The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-06-20
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Arizona has now ten newspapers.

Arizona has now ten newspapers.
President Hayes has scored five vetoes.
-spiritualism is said to be unknown IN
| China.
Hanging is too good for fifteen-cent
chrome.
The Great Salt Lake has risen II feet
since 1867.
Mark Twain " pays taxes on $67, $50
in Hartford, Conn. gs
Mac Mahon's Is Presidency cost him $780,
! 600 year more than his salary.
Holloway, the great London pill maker,
spends $500, 900 yearly in advertising.
There is one doctor to every 600 people
| in the United States. sInto the jaws of
| death rode the six hundred"
james Russell Lowell, U. s. Minister
to Spain, recently attended bull fight at
Madrid. He says his sympathies were with
the bull.
Since paper napkins were introduced
| by manufacturing firm in Wisconsin,
| year ago. one Boston firm alone has sold
$50, 900 of them.
Beware of little things! A coat collar
! with one little single hair on its surface
will cause more trouble than ten-dollar
switch anywhere else.
Prisoner, why did you follow this man
and beat and kick him SO shamefully ?"
81 am sorry, you Honor; l was a little
drunk and thought it was my wife,"
Among the speakers at the next Yale
| Commencement will be Chun Lung, Chi
| nese member of the class of 1879, who will
deliver an Grafton on "The Chinese in
America
Speak of a mans marble brow and he
will glow with conscious pride, but allude
to his wooded head and he's mad in a min
ute. Language is slippery thing to fool
with much.
"A Boston man ia about to make trip
| around the world in an 19-foot boat, taking
his wife with him on the journey. lie has
steadily declined tempting offers to take
the wives of several other Bostonians.
Judge Dillon not only gets college
professorship with 81, 800 year, but he has
become the consulting attorney of his Un-
cle's Union Pacific Railroad, at salary Of
SIC, ZOO more. This is decidedly ahead of
So, 600 Circuit Judgeship.
The man on the watch-tower of politics
must have observed by this time that no.
body appears to be booming for Blaine.
The party employs Blaine for the exclusive
purpose OF irritating Dir. Ben Hill, and he
never gets above his business. -PhiIades-
phia Times.
A Texas paper sighs for white farmers
mechanics and men with capital. All
such," it says, /" are received with open
arms in Texas" Yes, but these open arms
are too frequently firearms. No, thank
you; prior engagements prevent US from
taking our capital to Texas.
"A lady in Madrid, Me-, was in house
which was struck by lightning. A valu-
able gold watch which she wore stopped
at the time, and, although jewellers have
repeatedly examined it and pronounced
perfect in every particular, it cannot be
made to move. 1t is 50 charged with
electricity that watchmakers say no part
of it can ever be made to do duty if taken
out and put into another set of works.
Professor VIM. Mathews, 1. /. D., is
man presumably of wide research and vast
| resources. He knows thing or two, he
fiatters himself. Especially does he know
how to get on in the world. In fact, he
| knows SO much about that particular SUBJ
.iect that he felt called upon to write
book for the guidance of his fellow-men
about How to Get On in the World. "
Mr.. Mathews himself, soon after the pub
lication of his book, went into bank
ruptcy.
| "A telephone has been placed in the
Congregational Church in Mansfield, o.,
the wires leading to the houses Of several
aged and invalid persons. 1t surmounts
floral decoration on the table in front of
the open platform, where it is hardly
seen. The speaker pays no attention
whatever to it, yet every word uttered in
the au ditorium is easily heard in the
rooms of the dwellings which the wires
reach. The first message from the mia
/ lister was from Scripture; /" The word is
nigh unto thee - stHis word runpeth
very swiftly" s.
AT an early hour ON Saturday last. as
freight train on the Chicago and Alton
Railway was descending heavy grade
north of Normal, ILL.,, the engineer dis
/ covered negro standing in the centre OF
the track, and although the alarm whis-
| tie was blown, the negro never moved un-
til the pilot struck and instantly killed
him. His name was Malan Chavours, his
home was in ST. Joseph, Mo-. and he was
on bis way to visit relatives in Blooming,
Ill. He was a pagan and sun worshiper,
and was engaged in doing obeisance to
the solar deity when killed.
Sam Patch was ontdone at Niagara
4 Falls Tuesday by Mr.. Ell. P. Peer, of
/ Canada, who jumped from the new sus-
pension bridge into the river below,a dis,
tance of 192 feet. He was four seconds on
the route and struck the water feet fore
most with a tremendous splash, and came
up in few seconds to be picked up by
men in boat which he assisted to row
ashore none the worse for his perilous
feat. He was aryued with life-preserver
of his own invention, and carried sponges
in his ears and mouth. He viii try it
again July 4th.
a ROMANTIC MARETAaE. 1T 10 ranored
that very romantic marriage will soon be
solemized at Sitka. a well-known and
highly respected sergeant Of the marine
corns ii about to lead to the hymenial altar