The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-01-02
NOTES OF TIL DAY.


Hope is the rejuvinatlng effrvescence Of
lifs's bitter cup.
Salt and pepper are about tile only things
always in season.
} Hon. q. ). Houston, U. ). Senator from
Alabama, died Dec. 81.
1t is a curious TACT that lefthanded per-
sons hear bess with the lett eas.
Col. Fred Grant, A. ID. g.. will 90 To
Cuba and Mexico with his father.
Let our Indian policy be: Nothing for
the Utes, but millions for defense"
Two weeks to between $13 900 and $l4 900
and ia Brooklyn one week 10 1900.
Cheyenne has organized a telephone ex
change with capital stock Of s., 900.
A New York correspondent Of the Hart
ford Post says that Jay Gould is s. years
old.
One advertisement in the newspaper is
worth two on the side of an old shed -
Norristopn Herald.
A Persian proverb says I" Ten measures
Of talk we're set down upon the earth, and
the women took nine"
during the year now closing" SAYS
the Miners Journal " American mines
aave produced $50, 100000"
Southern papers report that the cotton
crop shows an increase over last year Of
from 200, 900 to 300, 900 bales. ~ rs
General Fitz John Porter asks for $685.
s79 back pay and a life pension OF IS, 625
per annum as Msjor-General on the retired
list.
Most of the Pittsburg factories. on ac-
count of the press of orders, concluded
not to shut down for more than one day
during the holidays.
An Albany genius calls a new suspend
er which has been pateuted the "Con-
science Suspender." 1t owes It's name to
its extreme elasticity.
The price of iron ore has recently ad-
vanced about 80 per cent. and another ad-
vance Is predicted b,fore the contracts for
next year are made.
When Chicago has the 4" Passion Play"
they will have, Instead of twelve, forty
apostles. There is nothing small about
Chicago.-Boston Post.
A paper in the neighborhood of Roch-
ester advertises a church pew for sale,
"commandng beautiful view Of nearly
all the whole congregation"
Paris letter says Miss SAllie Bernhardt
is coming to America. She will hug "the
north Atlantic coast" What does she
take the u. A. coast for ?-Atlanta Con-
stitution
firm in Westphalia, Connecticut, a
short time ago brought to perfection new
needle-makiug machine, by means OF which
100 O00 needles can be stamped and bored
in day of 10 hours.
Contrary to general expectation, the
French Cable Company was not opened for
public use on January LIST. Mr.. w. II.
Bates, the manager, says the opening prob
ably will not take place for some time yet.
Miss Nelson shortly will retire from the
stage and will marry an Englishman of
high rank. Hor farewell tour, SO far, has
been q successful one. In Chicago she
played two weeks to $14, 900, in New York
In all 133, 2O1 immigrants have arrived at
New York during the year. So far this
month 1901 have come from the other side
OF the Atlantic. Last year only 70, sol i'm
migrants arrived. 10 1872 there were 203,-
25G.
Propsgating sponges by cutting the live
ones into small pieces, attaching them to
Jumps Of rocks, and sinking them to proper
depths in suitable places, is proposed by
Professor Schmidt. He thinks in three
years they will be marketable and yield
handsome profit.
Nothing 40 clearly indi Gates the great
revival in trade as the increased work at
tool factories and and establishments |
where machinery for iron and wooden mills |
is made. One firm at Lisbon, N. H., have |
used 1000 cords of white birch this year in |
the manufacture of spools and bobbins.
A little boy in New Haven was saying
bis prayers the other night when his little |
brother leased him. Ths boy struggled |
between his sense of duty and bis inclina-
ton for time, but finally compromised by |
saying I'd" Please, Lord, excuse me while |
punch my brother Johuny's head" john
ny's head having been duly punched the
prayer was finished. 1872.
The american Manufacturer says that
this country is now making more than one
third Of all the paper in the world. The
product is about 1880 tons daily, amount
ing to about 64o,5OO tons per year. There
are now 927 mills, representing capital
Of 800, 100000. These mills employ 3d.
900 persons, who draw about 80, $50, 900 In
salaries per year.
The receipts from the Suez Canal have
been steadily decreasing for the past two
years. The decrease In 1879 amounted to
!, 6l6, 900 francs, and during the last nine
months of the present year there has been
a further decrease below the average. Dur
ing the last three-quarters out of 1921 ships
that have passed through the canal, $50
bore the British flag.
Julia Jackson, the sixteen-year-old
daughter Of Stonewall jackson, was pre-
sented at Baltimore, on Christmas Eve, with
> silver pitcher, inscribed, ITO General
Stonewail Jackson's daughter, from Con-
federate soldiers in Maryland, Christmas,
1879" The presentation was made in q
quiet manner at Miss Cary.s school, where
Miss Jackson is pupil Mrs. jackson was
present.
A schoo! boy got up to read q compost.
lion on The Tree" He got as far az,
'This subject has many branches" when
'he teacher said, "Stop you have not
made your bough yet" .if you interrupt
ne again. said the boy, I'm leave.o
You give me any more Of your lmpudence
and III take the sap out of you,n said the
eacher, and then the regular order Of bus
mess proceeded.