The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-02-09
NEW NOR -WESTERs.
Ben Hill has blue-gray eyes.

b Ben Hill has blue-gray eyes. q
Many Vermonters are raising sheep !
Colorado. Haas
Sankey's voice is broken from exces
sive singing.
The postoffice sometimes carries infect
ious diseases.
-Howe's great circus and ten inches o
/ snow are in Georgia.
. The wine product of California for 1871
\ was 10000 gallons.
: Josh Billings wants to know who eve
heard rich man sing.
Tho banking capital of the State o
California is stated at $500, ,000. 600.
Captain Glazier rode horseback from
Boston to San Francisco in IA days.
The sales of real estate in San Fran
cisco in 1875 aggregated 24,000,Oo0.
n 1t is the want of motive says George
] Eliot, that makes life dull and makes mer
feel old.
Fire gun up your chimney when it is
on fire, and the flames will be instantly ex-
tinguished. .-......-,
The Boston Post thinks that sky-blue
coffins striped with red would be far better
than cremation. s
Marshal Bazaine and his family are
now residing in great poverty at little
| village of the Asturias. -.s.5 .ss1an.
-California pears are selling in London,
and are considered better than many varie-
ties of those received from France.
There are 43, 900 clergymen in the Uni
ted States. But what can they do against
a million newspapers -..@. Ed.
M. Fancher has invented machine for
driving horses by electricity. A child, by
this means, can drive and curb the most
fractions animal. -ats A..
u, Art is pushing right ahead. They can
now weave a cat into a parl,r rug SO natu-
rally that one feels like tossing her q hunk
of boarding-house beef. a--.
Allegheny City proposes to have fire
drill in its public schools. The children are
to be run down stairs twice day to see
how many can get out alive. -4-
70 I'm lighting fires in stoves likely to
smoke, arst warm the chimney or it's con-
tents by burning a handful of shavings or
paper on ton of the coal.
Dion Bocicault recently told a friend of
his that the whole number of dramatic
pieces which he had put on the stage is
3e7, and that they have yielded him not
far from $4,000, 900. j fa. s
Trade dollars are quoted at 9S@99,
buying, in Virginia City. This is higher
than they have been at any time since the
raid made upon them by the business men
Of the Comstrck. m
The combined capital of the Roths-
childs is stated bv Emile Burnout, the well
known publicist, to have attained in the
past year to the almost incalculable sum Of
seventeen billions of francs, or SO, 400, ,000,-
600. .'r -isj # .
j The Mark Lene Egpress asserts that
800 "a .tsa9Res .ttsa9Res aeeyfre aee fresh American beef reach
trade has created considerable anxiety in
the English agricultural districts of Shrop-
shire and Staffordshire. @
The Adams and the American, which
are the two great express companies OF the
country, employ about 5000 men, 1900
horses, 1900 wagons, and use 5000 iron
safes. Their agents travel more than 1O0,-
600 miles daily, or nearly 33,000,0 900 miles
yearly.
About 200 Icelanders have immigra-
ted into Manitoba and settled On Lake
Winnipeg at place which they call Gimli.
The Colonial Government has given them
land ard helped them, to get over. They
are very unlucky, however, this winter,
numbers of them, especially children hav-
ing died from smallpox.
A novel wager has been reported which
| attracts attention in elubdom. An officer
of the Royal Horse Guards Blue has backed
| himself against certain sporting baronet
to ride ten nile s across a fair hunting
country while snail crawls ten inches on
| q creased board. At last advices the snail
was in splendid condition and taking
daily afternoon crawl. Odds, five to four
on the snail. 'l'''
| Mr.. Van Tassell, of Yankton, Dakota,
at present running the stage line from that
point to Fort Sully, will starta semi-weekly
/ line between Fort Pierre and Deadwood, on
the first of next March. He commenced
building his stations along the road on
February 1st. He has now on hand six
nsw Concord coaches, and has sent to Mis-
souri, for one hundred head of mules to
complete his outfit.
i james T. Fields says, in his lecture on
Tsnnyson, that he is fond of petSing lines
j of poetry, and that among his fayoritas are
the following:
d "The moan of doves In immemorial elms
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
I Far-folded miets and cleaning halls OF morn.
"BY the wash of Australian seas .
"The star-like sorrows of immortal eyes.
"The shining daffodil's dead,
And Orion low in his grave"
). A lighthouse 412 feet high, the tallesi
in the werld, is building at plymouth
England. It will contain ten rooms for at
tendants. an infirmary,' and q bedroom
with ten beds for the shipwrecked. About
1e2 feet above the level of the sea NOVA
> BILE annular plate is provided, carrying :
big cannen for the salvage line within ;
. range of z. O00 to 10. coo meters. The ligh
Z lis expected to penetrate over twenty mile