The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-15
NEW NoR-WEsTERs.

NEW NoR'-WESTERS.
The potter says to his clay, "Be ware"
A centennial monument is TO be erect
ed on Long Island.
Chicago is erecting ten thousand dwell
lings this year.
Joe Jefferson intends to reside in Paris
during the next three years.
-RicEard Grant White composes the ad-
yertisements for Barnum's show.
The Irish census discovers nearly 150
forms of religious faith in that country.
The receipts of the Dubuque Fair fell
about three thousand dollars short of the
expenses.
"A bibulous oldsman said the reason he
couldn't drink water was because it tastes
so of sinners since the flood.
The greatest depth of the Pacific
ocean, as found by the British ship Chal-
lenge, was about five miles.
| A religious body in Chicago actually
advertises that every person attending its
services will receive chrome.
| John L. Bittenger, proprietor of the st.
Joseph Herald, and late United States
Gauger, has been convicted of defrauding
the government
--Biobbs, speaking Of an acquaintance
whose stock of brains was heavily mort
gagged, remarked, "Why, he's next door to
fool, and sometimes moves in.''
Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's
residence near Paris, is about to be sold
under the hammer of the auctioneer. The
wheel of time brings strange revolutions
The Keely "motor y is about to pre-
sent itself at the door of the Patent Office.
and the prospect is fair one that the pub
lie will at last be informed as to the nature
of the "power" which Mr.. Kelley claims
to have discovered.
Prof. Tice is tall man, legs like
clothes-pins. sandy hair, three front teeth |
out: light eyes and consumptive cough, |
but he just knows how to predict the |
weather as well as any human being on
this globe.
SO far as heard from only one man has
profited by the destruction of Indianola, |
His name was William Taylor, and he was
in Jail awaiting trial for murder. When |
the waters began to rise he was released to
prevent his being drowned, and made his
escape.
I'm France the telegraphic service has
yielded in the past year an excess of
$4O0, 900 over expenses. The year before
expenses and receipts balanced, but always |
before there was deficit. Thus it appears
that cheap dispatches do develop an in
creased use of the wires.
English tourists are very inquisitive as
general thing. This one was no excep-
tion to the general rule. He asked:
"What makes those pawths on yonder
mountain 20
The conductor, who had been bored nigh
unto death, told him that's whaw the
bawrs slide down to wawtaw."
Prof Marsh has recently made criti-
cal examination of the fossil bird discov-
cred during his researches at the West, and
which presents the phenomenal develop
ments of we'll formed teeth. The Profess
sor concludes. that the creature was an in-
termediate form between the bird and the
reptile, and that its discovery supplies one
of the missing links in the Darwinian
theory.
The use of the steam whistle as sig
nal for mariners is spreading. A whistle
has been erected on the extremity of Cape
dor, in the Bay of Fundy, which. during
thick weather, fog or snow storms, blows a
blast of six seconds duration twice in each
minute. The sound will be at distance
of twenty miles in calm weather, and from
five to eight miles during storms, and will
thus give timely warning to vessels ap-
preaching the coast
If fast Postal Trains" why not
equally fast passenger trains? 1t requires
only an average speed of forty miles an
honr to take train from New York to
Chicago in twenty-four hours on the Gen.
tral and Lake Shore line, or two hours and
forty minutes faster than the apparent time
taken by the postal train, the real time be-
ing nearly one hour longer, as the trains
going westward gain that much. In Eng
land express trains make sixty, seventy,
and even seventy-ive miles an hour. But
then they have heavier rails, easier grades,
fewer curves and no crossings on the sur
face. When we get roads of that sort we
can safely initiate English examples of
"lightning speed y on the rail,
-One of the special agents of the Pen
sion office has just returned from the West,
and his report made to the Commissioner
discloses a remarkable series of wholesale
deceptions practieed ON the Government.
He found parties in the regular receipt of
pensions who not only were not disabled
from earning their livelihood, but who
conld show no trace of wounds or of i'm
paired health. Numerous eases were also
discovered of parties personating dead
men, and of women falsely representing
themselves as the widows of deceased sol
diers and drawing pensions as such. The
Commissioner now states that he is con-
vinced that the Government is annually
paying from three to four million dollars
to these fraudulent claimants
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The real and personal property Of this
county was valued at s31, 900 in the Jour
nal last week. The compositor's girl went
by just as the compositor was setting this
item up, and in turning from the cypher
box to sigh for her receeing figure, he stop
ped before he 0 to. But the mistake
might have been a bigger one. If she had
come along moment earlier, the valuation
Of the real and personal property of this
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