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case of Koss Winans, who had got a patent on a truck- 

 car — i.e.^ a passenger-car mounted on two trucks, instead 

 of having the axles running in boxes fixed to the car, as 

 is still the habit in all Europe. The truck-car will run on 

 a shorter curve and on a rougher road-bed, and Ross Wi- 

 nans thought that he held the entire railway system of 

 the States in the hollow of his hand. The patent was 

 attacked, and Harvey Waters was expert for Winans. 

 Mr. William Whiting was counsel for the party opposing 

 the patent, and had shown that it had been usual to 

 transport long pieces of merchandise or tree -trunks or 

 lumber on two small four-wheeled cars, to which each 

 end of the long thing would be lashed. He sought to 

 make Mr. Waters acknowledge that a passenger-car on 

 two trucks was the same thing as a big log lashed on two 

 small cars ; but could not do so. After a very long cross- 

 examination, in which Waters's clear method of statement 

 quite baffled the lawyer's acumen, Mr. Whiting said : 

 " Will you please tell the court, Mr. Waters, wherein re- 

 sides the difference between a log lashed to two four- 

 wheeled cars and a passenger-car riding on two trucks?" 

 Old Waters thought an instant, and then looking up with 

 his glistening black eyes, and running his fingers througli 

 his snow-white hair, answered, " Mr. AVhiting, a log lashed 

 to two trucks is no more a passenger-car riding on two 

 trucks than two men carrying a log between them on 

 their shoulders are a quadruped !" This astonishingly 

 keen reply told the story better — made the case clearer — 

 than a whole day of legal refinements had been able to 

 do. Harvey Waters was as wonderful as his scythe-roll- 

 ing machine. 



Among the very best of the Eastern populations which, 

 now owe fealty to Great Britain are the Burmese. They 

 are very much like their native ponies, small, but muscu- 



