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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 28 November 1872, Page 2

The importance of an extremely cheap system of railwayscapable of providing outlying districts with better means of reaching the existing lines, and of facilitating transit in towns, has long been recognised by engineers, and it appears that such a system has now been devised. M. Larmenjat has just laid down at the Place du Roi de Rome, at the Trouadero, Paris his one-rail railway, and La Houille announces that the official experiments were highly satisfactory. _ The invention appears to be identical with that of Mr Addis, an English engineer, practising in India, which was described a few years since. The locomotive weighs four tons, and has two wheels running bicycle-fashion on the rail, two other wheels in the usual position, and with caoutchouc tires runon the roadway. The engineer can throw the weight on the rail-wheels or road-wheels, at pleasure, the latter increasing the bite, and facilitating the ascent of an incline: there is-1 in 33 on the trial line. The rail weighs about seven kilos to the metre (151bs to the yard), and does not rise above the roadway. A speed of Bta 11 miles an hour is attained,, the motion is smooth and pleasant, and no difficulty is experienced in turning very sharp curves, tho two loops at the ends of the line (which is about a quarter of a mile long) for permitting the train, consisting of the engine and three carriages, to change its position ready for the return journey, affording a very severe test. An Aberdonian was before the Parliamentary Game Committee, undergoing examination. With more than the proverbial eanniness of his townsmen, he declined to commit himself to anything—not even cats. "Do cats kill game ?" inquired the chairman. " Wcel," replied the witness, " a cot micht tak' a beastie occasionally, but I wadna like to say."

Respecting the man who boasted that he had never given his. wife a cross word or look during their twenty-five years of married life, it is suggested that it may not be so much the result of amiability on the husband's part aa a whole' some dread of his wife's broomstick.