The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-10-12
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
thumb is worth $1OO, 900.

tom thumb is worth 100000.
"A two-foot rule-keep your feet dry.
Extensive fires are the pest Of Russia
villages.
Russian soldiers get tight early in th
morning.
General skobeleff, the hero of Plevna,
only thirty.
| -Dakota's wheat crop will average owe
20 bushels to the acre.
| Mr.. Hayes is the first President sine
Washington to visit Georgia.
Has anybody heard of any cures by tht
blue glass treatment lately?
"A successful fly has 10000 children
and brings them all up to hum.
-"A cofin," said an Trishman, ii
the house man lives in when he is deadsa
The grave of General Israel Putnam il
Brookline, Conn, is marked only by a falle1
| stone.
Russia has 650,000 hereditary mobiles
and $50, 900 who are not hereditary, and
thousands of both classes are very poor.
The largest steer in Indiana is in the
possession of Mr.. G. Lowe, of Mono town
ship, White county. 1t weighs 5000
pounds.
Parties behind the scenes declare thai
| Tweed is not making clean breast of it, OF
exposing any of his old friends who were
in the ring that sympathize with him.
Minister Noyes is a tenent Of the ex-
Empress Eugene. His residence is at the
corner Of the Champs Elysees and Rue
Chaillot, the site of the Hotel d'Albe.
Senator Allison, who was prominent as
an opponent of the Presidents Southern
policy, has become con vinced that Hayes is
right, and is now in full accord with him.
President Hayes is the third President
to visit Richmond since the war. Mr. Lin
cola and Mr.. johnson were the others.
General Grant, while President, was not
seen there.
In this country the proportion of per-
sons having sound teeth is one i'll eighty
in active service, who use up annually half
a ton Of pure gold, besides cheaper filing
material.
The Pope, upon reading his own obit-
uary in French paper, order fiye-years'
subscription to it to be forwarded, remark
ng, "We shall see who will last the long
est" This information is not given for the
benefit of weak newspapers who are seek
ing subscribers.
=" Bring on your Witnesses" said the
judge in a Western murder trial. Clerk,
Cooking up and whispering TO the judge y
"There is little game of pedro going ON
in the other room" Judge: "Sancho or
plain ?" Clerk "sancho." Judge
I" This court Is adjourned for an hour"
-Henceforth no man need labor through
life under the burden of an ill-shaped nose.
A London philanthropist advertises ''nose
machine" which, applied to the nose for
an hour daily, so directs the soft cartil-
age Of which the member consists that an
Informed nose is quickly shaped to per-
fection."
The will of General Blackett, which
was proved in 1882, contained the follow
ing ~ desire my body to be kept SO long
as it may not be offensive; and that one of
my toes or fingers may be cut off to secure
a certainty of my being dead. further re-
quest my dear wife that, as she has been
troubled with one old fool, she will not
think of marrying second"
New Orleans desires shorter route to
the sea than that formed by Mr.. Eads by
deepening tho South Pass. 1t is proposed
to dig a ship canal between New Orleans
and Barataria bay-an estuary of the sea
that penetrates far into the land on the
south coast of Louisiana. The distance
from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico by
this route would be only 5e miles. The
cost of digging the canal, it is estimated,
would be So, 000,0 900. Neither Government
nor State aid is asked the advocates of the
canal sorely ask Congress to grant them the
right to use the tidal waters of Barataria
bay.
In Ohio there are Sc railroads, exclusive
of the narrow-gauge roads, eight of which
did not pay running expenses the year 1876
Thirteen paid no interest on their bonded
indebtedness. Seven are in the hands Of
receivers. The gross receipts of these
roads for 1876 amounted to $37, 1f9, ,049,
while the operating expenses were 1924, ,404,
565, leaving $9,714, 4s4. The total cost of
these roads, including all debts, was $317,-
1872, 232, showing that the net earnings are
a trifie over three per cent. of the invested
$160, 900, 900, all of which bears six per
cent. interest or more SO that the net earn
ings will not be sufficient to pay the inter-
est ON the bonded debt, and leaving nothing
for the millions invested by stockholders, of
which there are 1900. II, asks the N. Y.
Shipping East, this is the result of railroad
investments in Ohio, the leading State in
agricultural products, with growing manu-
featuring enterprises, and coal and iron IN
abundance, what must be the condition of
railroad property in less populous and less
favored States
Lemons for Consumption.
A correspondent of an English medical