The new North-west., 1880-01-09
NOTES OF TEa DAY.
II one little mouse In the plural is mice.
The plural OF house shonll be certainly hfse-


Hope is the rejuvinatIng eifervescence Of
life's bitter cup.
Salt and pepper are about the only things
always in season.
Hon. G. ). Houston, U. ). Senator from
Alabama, died Dec. 81.
IL is curious iact that left-handed per-
sons hear oesS with the lett ear.
Col. Fred Grant. A. u. G., will go to
Cuba and Mexico with his father.
Let our Indian policy be d" Nothing for
the Utes, but millions for defense"
TWO weeks to between $l3, 900 and $14 600
and in Brooklyn one week to $1,000.
Cheyenne has organized telephone ex-
change with capital stock of - 600.
A New York correspondent of the Hart
ford Post says that Jay Gould is 65 years
old.
One advertisement 10 The newspaper is
worth two on the side of an old she'd
NorristoUA Herald.
A Persian proverb says " 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, ,0oO,OOO
Southern papers report that the cotton
crop shows an increase over last year Of
from 100000 to 10000 bales.
general Fitz John Porter asks for $685.
$40 back pay and life pension Of $5,625
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 new suspend
er which has been pateuted the "Con-
science Suspender." 1t owes its name to
its extreme elasticity.
The price of iron ore has recently ad-
vanced about 30 per cent. aud another ad
vance Is predicted b,fore the contracts for
next year are made.
When Chicago has the Passion Play" p"
they will have, iuste I'd of twelve, forty
apostles. There is nothing small about
Chicago. Pest.
A paper in the neighborhood of Roch-
ester advertises a church pew for sale,
commanding u beautiful view Of nearly
all the whole congregation"
A Paris letter says Miss Sal.ie Bernhardt
is coming to America. She will hug ''the
north Atlantic coast" What does she
take tha n. A. coast for ?-Atldnta Con-
stituti0R
A firm in Westphalia, Connecticut, q
short time ago brought to perfection new
needle making machine, by means Of which
100, 900 needles can be stamped and bored
in day OF 10 hours.
Contrary to general expectation, the
French Gable Company was not opened for
public use on January 1st. 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. Her farewell tour, SO far, has
been successful one. In Chicago she
played two weeks to $4,000, in New York
In all 133, ,20l 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 in-
migrants arrived. In 1872 there were 293.
256.
Propagating 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 Scbmidt. He thinks in three
years they will be marketable and yield u
handsome profit.
Nothing 80 clearly indicates 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
his prayers the other night when his little
brother leased him. Ths boy struggled
between his sense Of duty and his inclina-
ton tor time, but finally compromised by
saying \" Please, Lord, excuse me while
punch my brother Johnny's head" John
ny's head having been duly punched the
prayer was finished.
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 GAO. 800 tons per year. There
are now 927 mills, representing capital
of 800, 100000. These mills employ %,
900 persons, who draw about $9, $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
1,6l6, 600 francs, and during the last nine
months Of the present year there has been
further decrease below the average. Dur.
ing the last three-quarters out of 1921 ships
that have passed through the canal, 500
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, 'To General
Stonewall Jackson's daughter, from Con-
federate soldiers in Maryland, Christmss,
1879" The presentation was made in a
quiet manner at Miss Cary's school, where
Miss jackson is pupil. Mrs. jackson was
| present.
A school boy got up to read compost.
| tion on q The Tree" He got as far as,
"This subject has many branches" when
the teacher said, "Stop you have not
made your bough yet" Elf you interrupt
me again" sand the boy, "I'll leave"
You give me any more ef your impudence
and I'll take the sap out Of you," said the
teacher, and then the regular order of bus
iness proceeded.