Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — The World's Locomotives. [ARTICLE]

The World's Locomotives.

tn the beginning of 1890 tho total number of the world’s looomotlves amounted to 105,000, representing from 5,500,000 to 7,000,000 horse power. Taking the figures as 6,000,000 only, this gives the total horse power of the whole us the steam engines and looomotlves on earth as 49,000,000. The horse power of a steam engine may be estimated as equivalent to the power of three horses, and the power of a horse as equivalent to that of seven men. Know* utthlp at Sight. To a sailor, every vessel Is an ladlvtdaal. No two vessels, even of the game class, are alike to him. The man who keeps a lookout In the Portland Observatory can recognize over 100 different vessels that belong to that port the minute he sees them twenty miles away through his telescope He saye there are not two vessels that ever were alike In shape or rig. “You see the back of a friend on the street some dletanoe away, and you know him by the ent of his jib, ” he says. This is almost literally true tn the case of vessels. An old sailor sees the difference without always being able to explain Just wherein It Uss. -Sevan-Made Farms. Near Astoria, Ore., are large areas of dyked tide land. This land is richer the more It Is stirred. It is made up of the washings of the hills and the deposits of the ocean for centuries, and when ■ plowed and exposed to sunlight It yields 9Borm9Mfy. _