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Show Early IlailrniMllrig. MTien railroads worn first introduced, the engineers, as wo call them or the engino drivers, as they are called in England Eng-land ran their trains almost as tbey liked, making np time when they hud fallen behind, picking up buc.1i informit-tion informit-tion as tiny could ius to the state of the track ali'-ad of them, and for the mont part plunging ahead with their machines ma-chines without much moro thau a sur-miso sur-miso whether they sliouid brin np at their dnetination or at the bottom of sr.mo high embankment. iruo of the restilts of this want of system wtmld have 'neen amusing if they had tea been disastrous. Mr. Laurence Oliphar.U an English traveler and author, tells i;i one of his bonks a rather grim etory of a trip which ho made by rail, in 3s", from Chicago to New York. Over a part of the diM-anee tho train made the eiLraoruuiary speea, lor that time, of fifty miles an hour, and presently it rau off tho track. Fortunately, tho cars were imbedded in a soft clay ditch, and no one was eerionwly hurt: and in 'lho midst of the corj'.ra:)ti!in, i(r. Oliphant nivs he heard the engineer ihis a.liMiiii.-h l!n- switch-liuin. switch-liuin. whot-e iraivlesHiicJiS hud caiued tho accident : "Now, Tom, this is tiie third time, yon've furg ,t to set. that switch, and tho la-st time there ws tweniy people, went Xiniier and the rest wxs brtiiset. So mind what you're about, and don't fur-get fur-get tbat switch again, for it you io I'll tell the boi-" |