ng that wuz ever seen in
the world. Side by side with the finest passenger coaches that London
sends stands the Canadian Pacific, with its dinin' and sleepin' cars,
and you can form an idee about the richness on 'em when I tell you that
the woodwork of 'em is pure mahogany.

And then the other big railroads, not to be outdone, they have their
finest and most elegant cars on show--

The Pullman and Wagner and the Empire State, with its lightnin' speed,
and post-office and newspaper cars, and freight, and express, and
private cars.

There is a German exhibit of some of them likely ambulance cars used by
the Red Cross Society in war time--cars that angels bend over as the
poor dyin' ones are carried from the battle-field--angels of Healin' and
of Pain.

Then the Belgians have a full exhibit of the light, handy vehicles of
all shapes, from a barrel to a basket, that they make to run on rails.
Platforms movin' by the instantaneous action of the Westinghouse brake
on a train of one hundred cars is a sight to see.

There are railroads for goin' like lightin' over level roads, and goin'
up and down, and all sorts of street cars, a-goin' by horses, or mules,
or lightnin', as the case might be. President Polk's old carriage looked
jest like Grandpa Smedly's great-grandfather's buggy, that stands in
this old stun carriage house, and has stood there for 100 years and
more.

And all sorts of gorgeous carriages that wuz ever seen or hearn on, and
carts, and wagons, and buggies, from a tallyho coach to a invalid's
chair and a wheelbarrow, and from a toboggan to a bicycle, and
palanquins of Japan, China, India, and Africa.

Howdahs for elephants, saddles for camels, donkey exhibits from South
America and Egypt, the rig of the water-carriers of Cairo, the
milk-sellers of South America, and the cargados, or human pack-horses,
of both sexes of that country--models that show the human and brute
forms of labor.

Models of ox-carts, used in Jacob's time, and in which, I dare presoom
to say, Old Miss Jacob ust to go a-visitin' to old Miss Abraham and
Isaac, and mebby stay all day, she and the children.

[Illustration: Ox-cart in which old Miss Jacob ust to go
a-visitin'.]

And pneumatic tubes that I spoze will be used fur more in the future,
and for more various uses, and all kinds of balloons and air-ships.

Balloon transportation--ridin' through the air swift as the wind--what
idees that riz up under my fore-top, of takin' br