The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-06
NEW NoR-WEsTERs.

"A bad ottlook-OnE rooA.
What is pity Cheap charity.
-Blondin is balancing in Bombay.
-Swinburn is as sick as his poetry.
| -" Tichborne " is starving himself.
| The Centennial tune-Old Hundred.
Indianapolis has eighty-two railroads
There are 10000 Spiritualists in Iowa
Senator Jones has $50, 900 worth of car
| riages.
An Inman steamer made the trip in
t3-4days.
-Venison--" Though lost to sight to mem
ory deer"
Chicago has only eleven "heretical ,
ministers.
Tho evening of life brings with it its
lamps--sIoubert.
-Duelling will hereafter be n capital Of
fence in France.
-Barnum's Hippodrome has nearly q
million gas jets.
True religion won't put all the big
Strawberries on top.
They say women and music should nev-
er be dated. Goldsmith.
-Twenty-nine steamers will 'tplough -
Lake Superior this season.
Six years ago Senator Jones of Nevada
was several thousand dollars in debt.
The debt of New York City is now over
one hundred and thirty-six millions.
The total Grange membership in the
United States is now estimated at 1,250, 900.
There is one town in Connecticut that
is not afraid of the measles. It's Haddam.
Minister Bancroft is coming home, and
has purchased the house Of Senator Harlan
in Washington.
Snow in fell New Hampshire on seven
teen days in April to the total amount of
thirty-tiye inches.
A rope thirteen miles inlength has been
manufactured at the Alameda rope factory,
for deep sea soundings
The United States have about seventy
five thousand miles Of telegraph wires, or
double that of any other nation.
Tho Rev. Robert Collyer. of Chicago, is
affeetionately termed "Our Bob," by the
religious daily, the Chicago Times.
"A legal question for the Department of
Justice: What is fraudulent conveyance ?
Answer laundaulet.-TAe Capital.
Beginning of a judges charge in Iowa:
"Gentlemen OF the jury, you must now quit
eating peanuts and attend to the case"
The Territorial warrants of New Mexi-
CO are reported as now selling at ninety
cents on the dollar with an upward tend
ehcy. -.
-" Kind words are wonderful in their
way" says an exchange, "but so far as
&c n
erful influence
The murderer Waltz's brain weighed
more than Horace Greeleys and yet he
didn't know how to read or write. Here
is sumner for phrenology.
Hartford, Conn.,, is getting spiteful in
her prosperity, and thinks the name New
Haven should be written "new haven" as
it is without any capital now.
It's rather remarkable that, while sever
al thousand feet are required to make one
rood, single foot, properly applied, is of
ten sufficient to make one civil.
Spectators in mining shares are now
cheering themselves ND by intoning the in
teFregntory, Should old acquaintance be
forgot, and never be brought to mine %
The production of wool in the United
States during the past four years was: In
1870, 125, 900, 900 pounds; in 1871, 112, 500
600 pounds; in 1872, 135, 900, 600 pounds: in
1878, 14S, 900, 900 pounds.
In San Francisco. Judge Louderbach
has Just fined man $50 for insulting an
editor. This goes to show that, howev-
er loud you may talk to a California jour
nalist, lie can always talk louder back.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily Nens says that one of the principal
officials of the Ministry of Justice has been
sent to London OH special Mission to de-
mand the extradition of NJ. Rochesort.
The Toledo Blade wants to know g why
some one does not get up fund for the
demented capital removers at St. Louis?
They are as much objects of pity and char
ity as the sufferers from the inundation.''
"A Vermont preacher recently asked his
to pray for the editor of the
local paper. The editor had his revenge by
sending in to the preachers bill for thirteen
years subscription and large amount of
advertising.
1T is decided that President VIII
son viii 60 neither to California nor to
Europe. Still his health is too precalious
for steady work, and he will occupy the
coming summer and fall in short trips and
0Jnef means Oh fecfeatiQn.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana of the New York
Sun, has lately purchased an island, on
Long Island Sound, near Glen Cove. 1t is
a beautiful domain, consisting of forty acres.
and is in high state of cultivation, con-
tanning conservatories and dfowcr-gardens in
luxurious profusion.
"A valuable work has been lost to the
world by an extraordinary accident. Prof.
Bunsen, of Ieidleburg. the famous chemist,
has been engaged for four years preparing
q new book, and its appearance was looked
forward to with great interest by the scien-
tific world. The professor lately, in start
ing for a short walk, left the manuscript of
his new book, both the rough copy and
notes and copy for the printer, lying on his
desk. On his return he found both sets of
papers, with some others, i'm flames, and
before he could put out the fire they were
burned to ashes. Not leaf has been left.
1t appears that some lucifer matches; lying
about the desk were ignited by the sun and
set fire to the valuable manuscripts.
"A great variety of articles, including
grain bags, wagon covers, floor covers, ropes,
sails, &C., are made in Russia from the in
ner bark of the bass wood or linden tree, Il
million trees being destroyed annually in
the manufacture, and the value of the arti-
cles produced amounting to So, 400, ,0O0 The
bark is collected by the peasants in May
Or June, when the ascent Of the sap renders
peeling easy. That of the lower part Of the
trunk, generally employed for roofing, is
obtained in pieces about 81 by 81 feet, and
is warmed and pressed to prevent its curl
ing. That of the upper part of the trunk
and of the branches is tied in lunches and
'otted under water until September, when
'hin, delicate strips, suitable FOR weaving
nto mating, and varying in weight accord
ng to the use to be made of it.
Lynch Law in Idaho.
From the Boise World May q