Overheard at Stratford-on-Avon Station.

American: “I want a ticket to London.”
Booking Clerk: “Will you go to Euston or—”
American: “I guess I'll use the route that Shakespeare used when he left his home town for London.”
Booking Clerk (rising to the occasion): “As you like it.“—(From the Railway Gasette.)

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Railway Engineering Achievements in New Zealand.
The construction of the Waikare viaduct on the North Island East Coast Railway, shewing a steel girder suspended in mid-air. The viaduct will be over 612ft. long and 256ft. above water level.