A Man Eating Canal

Perhaps the greatest waste of human life ever recorded was caused by the cutting of a canal in China. The work was begun in 1825, and though the canal was 23 miles long, 80 feet wide and 12 feet deep and passed through foresta and marshes it was flnished in eix weeks from its beginning. No fewer than 20,000 men worked at it day and night, and 7,000 died of fatigue.