Railroad Speed

-Many fatal dents occur on railroaas by perrons attempting to drive aeross them when a train is fippioachiug. The danger lies in miscilculating tho rato at vvhich a cnr moves when under f ui 1 headway, wliich isaaid to bo about seventy four feet, or tiearly twice Lts own length in a secón d : "At this velocity, the locomotive driving heels, eix feet in diameter, make four revoluciona in a second, ihe piston-rod thus tr'avërsing tho cylinder uight times. If -a horue and eart should approaoh and ciofs tho track at the ra pit] rate of six miles an hour, an i pi(;ss train ñp'prftáching at the moment' wonld move towarda i.t tvvo hundred and filly-Keven feet while it was in the aot ofcrossiag; if the horse moved on faster than a walk, the train would move towards it rnoretlian five hundred feet, whieh faots aconuntfor the many accidents at such points. When the locomotive whistle is opened at the post eighty rods from the crossing, the train will advanco near one hundred feet bofore tbe sound ol the whistle traversos the dtstarioa to, and ia heard at the crossing." L3E" Major N , upon beingasked if he was seriously hurt at the bursting of a boiler on a steamboat, replied that he was not, as he had been blowed up so many times by bis wife that a mere steamboat explosión bad no effcot oq bim ■whatever.