Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — Curious History of a Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Curious History of a Railroad.

An old traveler on the Harlem road recently regaled our reporter with some interesting reminiscences of railroad journeying. He relates that he remembers well, no longer back than 1856, how the old women at country stations, on boarding the train on that road, used, as a first measure of precaution, at the beginning of their trip, to take out their false teeth and deposit them carefully on the shelf which ran along the side of toe car over toe windows. Tlie road was so rough that those who neglected to take this measure frequently had their teeth joggled out in a ride over a few miles. It used to he no uncommon thing for the attendants, in cleaning out the car, to sweep up ten or fifteen sets of teeth, toe accumulation of a single trip. The narrator of tlie above himself had a hooked nose of remarkable length. Its unusual longitude, he declared, was the result of continuous travel over tlie road in those early days. Harlem’s financial eimerience has been equally remarkable. It has been sold as low os four and as high as 230. It was long a feature of speculation in the days of Tobin’s supremacy, and its shrewd purchase at the bottom of the market contributed largely to toe enormous wealth of Vanderbilt. —N. Y. Graphic.

A certain physician on the public square has a large card hung up in his office with these words painted thereon: “ Book-agents and peddlers charged IS an hour for conversation.” The other day a book-agent came, and was just beginning a rigmarole about “ the latest and best work on ’’ when the physiciau pointed to the card. He read the words over but once, when he handed the physician a flve-dollar bill, and was about to comoperations again, when the ninn of medicine safd: “ Take a chair, please, and keep your money. Hand me your subscription-book.” He has now bought a brace of derringers.— Cleveland, Leader.

It is a sad fact that most breeds of dogs in this country are running out—running out and biting people’s legs. - A —