The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-08-13
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.

"A stroke Of lightning tore an Atlanta
(Ga.) Bible to rags, the other day.
1t is estimated that there are fourteen
millions of Methodists in the world.
The right sort of a thing to have dur
ing the hot weather-A cool thousand oi
two.
these days is that carried on through .
straw.
A Santa Barbara (Cal.) man has a rose
sixteen and three-quarters inches in circnm'
ference.
Hicks says that the more fuss is made
about the Keely motor, the remoter seems
the end of steam.
One of Frank Blair's sons has accepted
a position with mercantile firm in Bos-
ton. The General died poor.
The Postmaster General has com,
meneed suit against the bondsmen of over
fortv failing mail contractors.
There is no one you may meet in this
busy world who will look you SO squarely
and frankly in the face as a barber
A " Bonanza of Health y is what they
call new sulphur spring reached by an
artesian boring at ITopkinsville, Ky.
the Beecher-Titon trial verbatim re-
port makes three volumes of 2, $50 pages,
containing over three million words.
The millennium has begun in Nineland.
Messrs. lands and Carruth have shaken
hands and agreed to forgive and forget.
VIM. B. Astor. large, round-shouldered,
communicating, dressed in shabby blue,
is worth only forty-five millions Of dol
lars
1T is great comfort to bald headed men
in these led-hot star spangled centennial
days. to reflect that the eagle too. is bald
headed.
And aow the reaper reapeth, the NOW
er moweth. and the busy little bumble-bee
getteth up the busy granger's tronsers, leg
and bumbleth.
The Scotia, the last side wheeler Of the
Cunar1 line, has been withdrawn, as too
expensive aud too easily disordered to be
worth keeping.
There are forty-one American firms
who are getting rich by making better ''im-
ported - liquors and wines than can be
made in Europe.
Last years report Of the circulation of
the Christian Usian was 119, 900 this year
rs. 600. Of the Tndependeaf. last year, -
900; this year, ;5. 900.
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey were in
London four months, and held two hundred
and eighty-fiye meetings, withan estimated
attendance Of l,1iJa, 900 persons
John Greenleaf Whittier was lately
toasted at London dinner as theeauthor of
"Tle Heather Chinee" That's as good
as "a quail on trust.
Bret Harte is writing a play. Perhaps
you have heard that before, but it is a re-
liable item vixen news is scarce-next best
to the Pope's health item.
-''T think have seen you before, sir.
Are you not Owen Smith? ooh, yes, I'm
OWN Smith. and OWN Jones, and owin'
Brown, and OWN everybody.
oh, bury me not IN hewild wood
Oh, bury me not in the sea
Bnt lay me down in a cast iron vault
And plug mp the hole for the key.
Fulton Times.
Fulton Of the American rifle team, is
said to be a Coloradan and was once the
foreman Of q newspaper. That accounts
for his being so handy with shooting
stick
---Gen. Garfield has undergone a severe
surgical operation, and will be confined to
his bed in Washington for several weeks
longer. He will he unable to take part in
the fall campaign.
The light at Atlantic City can be seen
from the deck of Il vessel nineteen miles
out at sea, while that Of the Cape May
Light House can easily be distinguished III
clear weather "a distance of forty three
miles.
We thought the Ohio the best abused
river in the country, but here is the Bur
lington Hagkege, which says that the 80, O0l
shad, recently put into the Des Moines
river, have to be sprinkled three times day
to keep them alive.
An ordinary lighthouse where oil is
used gives an Illuminating power equal to
about 200 candles. An electric light in
England flashes over The Mouth sea it's con-
densed beams, each of which is more than
an equivalent to the combined light of 800,
900 candles.
"A newly arrived family was lately gaz,
ing at a shop window in Roekport, illinois
Little girl--.sOh, mamma, is that EN- p
Mamma" No. my child, that is howl =
Father" Nc, my wife and daughter, thai
is neither en- or howl, but it is heagle
the hemblena Of this blarsted country =
Mother Sbipton who wrote execrablt
verses but admirable prophesy, four hun
dred years ago, who predicted telegraphy
steam, iron-clads, tunnels, balloons, ant
even the Keely motor, also asserted tina
the world would end in 1881, six year
hence.
--Tachygraphy is a hard word to spell
but spelling would be a good deal easier
il photography were the fashion. At
meeting of the Boston Tach ygraphie So
ciety recently, it was shown that a rapit
penman can write only 30 words in a min
ute, that in SO doing his pen travels one rod
and in 81 hours it goes q mile.
They have just finished, at South Bos
ton, Mass, the largest breech- loading rifle,
cannon in the world. tissteel lined, weigh
81, $50 pounds, is twelve inches calibre, eaI
ries six hundred pound shot, and require
a charge of seventy pounds of powder. II i
destined for Sandy Hook
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