Part 16 (1/2)

”Thank God! Mr Sherbourn, we stopped you in time I would have lost my life before one hair of your head should have been hurt Oh, I prayed to heaven that we ht stop the train, and,for joy I confess I don't very often pray, but I did then and there I kneeled down by the side of that good old wo for our safe deliverance fros without nuood old woineer, fire down their bronzed cheeks

I io back into the cars out of the stor the cars I related our hair-breadth escape, and to ere indebted for our lives, and begged the o forward and see for thereat ardless of the storave full evidence of the frightful death we had escaped The ladies and gentleratitude towards Mrs Graff and her children, and assured her that they would never, never forget her, and before theleft the train she was presented with a purse of four hundred and sixty dollars, the voluntary offering of a whole train of grateful passengers She refused the proffered gift for soe of having done so was all the reward she asked However, she finally accepted the o to educate her children

The railway coave her and her children a life pass over the road, and ordered all trains to stop and let her get off at home when she wished, but the employes needed no such orders, they can appreciate all such kindness-more so than the directors themselves

The old lady frequently visits my home at H- and she is at all times a welco school at the same place

-_Appleton's American Railway Anecdote Book_

A COUNTY COURT JUDGE'S FEELING AGAINST RAILWAYS

In a County Court case at Carlisle, reported in the _Carlisle Journal_, of October 31st, 1851, the judge (J K Knowles, Esq) is represented to have said:-”Youfor you, I would, for I detest all railways If they get a verdict in this case it will be the first, and I hope it will be the last”

RAILWAY TICKETS

A writer in that valuable miscellany _Household Words_, re in a field in Northu was nah a Friend, not a very successful rity and honour, as he afterwards abundantly proved, but he had been a bankrupt, and washimself as a clerk at a small station on the Newcastle and Carlisle line In the course of his duties in this situation, he found it irksome to have to write on every railway ticket that he delivered He saw the clu the bit of paper off the printed sheet as it anted, and filling it up with pen and ink He perceived how ht be saved by the process being done in a mechanical way; and it hen he set his foot down on a particular spot on the before mentioned field that the idea struck hiht be done by a ht be printed with the nae, the dates of the doreat deeds by degrees-one thought suggesting another from time to time; but, when Thomas Edmonson showed his family the spot in the field where his invention occurred to him, he used to say that it came to his mind complete, in its whole scope and all its details Out of it has grown theHouse; and with it the grand organization by which the Railways of the United Kingdoard to the convenience of individuals, as a unity We lance the difference to every one of us of the present organized system-by which we can take our tickets froe on alreat lines, to be conveyed without further care to the opposite end of the kingdoanized condition of affairs from which Mr Edmonson rescued us, whereby we should have been coe fro while they were filled up, waiting at al to do it with divers co to do with each other but to find fault and be jealous

”On Mr Edmonson's machines may be seen the name of Blaycock; Blaycock was a watchmaker, and an acquaintance of Ed out his idea He told him what he wanted; and Blaycock understood hiht The third ood as those now in use The onehad scarcely wanted five shi+llings worth of repairs in five years; and, when it needsaway of the brass-work, by constant hard friction The Manchester and Leeds Railway Company were the first to avail themselves of Mr Edmonson's invention; and they secured his services at their station at Oldham Road, for a time He took out a patent; and his invention became so widely known and appreciated, that he soon withdrew hiements, to perfect its details and provide tickets todemand

He let out his patent on profitable ters perpaid him fifteen pounds a year for a license to print its own tickets by his apparatus; and a railway of sixtypaid hian to coan to spend the part of his history to see how It has been told that he was a bankrupt early in life The very first use hethat he ever owed Ho was forty-six when he took that walk in the field in Northuht when he died, on the twenty-second of June last year”

TAKEN ABACK

Four young cavalry officers, travelling by rail, frone to Paris, were joined at Aentleht be opened-a not unreasonable de But it was refused, and again refused on being preferred a second tientlelass ”Shall we stand the ieois?” said the officers to one another ”Never” And they thrust four cards into his hand, which he receivedhis own, one of which he tendered to each officer with a bow

Is when they read on each-”Marshal Randon, Ministre de Guerre”

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

The engineer of a train near Montreal saw a large dog on the track He was barking furiously The engineer blew the whistle at hi low, he was struck by the locomotive and killed

There was a bit of white muslin on the locoineer, who stopped the train and went back There lay the dead dog, and a dead child, which had wandered upon the track and gone to sleep The dog had given his signal to stop the train, and had died at his post

NARROW ESCAPES FROM BEING LYNCHED