Rums PREFER RAILWAYS.
Perhaps the authorities of the railway, who are suffering from the popularity of the roads, would like to know that their lines have quite eclipsed the roads in one respect, and this point of superiority is quite- new The roads used to be dusty, and were for this reason immensely popularwith many birds. Since the complexion of the road has been treftteir With cosmetics, producing an artificial surface and
unsympathetic tissue, the birds have. given them up and now resort to•the railways instead, where they dust luxuriously in the ashes between the sleepers and little paths beside. With the partridges, which are the most persistent of dusters, it is particularly obvious how frequently . they resort to certain reaches of the line and for how very short a time the passing of a train is allowed to interrupt them.
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