The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-08-29
NEW NOR -vzs1ERs.

l. Tennessee has voted to repudlate mel
debts.
Germany intends to adopt silver as
money.
i The Turkish Sultan is an enthusiastic
musician. @ ~
Canada is now sending beef and beer
to England.
/ This is good weather for breaking
three-year old steers. 5so- -
General Fitzpatrick will lecture against
Colonel Bob Ingersoll.
The Chicago Tribune thinks Wash
burne is the darkest horse.
The poor ye have with you always, but
the rich go away in the summer time.
The book called "What to Eat and
How to Get 1t T" has not yet been publish
ed.
| The Prince of Wales is said to be the
best natured man in the royal circles Of
Europe.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage is paid 800 a
letter by a New York story paper for which
he scribbles. 5000 @ -@e1Ett..
Good housekeepers hate to put off
washday. With them it is soap deferred
that maketh the heart sick.''
-Buttermilk is of slight value for feed
ing, as it only contains one 20Oth part of
its own weight in fatty particles.
The project of building branch of
the Union Pacific Railroad to the Black
Hills is again being agitated.
Governor Phelps, of Missouri, is nomi-
mated by the Kansas City daily Times as
the Democratic candidate for the Presiden-
cy.
An Iowa Limburger cheese factory
was struck by lightning the other night,
and the lightning got altogether the worst
of it.
Some one who has seen Chief Justi ce
Waite lately says he looks more like a
good natured merchant or bank president
than like Chief Justice. ..
MARK Twain has been spending several
months in Paris, and after short stops in
Holland, Belgium and Engla will sail fer
home about the last of September.
chicago covers forty-seven square
miles. What fearful amount of labor it
must have required, says the Boston Post,
to make out mortgages to cover that terri
tory. t -. tr5 f
l. For NJ. Gambetta's recent fete in the
Palais bourbon thirty-six hundred Havana
cigars had been provided, according to the
Paris Figaro, bat as early as eleven o'clock
in the evening the supply was completely
exhausted.
A person who has tried it says that
handful Of tobacco stems placed in the box
in which the dog sleeps will enti,ely rid it
Of feas, and that leaf or two of the same
weed put in setting hens nest keeps YER
min at respectful distance. These are
two more things tobacco is good for.
Captain Eads, of jetties fame, is de-
scribed as small and rather fragile look
ing man. A peculiar pallor of his skin and
a very quiet manner makes him seem even
smaller than he is, but he has very deter
mined and thoughtful face. He looks like
a man who has the utmost confidence in
himself and knows how to wait.
-Ex-Secretary Bristow's portrait is thus
sketched : He is tall and stout; his head is
large and well shaped his face is massive
and wears quiet expression. He has
prominent nose: his eyes are bluish-gray
in color his whiskers and mustache are
gray and closely trimmed his hair is half
brown, half gray and not thick; he wears
quiet suit of customary black.
joaquin Miller says Sitting Bull re-
ceived his name in this way When he was
young man he was engaged in battle,
during which he was wounded in both
legs 80 that he could not stand. Disabled
as he was, he sat upon the ground and
fought with great fiercenass. His savage
brothers likened his pluck to thato of a.
wounded buffalo, and SO he acquired his
cognomen. & Fl
James Parton contributes to the Aaga-
gsne Of Anssrican History, for August, a
monograph on Washington -" The Tradi-
tional and Real Washington "-in which
he sets aside the pretensions of which his
torians and others have been guilty in
claiming for the family of Washington a
great local importance, whether wealth
or of descent. Mr.. Parton thinks Wash
ington's real fame is only harmed by at,
tempts to make an aristocrat of him.
The month Of August is honored by
the advent of two full moons, one on the
Cd and one on the s1st. The waning moon
is near Jupiter on the 4th, Saturn on the
7th and Mars on the 9th. The new moon of
the 17th is in conjunction with Mercury
and Uranus when one day old, but they are
all too near the sun TO be visible to obser-
vers On this planet. The moon il near We.
mus on the Goth, and if the clouds are kind
our celestial neighbors will present an. adj
ditional attraction, for it is positively their
last appearance together for many months.
The moon and Jupiter are in conjunction
on the 30th, one day before the full.-Pyoo-
ideacs Journal.
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