The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-05-10
NEW oR'-WESTERs.
Russia won't find John Bull doing.

Ten Texas stock-raisers own !, 1,023, 90
head of cattle.
Railroad building is being vigorousl
pushed in Oregon.
Maine had one divorce to every 12 mar
riages during 1877.
Texas has 57,5Os, ,24o acres of publ
land subject to location. {
The thud Of the slap-jack no longer re
sounds through the land. 50
William A. Howard has been installe,
as Governor of Dakota.
Somebody in England has patented
machine for telling timber.
Peter Cooper only owns up to $5, 900,
900, but he is quite contented.
Wade Hampton will decline to rul
again as Governor of South Carolina.
"A picture frame just completed by
Jerseyman contains 1852 different sorts 0
wood.
The artificial ice sold in the South i!
delivered in beautiful cubes of exactly 1O(
pounds each.
Up to January, 1878, the house of Har
per & Bros. had published over 8, 291 works
in over 1000 volumes.
"A Southern paper refers to Colonel DE-
Lancey Kane as Zone Of the most popular
hackman in New York"
-Moffett obtained the idea of his % bell
punch" from watching the operations ol
the turnstiles at the Centennial.
The will of Howard Wheeler, who died
in Nashua, N. H., worth 1000, reads
"Expend iC all on my tombstone"
To date fifteen Molly Maguires have
been executed in Pennsylvania, the mur-
ders for which they were hanged being
six.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny sold about three hundred thousand
acres of land last year at about $3.50 per
acre.
Gen. Cassius M. Clay has just been &C
quilted by the Grand Jury of Richmond
KY, of the killing of the negro, P. White.
September last.
Mccormick, the reaper man, it is said,
is willing to put up 100000 to enable
him to represent Illinois in the United
States Senate.
DIR. LeMoyne when asked what he
thought of the bill to prevent cremation,
said he hoped to live to burn up some of
the law makers.
-Governor Hampton defends President
Hayes and denies that any pledges were
asked or made in the settlement of South
Carolina affairs.
How can five persons divide i've eggs,
SO that each man shall receive one, and
still one remain in the dish? One take the
dish with the egg.
Don't be afraid to lick on postage
stamps The printers make the mucilage
from potatoes and thin it down with peach
brandy. The more you hex the more you
will like to.
-Almonte, the famous clown of Bar
NUNS Circus, died recently, just after tax
ing off his mask and costume-almost dy-
ing in the harness. He was fellow of in
finite jest.
The absence of many tall trees in Eu-
ropean countries has been the subject of
frequent remark by travellers. There are
not more than 40 kinds growing there that
attain height of 80 feet.
The new Blue Book, just issued at
Washington, gives the total number of per-
sons employed in the Federal service at
S., $50. This is about one in 450 of the
total population, or one to every ninety
voters.
A monument to Gen. John E. Wool is
about to be erected at Albany at a cost of
$50, 900. The General was aware of the in
gratitude of republics and left the money
himself. The monument IS to be granite
obeiisk, rs feet high.
1.-THE Chinese must ge." 1t seems
they must-but it is from China to the Uni
ted States that they are going. The ''City
OF Toxic yesterday brought nearly 1000
of them to California.-!S. 2. Chronicle,
AprsE 25th.
Engraving on glass Is now done with
the aid of electricity. The glass Is first
covered with a concentrated solution of
potassium nitrate, and the design is traced
with fine platinum point connected with
one pole of battery.
Lord 6eaconsfeld, in the course of an
impassioned speech, denounced the occu-
pants of the Treasury Bench as "extinct
volcanoes" "What does he mean by
that % an Irish member was asked. sSure,
he means that they're used-up craters,"
was the answer.
At dinner the host introduces to the ia
vorable notice of the company splendid
truff1ed pheasant. amid murmurs of admi-
ration. "Isn't it beauty p" he says. ''Dr.
SO gave it to me-killed it himself"
:" Aw, what vas he treating it for ?" asked
one of the guests. ts.-Erehange.
As the Chinese have no alphabet they
have been heretofore debarred from the
privileges of the telegraph. But at last
electricity is prepared to wrestle with the
Chinese language. The telephone has been
introduced in China, and already 500 miles
Of the telephone wires are in operation.
When Edison was telegraph operator
in Cincinnati, in 1865. his ambition was to
be tragedian. Richard Iii. is said to have
been his favorite character, and whenever
his duties in the Office permitted, he would
arise from his instrument, hump his back.
bow his legs, and proceed with "Now is
the winter of our discomfort" to the great
of his fellow-operators.
Mark Hopkins. the Treasurer and
brains of the Central Pacific Railroad, who
died chiIdlcss, leaving fifteen millions. wore
shabby clothes, dug his own garden, picked
up bits of old iron when he saw them, work
cd until two o'cIock ii the morning, wrote
more on page than most business men put