gjsiN PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862—YOL. 34. PORTLAND MAINE, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1896.

ILL-FATED MILLIONS.

Vast Treasure Defies the Search of Man.

VARIOUS EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH

OF THEM.

Hidden Store of Gold and Precious Stone, in Indie That Has Eluded Capture for

Porty Years—Expeditions End in

Heath.

( From the London Mail.) Every now and then we hear of expe-

ditions starting in search of treasures lost or hidden in various parts of the world, India being the most favored, if some-

what vague, destination of such parties. Most people will remember an eudeavor

being made not long ago, under the di- rection of the British government, to wrest from the waters of the Ganges a

vast treasure that has been missing since the time of Indian mutiny. For this

search there was more justifioiation than

many wa hear of, but after four months of ceaseleess exertions it had to bo given up in despair. That the treasure is hid- den somewhere in India is undoubted; portions of it have been traced at one

time or another, but there is 6tiII enough left to make its finder—should it ever

be found—a millionaire many time over.

Six or seven yearsjprevious to outbreak of the Indian mutiny the rajah of the

province of Gwalior was dethroned for treason to the English. He had been a

ruler over one of the largest provinces of

India, and was known to be one of the wealthiest in the empire. He bad an ar-

my of 2,000 men, a herd of 200 elephants, and lived in a style no European mon-

arch could approach. While professing LU uu uuuuij, was wuuuuuu*

against British rule, and when this was discovered steps were taken to our-

tail his powers. His army was reduced to a body guard of 100 men; his right to issue edicts and make local laws was

abrogated; English civil officers were sta- tioned here and there to collect the taxes, until at length the rajah held ODly his

empty title. He bowed to the terms im-

posed, br.t beoame one of the bitterest foes the government had to deal with, and was first and foremost in bringing about the mutiny. The date of the out- break was known by the deposed rajah weeks in advance;- it was even said that he fixed the date himself. At any Tato, he was so well prepared that his troops were almost the first in the field. Although ills army had been uis'eanned for three or four years, he had secretly purohased and stored away large quanti- ties of equipment, and for two months previous to the outbreak, it was after- ward learned, he was secretly enlisting and arming bis subjects. FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN

VALUE. Two weeks befoie the uprising the ra-

jah made preparations to secure the safe- ty of his vast treasure. Id bis palace, thirty miles from Gwalior, he had a se- cret chamber, iu which the wealth of bis family had been stored for three genera- tions. No European had ever set foot in the palace, but it was currently* leported that the value of the gems and jewels, many of which had been handed down from his great-grandfather, aggregated $15,000,000. One d»y the rajah left his palace with an esoort of ten of his old- est and most trusted solaiers, and each scldier bad churge of a pack-horse, oarry- lug a share of the treasure. His band traveled to the northwest for two days, and then halted amid the ruins of an an- cient city between the town of Jeypore anu rno river oaugos. Tins, of oourse, was only learned years after. At the end of five days the rajah returned to his pal- ace, ncoompanied only by a servant who had acted as oook. But almost imme- diately this servant was looked in a dun- geon on some pretext, and was never seen again. No one dared to ask what had beoorne of him or the soldiers, aDd those who suspeoted wisely kept their thoughts to themselves, well knowing wiiat would follow a word of gossip.

Two months after the rajah had taken the field against the English at the head of a thousand men ho was killed in bat- tle. A month later his palace was cap- tured. When the treasure-room was en- tered a great find was expected, but it was empty. From some of the servants It was learned how and when the wealth had been removed, but the government was too busy quelling the mutiny to searoh for it just then.

When peace oama a party in ohargo of an official was started out to searoh for tbo rajah’s treasure. By this time not a soldier or servant who knew anything of the matter could be found. All tbHt could be discovered was that the party had gone toward the northwest. After several days’ search the treasure hunters onme upon the ruins, and the spot com- mending itself as a likely hiding place they began work. Their operations had to be spread over fully a square half mile of standing and fallen walls, with trees and bushes and vines growing in the greatest profusion, containing quite a

thousand safe spots in whiob to hide treasure. The party, which numbered four Englishmen and sixty natives, went to work, however, and it was five months baforo they gave up the hunt, and the leaders reported to the government that it would take a thousand mon fully two years to clear way the debils. ->

HOW THE TREASURE WAS HID- DEN.

Not long after a native was arrested a

Delhi, oharged with the murder of two

European women at the outbreak of the

mutiny. When ho Pwas placed on trial an English ensign came forward to testi-

fy on his behalf, proving that it was a

case of mistaken identity. As soon as

the native was released from oustody he

wont to his preserver and deolared that he was one of the rajah’s soldiers who

removed the treasure. It was burled in

the ruius. he said, and when the work

had been finished the rajah had given the the party several bottles of wine to

drink to his health. This wine was

poisoned. Every man who partook of it, except this one, died within two hours.

He had partaken sparingly of It, but

was made very ill, aud had simulated

death to escape the rajah’s dagger. When the cold-blooded ruler departed, leaving the dead to be devoured by beasts of prey, the sole suivivor orawled away, and after a time reoovered and made

good his esonpo. He fought against the English to the last, hut was ready to divide the hidden treasure with the nmu who had saved his life. At that time the government offered 35 per cent to finders of treasure, and the officer nnd Dative proceeded to Jepyoro aud made up a par- ty In due time they reaohed the ruins, but only to find the treasure was gone. The native pointed out the spot where it had been concealed, and there was no doubt of his veracity, but some one had removed the .wealth. As it had been taken away during the war it was most useless to hope for a clew, although the native declared he would devote the re-

mainder of his days of following the matter up. It was three years before anything

further was learned of the Rajah’s treas- ures. Then a native who was confined in prison at Lucknow for theft told a

story which subsequently reaohed the ears of the government offioials. During the last six months of the mutiny the regimeDt to whioh he belonged was en-

camped for some days near the old ruins. By that time most of the natives began to realize that ultimately English rule must be restoied, and this man and five others decided to desert their colors and make their way to the east. Believing they would be pursued if they started off across the oonntry, they secreted them- seivea among cue ruins until tncir oom-

rartes marched away. In removing some of the debris for their own concealment they came aoross the treasure, which was in tcakwood and iron boxes. Here was a ransom of a king in the world to be divided among six natives, not one of whom bad ever been possessed of £5 at ouco in his life, but yet avarice at once entered into their hearts of them all. In making a div;sion of the spoils they quarrelled, and within five minutes of the first hot words three of them lay doad. The three survivors were oontent that their shares were doubled, but they could do little with their booty. They could only carry away a fiW handeful of it on their persons, even if they could find purchasers in those turbulent times. When the neighborhood waa clear of troops, the treasure was carried, on post horses stolen for the purpose, a distance of nine miles toward the Ganges auu re- buried in a thioket. Tbe three men than started for Delhi, each havlug a few of the gems with him, but within a week they were captured by mutineers, and two of them shot down. The third manuged to escape. When the mutiny was a thing of the past he was at Luck- now, enlisting a pnrty to go after the treasure, when lie committed a robbery ana was sentenced to gaol for a year.

The government lost no time in inves- tigating this story. The prisoner retold it to officials, and was promised a par- don and 10 per cent of the value of any treasure found for aotlng as guide, and he led a party straight to the spot. The hole where the treasure had been burled was speedily found, but of the gems and jewels not one remained. The despoilers had in turn been despoiled. It was a

year before anothor clew was found, and then it oame through a woman. 8he was the wife of a ryot farmer and from a hiding place in the thicket had seen the three soldiers bury the boxes and caskets. Assisted by her husband she dug up the treasure and reburied it in one of the cultivated fields. Her hus- band was killed in battle and at the close of the war, when bands of natives were riding about and piuodering right and left, her hut was one day visited by a band of six scoundrels who demanded money. In order to save her life she told thattrt rtf t.lia hrnitk'iirn onrl th«v nrarn

speedily in possession of it. They de- cided to convey it down tho Ganges by boat. It was taken to the river on horses by night, but instead of purchasing a

craft, they seized one by foroe and raur- derod the crew of three uaen. This cart, with the six robbers on board, was seen

by various people during the following days, and though every effort was made to discover what had become of the men and their plunder, it was a month before the government obtained any reliable in- formation concerning it.

Then it was learned that the boat had reached Allahabad, where two men had gone ashore to purchase supplies, and she was again seen thirty miles below the city. Then all traces of her were lest. Every seaport was watched and every dealer in gems notified, but it was months before any new developments took pluce. Then a villainous-looking native offered some diamonds and ru- bioo for sale in Bombay and was arrest- ed. He bad on his person about £2,000 worth of unset dfims. For several weeks he refused any explanation, but at length confessed that he was the leader of the gang who obtolned tho treasure from tho woman. After pas- sing Allahabad they started to divide the treasure. As all were grasping ar.d avaricious a quarrel arose, au’d in the height cf this the boat ran upon a snag and received such damages that she soon filled and went down. Eivo of the men and all the treasure except that found on this man went to the bottom In forty feet of water. The fellow stubbornly re- fused to name the locality or to go with « party, and after h few weeks died in prison cf fover. A dozen different par- ties searched for the wreck at much trouble and expense, but it bad appar- ently boon covered by mud or sand and oould not bo found. Of the vast treas- ures of tho rebel rajah, oomputed on good authority at Iroru £4,000,000 to £6,000.OCO, the trifling amount found on the robber was alone recovered.

As already stated the government made a new attempt tej discover the wreok not long-ago, but'was again un- successful.

One gives a High when one thicks that such vast treasure has so successfully made a picture for over torty years; and is notjlikely to remain lost forever.

COSTLY SOI GLIMPSES.

Scientists Travel 20,000 Miles To See an Eclipse.

THE VIEW OF IT WILL LAST ONLY

TWO XIHCTES.

Professor Todd Expects to Take 400 Phot-

ographs on a Far Away Japanese Is-

land.

To obtain a two-minute glimpse of the sun while that orb is in eclipse a few scient- ists will have made a journey of over 20,000 miles and spent about $40,000. If it should happen to he cloudy at the precise time that the face of the sun is obscured the scient- ists will have made the journey, spent the money and given a year’s hard work for nothing. Even the nerviest gambler would hesitate to accept such desperate chances.

In the middle of the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 9, next the sun will be In total eclipse. This is a rare event among astronomers and scientists in all parts of the world have not been slow in making arrangements to take advantage of it. The worst of it is that the eclipse will not be visible from any part of North America, but that fact has not de- terred Professor David P. Todd, of Amherst College, from a determination to see it. He is now at Yezo, one of the most northern islands of Japan, with thirty telescopes and

photographic paraphernalia, and if tthe

mechanics, get their apparatus in position without difficulty.

To understand the character of the eclipse imagine a small, circular, non-luminous body intervening between a larger luminous globe and your eye, and near enough to the

eye to obscure the larger body, as a penny held near enough to'the eye will hide a sil- ver dollar or an orange will shut oil from the eye the big glass globe around an arc

light. &

The shadow of the orange will be cone-

shaped, large near the oiange and narrow- ing down to a point. So with the sun and moon, and at the time of the August eclipse the shadow, which begins at the near side of the moon with a diameter equal to the moon, will be truncated, just before it has narrowed to a point, by the earth, and will fall upon the earth with a breadth of about 100 miles. It will be ae if the moon took a

monster paint brush, molded it to a point, and, applying a little pressure, drew a nar-

row black line around that part of the earth which revolved within reach.

The blaok line, or band, or shadow, will mark the earth from a point west of Nor- way, In the ocean, across Norway, Sweden, Finland, northern Russia and Siberia, the Pacific Ocean and some of the northern islands of Japan. Of these last it will fall upon Soya and the north end of Yezo, Mombetsu and Yubetsu. From Yubetsu it will go on, falling upon mountains 6,000 or

7,000 feet high, and continue over the ocean

some hundreds of miles, and then vanish- ing.

Within this long, hundred-mile wide belt of darkness several observing parties will take their stand at different points, but the scientists cannot have as many points of observation as they would like because of the vast inaccessible stretches of Siberia.

French, Gem an an l Italian astronomers will piobably make observations from Nor-

est taken in this for the pure iove of sci- ence, there is a practical side to it all.”

PAID AN ODD WAGER.

Clad In Garments of Childhood, They Pa-

raded the Streets.

(From the Family Call. ) About ten years ago a boy and a girl

were talking to each other about love and marriage, and each was emphatio In the assertion that the other would marry first. So they decided to make a

wager, of which the terms were that the one who should first wed should oelebrate the event by parading the etreetsolad in the garmeute they then wore.

Thia appeared very sntlafactory to both, ae each was poeitive that the other would be the first one to pay the penalty.

The wager, of course, was kept a pro- found secret outside the circle of inti- mate friends.

Last Monday the pedestrians on Chest- nut street were greatly surprised and ortoazed to behold a tall man clad in a

very oomical costume. He wore a pair of very tight trousers, whioh did not reach his knees, and a pair of blaok stockings, whioh were equally wanting in length, to cover his lower legs. His jacket was so small that it was bursting all over with the strain of its contents, and over all was a round schoolboy's eap, perched on the baok of bis head. To add to the mystery of the situation, the ouriously groomed man wa s tollowed by a very pretty young woman, who was similarly garbed in clothing that must have belonged to some child of long

HOW THE Vi/Or;K WILL BE DONE.

weather conditions are favorable he expect ■ to obtain the finest collection of photographs of the sun in eclips e the world over.

Were it not for the assistance of some en-

thusiastic amateur astronomers this trip would cost double the money that is being spent, and if this were the oase it is doubt- ful if any college or scientist would feel

justified to risk the large sum when the

vagaries of the weather may ruin every- thing.

These amateurs are Arthur Curtiss James and his father, D. Willis James. They own

the noted schooner yacht Coronet, which de- feated Dauntless in the historic ocean race

across the Atlantic in the spring of 1886. Tho plans for the trip were made last fall, and in December last the Coronet sailed from her anchorage in New York Bay for San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. There are

not many yachts capable of standing a voy- age of this kind, but the Coronet accom-

plished It without trouble, making good time and reaching the Golden Gate in

May last. Before sailing from New York the Coronet was loaded with three tons of as-

tronomical apparatus, induing the most cumbersome of the many telescopes and other paraphernalia. The very delicate parts of the mechanism were sent overland to San Francisco and placed, on board the

yacht on her arrival there. In the long voy- age around the Cape it was feared that these might become badly disarranged, par- ticularly as the chances were that the

yacht would run into very heavy weather. Mr. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. James,

Professor Todd and Mrs. Todd met the Coro- net at San Francisco, as none of them cared to make the long and tedious journey around the Cape. In the middle of May the Coronet sailed again, with the full party on

board, including a number of skilled me-

chanics, for the long voyage of 7,000 miles across the Pacific. Only one stop was made and that was at Honolulu, 2,100 miles out. The trip to Yezo was to consume seven

weeks, and while no advices have as yet been received from the party, it is believed that they have safely arrived.

There is beautiful scenery in tho Jai>anese islands where the astronomers are. During the time when they are getting their in- struments in readiness for use they will be in a cheerful country, and one with an in- teresting population. Yezo is the land ot the Ainns, the hairy people of northern Ja- pan.

The city at which the Amherst expedition is stopping, Akeshi, has a population of about 2,000. There is excellent anchorage for the yacht there, and just above the town are cliffs two hundred or three hundred feet high, where the instruments may be well placed. Labor is plentiful and cheap, so that the scientists can, with their few skilled

way and Finland, very likely near Yaranger Fiord, at Yadso and Vardo in Finland. The

eclipse there will be shorter than at Yezo. The chances for a clear sky are about the same at the several places.

The advance in phqJogTaphy and iin-

provments devised by Professor Todd in the mechanism for photographing celestial phe- nomena multiply the glimpse several hun- derd fold. Professor Todd has arranged a

mechanism by which he can connect as

many telescopes and cameras as he may please, and can control their operations as

photographic apparatus. He can load the

huge machine with hundreds of plates so

placed in a revolving barrel that as fast as

an exposure is made a new plate comes into the focus. He expects to operate thirty tel-

escopes and to bring back 200 to 400, or pos- sibly more, photographs. He will make the

photographs of the corona and total eclipse for pictorial purposes and to measure the

intensity of the corona and the light in eve-

ry part. Professor Todd took with him both reflect-

ing and refracting telescopes. The largest is a reflecting telescope with a twelve-inch speculum, which will lorm an image of the

sun, one and three-quarters Inches in diam- eter fifteen feet away.

Thu greatest interest in the expedition centers in the photographs to be made of the corona, the wonderfully beautiful halo of silvery radiance which is wholly different from what we call sunlight, and is only to be seen when the sun is in eclipse. It is so

beautiful and impressive that the most ap- preciative of astronomers has said that, while perhaps only a n astronomer could understand the possibilities of its signifi- cance, only a poet could describe its glory.

It is a luminous appendage of the sun, a

filamentous briliancy which, when the dark shadow of the moon completely obscures the solar orb, bursts out in flashes and scin- tillant waves beyond the darkened circle. It seems in some way to be connected with the sun spots. The spots are most numerous about every eleven years and are i' ewest about five years afterward.

When the spots are many the solar corona

bursts out strongest In curving rays at each end of the lateral diameter of the lu- nar shadow, and there is little of the pecu- liar radiance at the ends of the vertical dia- meter. When the spots are fewest there is more briliianoy above and below, and cotn-

paiatively little at the sides of the shadow. The moon has nothing to do with the corona. Before leaving New York Professor Todd

said: “We shall by means of tne spectro- scope and polar scope, test and analyze the

radiance of the beautiful silvery light that forms the corona and try to find out just what it is and whether It is due to the radi- ation of solar energy. Aside from the inter-

a 0. Not much could be seen, howevei, oi ... ooatume, aa she wore a long wrap. The reader will readily guess the expla- nation of the strange exhibition.

Sharp Western Electioneering. They arc laughing over at the court

house about the way oortain of the can-

didates for sheriff are raising merry trib ul ition. It Is all because somebody told them that one of the olorks in the pro- onte office was working for a rival can-

didate. This somebody claims to have overheard In a dialogue whioh ran some-

thing liko this: Candidates for marriage license, ap-

proaohing window: “I would liko to get married.” Affable clerk—'‘Certainly. Your

name?” “Adolf Llnkenhammer. “And age?” “Thirty-two.” “The lady’s name and ago?” “Mary Schwartzonroop; twent7-four. “Yes. Are you a voter, Mr. Lifeen-

bammor?” “Oh, yes. Six years now.” “Where do you live?” “Near Jaokson street.” “Pretty woll acquainted up there?”

‘‘Yos, I know a good many.” “Ever take any interest in politics?” “Oh, sometimes.” “Well, here are a few of Mr. McCon-

nell’s cards. He’s the man we want for sheriff. Do what you caD for him. I’ll have the license ready for you in half a

moment. That's the story that makes the other

candidates froth at the mouth. But, then, other candidates do froth at

the mouth so easily—Detroit Journal.

He Signed Willingly# Ha had been telling what a meritorious

scheme he had, and as he finished he draw a piece of paper from his pocket. “I have here’’— he began. “I’ll not subscribe a cent,” interrupted

the business man. “I don’t believe in your alleged charitablo scheme, and I’ll not give you a cent for it.

“But I don’t want any money from you,” protested the caller.

“Then what do you want?” “I just want you to sign a petition to

some one else to help it along. Your in- fluence, you know”—

“Oh, well, I’ll do that, but I won’t give you any money for such a swindle. ”—Chi- cago Post.

Self-propelling Car on a Road Sub- merged by the Sea.

BUILT AS A MEANS OF ATTRACT-

ING VISITORS.

It Affords Visitors to Brighton an Oppor- tunity for a Short Voyage without the

Discomforts of Seasickness—The Line is

Only Three Miles Lung—Driving Ma-

chinery Consists of Thirty-Horse Pow- er Electric Motors.

The idea of running a self-propelling cai on a railway submerged in the sea—

decidedly^ unique one—has been carried into praotical effect at Brighton, Eng- land, where a line opera ted in, that man- ner has been built as a means of attracting visitors to that resort of pure sea air and practically a short voyage without the discomforts of seasickness, and also as a means of opening up the views of the bold sea coast there between the terminal of tho line, says MagnuSjVoik in Cassior’s Magazine for July.

Tho project originated with the author, and Parliamentary powers for its execu-

tion were obtained in 1893. The actual work of constructon was cominonoed a

year later, in June, 1F.94, the interval having been occupied in seouriDg the necessary licenses from the Board of Trade, tho Crown, and the Corporation of Brighton. The line commences at the eastern end of the Brighton Electric Railway and extends a distance of three miles, to the village of Rottingdean, a

favorite summer resort. There a small roil pier has been erected for the cars to run alongside—the pi6r being available also for steamer traffic and promenading. At the Brighton end of the line an iron jetty lias been ereoted, npd a building containing commodious waiting rooms and offices are built on it. The coast is bold along praoticslly tho whole distance with chalk cliffs varying flora 60 to 120 feet in height, and as the rails are laid a

considerable distanoo from the shore a

fine view of the coast is obtained. The rai's rest on concrete hlooks, made in sita, about tbreo feet apart, mortised into the sound rock, tho height of the block varying with the irregularities of tho shore. A shifting sand of very mod- erate lopth ocyers the rook in planes, hut tho rails were laid sufficiently high to

prevent any trouble from accumulations on them. The steepest gradient Is 1 to 300 and the radius of curves 40 ohains (2.640 feet.)

Tile line consists of four rails (61 pounds per yard) laid as two tracks of 2 feot 8 1-2 inches gauge, space 18 feet be- tween the outer rails, thus giving an effeotive gauge of 18 feet, this being ren-

dered necessary to give the required sta- bility to the cars. The rails are secured by steel dips and bolts, the latter being imbedded in concrete. Oak blooks,

through which tho bolts pass, are placed between the rails and the concrete blooks. Tie rods are also used every 10 feet on the straight, and every 5 feet on the curves, and heavy angle iishplates are used for t ie rail joints, the rail being in th irty- ioot lengths.

Tho depth of wutor over the rails at high tide is 16 fc-«i. Although the most violen gales experienced for many years

ooourred during tlio winter of 1804-5, no

damage whatever was done to tho per- manent way, so the fact that it possesses ample strength to resist the force of tho sea has been demonstrated in a satisfac- tory manner, and no accumulation of s. a

weed or other matter has taken place at

any time. The car which was b uilt by the Gloucester Kailway Carriage Com- pany, is a structure on sixteen wheels, eaoh 83 inches in diameter, carrying tI.o passengers at a height of 24 feet above the level o£ the rails. The four main le a

are tubes of drawn steal 11 inches in diameter tho bottom of each leg is placed a bogie truok, having four wheels, the outBirte of the bogie being Bhaped like an

inverted double-ended boat to facilitate its passage through tho water, and also to removo any obstruction from the rails. The four bogies are firmly held togethsr by steel tubular struts. The wheel ba e

is about 28 foot and, with the already mentioned effective gauge of 18 feet, gives great stability.

i *

THE CAR AT HIGH TIDE.

The tops of the main legs are flrrnlj built into lattice girder work, carrying the deck, and the whole structure is firmly secured by cross ties. It is of great strength, although offering but a small surface to the foroe of the waves. The main deck appurtennaoes and erec- tions are carried out exactly as if for a steam yacht and measure BO feet in length and 22 feet in width. The rail ings round the deok ore of iron, with a wooden top rail and wire netting. An ample supply of seats, with reversible backs, is provided to enable passengers to face the direction in which the car i« going. The centre spaoe of the deok it ocoupied by the saloon, a structure lii feet wide by 25 long, provided with plate- glass windows all round, and a large cen-

tral ottoman, fitted with a box between the backs in which are placed palms and flowers. The centre of the ceiling ii occupied by a stained-glass dome, and the interior deoorations are carried out in a simple hut effective manner. The rool of the saloon is vailed round and forms a promenade deck,scats being placed uvei the glass dome and over the centre of tin saloon. On the lower deck Is placed ths controlling apparatus for driving and stopping the cars. The total accommo- dation is for 100 to 150 passengers. As the journey is short aud will be undot taken more for the sea air than; for quickly making the trip, the speed i.< kept between six and eight miles an

hour. The driving machinery consists of twu

thirty-horse power electric motors, placed vertically Immediately over two of the main legs, one on each side of the oar, the shafting being carried down inside and commnnioating with toothed gearing, whloh aetuates the wheels. The brakes are worked by rods passing down the remaining two legs. Tho current, at 500 volts, is convoved to the oar hv

means of a trolley pole ami overhead wire, the latter being carried on hand some steel ,poles.

Mr. St. George Moore of Westminster was the engineer in ooujunotion with the author, the work being carried out under tbo latter's supervision.

While at St. Malo, in France, there Is a structure whioh is pulled across the harbor by means of a oliaiu over a dis- tance of about 110 yards, the line here oousi lered as essentially different in de- sign and construction, and stands alone as a sample of original railway engi- neering. Owing to tidal difficulties, the work bad to bo carried out In suctions,

.had most of tbe material had to be ovverod over the face of the cliff.

Sheridan's First Wife. The accounts of Drury Lane theater were

kept by her with irreproachable cara and neatness, and so long as she was able to give her time to this task method and or- der prevailed and prosperity reigned. Moreover, she relieved her husband of the irksome labor of reading the manuscripts of unfledged and presumptuous authors. * * * She never courted or oared for celeb- rity, whether as maid or matron, the fam- ily hearth being always her favorite sphere of influence. * * * Yet there was nothing morbid in her disposition or any un-

worthy shrinking from her duty In all cir- cumstances. Cn the contrary, she entered the world of fashion with a grace which was a second nature, and she shone in it with a beauty which wag unrivaled and a

brilliancy nearly as remarkable. Her love for her husband was akin to worship. He was attached to her with all the romantio jealousy aud devotiou of a lover.—“Sheri- dan, a Biography,” by W. Fraser Rue.

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