TOUCHING INCIDENT. . To traveling, writes a correspondent we often meet with persons of diffe:- ent nationalties and languages. We also meet with incidents of various character, some sorrowful, others joy: ful and instructive. One of the char: I witnessed recent iY, while The time wcters traveling upon the cars, the trai was going west and Wits evening. lit girl abou eight years old came aboard, carry At the station a ing a little budget under her arm into the ear and deliber She came ately took a seat. She'then commen- aces, but ced an eager scrutiny all were strange to her, @ APpPear i x i \ : ed weary and placing her deer for a pillow, she prepared to ry and se cure a little eleep. tor came along coll Observing him she asked fares, she might lie there. The geatiem: N ly conductor told her that s and then kindly asked for her She informed him that she | when the fo lowing co sued. Said the cond are you going going to heavy ‘who pays you gaid, “mi heaven, ani He answer did you think fore my ma di me of a heavenly He pai i the fared that the train 8 tion to take people ma don't sing to me any body sings to me now, and I'd take the Mister do you siag cars and about the heavenly to heaven! haven't you ?” “no, my | tl girl now. I had ti TE some time a y 2 Again she asked, this railroad, and innocently and pathetically attered, | brought a great gus from the eves of the con luctor. Some who rail- | were travelling on the heave nly | road shouted aloud for joy. She now ‘Mister may to yes. asked the cot tor, lie here until we get He | then heaven ! answered, yes dear She asked, will you wake me wp then so | that I may see my ma, your little girl, | and Jesus for I doso much want to see them all! The answer came in brok- | en accents, but in words very tender~ God “Amen,” was sobbed by ly spoken, yes dear angel yes, bless you.” more than a score of voices, Turning her eyes again upon the conductor, interrogated him again : What shall I tell your little | girl when I see her ? Shall Isay I saw she her pa on Jesus railroad flood from all present and the conductor this brought a fresh of tears kneeled by her side, anc her, wept th At this called “Hs.” him to embracing reply he could not utter. | Juncture the brakesman | The couductor arose | a luty at the station, | ig attend his I'l AL Was a pre- T itiwas a at this Ti Annual ex esta in Phiiadelphia teresting, as few men have done the RUK0 2240 good with their millions, and net income last vear was After deducting taxes and the cost of improvements, repairs and mainten. ance, there remained a net income of about three-quarters of a million, or between 6 and 7 per cent, upon the entire capital, Out of this $420219 was devoted to the support of Girard ¢ illege, aud some two hundred thous | and reinvested. There are now 1,127 | the | boys in the college, or nearly game number as a year ago, the caf acity of the prs beeen nt buildings having | reached, It is questionable i the made of timber, ° | bridge, which crossed the Tiber pesion bridges are of remote | first large iron whether the number can wisely be | A Queen's Cpinion, J. M. Queen writes from Je ton, W Va,, that he has " ely afflicted tor extended much further. The | average expenditure for each pupil | very Inst year was $372.86, which includes not only board and lodging as well as instruction, but clothing and all other necessary expense upon a simple but generous gonle, There 1% pro bably no institution of its kind in the world with a more satisfactory record | in every way than that Wf Crirad ions lying between the | road on ] the north 1. high Va ley the D ra leware, Lackaw } he Oui Much he west. and the lumbia « created cons Bloomsburg § Be The D. J. Waller, wh that bran the Peonsvivania third line reaching the Williar Branch road, which Hall's branch of the Reaning system. It Station, an the Catawisss now ¢ npleted to miles of the Bernice coal fields, railroad line of the Btate Li Sallivan railroad is leased to th { oal. high Valley company, but its ficlds are under the direct control of the owners. — Gazette & Bulletin, et A A—< rg BRIDGES The first bridges were of wood, the earliest of which we have any count was bailt in Rome 500 B. The next was erected by Julius C for the "passage of his army across Rhine, bridge Trajan's great geveral vears, but bs he that he 1s about ove siders it the gr ¢ i world He sAvVs hie Op distance of fiflee to obtal RUNA, which yO | der and Un Diseases. Scalding tation, Si der. $1, Flies, romches, ants, bed. bug, micey ers, chipmunks. © on Rats NAry Cntrral eared il by czar over the Danube, 4770 feet long, was | with stone piers. The Romaus also built th Suse orgie. 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