The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-08-04

South AuStraIla contains over U, UVUs Uu'
sheep. -
Michigan plants million trees th
year. ..s
How cool and nice it would be to fal
down well!
London in the last sixty years ha
Gl1adrnnled ifs population
Rum punch was sold at church festi
val in California as cold tea.
American weather can change quicker
than Mexican can change his allegiance
Dom Pedro in his 101 days residence
in this country travelled s1,500 miles BY
rail.
-Niagara Falls didn't wear away any
last year, and that's one small grain of com
fort.
Sensible families now introduce pare
goric cruet into the castor.-Easton Fire.
| Press.
Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief, won't be
lieve that there are over 10000 white peo
pie in the country.
A call for some nameless force u
seems to be Ineligible to the New Or,
leans barkeepers.
Salt Lake papers say that 10, 0o0 miners
have left Utah this season to assist in the
San Juan excitement.
The man who makes mill dam should
| make it stout and strong if he never does
another stroke of work.
Bret Harte's new play, "Two Men Of
Sandy Bar" was produced for the first time
on any stage at Chicago July 18th.
Two San Francisco butchers own 700,
600 acres of land and employ 1000 men.
Both these capitalists are Germans.
There is report in San Francisco that
Frank Pixley has purchased the San Fran
cisco Post from Senator Jones, its late
owner
Ono of the victims of sunstroke i'll New
York had been cutting under the establish
ed price and selling lemonade at two cents
per glass.
The Woodruff weekly paper has sus-
pended. 1t was very good papert to make
kites of, and the boy with dirt on his nose
will miss it.
Prof. Sidney Colvin thinks there is a
deplorable waste of high thoughts and fine
writings in the newspapers, but we can't
all write for almanacs.
Wednesday is an unlucky day for rail
road engineers. All the worst accidents
happen ON that day, and the boys dread it
as the sailors do Friday.
The Liars Club. of Austin, New, has
adorned it's rooms with hatchets and branch
es of cherry trees. Rather an Austinta-
tious style of decoration.
Stokes will come out of prison in Oeto-
ber by expiration of sentence, and he feels
just as if he wouldn't shoot another man
for five hundred dollars.
Any one can get more degrees of heat
or cold from twenty-five cent thermome-
ter than for one costing twenty dollars.
Therefore. buy cheap cne.
1t was General Braddock who first dis
covered that one white man could not whip
dozen Indians. Braddock is dead, but
the war Office still 1ives.-Es.
The desk of Ietter-carrier, recently
deceased, in the New York Post Office, is
draped in mourning, and bears the inscrip-
ton: s'There is rest for the weary"
An Idaho invalid was ordered by ply
sician to take three ounces Of brandy day
and, knowing that sixteen drams make an
ounce, has patiently been taking forty-eight
drinks day ever since.
The deepest Atlantic soundings ever
made were about ninety miles north of the
Island Of ST. Thomas, in 1876 fathoms, and
the pressure was so great that the bulbs of
the thermometer broke, though made to
stand pressure of three tons. .s.
The largest negative ever produced by
mean Of photography was recently exhibit
ed in San Francisco. It was about three
feet long and two feet wide, and The per-
fected apparatus cost the inventor over
$4,000.
Dom Pedro's departure deprives Amer
leans of the only royal guest it ever had
who managed, throughout an extended
visit, to escape ridicule. The quiet persist
ence with which he has minded his own bu-
sness and insisted upon other people mind
ing theirs is the key to the situation.
Says statistician We have 5000, 600
farmers, 1900. 600 trades people, 2,700,00
mechanics, 1900, 600 professional men, 49,
900 clergymen, 10000 lawyers, 1876, 8ea
teachers, So, 900 doctors, 1000 actors, $500
journalists, 100000 laborers, and $4,000
domestic servants.
A lot has recently been sold near Jaun-
cey Court in Wall Street, at the rate of
about $14, ,o00, 900 per acre, which is the
highest price we have ever known to be
paid for business lot. Some years ago
the Jauncey Court property sold at the rate
of two and one-seventh million dollars per
acre.
-ss Can you change this William for
me?" SAID young man who presented a
fifty dollar bill at the counter of the Glou-
cester (Mass.) National Bank recently.
Yes,' = said the cashier; but why do you
call it William ~ aOh' I'm not familiar
enough with this kind Of a thing to call it
Bill" was the reply.
A man came to the Duke Of Yelling
ton with patented article. : What have
you to offerf'' !" A bullet proof jacket,
your grace g Put ii on The inventor
obeyed. The Duke rang bell. An aide
de-camp presented himself TELL the
captain Of the guards to order one Of his
men TO load with powder and ball r The
inventor disappeared forthwith. and no
money wassswasted on that invention.