Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — A Strange Circular. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Circular.

A strange circular has just been lsculhl to signalmen on a Russian railway. forbidding them to sloop lying on the ratio. One would lumlly imagine that the temptation tojlo ro would prove overpowering, but It appears that tbo signalmen feel they have to sleep somewhere, and they lit lifer under the delusion that the vibration of an approaching train will waken them Up, a mission which it frequently fails to fulfill.