Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — A Long Train. [ARTICLE]

A Long Train.

On the Northern Central railroad of Pennsylvania, lately, engine No. 4 drew from Clark’s Ferry to Sunbury, a distance of thirty-one miles, a train consisting of 183 empty cars, one loaded eightwheeler, two cabooses and a dead engine. It was up-grade work, but the trip was made at the rate of ten miles an hour. The train was 6,200 feet long, or 920 feet more than a mile, and, it is claimed, was the longest ever drawn by a single engine. —Scientific American. One of the numerous class who ask foolish questions is answered by Figaro. He wants to know “if grapes are healthy,” and is informed that Queen Elizabeth, Christopher Columbus, Noah, Napoleon I. and Mary Queen of Scots ate grapes, and they are all dead now; but then again there are grape-eaters who still live. He must draw his own conclusions.