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Show ECHOES FROM THE. RAILS, J M-MtnrcD couples in Norway areprivli loycrt to ride on railroads at a fare and a half for each couple. Chicago is to have a belt line railroad of lifrht tracks, and covering" a route of nenrly sixty miles. It is to connect with every road running into the city. A freiotit car thirty-six feet long has been built of steel in Manchester for the Mexican Railway Company. It Giiid to be no heavier than a thirty-four-i foot wooden ear and will hold nearly three tiroes as much. Tub moose in Penobscot county aro getting so accustomed to the Canadian . Pacific's trains that plow through the wilderness that they paze calmly and critically at the locomotive, and are not disturbed by whistles or hissing steam jets. j |