The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-01-29

years.
w. W. Corcoran, the Washington
banker, lately blind, has recovered his eye
sight.
The London Daily Telegraph recently
certified to daily circulation of 176, 174
copies.
-Parson Brownlow will give the whole
of his mind to editing the Knoxville Wing
after March 1st.
-Foremen in some of the lager beer
breweries in Cincinnati are said to be paid
$4,000 year.
The Gold Hill News says pneumonia
is still terribly on the increase. New cases
are daily reported.
The live stock trade of the country
absorbs between forty and fifty millions of
capital per annum.
What the Governor of Arkansas said
to the Governor of Louisiana: "There are
too many of us.''
They have had snow at Nice, and in
many places in the middle of France snow
was five feet deep.
The United States ship Pensacola, now
at San Francisco, has been detailed to carry
King Kalakaua home.
The Tichborne claimant is to be en-
ployed as tailor, and is to finish his
sentence at Dartmoor.
William A Potter, the new supervising
architect, was the designer of Mark Twain's
curious new house at Hartford.
A Michigan town has horse-shoer
who can set 130 shoes in eight hours.
"Not slow but shoe'er" is his motto.
-'Tis the month after New Years
When all through the land,
Not greenback is rustlng
Nary cent is on hand:
The Chicago Times speaks of Fernando
Wood as ''that courtly, white moustached
ramrod." There is no such thing as rever-
ence left.
-"C-c-c-can that p-p-p-parrot talk ?"
asked suffering man of German. 'EVen
he don't talk SO gooter as you, schop, by
tam, his head off,"
The devil never conceived torture
equal to that which wrings parents heart
at thought of drunken son. Think Of
that when you raise the cup to your lips.
Last year St. Louis built 1896 houses,
at a cost of $1O,296, coo, and increased
its business $15,O00,OO0 ever that of 1873
The city now claims a population of 470,-
600.
-" Friday we entered upon the last
quarter of the nineteenth century," says an
exchange. This is new way of saying
that seventy-four is three-fourths OF one
hundred.
James Wylie, the Scotchnlan and cham
pion checker player of the world, is now in
Illinois; he has played 1000 games since
he came to this country II Elonths ago, and
lost but IA.
-Statisticans declare marked difference
between Jews and Christians as to longev-
ity. In 100 Christians so die before the
age of 81, and with Jews the same proper
tion reaches beyond 81.
The Carson Mint employs force of
seventy-three persons. It coins about
100000 in gold per month, and about
$500, 600 in silver. The silver coinage has
recently been confined to trade dollars.
This is the sort of notice that an Ore
gon lecturer gets from his village newspa-
per: Colonel Jo. Meek has shouldered his
jaw-bone, and will tell the people more
than they ever dreamt of about mining"
1T is estimated that during the last
four or five weeks 200 daily and weekly
newspapers have suspended in the United
States, and that SIS, s,00O, 600 have been lest
in the publishing business within the year,
=" Everything goes wrong" said an
Illinois farmer, wiping his eyes. "The
grasshopper cum, the hired man broke his
leg, wife died, the barn burned, and I've
rid three days and can't find a woman who
wants to marry"
DIR. Lineecu.n, who died in Washington
county Texas, recently at the ago of SO,
had played the Scotch air OF Killiecra nkie
every Christmas morning at daybreak,
standing barefooted in his night-clothes in
the doorway, for IS years.
Tho London Standard suspects tia {
the time is not far distant when the states.
manship of Prince Bismarck, as far as
Rome is concerned, will seem very hasty
and shallow when compared with the far
sighted patience Of The pupils of Cayour.
They may ridicule Weston to the Bit
ter end, but he is certainly plucky. He
tried forty-eight times to walk hundred
miles in twenty four hours. and failed. At
last he, did it in twenty hours, and now he
is the champion walker OF the world
-Eere Is q poet who says: 'sl'm sitting
sadly on the strand, That stretches to the
water s brink; And as the day slips slowly
BY, ! idly fold my hands and think. Y
Whilst he is sitting on the strand witt,
idly folded hands, his family at home may
be suffering for tho necessares of life. He
should ski.misla around before the day slips
| Slowly bys and secure job AZ sliggIng !
cellar.