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Show RAILWAY TIES. There are two miles of track in the new Lackawanna round house in Kl-j Kl-j niira, N. Y. Tho number of passengers rarried on : Connecticut railroads in 1 8U0 was 28,-! 28,-! 771,41. being an increase of 4,770,227 ; j over that of the preceding year. I Only ninety-nine miles constructed in j 18H0 in all New England, not a mile of new road being built in all Connecticut, I indicates tho thorough development of I tho railroad system in that state. j Western malingers predict that the j tonnage of 191 will be materially less j than that of 100, and that it will require re-quire exceptionally close management to bring tho western roads through in anything like a prosperous condition. The novel sight of an engine having a j common barrel for a smokestack was wit nessed recently by people in Carters-Tille, Carters-Tille, (la. It had been in a wreck and had its smokestack torn off. The barrel temporarily answered the purpose very well. The statement of tho Philadelphia Car Service association - shows that 51,049 j cars were handled duriug the month of j January, and that the average detention i of each was 1.51 d,iys;'47,472 cars were j detained less than 43 hours and 0,577 cars over 4iJ hours. Earnings of the coal roads are falling off. The winter in the northwest has ! been so mild that the usual quantities of : i coal were not consumed in the months of November, December and January, ! and at many points tho stock on hand ; ' now will carry them through the winter. ; The new Canadian Paoifio railway i ' bridge at Milford, Manitoba, spanning the Sonris river, has been opened for ; traffic, Tho immense bridge was com- j ! pleted in tho niarvolously short time of j five weeks. The structure is 3,300 feet ; in length, and is on the average 75 feet j j in height. j |