The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-04-14
NEW NORTH. WEST.
DEER LODGE CITY, FRIDAY. APRIL II


Things V'orth Kmoscln0.
In 1862, the Governor of Massachusetts,
Sir Henry Vnne. AN sristocratic Puritan. Al
auste,c as saint, and 10 ambitious 40 Ma.
pcleon WAS hanged for high treason.
In 1863 the Province of South Carolina
was erected, with Q free conscience clause
In its charter.
In 1854, Nova CassOva, or New Jersey,
was settled by Lord Barkly and followers.
In 1913. New York and New Jersey, then
belonging 10 the English, were taken by
the Dutch; one year after they were rcsto.
red by treaty.
In 1855. the settlement of Pennsylvania
wes commenced Ivy William Penn.
The PcrsiaIs gave name to every day
Of the month. the same rs we do OF the
week.
April is so called from Apcrit. the spring
Ten beats of healthy pulse are equal to
nine seconds of time.
The first writer who used algebraic signs
was Nurcmbcrger, named Stifclius, In
1914.
The least friction ia found In polished
iron ind brass.
A man five feet six inches high, on level
ground. or on the sea shore, can be seen
about three miles distant.
Black rats nre tanned in Germany and
have bells hung about their necks. They
drive away other rats.
The Angora cat has one eye blue and the
other yellow.
The pip in poultry Is disease that pro.
duccs thin film under the tongue.
Pcrfctlcy white cats arc deaf.
A horse sleeps while standing.
The bones of birds are hollow, and nllcd
with air instead Of marrow.
Fish and birds can see through the ntcti'
tating membrane that they draw over their
eyes to screen them from the sun.
A louise lays sixty eggs or nIts III SIX days,
and matches them in six more.
A flea. grasshOpper, and locust jump TWO
hundred times their length, IN the ratio OF
Q quarter of mile to 4 man.
In the migration of birds. the males ar.
rive several days in advance of tho females.
Hair las been successfully transplanted
from ono part OF the body to another.
The atoms composing tho ''human form
divine" arc supposed TO undergo on entire
change every forty days
The pulscof children goes double 40 quick
o in a person of sixty-tLe one, one hun.
drcd and twenty 10 the minute. the other,
sixty.
Cascade roots arc made into bread In
Brazil, and the starch is our tapi0ca.
Wheat and barley grow more in the day
time than night.
Hops cntwne to tho left and Convulvus
20 the right.
Deciduous trees are those whose leaves
wilhcr and fall once year, in contrast with
evergreen.
Extract Of lettuce Is sure cure for
coughs. and an effective scdativc
Galcna IL the native suiphuret of lead,
and contains anthony. silver and zinc.
Mount A,hos. in Macedonia. is . mile
high. 1t has twenty four Greek monster.
les. with six thousand monks.
The metals retaining heat the longest ore
In their order, brass, copper, iron, tin and
lead.
Quicksilver freezes at 80" below zero.
Ether ut 80.
A poker laid over fire concentrates the
heat of the passing smoke, and increases
tho drauglit through the fire.
Frost goes downward. heat upward.
Eggs arc Matched at 1Ois of heat
Bell metal is three parts copper and one
Of tin.
The first tragedy written In America wss
by Benjamin Coleman. while u student 1t
Harvard. 1t was entitled Gustsvus Vasa,
and was enacted ut . regular commence
ment of the college. Coleman afterwards
Occamc II Uo'cu HoSlOn ulVINc
PENIS charter was dated March 4th. 1881.
and his FIRST colony comprised five hundred
souls.
The Greeks and Romans had no standing |
armies in the time Of peace. In the time Of |
war every citizen was u soldier.
The Romalx.lay on couches at their meals |
resting Oh their left arms and eating with
the right. The sexes ate separately.
William the COnQuerOr was descended
from Rollo the Danish pirate in the seventh
degree.
Fahrenheit, who invented tho Thermom. |
cter in 1850. was Dantzic merchant.
The report of n gun is heard before the |
word fire"
Echoes cannot be heard in less distance |
than forty.sevcn feet. TO distinguish syl- |
tables, 1t requires one hundred and sixty-0ne |
feet for each syllable.
A bell in water produces sound like two |
knives struck together.
In the Arctic regions you can converse |
mile distant.