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Show ' RAILROAD NOTES. Th Intaroeeanl railroad branch to Vat-aniorma Vat-aniorma and Ixurar, state of Puehla, Mrx., Is finished. China' odltory railroad U eigbty on illea long and ot9.UOO a Dill. It nta Ami rlrari locomotive. Tb mil road rempente of the TJnlled Ptate bar sutmrrftied to date ff5,0u0 to tli stock of th World fair. A statistician estimate that th number of passenger carrlud each day on all the railroads ta tb world average fi,5,O0. Tb Nangfilurk railroad. In CooiKi-tkuL bat never since H first train ran killed any person who bsld ticket and wa on of lu regular passengsr. A early as 1153 Bristol and Exeter broad gau-e locomotive, carrying a light load and running on a falling grt4, developed de-veloped a spend of eigbty tolls an btrar. Tb groa receipt of tha Trana-Caoia. t!au railroad for IbSO up to tbe month el Jon amounted to I,41l,(fW moles, over half million more thsn th tullrs receipt of tbe but year. Artaaian wail have drrelopsd such an sbunilnnt supply of water In the deaert of ' Sahara that French tnjfiuaars are confidant : of rtug a hie to extend their railroad to J distance of week's Journey from Algeria ritflit through th desert. i It 1 on record that tb Vaoderbilta once gave a check for tlJ0,VU la a tremendous ; railway traosstion, bat that record la no beaten by the check for At.JJO.OHO said to be drawn In London by the Indian and peninsular railway company. The Mount Washington railway has) asl wood In It locomotive alec th road wa opened, opward of twenty yeara. Good wood wiata, prepared for th locomotive, locomo-tive, ahotit IS a cord, notwlthytanding tt Is exit within thre nil!' of wber it b) rued, and each trip np tb mountain reiiUin Marly eoni. |