The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-08
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.

jeff Davis is seventy years old and
! happy. a''' '' ''5'
-Rochefort's Laaterne has suspended for
want of readers.
\ Vice President Wilson is now. known
as the energetic invalid. II
The British Government paid out last
year s., 4o3, 575 in pensions. Faas as
1T costs Canada So apiece perannum to
board Indians 1t costs the United States
over $40. 8sssa
Joshua stopped the Sun, but Dana
didn't care then. He wasn't running IL at
that time. IS sA.'@
Clemens forthcoming book is to bear
the title, ssMark Twain's Sketches, New
and Old"
If fies had to sell store butter for a liv-
ing they wouldn't take as much interest in
it as they do. .....
Cape Colony, Africa, has 300 miles of
railway in course of construction at q cost
of $4,000, 900. .ss...
Some folks think that all good Ameri-
cans when they die 60 to Paris, but we be-
lieve they 60 to Worms.
S. B. Perkins is the name of the dele
gate elect from New Mexico. These Per-
kinses seem to be in luck.
-s' Fusil oil " is the last pun on 'few so
loyal" and the man who invented it lives
to suffer for his transgressions.
"A Danbury hen desiring to so away,
the next day on a visit, laid two perfect
eggs, one within the other, Friday.
4 Professor Goodwin Smith, of Cornell
University, has been married to Mrs. Boil
Canada.
Chicago has eighteen steam elevators
with combined capacity of 10, $50, 900
bushels. They cost, with the land on
which they rest, SG,00o,000.
1t is now "Sartain" that the art de-
partment of the Centennial Exposition will
be well managed. The well known artist
of that name is the chief Of this depart
| ment. 4-
President Johnson had no insurance
upon his life. When he was in the White
House he was Offered policies gratis by en-
terprising companies but promptly de-
clined them.
The length of deep sea cables that have
been made and laid is now 10000 miles.
The worlds telegraphic lines extend over
400, 900 miles, and there are 160 900 miles
of railroads.
| ten. Sherman contradets the report
! that he is going to get out revised edition
of his =" Memoirs" lie says d few errors
| in names will be corrected in the next e:1i-
| tion, but aside from that no alterations win
| be made.
| There are seven generals, five colonels
and one Judge in the field as candidates for
| Governor of Georgia. This, of course,
does not include the majors and captains
| that are holding back to manipulate the
| State Convention
| The largest pocket of gold ever found
| in Nova Scotia has been lately struck in the
| Oldham district, the contents vaguely esti-
mated to be worth betweeen one and two
thousand dollars.
-'' What kind of man is Squire Sim
mons, anyway?" "Well, you've seen
| them snow-storms along in winter, when
there's good deal of wind but not much
sleighinga That's the sort he is.
Herr Krupp, the Prussian cannon manu-
| facturer, IS making experiments to prove
| that the concentration of several guns on
one spot in the side Of cuirassed ship and
| their simultaneous discharge quadruples
the destructive power of the guns. The
guns are discharged by electricity, and the
experiments are proving highly successful.
Sir John Hawksllaw recently presented
some elaborate statistics Ill respect to rail-
road accidents, and stated that there is only
miles travelled or that, on an average, a
person may travel 100000 miles each year
| for forty years, and the chances were
slightly in favor of. his not receiving the
least injury.
A proposition to bury the bodies of
| President jackson, Polk and johnson in
the Capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn. /
and to have the State erect over them
costly monument, has been frustrated at its
outset by the discovery of clause in the
will of President Polk ordering that his
body, with that Of his wife, shall remain in
their graves on the Polk homestead.
| A. T. Stewart will espend 100000 on
the Grand Hotel, in Saratoga, before its re-
opening next year.. 1t costs something to
| officer this hotel The head cook, giant
| in size, receives Sc, 500 for the season, or at
I the rate of $1,000a month"; yet it is not
considered large salary. He has thirty
two. cooks and assistants under him, and is
Irresponsible only to the steward, who is au-
I toerat over two hundred and twelve wait
ers, fifty laundry women, thirty-two cooks
| and assistants, and O constabulary of store
keepers, contractors for supplies, and rum
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Goldsmith Maid will probably be with
drawn from the turf at once, and she re-
i tires with all the honors. A delay in retir-
/ ing her would undoubtedly subject her to
/ defeats which she doessnot deserve. 1t is
certain that she can never equal her best
time, and her owner would do himself no
credit by snbjeeting her to the chances Of
defeat by younger horses, however much
money he might MAKE. Blood viii tell, but
in the end 50 will age. Let the glorious
.ilold mare be retired and enjoy the choicest
accommodations for the remainder Of her
life Rochester Cltroatcle.. s5
An Eastern exchange tells Of o Boston
i faaily having i remarkably intelligent par
i ret. which repeats nearly everything It
hears, and which some bad boys have
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