Part 36 (1/2)
On a Georgia railroad there is a conductor named Snell, a very clever, sociable man, fond of a joke, quick at repartee, and faithful in the discharge of his duties One day as his train well filled with passengers, was crossing a low bridge over a wide streae broke down, precipitating the two passenger cars into the streaed from the wreck they were borne away by the force of the current Snell had succeeded in catching hold of sorew on the bank of the streaer less fortunate ca, ”Your ticket, sir; give me your ticket!” The effect of such a dry joke in the azine_
AN OLD SCOTCH LADY ON THE LOSS OF HER BOX
Dean Ramsay in his _Reminiscences_ remarks:-”Some curious stories are told of ladies of this class, as connected with the novelties and excite that so very terrible distress, and , were it not to the sufferer so severe a calamity
I was , and the expression of it fro at the station where she was to stop When urged to be patient, her indignant exclas that may be ca'ed for in God's providence; but I canna stan' pairtin' frae entle by rail from Breslau to Oppeln and found himself alone with a lady in a second-class compartment He vainly endeavoured to enter into conversation with the other occupant of the carriage; her ansere invariably curt and snappish Baffled in his attear to while away the time Then the lady said to him: ”I suppose you have never travelled second-class before, else you would know bettercompanion quietly rejoined: ”It is true, I have hitherto only studied the manners of the first and third-classes In the first-class the passengers are rude to the porters, in the third-class the porters are rude to the passengers I now discover that in the second-class the passengers are rude to each other”
A BRAVE GIRL
Kate Shelley, to whoold medal and 200, is fifteen years old She lives near Des Moines, at a point where a railroad crosses a gorge at a great height One night during a furious store was carried away The first the Shelleys knew of it hen they saw the headlight of a locomotive flash down into the chasreat difficulty, using an iineer's voice answered her calls, but she could do nothing for him, and he was drowned As an express train was almost due, she then started for the nearest station, a e over the Des Moines River had to be crossed on the ties-a perilous thing in storht was blown out, and the as so violent that she could not stand, so she crawled across the bridge, froot to the station exhausted, but in tih she fainted immediately
-_Detroit Free Press_, May 13th, 1882
SHUT UP IN A LARGE BOX
The Merv correspondent of the _Daily News_ in a letter dated the 30th of April, 1881, reiven me by some Tekkes of the Serdar's departure for Russia It seems that my informants accompanied him up to the point where the trans-Caspian railway is in working order 'They shut Tocke box (sanduk) and locked hied him away across the Sahara And,' added the speakers, 'Allah only knoill happen to them inside that box' The box, I need hardly say, was a railway carriage”
AWFUL DEATH ON A RAILROAD BRIDGE
A man commonly known as ”Billy” Cooper, of the town of Van Etten, alking on the railroad track at a point not far distant froe he , fell between the ties, but his position was so craer There, suspended in that awful e, he heard a train thundering along in the distance, approaching every les for life which the poor fellow made, but they were futile; with arineer The train ca on upon its helpless victiineer saw the man's head and endeavoured to stop his heavy train But too late; thehis head frouillotine itself Cooper was 60 years of age
-_Ithaca_ (NY) _Journal_
THAT ACCURSED DRINK
An English traveller in Ireland, greedy for infor the note-book in his breast pocket, got into the sae with a certain Ronorant of his rank, and only perceiving that he was a divine, he questioned him pretty closely about the state of the country, whisky drinking, etc At last he said, ”You are a parish priest, yourself, of course” His grace drew hiravity ”Dear, dear,” was the sy rejoinder ”That accursed drink, I suppose”