The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-16
NEW NOR -wEsTERs.

U0G WORTH LlaJ uOOS.
He travels safe and not uupleasantl
who is guarded by poverty and guided b
love.
, The Government detective at the Min
may not be good enough to eat, even II 3
Mint spy,
An authority on whist declares that tn
! fine edge of whist memory is gone after al
f extra glass of wine.
james o. Woodruff, the protector o
the scientific expedition around the world
! is resident of Auburn, N. Y.
in Portugal, as well as in France. com
plant Is made of the the lack of candidate
fer the Roman Catholic priesthood.
Bonner keeps veterinary snrgeon il
his employ al a salary of $1,000 q year ts
take care OF his $500, 900 worth Of horses.
i The more honesty man has, the lesl
be affects the ears of a saint; the affecta
tion of sanctity is bloton the face Of pi
ETY..
"A Digger Indian is employed in the
Sutro tunnel as chief engineer of mult
train. He is said to be the best mule dri
yer in the tunnel.
"A negress, speaking of one of her chill
dren who was lighter colored than the rest,
said 81 never could bear dat brat, 'cause
he show dirt so easy"
A new Protestant sect, distinguished
like the Shakers by physical extravaganza,
has appeared in Philadelphia and is ma
king considerable progress.
| Dates and figs contain as much as
eight Or nine ounces of grape sugar in the
pound, and possess in an eminent degree
the nutritious character of food.
The six largest States are Texas,
with 274, 356 square miles California, 1888,
9s1; Nevada, 112,090; Colorado, 104,50O
Oregon, 95,247 and Minnesota, 1851.
The three greatest States in the nation
sill hold the highest Offices Ohio the
Presidency, New York the Vice-P Presidency
and Pennsylvania the Speakership of the
House.
AT the evening celebration of the
1,e00.h anniversary of the destruction of
Pompeii, bottle of wine, taken from the
ruins, where it has lain since A. D. 10, is
to be opened.
Ex-Governor Shaw, of New Hamp-
shire, is mental and physical wreck from
overwork. Paragraphers will please make
a note of this and accept no nominations
for Governor.
1t is said that artificial eyes for horses
are now SO skillfuly made that they defy
detection. The imitation must be wonder
full indeed, for the horses themselves can
not see through the deception.
-" Ike Marvel" the q1ietest of authors,
is now white-haired man with a genial,
intelligent face and manly eyes, whose
country life, frightened by his family, HE
books and his pipe, is truly idyilio. 4
The New York Tribune thoughtlessly
remarks: Professor Dana. the geologist
of Yale, although sixty years old, is tre-
mendous pedestrian, and can run like a
deer" This will bring shower of chal-
lenges.
That was clever Oakland boy who,
when he was given 50 to dig up his aunt's
garden, hid a two-bis piece in it and then
told the boys in the neighborhood. The
next morning the ground was pulyerized
two feet deep.
"A few years ago the Gar sent the Emir
of Afghanistan quantity of lightning
rods, and the Afghans put up the gilded
points on their houses without connecting
them with the ground. The effect was not
favorable to Russian popularity.
The Pennsylvania House has been care
fully canvassed, and it is found that ont of
seyenty-six Democrats, seventy are posi-.
lively aud squarely in favor of the renomi
nation of Tilden and Hendricks, and it is
believed the same ratio will hold good in
the Senate.
"A young man went into a florists store
the other day to buy rosebud for his af-
fianced. Seventy five cents was the price
asked. "Will it keep" inquired the
young man. "Oh, yes, a long WHILE"
"Then You may keep it,"
"A recent number of La Nature de-
scribes simple and convenient night lamp,
the invention of III. Denn, indicating the
hour by the extent of combustion of the
oil During the night he can see at what
height the oil stands in the tube and read
the corresponding hour,
The whole amount of salt inspected
on the Onondaga salt springs reservation
in 1878 is 7,176,197 bushels of Sc pounds
each. Of this quantity, 4, 1887, ,4ss bushels
have been produced in the fine salt works,
by artificial heat, and 2,786, 754 in the
coarse salt works, by solar evaporation.
Wheat is on the whole the most yalu-
able Of the food-yielding plants, because
its seeds contain in themselves an ample
provision of nearly all the ingredients that
are required for the support of tho living
animal body. Thus life can be sustained
for very long period on bread and water
alone.
The ruling passion is strong in death.
AT a funeral down town the other day, the
minister had just reached tive shall miss
his cheerful presence in our midst" when
the corpse sprang up and shouted, "And
so will his sisters, his cousins and his
aunts." Upon investigation it was learned
that the deceased had been scratched with
Piu-afore he died.
The talk about Pacific republic of
late has been confined to few young men
in ulsters who part their hair in the mid
die. Il is true they lack intellectual ro-
business. But they may como 90 it in the
futurs. What chicken salad and the dam
cling master will not do for them in a
veally condition, years OF hard study, at
triton and dry seasoning will bring about.
There is story told Of q patriotic
Russian which shows how far the worship |