The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-02-04
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NEW NOR-WEsTERS.

line late senator Doagias Pdthtfngs
will be be sold in Washington.
Let friendship creep gently to height
If it rush to it, it may soon run itself out
Of breath.
The California Alta says that Thomas.
sen, the dynamite fiend, has gone to NEE
his cremator.
Mr.. O'Conor has SO far recovered as to
be able to consult with the counsel in tht
Tweed suits. He walks about his room
with cane.
Every shot fired from England's 8l-tot
gun will cost S100, and John Bull fatter
himself that not many nations can afford
such luxury. ~
Charles Algernon Swinburne, the poet,
.,as joined the Church of England, HAVING
oeen converted from Roman Catholicism
IN which faith he was born.
"A murderer at Watertown, N. r,
wants to be hung with brass band playing
around the scaFold. He wants everything
as horrible as it can be.
james Stephens, late Head Centre o1
the Fenian Brotherhood of the Uuitec
States, died in Paris recently. AT one
time he created quite sensation in this
country.
Mr.. Tilton, it is said, has gained fifteen
rounds, reclaimed his paintings from mort
age, repainted his house, paid all his debts,
nd is to spend most of the time until June
ecturing.
Harry Meiggs. the California and South
american Railroad King, is dying Of seft-
ming Of the brain. He was self-made, and
ike the lamented Fisk, was much thought
# by the working man.
1t costs the people of the United States
bout $4,000 day to support the Hous'
# Representatives. A session of the Hous
onsumes from three to four hours. Ever
,our's work is done at an expense
1850. Every minute of the session costs
$40.
The meanest man in the werld reside
It present in Northern Ohio. He went oh
81, Cincinnati to attend his brothers. funer-
i, and then coolly sent in bill to the ex-
tutors fer $47.5O, itemized as travelling ex,
lenses, hotel bills and $3.50 per day fn
time " consumed in attendance.
James Parton is described as middle,
,zed, lean and spectacled gentleman, witt
teasant, brown-bearded face; hair fiatten-
Oh the top and sides of his head su
f broadcloth that did not fit him the ev :
.ence of little bad taste in shape of
watch chain dangling across his low-cn
vest.
-Wilkie Collins is said to be the AUTH.
f this valuable hint: "Ne other humai,
pursuit is so hostile to the influence Of the
female sex as the pursuit of athletic sports
No men are SO entirely beyond the reach OF
women as the men whose lives are passee
in the cultivation of their own physica
,trength." F"
Sorrows come thick and fast to Bis
narck. His two sons cause him many d
leartache of which the world knows moth
ing, and now to see his only daughter, the
Jet and pride of his household, SO crushed
and broken, brought tears to the eyes o.
the strong man when he took her in his
.rms after she left the lifeless form of hel
,etrothed.
she present time only seven hundred per-
,ons in Great Britain have announced tneii
Intention TO contribute to the Centennial
Exhibition. The Queen has consented tt
END twenty of her pictures. The Royal
academy will allow each r. A. to send
wo pictures, and each A. r. A. to send
me.
MIR. Lincoln used to tell in his inimta-
lie way story Of a Winchester converte
Confederate, who was so oyerjoyed at r
s'iving his pardon, that he exclaimed
q Thank you, MI. President, thank you
Now I'm pardoned I s'pose I'm as good .
Union man as any of you-emphaticall.
me of you again. But didn't StonewaI
jackson give us hell in the valley?"
Recently an officer at st Albans, VT.
.aving two insane persons to convey to al
.sylum for the insane at Brattleboro, calle'
ne of the lunatics aside, and asked his as
keeping watch over his companion du,
ng the journey, and then did the sam
With the other. The two lunatics sat sid.
y side, silently eyeing each other throug
he whole route, and they have continual
ept guard over each other in the asylum
yer since.
What stir would church make In III
american community which should be o.
anized like certain one in Japan! Il ha
,ut 30 male members, but of these Is al,
W preachers, who visit six stations pt.
week. Every man not incapacitated h
.ge Or sickness for active work is pledge
. lay effort at his own expense, and TIL
;hurch accepts no male candidate fl,
membership unless he viii give such
,ledge.
seriins Astonishing Fire Departnen
Correspondence Indianapolis Journal.
Berlin, city with over q million inhal,i
.nts, is drained by open cutters. Tlle>
re washed every morning by gangs of mel
Who, although Industrious and hard wora
ng. make no impression ON the giganti
dversary. While one is Illuminating oy
hese sad smells some kind philanthro ~
will pull you out of harms way, saying
I Look out! the Berlin FIRE department /
gong TO a fire. Where is il ?'' you ask
II don't see anything. Oh, there it il,
ind yon see hand engine hitched by rop
traces to a pair of bony horses trottin
luite leisurely along. Then follows
wagon load of men in oil-cloth uniform
and next the machine, which is an immens
nogshead, mounted on wheels and fill
with water. When passed, you have see
Beriin's defense against the tsre-fiend Nay