The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-02-22
NEW NOE -WEsTERs.
Variety is the best culinary spice.

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Quiet workers accomplish the most.
-'' Put your lips on ice," is the latest
slang.
-. Brick" Pomeroy has buried another
paper.
The Empire of Japan is made up of &,
800 islands.
None of the big hotels in San Francis.
co are paying expenses.
Prince Bismarck is confined to his room
with bronchial catarrh. e
Bret Harte has had . Lake Michigan
steamer named after HIM.
Brigham Young's heirs are clamoring
for settlement of his estate.
1t costs the city s992 per month to
maintain the Salt Lake police force.
Alabama papers announce that Tnign-
onette is in blossom and strawberries are
ripe.
1t is positively denied that Bennett
intends to establish any newspaper in Lon
don.
The yearly consumption Of cheese in
England is about ten pounds to eacn inhab-
itant. z4
A negro man, his wife and child. in
Clark county, KY, are all supplied with six
fingers on each hand.
Speaker Sheppard, of the South Caro-
lima Assembly, wears a robe of black silk,
trimmed with purple velvet, which cost the
State $500.
Judge Poland is reported to be can
didate for the seat in the United States
Senate held by Senator Morrill,, which be-
comes vacant in 1879
There were ave steamers, 90 ships and
101 other vessels built in Maine last year,
the aggregate tonnage being 76,30s tons.
This is an increase over 1876 and 1876.
"A new counterfeit 5O-cent piece has ap-
peared which is just as heavy as the genu-
inc one, and which is filed with nickle and
coated with silver. 1t 10 deceitful sham.
American rifles are now in the hands
of half the armies in the world. The only
great powers not directly employing Amer
ican arms are France, Germany and Eng
land.
The late Samuel Bowles leaves an in
valid wife and several children, the eldest
of whom, Samuel jr., is at the head of the
business department of the Springfield Re
publican. .-.,-.
-"Take microscope and look at sugar
and you'll never eat anymore" says New
Hampshire paper. Take microscope and
look at your nose and you'll never wear
nose again.
Zach Chandler's marsh of 3, 160 acres
ia Washington county, Mich, has cost
s100, 900, and la stocked with 38 horses, so
cattle aud 200 sheep, all of the finest
breeds. He hopes to make it pay running
expenses yet.
Gordon, of Georgia, ia hero
and was hit by seven bullets during the
war. DIR. Redfield says of him: ''Gordon
has a war record and lots of it, SO much so
hat little more would have been all rec
,rd and no Gordon"
%. L. Lansing, q young American
sculptor in Rome, has design for a statue
# the late General Custer, which is pro-
nounced good. It represents the General
m a firery charger in the act of defending
himself from an attack by Indians.
There are depths in man that 60 to |
he length of lowest hell, as there are
heights that reach to highest heaven for
re not heaven and hell both made out of |
lin and by him-everlasting miracle and |
nystery that he is.-Cdr1yge.
The largest oyster on record in the Uni |
ed States was one taken from the beds in |
dobile in 1910. It measured feet and l |
nch in length, and 2341 inches in breadth
cross the widest part. In 1866, Jeffer- |
on Market oyster dealer found among his /
tock of East river oysters one which con-
aimed fish six inches long.
-Pliny states that the coffin in use
mong the Romans was generally of stone.
a some cases it was made of certain |
tone from district in Troas, which had,
r was believed to have, the peculiar facul-
= of destroying all the body, the teeth ex-
epted; in 40 days. Hence the name ''Sar-
ophagus,' which literally means flesh
aser.
The awful statement has got out that
hen the silver bill becomes law the
'reasury Department viii dispose of a few
,ns of the white metal in payment of the
uarterly salaries of the members of Con-
ress. TO do this would require an aggre-
ate of nearly $1,000 pounds of silver, ard
aeh member would receive about 100
ounds.
There is nothing like presence of mind.
well known surgeon was performing
ificult operation at one of the London
ospitals the other day, when the unfortu-
ate patient suddenly died. After short
terval, said the doctor to the assembled
!" I will now show you gentlemen
ow should have completed the operation
Id the patient not succumbed." +
AN iron mountain, 10, 500 feet high. land
valing the famous IRON mountain of MIS-
,uri, has been discovered in Colfax county,
ew Mexico. The ore is almost entirely
lre iron, and, in connection with the im-
ense quantities of coal found in Colfax
,unty, this huge deposit of iron ore must
no distant day become the source of in
lstries which will gather and support .
rye and thriving population. 1,
The Dardanelles is about 40 miles in
myth, and is from three-fourths of mile
two miles wide. Xerxes crossed the
lannel on double bridge of boats 3. G.
70, and Alexander crossed it B. G. 334.
allipoli, on the peninsula which forms the
esteln boundary of the strait, has pop