The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-12-13
NEW NOR -WEsTERS.

Iowa.
The total number of students now at
Yale is 1922
-Talmage is getting to be bigger man
than old Beecher.
BY 1880 Kansas expects to contain L.
100000 population.
Germany turns out annually $50 doc
tors thoroughly educated, about 100 of
whom emigrate to foreign parts.
Mrs. Mary Cuddy, who died on the I'd
of November, at Worcester, Mass, is said
to have been 104 years and months old.
-" always pay as you CO." said an old
man to his nephew. "But, uncle, suppose
I haven't anything to pay with?" "Then
don't 60"
| The Nevada bank, with the largest
capital, $40, 600, 900, and reserve So, 500, 900,
of any bank in the United States, has but
half a dozen stockholders.
The cottonwood telegraph poles used
on the line of the Southern Pacific railroad
have sprouted, and give promise of supply
ing a continuous line of shade trees.
An Idaho man killed and baked his
dog and then invited his neighbors to an
antelope feast. After the feast, they in
vited him to occupy new cemetery.
MIR. G. was an inveterate punster.
Lying very i'll of bowel complaint, his
nurse proposed to prepare young. tender
chicken. "Hadn't you better take an old
hen," whispered the sick man, "for she
would be more apt to lay on my stomach" "
According to the Boston Journal Of
| Chemistry, hot alum water is the best in
sect destroyer known. The alum should
be boiled in water until thoroughly dis
solved, and then the solution applied hot
with brush to all cracks, closets, bed
steads, and other places where insects
exist.
Tho Inter- Ocean says that castor-oil
has been introduced into the Texas schools
as an instrument of torture. A teacher in
Galveston compelled boy to take a heavy
dose as punishment for smoking, and
rubbed castor oil over a girls lips for
swearing. The punishment was effectual,
but the people swell with indignation and
pronounce the punishment brutal.
Sir Garnet Wolseley predicts fine
future for Cyprus. He writes to friend :
"1t is going to be great success. l shall
have surplus this year after what have
spent on roads and paying the Turks what
they are entitled to under the convention
of June last. Next year I hope to embark
upon some more important public works.
Laugh at any one who tells you Cyprus is
not going to be complete success"
Gen. Robert Patterson and Daniel
Dougherty, of Philadelphia, are said to be
among the very best after dinner speakers
in America, and are consequently in great
social demand. Gen. Patterson is now S6
yoara old in 1AxeallenS health and 2 r'aas- Of
fortune. We once heard it stated at
Philadelphia dinner table that he had
entertained at his own table every Presi-
dent of the United States excepting Wash
ington.
-Gambetta, the dispatches say, is to be
tried for fighting a duel. This looks
ridiculous ;nasmuch as the distance between
the beligerents was 50 PAGES, and no man
on the other side of the Atlantic was ever
hurt IN duel at that distance. If they
can Craze their adversary at 10 PAGES they
think they have something to boast of. In
this country, where a rabbits eye is not
safe at so PAGES, duelling at 35 PAGES would
come under the head offighting.
There are seven officers living who
were with Nelson at Trafalgar, gis., Ad-
miral of the fleet Sir G. Rose Sartoris,
Admirals Patton, johnson, and Smyth,
Commanders Harris and Weary, and Lieut.
Tynmore-all men verging on their
ninetieth year. On the seventy third
anniversary of the battle, Nelson's old ship,
the Victory, which now lies in Portsmouth
Harbor, was decorated with garlands, and
wreath of laurel on the spot on deck
where he fell.
"A correspondent of the Boston journal
of Commerce, writing from Philadelphia,
tells of an invention, which has been kept
secret pending the procurement of patents, |
and which, with power derived from a |
spring like that of clock, furnishes an |
electric light of great brilliancy. 1t is fur
ther reported that the whole apparatus oc- |
cupies no more space than an ordinary |
lamp, that it can be sold for six dollars per |
lamp, and that the light itself will only cost |
one half cent per hour.
Bob Ingersoll draws picture which can
be matched in its important features in
almost every town in the United States.
He says: "Here is mechanics shop.
One man in the shop is always busily at
work during the day-always industrious.
Tu the evening he goes courting good
nice girl. There are five other men in the
shop who dent do any such thing. They
spend half of their working hours in loaf
ing, and their evenings in dissipation.
This first young man by and by cuts off
from these others, and gets shop or store
Of his own. Then he marries this girl.
Soon he is able to take his wife out riding
Of an evening. The five laborers, his for
mer companions, who see him indulging in
his little luxury, retire to neighboring
saloon to pass resolution that thereoissan
eternal struggle between labor and capi-
;al."
During the recent panic in Lancashire
/ lady who had considerable sum on de-
ooslt went to her bank and told the mana
yer that she needed all hsr money and that
,he would have gold. The sum was
placed before her, whereupon she
,emarked. "No, won't take it out now,"
ind the gold was replaced. The lady left 4
he bank convinced the money was safe, /
1ecause. as she thought she had seen it,