The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-01
BRIG-4-BRAC.

The Galaxy for September will contain :
biographical sketch of General Custer, writ
ten by Captain Fredrick Whitaker, of thu
cavalry service; also, continuation o.
Gen. Clusters sfWar Memiors." The pub
fishers of the GALAXY received copy from
Gen. Custer just before his death. and his
'sWar Memoirs viii be continued in sew
eral numbers of the GALAXY.
counted all the sunny days and faces
My life had known,
And found they gathered round the friendly faces
called nay own.
All, can life have any joys or graces
That has no friendss {
When fades the beauty of familiar faces,
Its gladness ends. ....s
Jupiter-the planet, not the heather deity
lis at last to have justice. A professor in
the University of Leyden, in Holland, has
published book on the planet Of Jupiter,
in which he asserts that the climate there
is invariably temperate, sunny and cool.
He thinks the planet is not a solid mass Of
ice, as has been asserted by some other as
tronomers, but abonnds in the most sublime
scenery, and is inhabited by beings superior
in every respect to the denizens of the
earth.
InAlgeria there is a river of genuine ink.
1t is formed by the union of two streams,
one coming from region Of ferruginous
soil, the other draining peat swamp. The
water Of the former is strongly impregna-
ted with iron, that of the latter with gallic
acid. When the two waters mingle, the
acid of the one unites with the iron of the
other, forming true ink. We are faInil-
lar with stream called the Black Brook,
in the northern part of this State, the inky
color of whose water is evidently due to like
conditions. american.
Here are few examples of anagrams.
They are excellent, because the anagrams
form an answer as it were to the original
word ::
Astronomers, moon starers telegraphs,
great helps; gallantries, all great sins;
encyclopedia, nice cold pye; lawyers, sly
ware ; misanthrope, spare him not old
England, golden land; presbyterian, best
in prayer; punishment, nine thumps; peni-
tentiary, nay, repeat it radical reform,
rare mad frolic revolution, to love ruin;
James Stuart, just MASTER.
California has "a second Daniel' ON the
bench. In the trial brought by his physi-
clan against James Lick for $55, 900 for pro-
fessional services that erratic millionaire
demanded bill of particulars. When he
got one stating that the demand was for
8, Oil visits extending over period of twen-
ty-one years and eleven months, the court
decided that he was not entitled to one, and
Il any inference can be drawn from Lick's
recent career as to the amount Of trouble
be would be to family physician in twen-
ty-two years, the court was right.
A very wicked and profane negro in
Lynchburg, Virginia, was killed by stroke
Of lightning few day ago. He was in CON-
pany with several Of his friends, none of
whom were hurt. There is snothing remark
.ble in the story thus far but it is solemn
y declareu Dy hundreds OF people who saw
;he body after death that the characters
9G. O. D," in capital letters were impressed
IN the chest where the thunderbolt did it's
'atsl work. The characters occupied the
angles of an equilateral triangle, which
was in ancient days symbol of Deity. The
,olored people around Lynchburg are more
afraid Of lightning now than of Kn-klux.
There is a ship now sailing from Holland,
ouilt in 1868, when the Prince of Orange
was fighting Philip II, of Spain, then at the
zenith of his power. She was sailing to the
indies when the Hollanders organized them-
selves into the the "Beggars of the Sea-"
md as privateersmen earned reputation
which astonished the world. This Dutch
,hip is called the Commissaries des Koning
ron der Heine. She passed the Cape of
Good Hope, October, 1854, from Batavia for
Holland, then S94 years old! The whale
ship Rousseau (another ofStephen Girard's
ships, built at Philadelphia in 1901, is still
in existence. Among the celebrated China
raiders of generation ago may be mem
Toned the Natchez, belonging to Messrs.
Rowland & Aspinwall, which made the pas
,age from Hongkong to New York, in COM
nand OF Robert s. Waterman, in 81 days,
which has never been matched by any other
craft before or since.