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great railway system stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where they will 
be worth at a moderate computation twenty dollars or £4 per head. According 
to last reports all three herds had safely passed through the more enclosed and 
most difficult part of their long journey, and for the rest of the way there was 
abundance of pasture and water. The land upon which the company’s cattle are 
and will be fed belongs to the United States Government, who allow and encour- 
age it to be occupied in the manner proposed by the company, rent free. The 
rich ‘prairie on either side of Goose Creek in Wyoming, which is at a convenient 
distance from the Union Pacific Railroad, has been selected as being the most 
suitable for the purpose. It is in the heart of the country upon which the buffalo 
has thriven from time immemorial, and produces sufficient feed to keep cattle fat 
all the year round. In these districts cattle breeding has up to the present time 
been conducted by individuals of very limited means, who have nevertheless often 
secured ample fortunes. The capital of the company, which is incorporated under 
the Limited Liability Act, is fixed at £70,000 in shares of £20 each, and the un- 
alloted balance is now for a limited time offered at par.—Jron. 
RUSSIA IN GREECE. 
The Russian government recognizing the opportunities presented by the ex- 
cavations and explorations, now taking place in Greece, has resolved to send 
some specialists to the very spot of these discoveries. It is also proposed to or- 
ganize, in a short time, in Greece, a Russian Archeological Institute, in imitation 
‘of those of Germany and France. For this purpose, Prof. Skolow has been sent. 
to Athens for four months, and Mr. Ernstaedt, licentiate of the University of St. 
Petersburg, and Mr. Latyschew, master of the gymnasium at Vilna, have been 
sent for two years. 
BUILDING WITH TEMPERED GLASS. 
We have lately entertained our readers about ties of tempered glass for rail- 
roads, obtained by Siemen’s method. A new application of this method has. 
been pointed out to us which would have appeared incredible at the time, when 
glass was only known in its primitive condition, as a crystalline product, with 
sharp, broken edges, yet fragile and unresisting to shocks and pressure. Tem-- 
pered glass can be obtained in great pieces, gifted with a power of resistance, 
which its specific lightness, compared with heavy metals, would not have given: 
the least presumption. It can now be employed, notably in carpentry, for posts, 
joists, ties and buttresses. It combines the advantages of strength and of incor-- 
ruptibility in contact with all atmospheric agents, as well as with chemical factors, 
and consequently, is of perpetual duration, and join to these advantages the 
smallness of the price of acquisition. This material is now as cheap as iron of 
the same weight, and as a large sale is counted on, it will not be long until the: 
