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Show Soldiers Were Also Mechanics. In August- of 1000, during tho journey jour-ney of a company of French engineers from the capital of Marseilles, tho driver, by somo unfortunato accident, fell from the engine on to tho line, while tho stoker, overcomo with emotion, emo-tion, fainted. A couple of soldiers, however, at onco stepped into tho breach and volunteered to drlvo the train, which they did with such skill and nervo that It arrived at Dijon three minutes before the advertised time. |