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Show The English language and tho Amcri can is gcnernlly considered to be one and thn snmo but when it pertains to railroad rail-road matters, they nro very different. Tho following table will show come ol the points of difference; AMERICAN. E.saMSK. Railroad Railway Conductor - Guard Engineer - - Driver Cats - - -Carriages Tracks Permanent Way Switch - - -Tolnts rireman HtoLer Section Foreman Ganger Ties ... Sleepers Scctionmau - - Plato-layer Agent Statlonmaster Ralls - - -Metals Dopot Stotlon Iocomo!ivo Engino Freight train Goods train Baggage - - Luggago Buying n ticket Booking Smash up Collision All aboard Take your tents Gentlemen, Mn. A. N. Lockwoocl. chairman of an accident usaociat'on in New York, says that since tho acc'.dent companies offered an indemnity ol 1500 for the loss of a hand or foot thero has been a great ii crcaso In tho number of accidents to tho left hand ; w many, indued, tiiat it wos found that people were maiming them-elves them-elves to get the insurame. Finally the lompauies were forced to offer a lees sum for tho left hnnd than for tho right, iinco which tlmo thcro has been ado-create ado-create of eighty per cent, in this variety of accidents. Now the companies con-lompluto con-lompluto eliminating tho leg and arm indemni y chuiso fiom their policies for self-protection. Mr. LocLwood says I thero nrc nioio insurance cripples in the I I'nited Plates than wnr cripples. |