Part 37 (2/2)
The old Cabo waved his hand in a military salute ”_Estamos ajustade_, Senor Commandante, this squares our account”
-_Atlantic Monthly_, Jan, 1884
MY ORDERS
”Ticket, sir!” said an inspector at a railway ter been a season ticket holder for some time, believed his face was so well known that there was no need for hientle back his wristband, and displaying a most powerful wrist, ”well,on to this platform”
LUGGAGE IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES
The question of the liability of railway coh parcels falling froer trains has been raised in the Midlands In Dece fro drawn up at Round Oak Station, a hamper was jerked from the racks and fell with such force as to cause hies were incurred, and Mr Round alleged that he was unable to attend to his business for five weeks in consequence of the accident
He therefore claimed 50 by way of compensation Sir Rupert Kettle, before whom the case was tried, decided that the company was not liable, and could not be held responsible for whatever happened in respect to luggage directly under the control of passengers The case is one of so from a rack is not an uncommon incident in a railway journey Moreover, the halass engraver, and contained four empty bottles, two razors, and a couple of knives
-_Daily News_, March 29th, 1884
EFFECTS OF CONSTANT RAILWAY TRAVELLING
A writer in _Cassell's Magazine_ re of the ease hich the season-ticket holder journeys backwards and forwards daily fro, healthy ue; but, after a certain ti conveyed by express fiftyThe shaking and jolting of the best constructed carriage is not such as we experience in a coach on an ordinary road; but is ht concussions, which jar the spinal column and keep the muscles of the back and sides in continued action” Dr Radcliff, who has witnessed many cases of serious injury to the nervous syste conclusive case soentle of inability to sleep, nureat depression, and all the sy paralytic seizure He was very actively engaged in large monetary transactions, which were naturally a source of anxiety He had a house in town; but, having been advised by the late Doctor Todd to live at Brighton, he had taken a house there, and travelled to and fro daily by the express train The syan to appear about four hton, and he had undergone a variety of treat hoive up the journey for aquietly in town In a fortnight his rest was perfectly restored, and the other symptoms rapidly disappeared, so that at the end of the ain After three hton, and resumed his daily journeys In a few days his rest became broken and in twoup the journeys and again residing in town, he was oncethe end of the season, when the house at Brighton could not readily be disposed of, and yielding to the wishes of his faain resumed his journeys In a month's time he was rendered so seriously unwell that he hesitated no longer in taking up his permanent abode in town; and since that tio-he has enjoyed perfect health”
AN ELECTRIC TRAMWAY INCIDENT
The following appeared in the _Irish Tienerally known that the country people along the line of the electric railway e uses of the insulated rails, which are the medium of electricity on this tramway, in connection with one of which an extraordinary and very remarkable occurrence is reported People have no objection to touch the rail and receive a smart shock, which is, however, harh from work, stood upon this rail in order to mount his horse The rail is elevated on insulators 18 inches above the level of the tramway As soon as the man placed his hands upon the back of the aniht it down, and falling against the rail it died instantly The remarkable part is, that the current of electricity which proved fatal to the brute h the body of the man and proved harate-keeper in the employ of the Hessian Railway Co incident His wife being ill, he went hioat; but the stubborn creature would not let him come near it, as it had always been accustomed to have this operation perforth decided to put on his wife's clothes The experiment succeeded aduise before a train approached, and the gatekeeper ran to his accusto the officials of the passing train The case was reported and an inquiry instituted, which however resulted in his favour, as the railway authorities granted the honest gate-keeper a gratuity of ten e of his duties
THE MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON ON GEORGE STEPHENSON
The Marquis of Hartington, when laying the foundation stone of a public hall to be erected in memory of the inventor and practical introducer of railway locomotion, expressed hiress which this country has made in the last half-century is mainly due to the development of the railway system All the other vast developments of the power of stea industry would have availed but little for the greatness and prosperity of this country-in fact they could hardly have existed at all if there had been wanting those internal coine to railways brought into use by Stephenson The changes which have been wrought in the history of our country by the invention, the industry, and perseverance of oneThere are sos which exceed the dreams of poetry and romance We are justly proud of our iine, and especially the locoe Stephenson-has not only increased the number of the Queen's subjects by millions, but has added more millions to her Majesty's revenues than have been produced by any tax ever invented by any statesman Coht to every one of her Majesty's subjects by this invention in far greater abundance than has ever been produced by any law, the production of the wisest and most patriotic Parliaan life as a herd boy, and who up to eighteen did not kno to read or write, and yet was able to confer such vast benefits upon his country and mankind for all time, is worthy of a national and noble memorial”
THE STEPHENSON CENTENARY