Canals Old and New.

Canals Old and New.

Canals more wonderful than those of Panama and Suez are already in prospect. The early summer is to see the commencement of an inland waterway that will dwarf them both into comparative insignificance. This is the long projected Baltic and Black Sea canal, which will intersect Russia from north to south, a distance of 1,000 miles, and the total estimated cost of which is put officially at $500,000,000, although it will probably largely exceed even this sum. Another wonderful canal scheme which is being enthusiastically taken up in Italy contemplates nothing less than the joining by this means of Genoa and lake Constance. To do this it will be necessary, of cijurse, to cross not only the Appenine mountains. but. also, the Alps. This it is proposed to do by means of a new invention in locks, involving the construction of a series of inclined tubular water-lifts. It may yet be possible to travel by steamer over the loftiest mountain range in Europe.—Chicago News.

Canals more wonderful than those of Panama and Suez are already in prospect. The early summer is to see the commencement of an inland waterway that will dwarf them both into comparative insignificance. This is the long projected Baltic and Black Sea canal, which will intersect Russia from north to south, a distance of 1,000 miles, and the total estimated cost of which is put officially at $500,000,000, although it will probably largely exceed even this sum. Another wonderful canal scheme which is being enthusiastically taken up in Italy contemplates nothing less than the joining by this means of Genoa and lake Constance. To do this it will be necessary, of cijurse, to cross not only the Appenine mountains. but. also, the Alps. This it is proposed to do by means of a new invention in locks, involving the construction of a series of inclined tubular water-lifts. It may yet be possible to travel by steamer over the loftiest mountain range in Europe.—Chicago News.