ho had been many years in the
service of the company, thought there was something unusual in the
ticket. On examination he found it to be a forgery, and when the train
arrived at the platform gave the passenger into custody. On searching
his house, upwards of a thousand railway tickets were discovered in a
drawer in his bedroom, and the apparatus with which the forgeries were
accomplished was also secured. On the prisoner himself was the sum of
199 pounds 10s., and it appeared that he came to be present at the annual
letting of the tolls on the different roads leading out of Derby. The
punishment he received was sufficiently condign to serve as a warning to
all who might be inclined to emulate such attempts after cheap
locomotion.

--Williams's _Midland Railway_.

A YANKEE COMPENSATION CASE.

A horny-handed old farmer entered the offices of one of the railroad
companies, and inquired for the man who settled for hosses which was
killed by locomotives. They referred him to the company's counsel, whom,
having found, he thus addressed:--

"Mister, I was driving home one evening last week--"

"Been drinking?" sententiously questioned the lawyer.

"I'm centre pole of the local Tent of Rechabites," said the farmer.

"That doesn't answer my question," replied the man of law; "I saw a man
who was drunk vote for the prohibition ticket last year."

"Hadn't tasted liquor since the big flood of 1846," said the old man.

"Go ahead."

"I will, 'Squire. And when I came to the crossing of your line--it was
pretty dark, and--zip! along came your train, no bells rung, no whistles
tooted, contrary to the statutes in such cases made and provided,
and--whoop! away went my off-hoss over the telegraph wires. When I had
dug myself out'n a swamp some distance off and pacified the other
critter, I found that thar off-hoss was dead, nothing valuable about him
but his shoes, which mout have brought, say, a penny for old iron.
Well--"

"Well, you want pay for that 'ere off-hoss?" said the lawyer, with a
scarcely repressed sneer.

"I should, you see," replied the farmer, frankly; "and I don't care about
going to law about it, though possibly I'd get a verdict, for juries out
in our town is mostly made up of farmers, and they help each other as a
matter of principle in these cases of stock killed by railroads."

"And this 'ere off-hoss," said the counsel, mockingly, "was well bre