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Southland Times, Issue 1248, 10 May 1870, Page 3

A young woman in Chicago, who lost her speech by a severe cold, had twenty offers of marriage in one week. A German paper makes the following calculation: — A. train composed of all the locomotives and railway carriages in Europe would reach from St: Petersburg to Paris, and would contain 400,000 passenger carriages and 500,000 luggage vans. The railways of Europe are carried over 62,000 large and small bridges, and go through thirty-four miles of tunnel. 150,000,000 cwt. of iron has been used for the rails, and 80,000,000 cwt. of coals is required yearly to feed the engines. The network o f European railways includes all States except Greece, Lippe-Defmold, Waldeck, and a few other very small German States. It represents a length of 70,718 miles ; 18,000 locomotives are employed on it ; the distance these rush over during the year is 60,000,000 miles. If to this is added the distance passed over by passenger carriages and luggage vans we get to 100,000,000 of miles. pickpockets all wear the convenient Arab shawls. They fold their shawls like the Arabs, and aa silently steal away