The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-07-04
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

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by death, the other day, and this is the ed
itorial obituary: f.. 5 :.
Death seems to lurk behind every rail
fence and hay stack in this vicinity, and lie
in wait for our prominent aud choicest citi-
zens. To-day we see it, tomorrow we don t..
All! who can tell what day may bring
forth in such blasted country as this !?
| Death has again turned fip-fap and come
down flat-footed in our midst, and snatched
from among us one of the best subscribers
we ever had. He possessed the love, con-
fidence and esteem of all who knew him,
and of some who did not; and, except a
/ slight poker debt to Mr. ----, he did not
owe cent in the world. saf i
once heard a minister say: Suppose,
some cold morning, you should go into
| neighbor's house and find him busyat work
on his Misunderstanding away and ask
what he was up to, and he should reply,
why am trying to remove the frost, but
as fast as get it off one square it comes
on another would you not say: Why,
man, let your windows alone and kindle a
fire, and the frost will soon come OFF, And
have you not seen people who try to break
off their bad habits, one after another, with
out avail? Well they are like the man who
tried to scratch the frost from his windows.
Let the fire of love to God and man kindle
at the altar of prayer, burn in their hearts,
and the bad habits will soon melt away"
To obtain light instantly without the aid
of matches and without the danger of set
ting things on fire, take an oblong phial of
the whitest and clearest glass; put into it q
piece of phosphorus about the size of a pea,
upon which pour some olive Oil, heated to
the boiling point. filling the phial about
one-third full, and then sealthe phial her.
metically. To use it, remove the cork and
allow the air to enter the phial and then
recork it. The whole empty space in the
bottle will then become luminous, and the
light obtained will be equal to that of a
lamp. AS soon as the light grows weak it's
power can be increased by opening the
phial and allowing a fresh supply of air to
enter. In winter it is sometimes necessary
to heat the phial between the hands to. in
crease the fiuidity of the OIL Thus prepa-
red, the phial may be used for six months.
This contrivance is now used by the watch
men of Paris in all magazines where explo-
sive or inf1ammable materials are stored. :.
An old letter of President Lincoln's has
been published for the first time in the
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he was % years of age, and is interesting
chiefly by reason of a description it contains
of the appearance of gang of slaves which
Mr.. Lincoln saw on a steamboat, and which
he afterward declared awakened his first
abolition sentiments. He spoke of them as
chained together like SO many fish upon
a trot-line," and after alluding to the pain
full circumstances pertaining to their un-
happy condition, he added: And yet amid
all the distressing circumstances, as we
would think them, they were the most
cheerful and apparently happy creatures on
board. One whose offense, for which he
had been sold, was an over fondness for his
wife, played the fiddle almost continually,
and the others danced, sung, cracked jokes
and played various games with cards from
day to day. How true it is that sGod tenn
pers the wind to the shorn lamb OF, in
other words. that He renders the worst of
human conditions tolerable,. while He per-
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