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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 14, 20 March 1866, Page 3

A Rule for Railway Travelling. — "Will you allow me, sir, to offer you a cigar ? " " Thank you, but I never smoke." '" Have you any objection to my lighting one, sir ? " " Oh! no, none in the least." This plan is infallible with the most Puritanicallooking fellow traveller. Never think of putting the second question first. The production of the cigar and the generous offer are sure to disarm all crusty objections. Try it. — Punch. The Sculptor and tub Premier. — Among the last of Behne's works were the busts of the late Lord Elgin and Lord Palmerston, the former in the possession of Lady Elgin, but the latter was never completed. It was kept so long in hand that Lord Palmerston declined continuing the sittings; This was at the time^that the sculptor was busied with his two Havelock "statues — the one for Trafalgar square, the other for Sunderland. It was on the occasion of, perhaps, the last sitting that Behnes opened the conversation with — " Any news, my Lord, from France ? How do •we stand with Louis Napoleon ?" Lord Palmerston raised his eyebrows for an instant, looked surprised, and quietly answered, " Kealey Mr. Behnes, I don't know; I have not seen the Newspapers." — "Cornhill Magazine." A refrigerator railway car holds about two tons of ice. By means of this arangement the temperature is kept so low that butter in July can be carried without becoming more soft than it would in January. At the present time Mr. Stevans, the inventor, formerly of the People's line, has fourteen " refrigerator cars " on the Kome and Watertown road, twelve on the Central, and ten on the Syracuse and Binghampton.—Utica Telegraph.