The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-03-10
PARAGRAPHS.

ed ny gentleman Ct ONO, VINO stoIc 'Ho
black gown Of on Episcopal minister 10
wear Us masquerade costume"
Without a Sstolc" the gown is not or,ho.
dox.
The expenses Of our wars with indians
since the beginning Of the century amount
to more than S400. .O0o, COO; the amount OF
money spent in attempts to educate them
has been eight millions.
A new Territory. to be called Chippewa,
is proposed to bc laid off from the present
Territory of Dakota. l. vii! comprise thas
portion of Dakota, lying between It's north
ern boundary the 49,h parallel, being
bounded on the cast by State Of Minnesota,
and on the west by Montana Territory.
A bill is now before tho House Of Repre-.
sentatives providing for the organization
and government of this new Territory.
A short time ago, the Fairfield Uowa)
Ledger, by some mistake, was sent to tho
Bloomfield Uowa) Democrat with hut one
side printed. The DemocratpTiatcd its cdi.
ton on tho other side, by way OF a joke,
and sent it itback-radical Republican on ono
side and intensely Democratic Oh the other.
When Horace Greeley Travelled N Europe.
he was impressed with the Yaluc OF ;iraiu'
age, ard Immediately got ~ amtj:"el'eal
agricultural proverb to the c!Iec. 'Nat #
man didn't drain his farm, lis farm would
d:ain him. Then Horace went TO Lon
hardy, where lie Witnessed the fruc.ifyins
influence Of irrigation by means Of dams;
whereupon lie added another troverb to his
store of terse sayings: IF man dom: dam
his farm, his farm will d-n him"
Here is what the celebrated Major Jack
Downing said scvcra! years ago On fighting:
I'm the matter Of fighting, there is one
thing always keep my eyes on, and l
found General Jackson Of the same wey Vf
thinking, and that is, to depend less on
folks who say they arc ready to she'd the
las! drop of their blood, than on folks who
are ready to shed the first drop"
4 Nora, ian missionary, after forty years
work in Greenland, reports: In al Green.
land there is bvt one station in the neigh.
borhood Of which, there are heather. With
this exception, all the Grccn!ande:s now
profess Christianity" Whs. shall we do
with TIE popular missionary hymn, From
Grecnland's icy mlounlairs?'
Greenland got the news OF aprcbable out.
break of hostilties between Franco and
Prussia by the visit Of IN American ship,
September 10. and, unless by accident, will
hear nothing further Of the war until next
summer.
The Illinois savaas nrc discussing COW.
milking, some fayorirg the fore and aft and
| others tho ''diagora" style. One patriarch
| believes that ''evcry man should be left free
TO milk according to the dictates of his own
| onsciencc"-whicl is sensible conclusion.
An engineer in the employ Of the Turks
ish government has planned railway tun.
| mel made in sections, to be submerged
thirty. four feet below the surface Of the
water, and moorcd to the bottom by chain
cables. He proposes to sink it across til,
Bosphorus, and thus connect Europe and
Asia by railway.
For ways that are obscure and tricks that
| are calculated to take the conceit out Of tho
nineteenth century, the early Egyptians
were peculiar. 1t is now asccr!aincd that
carbolic acid, our latest discovery in med;.
cal chemistry, was used in tho processes
employed to emba!m and preserve tho mum.
| mics.
Cincinnati does not seem 10 he very pIb.
lin fnI St,n. 10 ,s,i
much, and Samuel N. Pike. formerly Of
that city, agreed to build superb house,
to cost 81 GOO, Geo, if the citizens would
subscribe half the sum. Two citizens put
their names down for $500 each, and there
the matter ended. Mr.. Pike does not ap.
pear to have Leen encouraged to begin tho
work.
In one of the London churches St. Mar.
tin'sin-thc- Field-arc buried, side by side,
Nell Gwynn, Jack Sheppard, George Far
quhar, and, VIC think, Sara! S:ddous Few
things could moro clearly illustrate the
equality Of death than that Charles lis "a.
voritc mistress, the most eminent actress Of
her time, the notorious burglar, and tho
fashionable playwright, should sleep their
last sleep in the same bed
Internal Revenue statistics show that 400
grain and eight molasscs distillc.ics were
in operation on February I, 1870, producing
273, ,701 gallons Of spirits daily. Tho sta
tistics OH February /, 1871, show that ESQ
grain and six molasscs dis.illcrics were in
operation, producing 1886, ,l46 gallons Of
spirits daily. Forty.nine dis,illcries re-
sumcd operations during the month Of Jan.
uary.
The Rev. Dr. Prime, who has recently re.
turned from his foreign tour. furnishes this
amusing incident of the trip:
They have strange chamhcrnaids q.
Shepherds Hotel in Cairo. The one who
waited in our room, and attended to NIL the
various duties Of the calling, even to n,a.
king beds, was French gentleman, dressed
as If for dinner party (whi.c vest and
dress coat), and having the air of y refined
and educated gentleman. ltwas really en-.
barrassing to accept his services in such o
capacity. Onc Of the ladies, on arriving ut