The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-02
NEW NOR -wEsTERs.
Jonah was the first man TO 60 fish

-Numismatists as men of uncommon
cents.
How to mark table linen-Upset the
, gravy.
r Did you ever bicarbonate of potash
for your throat?
} "A felon on the hand is worse than two
in the penitentiary.
Trees begin to die at the top-men
begin to die there, too
Gone to seed-The farmer who wan
ders forth to plant corn.
AT Szegedin, Hungary. $1,000 persons
are still subsisting on charity.
Was Boreas ever married? Shakespeare
writes of the merry wife of wind-sir.
/ of the 1900. 900 inhabitants of Italy,
| 14,OOO, 600 can neither read nor write.
| Sixteen Thousand persons in the pris-
ons of the United States are unemployed.
Within the past year eight Mormon
girls have married colored men in Salt
Lake.
"A boy always finds out what true in
4 wardness is when he wrestles with his first
cigar.
/ General Garfield is not Methodist, as
has been reported. He was never ordained
as clergyman, but was a layman in the
Disciples (Campbellite) Church.
When man takes full morning bath
9,000 900 mouths are open to thank him;
for every pore of the body has separate
cause to be grateful for its daily ablution.
Two rival colored preachers in Texas,
joined by their factions, came to blows in
the church. The preachers went home on
shutters, and the police clubbed the rest to
submission.
i'm the AID Congress there were nine
colored men in the 46th six in the 45th
three. while in the present Congress there
is none. The colored man has gone, for
the present, at least.
Father Meeker thinks that Colorado
will have half million Inhabitants by
1885, and Governor Routt has expressed
the opinion that Denver will contain 75,-
900 inhabitants by the end of 1880.
-Dairymen may be interested to know
that there are 10,705,000 cows in the
United States, which represent value of I
1920, 600, 600. The country can certainly
stand on herd dignity.-Phila. Bulletin.
-" Perley." of the Boston Journal, says
that General Lafayette introduced the
game of faro into this country during the
revolution, and that it was first played by
the officers stationed with him on the Hud-
son river.
Tennessee proposes to pay her bonds if
she can do SO without exceeding a certain
rate of taxation az if millionaire should
set aside certain per cent. of his income to
pay his debts, repudiating all not covered
by this allotment.
Senator Hodge of Michigan, who
wrote the work on Arizona recently pub
lshed by Hurd- & sHoug has been pre-
sented by the citizens of Arizona with a
silver brick, weighing 1869 ounces, the val
ne whereof is about $500.
Mr.. Stanford, the California railroad
capitalist, owns farm of two thousand
acres near San Francisco. Upon it are
sheds and stables stretching for nearly
mile. containing three hundred thorough
bred horses, worth more than $500, 1000.
Articles of jewelry have lately been
made in Europe Of dried OK blood. The /.
blood is strained, dried, powdered, sifted,
and pressed in molds at temperature of
about 5000 F., for from five to ten minutes.
The casts are then taken out and polished
AT Springfield, ILL.,, the other day, one /
Of the members of the Legislature was ,
of his room at the hotel, and ,
saying how barren it was of the ordinary
necessaries OF life. " Why" said he, with /
"there isn't even a Bible to /
whet your razor on p
Editor Storey, of the chicago Times, ia
building for himself and young bride fine
residence, and surrounding it
with full grown young trees from Indiana.
One red maple thus transplanted is sixty
feet in heighth, and whole platform was
occupied by it on the journey.
1T is said there is large rock on the
western base Of Rich's mountain, IN West
Bath, Maine, completely covered with
strange characters and hieroglgphics, sup
posed to be made by Indians. Rude fig
lres and animals can be traced, accompan-
ed by irregular characters not so legible.
When we read of man forsaking wife
md children, our first thought is of the i
'uperlative meanness of the fellow but 6
second thoughts show how much wiser he
s than we are. He certainly could do no a
more noble and generous act than relieve '
lis family of such a burden of cussedness-
AT the annual general meeting of the
Royal Astronomical Society, held on Fri 9
lay, February 18th, the President, Lord
ainsda.e, formerly announced the presen- 7
alton of the gold medal of the Society to
Prof. Asaph Hall, of Washington, D. G., r
9 for bis discovery AND observations of the +
atellites of Mars" a
-BentoH was the only senator who ever
erved five successive terms. Shields is
he only man who was ever Senator from
hree States. Simon Cameron Is the only
nan who, after long service in the Senate,
Cabinet and diplomatic labor, was hauled
nto court in hls eighty first year
IN charge Of tritling with widows af-
ections
1t is said Of northern Texas by the
Dallas Herald that the tillers OF the soil :
here have far more provisions than they
lave any use for always have corn and !.
neat for sale, and their cotton and cattle
'rops come in as clear profit. They are !,
apidly growing wealthy, and in less than !
fifteen years from now north Texas will be !
s prosperous as the blue grass region OF
kentucky ever was il its palmiest days.