The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-10-03
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.

1 "A man IN new i Ofk wants TO Wn1SLi
for 500 and the championship of the State
Peaches and pears have knack Of gel
ting into boxes with their spotted side
down. as @ p
One who knows says that mixed voice
don't produce half so much music as mikes
drinks do.
If Adam had supported his count.
paper as he ought to have done, Eve woul'
have known better than to have trusted |
man that travelled on his shape.
q The little shanty, 12 by 16 feet in size
with a piazza, which was. occupied by Bo
nanza Mackey when he was digging golG
in Red Star gulch, is still standing.
A lad in Boston school being asked
"What is Rhode Island celebrated fora y
replied. st is the only one of the New
England states which is the smallest"
Parts of the bible have been translated
into two hundred tongues. The tongues,
however, into which the entire Bible has
been rendered are only fifty-six in number
Captain Carey, who was with the
Prince Imperial at the time of the fatal
Zulu assault, has relatives in the United
States, one of whom Is the editor of the
Long Island Democrat.
The Zulus are the celestials of South
Africa, the word Zulu signifying heaven.
Their reputation as a warlike race dates
from Chaka, who became infamed with the
ambition of rivaling Napoleon Bonaparte.
-Twenty-f five years ago Missouri boy
left his home and started out to become
President Of the United States. He got as
far as Cincinnati. The boy is now a man,
and is also one of the best shoemakers in
the Ohio state prison.
"A middling sized man would weigh as
much as 1000 wrens, and as much as 10, 600
locusts. The note of locust can be heard
one-slxteenth of mile. If q man of
moderate size could make his note heard at
a distance proportionate in comparison to
bis size, his voice would be heard at the
distance of 1000 miles. .s.-
Praise talent and beauty whenever you
find il; to some people it is the only incen-
tive to effort. Praise your children If they
deserve it, and don't be afraid it will make
them conceited. Merited compliments
serve rather to make persons satisfied with
themselves and agreeable to others than
vain with overbearing. sa
AT the close of his address to Secretary
Schurz at the Rosebud Agency, the other
day, Spotted Tail asked that paint be sent
to his childrsn, so that the old men might
decorate themselves. The widower of the
Cabinet replied. with and an irony appreci-
ated only by the officers around, that among
the whites only the women painted them
selves.
The country folks of Germany are
little primitive, but an honest farmer of
Weiden, near Ryensburg, deserves the first
prize for simplicity. He recently inquired
of notary in the city after railway engi-
neer who had disappeared. 1t turned out
that he had lent money to the engineer ON
the security of the locomotive run by him,
it to be his personal property,
and that he now wished to seize this col
lateral.
I'm the mountain town of Barhamstead,
Conn, and on tine turnpike road leading to
Albany, there used to live, almost century
ago, man named Wilson, who kept
bright light burning on his hearthstone at
night which was visible far away through
the chinks of his cabin. Hence his DWELL
ing got the local title of s.the Lighthouse, !"
and in this way the g Barhsmstead Light
house." famous phrase of Connecticut
orators, originated. -
"A party Of Michigan lads while on
antiquarian research at Crystal Springs
camp meeting, unearthed from one of the
famous mounds there, eleven feet below
the surface, four human skeletons In won
derfully well preserved condition, and with
their red and yellow paint secured in sheets
OF mica, indicating that poor Lo" antici-
pated the need Of such warlike accessories
in the "eternai hunting ground I'll Bad {
Russia has national debt which is be-
becoming enormous. To Holland it owes
81, 507, 600 florins; to England, Ella, 760,-
600; and to France, $50, ,231, ,000f. In the
month of July the sum of its paper money
not bearing interest amounted to TT, ,515,-
1876 rot bles, to which enormous figures
must still be added all, 1850, 0o0 paper
roublss, created during the last two years;
so that in Russia it would seem that the
colossal sum OF 1882, 1856, 1876 roubles in
paper money is at present circulating. sa
4 I'm the Himalayas, says Das Husband,
is found a plant of the family Of Aroideae
which strkingly resembles cobra with ITS
head erect. It is known as the cobra plant.
The .halfmoon shaped markings on the
cobra's head and the lines ON its neck are
initiated in the fower-sheath of the plant,
while the tongue-like elongatiou of the
pistil and of the midrib of the flower
sheath serves to increase the resemblance
Of the plant to > living animal Indeed, so
striking is this resemblance, that on COM
ing upon it nnawares person instinciively
recoils with horror.
"a German journal speaks of the de-
scriptiea of . storm that is often found in
novels in more or less varied terms. but
usually somewhat like this: g The waves
rose mountain high over the frail vessel,
threatening every instant to engulf If.
Then suddenly they lifted it to the clouds.
only the next moment to let it sink again
into twatery abyss, etc. This Is poetic,
but By nomeans accurate. Careful scisn-
tific observations have established the fact
that ocean waves seldom attain to hight
OF 90 feet, and never rise higher than 81.
George O. Perkins, the Governor elect
of California, is native of Maine and his
age ID forty, Not liking life on his father's
farm, he made several voyages as cabin
bev In i1is eightaeath wear he Tanded In