Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — A Queer Canal. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Canal.

The strangest canal in the world is a o*nal sixteen miles long between Worsiey and St. Helens, in the north of England, and is underground from end to end. In Lancashire the coal mines are very extensive, half the country being undermined, and many years ago the duke of Bridgewater’s managers thought they could save money |y transporting the coal undcr- £ round instead of on the surface. So le canal was constructed, the connected and drained at the santv time. “Ordinary canalboats are need, bat the power is furnished by men. On the roof of the tunnel arch are cross pieces, and the men who do the work of proputaton lie on their backs on the coal and push with their feet against the cross-bars on the roof Six or -eight men will draw a train of foui or five boats, and as there are two divisions in the tunnel boats pass eaeh other without difficulty. Dr. Kelley, dentist, has returned to Rensselaer and opened an offic. ?n “Liberal Corner,” upstairs over T. P. Wright’s undertaking shop, where he will be glad to see all those wishing dental work, and he wifi make it an object for all wishing his services. All winter goods at cost, for cash, at R. Fendig’s.