The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-11-02
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Uncle Dan'l Drew is again operating ii

uo IHlCdpO 1tHGS 10 running ASAuiS-
ton for the Presidency.
"A. H. Stephens has educated over fifty
young men and boys.
MIR. jefferson Davis has nearly finished
the writing of his memoirs.
Senator David Davis has gained ten
pounds in the last ten months.
--Colored men are employed in almost
every coal mine south of Brazil. Ind.
The net debt of the six New England
States in round numbers is $3S, 000, 900.
Earl Russell is so old and feeble that
he is lifted into and out of his carriage
MIR. George Bancroft, the historian,
has gone to Washington for the winter.
4 The San Francisco Alta estimates that
that the drought has cost California $50,
100000
1t is claimed IN Raleigh that there are
now 81 gold mines in operation in North
Carolina.
Dom Pedro should be surnamed /" The
Clement" He has never yet signed the
death warrant.
Thomas jefferson imported love apples
(now called tomatoes from France, as food
for his pigs. ..s-
-Bonaparte's favorite idea was first to
destroy the enemy, letting the geography be
subol dnate. ,'''.-tte
The largest tree in Kentucky is burr
oak near Frankfort, 80 feet round at the
roots and 141 feet high.
babylon, l.. l., is the only place OH the
globc OF that name-the ancient city Of As
syria having long since q fallen"
1t il tepolted from Egypt that the Khc-
dive has incurred $22, 600, coo Of new debts
in less than uiIie months .
/ Portraits of Washington, Cofwin, Ben
ION, Geo. Il. Thomas, Jefferson. Andrew
/ Johnston and Silas Wright now stamp beer
barrels.
England spends i've times as much for
chasity as for education; while Switzerland
spends five times as much for education as
4
/ Whenever the Shah of Persia wishes to
change the color of his soldiers uniforms,
which are made Of cotton, he has them put
into the dye tub for a few hours.
When inaugurated Governor OF New
Jersey in 1856, DIR. Newell walked twelve
miles through heavy snow storm, whlch
| haI +ba
Got. Louis is Offering bets that the first
speech that Col. Armstrong, the new United
States Senator, makes, will be, +" Mr.. Pres
iient, | move to lay this id thing ON the
tablet"
| The World announces that a distiH-
guished citizen of New York, assumes the
whole expense of removing and putting up
the Egyptian obelisk. The estimated cost
Is $50, 600.
The funeral car upon which the remains
Of nj. Thiers rested was the same which
bore the body of the gambler Monaco. The
andertaKer knew no difference between
these princes.
Colonel Buckle, printer of Indianap-
oils, was elected sheriff as .workingman,
and by saving and speculating he made
| quarter Of a million dollars. Reverses came.
aud now he is foreman of the journal job
| rooms.
| 1t is announced by authority that Mr..
Thomas Mast has had no quarrel with the
| IIarpers. On the contrary, his relations
| with them, it is said, 'were never more
cordial or intimate
The most beautiful tribute upoa Gen
eral Custer coffin vas shoulder strap of
geraniums and immortelles. The two stars
were formed by tuberoses. 1t was the Of
fering of the Bald Eagle battery.
Zach Chandler owns and manages a
| farm i'm New England and another in Mich
igan. He declares that farming is truly nm
intellectual pursuit. Twenty years of pub
! lie life, he says, have NOT diminished his love
for what, in beyhood, had been his delight
Among the models destroyed in the
PateLt Office fire was that Of the ''Fat Con-
tributor' for stopping runaway horses-a
crane and pulley attached to the dash
board Of the buggy, by Which tie. diver
can life the horse into the air when be gets
frisky. s...a.
Tom Thumb, says the Gold Hill Meas,
| is said to be an inyeterate gambler. When
on the Comstock, he gave some Of the faro
games q mild rattle, but fell next the box
in every case. He plays with Judgment and
| is liable to make it lively if things come his
way.
The powder factory at Bridgeport, Ct,
has this year supplied Russia with 40,000.-
600 cartridges, and Turkey with 70, 0o0, ,0oo
and has just got IN order for so 600 600 from
Italy. The Russian and Turkish inspecting
officers have been working side by side at
the factory. s,s. s
MIR. Dalrymple is called the wheat king
of Minnesota. He is half owner of $500
acres of wheat 10 the Red River valley, aid
has 1900 acres on his farm at Cottage
Grove, MIMI, and is half owner OF farm
of 1000 acres in Dakota. His profits this
/ year are estimated at $50, 600.
The three funny men Of America, Bal
ley Of the Danbury Neaos, Dom Piatt Of
the Washington Capital and Burdette o.
the Burlington Hankeye, are all mournfal-
4 ly afflicted. Their wives are all inyalids,.
stricken with the same dreadful disease
paralysis. = Paila. Press.
MIR. Agassiz says that in certain Anna
zonian tribes, on the day Of marriage, while
the wedding festivities are going on, the
bridegroom's hands are tied up in q paper
| bag With white ants. II he bears this tor
ture smilingly and unmoved he is consider
ed fit for the trials Of rnatrimony
After one of the operations of cell
ebrated surgeon the resident student stood
| looking at the two pieces Of mortality lying