Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — A Railroad-Car Incident. [ARTICLE]

A Railroad-Car Incident.

An amusing incident happened on a New York & New Haven train, the other day. When the train arrived at the depot in, New Haven an old gentleman got up and started for the rear end of the bar. He had gone but a few steps before the old lady who had been sitting with him rose with her hands full of knitting work add followed him down the aisle, her hands extended. It was notioed by the passengers that her ball of yarn was in his pocket. When he got up he turned around several times before starting, and in so doing had wound the yarn around him so that the old lady had no choioe except to folloyr him, drop her knittiug, or see her yam broken. She said not~ a word, but a passenger, noticing what was going on, reached up and gently taking the unconscious old gentleman by the arm, turned him around so he saw whatiiewas doing, and the yarn was saved. By this time the rest of the passengers were roaring With laughter, i —Bridgeport (Venn.) Standard.