Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The terrible accident which happened a short time since in Boston, from the running away of a horse, frightened by the approach of a locomotive, has set inquiry to work to find out the best mode of preventing such a catastrophe in similar cases. A correspondent of Boston Transcript, who has observed the mode adopted in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg, thinks it altogether better than Newall’s new plan of the moveable whiffletree, which lets the animal clear off from the vehicle, if wanting to run away. the Russian plan is as follows:
“Around the horse’s neck, near the neck-strap, is placed a cord with a running knot. This slip noose is attached to a pair of reins; on a gentlemen’s horses generally of silk cord, about the size of a pipe stem, which always lie thrown over the dash board, ready to be seized at once. When a horse starts and becomes unruly, the gentleman takes up this cord and tightens the horse’s throat so that he cannot breathe. The most furious horse stops almost instantly, but will not fall or kick.