Railroad Jottings

Toledo has a prosperous Railway Clerks' association, and has already a membership of 182 clerks. A train of live stock delivered to the Merchants' Terminal company by the Iron Mountain on a recent Sunday was delivered to the Wabash, on the east side of the river, jnst fifty minutes later. Colonel Davenport, of the Clover Leaf , refers with pride to the elegant new passenger equipment, inclnding Wagner bnfEet cars, just introduced in the St. Lonis-Toledo night expresa service both ways. The Boston and Albany is to build a new granito station at Warren, Mass.; also one at Charlton and Huntington. The futrare policy of this company is said to.be the substitution of stone for wooden ítaüons, all of wbich will be of artistic design. To bring the attention of the public to the producís of the Canadian Northwest, the Canadian Pacific Railroad company is having a car built that will be run over the British railroads loaded with the various specimens of agriculture and mineral wealth. The Ohio senate passed a bilí prohibiting railroad companies from employing engineers who are given to drink. The bilí also requires railway companies to transmit private messages over their telegraph lines in cases of accident, and prohibits discriminaron between shippers of freight. The passenger department of the Pennsyivania raüroad's Unes west of Pitteburgfurnishes newspapers that print the company's time tables with stereotyped plates in place of proof slips, because With the latter so many errors were made in setting up the figures that a change had to be made. Recenüy an engineer on the Louis▼üle, New Orleana and Texae road, on the Jackson división, Mississippi, ran over a goose. Since then its mate expreses great animosity for theengine. The engineer says that whecever bis engine sígnala for Ihe station the old gander knowa the whistle, and in spite of ittempts to scare it off flies at the engine as thoogh it were its deadüeet too.