The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-13

| NNti OOdN III INC Car CIUWucu llOhAI
him and listened to him for over tw
hours, and the passengers seemed 81
| pleased and entertained that they forgo
all about the night and the accident
Secretary Folger is a very quie
| traveller. He generally has pile o
legal documents along with him, anC
puts in the time examining them. Sec
rotary Frelinghuysen is a great newspa
per reader on the cars, and always puts
me in mind of Joseph Jefferson JET
ferson is remarkably quiet traveller
He's good listener, but talks very IL
tie Salyini is very enthusiastic trav
eler, admires every little thing in the
shape of pretty scenery along the road
and he sees everything. He's noble
fellow, and liberal with the porters.'
Secretary Lincoln is n business-like
traveller, does q good deal of work on
the train, and reads more newspaper.
than any man ever saw He's so diff.
ferent from his father in this respect
His father used 10 sit as quiet as moust
with his arms folded and look out Of tht
window nearly all the time
Perry Belmont is very nervou,
man - twists his mustache and play,
with his watch chain half the time
Every now and again he pulls out hi
watch and looks at the time. as if h,
were in great hurry, He never make.
acQuaintauces on the train, and the por
tiers don Ike him
Not long SGo Mrs Kate ChasC
Sprague. with her two children, wer,
travelling Perry Belmont was in the
same car. Mrs. Sprague. though n gooc
deal broken, is sin magnificent wo
msn, and walks ike queen. Well, :,
man opposite her kept staring at her
which evidently annoyed her. Belmont
whose chair was AT the other end Of tn,
car, seeing this, and knowing Mrs.
Sprague, asked the man to change
chairs with him, which the man did re-
luctantlv.N
Henry Ward Beecher always pat
ronizes the hotel car freely Governor
Pattison is an easy traveller, and Con-
gresham Hoar is very funny, philo-
sophie traveller He pulls his big, black
SLOUGH hat way down over his red,
smoothly-shayen face and goes 70 sleep,
Ben Butler usually travels in pri-
vate car. Two or three years ago he
went West in a private car, and the car
being an Eastern foreign car the root
was TOO high for the tunnel at Gallitzen,
on the Alleghenies, and part OF the car
roof was torn away. Buffers only re-
mark was, as he looked up at the torn
roof and addressed the servant, Thomas,
who threw that brick?' y
Patti Is the iolliest lady traveller !
know of-she full OF fun all the time
so is Aimee, Clara Louise Kellogg al
ways looks tired, and Modjeska travels
in her own special car
Il had Billy Florence and John T,
Raymond both one trip two years ago,
An old lady travelling alone, and Of a
very nervous temperament, asked Mr..
Florence if he didn't hear a queer noise
under the car I'll see the conductor
about it, said Florence. lie started to
the other end of the car, and catching
Raymond s eye, beckoned TO him. Ray
mond got up and walked to Florence,
and they stood at the other end of the
car from the old lady, with their backs
to her. John, said Florence, borrow
the conductors coat and cap for min
ute, and go tell that old woman the
cause Of that queer noise she imagines
che hears under the car. Raymond
saw the joke-put on the cap and coat
and with very serious countenance
went up TO the old lady and said, in an
offhand way, That noise is merely
caused by the axle being nearly worn
away But said the old lady, won't
the axle break and cause an accident?
1T may be, said Raymond; I'll take a
look at il when we get to Chicago.
Chicago, screamed the old lady
1t might break and kill us all before We
get to Chicago"
" God forbid, Madam, said Ray
mond. i have wife and fourteen
children depending on me. w
well went on the conductor
"they scared the old lady for half an
hour, then went to her and told her
that the conductor she had been talking
to was John T, Raymond, the actor
and that there was nothing the matter
with the axle, but ! think she still be-
lieved there was. Florence and Ray
mond make more fun on a train than
any people | know Of Frank Frayne
was always a well-liked traveller. I've
been railroading for over thirty years
here and there" said the conductor
"and know nearly every man Of note
as soon as | see him n--Philadelphiq
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