The Northern Railway Company of France, as the _Daily Telegraph_
informs us, has decided to spend four millions of francs in improving
its rolling-stock. This move ought to send up all its "stock" in the
market. Also there is to be a train of an entirely new pattern, replete
with every convenience, running in correspondence with the London
Chatham and Dover Company's most convenient continental service. This
is first-class (and second also) news for persons about to travel.
The _D. T._ further says that "the adoption of bogies will make the
running easy." Good gracious! The cutting and running would come quite
naturally to most of the passengers on beholding only one "bogey"; but
when it comes to "bogies," there would be a general stampede! Very kind
of the Northern to "adopt" bogies. Some poor little orphan bogies, left
at the door of a Bogey-Foundling Hospital, deserted by their ghostly
and unnatural parents, but "adopted" by the spirited Great Northern of
France! "Hush! Hush, Hush, it is the Bogey Train!" But no tricks on
travellers, spirited Great Northern of France.
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