The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-04-26
NEW NoR'-WESTERs.

--Deadwood is 4, 823 feet above the. sea
8-Swinburne has taken pious fit. ''s
ike Marvel is writing history b
Venice.
Virginia has SO living ex-members O
Congress.
George W. Snalley thinks that /" Silas
Mariner" is George Eliot's most perfect
work.
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle nomi-
mates Alexander Fl. Stevens for the Presi-
dency. ,.0. f -taz
The total number of Presbyterian nin-
listers in Europe and the United States is
1906.
The last British torpedo invented will
travel through water at the rate of forty
miles an hour.
Senator Chase claimed the honor Of
adding the term "greenback " to the
American vocabulary.
Bessie Turner has gone On the stage.
She ought to be as great as Lady Macbeth
in the sleep-walking scene.
The Graphic has information that
Edison has invented a swallow-tailed
coat that can also be used as boot-jack.
Ants avoid light, and as to coIors they
prefer red, and show marked aversion to
blue or violet. They sometimes live five
years.
Mount Aaarat is about seventy or
eighty miles ia circumference, and the
higher peak of the two reaches an eleva-
tion of $1,000 feet,
1t has been intimated that the Count
Joanpes receives more cabbages in one
night, for acting, than healthy farmer
can raise in whole season.
"A recent authority thinks that the best
treatment for boils and carbuncles is to
leave them to Nature, with the application
of simple warm water dressing.
An old soldier says the funniest thing
after your first fight is that you look at
your watch, thinking it is p. M, and
find that it isn't qnite 5 o'clock in the morn
ing. #-.
Over 700 persons have entered the |
competitive examination for the thirty two
additional clerkships which Congr .ss has
just authorized in the Surgeon-G Generals
office.
king Humbert ordered the discharge
OF the six hundred hostlers and stable boys
who took care of the eighteen hundred
horses owned by his father That is get
ting rid of cabinet in hurry.
The weight of round iron may be
found by multiplying the square of the d.
smeter in inches by the length in feet, and
'hen by 263. The product will be the
weight in pounds avoirdupois, near
enough for all practical purposes.
Baron Heichenbach says: "Always
leep with your feet to the Equator" Jes
10, Barring. But when fellow goes home
It o'clock a. M, ar / sees the bed and
spinning around like bobbins
n mill, how's he going to know where on
l.
-Fbe new Pope can be very bitter in
peech. When Nuncio, at Brussels, he
lned with the Marquis x, Freethinker, !
o whom nothing is sacred. This gentle s
nan, thinking to horrify him, drew his at {
eution to his snuf-box, with naked We {
us On the lid. Cardinal Pecci remarked,
Very good, very fne-~a portrait of the t
farchIoness, see.'' G
The old question of camels in Amerl-
a comes up again. A Texas camel-breed-
r insists that the i" ships of the desert -
re no more trouble to raise than horses or
attic. Experience has demonstrated that :
is a profitable business in
'exas. and the climate seems adapted to
amel nature. A Texas camel will travel
90 miles day, and one camel in the State !,
se anG sunset. .--
A French chemist recently changed 8
be sleeping hours of a plant, by exposing /
to bright light at night and placing it t
, dark room during the day. The plant T
ppeared at first much puzzled. It opened q
nd closed it's leaves irregularly, in spite 7
the artificial sun beaming on it at night, s
nd in the day time itsometimes awoke. Y
finally submitted to the change, unfold a
ng itself regularly at night and closing in t
he morning.