The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-01-27

Size u our Senators.
The Warrington correspondent Of the
Milwaukee 6sstink writes: One cannot
help recalling the chronological dictum-
that other things being equal, size 10 the
measure Of power" when looking on the
Senate assembled There il good deal of
head here, and prorortienally . larger
amount Of belly also. Small men are by
contrast at . great disadvantage. Look over
the outer circle to the left of the Vice Pres
ident - IN illustration. There are no
small men in 1t. though some are not fat
ones, yet the lean men. however largo of
brain are made to look small by contrast.
There 10 Hamilton and Flanagan, OF Tex.
~, "lean and hungry kline" tall and lank,
men Of the Cassius stripe. Next comes
your goodly proportioned Senator, both
physically and mentally, Mathew Il. Car
penter, one Of the strongest men In the
Chamber. Scott, Of Pennsylvania, sits next
to him-s man OF moderate stature and
weight Rice, Of Arksnsas, long-headed
and long limbed fellows; his colleague 10
by his side, Mcdonald, young but weighty
IN avoirdupois and sagacity; then Ramsey,
handsome and stout, TANKS Chandler, home.
ly, coarse, large In frame, and heavy in aesh.
Howard, Nye, Sumner, three heavy weights,
cit side by side, sustained by Kellogg and
Yates, who complete the row. Of the If
teen Senators named, there is not one weigh
ing less than 100 pounds. and all but three
or four will acknowledge 200 and upwards.
So size in body and head does really give
evidence of power. In the House there 70
not 90 marked distinction. The represen-
tatives will average better, and there are
some little men who hold large places; abil-
ity, not experience, perhaps, ID - great.
LITTLE Things and Great Res,slts.
A gnat choked Pope Adrian to death,
which caused wonderful changes in the m.
ton and history of the whole world.
A counsellor of Rome Was strangled by
hair in the milk he drank. This event
caused the most serious results of anything
that ever transpired in his family. (Espe.
cially to himl.
Anacfron, one Of the lyric poets, ID said
to have lost his life by swallowing the skin
of rsisin.
A destructive war between France and
England was occasioned by quarrel be.
tween two boy princes.
The ''grasshopper war;" which took
place about the time the Pilgrims came to
New England in the Mayaower, between
two Indian tribes, was brought about in
this way:
An Indian woman, with her little son,
went to visit friend belonging to another
tribe. The little fellow caught grashop-
per on the road, and carried it with him.
A lad from the other tEibe wanted it, but b
refused to give 1t up. A quarrel ensued,
which soon drew the fathers and msthers
into the dispute, and ere Ing the chiefs
were engaged in war which nearly extcr-
minated each tribe.
Several centuries ago, some soldiers of
Modcna carried away bucket from pub
lie we'll at Bologna, which WAS the cause of
long war; and the King Of Sardinia was
imprizonsd for twenty-five years, where he
died.
An English and . French vessel had
quarrel about which should be supplied first
from certain well of water, which induced
. VA that cost I 900 lives.
The great philosopher, Newton, saw .
child playing with soap bubbles, which led
him to his most important discoveries in op.
tical iustrumentA
Stephen Montgolher saw shirt waving
when hung before the DIRE, from which he
inst conceived the idea of balloon.
When Galileo was in the Metropolitan
temple of Pera, hs observed the oscillations
Of lamp and this was the first conception
of correct method of measuring time.
The introduction Of the telescope 10 due
to = little boy playing with spectacle glasses.
The art Of printiEg was sasgested by .
man cutting the letters Of his name ON the
bark Of tres and impressing them on ps.
per.
Littls drops 4 watsI. little szains Il sa,A,
- 0oko ma8DV Oooano ana u 0ooosoo0e Ion0
Ages are made up Of momsnts, fountains
Of drops. aud human character Of little
words and little actions.
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A man By the name Of Cooper, living at
Richmond, In this State, found IN cid boat
hulk on the sand bss, aeasly opposite Park.
nlle, in the xissouririvsr. From inquiries, ,hs
learned this boat had sunk there In the fall
Of 1855, though 10 could not lind ont what
her name WA A. pant Of the hull was In
= sfafa a nreaesvnfion. MR. Cnonar received