The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-05-30


The Brahmins are the original cremation
lists. They have burned their dead these
hundreds of years. The Parsees expose
theirs ON the top of the Tower of Silence,
to be eaten by the vultures who are always
lowering near, waiting for fresh bodies.
The Mulsulmans and lower castles bury
theirs, without coffins. If a Brahmin dies,
his widow must shave her head, wear either
all red or all white, with no ornaments,
must remain single, and do all the drudgery
of the family. The Brahmin women marry
when they are seven or eight years old, and
are often widows at ten.
1t is related of George Clark, the cele-
brated negro minstrel, that, being examined
as witness, he was severely interrogated
by the attorney, who wished to break down
his evidence. I'D ~
"You are in the negro minstrel business,
l believe ?'' inquired the lawyer.
Yes, sir,'' was the prompt reply.
"Isn't that rather low calling ?" de-
manded the attorney. .-
piled the minstrel; "but it is so much better
than my fathers that am rather proud Of
it, - 5-t ,@+,-
"What was your fathers calling?'
"He was lawyer" replied Clark, in a
tone of regret, that put the audience in a
roar. The lawyer let him alone.
In England, it appears, attempts have
been made for some years past by certain
wise-acres to induce the belief that the earth
is a fiat surface; and Mr.. Hampden, who
seems to have been persuaded that it is so,
risked $500 upon the issue of an experiment
in order to test the truth of the assertion.
His offer was taken up by Mr.. A. K. Wal
lace, and arrangements satisfactory to all
parties having been made the experiment
was tried by means of three disks, rising
forty-two feet above the level Of the surface
of a piece of water large enough to show
the curvature, if there were any. The ref
cree decided against Mr.. Hampden, the
central disc rising considerably above the
line formed by the two outer discs, as seen
from one end through selected and ap-
proved telescope. In this simple experiment
the curvature to and fro in six miles to the
extent of about five feet was plainly proved.
The strangest description of hell is that
of Heinrich Heine: "Hell, . he says, sap
peared to me like great town kitchen with
an endlessly long stove on which were
placed three rows of iron pots, and in these
sat the damned and were cooked. In the
third row sat the heather, who, like Jews,
could take no part in salvation, and must
burn forever. l heard one Of the latter, as
square-built, burly devil put fresh Goals
under his kettle, cry out from his pot:
'Spare me! | was once Socrates, the wisest
of mortals. I taught truth and justice,
and sacrificed my life for virtue But the
clumsy, stupid devil went on with his work
and grumbled, sOh, shut up there! All
heathen must burn, and we can't make an
exception for the sake of a single man. "
Highlanders have the habit, when talking
their English, such as it is, of interjecting
the personal pronoun "he" where not re-
quired, such as "The King he has come, ''in-
stead of s''fhe king has come" Often, in
consequence, sentence Or an expression is
rendered sufficiently ludicrous. Thus cler-
gyman opened his discourse: E'My friends,
you will find the subject of discourse, this
afternoon, in the first Epistle general of the
Apostle Peter, chapter 9Th and verse Sth,
in the words, THE devil he goeth about
like q roaring lion, seeking whom he may
devour.' Now, my friends, with your leave,
we will divide the subject of our text, to-
day, into four heads. Firstly. We shall
endeavor to ascertain sWho the devil he
wasp Secondly Where the devil he was;'
and Where the devil he was going p Third
ly. And this is of a personal character
Who the devil he was seeking And
fourtllly and lastly. We shall endeavor to
solve question which has never been solv-
ed yet-sWhat the devil he was roaring
about 2 y l35 H-aa .549a 955s
A prisoner, condemned to solitary confine-
ment, obtained q copy of the Bible, and, by
three years. careful study, obtained the
following facts: a gat
{ The Bible contains 1856, 4S9 letters, 773,-
692 words, 81, 174 verses, 1,1S9 chapters, and
&C books. The word and occurs 49,
times. The word Lord occurs 1855 times.
The word reoerend occurs but once, which
is in the 9th verse of the 111th Psalm. The
middle gsrse is the Sth verse of the 11Sth
Psalm. The 21st verse ofthe 7th chapter of
Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet,
except the letter j. The finest chapter to
read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles. The 10Th chapter of II Kings and
the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike. The
longest verse is the 9th verse Of the 9Th
chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the
35th verse Of the nth chapter of St. John.
The Sth, 18th, 21st and 31st verses of the
107th Psalm are alike. Each verse of the
136th Psalmend alike. There are no words
on names of more than six syllables.
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