The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-02-21
TOPICS OF TEE TIMES.

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fornia They range in size from AZ (san
Francisco) to 2s,4 ,47s (san Bernardino)
square miles: and in population, by the GEN.
sus of 1870, $50 TO $4,000, Mono being the
least and San Francisco the most populous.
The average area is 5,7s5 square miles,
which is nearly twice the size Of Delaware.
Their average population is about 11,0O0.
San Bernardino is larger than West Virginia.
It is worth while to know how to stop
the bleeding from the nose when it becomes
excessive. IF the finger is pressed firmly
upon the little artery that supplies the blood
to the side of the face affected, the result is
accomplished. The two small arteries
branching up from the main arteries on
each side of the neck, and passing over the
outside of the jawbone, supply tias face
with blood. II the nose bleed from the
right nostril, for example, pass tile finger
along the edge of the right jaw till the beat
ing of the artery is felt Press hard upon
it, and the bleeding viii cease. Continue
the pressure five minutes, until the ruptured
vessels in the nose have time to contract.
The editor of the Nation, whose Western
travels have never extended further West
than Cincinnati, and whose experience in
Western political movements is confined to
the part he took trying to engineer the
o1,l .,,
natl, has expressed the opinion that the
farmers movement has completely failed.
And the same week the Nation expressed
this opinion the New York Post warned the
politicians that the movement was rapidly
gaining strength and momentum, and that
in time it would sweep away all opposition.
There is a great deal more in the farmers
movement than is dreamt of in the philos-
ophy of our Eastern editorial brethren
Missouri Democrat.
The American university world is in a
futter. 1t is affirmed that the gambling
fraternity is about to swoop down upon the
lamb-like seekers after diplomas and alma
matters and deprive them Of their spare
cash and of their regulations as associates
with none but gentlemen. The occasion of
all this agony is that majority of the
members of the College Rowing Association
have voted to hold their next annual regat-
ia, at Saratoga, N. Y, instead of among
the snags and shoals of Massachusetts wa
ters. 1t is conceded that Saratoga Lake
affords by far the best straight-away course,
and that the accommodations for guests
there are unexcelled. But these advan-
tages count as naught against the argument
that because John Morrisey has gambling
house at Saratoga the intercollegiate re-
gatta should be held elsewhere. It is fear
ed that the crews and their friends will be
preyed upon by those vultures, and that the
virtuous instincts of the students will not
be strong enough to resist the blandish-
ments Of Mr.. Morrisey and his band of per-
suasive reprobates.
At this season, when buckwheat cakes
constitute part of almost every breakfast,
the announcement that the syrup whero-
with we have been won't to baptise them is
delusive adulteration, cannot but produce
dismay A New York grand jury, after
listening to the testimony Of reputable ex-
perts, has made a presentment against the
sugar refiners and syrup manufacturers. 1t
appears that the golden drips the most
priced are the most adulterated, and that
what we have believed to be the quintes-
sence of saccharine matter is, after all, a
combination of salts of iron, muriate of tin,
glucose, corn starch, sulphuric acid and su-
gar. In fact it has been limited that if our
iron ore supply should fall short that blast
furnaces could then use molasses in its stead;
and that if our tin mines should fail we
could supply the deficiency by boiling down
our most delicious straw-colored syrups.
Much of the agitation has arisen by reason
of a lady dropping a little syrup into cup
of tea, which Immediately became as black
as ink. She thought an attempt was made
to poison her, and straightway complained.
It appeared that her alarm was caused by
the manufacturer having added little more
Of the salts Of iron than usual in that par
ticular syrup.