Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — A Hair’s Breadth. [ARTICLE]

A Hair’s Breadth.

••Two or three vears ago,” said a train dispatcher, “f was sitting at my instrument one morning shortly after midnight and beginning to drowse, when I beard one operator two or three stations away calling up another in another direction some stations away. I listened and received the information that a train of care had broken loose at the top of a steep incline and was going down toward the operator to whom the message was being sent. I realized the situation immediately. I broke in ou the operator and found out from the sender of the message when the care had broken loose. I could calculate then just about where the cars were. I knew that the fast express was dne at the foot of the incline in a few minutes, and I knew that the flying cars would reach there in a few minutes, too. I telegraphed to have the express flagged, and then sat down to wait news. Pretty soon I was called up in a jerky, nervous way by the operator at the foot of the Incline: •Runaway stopped,’ he said, ‘eighty yards from tbe station. Express is waiting.’ When I went home that morning I felt pretty proud—for a train dispatcher."— Boston E&mld,

Didn’t know beans: Little Willie (to his sister’s beau)—“You can t guess what I’ve got, la my pocket,-Mr. linker.” Mr. Blinker—“No, I canpot guess. What is it, Willie?’’ Willie—“lt’s beans. Mamma s4d yon didn't know know beans, but I thought I'd try yon,”