The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-04-19
NEW NOR -wEsTERs,
Sir Stafford Northcote drawls. 70

Sir Stafford Northcote drawls. - -,
-Beecher has just drawn a 81, 800 hous
in Chicago, -
Theodore Tilton has made $15, 900 thi
winter by lecturing. ai
Bob Ingersoll is a little down, but hi
cry is, up Pagan an at 'em. @
Two hundred and fortY-threey Englisl
PERSONS went mad from love last year.
Bret Harte admits that he is not sue
cess as newspaper man, and SO does MARI
| Twain. -
Sitting Bull is not on this side of tht
| border. He will not desert England in hel
hour of trouble. .-
Lord Roseberry, who married Miss
Hannah Rothschild, is the owner Of tlit
London Examiner. ~ 81
The estate of the late William Welsh,
of Philadelphia, exclusive of real estate, ID
inventoried at $s6S, ,21s. @
Stanley, who is unemployed just now,
might be sent on an expedition to discover
British interests in the East.
The st. Paul Pio.eer-Press looks for
the building Of 245 miles of railroad in
Minnesota this year, making $500 in that
State.
"A negro teamster in Nashville decl ares
that he must either give up driving mules
or withdraw from the church, the two po,
sitions being incompatible. ....
Professor Swing says IN his paper, the
Alliance, that the recent raid on hell has
proved failure, having left us just where
we were before, namely, in the dark.
A French philanthropist has bequeath-
ed a reward amounting to $50, 900 to be
awarded by the French Academy of Sci
ences to the discoverer of cure for chol-
era. 80
Two hundred tons of borax per month
are produced in California and Nevada. 1t
is worth 81 cents per pound in San Fran
cisco, and is chiefly used in the mannfac-
turs of glass. fu#
1t is stated as solemn truth that In
dians never kiss their wives. All, haman
nature is the same, whether under white
Or copper-colored complexion. But whose
wives do they kiss?
-Krupp's gun factory, at Essen, in Feb
ruary, turned out four of the monster re
zolying guns ordered by Russia for the
larbor of Kronstadt. They cost $4,000
'onbles each, and weigh 10000 pounds
lpiece.
A writer in a cttemporary states that
sfter being troubled with heartburn. indi-
.estion, wakefulness, &C., he adopted .
Practice of eating apples after each meal.
t cured him entirely. and his weight in
reased in two months from 130 to $50 |
sounds, and he felt stronger in proportion.
When the present editor OF the New
york Tribune first went to Washington as
correspondent he was known as "Jake -
seid, his name being Jacob w. Reid.
low he is known as Whitelaw Reid. Bay
I'd Taylor was chrstened "James" Bayard
'aylor. Why is it that these literary "fel
'ws can't stand by the names given them
y their parents ?
One who has had great deal of expe-
ence with the Russian army..says that "it
wonderful how the Rus ,iaa soldier loves
, sing. He sings when he is happy, when
9 is sad, when he works, when he walks
3 is always singing. On the battlefield
3 even marches to death with the Russian
'ng on his lips. They are brave set of
ZEN and loyal to their hearts core"
There have been Sc Atlantic steamers
st during the past 81 years, in which A.
30 persons perished. Nine vessels were
ever heard from after leaving port,4 were
nrned, 30 wrecked, 5 lost through collision
18th other vessels, and by collision with
ebergs, foundered and were lost in
gs. Of nationalities, 40 were British,
merican, 4 French, German and one
elgian
America beats the world on locono-
yes. The Australian government has
zen making tests of the various kinds of
sgines and finds that American locomo-
yes are much better than the English on
le steep grades and sharp curves that oc-
lr on the Australian mountain railroads.
mother advantage is that American en-
mes can be laid down in that far-of land
If So, 600 less than English ones.
"A Middletop, Conn, game-cock, ac-
ompanied by two of his family of hens,
llowed line of corn which had been
altered in the road by team loaded
'ith corn on it's way to the ferry-boat last
eek, embarked aboard the boat, disem-
arked in Portland, whipped three Port
nd rooste1s. and returned to ais home in
bringing his two hens tri-
nphantly with him. A Portland man
ants to give $40 for that rooster, but he
mt be bought.
One by one the pleasures which citi-
N of Ohio enjoys are taken away from
IN. Ohio always was a kind of uncertain
and consequently the pleasure
I'd excitement of betting ON the result of
contest were correspondingly great.
ow this last prop is to be Withdrawn from
le unfortunate Buckeyes, as bill is now
efore the Senate of that State prohibiting
sitting on elections under penalGy of $5
$500, or imprisonment from ten days to
x months. An ebodus of old politicians
ay be expected. s5rg
When Abraham Lincoln vas poor
wyer, he found himself ons cold day some
stance from Springfield, H., and with no
cans of conveyance. Seeing gentleman
irving along the Springfield road in car
age he ran up to him and politely said !:
Sir, will you have the goodness TO take
y o7ercoat to town for me- ?'' with
easnre, /" answered the gentleman. sBut