The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-02-02
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Sumner hated mathematics.

isdecreasing.
Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, is Gl,
and was born in Illinois.
Joe Jefferson seems inclined to settle
in England permanently.
To play whist well man should hold
his tongue and good haad.
The laborers On the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad are now getting 81 .25 per
day.
| Sponge your show windows with alco-
hol and you wont have them 80 crusted
with ice.
"A prismoidal one-rail railroad is now in
successful operation in the Soloma Valley,
California.
| Yale has 12 secret societies, larger
number than any other collegiate institution
in the country.
| Goldfish is said to be good for diphthe-
ria. That is the reason why SO few people
| are sick on Friday.
| Memphis has an hand stock of 100s-
600 bales Of cotton, the heaviest that she
has ever had to carry.
The Columbia River and Walla Walla
Railroad Company pay about 800 taxes
per annum on each mile of their road.
--Laborers are SO plenty in China that a
man sentenced to be hanged in that coun-
try can buy a substitute for fifteen dol
lars.
The Coroner of Cheyenne, leaves the
dead to lie around the streets for hogs to
root at over night, after he has taken charge
of them.
The Chicago Building Inspectors re-
port that but one theatre in that city
Mr.. McVicker's-can be regarded as entire
ly safe.
Said Jones sweepingly, "When you are
in Rome do as the Romans co - and John
son said, "When you are in gin do as the
Injins do.''
San Francisco is almost wholly built of
wood; but the material, redwood, though
it will burn brightly will not hold fire where
there is little wetting-
forward to claim share in the fortune Of
the gentleman of that ilk who died in India
and left $s5, ,Ooo,0 ,00e. ...-
Paul Morphy, the once renowned chess
player, lives in New Orleans. His mind is
completely upset, but he dresses exquisitely
and never disturbs the peace of the peo-
pie.
According to the old story, when Cree
sus showed his treasures to Solon, the lat
ter remarked, '1f any other come who has
better IRON than you, he will be master of
all this gold.'
| A valuable lost-book was returned to
the owner, who was discovered by receipt
ed newspaper bill which was therein. No
man should travel without receipted news
paper bill ON his person.
| The Burmese have used circular play
ing cards for centuries. Their pack con-
sists Of twelve cards in each Of ten suits,
hatchets, shells, swords, bottles, bugs(9)
| fish, sheep, fleas, and two which are repre-
sented by arbitrary signs.
| William Francis Bunston was his
name. Served in Italy; was bugler; was
through the campaign to Russia; saw Mos
cow burned; got through with Napoleon in
his great retreat to Paris, and died the
other day at Georgeville, Ind, aged ninety
six.
A notice has been published by the
French government for the benefit Of trav-
elers, that all second and third class rail-
way carriages will be warmed next winter.
The companies are at liberty to use any
system they think best, but they must
adopt some system.
The rolling mills at Laramie closed
down the other day for two months Royal
NJ. Bassett's lease having expired, it is ex-
pected that the Union Pacific Railroad
company will hereafter operate them, and
the calculation is TO add foundry.
During the recent cold weather the
Mississippi river was gorged with ice as
far south as Ozark Island, nearly hundred
miles below Helena, Arkansas. Only once
before in the memory of the ''oldest inhab-
itant'' has such thing occurred, and that
was during the cold winter of 1888.
A Yale man in New York was request
ed to translate the following, which was
found in book Of Latin proverbs in the
Watkinson library "Ut Aa6eas quietum
tempus,. perde agiqusd." Without hesita-
tion he cheerfully rendered it: "If you
want quiet little time, sacrifice liquid" !"
During the last few years the copper
mines in Spain have produced more copper
than England, Germany and Sweden col
lectiyely. Since 1856 over 9, 600, 600 tons of
pyrites, valued at $4,000, ,o0e, have been ex-
ported to England alone, and the mines will
shortly be able to produce annually from
/ 500, 900 to 2, ,000, 900 tons.
/ The newly discovered coral reef off the
coast of Spain forms the summit of an in
sulated submarine mountain, having q cir
cular base, with radius from the summit
of twenty miles. The mountain rises reg
ularly from depth of IS, 500 to 14,5oO feet,
capped with live coral. The bank around
the edges gives indications of comparative
ly recent volcanic disturbance.
-Eph Horn, the well-known minstrel,
died in New York recently. A half hour
before his death Tony Pastor tried to cheer
him by expressing the belief that soon he
would be well again. The dying minstrel's
eyey frightened and he said, 81 guess so,
Tony; I was always good man at the
end.n These were his last words.
: One single paragraph in Herbert Spen-
} GERS essay on primitive Marriages" in
| the Popular Science Monthly, contains the
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