LAUGHABLE SCENE IN A TRAIN.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1479, 5 December 1884, Page 2

LAUGHABLE SCENE IN A TRAIN.

» It is probable that no more exciting scene has been witnessed, barring a run on a bang, than the one on a North-western train between Milwau keo and Chicago one day last week. The train took on, at Lake Bluff, a large number of people returning home from camp meeting in session there, and every seat was full, four deep, of preachers, deacons, old ladies, Sundayschool teachers, giggling giils, and children, destined for all of the stations between Lake Bluff and Chicago. The big conductor was going through the forward car taking up the half-rate tickets, when something struck him on the back of the neck that felt like a sabre, and he made use of a word that caused the hair of the deacon from Highland Park to turn gi*ey. The conductor looked at the front door, aud it was full of bees. It appears that \ tree had been cut down near the track, which contained a swarm of wild honey bees, and the bees had settled on ttie bank beside the track to rest, and when the engine came along and the engineer squirted stream and hot water amongst tiie bees they got mad, and all that were not killed came into the cars to see if such things could be, and not overcome them like a summer squash, The conductor though bitten in a vital part, on his neck, held his position, knowing that he would have fun enough with the passengers to make up for his Injuries. A middleaged Sunday school teacher of the female persuasion, who was holdiug a big scholar on her lap-suddenly jumped up and said she was stabbed, aud asked the conductor to protect her, and she looked round quite saucy of a travelling man in the seat back of her who had an umbrella. The conductor said he guessed she wasn't stabbed, but she began to yell, and while he was trying to soothe her a preacher from Evaosfcon reared up and said something about Hades, and began crawling over the back of the seat in front of him, where a deacon from Lakes Forest was explaining a passage in the Bible to a young woman from Eodgers' Park. The deacon and the young woman were mad, and just then they felt stings from the bees, and they jumped out into the aisle and accused the ninkter of being a mean, horrid thing. A quartette, two girls, and two boys in a couple of seats that were faciug each other, were singing a hymn, when a bee struck the soprano in the front of the neck, and it oroke her voice all up, and she yelled murder and grabbed the coattail of a colored porter who was going through the car on a galloy with a bee on his trousers leg. The tenor had done something wrong to tiie soprano, and was going to whip him, when the alto got a bite and yelled for the police, and a Sunday school superinteudant in a seat opposite thought the tenor had insulted the alto, aud he took the tenor by the neck. Just then a bee struck the tenor, and he thought it was the superintendent who hit him, and he was just getting ready to wallop him when the . conductor told him to be quiet, or he would have to put them off, and then he explained that the train had run over a swarm of bees, and they had got in the car. That settled it. Every person that had not been stung didn't want to be, and they all pulled their feet off the floor and tucked them up under them on the seats, and there was yelling in ell languages know to . camp meetings. The windows wore opened to let the bees out, and inoffr bees came, in, aud it was a pandernoniirto for ten miles.

The bees seemed to run to female arms that were covered with thin lace, or that were bare, a .d silk stockings pre- , sented no barrier at all against tht busy little bees. A girl would sudde nly tarn pale, hold her breath for a minute, and then scream. One girl climbed up the water cooler us quiukas -i cat wurd climb a tre« if a dog was after it, and whon the conductor ea oh along she grabbed him around the ueck and asked him to save her. He uutaa^led her and sat bur dowu on the coal b-ix, and told her that he was a very savingman, but he couldn't save a whole train, load of girls at once, as he wis m b.u* keeper. A. Chicago unni-aer pu . iii» foot on the stove a U b;_jiu, to o I \j his pant's leg to catch a bee, aid a women all scn-amed agih, uvl the conductei- t)M .nm h.i w.n.d 'uv'- 10 t;ike a i »er,h in a sl.^p.-r if h~ w;is going t<. d:S -oi>e. He rolled his pants dowu aud left the ben there but every little while he woull tak- hold of his thumb and fi-ig.jr airl h >\<\ them awiy from his U*wl shike hi.<f lot aad I »■» like aS.!oLc'iina-i daiiui .g h.? Highland fli'ig. Wn.-i tiie tiMi'j si .;)j-d at ihj first sta'.ion thn pasa^uge-s .ill got out on tii.j flatfoi-m J..1.1 kick j.l 'wdsout of their pants, as the cas? nay be, th» conductor and braWn v dr-jve the bees oat of the cars, and the jMssengers got in again, but in v^fy HuU? while some liody would jump about eight f«et, and then l.cgau to hunt in the plush cushion for something. Everybody got stung more or less, and several ministers and deacons looked, whe;i the train reached Chicago, as if th ;y had been trying o knock out Sullivan u» four rounds.— ''eclcs Sun.