The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-06-04
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

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Now these shares are quoted at $50,
difference of S240 per share, or in the value
of the whole mine, rising twenty-four NIL
lion of dollars. This is enough to furnish
the capital stock for five such institutions
as the Bank of California. We were round
ly abused for cautioning persons of small
means against investing their means IN
such securities.-S T.. Bulletin.
Joaquin Miller, since his return to Eng
land from Italy, has been busy on a novel
of California life. "First Families in the
Sierras" was his first choice of title, but
the book will be published nnder the better
name of "In California Eden" Mr.
Miller knows something of the life Of
which he is writing, and wastes no time in
getting at his subject. "Now there was
young Deboon from Boston," the tale
begins, "who was very learned man in
fact, he was one of those fearfnlly learned
young men. A man who could talk in all
tongues and think in none. Perhaps he
had some time been waiter" In this
wise the reader plunges in Medias res, and
finds himself in the turmoil Of an election
for Judge at "The Forks" Mr.. Miller
has free pen in his prose, and dashes
,long from the start like literary Phil.
Sheridan. The novel will be published by
Roberts Brothers. Mr.. Miller is said to
| have completed also new volume of poems
ind novel of italian life.-N. 7. Times
1t seems that the patient silence of the
imperturbable angler has been just SO much
stiffness wasted. The old notion that you
can't catch fish unless you keep quiet
must now 60 down to oblivion along with
that other tirne-worn delusion, the belief
hat splitting on the bait makes the fish
bite better. Seth Green. who knows a
sreat deal about fishes, and has spent much
line in studying their habits, thinks they
.an not hear. He once asked band of
music to range themselves around tank
e fish, and given signal to blow their
loudest blast. This they did, but not
ish stirred. They are, however, very SEN
sitive to jars, and slight tap on the bottom
If one of the tanks ma!e every fish dart off
like flash.
Nuts and cheese promote digestion as y
general rnIe the conditions being that the
nuts should be ripe and the cheese old,
both to be eaten at the close of dinner the
| digestive agent in both is peculiar oil
| which has the property Of acting chemically
| IN what has been eaten, and thus preparing
it for being the more easily appropriated to
the purpose of nutrition. Many think that
the more solid portions of the nut should
not be swallowed. This is an error those
| particles of solid matter are not digested
it is true, but they are passed through the
system unchanged and act as mechanical
stimulant to the action of the internal
| organs, as white mustard seed swallowed
| whole are known to do, thus preventing
| that constipated condition Of the system
which is SO invariably productive of numer-
| GUS bodily diseomforts and dangerous and
even fatal forms of disease.
Mr.. Lincoln, before he moved to SPRING
| field, ILL.,, was postmaster in small Western
| town. The office was poor, and Lincoln
was poorer than the Office. It was known
he was very hard up, and it was also known
| that the Washington agent was in town to
| collect the little sum due the general post
,fice. A friend, thinking Lincoln might
| be embarrassed, came down to his office to
loan him the sum necessary to meet the
| demand. Mr. Lincoln thanked him, and
| said he did not need any loan. While the
| two were talking the agent came in. The
sum due was less than $100. Lincoln went
and turned the coin on the table. 1t was
| counted out and met the demand exactly.
Well it might, for it was not only the exact
amount due, but the identical money itself
that Lincoln had taken in. Old-fashioned
rix dollars. pistareens, sixpences, old-fash-
ioned cents and all were there. 81 neve,
use money that belongs to other people, u
and that resolution did much toward max.
ing him President of the United States
" Bur1eigh" F" in Boston Journal.
| The great bell (Kaiser-glocke, or Empe.
ror Belly for Cologne Cathedral, has been
cast for the third time in Berlin. Its finaI
preparation and cooking must have been q
tremendous business. The furnace wherein
| the French guns of which the bell is made
| were cooked consumed 200 cwt. of coal
and burned furiously for 12 hours, melting
down and artistically stewing % captured
cannon, some of which were feld-pleces Of
Louis XIV period, and were taken from
the French royal forces during their cam
paign in the Palat mate. Disembarrassed
of it's MANTLE the dimensions of the bel
are as follows: 10 feet in height, II feet il
/ diameter. 50 feet in circumference its
weight is 25 tons, and its clapper weighs
16 cwt. All the other bells of Cologne
Cathedral put together do not weigh al
| much as this monster, to ring which thirty
men will be required. The inscription ii
enclosed in handsome arabesque, above
which stands st. Peter, while beneath il
depicted the escutcheon of the German
realm. The Kaiser-glocke will be hung vi
in the old belfry, ander the present peal
until the Cathedral shall be finished, wher
all the five bells composing the complet'
peal will be definitely Suspended at an
elevation of 200 feet above the Cathedra
square.
eth 'ar patch of grounds mem
'rible." said an Omaha man, pointing to
grave all by itself outside tho town. g
reckin you'll know that. stranger. when yo,
see it again. The ockypant Of that wa
the furst man IIorus Greeley ever told tt
git west-likewise he was hung for stealin