A Peculiar Injury

Chauncey Depew told a Chicago reporter: "Railroad shock is the most peculiar injury imaginable. In a recent accident a man in a Wagner car was asked if he had been injured. 'No,' he replied; 'and a peculiar thing about it is that of four dozen eggs, I had in a basket not one was cracked.' A little later a mutual friend called and said the man had received a shock in the accident that prevented his collecting his thoughts or sleeping. I related the egg incident, but that did not matter. He gave certificates from two prominent New York physicians stating the truth of his claim. I gave hiin a check for seven thousand five hundred dollars. The man grumbled because it was not enough to yield him a life income. But he took the check, went south, returned in three weeks and resumed business, and has not had a sick day since."