Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — Beats the Record. [ARTICLE]

Beats the Record.

“Teiribly slow riding, this,” said one man uneasily to another on a certain railroad. “ Yes; I don’t remember having traveled slower than this but once before in mv life.” “When wai that?” “It was out West, last summer. “We started from a station late in the afternoon and were headed due east. By sundown we had reached a town seventeen miles west from starting point.” “But how do you account for it?” “I can’t explain it except on the theory that the earth’s rotary motion made the wheels slip.”— Merchant Traveler.