Great Enterprises

The present time is fruitful in schemes of reat magnitude. There are already proiected : A new suspenslou bridge over Niágara river. A new Atlantic cable in addition to that now in procesa of construction. A hip canal KjrOM the Isthniu of Darien. A shiprailroad across the same strip of land, separating two oceans. A railroad over the desert of Sahara, connecting AJgeria and Soudan. A canal which, conveying the waters of the Mediterranean into the sands of Afriea. shall make a great inland sea, and fcrtilize arid wastes. The establishment of water comtnunication bctween the Black, and the Caspian