Part 16 (2/2)

A writer in _All the Year Round_, observes:-”A dreadful accident down in 'Illonoy,' had particularly struck ; for there, while the shattered bodies were still being drawn froes, the driver on being expostulated with, had replied:

'I suppose this ain't the first railway accident by long chalks!'

Upon which the indignant passengers ith difficulty prevented fro the wretch; but he fled into the woods, and there for a time escaped pursuit

But, two other railway journeys pressed ht or ten weeks ago, froentleo, told me of a railway accident he had himself been witness to, only two days before I o, in which he rode, was upset near Pocahontas by two logs that had evidently been wilfully laid across the rails On inquiry at the next station, it was discovered that a farmer who had had, a week before, two stray calves killed near the same place, had been heard at a liquor store to say he would 'pay theh for the excited passengers, vexed at the detention, and enraged at the er and death A posse of theuered the farmer's house, seized hied him to the nearest tree, and would have then and there lynched hiers rescued hiistrate”

CURIOUS NOTICE

The following notice, for the benefit of English travellers, was exhibited soe of a Dutch railway:-”You are requested not to put no heads nor arms out of te s”

OBTAINING INFORMATION

But one of the s in the world is the levity hich people talk about ”obtaining information” As if information were as easy to pick up as stones! ”It ain't so hard to nuss the sick,” said a hired nurse, ”as so, and theht say, it is much harder to ”obtain infor, and those who do don't say what they know

Here is a real episode from the history of an inquiry, which took place four or five years ago, into the desirability of iving what is called ”traffic evidence,” in justification of the alleged need of the railway, and this is what occurred:-

_Mr Brown_ (the cross-exa counsel for the opponents of the new line)-Do you mean to tell the committee that you ever saw an inhabited house in that valley?

_Witness_-Yes I do

_Mr Brown_-Did you ever see a vehicle there in your life?

_Witness_-Yes, I did

_Mr Brown_-Very good

So particular: but, just as the witness-a Scotchentleman put one more question:-

_Q_-I am instructed to ask you, if the vehicle you saas not the hearse of the last inhabitant?

_Answer_-It was

-_Cornhill Magazine_