The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-07-23
NEW NoR-'wESTERs.

The population OF New Orleans is 2l5,
239-an increase Of u, 1928 In ten years. ~ ?
Charlie Ross was put down in the GEN.
sus of Germantown district, Philadelphia,
us q .h.ent. % uI 10 fHUa ~ hii4 g % ia.s4
90 -Four tons Of gorgeous posters for the
dead walls or Lohdon have gone over with
an American minstrel company. Fl
Over sc, 900 persons hold ten-elevenths
Of the registered national debt; the other
eleventh - held by w. Fl. Vanderbilt.
There are 2,OoO.0 900 hives Of bees in
the United States, and the estimated an
nual revenue from them is $i4, COO 900. G.1
Senator Edmunds pays taxes st Bur-
lipgtou on o valuation Of $4,000. Sena-
tor Blaine pays tar on 81, ,3O4 30 at Au-
gusta. aaa sascE Csa1 Ie .H5
"A gentleman in lecturing for blind
asylum began BY gravely remarking. "lf
sll the world were blind, what . melancholy
sight 1t would be-" 2'..'..A .... Do.
"A new town in Nebraska is called
"OHce." They want immigrants at that
place, and went on the principle that all
people want to get into Office.
When the Democrats come to write up
a campaign biography of Hancock they can
make the chapter on his craftsmanship as
brief as that famous chapter on Snakes in
ireland.
Indiana Republicans are more conf
dent every day that they can carry the
State in October. II they do, the Novem-
Der election will be mere walk-over In
New York.
We have much to bs thankful for. In
the Arctic regions it is SO cold that the
steam from the teakettle condenses and
forms icicles, which, dropping, put the fire
out.-Alta California. .......
I'm the last South Carolina duel, as in
almost every duel with fatal result, it was
the man who was stunned against that was
slain. Shannon's only ofense was the
moral cowardice which led him to accept
challenge. Philadelphia Times. Z.
Senator Chandler 10 said by the Cleve-
land Leader to have turned, during .
speech at an Ohio mass-meeting last al
tumn, and, pointing at Garfield, to have
said to his audience, Gentlemen, there
sits your next President"
The Democratic argument for change
amounts to this: The Republican party
has brought the country to the greatest
prosperity it has ever known; therefore, 1t
is wise to turn that party out and let us
come in to enrich ourselves.-N. 7. T'ri-
bune. ,....
The Chicago Times says: ."No note
Of dissatisfaction is to be heard among Re-
publicans anywhere ia the country re
garding the nomination OF Mr.. Garfield.
1t Is plain that the opposition can hope for
no disoorti in the Republican party as the
result Of bis selection" 'at4 Agi .""
There can never be harmony and
union IN the New York Democratic house
hold till John Kelly calls on Tilden. and
extending his hand. remarks: "See here,
you old fraud, forgive you for all ever
said against you. Come now. tap that bar
rel and help run me in as Boss" That
would settle things.
a few drops OF nitrite OF amyl have a
powerful influence in restoring the fune-
tions of the heart IN case Of drowning, hang
ing or fainting. It is suggested, therefore,
that it should always be used whenever at
tempts are made to restore an individual
| apparently dead, or when 1t 10 desirable to
settle the question whether person Ii real
ly dead or not. DR.. Brunton says that in
ascertaing death the niti Ito Of amyl be used
only with the test OF tying q cord round the
finger. II circulation has entirely stopped
the part beyond the cord never becomes
any thicker, but II the circulation continues
however slowly, the 6nger-tip beyond the
ligature will sooner or later begin to swell.
We may live and learn. I remember,
so years ago or more, at one of the Lon
don elections, hearing man In the crowd
say to another, speaking Of the preceding
night, /" We got drunk as Blaizers."
never could make out what he meant" l
was reading yesterday Sir Thomas Wyse's
"Impressions Of Greece, I" and, speaking Of
the reverence for St. Blaizs IN Greece, who
is also. Is you know, the patron saint OF
English woolcombersD and how bis feast
was observed in the woolen manufactures
Of the Midland counties, he says: :. Those
who took part 10 the procession we're called
Blazers and the phrase as drunk as
Blaizers, originated in the convlvialties
common on those occasions" SO good
Bishop and Martyr" Blaize is dishonored
as well as houored 10 England, and very
probably in Greece. = Life of Richard
Waldo Sibshorn.