e put on his hat. "If this 'ere railroad
thinks it can stunt or cripple Snags' Corners by leaving it out in the
cold it has made a big mistake. Before I leave town to-day I'm going to
buy a windmill and a melodeon, and your old locomotives may toot and be
hanged, sir--toot and be hanged!"

A NEWSPAPER WONDER.

The _Railway Journal_, an American newspaper, containing the latest
intelligence with respect to home and foreign politics, the money market,
Congress debates, and theatrical events, is now printed and published
daily in the trains running between New York and San Francisco. All the
news with which its columns are filled is telegraphed from different
parts of the States to certain stations on the line, there collected by
the editorial staff travelling in the train, and set up, printed, and
circulated among the subscribing passengers while the iron horse is
persistently traversing plains and valleys, crossing rivers, and
ascending mountain ranges. Every morning the traveller may have his
newspaper served up with his coffee, and thus keep himself informed of
all that is going on in the wide world during a seven days' journey
covering over three thousand miles of ground. He who pays his
subscription at New York, which he can do at the railway ticket-office,
receives the last copy of his paper on the summit of the Sierra Nevada.
The production of a news-sheet from a flying printing office at an
elevation of some ten thousand feet above the level of the sea is most
assuredly a performance worthy of conspicuous record in journalistic
annals, and highly creditable to American enterprise.

MONETARY DIFFICULTIES IN SPAIN.

Sir Arthur Helps, in his life of Mr. Brassey, remarks:--"There were few,
if any, of the great undertakings in which Mr. Brassey embarked that gave
him so much trouble in respect of the financial arrangements as the
Spanish railway from Bilbao to Tudela. The secretary, Mr. Tapp, thus
recounts the difficulties which they had to encounter:--

"'The great difficulty in Spain was in getting money to pay the men for
doing the work--a very great difficulty. The bank was not in the habit
of having large cheques drawn upon it to pay money; for nearly all the
merchants kept their cash in safes in their offices, and it was a very
debased kind of money, coins composed of half copper and half silver, and
very much defaced. You had to take a good many of them on faith. I had
to send down