The next morning the journalist was
j informed by the reporter that a com- !
: mitteo of gentlemen wished to see him
in the baggage car. As he entered tho I
latter he found a dozen travelers, all
native and to the manor born, waiting j
to receive him hat in hand. The spokes
man advanced and said;
“You are the party who was giving
I those globe trotters in the rear sleeper
1 some points about tho coast, I believe?”
“I am, sir,” said the quill-driver, mod
| esllv.
i “You told them, I understand,” con
tinued the chairman, “ that Mount
Shasta was 76,000 feet high?”
“ The same.”
“You divulged the well known fact
] that trains on this road w ere often de
tained four days by herds of buffalo, and
that they frequently have to use a Gat
ling gun on the cowcatcher to prevent |
the locomotive being pushed off tho i
track by tho grizzly bears ?”
“Yes, sir.”
"You further acquainted them with
tho circumstance that the Digger Indi
ans live to the average age of 204, and
| that the rarefication of tho air on tho
! plains is such that an ordinary pin
j looks like a telegraph pole at tho dis
tance of forty-two miles?”
"I think I wedged that in,” re
sponded tho newspaper man.
