El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-26
More Kangaroo Court.

A Santa Ee conductor is taking q ten
days. course inapplied kinematics and
the investigation of mechanisms work
ing with friction, at the especial in
stance of Prof. Hurley, for failing to
get bunch on himself and turn in the
numbers on his way bills with the re-
quired cele ity.
A Santa Fe runner whose mind was
dwelling on the purely aesthetic in art,
allowed his engine to run into an
open switch. For this, DR.. Hurley has
given tina runner ten days in which to
review t. q history of thought on the
subject of the beautiful: also to give
q philosophical account of the fOunda-
tions upon which art res's; and to study
scientific art Theory il it's relation to
general philosophical discipline.
A switchmsn and two brakemen on
the Santa Fee were depressed in spirits
the other day. and sought TO raise the
same by pouring other kinds of spirits
down. They were found in the arms
of Morpheus 'dreaming the happy
hours ~ay," land supt: Hurley con
cluded to let them continue in Their
day dreams It'll the COWS come home.
The trio will hence forth devote their
attention to more or less bucholic
rather than alcoholic pursuits hereaf-
t-r.
A Santa Fe runner aud brakeman
are devotiDg ten days to a study in ad-
vauced logic, with especial empha lis
upon the nature of scientific meth cd ;all
because they would run kerbunk into
a switch set against them.
A section fore nan is boning up on
the doctr ne of the commerce of lead
ing FOREIGN nations ON IVA to 1870
nn6or ppnf anrIoy for innrnnor1u
spiking q switch, and running the risk
of derailing q train. The head and
rear brak emen Of a through freight are
given commissions to gn seal hunting
in the rorth Atlantic Indefinitely by
Commander Hurley, be 'ause through
carelessness, after their train had
broke in two, they could not command
sufficient generalship to keep the two
sections from collidiug on the grade.
A Sata Fe engineer and conductor are
taking fifteen days in which to make
critical examination OF the current COM
mon places of American history, aud of
the popular methods of treating it, with
problems 10 colonization and colonial
their train down hill at a lie 'ety
split gait, with the danger of derail-
ment.
posting himself on detailed investiga.
ton of the development of philosophic
thought during the first three centuries,
for being altogether too slow in get
ting bis way bills out of his overcoat
pocket.
A Santa Fe runner and brakeman
distinguished thems elves the other day
by running kersmash into yard en-
CINE on a siding. They were hot be-
cause the yard engine did not get out
OF the way with sufficient celebrity, and
wanted to tearh it a severe lesson. For
this performan re, the twain are given
ten days to critical analysts of the
early Meccan Suras with study from
the life of Mabommet, under that
eminent biologist aud litersteur, Prof.
Hurley.
A Santa Fee freight and passenger
train enjoyed a head end collision up
the line the other day. The f. eight
crew were to blame, having run ahead
of time. The freight conductor wired
his imprOmptu departure
for KlOndike, as he had forgot to set
his watch, and he knew he would get
wound up himself. The runner of the
freight has been set on a mission to
TERRA del Fuego, and his brakeman
will daily in thought for thirty days in
the contemplation of Arabic prose
literature under that eminent Arabic
scholar Prof Hurley. The runner and
conductor of the passenger are also 10
the turesn, and will devote their entire
for thirty days to sight read
ing in Hebrew.
Here endeth the second lesson.