Vivid at Least.

A young lady recently visited the locomotive works, and then later told some of her friends how a locomotive is made.

“You pour a lot of sand into a lot of boxes,” she explained, “and you throw old stove lids and things into a furnace, and then you empty the molten stream into a hole in the sand, and everybody yells and swears. Then you pour it out and let it cool and pound it, and then you put it in a thing that bores holes in it. Then you screw it together, and paint it, and put steam in it, and it goes splendidly; and they take it to a drafting-room and make a blue print of it. But one thing I forgot — they have to make a boiler. One man gets inside and one remains outside, and they pound frightfully; and then they tie it to the other thing, and you ought to see it go!”

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