The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-04-01

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i, Butler in his ..pysk.e ds5 dianFtr. writ
ten in 1899, says: ut h uneseeqNse's iead
unxhole,qms IN a month, that hayel not ~
r n tieir name 10 Is q oysttssg4r is.ssi ~ ,
The se,ine, ssTo Leave % eeqns ,Unt
tidiiased,s naSj 6dssoeyd y rs'.po6.s q ths
Delphic oracle Efiv aah 70 fonyessees =. NJ
bsse nsausof andskkis t,sa1ase 6slied bT
one 1T sEn1ssn0supGab On Ne ade,d aof
Ra1te& Il hrg E.;a:2 rc,..at .3zs -, -.-
EVERY Nan the AsrbiteeA of8hs ew1
|, Fortune. pris asezibed 70 Appias Claudtus
C0sua, the earliest Roman wptter whose
name has come down TO ~. In b. C.SfA
he began the celebgated Appian WAY from
Rome 70 Capds." =" 5....,L.s,,...
OF the very common saying, "Where ne
Shoe Pinches," Plutarch relates the story
Of I k1mani beink divorced from hip vita
Thiss pesson beinE highly blamed ny bic
friends, who demanded, 'Awss she NOT
shaste. w,s shs not lfair!'' holding cut his
sioe; asksd him whether it was not new md
we'll made, "Yst," sdded he, gg''nons of
Yo1 can tell whereit pinches ne"oL"
III. The sayisg, when ss Rome do - the
Romans do y mid to have arisen In this
wise. st. .Augustip was in the habit OF
dining upon Saturday Is on Sunday; but
being puzzled with the different practices
then prevailing for they had begun 70 fast
at Rome on Saturday-he consulted St. Am
'bfose On the subject. Now, q Milan they
did not fast on Saturday, but the answer Of
the Milan Saint 'was '.when I am here I do
not fast on Saturday; when ct Rome I do
fast on Saturday, = hs.',..,' f4
% The Spectator says that Tobias Hobson
was the first man N England that let out
hackney horses. When q man came for .
horse he wasleda into The stable where there
wss : great choice but 10 obliged him to
take the Aoeseawhich stood nearest the star
bic door; 90 that every customer w. alike
well served; according to his chance, from
whence 1t became !prove1b, whsn. what
ought to DO your election was forced upon
you to say .'Hobson's choice" ..n4... - .
Hume, in history Of, England, aseEibes to
William Of Orange the saying ode in the
last ditch" When Buckingham urged the
inevitable destruction which hung over the
United Provinces, and asked him whether
he did not see that the commonwealth was
ruined, he replied, '.There is one certain
means by which I can be sure never to see
my country's ruin-1 viii die in the last
ditch. " ......., ,.,...
The expression "steal my Thunder" il
familiar, and Disraeli accounts for It. The
actors refused 70 perform one Of John Den.
MS tragedies to empty houses, but they re-:
tained some excellent thunder which Den.
mis- had invented, and rolled one night when
Dennis was in the pit, and It was applaudcd.
Suddenly starting up. he cried to the audi
encc: by G.. they Won't oct my tragedy,
but they steal my thunder" " =.
' A speaker at the recent Muir dinner in
this. city, quoted the lines, mo pent up
Utica contracts your power" etc, and a.
czibed them to Pope, wl.ereupon q Chicago
paper took the trouble to criticise tho gen.
tleman's, knowledge of authors. The lines
referred to, were written by Jonathan n.
Scwcll, m American, about the beginning
of the present century, and are to be found
in IN epilogue to Cato" forthe Row street
theatre, Portsmouth, n. II. .. ~, ,.,..z :
That celebrated modern political saying
that ITO the victors belong the spoils, !" was
first made by VIM. L: Ma roy, Of New, York,
III q speech in the United States Senate in
January, 1882 First in var, first in
peace, ana first in the hearts Of his country,
men, !" was written BY Henry Lee, ia reso,u-
tions presented to the House Of Representa-.
tives, on the death of Washington, in 1870.
+. A .CI1cuxLocuTIoN OFFICE AT WASH.
.IxaroN-THE TwBxTY-oHE STRANDS or
RED TAPE--The "circumlocution" office
practice prevails In W Arlington to marked
extent, asnarrated in the snnexed statement
made by Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, in the
House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Mr.: Beck said that in collecting . judgment
of the Court of Claims = lawyer had to 60
through the following devious ways:
Fifst-Wcnt to the Chief Clerk of The
First Auditor; he aiated the account, and
computed the intcresf. .oJ 7
-" second-Went 70 another Clerk in the
same office, who copied and numbered The
account. .i....... ....t..s.. .a
FOurth-Wsnt to the Chief Clerk of the
First Comptroller, who verified the account,
and the computation Of interest u - =.
:. Fifth-Wsnt II the Nr.t Comptroller,
who signed ,I9r.Er
Sixth-Went back to No. 3. who again
verified &c. 1a.3 Il = 81. rrs5"t - = r. : /,
.aeyeath-Hent n -ths .RagistaGst, Cassk,
who copied and FaGistered It, tf .-r.s-. !
lEisbth-Weht y the Deputy Rsgster,
who signed It avs1a es ~ .4as''' ID !
., Nihth- Went to the Warrant CLARK, and
obtained Z warrant .-is n so - 1sfua /
ltd Tensh-Wsnt 70 IL. West, the Chief
Clerk, who signed It ae.5 .ss -: ti'i'I ~,