The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-12-12
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.

Moody and Sankey will hold reviva
meetings in st. Louis all winter.
The question at Leadville is not how
to get rich, but how to get home.
Although appropriate, it isn't fashion
abte to speak of liver pad as bosom
| friend.
France annually makes 756, 900 tons oi
| excellent fuel from the dust of her GOA
! mines.
United States Senator McCrary, ol
Kentucky, was attacked by paralysis a few
days ago.
-Lieutenant-Gove Tabor, of Colo
RADIO, has bought 6400 acres Of land neal
Chicago. the price being 1000, 900.
President Grevy is averse to capital
Punishment, and the other day commuted
the death sentence of five criminals.
The popular idea that mushrooms only
grow in the night is not oriect; their
growth is nearly equal day and night.
The Earl of Aberdeen is about to
build, at cost Of 1876, 900. line of rail-
road, ten miles in length, through his
Scotch estates.
The Yankee Fork Herald of the 22d
ult. devotes it's entire space to a report of
the Salmon river mining district. Il makes
an excellent showing"
"A paper in the neighborhood of Roch-
ester adyeltises church pew for sale
commanding beautiful view of nearly
all the whole congregation"
The manager of church fair not far
away, when asked if there would be music
each evening, replied, " No. and then
added, "but there will be singing"
The London Times says that it costs
from $4,000 to SEA, 900 to run as a candi-
date for Parliament in England, the larger
figure being for contesting county seats.
A new mode of treating can6erous
growths, tumors, etc, is to treat them to a
steam of hot, dry air. This is proposed
and has been applet to Dr.. G. A. Key
worth, of England.
-senator Colfax, in an interview re-
Gently, stated his political income was
hardly sufficient to pay his expenses, and
that he had already laid up $4,000 frou
the profits of his lectures.
Says the Paris Figaro: A woman passes
by ON horse back. The Frenchman stops
and looks at the woman. The Englshma1
stops and looks at the horse. The Ameri-
lean looks at both without stopping"
When Tennyson is at work lie is fenced
in by number of screens at writing ia
BILE facing the window. Clay pipes in
endless profusion lie about on the table,
papers and books. The poets son, Hal
lam, acts as secretary, copying manuscript,
writing letters, etc. Tennyson rarely trav-
els.
-Presidens Lincoln once listened pa
tiently while friend read long manu-
script to him, and who then asked, What
uO you Iuluh OR ibs E1OW VIII IL Gdho
The President reflected little while and
then answered: !" Well, for people who
like that kind of thing, think that that is
just about the kind of thing they'd like."
1t is somewhat singular that the di-
minutive kingdom of Norway has the
second largest commercial feet in the
worli. The circumstance is explained by
the fact that the Norwegian village people
pool their saving to buy ship instead of
putting them into a savings bank to pro-
vide delinquent manager with fast horses
and wine suppers. as is done IN this coun.
try.
"A very simple remedy is made known
by DR.. Steven in st. Petersburg journal
for preventing the development of boils.
He states that if the skin be specifically
scraped with small knife, so that drop
or two of blood may be pressed through
the epidermis as soon as the peculiar stab
biDg or pricking sensation announces the
development of the boil, it will not be fur
ther developed.
DIR. Collyer. the chemist of the Agri-
cultural Dc pa tmeot, referring to the expe-
riments which have been made in making
sugar from Indian corr and sorghum, said
"If Congress will give me ten acres Of
ground to experiment en- next 81 ason, |
will return twenty tons of law sorghum
sugar, fully equal to the best raw cane SUI
gar, or forfeit my reputation that is, two
tons to the acre, and is much better re-
suit on the average in Louisiana with the
sugar cane. The corn crop of Illinois, for
said DIR. Collyer, sls worth
about $75, ,0c0,0o0 annually. II they will
devote oae-tenth of the acreage to sorghum
Of the variety best suited to that latitude,
they can raise sugar in amount equal to
our whole annual Importation, which is
about $1O9, 900, 600 worth, and even this
will only equal 30 per cent of the most fa-
vorable of my experiments.
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