The Evening Telegraph

A Curious Escape.—It will be remembered that a story was telegraphed to us of a passenger on the Hudson River Railroad, who had a large sum of money on his person, and imagined that all his fellow-travellers were robbers. To the terror of his neighbors, he brandished a pistol, and displayed a desire to rid the world of one of the many "Robin Hoods" who surrounded him. At last, he left the car, and was not heard of again. Hence it was supposed that he had committed suicide by jumping into the Hudson river. He has, however, turned up all safe. It seems that he jumped out into the darkness from an express train which was running at high speed, and, after he had rolled an incredible distance, he came to a stop astride of a fence—not only surviving this little feat, but coming off unscathed.

It is astonishing the number of these perilous leaps which are made without injury. We have had two instances within a fortnight of conductors being thrust from their trains by ireful passengers, when the cars were running along at the rate of twenty miles an hour, who were able to get up and limp off in the direction of their trains, with no more serious result from the experience in either case than a vigorous shaking-up. The interesting query arises, "Do railroad travellers also possess the nine lives allotted to cats?"