top, suddenly rushing forward, hugged and
saluted on both cheeks his friends and acquaintances, many of whom had
assembled, and then, almost instantly overpowered by conflicting
feelings--by the recollection of the endless time he had been imprisoned
and by the joy of his release--he sat down on a log of timber, and,
putting both his hands before his face, he began to cry aloud most
bitterly.

The English "navvy" sat himself down on the very same piece of
timber--took his pit-cap off his head--slowly wiped with it the
perspiration from his hair and face--and then, looking for some seconds
into the hole or shaft close beside him through which he had been lifted,
as if he were calculating the number of cubic yards that had been
excavated, he quite coolly, in broad Lancashire dialect, said to the
crowd of French and English who were staring at him, as children and
nursery-maids in our London Zoological Gardens stand gazing
half-terrified at the white bear, "YAW'VE BEAN A DARMNATION SHORT TOIME
ABAAOWT IT!"

Sir F. Head's _Stokers and Pokers_.

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.

The most remarkable railway accident on record happened some years ago on
the North-Western road between London and Liverpool. A gentleman and his
wife were travelling in a compartment alone, when--the train going at the
rate of forty miles an hour--an iron rail projecting from a car on a
side-track cut into the carriage and took the head of the lady clear off,
and rolled it into the husband's lap. He subsequently sued the company
for damages, and created great surprise in court by giving his age at
thirty-six years, although his hair was snow white. It had been turned
from jet black by the horror of that event.

ENGINEERING LOAN, OR STAKING OUT A RAILWAY.

"Beau" Caldwell was a sporting genius of an extremely versatile
character. Like all his fraternity, he was possessed of a pliancy of
adaptation to circumstances that enabled him to succumb with true
philosophy to misfortunes, and also to grace the more exalted sphere of
prosperity with that natural ease attributed to gentlemen with bloated
bank accounts.

Fertile in ingenuity and resources, Beau was rarely at his wit's end for
that nest egg of the gambler, a stake. His providence, when in luck, was
such as to keep him continually on the _qui vive_ for a nucleus to build
upon.

Beau, having exhausted the pockets and liberality of his contem