The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-08-30
NEW NOR
Never abuse thermometer when it is

Never abuse thermometer when it is
down.
Mr.. Henry Watterson says he will take
no Senate Secretaryship in his.
A Kentucky candidate offered to be a
father to the fatherless and widow to
the widowless.
-"Keep your patients alive" said an
old doctor to graduating class Of students,
"dead men pay no bills"
ALI the nice boys have their hair close
ly lawn shaved. It stalls the flies to death
and bothers the musquitos.
Over 10000 cabin passengers have
sailed to Europe from the port of New York
this summer. Times are hard.
DIR. Ayers s2O.OOO.OO has awindled
down to raltry 5000, 200, still many of us
could put up with that amount.
Governor Williams, of Indiana, pro-
poses to run for Office again, and has got
out that old suit of Blue Jeans"
R. M. Bishop, Governor Of Ohio, has
invested $40, 900 in worthless moving ma
chine. which moved down his profits.
Red is used for danger signals on rail
roads, and it always means "stop." On a
mans nose it ought to give the same warn
ing.
The Japanese can make good turtle
soup from the old rinds Of American hams,
yet we speak of them as flat-headed hea-
thens.
"A Nevada indian broke his arm. One
doctor would have had him all right in a
week, but he called in three and they killed
him in four days.
The Tribune thinks Butler will object
to being specially designated as "white-
pIumed." because no bald-headed man
would like the term.
An Illinois ballnonist who fell dis
tance of 1000 feet made hole 2e inches
deep in the ground. These figures will be a
guide to other air-searchers.
Late scientific Investigations have de-
veloped the fact that the rate of mortality
among tn" negroes is more than twice as
rapid as among the white race.
And the villain still pursnes him. Jas.
E. Anderson left his position as proofread-
er on the Washington Post recently to seek
greener fields and pastures new.
An Tndiananolis man gave his poor.
| starved horse two miserable nubbins of
corn and five or six blades of hay, remark
ing as he did so, "Thar, now, eat till yon
bust
John Humphrey Noyes, the founder
and head of the Oneida Community, is a
cousin Of President Haves, and the wife Of
Mr. Howel1s. the editor of the Atlantic
Monthly. is his niece.
DIR. blackburn. famous yellow fever
expert of Louisville, thinks there is prob
ability of the yellow fever spreading
II
usual sanitary precautions.
Governor Bradley told the Repoifes, the
other dav. that if an attempt was made hv
the workingmenFto drive out tho Chinese,
he would throw the whole military power
Of Nevada against the rioters.
About 2.O0n. 200 shank bones of oxen
are worked mp everv year in Sheffield. Eng
land, for knife-handles, also tooth and nail
brushes. combs, fans, hutton moulds and
various miscellaneous articles.
The inhabitants of Madagascar are dy-
ing to get hold of an American ship captain
who sold them 10000 quart cans of toma-
toes as new kind of gunpowder. Their
old blunderbusses wouldn't go off.
notwithstanding England has so greed
lily gobbled up Cyprus, we will bet she
would hold up her hands with affected in
dignation and horror should we attempt to
acquire Cuba.-Paterson Guardian.
The N. Y. Bulletin publishes list of
So fire insurance companies doing business
in that city, whose expenditures for the first
six months of 1878 exceeded their incomes
in sums ranging all the way from $677 to
s153,7 ,7s6.
| Said Genesee restaurant man one
morning "When customer calls for s.
cent plate of soup and pockets 10 cents
worth of tooth picks. am sure that Carl
Schurz cannot make it too hot for timber
| thieves ~
Lord George Campbell. fourth son of
the Duke of Argyll and brother of the Mar
auis of Lorne,is about to follow in the foot
| steps of two of his brothers and enter upon
commercial life in connection of city firm
in London.
| William Wellock stands on the burn
| ing deck in San Francisco, during Kear-
news absence, to see that the latter shall in
nowise be injured. Several club members
have already been expelled for trying to
steal up ahead.
There will be nearly 95. ZOO head of cat
tie driven from Oregon, Idaho. Montana
and Utah east this year. The largest por-
ton of them will be steers for the Eastern
market. the balance going to stock ranches
in Colorado and Wyoming.
1t is difficult to clean glass bottles and
other vessels that have been soiled with
fatty substances; but if concentrated So
luton of permanganate of potassium, to
which few drops of hydrochloric acid are
added, be used as d wash, the cleansing is
effected speedily and thoroughly.
The Canajoharie Radit tells of a little
fellow, not yet thee years of age, the son
Of Mr.. P. Abbey. who is quite smoker.
The little chap has morbid love of tobacco
and always when he can get an old pipe OF
cigar stub is happy with the weed. His
father has striven, by giving him the strong.
est cigars and tobacco, to sicken him Of the
habit, but without effect. He says the boy