Romance of the Road
There are now very few women outlaws in the West (writes a correspondent in Chicago), and those surviving are by no means the combination of feminine attractiveness and reckless…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
14 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
Tramp Logic. Some Words From the Beggars' Glossary
It is perfectly true that one half the world know not how the other half exists, and it is lust as certain that there exists in the British Isles a class of people (some half-million in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Tickets
Take a sheet of pasteboard as large as Hyde Park, cut it into slips an inch and a quarter wide, and two and a quarter inches long, and you will have rather less than the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of the Light Bridge
The 25th of last October wan the fortysecond anniversary of that ever-memorable "Charge of the Light Brigade," which stumped its own impress on history…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railways Atld the Drought
THE Railway Commisioners, with a view to affodring assistance to pastoralists and others during the continuance of the drought, have arranged that where the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident at Mittagong
ABOUT 11 o'clock on Saturday night last Mr. James Alt, stationmaster at Hill Top for the past 14 years, was found on the railway line near Mittagong platform, with both legs injured, apparently from b[?]ing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Railway Relics
At the headquarters of the respective chief engineers of most of our great English railway systems are very interesting and curious collections of relies dealing with important railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway in the Sea
The railway in the sea, which is now being constructed near Brighton, is one of the most remarkable locomotive experiments ever made, There is at St. Malo, in Brittany, a car resting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but cat and drink as friends. Saturday, August 7, 1897. the Sydney Railway Extension Scheme
THE capital belongs to the whole colony, and Hyde Park is a gift to the people of N.S. Wales. So said a speaker at a recent meeting in the metropolis, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Train 400 Miles Long
Not many days ago Mr. C. H. Jones, the assistant locomotive superintendent of the Midland Railway, was kind enough to communicate a number of interesting facts about the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VARIETIES. The Highest Bridge
THE highest bridge of any kind in the world is said to be the Leo River Viaduct on the Antofagasta Railway, in Bolivia, South America. The place where this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Extraordinary Railway
The announcement which the British South African Company have just made of their intention to extend the railway to Fort Salisbury has created great interest in the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of a Lady's Train
At the time when the first open Court of Law was established in Rusaia, a lady, dressed with the utmost elegance, was walking on the Moscow promenade, leaning upon her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Made of Coffins
A bridge of coffins was made by the British troops, duiing the China war of 1860, on their march to Pekin. A few days after the taking of the Taku forts, the onward march of the…
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