The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-10-05

- uG OeluOCFdtlc cduuluiIe lOr UOFGfHOE
of Iowa, j. P. Irish, is an editor.
William Henry Fox Talbot, chief dis
covered o. photography, is dead.
Habit with it's iron slnews, clasps and
leads us day by day.-Lamartine.
English jug-shaped pitchers of glass or
of china are preferred to silver one.
"A tombstone bearing the inscription,
"Our Husband" is needed in Salt Lake.
Fox, the actor and clown, is dying at
New York, having been stricken by paral-
ysis.
1t is said that Brigham Young was
the largest depositor but two in the Bank
of England.
Mr.. Ward, of Harvard, is head waiter
at the Profile House, in the White noun
tains. this year.
They are raising breed of left-hand-
ed COWS ont in Nebraska. They can be
MIXED on the E'off" side.
The latest thing in scarf pins is mill
ature shotgun, doubled barrelled and high
polished. It looks sporting.
When the Chicago people want to
build a church, they say, "Let us erect q
mortgage to the glory of God"
The picnic of the Miners Union, held
at Carson, Saturday, was the largest ever
held in Nevada-6, 900 people being on the
grounds.
The Sixth Maryland regiment, two
companies of which did the fatal shooting
in Baltimore during the strike, has dis
banded.
-Pocohontas died in Gravesend, England
in March, 1917, leaving behind one child,
from whom are descended some of the best
families in Virginia.
Ben DeBar's last words were "Get
the house ready to open right away" Two
hours later he raised his arm, pointed up
wards and died with smile on his face.
The California team won the inter
State rife match at Creedmoor, on We'd
nesday. The score stood 13 points in their
favor, making 995 out of possible 1900.
The estate of the late John c. Heenan
has contracted for "a handsome monument,
to cost $500, which will be placed over his
grave in St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, New
York.
The wheat crop of the United States is
estimated at 32s, 900 bushels, against
256, ,0O0, 900 last year, and 30S, 100000 bush
els in 1874, which was the largest previous
crop.
The belief that baptism ought to be
administered by immersion, with the face
downward, has spread among the Southern
negroes, and in Raleigh recently 81 chose
that mode.
When the average compositor come to
Turkish name he shuts bis eyes and
craps letters from opposite corners of his
case, and not one reader in ten thousand
ever knows the difference.
of the 1O4 locomotives burned in the
roundhouse of the Pennsylvania railroad,
at Pittsburg, 30 have been pronounced
worthless except for scrap. The
remainder will be sent to Altoona for re-
pairs.
When Swiss hotel keeper gets hold of
an American newspaper, he runs his eye
eagerly over the list of new bankrupts to
see who will probably be his most liberal
guest in few weeks.
Gen. J. B. Hood s nine children under
eight years of age are officered by four
nurses, governess, his wife and his moth
er-in-law, and the corps presents fine ap-
pearance on dress parade.
The Khedive of Egypt owes individu
ally sos, ,000,0 900. IF that man should ever
be thrown out Of business in his present
line, his financial genius wonld at once
command for him the Presidency Of Chi
cago savings bank or of a railroad.
--Of our distinguished countryman, Mr..
Sidney Lanier's Psalm Of the West" the
London AtheaaHm remarks : "That there
is a meaning in this we are prepared to be-
lieve. 1t is, however, beyond our discov-
ery.'' The Athenauna always was dull.
"A negro prisoner IN Louisville, who has
been deaf and dumb, SO he claims, fol seven
years, suddenly found himself possessed of
the power OF speech one day last week, and
since then he has talked TO the point of dis
traction everybody who unluckily came
within ear shot. He says that when he
discovered that he could hear and talk he
tried 20 break his cell door down with joy.
Such an outbreak was natural.
Secretary Thompson, it is said greatly
enjoys the jokes in the newspapers as to his
want of nautical knowledge. he said his
wife did also until a New Orleans paper
represented her as saying: g The idea of
making my husband Secretary ofthe Navy.
Why, Dick can't swim.' This, she thought
was going toofar, because everybody knew
that il there was one thing the Colonel was
proud of it was that he was capital swim
mer.
Crazy Horse. who vas recently killed
at Camp Robinson, had, although a young
man Of but 26 years of age, distinguished
himself as g The Fighting Chief of Sit
ting Bulls band, and in that capacity serv-
ed at the Custer massacre. a few months
later be came into the Agency with 4 por-
tion OF the hostile band. They were all dis
armed and dispossessed of their ponies. and
since that time Crazy Horse has been chat
ing under his helpless condition. and lately
made . break for liberty, which ended in
his death.