The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-11-05
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
Pullman palace cars run to Rome.

: from watermelons. 50
M. Guillemin calls comets "the yaga
bonds Of the heavens"
+. Nine thousand personally commit arsor
in the United States. u s
"A Chinese Horace Greeley lives in sar
Francisco. He says g Hop Yeast,
Arsenic eaters in Syria say that theil
J habit induces strength and great age.
-"Heat generates motion.p Illustra
tion-A small boy sitting down on hot
coal.
Ham is the name of q boy arrested in
Hudson for stealing eggs. They usually &c
together. i. Asa
Among the most notable results Of the
Ohio election was the election a. Private
| Dalzell to the Legislature.
| -"The is light in the window for
thee, !" is what the glazier remarked, and he
wanted fifty cents for the job.
If you wish to appear really familiar
with the subject, speak of the epizootic as
the ''inf1uenza nasalis maligna."
The cost of running English railways
average 53 per cent. per mile; the cost in
the United States is 65.1 per cent.
"A blind mendicant wears this inscrip-
tion round his neck: "Don't be ashamed
to give only a half-penny. can't see."
Oranges are so plentiful in California
that Chinaman who is out after dark can
get two or three for nothing-on the ear.
General Forrest needn't care for the
sneers of perverse generation any more.
| He has $50 acres of good land under culti-
vation,
AT the Meridian Conn., Fair it was
discovered that the barley which took the
premium had been swollen unnaturally by
soaking it.
The Duke of Edinburgh took up the
fiddle and the bow at the great Russian
Fair, and led the orchestra in his own
waltz, "The Galatea.''
If any gentleman has lately lost leg
he will perhaps be pleased to hear that it
has been found by party of steamboat
men near st. Louis.
-General Butler has leased one of his
Cape Ann granite houses, on Capitol Hill,
Washington, to Senator Jones, of Nevada,
during his present Senatorial term, for
large sum.
"A cargo of whisky was sunk in Lake
Michigan twenty-five years ago. 1t has
been recovered, and now the people of Chi
cago do not like the flavor of the water.
-" Henry, why don't you keep supply
of cloves in your pecket?" said young
to her escort at the opera house recently;
"you wouldn't then have to run out after
every act; and don't see why you are SO
awful fond of Cloves anyhow -
The following persons are candidates
to succeed Hon. G. W. Wright as United
States Senator from Iowa Ex-senator
Harlan, General w. w. Belknap, Hon.
George w. McCrary, Hon. Hiram Price,
and Hon. Samuel j. Kirkwood, Governor
elect.
-Cast-iron blocks, two feet by three feet
five inches, and seven inches in depth,
weighing two hundred pounds each, are be-
ing laid in the principal streets of Warsaw;
The blocks are laid in rows of five, Or sew
enteen rect one inch wide, upon a layer of |
stones, carefully levelled, and finished with
gravel.
The immigration of Indians to the |
United States is something hardly to be
looked for or desired. The Iroquois In
dians of Canada, who are seeking permis-
sion from the Cherokees of the Indian Ter
ritory to settle on their lands, are peacea-
BILE enough where they are, but they are
not the kind of immigrants this country
wants.
-Gold is valued at SAG per cubic inch.
At this rate a cubic foot of the precious
metal. which contains 1,72s cubic inches.
will be worth about $3.50, 28e. The entire
quantity of gold now known to be in exis-
tence, is valued at about So, 900, 600, 600, SO
that if it were welded into one. mass it
could be contained in a cube, the side Of
which would not measure over twenty
three feet.
John King, in 1862, lived in Tennes-
see. Soldiers of both armies raided on his
farm. So he removed all his produce to a
cave in the Cumberland Mountains. A
storm threw down a rock which closed the
mouth of the cave. Therein he lived for
thirteen years, eating from his produce and
drinking from spring. The other day a
railroad company, blasting for tunnel,
blasted him out. So says paper.
The Chicago Times says: "There is,
however, one, and only one, possible way
n which the Democratic generals may
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. It
in the resumption of specie pay
nent and a coin tender before the Presi-
iential election. 1t is the only chance, the
'nly possible ground of hope that the DEM
,crats have to elect the next President
Professor Dana is still pursuing his
tudies on the glacial period in New Eng !,
and. In the last number Of the Amertcan ,
Journal Of Science he says that glacial
cratches, southeastward in direction, on
Ut Everett, in the southwestern corner of ,
Massachusetts,, at height of 1900 feet
boye the sea, afford evidence that the ice !,
Vhieh covered New England in the glacial
'eliod oyertopped this mountain, and had
q elevation in that region not much under
ZOO.
A PIGEoN PosT BETWEEN EUROPE AND
AMERICA. London Live Stock Journal /
ays An ocean homing bird, of great (
ocility, intelligence and spirit, has been j
ound in Iceland, which flies at meteor {
Ike speed of $50 miles an hour, and is able /
Q find its home over sea and land from any q
art Of the habitable world. A pair of j
hese birds, a few days ago, brought dis +