The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-27
NEW NOR '-wEsTERs.

General Butler pays tax in Lowell of
S1,s36,
This country has big heart when ap-
pealed to.
This years wool crop is estimated at
200, 600, 600 pounds.
The wings of a gnat flap at the rate of
Is, 900 times per second.
Vanderbilt has purchased Edwin For
rest-the horse. Price, $15,500.
The Rev. Jasper lost his situation by
insisting that "de sun do move"
Lincoln, Neb., has 5000 inhabitants,
no police judge and only one policeman.
The importation of cigars into New
Orleans has fallen from 13, 900, 900 to 2,50O,-
900.
Chinese are teaching natives Of the
Pacific islands to indulge in opium smo-
king.
-Poe's Craven" was originally sold to
the american Quarterly RspieaO for ten
dollars.
Hendricks and Hampton are the Demo
cratic Presidential ticket put up by Alex
ander Stephens.
-Phiiadelphia recently shipped the first
invoice of perfumery ever sent from this
country to England.
Before Plevna 1000 men, just the
number brought from India to Malta, We're
destroyed in SO minutes.
-Somebody has discovered that whea-
ever the grain is cut and hauled in the
tramp makes his appearance and demands
work or bread.
One thousand and five miles of railroad
track have been laid already in the United
States during 1878, to 943 miles laid during
the whole of 1877.
Paul de Cassagnac has renounced duel
ing and intends to fight no more, except
under extreme provocation. Cause: A
woman he has married.
There are lots of islands IN the Pacific
ocean to which Kearney could go and gath
er around him men who wanted fair di-
vide. And why doesn't he go?
-Gustave Dore's great vase, executed
for the Paris Exhibition, is regarded by
an English paper as the most original de-
sign which can be found in modern sculpt-
ure.
Lightning has been proved, in one in
stance, to have struck church with force
equal to more than $4,000 horse power, or
equal to the raising of 1884, 1000, 900 pounds
one foot in minute.
When swallows fly low wet weather may
be expected, because the insects which the
swallows pursue in their fight are flying
low to escape the moisture of the upper re-
gions of the atmosphere.
The sacramento 1secorI- Union, anaHy-
zlng the statemen. of the Auditor of San
Francisco, estimates that Kearneyism has
cost San Francisco more than $40, 900, 900
in single year by the decline of property
value and the withdrawal of capital.
Pat was crawling up to hare with an
old shotgun minus lock, and when asked
by his companion what was the use of try
ing to get within shooting distance of the
rabbit when be could not fire his gun, re-
piled, whist, ye spalpeen, the rabbit
don't know can't shoot himr'
"A Scotch clergyman has pointed out
remarkable misprint occurring in all edi-
tions of Shakespeare's works and never be-
fore noticed, by which the bard is made to
say: "Books in running brooks, sermons
in stones, and good in everything" when
what he really wanted to say was undoubt-
edly "stones in running brooks, sermons
in books, and good in everything
Henry Haar, an insane young man near
Galena, Ill, built himself funeral pyre of
corn rn-stalks.and, throwing off all his clothes
but his shirt, deliberately walked into the
burning mass, chanting a dirge. When
his parents found the modern Hercules he
was still singing as he lay on the ground,
but his legs were SO burned that they have
been amputated, aud there is no hopes of
his recovery.
=" Suppose you were out IN jungle
somewhere" said Strobel to Bllikins,
while walking through the Zoo, "and
should see tiger come charging down on
you, with fur up and mouth open, what
would be yonr first thought ?" "Well. I
rather think" replied Mr.. B., "that for
about two seconds I'll conclude Marthy
Ann's mother had just come home from her
trip to camp-meeting.
Two "Old Believers - from Mini
who served as sailors on board
one of the vessels of the Russian Baltic
feet, have been sentenced to years hard
labor for holding heretical opinions and
refusing to be vaccinated." They de-
clared they would rather have their heads
taken off than submit to have the mark
Of anti-Christ imprinted on their arms"
No persuasion by priest or officer could
overcome their prejudice.
They have ways which are peculiar in
st. Louis The leading saloons Of this city
having agreed to donate their gross receipts |
for one day to the yellow fever relief fund,
at Bonnet's, Mr.. John W. Mccullough |
came in with friend and threw down $40 |
for two cocktails, saying if any man went
It better he would take another drink. Sem
ator Armstrong planked down two tens
Ind five for ten drinks. Now, what are
the Chicago saloons going to do about it ? |
The exports of silver bullion from San
Francisco last month were the lightest
since May, 1875. According to the returns
made to the Bulletin Office, the amount of
silver produced by 33 mines during the fis-
sal month ending from the 1st to the 31st
Df August was 81. .4S3. ass. while the |