y destroyed, and in no case were there found feet or
legs or anything approaching to a perfect head. Ten corpses were finally
identified as those of males, and thirteen as those of females, while the
sex of ten others could not be determined. The body of one passenger,
Lord Farnham, was identified by the crest on his watch, and, indeed, no
better evidence of the wealth and social position of the victims of this
accident could have been asked for than the collection of articles found
on its site. It included diamonds of great size and singular brilliancy;
rubies, opals, emeralds; gold tops of smelling bottles, twenty-four
watches--of which but two or three were not gold--chains, clasps of bags,
and very many bundles of keys. Of these, the diamonds alone had
successfully resisted the intense heat of the flame; the settings were
nearly all destroyed.

RAILWAY DESTROYERS IN THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR.

One obvious means of hampering the military operations of the Germans was
the cutting of railroads, so as to interrupt and overthrow on-coming
trains. This method was resorted to by bands of volunteers, calling
themselves "The Wild Boars of Ardennes," and "Railway Destroyers." Here
again the invaders incurred great odium by announcing that, on the
departure of a train in the disaffected districts, the mayor and
principal inhabitants should be made to take their places on the engine,
so that if the peasants chose to upset the conveyance, their surest
victims would be their own compatriots.

--_Annual Register_, 1870.

FRIGHTENED AT A RED LIGHT.

A driver, not on duty, had been drinking, and was, in company with his
fireman, walking in the vicinity of the Edgware Road, when he suddenly
started violently, and seizing his mate's arm, shouted--

"Hold hard, mate--hold hard!"

"What's the matter?" cried the fireman.

"Matter!" roared the driver, "why, you're a-running by the red light;"
and he pointed to the crimson glare which streamed through a glass bottle
in a chemist's window.

"Come along; that's nothing," said the fireman, trying to drag him on.

"What, run by the red light, and go afore Dannel in the morning?"
retorted the driver, and no persuasion could or did get him to pass the
shop. He was a Great Western man, and the "Dannel" whom he held in such
wholesome awe was the celebrated engineer, now Sir Daniel Gooch, and
chairman of that line. He wa