The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-05-19
NEW NOR WESTERs.

| The President turned 54 on Friday,
April 2Sth.
The Khedive of Egypt is 45 and has
four wives.
Mr.. Hammond estimates his Washing
ton conversions at 2,000.
/ One thousand men will be employed in
| in the consolidated Virginia Mine this sum-
mer.
Lafayette and Rochambeau's grand
sons will be notable visitors at the Centen-
| NAL
| The site on which Cincinnati is built
was sold for less than fifty silver dollars in
1857.
-Bayard Taylor's Centennial ode will be
about twenty minutes long in the reading
of it.
Col. Carey Stocking, of Connecticut,
who recently died, in his 65 year, was only
feet high.
California is to be represented at the
Centennial by a 5000 lamp, which is
cheaper than gas.
An Iowa Sunday school doesn't mean
to be fooled this year, and has fixed for a
May party July LIST.
-B-l RI Russell will not, it is
now said, come over and write up the Cen
tennial for the London Times.
Judge David Davis first yelled in Mary
land, threw stones in Ohio, and got rich in
Illinois. Still he isn't happy.
-Rufin, who was expelled from the Vir-
ginia House for theft, has also been debar-
red from all courts Of the State. -
The Centennial Commission have final
ly decided that neither the Exhibition nor
the grounds shall be open on Sunday.
Eight pin factories in the United States
turn out Al, 600, 900 pins daily. 1t Is quite
a problem what becomes of all the pins.
1t is noticed that man is just as mad
if you point an empty gun at him as he is
when the gun is loaded. Therefore put in
load.
The Pittsburg Dispatch call attention
to the idea that the chances are against a
man who makes personal efforts to obtain
the Presidency.
james Gordon Bennett has leased the
villa of Mrs. Charles L. Anthony, at New
port, R. l., for the coming season for four
thousand dollars.
An Iowa man spit on an American flag
to show his contempt for this country, and
a crowd lowered him down cold well till
his patriotism got warmed up.
1T was a very kind-hearted man who
proposed to ballast new Southern railroad
with sawdust, so that people wouldn't be
hurt much when they fell off the cars.
Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court of
the United States, is having !, ,776 white oak
trees set out around his residence at Bloom
ington, Illinois, all on account of the Gem
tennial.
A suit of ancient armor recently un-
earthed in Rome proves beyond doubt
that the Romans used to feel the need of
protecting that portion of the body most
-At'u,oSst UaIvI1 % WarrioE Evssr- 49, -'- >'
starts for home.
Professor Hayden says that in one OF
the prehistoric Aztec villages OF Arizona
his party found nearly 200 petrifed cats
last fall. Colonel Stevenson, the business
manager Of the expedition, has given some
Of the largest specimens to the Smithsonian
Institute.
A soldier of Marshal Saxe's army be-
ing discovered in theft, was condemned
to be hanged. What he had stolen might
have been worth five shillings. The mar
shal meeting him as he was being led to ex-
eecution, said to him : ''What miserable
fool you were to risk your life for five shll-
lings p' "General," replied the soldier,
81 have risked my life every day for five
pence" ao q
The Scientific american says OF the
Great Britain, one of the first made iron
vessels and one of the first to ply regularly
between New York and Liverpool, that she
has lately arrived and completed her thirty
sixth trip around the world. The Great
Britain was built at Bristol, England, and
!. July, 1916, made her maiden voyage
u - liverpool to New York in fourteen
il . s;n,,a 1859, independently OF her
en1I employment in the crimea in 1854 and 1860 l
sba has sailed over 100. coo nauticaimiies'
and when recently examined Hn0 Voc
nounced one of the strongest vessel ~ '-''
mercantile marine.