The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

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-hal
its capacity, turning out about seven hun
dred pounds of PHOSPHORUS per week. Il
is noteworthy fact that during a suspen
sion of the former proprietors the prices
ran up 25 per cent, but now have dropped
back to their old figures.
Newspapers are business establishments
Each is more or less necessarily the rival Of
the others. Each is dependent upon the
goodwill and support Of the public for an
existence. All it says is in public and not
in secret. 1t lives and performs all its
functions in glass house, visible to every
body. It cannot defend wrong without
an injury to itself. 1t cannot hire itself
out, as the lawyers do, to defend the guilty
or prosecute the innocent.-CAicago T'ri-
6une. a.- ......
Mr.. Miles Wilson, in Borrowdale, had
several young cattle grazing on the hill
behind his house. Somehow or other two
of them fell from considerable height,
and came rolling down among the rocks.
One of the animals was killed outright =;
the other escaped with it's life, but had it's
| hind leg broken. A veterinary surgeon
loI ;,, ,l,a Of fo1 10
limb, and replaced it with wooden one.
The animal is now walking about and
doing well.-Fanciers' Gazette
The main objection most people have to
sending communications on postal cards is
that the writing is, of course, open to gen.
eral perusal. A good way of avoiding this
difficulty is to use sympathetic ink. A
solution of ten grains hyposulphite of soda
in sixteen tablespoonful of water is the
simplest fluid for the purpose. Use per-
fectly clean pen, and after writing go over
the letters with smooth paper-cutter to
remove all traces of the salt, Exposure to
the heat of a bright coal fire turns the
writing black.
One thousand nails laid four inches to
the weather will cover one hundred square
feet of surface, and five pounds of shingle
nails will fasten them on. One fifth more
siding and flooring is needed than the
number of square feet of surface to be
covered, because Of the lap in the siding
and the matching of the floor. One thou
sand lath will cover seventy yards of sur
face, and eleven pounds of lath nails will
nail them on. Eight bushels of good lime,
sixteen bushels of sand and one bushel of
hair, will make enough good mortar to
plaster one hundred square yards. A cord
of stone, three bushels of lime, and cubic
yard of sand, will lay one hundred cubic
feet of wall. Five courses Of brick will lay
one foot in height on a chimney six bricks
in course will make tlue four inches
wide and twelve inches long and eight
bricks in q course will make flue eight
inches wide and sixteen inches long.
A ship at sea sprung a leak. The hole
in it's bottom was just one foot square.
There was but one board on the ship-this
was sixteen inches long and nine inches
wide. 1t had precisely the requisite num-
ber of square inches, and the carpenter cut
it in two pieces only, and these two pieces
just fitted the hole. How did lie do it !?
In response to the above query recently
published in the Commercial, q friend
hands us the following solution, viz: at a
point on the long side of the board four
inches from the end, cut in three inches,
then doun four, then TN three again, then
doson four again, then three out to the OPP
posite side. This will divide the board
into two pieces which being fitted together
form square foot.
Next month, the Democrats of Kentucky
will try to nominate candidate for the
gubernatorial chair. At present the fight
is confined to Col. J. Stoddard Johnson and
Gen. John s. (Cerro Gordo) Williams, and |
it RACES with 50 much bitterness that it is
doubtful if either will secure nomination
which shall harmonize tile party. In this
situation, the Memphis Appeal sees an
opportunity for the bringing forward of
Gen. John C. Breckenridge from that
retirement which he has seduously courted |
since the close of the war. 1t urges him
as one whom the great national Democratic
party would rejoice to see bearing the
of Democracy in the State of Ken
lucky, and it points to his matchless
and unrivaled patriotism.