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Show A Muimter Timing Fork. j While walking along tho new elevated ! tracks of the Pennsylvania, railroad, as n train passed over it at, a fair rate of j speed, tho steel work ;ave forth a dis- i tinct musical sound, as though u great : violoncello were stretched from Ileuder- " (nil to Momtionlh stri els. There was no : t ri'inble ir jar, or click at the rail joints, j Indeed, the sound did not come from the j rails, bill from the steel girders and ptl- lars, and continued until the locomotive ! had struck the solid ground six block! above. The sound is an octavo ubove ; ' the deep bass of Niagara fulls. With a long vestibule train the effect will tij' startling. I venture to predict that the dwellers along the lino will not ( complain of the noise of tho passing trains, for, though somewhat loud, it is ( yet harmoniously musical. Hence it will not disturb anybody. Philadelphia Bulletin. 1 |