The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-02-16
NEW NOR EsTERs.
Gen. Banks, it is said, would like to go

Gen. Banks, it is said, would like to g
to France as q. 8. Minister.
Peter Coorsr begins the annihilatio'
of his 86th year next month.
General Miles, the Indian fighter, was
In 1852, clerk in Boston crocksry store.
-Gen. Moltke says that Russia will VIII
Turkey iE the end. Hope it will Viii
hoth ends.
Arnold, the writing-fuid-man, ha
made aillioa dollars by it. That's th
sort of an ink-come to have.
A Colorado woman has collected s
bushels of grasshoppsrs, and scalded ant
dried them for winter chicken feed.
1t is now said that General Gran
made 3 judicious investment in Californii
mining stocks and sold omt just at the luck.
! moment.
-Cats eyes glisten in the night ON &C
couat Of carpet Of gliatening fibres, callet
the tapetum, which lies behind the rstina
and is powerful reflector.
Several new styles of writing papel
have been lately introduced. Some very
dark, almost black, to be used with tn.
new white ink lately brought out.
The sun begins to get up esrlier, but
it is no mans business to try and be o.
great as the sun. Another thing, the sur
always has q good fire to dress by.
The Virginia Enterprise says: The
Sutro tunnel ct the measurement on the
Goth inst, had o total length to the header
OF 1917 feet; made from the 18th to the
2Sd, 8 feet. Measurements are made on
the LIST, 9Th, and 18th and 22d of each
month.
"A good story is told of New Hamp-
shire physician, who vaecinated family OF
twelve and charged 412. A few days after
he took dozen cabbage plants in part pay
as he supposed, but upon final settlement
learned, to his surprise, that Mr.. Farmer
charged Doctors prices" OIL head"
A man went through the bankruptcy
court. He had owned fine horse and gig,
and they both disappeared for time, but
by and by the horse and gig were doing
service for the same owner again. On be-
ing asked what this meant, the mans re-
ply was, "I went through the bankruptcy
court, but the horse and gig went around. /"
A recent contrivance for the protection
OF money-safes is net of telegraph wire
spread all over them, in electric communi-
cation with powerful alarm bell. Any
attempted to force the safe open, to drill
its sides, to cut or remove the networks or
to tamper in any way with the apparatus.
sounds the alarm.
"A citizen Of Sandy Creek, N. Y, re-
Gently sent up paper balloon about three
feet in diameter to height of almost three
thousand feet. Inside the balloon was
placed an apple, which, on being examined
after it descended, was found to be frozen
hard. The experimenter is now thinking
of sending up another balloon with cat in
it. -r.
-" Men are like hymnS' remarked an
exchanges newspaper. There ara short
metre men, sharp blunt and hasty there
are long-metre men, slow, weighty and Dig
nified; there are hallelujsh-men, msrcurial,
fervsnt and inspiring and there are eights-
and-sevens men, gentle, genial and delight
full. There are also some peculiar
metres,'n
Mr. Moody's Chicago harvest has been
reckoned up, and it appears that about g.
800 persons have been converted, 5000 Sc
riously impressed and hundreds Of drunk
ards been induced to sign the pledge. One
can hardly realize that there has been so
great change in the modern Sodom, .es-
pecislly while glancing at the criminal COL
umns of the sodomite journals.
Over the tiny grave of the only body
that of an infant-=washed ashore at Lydd,
near Duggeness, England, from the ill-fat-
cd emigrant ship Northfeet, has been
placed slab with the simple inscription
'God knows" that having been the touch
ing reply of the parish constable when he
was appealed to by the undertaken as to
what name should be engraved on the cof
fin plate.
Gail Hamilton's experience with free
passes has been of the "most short, slender
and spaamodic kind" but SO far IS it has
extended it has been one of unalloyed de-
light. SIT has always seemed waste"
she says candidly, ito pay money for go-
ing from place to place, because you want
all your money to spend when you get
there. have never yet refused railroad
pass, and Heaven helping me, / never
will ~ -a...
The Railroad Gazette gives tables show.
ing that in 1876 there were 2,442 miles of
railroad constructed in this country. lexas
and California did about one-third of the
building. The year was favorable for rail-
way construction, the price of labor and
material being low. The Gazette is of the
opinion that for awhile profitable railroad
building will be confined to short lines for
feeders. The country has now total of
76, GAO miles of railway.
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