SPORTS. 



coffee, is of the worst description, while the time allowed to partake is often too 

 short, rcmlcrinf;; the profit to the vender beyond calculation. 



Now, Mr. Editor, ffn's is all wrotnj. In a social point of view, it is hifrhly 

 important that our pcojde should travel, and mix, and see each other. No one 

 does so without an expansion of mind ; I am sorry to say, few do so without 

 iinminont risk of health, to say nothing of those accidents which are constantly 

 recorded, but of which the majority are never pul)licly known. 



If it were not the interest of the companies to remedy these things, we might 

 well despair. It can be demonstrated, that it will be cheaper to make some 

 arrangement for sleepers than to place passengers in uncomfortable attitudes for 

 a long night; because more will travel, and more will pay. A car without ven- 

 tilators should be indicted; a director, above the conductor in authority, should 

 travel the roads, and see how things are managed. The press must be brought 

 to bear upon this subject, or we shall have to give up travelling for pleasure. 



[We indorse our correspondent's general statements with regret, and have, in 

 publishing his communication, no other object than mutual benefit to the public 

 and the railroads. We witnessed a night scene in every respect the counterpart 

 of the one he describes. Further, we saw a conductor between Cincinnati and 

 Columbus, on the slightest inspection of the ticket of a foreign gentleman of for- 

 tune and position, order him in a brutal manner to get into the emigrant train ; 

 a remonstrance produced an examination, when the ticket was found to be for the 

 first class. At the Columbus station, we saw in the night an invalid beg to be 

 allowed to purchase a glass of milk, the only thing he could take ; though a 

 pitcherful was on the counter, this was denied ; and on the remark of a bystander 

 that it was remarkable in so fine a milk country no milk could be purchased, he 

 insolently observed, " That is my way of doing business." So easy would it be 

 to make the slight required reforms, that wc feel it to be a public duty to record 

 our experience and opinion. There must, too, at length be some accommodation 

 for invalids ; a small car, furnished with comfortable sittings, &c., could be rented 

 daily so as to pay for itself in a very short time. We have so much confidence in 

 the good sense of our people as to feel assured the reforms will ultimately come ; 

 would that our humble efforts might hasten them. — Ed.] 



Sports. — A Scotch correspondent tells us of a case as strange as the strangest 

 yet recorded, and more puzzling than most. 



We learn that he has a gooseberry bush which bears indifferently, on each 

 small twig, red or yellow berries, the red superior in flavor to the yellow, and 

 both dissimilar; the reds, too, are unlike, for some are rough, and others smooth; 

 and the yellows bear seed that is red. Had a handful of yellow berries been 

 thrown in among the reds, and accidentally stuck to the branches, the mixture 

 not be more complete. 



