The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-23
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-" Mortgage I" is Lat1n for "deatl
grip"
1t is the buy sickle time with amateu
# gardeners.
s The ten dollar certificates are called
. baby bonds.
A rolling-pin gathers no dough-if it il
!, properly Toured.
Sweet are the uses of pedestrianism =
q to the shoemaker.
, Water on the brain can usually be pre-
x vented by the use of an umbrella.
= Some men cannot stand prosperity
r Others never get chance to try.
The tax on manufactured tobacco and
8 snuff is fixed at 16 cents pound. n
A Missouri curiosity is man with,foui
, legs and four arms. He must look like
. sawbuek.
The Mexican government will appfo.
, pirate $500, 600 toward the expenses of the
exposition.
The great earthquake ia Prussia,
March 22d, killed 922 persons and destroy
, ed 81 villages.
The estate of the late Richard Henry
l Dana is appraised at s11s, 937.30, of which
3 $71 500 is in real estate.
1t is belleyed 5000 colored emigrants
from the South have located in Kansas
alone in the last fopr months.
-" Everybody" says an exchange, 'gikes
radishes in Japan" It's mistake. We
don't, for one. We like ours here.
"A sheriff, being obliged to arrest his
father was asked where he was going and
replied. 81 am going to Bagdad."
The famous run between Chicago and
Council Bluffs of Jarrett apd Palmer in
1876 was beaten on the I'd by 7 minutes.
AN ounce of honey consumed at lunch
con costs the bee who manufactured it 900
miles of travel, and he gets no belt either.
An Atlanta darkey who tried to send
one of his children through the post-office
was arrested for an attempt at black-mail-
ing.
francis Murphy, the renowned temper
ance reformer, has arrived in San Francis
GO, and purposes pursuing his Gospel Tenn
perance Movement there, @
Courtney, the oarsman, is now over
loaded with flesh and weighs 206 pounds.
He says he does not want to row any more,
and will stick to his carpentry.
A Jersey City man was recently arrest
ed for smacking his wife across the nose
with red and yellow worsted motto bear
ing the words :" Home, Sweet Home"
A Pennsylvania boy of seventeen has
just married widow of thirty. Some men
call their wives MOTHER" and we would
recommend this youth to do the same.
M. Bert says that in absolute inaction
the temperature OF both sides of the brain
is equal but as soon as any brain work is
undertaken. the left side shows the higher
temperature.
The total net tons of pig iron made in
Pittsburg and Allegheny counties in 1873,
was 217.299 tons; total make of steel in net
tons, 134, ,S14; total net tons of rolled iron,
including nails, 2S2,33
There is living in Madisonville, KY, IAN
old German who has in his possession a
pair of trowsers mads in Germany in the
year 1886. He has been married in them
four times, and is very anxious to use them
the fifth time.
Reuben Wells, master mechanic, of the
Jefersonville, Madison and Indianapolis
road, is building one of the largest locomo-
motives in the United States, weighing 10
tons, with five driving wheels on each side,
covering 80 feet of track.
A popularity of the climate of Calves
ton in winter, and until late in the spring, is
the dropping of what is called the "night
dew" During the whole night, commen-
cling at about II o'clock and lasting until
near sunrise, a sound as of gentle rainfall is |
heard.
The Scientific american says the paint |
mine at keno, Nevada, comprises ledge
AZ feet wide and of unknown depth. The
material is said to mix well with oil and !
not to settle on standing. The mineral
contains small quantity of silver and ira
ces of gold.
Yellow Bull, one of the Indians who
with Chief Joseph figured prominently in a |
White House reception recently, is said to |
4 Al, ~ ~ l
near the mouth of White Bird Creek, Idaho, |
on June Is, 1877. He is known in Idaho |
as Chotlin Mox Mox.
Socrates called beauty short-lived ty-
ranny; Plato, privilege if natural; Theoph-
astus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delight
fal prejudice; Carneadus, solitary king |
dom. Domitian said that beauty was bet
ter than all letters OF recommendation in |
the world; Homer, that it was glorious |
gift of nature; and OYid calls it favor be-
slowed by angels.
-" Men invariably put the same leg first
into their trousers-this is the survival of
memory in residuum; and they cannot,
till they actually put on a pair of trousers,
remember which leg they put in first
this is the rapid fading away of any small
individual impression.' 1t is on the same
principle that every act of growth Of cells
and organs is said to be unconsciously re-
membered, when the same or analogous
conditions recall it to the dormant men,
ory.--Nature.
Some of the country doctors in Eng
land are employing bicycles or tricicles
instead of horses, IS means of locomo-
tion. The bicycles used by them are of
iron, the rim Of the wheel is covered with
rubber, and they can move over tolerably
rough roads and up quite steep grades,
making from eight to ten miles or more in
an hour. There are many places in this |
country where a doctor could advantage
ously keep this vehicle instead of horse,
ocr,ao;ailv sn v;ov of hard fiss,aa s.sd tho /