Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Oriental Railways. [ARTICLE]

Oriental Railways.

A cog wheel nailway is to be built up Mount Sinai to the spot where, according to tradition, Moses stood whHe receiving the Sacred Tables, the spot being already marked by a stone cross' erected by the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great. It is proixjsed to connect the road with a linefrom Port Said through the Isthmus of Sinai and Arabia, to Barra on the Persian GulC: The Persian Railroad Tramway Company finds railroading the land of the Shah beset with difficulties, the receipts for 181K5 showing a decrease of 18 per cent., to three months' traffic suspension, a lot of boiler tubes ordered' miscarried. and, wnen a second lot arrived. the Shah had been murdered and for fear of an outbreak train servicer was forbidden on certain parts of the line. A girl may cry occasionally when a. fish gets away, but she doesn’t knowreal sorrow until she is so old she ta out of bait.