The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-03-21
NEW NoTs- -WEsTEREses.

Light reading-A treatise on gas.
There are about 5000, 600 Free Ma
r sons.
), john Temple, the inventor of the tur
bine water wheel, died at Dayton, Ohio
last week. .4 .t ...- b
4 A single message from Afghanistan tt
the London Standard is said to have cost
$500, about $4,000.
4 w. N. Byers, formerly proprietor oi
the Rocky Mountain News, has been ap
pointed postmaster at Denver.
/ Probably the happiest combination in
all this wide world, during the merry win
ter days, is half a mince pie with boy
around it.
| "A little boy of Milwaukee drank a pint
of red paint while his mothers back was
turned, and now he has highly -colored
tale to tell. - ~ ....s5= 3
4 Never omit regular bathing !; for un-
less the skin is in active condition, the cold
will close the pores and favor congestion OF
other diseases.
He said he was linguist but, upon
being interrogated in regard 20 the lam
gnages he spoke, he said they were Tur-
key, Coachinchina and Gum Arabic.
When boy does something funny and
| you laugh at it, he will invariably keep it
up twenty or thirty times more till you
have to knock him down with something.
The Chinese have increased the value
of property in California $780, 1000, 900, and
Joseph Cock wants to know how much the
sand-lot crowd has added to the wealth of
the State. 49, 1a
There are two ways of getting through
this world. One way is to make the best
of it, and the other is to make the worst
| of it. These who take the latter course
work hard Cor poor pay.
| One of the saddest things about the
approaching end of Congress is that we
shall have to part with the Potter Com
| mittee 1t would be beautiful object to
| stuff and save for future admiration.
We never knew till now that kiss has
strong resemblance to sermon. They
are alike, however, in three particulars.
They both require first an introduction !;
second, two heads, and third an applica-
ton.
"A leading manufacturer of valentines
say that che verses on the cheaper sort are
ground out by one of his workmen, but
those on the more pretentious are worked
over from the productions of poets of more
or less note.
The English language is wonderful for
its aptness of expression. When num-
Der Of men and women get together and
look at each other from the sides of a room,
that's sociable. When a hungry crowd
get together and call upon poor preacher
and cat him out of house and home, that's
a donation party.
late city of Memphis, an Organization for
the purpose of taking care of the destitute
sick and their widows and orphans, issues
an appeal for aid. Its members are about
to purchase $1,000 farm near she city
for a refuge and labor school, which, it is
hoped, will be made self supporting.
The President vetoed the Chinese inn
migration bill, holding that Congress by
passing iJ abrogated articles Ave and six
of the BurlingAme treaty. Ths veto
was read in the House few
minutes before midnight. The yeas
on passing the bill over the veto were 100,
and the nays 95, much less than the neces-
sary two-thirds majority, and SO the bill
fails.
"A short sighted man went to an op-
tician to change his glasses, which were
not strong enough. After he had got the
right ones he asked, "What number must
/ wear after these cease to be strong
enough 9' "This one, said the optician.
showing him another pair. s' And after
that ?" "Thls.' sAnd after that ?''
s after that after that? You'll need
little dog aid a string.''
"A good oil for gun-locks, etc, is said TO
be made in this way: Fill a phial three
parts with almond oil, then I'll Up the re-
mainder with clean lead chips. Keep the
phial in warm room and shake it now and
then for month. at the end of which time
most of the mucilage and acid naturally in
the oil will have combined with the lead,
and thus be clarified and fit for lubricatiug
gun-iocks, reels and other similar work.
"A refractory Irshman in jail, named
Dennis McGinnis, refused to work. The
keeper said to him: McGinnis, you go
to work or to the pump" " "Niver," re-
piled the Irishman. A second time the
keeper ordered McGinnis to work, but he
refused to oudge an inch. "Now for the
last time, McGinnis," exclaimed the keep
er, 'syou go to work or to the pump"
9 Niver, sir,'' said McGinnis, Strengthening
up to the full dignity ola man. Bedad,
I'll lave the Jail first"
The word bulldozing originated at
Washington, and in this wise : DR.. Nicols,
the superintendent of the National Asylum,
who took pride in importing fine cattle for
the government farm, purchased among
others fine Alderney bull for 81, 500, and
he became so vicious that the doctor or
dered ring to be put in his nose but be
resisted and showed SO much fight that
the doctor appointed q day when several
gentlemen were invited to witness the
effect of science over brute force. When
they had congregated, the doctor, having
saturated handkerchief with chIoroforH,
approached the animal, which gradually
wiltad, and was riDged in fine style, bnt
he never kicked again. The word bull
doing originated from this affair.
PETRiFIED SToYEWooD.--Captain Vim.
Jones, who has been over to Caribou,
brought back with him remarkable natu-
raj curiosity. II is section of stovewood
sawed from tree about nine inches in d.
ameter. In splitting it Captain Jones dis