, 1882-10-06
CLIPPINGS.

The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany earned $2,99i,5l9 during the year
ending July |, 1881, and 5,l3O,3O6 dur.ng
the year ending July |, 1882. 1t is now
earning at the rate of nearly seven hun
dred thousand dollars a month, and a
fair estimate of the gross earnings for the
cnrrent year is SS,OOO,OOO, Thc earnings
of next year will not be far from mil
lion month, or Sl2,0UO,0O0 for the year
ending July l, 1884.
G. Morris Haller and W. W. Wardell
have gone into the sheep business to-
stay. They had before several bands Of
common animals, to which they have
lately added lot of full blOOded Span
ish Merinoes, theirs being the first con-
siderable importation Of these valuable
animals to this section of the country,
They have enough for their own plr-
poses and to spare and are willing to let
their neighbors share the ownership with
them. In other words they have thorough
bred Merinoe5 for sale.-POSt-lHtetH-
geRccr.
Eleven school boys in Goncsee walk
ed to Niagara Falls on August 4jh, 1872,
and agreed 20 meet there again, il living,
nifty years. Seven Of them kept the
promise, coming with their wives and
children.
Winncmucca, the head chief of the
Piuto Indians, is dying. lie is about 80
years old, and recently took Il young
wife. The Indians say the new wife has
bowitched the old man, and if he dies they
will kill her and the medicine man who
attended him in his last illness.
A half,pound baby was born in Har
lem few weeks ago, and christened the
other day with the pOnderous name OF
George Washington Krumm. or course
the proper thing to say is that the baby
is Krumm of comfort to his parents,
The child was the talk of the neighbor-
hood, and so many wanted to verify his
weight that he came very near being
half pounded to death.
An Augusta man. who has been enjoy
nr few weeks leisure at Reeds Neck,
recently donned his rubber boots, swung
a pail over his shoulder on hoe, and
started out at high tide to dig clans Not
meeting with good success, he approach
cl n settlers cabin, and inquired where
he could find the Juicy bivalyes. Tie
sQuattors eyed him keenly for moment
and then remarked: Young man, | don't
know much about city customs, but if you
want todig clans at food tide you'll have
to leave these parts to do it,
TWIN CoMETs-Prof. Il. T.. Barnard,
Of Nashville, Tenn, on the llth inst,
discovered new comet located near the
star Lambda. in the constellation Of the
Twins. His discovery was announced by
telegraph to Mr.. II. II. Warner, at the
Warner Observatory, Rochester n. T.,
and almost at the same moment Prof.
Lewis Swift Director of the Warner
Observatory, received intelligence that
a large naked eye comet had been dis
covered in Rio Janeiro, South America.
Prof. Barnard is the first person the pre-
sent year to receive the Warner prize OF
500. The fact that these two comets
came into view at the time is exceedingly
significant.
CANADIAN PAcIFIC.-The tract on this
road is new laid for3T miles westward
from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and con
struction trains run to Qu'Appelle. 1t
is announced that the section between
Thunder Bay and Winnipeg will not be
opened for traffic this year. The track
is all laid, but there is still some work to
do in filling temporary tressels, ballast
ing, etc. Several parties are in the field,
locating the line from Prince Arthur's
Landing eastward through the country
north OF Lake Superior to Lake NipisS-
ing. Work has began ON the grading
from Prince Arthur's Landing to Ne.
pigon. One line has been run from Ne
pigon by Pic River, Matamasaganie
Lake, the White River Valley, Esnaguma
Lake, Betanising and Dog Lake to Lake