137
,, Pulling a Tooth by 276
Steel Rails 193
Stephenson Centenary, The 284
,, ,, George Robert Stephenson's Address 286
,, ,, Rev. T. C. Sarjent's Address at the 288
,, ,, Sir William Armstrong's Address at the 284
Stephenson's Wedding Present, George 194
Stopping a Runaway Couple 200
Stumped 293
Swindling, Ingenious 292
Taken Aback 152
Taking Him Down a Peg 252
Taste, Loss of 291
Tay Bridge Accident 245
Telegraph, Extraordinary use of the Electric 111
Ticket, A Lost 164
,, Your 271
Traffic-Taking 86
Train Stopped by Caterpillars, A 204
Travelling, Effects of Constant Railway 281
,, in Russia 204
,, Improvement in Third-Class 143
Trent Station 192
Trip, An Unpleasant Trial 72
Tunnel, In a Railway 137
Very Cool 199
Waif, An Extraordinary 245
Ward's, Artemus, Suggestion 197
Watkin, Sir Edward, on Touting for Business 269
Way, A Quick 138
Way-Leaves 13
Wedding at a Railway Station 166
What are you going to do? 189
Whistle, Steam 98
Wolves on a Railway 197
Wordsworth's Protest 122
Yankee Compensation Case, A 218

ORIGIN OF RAILWAYS

The immediate parent of the railway was the wooden tram-road, which
existed at an early period in colliery d