. . coach in various attitudes of prostration, lookingas though they had passed through a pulp mill. SHUNTED AND STUCK. Another about Crewe Station :—Poole said that a lady com-plained to the directors of the London and North Western Rail-way that she had been grossly insulted by one of the porters atCrewe station. An enquiry was made into the matter, and thesuperintendent called upon the porter to explain his man spoke in the broad Lancashire dialect, and said, he never suited a lady, he said, ah wor gooing past a lot ok
. . coach in various attitudes of prostration, lookingas though they had passed through a pulp mill. SHUNTED AND STUCK. Another about Crewe Station :—Poole said that a lady com-plained to the directors of the London and North Western Rail-way that she had been grossly insulted by one of the porters atCrewe station. An enquiry was made into the matter, and thesuperintendent called upon the porter to explain his man spoke in the broad Lancashire dialect, and said, he never suited a lady, he said, ah wor gooing past a lot okerridges and ah seed a woman ione oem and ah hoppendthdoor, and ah said, yo mun ger aat or yole be shunted andstuck. Meaning that the lady must get out as the coach would beshunted into a siding, and she would be left behind. INSTRUCTIONS ON A CLOCK. In a railway station in Iowa is the following placard over theclock :— This is a clock ; it is running ; it is Chicago time ; itis right; it is set every day at 10 oclock. Now keep yourmouth Anniversary—My Valedictory. 379 CHAPTER XXXVI. ANNIVEKSARY MAMMOTH CAVE PRINTING PRESS MY VALEDICTORY. CELEBRATING THE 40tH ANNIVERSARY OF LANDING IN CANADA. MR. J. B. JONES, of Toronto, agent of the Dominion line ofsteamships, and Mr. Myles Pennington, of the GrandTrunk Railway, on Friday evening last, celebrated in the way ofa private banquet at the residence of Mr. Jones, Simcoe street,the 40th anniversary of their landing in Canada. Messrs. Jonesand Pennington came out from England on the Sands,one of the ocean pioneers of the St. Lawrence route. On the festive board, round which the celebrationists and asmall company of friends gathered, there stood a miniaturemodel of the Sarah Sands, her hull represented by an oblongcrystal, and her decks, smokestack and top works artisticallyconstructed of flowers. Close to the ship ran a miniature rail-way, with a tiny G. T. R. locomotive upon the rails, both roadwayand engine par
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