Brakesmen

'l'lic rnc])!il'(liities of a brakesman are to moke chrarettes, "' wlttotta wwtboy in tlic smoking car and re ad the Pólice tíew. Be iUso required to ruahouton the platform at Intervals to pcrt ¦ man off hls seat on ¦ thing tnat looka like the horizontal y-wbeel oí a copying preat; and screw the [Mng aromd with an earoactnen tiiai makel it :i matter of tandee OuH be ili'isn'i dilicatr (tu basgBM car, or twist the train off the track. There are other datlea thal deyolre on :i brafceanian. Be Baal lo alilc to huil the name of every station he comes tO tlirough the lentk of the car, so that the psMongen oaai mtob it, and at nlght lic li required to run throagh the can erery twentymiimösaod rake up ileeplDg passenger by knocklna their bata il with liis Untern. Good biiikfsincn, who are not kilh-d wln-n ciiiilinc fars, lx-coine OOndnCtOrS In coiiisc ut linif, liavo tlii'ir iKinies enfiraved on their lanternt, and weaf largewiU inís.- Texas After the clioir in one of the churches in Ithaca, New York, had performed a ratlicr heavy selection, the minister opened the Bible aod began reading in Actw xx: "And after the aproar had ceaséd..