the sidewalk. Power for
the lamp was supplied by an insulated wire
which ran from the lamp through the graf
ing Of an opening in the sidewalk, and
thence to the power plant below. 1t was
the first time 1 had ever seen anything but
the old reliable oil lantern used for lighting
up obstructions in the streets Of this city.
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According to United States Consul Pear
son, at Genoa. the Simplon tunnel, when
completed, will be the largest in the world.
to wit, fourteen miles long, or twice the
length of the Mont Gems and five miles
T. u.
the tunnel alone will be s13.510,O00, an aver
age of nearly 81 100000 per mile.
THE work." says the consul, lis pro-
crossing rapidly in the tunnel on both sides
of the Alps; about 1000 .workmen are en-
ployed in the tunnel, and not less than 6.0OO
on the Italian section of the road bstweeh
Isella, at the mouth of the tunnel, and
Aroma, the present terminus of the railway
running north from Milan. 1t is now prac-
tically certain that the road will be COM
pleted within the estimated time-that is to
say, by July l, 1905-as nearly two-thirds
of the tunnel was finished July l. 1902. and
the worst obstacles have already been met
and mastered. The greatest of the impede
ments was the ever-increasing heat in the
tunnel, caused by the growing volume OF
water. which, although. it starts at the sum-
nit of the mountain, 6.G0J feet above the
linz of railway, after perc6latfng through
beds of limestone, becomes almost boiling
hot and flows into the tunnel at tampera-
ture of from 112 degrees to 40 degrees F.,
reni.c ring not only work but life Impossible
WITHOUT resort to artificial means of re-
frigeration. The eng neer by turning cold
air on hot air and cold water on hot water
has reduced the temperature in the tunnel
from 14O degrees to 10 degrees F.
THE volume of water flowing out Of the
south end of the tunnel is over IL, 600 gal
Ions per minute, and furnishes motive
power sufficient not only to work the re-
frigerating apparatus. but to compress the
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