Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1917 — Railroads Then and New. [ARTICLE]

Railroads Then and New.

When the first passenger railroad ever built was opened in England, in 1825. the train traveled from one end of the lin£~to the other, a distance of 12 miles, in two hours. In 1830 Peter Cooper experimented with a locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, using gun barrels for flues, the boiler being about tl*e size of a flour barrel, and its speed was a little greater than that of anaverage horse.—New York Telegram,

A young man recently called on the Rev. H. X. Kirk of Muncie, and, after Introducing himself,' shyly remarked that he was going to be married. Would, the minister perforin the cere-. mony on a certain evening of the next week? The minister would. Just before leaving the visitor assumed. an embarrassed look, explaining that he had ridden into the city on a bicycle from the country, that he had broken the sprocket chain, and that he had neglected to put any money in his pocket when he left home. Would the minister lend him 35 cents To have ft' ft'jailVOd" ISO that he could ride home? Certainly, the minister would. The evening of the expected marriage arrived, but no bridegroom and bride. Neither did they come the next evening or any other evening. TheTßev. Mr. Kirk concluded he had bleen swindled. He told the story at a meeting of Muncie ministers. They smiled. They also had given up 35 cents to the young man who was to be married. —Indianapolis News. -