The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-12-18
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Cochran, Governor elect of Delaware,
cultivates 60, 900 peach trees.
Life is tragedy to him who feels and
comedy to him who thinks.
France has still to feed 25, 900 men who
fought under the first Napoleon.
The wine yield Of California this year
is estimated at 10000, 900 gallons.
There are at present /, ,345 convicts in
the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet.
New silver coins are proposed of the
value of an eighth and fifth of dollar.
The Archbishop of Paris has forbidden
the clergy to address letters to the journals.
An Iowa justice the other day accepted
tgn t,g n bushels of the pungent onion as alnar-
-Copernicus, the discoverer Of the true
system of astronomy, never saw the planet
Mercury.
Sims Reeves is to receive $115, 900 for
his one hundred concerts in this country
next year.
king Victor Emmanuel has made
Verdi, the composer, a member of the
italian Senate.
seven persons by the name of Williams
will strive to catch the Speakers eye in the
new Congress.
Eastern papers are advising the Rev.
Mr.. Glendenning to come West and grow
up with tree.
"A man who wanted to be a minister
said he believed he had been called to labor
in "the Lords banyard.'
The race is not always won by the
strong. Were it so, the onion would be a
head instead Of the cabbage.
There are now 2,O2S national banks in
this country, having an aggregate circula-
ton of S351, 927, 246 in bank notes.
A German writer complaining of the
difficulties in the pronunciation of the Eng
lish language. cites the word " Boz, (which
he says is pronounced Chickens"
There is still another point in favor of
narrow-gauge railroads. When the loco
motive runs over a man two thirds of the
body is left in good good state for identifi-
cation
1t is told Of Lord Norbury that, when
passing sentence Of death upon man for
stealing watch, he said to the culprit:
"My good fellow,you made grasp at time,
but caught eternity
An Iowa father, who has succeeded in
raising seventeen of the worst children i'll
his neighborhood, says he is bound to have
a representative in Heaven if it takes sew
enteen more.
Said a Missouri preacher: "There's
powerful sight of giggling back there in the
cor.er, and it's got to be stopped or the
Lord will delegate me to open the door and
throw some one outp' It was stopped.
An Exeter, Mass, lawyer wrote man
in the country. The man read the contents
Of the letter, but could not read the sigma
ture. So he answered the letter, cut off the
lawyear's signature, and, pasting it on the
envelope for superscription, forYarded it to
Exeter.
A weekly paper in Illinois describes the
editor of the other paper as ga blear-eyed
hitching post, a goat-faced gunny sack, q
wart-eared bunghole for q cider barrel, and
a plaster cast for the poop-deck of a canal
boat" There must have been dearth Of
society news that week.
The Oregon Legislature has passed
bill enabling any person who loses money
at gambling to recover double the amount
so lost. The result i S, says the Richmond
Enquirer, that poker players deal the worst
possible hands to themselves and four aces
to their opponent.
The Britishers are casting an eighty
ton gun to carry 1600-pound shot ten
miles! A charge of 800 pounds of powder
will be required. The gun is to be of steel,
twenty-seven feet long, six feet in diamter,
and the trunnion sixteen inches bore. This
formidable gun is to be completed next
June.
Some of the residents of Rome are su-
perstitious. There are in the cathedral as
many inches as there have been Popes. A
statue of the Popes that have died have been
placed in the inches, and the only one va
can't is the one to be filled by statue of
Plus TX at his decease. Many Catholics
think the present Pope will be the last one
and the end of the world will come after his
death. Some leading prelates ofthe Church,
it is said, are of the same opinion.
According to an English journal, the
difficulty of removing hard putty from q
window sash can be obviated with great
readiness by simply applying piece of
heated metal, such as a soldering-iron or
other heated implement. When heated
(but not red-hot) the iron is to be passed
slowly over the putty, thereby rendering the
latter so soft that it will part from the
wood without any trouble.
A patent has recently been taken out in
France for the preparation of leather from
tripe, intestines and other animal men,
branes. These are soaked in milk of lime
willie still fresh, then washed in water,
and finally immersed in a paste made OF
starch and the white of an egg. The sub
stance thus formed is to be used for glove
making, ETC., and NAV be tanned or curried.
The tlestitution in Nebraska from the
ravages of the grasshoppers extends, it is
said to twenty thousand people, and Kansas
has nearly forty thousand shorn of theiI
supplies by clouds of grasshoppers. Kan
4sas, however, has still comparatively an
abundance of corn, wheat and bacon, while
Nebraska, with her much smaller popula-
tion, is short and calls for help for her
thousands of industrious people on the
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