People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — To Drain the Valley of Mexico. [ARTICLE]

To Drain the Valley of Mexico.

City of Mexico, Maj’ I. With a silver pick President Diaz has finished the opening from end to end of the 7mile tunnel out of the valley of Mexico. The tunnel and canal, which it is hoped will at last successfully drain the valley and thus remove all danger to the City of Mexico from inundation, have been in course of construction for many years and when finished will have cost nearly $10,090,009.

Mrs. Alexander, the nbvelist, has been lame two years, owing to an apparently trifling accident. She hurt her knee sitting in the cramped position it was necessary to maintain when seated in the dress circle of one of the London theaters. She is now unable to walk without a stick. The financial success of breeding the trotter depends upon the financial prosperity of the trotting sport. They are working hard against the docking of horses’ tails in London, and ire fining offenders right and left.

“Is Hicks’ wife a nice housekeeper!’’ Mr Hacks—“ Well, I should say so. Why, half the time Hicks can’t find anything that belongs to him.”