Part 27 (2/2)

They were too highly as of annoyance, and one of thehed heartily, saying, in a thoroughly Alish ladies must be cute customers if they can outwit Yankee pickpockets'”

NOVEL OBSTRUCTION

On a certain railroad in Louisiana the alligators have the bad habit of crawling upon the track to sun themselves, and to such an extent have they pushed this practice that the drivers of the locoine whistle in order to scare the interlopers away

-_Railway News_, 1867

BABY LAW

The railways generously pere; but not, it see responsibility It has been lately decided, in ”Austin _v_ the Great Western Railway Company,” 16 L T

Rep, N S, 320, that where a child in arer, is injured by an accident caused by negligence, the coes under Lord Caes were clearly of opinion that the co the mother to take the child in her arms, contracted to carry safely both mother and child; and Blackburn, J, went still further, and was of opinion that, independently of any such contract, express or implied, the law cast upon the co the child, though unpaid for It may appear soh an act of liberality, but they have chosen to do so The law is against them, that is clear; but they have the re a child in are, and is but a trifling addition of weight But now it is established that the company is responsible for the consequences of accident to that child, the coe as will secure theht course would be to have a tariff, say one-fifth or one-fourth of the full fare, for a child in arms; and if strict justice was done, this would be deducted froers who have the ill-luck to face and flank the squaller

-_Law Times_, 1867

RAILROAD TRACKLAYER

The railroad tracklayer is noorking along regularly at the rate of aand 10 feet wide It has a s the ties and rails The ties are carried on a coht car behind, and conveyed by an endless chain over the top of the machinery, laid down in their places on the track, and, when enough are laid, a rail is put down on each side in proper position and spiked down The tracklayer then advances, and keeps on its work until the load of ties and rails is exhausted, when other car loads are brought The machine is driven ahead by a locomotive, and the work is done so rapidly that 60 men are required to wait on it, but they do more work than twice as many could do by the old system, and the work is done quite as well The chief contractor of the road gives it as his opinion that when the es in therails and ties it will be able to put down five or six miles per day This will render it possible to lay down track twelve times as fast as the usual rate by hand, and it will do the work at less expense The invention will be of immense importance to the country in connection with the Pacific railroad, which it was calculated could be built as fast as the track could be laid, and no faster; but hereafter the speed will be deter, which cannot advance more than five miles a day Thirty millions of dollars have already been invested on the Pacific railroad, and if the time of completion is hastened one year by this tracklayer, as it will be if Central and Union Corade each fiveof three million dollars on interest alone on that one road

-_Alla California_, 1868

A GROWING LAD

”This your boy,for a 'alf ticket” ”Oh, is he?” replied the mother ”Well, perhaps he is now, mister; but he wasn't when he started The train is ever so rowing lad!”

FORGED TICKETS

Atteed tickets are seldom made, and still more seldom successful In 1870, a man who lived in a toll-house near Dudley, and who rented a large number of tolls on the different turnpikes, in al cheaply He set up a co stick, and every requisite for printing tickets, and provided himself with coloured papers, colours, and paints to paint them, and plain cards on which to paste theth, and available to and from different stations on the London and North-Western, Great Western, and Midland lines On arriving one day at the ticket platform at Derby, he presented a ticket from Masbro' to Smethwick The collector, who had been ht there was so unusual in the ticket On exaery, and when the train arrived at the platfor his house, upwards of a thousand railway tickets were discovered in a drawer in his bedrooeries were accomplished was also secured On the prisoner himself was the sum of 199 10s, and it appeared that he ca of the tolls on the different roads leading out of Derby The punishn to serve as a warning to all who ht be inclined to emulate such attempts after cheap locomotion

-Williams's _Midland Railway_