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A PENNSYLVANIA SILO. Ens. COUNTRY (“NEWMANâ€"After read- ing the article in your paper of April 25, entitled “A ’ ntnoky Silo,” I felt inclined to add to erienco for three successive years in {lung a allo with corn always be. tween the milk and the glaze. The first year the corn was probably frczen, but it made good ensilage, kept Wel‘, and cattle liked it, Under the cover of boards and tar paper, three or four inches of it “as spoiled, and also in the corners the whole way down, and 12 to 15 inches on the sides. This annoyed me, as I‘think that if the great bulk of en- ailage can be kept, it: ought all to remain good if we can learn how *0 manage it. The third year I ee_t 9‘”. to‘ have it no. ,4 #LE_L :- L--L uuuu 1v... - u... v._. As to com, I find that best) which is best adapted to your climate. and will make the best and biggest stalk, and set an ear or two. I have tried three different kinds, and find all good if the ensllazn kccps. I weighed heavily with stout). Whila nlking , u A_‘__.. a“..- we keep step to the tune of “ tramp, ZTJ-mp the ensiloge is keeping,” and “ all hands in the eusilsge pit” when W0 stop to oil or fix up. I keep two men in all the time when the cutting is going on. I have heretofore cut 1-2 inch, but: think I will out 1-4 inch when I fill again. It takes two days to fill my silo, using No. 14 Baldwin cutter. The silo holds 45 tons, and I plantjusb 1 1-2 acre of corn to do it. This last: year I was care- ful in everything to keep it, if possible, so so that) when I wanted to raise the cover I could put in the fork and give it: to the cows instead of to the manure pile. And to my great joy, I did it, corners and sides, as well as under cover down to the bottom. was food safe and :aund for butter nipd Iriilk. Some wrher in she “Country Gentlemnu,’ whose name I do not recall, said that in filling the silo not to keep it quite level or higher at the sides, but higher in the middle, and then weight by laying the stones only M: the sides and the and ot the boards form- ing the cover. and a single row of stones up through the middle of the silo. This sug- gestion was worth the price of the “Country Gentleman" {or ten years. I tried it ; it took less stone, and cons: quently less work. But my silo being a small one, and de- pending on it for feed, I wanted to keep the corners and sides as well as that under the cover. The thought occurred while pounding down clay in a horse smll, why would not this tamper be the very thing for the corners and sides of the ensilage pit when filling? I at once sawed 18 inches 011‘ of a 6 by 6 yellow pine sill and put a handle 3 feet long in the end, and I hed 9. tool with which 1 could drive the ensllage into a paste, if needed; corners and sides were in splendid condition when taking out for feedâ€"J. D. D. Flourtown, Ia. In answer to inquiry, I would say, build the barn in such a manner that it cannot hsrbor rsts sately from cats and terrier dogs. Most of the barns put up in our country are about as perfect rat warrens as can be con- trived. The floor of the cellar should be cemented. and its walls made of brick or stone. If a rat then gets down the stairs into it, he is easily caught by a. dog, as he can make no hole here to crawl out. No- thing in the upper stories should be piled so close to the sides of the building as to pre- vent a small dog and a. large cat getting be tween, to catch any vermin nesting there. All grain or meal bins, and boxes must be covered with tin, zinc or sheet iron, to pre- vent rats and mice gnawing through to eat them. Many rate may be got rid oi in the fol- lowing easy manner : Take four pieces of joist, thee feet or more long, and nail boards to these to make a. square space inside. Set the lower boards three inches or more above the foot of the joist. so as to leave space for rate to run under them. Scatter corn on the ground in the center of the pen. a yard or two long and wide ; lay down joist at two ends of this, and then sover the corn with boards. Place this near the barn, and it will make a nice warren for rats ; and by tolling them with a few kernels of corn from the barn to the outside ef this pen, the} will soon make their home under the boards inside. After getting well settled there, sink the foot of each post so deep into the ground as to bring the edge of the lowest board of the pen close to the ground, so that no rat can crawl under it to escape. Now put into the pen one or more dogs, that have been trained to hunt rats : lift up the boards under which they have harbored, and there will he a lively time in catching them. I have seen twenty or more rats caught: in such a pen so a single time. A pair of well- trsined do a will dispose of so many in afew minutes. had a. terrier bitch that would kill as many probably in less than fifteen minutes. She would jump and give a rat a single grip, just; back of the head, which in- stantly broke his neck and laid him out dead. After she had finished, she would return to look them all over, one after another, and if any life seemed to be left, give another grip, which instantly settled hhe matter. Ens. Cowman GENTLEMANâ€"It seems that “C.” of Jefierson county, Ky. (p. 323), has had poor results from his wooden silo, and he is not the only one that wishes he had built something better than a wooden silo. My business takes me overthe Western Reserve about half of the year, and I have made it a point to visit nearly all the difier- eut slloes that have been built for the last seven or ei ht years. I Wanted all the in- formation i could get by closely questioning their owners to find out the failures as well as I intended'to build a silo for myself. If U. will put strips of wood g by 2 inches every 16 inches, lath and plaster his silo on the sides. and then put a good cement door l§ or 2inohes thick on the bottom. being careful to make a tight joint where the side and bottom come together, he will have an air-tight silo, which he has not got now. In filling again, if he will put a good man in the pit and keep the ensilage level all the time, and the corners and sides well trampled down, and if the corners are square, give the man in the pit a 4 by 4 soantling 4 (eat loan. with me half rounded down to an inch .21.; .1. half for a handle, so that he can pack :1 v: ”usilage in the corners as much as it gets packed in the middle, C. will not be troubled with mouldy ensilage in the corners and along the sides. In every Wmden silo that I have examined, there has been more or less spoiled at sides and cor ners. varying from 6 to ‘20 inches. I also found it siloee built of concrete walls, or frame buildings plastered inside and the bottom cemented, that the ensllage was AGRICULTURAL FAILURES \VITH ENSILAGE. REPELLING RATS. A wooden 9110 may do in Wisconsin but it) does not fill in Ohio, and Ithlnk would be almost worthless in Kentucky. In Wiscon- sin 1 have seen a. large gum-her of beef hung up outside of a house in the fall, and hang there until used up by a small family. The air is different there, and we mush acmpt these differences and act: accordingly. good clear out: to the corners. I found one, with sides plastered and earth for a floor, where encugh air came in through the earth to spoil considerable along the out- If C‘. will get: a. report of the Silo Conven- tion. published in the National Stockmnn of March 21, '89, on pages 966-7, he will find as few things that may help him in his troubles. In the early dnys of niloes the tendency was to build too expensive pits, and now the reaction has come, and carried some few so for on the other side, that they are recommending siloes '30 cheop as to be almost: worthless. After a. while, people will adopt a. happy medium between the ex- tremes, and build a. substantial building that will last as long as a born or house. I have known several who built: wooden siloes several years ago to abandon them after two or three years' of partial failure, and build either stone, concrete, or frame and plast- ered walls with cement floors. G. E. RICE. Trumbull County, 0. jority of the English dairies ie not made after any very definite and well~established principles was freely admitted by Lord Egerton, while speaking at Knuteford, England, recently after a lecture on “ But- tor-Making," by Miss Maidment, apractical authority on the subject. in order to ob- tain as high a price for butter as was obtain- ed in other countries, English butter-makers, the speaker said, must aim at having a uni- iorm quality of butter, made on some defin- ite principle. Wholesale purchasers of butter were very particular that samples should be of the same quality. He thought it wasdisgraceiul, seeing that though they had the best cows and best pastures. they did not get the highest standard. In cheesevmaking, also, an improvement was necessary. In former days Cheshire cheese was in demand abroad, but now it was seldom bought, except by foreigners, because ‘ it was not made on keeping principles, and because of its deterioration in the course of transit. He hoped that the result of the action of the Royal Agricultural Show and their own county society would be an im- proved method oi buttermaking, and they would be able to compete favorably with foreign producers. That the butter produced from the ma‘ ‘ l A new method of preserving milk for a lengthened period, without altering its com- position, and without adding any foreign in- gredient, says the Farmers' Gazette, has lately been devised and brought into use in Norway. The milk. we read, is taken direct from the cow, and in the first place is cooled down to ordinary temperature, about 50 to (50 degrees Fahr., and then hermetically sealed up in tins. In this state it is exposed to a temperature of about 160 degrees, and kept at this for one hour and three quarters, or thereabouts, after which it is allowed to cool down to 100 degrees, at which it remains for some time. It is then quickly heated up again to the former temperature of 160 de- grees. This alternate heating and cooling is repeated in the same manner several times, and then finally the temperature is raised to the boiling-point of water, or about 212 degrees, after which it is cooled again to ordinary temperature, when it is found to be completely sterilized, not a trace of any organism or germ being left, and is, therefore, in a state in whicn it can be kept for an indefinite length of time without undergoing any change. The proposed substitution of India rubber for metal in the manufacture of horseshoes is based upon various supposed advantages â€"-0ne of these being that; the former enables the horse to go easier over all kinds of roads, and rough or slippery ground without: slipping._ ‘ According to this design, the shoe con- sists of an India. rubber bottom piece molded to fit over or around the frog of the hoof, with a. ledge or protecting rim rising up the front and around the level where the nails are clamped, the protection having a ledge under which a. steel band or other appli- ances can be drawn and nipped tight to ‘ retain the rubber shoe. The band is con- nected by studs, which pass through the heel part of the hoof, this being cut away from the inner side for the purpose, and the stud or studs may work eecentricslly to obtain grip or fixing. If the rubber shoe is used with an iron shoe, the frog portion, or pad, has a front plate and two side wings partially imbedded in it to hold the rubber shoe in place. If the rubber shoe be divid- ed or made thin in the center a swivel or other bar can be contracted from the rear to reduce the width of the pad, so that it enters easily and also expands so as to fix the rubber shoes in positionâ€"New York Telegram. Each one has some talent, some preference. Let him work in that line if possible; but, while he cultivates himself in that, let. him at the same time keen such a hold on the other phase of life as shall round and make symmetrical his nature. Life is so complex that we are not making the most: of our- selves by working exclusively in one line. Equally important with pure air ’in living apartments is sunshine. It carries within radiance and cheer and vigour and good health. It is a purifier. warding ofl" mould, moisture. gloom. depression, and disease. It should be admitted to every apartment of the house and made welcome at all times. It is a strong preventive of the disorders that visit shaded and musty places. It brings health and happiness that cannot be obtained from any other source. It is na- ture’s own health-giving agent, and nothing can be substituted for it. It has no artifi- cial counterpart. I. not only touches the physical body, but it reaches the mind and soul and purifies t‘o whole existence ot man. It may cause a carpet or upholstery to fade; but it wi‘l bring colour to the cheek, light to the eye, and elast.city to the step. 'xhe clear-d and shaded window may throw a richmaoi colour upon the room, but it will bring paleness and feeble- nese to the occupants. This health agent is free to all, easily obtained, and one of the most economic health-preeervers we have. PRESERVING MILK IN NORWAY. BUTTER MAKING IN EVGLAND Horseshoes of Rubber. FLO0DS 0F MODERN TIBIES. The greatest of modern floods was that which resulted from the overflow of the great Hoang‘H-I, or Yellow River, in 1887. This river. which has earned the title of “China’s Son ow," has always been the cause of great anxiety to the Chinese ch;rnment and to the inhabitants of the country through which it flows. In is guarded with the ut- most care at great expense, and annually vast sums are spent in repairs of its banks. in October, 1887, a number of serious breaches occurred in the river’s banks about 300 miles from the coast. As a result the river deserted its natural bed and spread over a thickly populated plain, forcing for itself finally an entirely new road to the sea. Four or five times in 2,000 years the great river had charged its bad, and each time the change had entailed great loss of life and property. In 1852 it bursa through its banks 250 miles from the sea and cut a new bed through the northern part of Shantung into the Gulf of Pechili. The isolation in which foreigners lived at that time in China prevented their obtaining any information as to the calamit- ous results of this change, but in 1887 many of the barriers against foreigners had been removed and a general idea of the character of the inundation was easily obtainable. The Great Chinese Floodâ€"The Flood» of Two Centuries in Euro] e. For several weeks preceding the actual ovexflow of its banks the hoang‘Ho had been swollen from its tributaries. In had been unusually web and stormy innorth- west: China, and all the and overflowing. The first break occurred in the nrovince of Hanan, of which the cap- ital is Kaifeng, and the city next in import. once is Ching or Chenu Ohou. The latter is forty miles west of Kaifeng and 9. short distance above al‘end in the Huang-Ho- At the bend the stream is borne violently against the south shore. For ten days a continuous rain had been soaking the em- bankment, and a strong wind increased the already great force of the current. Finally abrench was made. At first it extended only for a hundred yards. The guards made frantic efforts to close the gap, and were assisted by the frightened people in the vicinity. But the breach grew rapidly to a width of 1.900 yards, and through this the river rushed with awful force. Leaping over the plain with incredible velocity, the water merged into a small stream called the Lu-chia. Down the valley of the Luchia ‘ the torrent poured in an easterly direction, ‘ overwhelming everything it its path. vvu. "uv.......6 -._._, -_._° _, H, Twenty miles from Cheng Chou it encount- ered Chungmou, a walled city of the third rank. Its thousands of inhabitants were attending to their usual pursuits. There was no telegraph to worn them, and the first intimation of disaster came with the muddy torrent that rolled down upon them. Within a short time only the tops of the high Walls marked where a. flourishing city had been. Three hundred villages in the district- disappeared utterly, and the lands about three hundred others villages were inundated. The flood turned south from Chungmou, still keeping to the course of the Lu chin, and stretched out in with for 30 miles. This vast body of water was from 10 to 20 feet deep. Several miles south of Kaifeng the flood struck a lerge river which there joins the Luchia. The result was that the flood rose toe. still greater height, and, pouring into ‘1. lowâ€"lying and which was densely populnted, submerged up- wsrds of 1:500 villagegat Not far beyond :’this locality the flood , passed into the province or Anhui, where it spread very widely. The actual loss of life could not be computed accurately. but the lowest intelligent estimate placed in at 1,500, 000, and one authority fixed it at 7,000,000. Two million people were rendered destitute by the flood, and the suffering that resulted was frightful. Four months later the inun~ dated provinces were still under the muddy waters. The Government officials whe were on guard when the Hoang-Ho broke its banks were condemned to severe punishment and were placed in the pillory in spite or their pleadings that they had done their best to ~._’Jert the disaster. The inundation which may be classed as the second greatest in modern history oc- curred in Holland in 1530. There have been many great floods in Holland, nearly all due to the failure of the dikes which form the only barrier between it and the sea. In 1530 there was a general failure of the dikes, and the sea poured in upon the low lands. The people were as unprepared as were the victims of the J ohnstown disaster. Good authorities place the numberof human beings that perished in this flood at about 400,000, and the destruction of property was in proportion. uM‘. .. n. ‘- u L, : r~-r"*"" In April, 1421, the River Meuse broke in the dikes at Dort, or Dordrecht, an ancient town in the peninsula of South Holland, situated on an island. Ten thousand persons perished there and more than 100,000 in the vicinity. In January, 1861, there was a disastrous flaod in Holland, the area sweep- ing over 40,000 acres and leaving 39,000 destitute, and again in 1876 severe losses resulted from inundations in this country. The first flood in Europe of which history gives any authentic account occurred in Lin- colnshire, England, A. D. 245, when many thousands of acres. In the your 358 a flood in Cheshire destroyed 3,000 human lives and many cattle. Four hundred families were drowned in Glasgow by an overflow of the Clyde in 758. A number of English seaport towns were destroyed by an inundation in 1014. In 1483 uteri-ibis overflow of the Severn, which came as night and lasted for ten days, covered the top: of mountains. Men, women. and children were carried from their beds and drowned. W The inter: settled on the lands and were called for one hundred years aftsr the Grenb Waters. A flood in Catalonia, a province of Spain, occurred in 1617, and 50,000 persons lost. their lives. One cf the most curious inun- dations in history, and one that was looked upon as a miracle, occurred in Yorkshire, England, in 1686. A large rock was split asunder by some hidden force, and water spouted out, the stream reaching as high as a. church steeple. In 1771 another flood which had disastrous results,.and which WQQ'Ewafi a; the Ripon flood, occurred in the same proYince. In September, 1797, mountain torrent: inundatepd N avano, and 2 000 persons were SMALL STREAMEWEBE FULL VERY FEBTILE PLAI N , THE SEA PASSED OVER A flood in Mill Rtver valley in 1874 was caused by the bu. 5‘ ing . f a badly construct- ed dam. The woman! poured down upon the villages in the whey much as at Johnstown, but the people received warning in time, and the torrent wan. not m swift. Several villages were destroyed and 144 persons drowned. The rising of the Garonne in 1875 caused the death of 1,000 persons nem‘ Toulouse and 20,000 persons were made homeless in India. by floods in the same year. In 1882 heavy floods destroyed a. large amount; of property and drowned many persons in the Missilsippi and Ohio valleys. Chicago Herald : It is aprinciple of inter- " national law that the high teas are free and open to all nations. They cannot become the property of any nation, for no nation can enclose and possess them. They era for the common benefit of mankind. The present Secretary of State is evidently of a difl'erent mind and Intends to establish a new rule for the guidance of nations. He intends to show them that ordinary lawe do not bind the great American people, and that when the United States choose to assert their right to an open sea that right must be re- spected. The claim now made by the Gov- ernment is that Behring Sea belongs to this country by virtue of the purchase of Alaska from Russia, and that the United States have an exclusive right to all the seal fisheries therein. A glance at the map will show that this sea is in reality a part of the Pacific Ocean. It is more than a thousand miles wide. It is not inclosed by land. It has always been a highway for all nations. It is true that when Alaska was owned by Russia, that empire claimed exclusive right to the sea, but by no power was that claim more successfully contested than bv the United States. When John Quincy Adams was Secretary of State under Monroe be negotiated a treaty with Russia by which that power abandoned its absurd claim. England made the same contest and secured the same abandonment. When the United States secured Alaska the astute Mr. Seward thought there would be no harm in having Russia convey all her right to Behring sea along with the territory, and this he obtained. But it conveyed no right to the sea for the very good reason that Russia had none. The State Depart- ment is now reviving the old Russian claim and is seeking to maintain an exclusive jurisdiction over that vast body of water. In’so doing it stultifies the past record of the Government, as well as runs counter to every international principle. It is not likely that the American people will sup- port Mr. Blaine to the verge of war upon . any such contention. ANew London, uonn., despatch to the New York “Sun” says :-Captain L.Nathan Rogers, an old whaleman of this city. has just returned from a cruise among the oil barrels and try kettels on New Bedford’s wharves. He says the absorbing topic among whale fisherman there is the arrival in that city of a harpoon which was taken from a whale captured in the Ochotsz Sea last summer by the barque Cape Horn Pigeon. The iron bore the name of the ill- fated ship Thomas Dickason, and was as bright and sharp as when first sunk through the side of the whale. It had brokon off close to the shank and was imbedded in the bluhber. This is the first fragment of the Dickason to return to New England after thirty years. She sailed from New Bradford on Nov. 2, 1856, and was lost in the Ochotsk Sea in the summer of 1859. Captain Rogers, who is well versed in the habits of the leviathans of the deep, says the whale must have been struck by the Dickason on her last cruise in those waters. On the iron was the name of the maker. Its brightness isaccounted for by the preset» vation of the whales blubber. The whale was a large one. and proved a good catch for the Cape Horn Pigeon. Mr. Wm. R, Wing now has the harpscn. Boston Herald : The effort to exclude the Canadian railroads from participation in American trade has been caretully planned, and those engaged in it have been for more than a year past) laying the wires and roll~ ing the logs in such a way as to make it: easy for the Senate Committee to report: a bill in their favor. If they succeed. as from their hard work and political infl 16‘109 bhey have good reason to think that: they will, the railroad kings of New York and Pennsyl- vania will have New England as their mercy. They are now compell-zd to allow freight to come to Boston on terms similar to those paid by merchants in New York and Phila- delphia, because the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific force them so to do ; but if they relieve themselves from this competi- tion, Boston merchants can whistle for their trade. Thirty Years in a Whale. Boston Takes Alarm. ‘n Hal-31.1 : The efl'art to exclude the Behring Sea. “ Tne floods (-f the East and the Fires of of the West," was the subject of a recent sermon by the Rev. F. J. Brobst's at the Westminster church, Cincinustti. The text was Matthew, seventh chapter, twenty-fifth verse : “ A certsin man builded his house on a rock and the wind blew and the ruin descended and the floods csme and best upon it, but it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.” “Not very long ago." said the speaker, “ I travelled through the Couemnugh valley, and as the train pulled over woody heights the songs of the birds could be heard on the pine-clad hills, and the picturesque valley seemed alive with joy and glsdness. In the last few days when a. change has come over the scene. Instead cf werbling birds are moaning widows and fetherless children. and desolation and sufi'ering have tsken the place of happiness and contentment. "new of us have the power of imagination to picture the awful horrors of that flood as it came upon its victims. Some headed the alarm and rushed to a place of safety. while others, careless and indifferent, stood lean- ing over the bslustrade of the iron bridge watching the seething, boiling, yellow muss of water as it rushed onward through its narrow bed until thev were reused. from ~heir feeling of securitv by an awful roar. Looking up they saw Niugmre, transported. thither, tumbling down the narrow valley. Six towns were teasing upon its billows, and when the mad fury of the water subsid- od 15,000 souls had been hun ind into enem- ity. While hearts stood mill in contem~ pleticn of this unprecedented cammity word came that the seas of the P .u fic were redden- ed by a corflxgratinn than was second only to our own great. fire. S run are the changes of our earthly existence. “Can we read the signs of the times by the dark omens of tnq sky and earth ? It is a premonition of a great change that: will usher in a new era? “The flood brought out the heroic side of our humanity. The quite bravery of bus- bands, wives, sons, and daughters deserves a place in the niche of fame along with the daring deeds of the battlefield. A woman drifblng down the stream with her child clasped in her arms as 2 as a. rope dangling from the embenkmauu. In will not; bear their combined weighfiâ€"ahe ties it round her babe and ca‘mly links down into bitter death. Anooher places her child on the float:- ing debris and, kissing; it farewell, is ingulf- ed in the putrid waters. A young man, against: the weeping protesns of his wife, pushes his frail boat; into bhe boiling flood strewn with wrecks the: threaten every moment to crush him and saves twenty-five souls, while a physician, With his breashv crushed in, goes on steadily performing the functions of his .Jffiee regaruless of his own injuries. "These are but a few of the instances that place the sublime side of humanity before our eyes and they teach us that the skeptic's doctrine of the utter selfishness and de- pravity of human nature is wholly false. But what was it that transformed this picturesque valley Into a vale of horrors? We all know that the giving way of the dam precipitated the flood, but whose fault was i: that~the dam gave way. Searching investigation into the cause of that disaster has at last revealed the truth and placed Vhe blame where it should properly rest. The dam was a flimsy structure. No en~ gineer would risk his reputation nowadays in the construction of such an affair. Sixty years ago it broke and hurried death and destruction upon those living below. Orig- inally built for business purposes it has for years been a menace to the inhabitants of that valley that it: mighw serve the pleasures of a sporting club of Pittsburg gentlemen. They had been hold that 35,0004 would make the dam secure, but million- aires are chm-y of spending money fer the protection of human lives, though they squander it eagerly on seaside villas and mountain bridle paths. “It: is a terrible taking to charge the fault? of such a calamihv upon any body of men, and yet should not the whole world rise in indignation and denounce the criminal negli- genceâ€"it; can be called by no other nameâ€"- that resulted in such a. fearful loss of life.” When men learn to think less of their own pleasure an‘l more of the interests of others arepetition of the Tohneto‘vn flood will be impossible. . .‘u. "There is a deep and permanent belief that: this calamity is only an outward sign of what is transpiring in the spiritual world. It: is only a. visible manifestation of when; is taking place in the soul. We pursue our wonted course with \he great danger of e.er- nal punishment continually hanging over our heads, and though our warnings are fre- quent we heed them not. The lost souls of Johnstowu had been warned so often that they laughed at the idea. of danger, .and there are those among us to day who ridicule the warning to seek safety in regard to their eternal interests. It should serve as a trum- pet-call to all whose faith is built on a slight foundation to put themaelvas in a place of‘ safety and seek protection on the ro J; of the Lord Jesus Christ. The; Projected Quebec :Bndge. The St. Lawrence is t) be crossed at Que- bec by a gigantic railway bridge, which will very materially afisc: the trafli) oi the two great railways of Canadaâ€"the Grand Trunk and the anada Pscificâ€"ae well as an im- portant part of the railway system of the New England States. The great depth of the St. Lawrence opposite Quebec has hitherto been a powerful argument against the construction of a bridge. but engineering skill has overcome this obstacle with a scheme to build a cantilever bridge. which will cost close up to $10,000,000. The width of the river from shore to share at Quebec is 24,000 feet l about 4Q miles). Two main piers are to be constructed of solid granite in 40 feet of water, about 500 feet from each shore. These two piers are to support a cantilever bridge of a span of 1.442 feet. The total 1811ng of the bridge, with the approaches, will be 34.000 feet \nearly 6% miles). The top of the bridge from high water level will be 408 feet, and the largest ocean steamers will be able to pass under it. The principal object in building the bridge is to connect the lntercolosial railway from Halifax and St. John to Quebec, which is run by the Canadian Government at a great :.nnual loss to the country, with the Canadian Pacific railway. This is the only link 11 completed necessary to give the Canadian Pacific rail- way an uninterrupted line from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean through Canadian terri- tory. An opera. house is being built; in Buenos Avrea which will cost $700,000 and seat 4000 persons. A Menace to Human Lives.