Show our oar locomotive h w an englishman was brag bragging prig r of the on english railroads to a yankee traveler sated at his side in one of the cars of a fast train in england the engine bell beil was rung agthe as the train neared a its ug to the yankee keea an p opportunity of taking down his compan iona lona peg br bir two that noise innocently inquired the yankee we vve are approaching a town towns said slid the en englishman tish lish mil mih they have 0 6 o coni commence menco menca ringing about ten miles before they get to a station or else elsil they would run by it the bell could be heard wonderful it I 1 suppose they invented bells in america yet vet why yes replied the yankee yankie laeve wee got bells but cant use them 01 oi 01 our railroads lve we run tun so fast that the train always iee lee keeps eps ahead of the sound no use whatever the cound round never neve r reaches the village till after the train gets by indeed exclaimed the englishman tact 1 said the yankee had to give up bell then we tried steam whistles but they would rit answer neither I 1 was on a locomotive when the whistle was tried we were going at a tremendous rate hurricanes were gowhar and I 1 had to hold hoid my hair on we saw a two horse borse wagon crossing the track about five fire miles ahead and the engineer let the whistle on screeching like a tr trooper oer it screamed aw fully but it no use the next thing thincy I 1 knew I 1 was picking in myself out of a pond by the roadside amid tj the e fragments yf the lo locomotive emotive dead horses broken broke n wag mag wagon 0 n and dead engineer en lying beside me just then the whistle came along mixed up with I 1 some sopie frightful oaths that I 1 heard beard the en engineer ineer use when he first saw I 1 the horses P poor fellow he was as dead bufore his 1118 voice q got to him after that we tried lights sp supposing posing thi the thise these se would travel faster than sound ye lye got some so powerful that the chickens woke up all along the road waren we came canie by su supposing ing 1 it ft gs to but the locomotive eit eie elV ahead of it stid slid ant and was in the darkness dar knes with the light close on behind it the inhabitants petitioned against ainest it they could not sleep with so much light in the night time fin finally liy we had to station electric telegraphs along tb the road with kith signal men man to telegraph when the train tram was wad wai in sight and I 1 have heird that some of the fast trains lightning fifteen in th every forty miles but I 1 cant say tas that is true the rest I 1 k know nov to be so ar KS |