Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — The Suez Canal. [ARTICLE]

The Suez Canal.

Attention was first called to the subject of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez by the great Napoleon during his invasion of Egypt. Eor years, however, nothing was done. In 1847 France, Great Britain, and Austria commissioned M. Talabot, Robert Stephenson, and Signor Negrelli to make a survey and decide whether Napoleon’s survey was correct in the point that the level of the Red Boa was thirty feet higher than that of the Mediterranean, ana they found the two seas had exactly the same level. The canal project was never so favorably entertained by the British as by the French. The whole* length of the navigation is eighty-eight geograpical miles; of this distance sixty-six miles are actual canal, formed by cuttings, fourteen miles are made by dredging through lakes, and eight miles required no works, the natural depth being equal to that of the canal. The cost of the whole undertaking, including the harbors, is placed at about 8100,000,000. In doing this wonderful work it is stated that there have been about 80,000,000 cubic yards of material excavated, and at one time 60 dredging machines and nearly 30,000 laborers were employed. For their use a supply of fresh water was conveyed from the Nile at Cairo and distributed along the whole length of the canal, a work in itself of no small magnitude. It is regarded as making a saving of thirtysix days on the voyage from Western Europe to the East Indies. It is difficult to state by whom the controlling interest is held. [From the Freeport (Ill.) Bulletin.] Thebe is now a substance which is both professionally and popularly indorsed and concerning which, Mr. J. B. Ferschweiller, Butteville, Oregon, writes: I have often read of the many cures effected by St. Jacobs Oil and was persuaded to try the remedy myself. 1 was a sufferer from rheumatism and experienced great pains, my leg being so swollen that I could not move it. I procured St. Jacobs Oil, used it freely and was cured.