Show GYRATING DUMMIES some of the drawbacks to nigh toned is distinguished every season for its monster masquerades and fanchi balls in spite of gas music flowers and gay costumes these gatherings if we arc to believe the reports of assist at them are at once dreary and disgusting the of JI nights duchesses es Pick wicks cardinals clowns columbines pantaloons Hi dalgos sailors flower girls and what not who meet upon a common level upon these occasions are nothing more than promenading and gyrating the world may be a stage but these ladies and gentlemen show very clearly that all the men and women are not players in five hundred of them having the slightest idea of personating the character choso whoso outer husk ho or she assumes these monster balls are said to be principally remarkable for three impossibilities ties viz the impossibility of danci i ing on account off the crowd the am possibility of getting any refreshments fighting for them and the impossibility of obtaining access to the dressing rooms except by force of arms fifteen dollars for a ticket and 4 hundred dollars for a costume may not bo too much or six hours discomfort but by riding in the city railroad or ele bated cars for the same length afi time you can get shoved jammed and hus tied about almost as thoroughly for much less money and you pay anything any thing estra for costume either N Y ledger yeast did your ever deceive you Crimson beak yes she deceived me only yesterday yeast how so Crimson beak she told me she was going shopping and she actually made a purchase yunker statesman teacher what is the gender of grave willie masculine teacher why so because it gives up no secrets N Y herald THE longest railroad is the canadian pacific MEXICAN contractors are importing thousands of chinese laborers to work on railroads w course of construction in that land THE railroad cars which traverse manhattan island over their hundreds of miles of tracks list year carried the enormous number of over four hundred million of passengers who paid five cent fare A of a railroad publication has found that out of more than four hundred inthe united states in 1800 over fifty per cent were caused by drunkenness disobedience of plain orders or the most reckless carelessness THE great western argentine rail broadis ro adis bout to try an experiment of burning crude ia its engines alias contrael cd with a company to aka thousand cubic meters af pf crude petroleum at dollars a meter ane number of employed emp loyes on all the railroads oi tho country amounts to seyen thousand there are fifteen hundred and different railroad corporations and the total mileage of cheso railroads is one ann adred and fifty six thousand four hundred miles |