The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-08-23
NEW NOR -wEsTERs.

j. G. Aver left 500, 100000 for his Ayres
to fight over.
Senator Voorhees, is expected to take
the stump in Maine.
Edison is going 70 try his tasimeter on
George Francis Adams.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll has gone to
Europe with his family.
The present Duke of Wellington has
had his right eye successfully removed.
Western politicians are of the opinion
that Hendricks Presidential days are over.
The Republican canvass in PensJlva-
nia promises to be quite lively next month.
The Russian soldier argues "We'Ve
get chance to go home, if nothing more"
Bismarck denies that his dog attacked
Gortschakoff, and also states that he has no
dog.
-" Deadwood' decay" is the significant
title of Black Hills letter in the Denver
Neos.
The. latest ice-making machine uses
ether and strong brine as the refrigerating
materials.
Russia keeps on buying steamships
just as if Disraeli had not made new map
of Europe.
Edison is inventing fve-cent cigar
that will smell different from burnt rubber
and old rags.
The robe in which Washington was
christened is among the relics recently de-
posted in the Patent Office.
A Frenchman, M. Trove, has devised
a new telephone, which is modification of
Bells, but said to be an improvement on
it.
David Davis announces that he is the
happiest man in America. He has found
out another just such nose as his after 40
years of vigorous searching.
Lime Springs Oowa) Tribune: Conk-
ling and Washburne is the ticket that
will sweep the country in 1880. Hurrah
for Conkling and Washburne.
Paul de Cassagnac remarks that the
treaty of Berlin was signed with the quills
of four vultures, two geese and one pigeon.
France, he admits, played the part of a
goose.
Your 10Th century miser is brick.
Samuel Miller, who clinked the shekels by
his tallow dip, bequeathed $850,000 to the
poor school children of Albemarle county,
Virginia.
"A Mississippi judge was just saying
that no one bpt coward would carry
pistol, when his own fell from his pocket,
was discharged, and the bullet hit lawyer
in the leg.
The Virginian who blew himself up by
means of keg of powder didn't leave any
pieces behind to have funeral over. A
three days hunt discovered nothing but
one boot heel.
A Pennsylvania coal miner drinks five
gallons of ice water per day, when at work,
and they are the heaIthiest lot of men in
the country. Anti-ice waterists will please
drive peg there.
After a sharp thunderstorm in Brazo-
sio county, Texas, search was made for
Willie Jamison, young man of 10. He
was found sitting astride his horse, with
two holes forked by lightning in his skull.
There is q Jail at Deadwood, log hut
30x20, within which is smaller one with
iron grating doors. 1t is whitewashed and
by a six-foot fence. The
guard is composed of one muscular man
and four bull dogs.
L. D. Atchison, who fell 200 feet from
the trapeze bar at Elmwood, ILL.,, last week
being killed instantly, was veteran aro-
naut and acrobat, having replaced Donald
son with Barnum's show. Some Eve years
ago, while exhibiting in Kentucky, his bal
loon burst at an elevation of 1000 feet,
but he clung to the pieces and escaped
with his life, though he was badly injured.
Cincinnati Gazette. Beverly Douglass,
the Virginia Congressman, explains to his
constituents that the reason he drank in
Congress was that he was trying to drown
the memory of the fact that he had voted
for the Electoral Commission Bill. Until
he cast that vote against his best judg-
ment he was sober man. 1t is said that
this defense is making him stout again in
his district.
The average human body is made up
Of several pals of water, a mass of charcoal
sufficient to cook good dinner, a quantity
cf hydrogen sufficient to float small bal
loon, piece of iron large enough to make
a pocket knife, lump of phosphorus large
enough to make half dozen boxes of
lucifer matches, also various proportions
Of soda, potash, lime, magnesia, oxygen,
chlorine and nitrogen.
The New York SuB.s London, Aug.
SIT is asserted here on undoubted au
thority that the New York HeraEd's report
Of the interview with Grant, printed on
July 26th and dated Hamburg, July 6, was
written by Adam Badeau and forwarded
By John Russell Young. Grants interview
with Bismarck, printed on July Goth un-
der date of Berlin, July 2, came from the
same hand. Former dispatches, laudatory
Of Grant, are known to have been written
By Badeau.
Like genius ever, ex-Premier Glad
stone is above buttons. He is six feet
high, sallow, bony, well-cut and well-de-
fined. His eyes are somewhat merry look
ing his forehead is receding, yet hard
and square about the temples. In his cos
tune Mr.. Gladstone is loose and therein
above buttons. His shoes are big and
never fit, his pantaloons are baggier than
we're Daniel Webster's. He wears but one
glove and seldom puts the other on, like
dacauley. This portrait is fresh across
The water from the Baltimore Sun man.
Philadelphia Press George c. Cor
ham, Secretary OF the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, has been through
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