The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-23

Oil of cinnamon will remove warts.
American silk is hurting French facto
ries.
A lazy man writes " fortunately" AZ
n8ly. rs
Lemons are said to be cure for con
sumption.
No honest work, however humble, cal
disgrace an honest man.
There are 13 miles Of shelving TO
books in the British Museum.
The Central Park menagerie cost
New York about 81, 900 month.
The Scientific american says there il
nothing in the blue glass cure.
Even in Europe American and Swis!
watches now enter into serious competi
tion.
Vermont has already made enough
maple sugar to sweeten the summer
breath.
The Graphic pictures the physician o.
the future with a big box on his back, cry
ing ''glass put in??"
The play-bill which Lincoln had in hi
hand when he was shot brought $4.19 BY
auction in New York the other day.
The bread of life is love; the salt O
life is work the sweetness of life, poetry
the water of life, faith. @
Life insurance companies should be al
lowed no rest until the sound ones stane
out like well-curb in frosty moonlight
night.
The number Of passengers annually
transported by the New York city rail
roads is reported to be a little over ICE,
100000. -..s..... ...a... ..-.
Tho Worktngmara, a newspaper pub
lished at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was, the othel
Cay, sold for the remarkable sum of $S, at
sheriff sale.
Tho Iron Age says that paper Cal
wheels have run over 800, 900 miles, and
promise to last one or two thousand more
without new set of tires.
-Moody's popularity at the Hub is wan
ing. In moment of ungarded enthusi
asm, he blurted it out that Heaven was a
more desirable place than Boston.
The Illinois Legislature is considering
a proposition to make the publication OF
any offer to procure divorces with or with
out publicity penal offense. Should the
bill pass it will thin out the legal profession
in the State surprisingly.
=" Mr.. Gumbo, what was the greatest
duel ebber fought in the United States ?''
ssDunno; wasn't it Aaron Burr and Alex
ander Hamilton % Pompey (scratchng
his head hesitatingly)-"Well-p' raphs-
that May Bennett"
A Turk holding considerable position
in the State will take handful OF boiled
rice from the common dish and, after hav-
ing squeezed all the water out by working
it well in his hand, will put the lump into
the mouth of quest as a mark of peculiar
favor. 9
Another new design of postal card is to
be issued by the Post Office Department.
Many people, it is said, still persist in wri-
ting the message, address and signature on
the same side with the stamp. and it is to
be the object Of the new design to make it
impossible to write more than the address
on the proper side.
Peter Bayne, the writer of the Hugh
Miller school, is to be consulting editor
under the new regime of the Contemporary
Review. Mr.. Bayne says that it is no more
necessary for magazine to be written al
together by stars than it is for play to be
represented altogether by stars. He says
of the editor ellis menagerie should not
be all lions"
1t appears that neither Mr.. Hayes nor
Mr.. Tilden sat up TO get the news OF the
completion of the electoral count. The
former went to bed in sleeping car On the
Pennsylvani. railroad just after leaving
Altoona, and gave orders that he should
not be walked till morning, The latter
went to bed early, at his own house giving
the Same directions.
-Ch,ld's Bank, by Temple Bar, which
will be recalled as the bank (Tellson's) al
luded to and described SO graphically in all
its old mustiness in Dickens "Tale of Two
Cities.n has received formal notice from
the municipal authorities to surrender the
upper chambers of Temple Bar by mid
sum ner's day. What dislodging OF dusty
ledgers recording the details of the banking
accounts of Nell Gwynne, Prince Rupert
Charles IT,, James IT,, and other Restora
tion pobilities will take place
Boston is experimenting with novel
ty in tie way of street lighting which i
said to be one-tllird cheaper than coal gas
The apparatus is cylindrical tank fillee
with prepared fluid, in which coal OF
plays an important part The tank 4
placed outside the street lantern, near th'
ton. and the fluid is fed through tube T.
a gas burner inside the lantern, being con
verted into gas by chemical process dur
ing its passage. The light is said to be a
brilliant as that from the best coal gas
The system has been tried in several OF TIN
smaller towns in Massachusetts,, Connectl
cut and Name, and is pronounced sue
cess.
Ages Of Prominent Men.
p..,,.f,.1 n Havas will he IS wears oil