Thirty feet of masonry and an immense mass of rock lias fallen in the St. Gothard Tunnel. Four men were killed and many wounded. An old salt, when asked how far north he had ever been, replied that he had been so far north that ‘•'the cows, when milked beside a red-hot stove, gave ice-cream.” A Danbury young man bought an acordeon and took lessons. A month later his wife presented him with an heir. Not being able to hold its own, the accordeon is offered for sale. A young man married a deaf and dumb girl, but soon afterwards she recovered both speech and hearing, and he has applied for a divorce. He says it is a swindle. A fireman met with a horrible death in Cincinnati. He was turning a switch on the Cincinnati railway, when his foot got fastened in the frog - . The train was backing up, and the poor man was compelled to see certain death coming, with no means of even giving an alarm that could be heard. Ho was horribly mangled being crushed by the entire train.
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Patea Mail, 25 November 1880, Page 3
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