The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-20
NEW MOB W Ess 7 ERs.
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dicted in France.
. The barefooted boy will soon be IT, ing
; to pocket his feet.
/ Railways represent, it is calculated,
: in this country, $4,000, 100000 capital.
i -Beaconsfield clutches his handkerchief
: while he speaks, and he shakes it at tho
! roof.
The Capital advises Kearney that in
the struggles Of life brains suffer as much
as muscles.
One operator in a spool thread factory
will average thirteen and one-half miles Of
thread day.
"A farmer of Maryland who has 10000
peach trees will sell 1900 baskets. He
will make $4,000.
Smashing costly monuments is at pres
ent the favorite amusement OF tramps in all
parts of the country.
William Tweed, Jr., is in New York,
settling up his affairs preparatory to final
change of family base to Paris.
President Hayes says that Kearney i'm
pressed him much more favorably in con-
versation than he did in his speeches.
Queen Victoria must be sitter free
puff She is going to make a peer Of John
Walter, proprietor of this London Times.
The King of Burmah won't stand any
foolishness. He recently locked up his
ministers because they were late at coun-
Gil.
--Ex-Doorkeeper Fitzhugh, the bigger
man than old Grant," will reopen Willard
Hotel, Washington, as resort for Southern
people.
MIR. Stephens will slip inte Congress
anyhow, thinks the Pittsburg Telegraph,
unless the Capitol is surrounded by mos
quito bar.
The Memphis Aua IancAs is now issued
on half sheet, and the editors don't pro-
pose to leave the town even If the last COM
positor departs.
Seventy tons of A. T. Stewards monu-
ment have been shipped to Garden City.
There is to be $40, 200 worth of marble con-
sumed in this structure.
Marshal Bazaine has turned author,and
embodied the details OF his escape from
prison in book entitled, "The Truth Con-
eerning Fort St. Marguerite"
The Collector at Boothbay, Me-. has
among his other curiosities god, marked
Heather Idol neighbored by gold
dollar, labelled "Christian Idol"
Tho Persian army is to be reorganized.
| The soldiers now stand plckets while sitting
down, march any way they please, and go
home whenever they feel home-sick.
Alex Stephens, though sick for half
century, stumped his district like little |
man, but Wade Hampton's physicians say
that the latter shall not enter the campaign, |
Southern papers record how, just be-
fore the hanging Of q man in Alabama the |
band played "Dixie'' and The Girl I
Left Behind Me-" This band had good |
deal Of brass.
The story started in Paris that AI-
Gambetta vas about to marry an heiress is
csnard. There is only one trouble-the
lady has been married five years and her
husband is still alive.
The marriage of the late Queen Chris
tiana. of Spain, to private soldier and her
rapid ad vance ment of him from the ranks
to almost regal position, suggested to Of
fenbach the -charaerers of the "Grand
Duchesse' and g Fritz
Out of 563 persons in Berlin accused of
fense against the Emperor, forty-two have
been acquitted; five among the accused or
condemned have committed suicide, and
thirty -one females have been sentenced to
punishments varying from one to two
years.
Editor Cowles, of the Cleveland Lead
er, has got perfectly reckless in France.
He told a railroad engineer that "in Amer
ica our locomotives frequently drew trains
half mile long" compromising with his
conscience by telling his readers that "I
had once seen such train Of empty cars on
the Lake Shore"
"A United States statute, which went
into effect two years ago, requires that all
elections for Representatives ia Congress
should be held on the same day. The law
has, however, since been modified, $50 as not
to apply to any State that has not changed
its day of election and whose constitution
must be amended in order to effect a change
in the day Of election of State officers in
said State" Maine will elect Congressman
this month, and Indiana, Ohio and Iowa in
October.
During the years 1677-S, about 81, $780, {
900 were left as btquests to twenty-five of
the 358 American colleges. It seems GER {
tain that there is a gratifying increase of
benevolence on the part Of wealthy Ameri- ]
cans to institutions of higher education. !
A good example was set in 1871, when the t
private bequests aggregated ever ST. ,000,-
600, the bulk of which, however, was in
cluded in the Baltimore John Hopkins
University endowment fund.
--ts Jug Breaking y is an amusement in 4
some country towns in Ohio. People meet,
generally at a church, bringing with them =
all the jugs which have accumulated in ,
their households. While one Of the num- !;
ber breaks the jugs with hammer. the :
rest sing songs, the g Little Brown jug" +
being an especial favorite. Some of the 4
more charitable people put in the jugs va :
rious articles, and the contents of the jugs !
and the money taken at the door are turn i
ed over to one or other of the churches. !
A Baltimore claimant has just arisen 9
TO the authorship of the famous ballads i
kathleen Mavourneen" and 'sDermot As q
TORE" It is Frederick w. N. Crouch, a 6
nrnfassnr Of music GO years old who for Q