The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-04-14
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.


The Indian and his food, the buffalo,
are dying out together.
-"Old Abe" the Wisconsin war eagle,
is going to the Centennial.
Fifty thousand tons of rails will lay a
road-bed $50 miles in length.
The sugar crop of Cuba will be $780,
600, 900 less than that of last year.
Even in the hardest times clocks en-
ploy their regular number of hands.
-Chrysostom was the first who applied
the word "Bible" to the Scriptures.
Two thousand professional clairvoy-
ants in Paris prophesy what never hap
pens.
There are thirty-thre Investigations
under way before the Congressional Com
mittees.
Victor Hugo likes cremation, and
when he dies his remains will be disposed Of
accordingly.
The Second Adventists and Millerites
claim that the big smash-up will come GER
talnly this year.
1t is Dartmouth student who COM
pares sewing machine to kiss, because
it seems as good.
The Norwich Bulletin says the town
clock has stopped and the hands are thrown
out of employment.
-Ex-Senator Nye has improved so much
that his entire recovery is hoped for.-Es-
change, March 23d.
1t is intimated from Washington that
hereafter the sewing machine patent is to
become public property.
| "A monument is about to be erected
over the remains of David Williams, one of
the. .capuors of Major Andre
-Elwood E. Thorne, the Grand Master
of Freemasons in New York, has declined
to be candidate for third term.
1t is scientifically decided that rust
causes fire. This is the reason why silver
dollar will burn hole in your pocket.
What Kentucky wants is not a shower
| of chicken salad but patent flask that
| won't gurgle in the middle of the night
-"Going to church" in Gaelic is still
'going to the stcnes," description that
carries us back to the days of the Druids.
Mexico is lazy country, but the sight
| Of drove of Texas cattle will fill Mexi-
can with the enterprise of a fruit-tree ped
dler.
A fine saw in Connecticut goes into an
elephants tusk like tumbler into a lem
onade and turns out a sheet of ivory sixty
feet long.
There isn't State House in the coun-
try whici, Is well ventilated, but most of
them have been we'll white-washed time
and again.
The weN-21aown hymn, Crock of
Ages was written 100 years ago, in
March, 1776. It's author was Augustus M.
Toplady.
The st. Louis Repubte1n finds that
since the repeal of the law licensing the
densi-maomde of that city demoralizStion has
increased.
The identical chairs and desks 4af GAGS,
Calhoun, Webster, Clay, Douglas and Ben
ton still remain in the Senate Chamber and
are in daily use.
Auckland, New Zealand, has sent an
order to Council Bluffs, Iowa, for one hun
dsed pairs OF prairie-chickens, which she is
importing for breeding purposes
"A fashionable caprice is to inse15 in
the middle of window shade full-length |
japanese figure, executed in gorgeous col
oring on transparent Japanese silk.
Lemons can be preserved by vanishing
them with solution of shellac i'll alcohol |
The skin of shellae formed is easily remov-
ed by rubbing the fnaft in the hands.
-Bergh is frstrate man to look after |
old horses, but when itsesmes to making |
speech he's a limping failure. They say so
in Brooklyn, and that's MheGe he lives.
Secretary Taft, while tutor at Yale,
had in his classes such promising boys as
William M. Evarts, Henry L. Daves, Nor
rison r. Waite and Edwards Pienrepont.
All the salaries of the manages Of
Mr.. Beecher's Christian Union have bsen
reduced, Mr.. Beecher himself offering ito
work on a reduced salary antil the paper
regains prosperity.
AN Indian and white man were passing
along street, when the former espied a
window full of wigs, and pointing to the
owner, who was standing in the doorway,
said, "Ugh him great man-big brave
take heap scalps !"
MIR. Menziee, who has just published
valuable work on forest trees in England,
says that lightning never strikes dead trees,
but always selects the strongest and those
full of sap. 1t is worth knowing that the
ivy often acts as lightning conductor.
"A very beautiful application of electro
is to apply coat Of silver by
on natural leaves and
flowers. By this means very delicate orna-
nents are produced, since the precise form
and texture of the natural leaf are sproduc-
I'D under the silver film.
We lately met an old negro trudging
along with heavy side of bacon that he
had bought, swinging over his shoulder.
Noticing that he was miserably clad, we
felt sorry for him, for a cold wind was
blowing, and asked: "Why do you spend
your money for meat? You'd better buy
coat" The old man stopped, looked us
full in the face, and said in solemn tones
Massa, when | ak my back for credit it
gives it; bat when speak to dis Qaylng
bis hand upon his stomach), it calls for de
cash. n-Kno1oille Chronicle.
-Washington's order of the day, on the
l7th day Of March. 1776, was a neat receg-
lition of the double significance of the
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