s in it. When
we had started and looked at the ground, it appeared like a river, making
us dizzy, and the trembling of the carriage might give you headache. In
this way we proceeded, and whenever we approached houses they gave
warning by making big whistle sound, and on arriving at the houses they
rung a bell and we stopped for a little while. By the way we entered a
long cave through the earth, used as a road, and soon after we emerged
from it again. At length we reached our goal, and entered a large
mansion, in which numbers of people crowded together." He likens the
people going out of the railway-station to a "crowd of church-goers, on
account of their number."

--_Good Words_, April, 1880.

A NOVEL ACTION.

Will bad table manners vitiate legal grounds of action? A collision
recently occurred while an Italian commercial traveller was eating a
Bologna sausage in a railway train. The shock of the collision drove the
knife so violently against his mouth as to widen it. He brought suit for
damages. The defence was that the injuries were caused by the knife;
that the knife should never be carried to the mouth, and that the
plaintiff, having injured himself by reason of his bad habit of eating,
must take the consequences and pay his own doctor's bill. The case is
not yet finally decided.

--_Echo_, Oct. 1st., 1880.

A KISS IN THE DARK.

On one of the seats in a railway train was a married lady with a little
daughter; opposite, facing them, was another child, a son, and a coloured
"lady" with a baby. The mother of these children was a beautiful matron
with sparkling eyes, in exuberant health and vivacious spirits. Near her
sat a young lieutenant, dressed to kill and seeking a victim. He scraped
up an acquaintance with the mother by attentions to the children. It was
not long before he was essaying to make himself very agreeable to her,
and by the time the sun began to decline, one would have thought they
were old familiar friends. The lieutenant felt that he had made an
impression--his elation manifested it. The lady, dreaming of no wrong,
suspecting no evil, was apparently pleased with her casual acquaintance.
By-and-by the train approached a tunnel. The gay lieutenant leaned over
and whispered something in the lady's ear. It was noticed that she
appeared as thunderstruck, and her eyes imme