Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — English Steel Rails. [ARTICLE]

English Steel Rails.

Ip tparipg up a siding op the gtfailqyille division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the other day, the section men discovered that several of the rails had beep made in }863. Subsequent investigation revealed the fact that these rails were part of q lot that were bought in England during the war, qt a cost of $125 per ton ip gold. The rails weie still in very faif condition and for light motive power wopid Iqst ten years longer, The emblems of royalty of the Queen of Madagascar consist of three scarlet umbrellas, which are held over her majesty when she sits in her palanquin of state—this latter 4 present, r“dly enough, from the late emperor of the French-