The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-11-14
NEW NOR -wEsTERs.

4 hPPiC0 dkO 0OAo esb " SsassS " ss@s~T9
cent per pound.
The home stretch is taken iB theegen
ing on the sofa.
Arthur Blitz, son of the late prestidigi
tator, is insane.
! --Russia's press censorship costs be
$125, 600 . year.
Ninety cars Of tea left san Francisct
for the East recently.
zine to sav vssaaoney is when every
one else Is spending it.
Twelve thousand books have beer
written on our Rebellion.
The N. Y. Nsws denominates amiabil'
ity as gilt-edged politeness."
He that never changed any Of his opin-
ions, never corrected any of his mistakes.
! ALI the constitutional amendments pre-.
posed at the late Ohio election were lost.
| james Park, the Pittsburg steal man.
ufacturer, has 100000 insurance on his
life.
The wheat crop of the United States
this year will aggregate about 425, poo, ,00C
| bushels.
1T is rumorsd that John Russell Young
is to take the managing editorship pf the
N. Y. Herald.
Thirty editors are employed pn the
Chicago Times, and 300 correspondents are
on its pay roll.
For the first time in six years al the
furnaces in Allentown, Pa.-nine in num-
ber-are in full blast.
They have invented new gun for the
didn't 't-know-it-was-lo LOADED people. 1t lets
the load out at the breech.
Some English ministers use BICYCLES to
make parish calls. The animal eats less
and costs less in other ways, than mere
horse.
The London Truth says Louis XIV. of
France took only one bath in his life and
that Louis XIII. is not recorded as ever
having taken any.
Bismarck has his little boom, too. The
recent elections gave him clear working
majority in the Reichstag. sufficient to
carry out all the schemes he had previously
suggested.
Senator David Davis has grown in size
since the last session of Congress, and has
been forced to order chair for the Senate
chamber larger than that which he has oc-
cupied hitherto.
AT the beginning of this century, the
the total number of copies of the Bible
produced by writing or printing did not
exceed 5000, 600. Since then the British
and American societies have alone printed
100000.
Tnere are many moments Of sadness III
an editors life, but there are occasional
CLEANS of joy, one of which is when pile
driver falls on the head of the man who is
in the habit of looking over copy on the
editors table.
"A Galena correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, has positive assurance that Gen.
Grant will make to1r of South America
and Mexico before settling down to quiet
life and will make the journey after visiting
New York city and Philadelphia"
The novel engineering feat of build
ing bridge on shore and then showing it
across the river has been accomplished at
Dinard, France. The structure is 314 feet
leng, weighs ever 200 tons, and was pro-
jected into its place with twelve strong
windlasses.
An ironclad, 400 feet long, 70 feet
wide, so feet at the bow. and IS feet at
the stern, with solid iron armor of one
foot thickness, and speed of 18 knots an
hour, is to be launched next month from
the royal navy yard near Naples. It is
to be called Italia, and will be the larg-
est war ship in existence.
Lieutenant VIM. r. Weir, who was
shot by the Utes much as the Primes Napo-
leon was assegaied by the Zulus, was q
brother of Professor John Weir, of Yale
College. One of his sisters is the wife of
Gen. Trueman Seymour, aEd another of
Col. Casey, of the army. Young Wier had
passed his 27th year. He was popular
officer and close friend of General Mer-
ritt.
Stuart Robson says that Bret Harte is
not lazy, but slow, fastidious, self-critical
and frightened. Even while Harte was q
reported on San Francisco newspapers, at
hack work. he would labor over a little par
agraph for hours. While Harte was writ
ing " Two Men of Sandy Bar, " Robson and
Barrett had hard work to keep him at his
pen, and he would be two or three days
fashioning little speech.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Beecher and his
wife. who are living in retirement in Brook
Iyn, celebrated their golden wedding on
Monday night. DIR. Beecher is rs years
old and Mrs. Beecher 70. Among those
present at the family dinner were the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and wife the
Rev. Charles Beecher, OF Georgetown,
Mass; the Rev. Thos. <. Beecher. Of Ell
mira, N. Y; and Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe. The host is the eldest brother OF
the family of ministers.
"A dispatch says in the forthcoming
annual report Of the Paymaster-G General
the policy of increasing ths pay of the
principal Eon-commlssioned officers will be
strongly advocated, as will also the propo-
sition to pay brevet officers, under certain
circumstances. the pay of the rank to which
they may be breyeted. The subject of
bounties due colored soldiers will be treat
ed at considerable length. The receipts
OF the department. for the fiscal year Was
$15, ,s58. 600 disbursements, S12, zoo, 600 /;
balance on hand, s3,650, 900.
--Gen. Grants one sentence at the ban.
quet In California, "The good opinion ol
my countrymen is 5earer to me than the
praise of all the world beside, = is q whols
volume Of condemnation of the American
snobs who, after spending few months
cruising over Eur ope. turn up their deli
| cate and fastidious noses at anything tha
is American. The lover Of Republican IN