rking expenses and a profit
on a steep grade mountain road it will probably be built. Already there
is talk of a road on Mont Blanc, of another up the Yungfrau, and several
have been projected in the Schwartz and Hartz mountains. A route on Ben
Nevis, in Scotland, is already surveyed, and it is said surveys have
also been made up Snowden, with a view to the establishment of a road to
the summit of the highest Welsh peak. Sufficient travel is all that is
necessary, and when that is guaranteed, whenever a mountain possesses
sufficient interest to induce people to make its ascent in considerable
numbers, means of transportation, safe and speedy, will soon be
provided. The modern engineer is able, willing and ready to build a road
to the top of Mt. Everest in the Himalayas if he is paid for doing
so.--_St. Louis Globe-Democrat._

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out all the soda, and expose to sun.

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THE MARCEAU.

[Illustration: THE FRENCH ARMORED TURRET SHIP MARCEAU]

The Marceau, the last ironclad completed and added to the French navy,
was put in commission at Toulon in April last, and has lately left that
town to join the French squadron of the north at Brest. The original
designs of this ship were prepared by M. Huin, of the French Department
of Naval Construction, but since the laying down of the keel in the year
1882 they have been very considerably modified, and many improvements
have been introduced.

Both ship and engines were constructed by the celebrated French firm,
the Societe des Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee, the former at
their shipyard in La Seyne and the latter at their engine works in
Marseilles. The ship was five years in construction on the stocks, was
launched in May, 1887, and not having been put in commission until the
present year, was thus nearly nine years in construction. She is a
barbette belted ship of somewhat similar design to the French ironclads
Magenta, now being completed at the Toulon arsenal, and the Neptune, in
construction at Brest.

The hull is constructed partly of steel and partly of iron, and has the
principal dimensions as follows. Length, 330 ft. at the water line;
beam, 66 ft. outside the armor; draught, 27 ft. 6 in. aft.;
displacement, 10,430 English or 10,600 French tons. The engines are two
in number, one driving each propeller;