Part 34 (1/2)

Owing to the various dialects in the South of India, as a e is much used for personal communication by the natives of different parts of the Presidency of Madras Mr

Edward Lear, who has travelledinteresting account of a journey:-”I was in a second-class railway carriage going froer beside myself and servant, and he was a Brah worn over the shoulder, by which you reat reat deal of room in the compartment, and when at the next station the door was opened for another passenger to get in, the guard said:-

”'You cannot have all those boxes inside the carriage; some of theood English, 'I assure you these articles are by no means necessary to my comfort, and I hope you will not hesitate to dispose of thely, therefore, the boxes were taken away Then the newcomer stepped in; he was also a native, but dressed in quite a different reen, red, and all the colours of the rainbow, so that one saw at once the two persons were from different parts of India Presently he surprisedto the Brahiven you the trouble of ree; I aiven you any inconvenience whatever'

”To which the Brahies; it is i the re articles; and, even if you have done so, the pleasure of your society would afford me perfect compensation'”

MR FRANK BUCKLAND AND HIS BOOTS

Mr Spencer Walpole furnishes soossip about the late Mr Frank Buckland, describing so many stories relative to his peculiar habits He had, it sees and boots and coats, his favourite attire consisting of nothing else than trousers and a flannel shi+rt

Boots were his special aversion, and he never lost an opportunity of kicking them off his feet

”On one occasion,” we are told, ”travelling alone in a railway carriage, he fell asleep with his feet resting on the -sill As usual, he kicked off his boots, and they fell outside the carriage on the line

When he reached his destination the boots could not, of course, be found, and he had to go without the the permanent way, caer that he had found a pair of gentleentleman Some one connected with the railway recollected that Mr Buckland had been seen in the neighbourhood, and, knowing his eccentricities, inferred that the boots ly sent to the Home Office, and were at once claimed”

DRINKING FROM THE WRONG BOTTLE

An incident has occurred on one of the suburban lines which will certainly be supposed by many to be only _ben trovato_, but it is a real fact A lady, who seemed perfectly well before the train entered a tunnel, suddenly alar the teing into daylight, an aard explanation ensued The lady carried with her two bottles, one of , presuloo bottle to her lips Tiood drain

The consequence was she was nearly poisoned, and had to apply herself honestly and openly to the brandy bottle as a corrective, aers she had previously alarmed

-_Once a Week_

HORSES VERSUS RAILWAYS

A horse for every mile of road was the allowance reat routes On the corresponding portions of the railway systeine per uineas a year, out of which his cost had to be defrayed, he did well A single locomotive on the Great Northern Railway (and that coines for 659 miles of line) was stated by John Robinson, in 1873, to perform the work of 678 horses-work, that is, as measured by resistance overcome; for the horses, whatever their number, could not have reached the speed of fiftya train of sixteen carriages, weighing in all 225 tons There are noards of 13,000 loco on the average, 4,750 per annum But we have at the saers than we had in 1835 In o upon the steam horse-there is more de system in 1835

A SLIGHT MISTAKE

An Irish newspaper is responsible for the following:-”A deaf er train on Wednesday o”