Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — A Woman’s Presence of Mind. [ARTICLE]

A Woman’s Presence of Mind.

St. John, Now Brunawiok Globo. As the picnic train was passingtSver the bridge, near five mile house, a middle aged lady approached it from the opposite direction. She was walking pretty rapidly and seemed to be unaware of the proximity of the train, until a whistle from the engineer aroused her to a sense of her danger. She was then but a short distance from the advancing train, and instead of throwing up her hands in dispair or jumping off, as many another would have done, she very deliberately lowered herself between the sleepers and hung on with both hands until the trains had passed on. When all danger was over she raised herself up again, and resumed her journey as if nothing had happened. Such presence of mind as this is seldom seen, and it was no wonder that the astonished train hands gave the brave woman a cheer as they saw her rising from the dangerous position. Near Beaver Lake, in the National park of the Yellowstone, a recent party of explorers came upon a remarkable mountain of obsidian or volcanic glass which rises in columnar cliffs several hundred feet in height. It being <}esirable to pass that way, the party cut a road by building huge fires on the glass to heat and expand it and then dashing the cold water of the lake against the heated surface—the sudden contraction thus produced breaking large fragements from the side of the mountain. In the grand canyon of the Gibson river the explorers also foun precipices of yellow, black and band d obsidian rising hundreds ot feet ' Ted natural glass of these localities has f r he time immemorial been dressed by lhenm dians to tip their spears and arrows. In-

The London Times, in a leading article discussing the rumors that England and Russia would adopt isolated action on the Montenegro question, says: “Not only is there no reason for anticipating such a course on the part of England, but there is the strongest reason for pronouncing it impossible.” Madred dispatch: Measures are to be taken in the Biusque provinces to enforce loyaly of the clergy and strengthen the hands of the authorities. The recent election filled the Bosque councils-gcner-al with Carlisles and Democrats, hardly any of the government candidates being successful. The Democratic committee of the first district ot Kansas have substituted O. O. Barnes in place of Tosnluon, declined.