The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-25
NEW NOR

NE October. What a fall is here, n
countrymen
The city of Paris has debt of 1886
mt 634, 100 francs.
he Ink can be preserved from mold b
nd putting Glove in the bottle.
ng The population of Japan is "a, 1886, so
'et an increase of 1876, ,391 since 1875.
l10 A Greensboro (Vt) has cat who
20 bringing up two young mice with her XII
Id tens.
- There is always a spot IN our sunshine
90 it is the shadow of ourselves. Ca,
% lyle.
N -Clarkson n. PORTER has been renomi
). nate for Congress from che 18th district 0
Ia New York.
d The official catalogue of the Paris Ex
IS position is printed on paper of American
b manufacture.
:. The remains of Zachary Taylor have
been buried in three graves, and will soon
9 be removed to fourth.
-Erysipelas in the head has recently af.
fiicted Caleb Gushing. He has been COM
PEELED to suspend literary work.
The British Consul in Pekin puts the
, deaths from famine in China at 1000, 900.
The province of Shansi alone lost 8, 600, 900.
Bob Ingersoll has written poem on
the birthplace of Burns When Bob dies
ne will no doubt reach burial-place of
burns
General Butler will be sixty years old
on the 9th of next November-election dav
The question is whether that indicates his
success.
1t was Horace Smith who POLITICALLY
said, "Your voiceless lips, o flowers are
liVlng preachers, each cup pulpit, and each
leaf a book.'
| Within five months all the flour mills
burned by the great explosion at Minneap-
oils, Minn., have been rebuilt on larger
| scale than before.
The Father Ryan who died few DAYS
ago in Chattanooga was Father P. Ryan, of |
the Nashville Diocese, not Father A. ].
Ryan the poet priest.
In Canada it is punishable offence to
furnish vehicles to bring voters to the polls.
The colored voter there is on the same foot
ing with the white man.
An exchange declares that man who
will read newspaper three or four years
without paying for it will pasture goat on
the grave of bis grandfather.
An observing politician says that the
difference between those going in and those
going out of Office is mainly this ): The
former are sworn in and the latter 90 out
swearing.
M. Gambetta is very fat. He is now &
training under the Banting system to re-
duce his flesh, and, besides, takes Russian /
baths and long walks, and. nraatieos-->-a-a-xl i
BY drowning, lately, in six inches of water,
but his wife, with that self-sacrificing de-
yotion and hopefulness SO characteristic of !
the sex, sat on his head.
Captain Eads has declined the invita-
tion of Dom Pedro to superintend river i'm Z
in Brazil, and has recommend
ed a prominen American engineer in his
stead.
Caleb Cust g cannot be candidate
for Attorney-G ~al in Massachusetts on
the Butler ticker ], en- if he wants to, as he
has not been an iohabitant of the State for
the last yeals, as the Constitution re-
quires.
Cardinal Manning says that Mohamme- a.,
dams and Hindoos are water-drinkers, and
that their only way of intoxication is from
opium. Intoxication by distilled spirits,
says the Cardinal, is peculiarly Christian
vice.
MIR. John Hughes, NJ. P, believes in
marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and
he recently told the electors of Northamp-
ton that bis wife had six sisters and he
should be happy to marry every one of
them.
Small tubular boilers, set in carved
wooden cases and heated by parlor lamps,
are now sold for sewing machine motors.
The apparatus connecting the boiler with
the machines, have but three pieces, and
is very simple.
Judge Hoar said to newspaper corre-
spondent the other day " The hero of Ft
Fisher will never sign his name to a Thanks
giving proclamation in Massachusetts. Al
ready Butler is steadily losing ground and
the outlook is brighter to-day than at any
time sine the opening Of the campaign.
-Ex-secretary Boutwell, has written
letter decling to be candidate for Con-
gress in Massachusetts,. He says: My
fortune, never but moderate. has been di-
minished rather than increased during the |
last Is years Of my public life. AS the |
shadows of age begin to fall upon me feel |
more than ever before the duty of making
some further provision for my family if,
honorably, it can be done.
Judge Tar and his associate, Feathers,
have been carrying on an interesting cam
paign at Keno, Nevada. Two young men.
William J. Jones and H. J. Carson, Of
that place, tried to villainously mislead a
San Francisco girl, and the Vigilantees
gave them regular allopathic dose of
stick-to-' 'em stuff, with the showiest of
chicken and turkey raiment to relieve the
color of the coat-of-mail.
-Virtuous Vermont is likely to have
big scandal. The people of Montpelier have
| held a meeting to devise means to prevent
the annual influx of courtesans to the cap
ital which begins with the opening of the
Legislatures sessions. During the session
as many as 15 brothels are open in the little
/ city, and "a resident who held respon-
sible position in the last Legislature" " is
i accused of being procurer for some of
them.