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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
Catching a Cannon Ball.

A very singular exhibition was given yes
terday at the Jardin Mabile. There has
been performing here at the Folies Ber-
CERES, man named Holtum, an American,
who has cannon fired at him and catches
the ball in his hands. This prodigious feat
was witnessed nightly, and although the
the actors present avowed that there was
no trick, Pierre Vernon, of the Monde II
gustre would not believe it. He said that
the cannon ball must be thrown to Holtum
from the stage. The latter made bet of
5000 francs that he would perform the feat
under conditions which left no room to
doubt, and when the bet was taken, Vernon
designated Mabille as the place for the trial.
All the journalists of Paris were invited,
and they found Holtum there before his
cannon. 1t was examined with minute
care, and the heavy ball was passed from
hand to hand. ~ am no longer in my
own house," said Holtum; "you are mas
ter here, and you must watch over all the
arrangements" Having carefully aimed
and lashed his cannon, Holtum took his
place against plank target some ten yards
away. This was to show that the ball was
solid, and the force of the powder great
enough to send it through the plank. Hol-
tum got the aim of his gun, and then placed
his head in a certain position against the
plank, giving the command to fire. The
ual 1,o;,. Il
the plank, rolling some twenty yards fur
ther on. The same ball was picked up by
the journalists, who again charged the can
non and sent home the ball, and this time
Holtum eaght the ball in his hands as neat
ly as he Goes nightly upon the stage. He
won his bet, and no one seemed disposed to
take his offer of 5000 francs to any one
who would perform the same astounding
feat. The physical force required must be
enormous, but Holtum showed his strength
by tossing up cannon balls as if they had
been SO many oranges. The only precau-
tions taken are very simple; he wears very
thick leather gloves, and covers his breast
with many thicknesses of thin paper to
form a sort of a cuirass. This looks to me
like a very dangerous feat, and particularly
the first part of it, where Holtum places
his head against the target half an inch be-
low where the ball will probably strike. If
the powder should chance to be defective,
some day there might be an accident. It
is like the foolbardy trick of putting ones
head into lions mouth. One day fancy
that ball will snap his head very neatly off.
Paris Letter
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
POETRY.
THE ORIGIN OF IRELAND.

With due condescension, I'd call your attention to
what shall mention of Erin 70 green,
And, without hesitation. I'll show how that nation
became OF creation the gem and the Queen.
Twas early one morning without any WARNING that
Venus was born in the beautiful Say,
And by the same token, and sure twas provoking her
pinlons were soaking, and wouldn't give play
Old Neptune, who knew her. began to pursue her,
In order to WOO her--the wicked old Jew
And almost had caught her atop of the water-great
Juplters' daughter!- never would do
But Joye, great Janus, looked down and saw Vnnus
and Neptune SO henous pursuing her wild,
And he spoke out in thunder he'd rend him asunder
and sure twas wonder-for taxing his child.
"a star that was flying hard by him sspying, he
caught with small trying and down let it snap
1t fell quick as winking Neptune sinking and
gave him, I'm thinking, a bit of rap.
That star it was dryland, both lowland and high
lard, and formed asweet island, the land of my
birth,
Tins plain is the story that, sent down from glory
old Erin ashore is the gem of the eartn
Upon Erin nately. jumped Venus so stately, but
tainted kase lately SO hard she was pressed
Which did much bewilder, but, ere it had killed her,
her father distilled her a drop of his best.
That sup was victorious it made her feel glorious,
little uproarious, fear it might prove
So how can you blame us that Ireands so famous
for drinking and beauty; for fighting and love"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
Cremation on a Grand Scale.
Springfield Republican.


More than four years ago young Hindoo
prince, only %. who ruled over one of the
most extensive provinces in India, and was
a strong ally of Great Britain, stopping at
one of the Florence hotels, ON his way home
from London to his native country, was
taken sick and died after short illness.
He was attended by numerous suite,
who, to show their grief for the loss of
their beloved prince, astonished the Italians
by their mysterious Oriental funeral cere-
monies. On the isht of the 1st of Decem-
Der, 1870, on the very spot where his mon
ument now stands, they prepared the pile
upon which they performed the rite of
burning the dead body of their ruler They
mixed with large quantities Of wood inn
mense compounds of camphor and odorous
ointments, upon which, robed in his splen-
did vestments, and surrounded by his most
precious and personal ornaments, they laid
the remains Of the young rajah. The pile
was lighted at midnight and burned till
near morning. The venerable Brahim di-
rected the ceremony, and, mingllng his
prayers with those Of the faithful servants,
made the groves resound with their lamen-
tafions. At break of day the ashes of the
prince we're rut III golden vase, which
now tests in the sacred temple of his native
ln'lia. In June, "a, tie English govern
ment erected a splendid monument to his
memory, on the spot where his body was
burned.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
How Charlotte Cushman was Saved
from Drowing Fifty Years Ago.
From the East Boston Advocate.

From the East Boston Advocate,
More than fifty years ago a boy some 16
or II years of age was at work one after
noon ON the old bingham Station packet,
which will be remembered by some of our
citizens as for years occupying berth at
the head of the dock where State street
block now stands.
1t was an afternoon when there was ne
school, and girl, somewhat younger than
the boy alluded to, was passing the half
holiday in play near the store of her father
Venturing too near the edge of the dock
she missed her footing and fell overheard,
and it being high water at the time she
disappeared, no one saw her fall, but by
accident the lad noticed some bubbles in
the water, and having just before seen the
little Miss on the wharf, instantly took in
the situation. Springing into the water he
succeeded in bringing her to the surface,
and calling for aid she was taken on shore
and restored to her parent.
This act of heroism saved the life of one
who has become the most distinguished
American actress of the age-a lady as
highly respected for Eer moral worth and
irreproachable private character as she is
renowned all over the world for her eminent
histrionic achievements. Her rescurer is
to-day one of our most estimable citizens,
and less than year ago acquainted the
lady with the circumstances of her deliver
ance from watery grave through his
instrumentality- fact she well remember
ed, although till then ignorant of the name
of her preserver. Cornelius Lowell had
saved the life Of Charlotte Cushman.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
Free Lunch in Dry Goods Store.

One of the largest dry goods establish
ments in Paris is that of M. Bouclcault ct
Fills, which bears the name of the Bon
March. 1t sells $40, 1000, 600 worth year.
Of it Mrs. Isabella B. Hooper thus writes
in a private letter published in the Hart
ford Coarant.: "For the accommodation
of customers there is a pleasant refresh
ment room, handsomely frescoed, and with
out money or price one may have simple
lunch for the asking. This arrangement
was suggested, we were told, by certain
American who expected, of course, that
fee would be charged for the lunch but
M. Boucicault, perceiving that his foreign
customers were often compelled through
fatigue to step out for lunch, and then
did not always return, concluded to make
them comfortable at his own expense,
reaping his profit by the increase of sales !;
and he is fully satisfied oil the wisdom Of
the experiment. He then conceived the
project of a reading room close at hand for
gentlemen, that they might be kept in a
peaceful state of mind while their wives
and daughters were judiciously expending
money for the comfort of the whole family.
This also ought to be a success, for.it is q
most inviting room, filled not only with
newspapers and conveniences for writing,
but with books of most admirable photo
graphs, which might attract the most
fastidious, and should reconcile the. grump-
lest husband to his matrimonial fate. Ger
tain American ladies, not being permitted
10 pny for their lunch, moi even to remuner-
are the walters, have put up sspoor-box," !"
which j heard of afterward, but did not
happen TO see, ndits contents are faithfully
administered, have no doubt.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
WHAT THE WITS SAY.

Indianapolis has the smallpox and a
new republican paper.-C Courier Journal.
Profitable business-The Perfumer's. S.
Few make so large per cent.-LosoeH Cour-
ter.
Z" Is this the Adams House ?'' asked a
stranger of a Bostonian. "It's Adams
House until you get to the roof, then it's
Eaves. Worcester Gazette.
1t has been discovered that shaky firms
usually belong to the Millerite persuasion,
because they all keep the day of their going
up a profound seeret.-Boston Ado.
The intelligent young man who applied
for the proof-readership of this paper, yester-
| day greeted US with the salutation. Didn't
I saw you somewheres2" We are positive
he had not.-Danbursan.
Wenever quite believe these stories about
ostriches eating shingle-nails and gate
hinges, but the proprietor of a menagerie
now at GAINESVILLE offers for sale, as old iron,
an ostrich which has died on his hands,
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Gen. Adam Badeau was yesterday mar
ried to Miss. Marie Eliza Niles, of New
| York. Now of course some wretched hea-
then of a punster will Immediately get mp
and say there's Adam Bad-eauder about
that marriage.-st. Paul Pioneer Press.
A tall stranger entered saloon on Front
street yesterday, and pulling off his coat,
| inquired
"Is there anybody here who wants to
lick me?''
"Yes! yesl' exclaimed half dozen
loafers in chorus as they rose up.
81 thought there was coolly replied the
stranger, as he opened the door and walked
out.-Detroit Free Press
The Slawson Courier is enterprising in
cleaning the local news. Two weeks ago
it said:
Mr.. Kellogg's boy window is very beau
tiful with it's numerous plants.
After the paper was issued the error was
discovered, and amended in the next num-
ber as follows:
What we tried to say in our last issue
was that Mr.. Kellogg's bay widow was full
of beautiful plants. 1t is SO rarely that
our argus-eyed assistant permits typo
graphical blunder to creep into the paper,
that we freely forgive him this time.
This was on Friday, and the editor of
the Courier hasn't had his clothes off since,
while the argus-eyed assistant is supposed
to be somewhere in Merrilps woods, five
miles north of the town, bareheaded and
with only one boot.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
The History of Zero.

"Zero," on the common thermometer,
like the fanciful names of the consultations,
is Il curious instance of the way wise mems
errors are made immortal by becoming
popular. 1t may be worth while to say
that the word itself (zero) comes TO us
through the Spanish from the Arabic, and
means empty hence nothing. In express
sions like "ninety deg. Fahr.," the abbre-
Walton, Fahr., stands for Fahrenheit, a
Prussian merchant of Dantzic, on the
shores OF the Baltic Sea. His full name
was Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.
From a boy he was close observer of
nature, and when only nineteen years old,
in the remarkably cold winter of 1909, he
experimental by putting snow and salt
together and noticed that it produced a
degree of cold equal to the coldest day of
that year. AS that day was the coldest
that the oldest inhabitant could remember.
Gabriel was the more struck with the
coincidence of his little scientific discovery,
and hastily concluded that he had found
the lowest degree Of temperature known in
the world, either natural or artificial. He
called that degree zero, and constructed a
! thermometer, or rude weather-glass, with
scale graduated up from boiling point,
which he numbered l212, and the freezing
| 32-becanse, as he thought, mercury con-
| tracted the thirty of it's volume ON
being cooled down from the temperature of
freezing water to zero and expanded 1s0th
on being heated from the freezing to the
boiling point.
Time showed that this arrangements,
instead of being truly scientific, was as
arbitrary as the division of the Bible into
verses and chapters, and that these two
points no more represented the real extremes
oftemperature than stfrom Dan to Beersle-
ba /" expresses the exact extremes of Pales-
tine.
But Fahrenheit's thermometer had been
widely adopted, with it's inconvenient scale
and none thought of any better until his
name became an authority, for Fahrenheit
finally abandoned trade and gave himself
to science. Then habit made people cling
to the established scale, as habit makes
the English cling to the old system OF
cumbrous fractional money. H A M
Our nation began to use Fahrenheit's
thermometer about the middle of the last
century, or not far from the time when old
style was exchanged for new style in the )
writing of dates
The three countries which use Fahgen-
heit are Holland, England and America.
Russia and Germany use Reaumer's ther-
mometer, in which the boiling point is
counted so degrees above freezing point.
France uses the centigrade thermometer,
socalled because it marks the boiling point
100 degrees from freezing point.
On many accounts the centrigrade system
is the beet, and the triumph of convenience
will be attained when zero is made the
freezing point. and when, the boiling point
is put 100 or 1000 degrees from it, and all
the Subdivisions are fixed decimally. s5
II lfahrenIlcit had done this at first, or
even il he had made il one Of his many
improvements, after the public adopted his
error, the luck Of opportunity, which was
really his, would have secured to his inven-
tion the patronage of the world. NORTH
Ckristfda Adraeats
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
EvE-ANGELICAL CORNER.
Jean Ingelow is forty-fiv

Jean Ingelow is forty-five.
Girls rights--kisses; girls lefts--old
bachelors.
There are 1000 more women than men
in the District of Columbia.
/ The nights in Iceland are still seventeen
hours long, and lovers can spark until ten
o'clock in the forenoon.
| Two things in this world that should not
be trifed with-a woman's opinion and the
business end of a wasp. ' a
"There! that explains where my clothes
line went!" exclaimed an Iowa woman, as
she found her husband hanging in the
stable. 5
A bill for the introduction of woman
suffrage has been introduced in the legisla-
ture OF the Isle of Man. What's in name
anyhow.
The Boston 7rauezzer says that several
manufacturers have commenced to make
band-boxes six feet high, in preparation
for the coming bonnet.
" Father" replied a Cairo girl, with
tears in her eyes, "you may jaw and jaw,
and howl, and rave, and rip, and tear, but
I'll marry John Stewart if die for it,
| 1t is stated that in making a kid glove it
passes through 219 hands. No wonder
they wear out so soon. The wonder is that
they are not worn out before they are
made.
An Ohio woman rises and says: "I've
been married thirty-four years, worked
like niger, and never lived in house
| which had parlor folding DOORS" Pass
| around the hat.
A Miss Bartlett, studying at an eastern
seminary. has lately been afflicted with
very peculiar twitching in her mouth and
eyes. Her friends sympathizingly refer to
it as the Bartlett movement"
A Missouri aspirant to niatlimony adyer-
tises that he will give three mules to any
maiden who will marry him which gives
rise to the question, what respectable mar
ried woman would want such a four-in-
hand? a.-.a r..-.-.
A girl out west ate seven pounds of heavy
wedding cake, in order that she might dream
of her future husband. She dreamed that
a man with teeth a foot, long, dogs feet
and hair-lip sat ON her all night, and
rather than marry him she contemplates
suicide and an early tomb, where the
bobolinks sing.
The following letter was received at the
Executive mansion the other day:
Ulysses s. Grant--HoN. SIR:
AS I'm only farmers daughter,
And you are n President grand
It's more Than likely we shall never meet
This side of 1.-THE Happy Land
So wish to make little request,
Tis sent with girlish laugh
will You please to favor me, kind sir,
With the Presidents autograph
IDA ELDRIDGR.
GAMBRIDGE. Washington Co. N Y.
She got it.
A Milwaukee chap kissed his girl about
forty times right straight along, and when
he stopped the tears came into her eyes
and she said in sad tone of voice: "Ah!
John, fear you have ceased to love me-
"No haven't" replied John, "but Unjust
breathe"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
Giant Powder.

| Dynamite, or giant powder, may be trans
ported by all ordinary means of convey
ance in every climate and temperature
without danger Of explosion. Several Eu-
ropean governments allow it to pass as
common freight. The secret of it's safety
lies in the fact that the absorbent is soft,
compressible and elastic, and is no more
affected by blow than is cushion. It
has been subjected to the severest tests by
scientific men and experts of every sort,
and has proved by it's conduct that the
only means of exploding it is by large and
powerful percussion cap. In contact with
fire it burns to ashes like saltpetre paper.
A lot of 5000 pounds has been burned with
out exploding. 1t may be poured upon a
red-hot plate, or red-hot poker may be
thrust into it; a box of it may be thrown
from any height, SO that the box is
shattered; heavy weights may be thrown
upon it it may be beaten with sledge
hammer; it may be held in the hand and
set on fire, and when half consumed be ex-
tinguished with water; all this may be done
and the powder will refuse to explode.
There are two kinds of dynamite. One is
composed of rs per cent of nitro glycerine
and 25 per cent. of infusorial earth. The
other has much less nitro-glycerine, the de-
ticiency being supplied by nitre, saltpetre
and rosin. The second Is not so strong as
tile first and is only half as costly. The
substance has the look of dirty cornmeal.
"Its explosion does not take place like
gunpowder, burning from point to point,
but the entire mass, however large, explod-
es at once, as if the band that held it were
cut and the recoil of each grain took place
at the same instant. It skaters the hardest
rock as if it were the most fragile of things,
and rends wrought iron and steel as if they
were rags. The lightest charge of it in the
heaviest rifle Or cannon tears the gun into
a thousand pieces. 1t is as good IN water
as out. If turned loose into a bore-hole
filled with water it sinks to the bottom-is
tamped by the water and explodes with
full effect" AS dynamite contains nitro
glycerine, it is supposed to be dangerous to
transport, yet it is, in truth, quite other
wise" Congress has made it misde-
meanor punishable by heavy fine and i'm
prisonment, to ship highly inhamnable or
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS substances without
disclosing their character by labels on the
boxes or vessels containing them. A
late trial before United States Court es-
tablished the fact that dynamite cannot be
reckoned as one of these substances.
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General Jackson's Walking Stick.

Washington Cor. Chelsea lMass.] Telegraph.
Andrew Jackson Wilcox, clerk in the
Navy Department, and great grandson of
"Oid Hickory" has in his possession a
cane thas was presented to General jackson
by a committee representing the citizens of
Tennessee, and which is one of the most
unique, and at the same time intricate
pieces of workmanship that the writer has
seen for many day. 1t is of the finest
hickory wood, and was taken from tree
in the front gard en- of General Jackson's S
plantation, the g Hermitage" short dis
tance from Nashville, Tenn. The top is
surmounted with cap of solid silver upon
which is engraved the names of all the
Presidents of this country, from 1776 to
1S41. CO mmencing with John Hancock, the
first President really, and ending with John
Tyler. Each of the prongs or knots is
tipped with silver, upon which is engraved
the names of the donors. There is also a
whistle made in one of the knots, which
was used by General Jackson in calling his
hounds. Upon the side is engraved the
following beautiful lines:
And may at last my weary age
Find ont my peaceful hermitage"
FRIEND
General jackson carried this stick con-
tinually, and tits said was more fond of it
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"IN SCHOOL DAYS" +"

The following pretty poem from the pen Of j
Greeneaf Whittier, the Quaker Poet, is exceedin
touching, and in the presence of the spelling ma
now prevailing. will be particularly attractive. TIL,
is more love and charity in the story it tells than
many labored volume
Beside the school house by the road,
ragged beggars summing;
Around it still the sumach's grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within, the masters desk is seen,
Deep SCARED by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-knife's carved initial
The charcoal frescoes on the walls,
Its doors worn sill. betray1ng
Feet that creeping slow 10 school,
Went storming out to playing.
Long years ago winters sun .
Shone over it at setting:
Lit up it's western window panes
And low caves icy fretting.
1t touched the tangled golden curla,
knd brown eyes full of grieYing.
OF one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood little boy
Her childish favor singled,
His cap pulled low upon a face
Where grief and shame commingled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow,
To right and left te fingered,
AS restlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes he felt
The soft hands light caressing
And heard the tremble of her voice,
AZ If a fault confessing
I'm sorry that spelt the word.
hate to go above you.
Because" the brown eyes lower fell
"Iiecause, you see 1 love you'll"
Still mem'ry to gray haired man
That sweet child face is showing.
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing!
He lives to learn, in lfe's hard school,
How few who pass above him,
Lament their triumph and his loss
Like her-because they love him.
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a Rockland clerk, becoming cheered by
the promise Of warm weather, borrowed an
accordion and vent forth to serenads his
girl. He opened with z When the SPRING
time comes, gentle Annie, which 50 ex-
asperated the old man, that he came out
and gently waved the love-sick yaung man
over the fence with his boot Rockland
Gestrier
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The only phosphorus works in the United
States are located on the Rancocus creek,
in Burlington county n. ]. At present
the establishment is running at one-half
its capacity, turning out about seven hun
dred pounds of PHOSPHORUS per week. 1t
is noteworthy fact that during a suspen-
sion of the former prcprietors the prices
ran up 25 per cent, but now have dropped
back to their old figures.