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Show THE RAILROADS. 'In Prince 1..150 miles of light railways rail-ways have been already built, though many of tho lines last year were worked it a loss. j Figures show that the railway fore-! closure sales for 1895 far eclipsed those of an j other year in respect to mileage ' and cspitiU involved. An engineer on the Midland raUway In England yas blown oil his engine by tlio wind recently while going' at j full speed "without his fireman missing liim. He picked himself up and walked J to the net station to report. A distinguished Kussian engineer, C. A. Monkovsky, chief government engineer en-gineer of the department of. eastern Si-" berln(i arrived In San Francisco a few days ago with. t the object of studying certain features of American railroad-Ing.-''' -v ' .-,-. There was a considerable increase in thti'ojitpui of railway .locomotive and freight cars in tho United States' during dur-ing 1BU. over lS'li.l.at year 1,109 locomotives, loco-motives, were buiU,jTs against 095 in '2891, iind 31,fc0't freight cars 'were built, a agajnst 1 7,09 In 1894 ' . |