Part 30 (2/2)
When he found that little chance existed for an early escape, his heart prompted him to a bold enterprise He was still two hundred raph posts He could expect little provision on the way, as the stations were frozen up; but, sustained by conjugal affection, the good fellow set off on his lonely walk over the snow Notwithstanding terrible sufferings, and so olves, he did hishe deserved!
”Those who had not his courage and strength were compelled to endure the cars Americans are not folks to whine about a trouble; they succeed so often that their faith is strong Though the most luxurious of people, the men-and the women too-can bear reverses nobly But they never dreale hard to rise, and e comes So with those in the cars They soon found a; the best jokes were recollected and repeated, and the liveliest tales were told; charades were acted; a judge and jury scene affordedassemblies The Sundays were decently observed, and services were heldwas dispensed with, and the sermons were extes caht hours they were under a snow-shed without light, and with the stoves empty As, for the maintenance of warmth, every crevice in the cars was stopped, the misery of close and unwholesome atmosphere was added to their sorrows
The writer, as an old traveller, has had soed at tih he has never endured so e on the Pacific Railway For hours in the long nights, as well as in the day, he preferred standing outside on the platform, with the thermometer from fifteen to twenty-five below zero, rather than encounter the foul at heat within
”Meanwhile the brave Chinamen were summoned to the rescue They are capital fellows to withstand the cold, and ith a will to clear a passage For a distance of two hundred ht on the way Eight hundred freight wagons were detained at Cheyenne At one period the cold was 30 below zero
The worst part of the road was toward Sher and West Nebraska were the coldest regions
”In this great blockade, strange to say, thethe imprison compensation was made, for five births took place in this season of trial The principal sufferers were those in the second-class carriages Room, however, was made for the more delicate in the already crowded first-class cars”
A SELL
The _Indianapolis News_ is responsible for the following story A railroad official of Indianapolis had, a to carry hie Railway
Happening to be near Warren, he thought he would use this pass Now, it appears that so citizens of Pennsylvania once proposed to lay a pipe-line for petroleu refused to sanction their schee line, which passed, the oil capitalists not conceiving that they had any interest in opposing it It is needless to say the narrow-gauge line was the ”desiderated pipe-line” The enterprising citizens carried their joke so far as to issue annual passes over the road, receiving others in return When the traveller sought for the Warren station on this line he found a chiround It is hardly surprising that now he is htest reference to the ”Warren and Tonawanda Narrow Gauge”
AT FAULT
It is rather a serious matter that our public co their best to degrade our language I aly to the use of the word _Metropolitan_, though I think it indefensible Still, it is too bad of the the word _bye-laws_ for _by-laws_-so establishi+ng solidly a shocking error The word _bye_ has no existence in England except as short for _be with you_, in the phrase _Good-bye_
The so called by-laws are si to do with any form of salutation In a bill of the Great Western Railway I find the announcement that tickets obtained in London on any day from December 20th to 24th will be available for use on _either_ of those days-this _either_the five days from the 20th December to the 24th inclusive Either of five! After this I am not surprised that, in a contribution of ravely altered the phrase _the last-named_, applied to one of three people, to _latter_
In a railway advertiseo, ”Froood of such fine words as _whence_ and _thence_ if they are thus to be ill-used? Surely the railway coraazine_
A WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION
So out of New York killed, a in an interior town His remains were sent home, and a few days after the funeral the attorney of the road called upon theto effect a settleures at twenty thousand dollars ”Oh! that sum is unreasonable,”
replied the attorney ”Your husband was nearly fifty years old” ”Yes, sir” ”And laeneral health was poor?” ”Quite poor” ”And he probably would not have lived over five years?”
”Probably not, sir” ”Then it seems to me that two or three thousand dollars would be a fair compensation” ”Two or three thousand!” she echoed ”Why, sir, I courted that man for ten years, run after hiun to get hi to settle for the bare cost of shoe leather and ammunition?”