The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-06-29

The English cockneys talk about the
"Rooshun harmy on the Janube, you
knaw."
A strong Catholic movement is being
made to get Secretary Thompson out of the
Cabinet.
New Jersey is said to offer strangers a
better shake of the ague than Arkansas can
ever hope to turn out.
We have put off buying pair of dumb
bells for exercise. 1t will soon be time to
slam around at musquitos.
| -Aurore Dudevant, otherwise George
Sand, the novelist. sold her first published
work, "Indiana," for $12O.
| Iowa has 3s, 222 miles Of railroad track.
The total value of railroad property in the
State is $22. 421 ,215, decrease of 1924, 900
since 1876.
| -" Don't leave your tobacco guilds
the innocent little children will mistake
them for chestnuts," reads a sign on ho-
tel in Maine.
When q Carolina hail storm gets
started it kills horses splinters shingles,
smashes fences and lays out every chicken
in the country.
The Pope ADVISES the Poles to obtain
temporary. freedom through prayer, in the
same way New Jersey farmers are trying
to kill potato bugs.
Professor Davidson caught a SPIDERS
web that was being spun, and found that a
single thread Of 1t was composed of twenty
eight separate threads.
-6noody ate green gooseberry pie yes
t-.aes- II - A------ 49, iI,skuo Ur
mustard plaster last evening, and now he
sings "Old Gripes is Dead"
AS another example of the fact that the
paths of glory lead but to the grave, we
read that the inventor Of clog dancing has
died in extreme povery in Washington.
"A lunar protuberaEce, some forty
thousand miles long, has been discovered
by the astronomers. It is supposed that
the man in the moon is growing wart on
his nose.
Gen. Joe Hooker says the Russians
don't rush into fighting as lively as we did,
and agrees with Won Moltke that the Rus
slams have got y big contract to whip the
Turks.
The latest proposal in the newspaper
line is blind mans paper to be printed in
Geneva. Each letter has small holes in it
10 which the fingers soon become sensi-
tive.
Now the golden throated mule with
his tail sticking out as straight as pump
handle. and his breath sweet with new
mown hay, humps his backs and sings his
summer songs.
Treasurer Wyman estimates that three
per cent of all the fractional currency is-
sued by tn 9 government will never be re-
turned to the treasury. According to his
statement, the total amount worn out and
destroyed aggregate over $1l, ,000, 900.
A brilliant opportunity is offered to
| the hawkers by Colorado, but unfortunate
| ly not to the hawkers that perambulate
| the cities. The Legislature offers 25
cents for every awk killed in the State.
AS much as $50 to $40 a day is paid in
Denver City alone, and still it almost i'm
possible to raise chickens in the vicinity.
The smile of New Jersey at the grass
hopper reports from the West has been
changed into walls as she finds herself
| invaded by the seventeen year locusts. The
| invaders Is the original red-eyed destroyer,
and though he has not commenced opera
| tions yet, the farmers have the liveliest ap-
prehensions for the safety OF their crops.
Experiments are now being made in
Italy to burn petroleum under steam boil
ers by new method. The petroleum is
poured on thin layer of asbestos, which
tains it and and acts as wick, but this
being noncombustible, is not affected by
the intense heat. The asbestos has
proved to be such excellent non-conductor
of heat that sheets Of paper put under the
| furnace were not Injured by the great heat
| above them.
/ The first steel ship for the British navy
the Iris, was recently launched at Penn
broke dockyard. The vessel 10 built en-
| tirely of Landore- -Siemens steel, and has a
| displacement of nearly 4. 900 tons. She is
to be fitted with twin screw-engines of 4, 600
indicated horse power, giving an estimated
speed OF III knots-a little more than 90
miles an hour. As, however. her coal capaci-
| ty is only about 500 tons, she win exhaust
her supply in about ten days. The iris is
not s'fighting !" ship, and will be armed
with 64-pounders only.
Mr.. Yates, Of Manchester, England,
has invented horse shoe, composed of 8
thicknesses Of cow-hide, compressed into Q
steel mould, and then subjected 70 chem.
ical preparation. 1t lasts longer, and
weighs only about one-fourth as much as
the common shoe. It tnever splits the hoOi
and has no injurious infiuence on the foot.
II requires no calks; even on asphalt the
horse never slips. It 10 90 elastic that the
horses step rs lighter and snrer. It adheres
i 90 closely 60 the foot that neither dust mol
water can penetrate between the shoe and
| the hoof.