The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-01-16
NEW NoR'- -WESTERS.

annexation.
Put a shutter over your mouth is th
latest slang.
The sisters Of mercy generally outnum
Der the brothers.
-Elopement in California is called tn
"Pacific SLOPE"
MIR. Hendricks boom has tied crap
on its front door knob.
Mo man has time enough to form an
definite iden Of etsrnity.
The farmsrs of north We stern Dake Il
arc going inte raising tobacco this year.
Secretary Of War Ramsey is portly
good-natured, gray haired and spectacled
Eleven out Of twenty-three Mayors o
Boston havo been graduates of Harvard
College.
1t is, for some reason, a great dea
easier to hate bad man than to keep from
being one yourself.
-Astor owns 3400 dwelling houses II
New York City. This is besides storel
and other buildings.
General Sherman is said to be th,
most persistent theatre-goer of all the pub
lic men in Washington.
The first wild flowers Of the season
the nemophila-have begun to make theil
appearance in Fresno county, Cal.
Col. Robert G.. Inge rsoll from his pro
fession and lectures earns from $4,000 tc
$4,000 year and spends most of it.
AT recent potato show in England,
where nearly 400 plates were shown, q
large number were Of American varieties.
Eastern Oregon papers caution settlers
against buying railroad lands, on the
ground that the company cannot give q
good title.
1t is a curious fact that charity for
for others faults is kind OF magic mantle
which covers up yoar own faults at the
same time.
The Texas Legislature intends next
session to make it misdsmeanor for a
railroad company to give free pass except
to an employee.
Thomas A. Scott, in reference to re-
ports now going the rounds to the effect
that he is hopolessly ill, says he never has
enjoyed better health than now.
MIR. John w. Jarrett, elected Presi-
dent Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
for the twenty second time, is said to con-
troll more than 5000 miles of steel
A new mining exchange has been
formed in New York. The new board ia
to be governed by similar rules to the San
Francisco and other stock exchanges.
--Judye Eldridge, of Memphis, fined
himself $40 for tardiness at court. Two
lawyers made able pleas for the remission
OF the fine. but hts Honor remained firm.
- i'm Keene is said TO be at the head Of
. grain clique controlling 9 ,OOO, 900 bushel 6
of grain in Chicago o, and 4 ,000, 600 or 8, 000.-
600 bushels afoat and in the elevator at
New York.
Charles francis Adams is taxed at
Boston on STAG. 500; Sidney Bartlett, the
lawyer, on $3.50, 800 Joshua
Sears on $3, o55, 900 and Moses Williams
on s2,Cs1, 600.
There is reliable authority for the an
nounce nent that Governor Charles @. Van
Zaat, of Rhode Island, has been rendered
and will probably accept the position Of
Minister to Russia.
of 600 camels which started with the
Russian expedition against the Turco-
mans, only 800 survived at last accounts,
and these were 80 reduced that they were
ms sure to perish.
During the past year 10 vessels have
cleared from Portland for European ports.
The total amount Of grain shipped to for
,ign ports aggregates 1,939,080 centals.
Total valuation Of cargoes, $3, Gil, 24O.
"A German newspaper, which must be
,dited by a nimble man, declares It IL
wrong to say In novels that the sea ran
high, because, in fact, the sea
runs very little more th IN twenty feet high.
The Cleveland Plaindsalsr has had
,ome celebrated city editors. Twenty
light years ago d. r. Locke (Nasby) took
he local. He was followed by G. +.
Browne (Artemus Ward) and after him
anne Griswold. the Fat Contributor.
The rumor of the retirement of j. 9.
Flood from California is confirmed by
elegram from New York stating that he
win follow the follow the example Of Jim
Keene ard devote the remainder of his
line In New York.
The manufacture of friction matches
n this country employs seventy-ave facto-
les and twenty-five hundred employees,
,ue-third Of whom are children. The rev.
,nue tax OF one cant per hundred yields
he government I'm annual return OF over
% ,00o, 600.
The lighting Of the public thorough
ares in Paris costs 4, 240. 600 francs annu-
.lly. The number OF gas jets Is "a, 400 OF
,hich 600 are extinguished 1t midnight,
eaying 80, 400 burning for the rest OF the
tight, for o length Of time which varies
With the season.
--Boeardus broke $500 glass balls tho
,ther day in New York, firing 10 the ag-
vrerate 1854 times. This was done In II
,ours. 10 minutes aud two seconds. The
'.rce OF the recoil was equal to forty
yound blow At each shot. Bogardus made
1000 by tho feat.
The smartest Newfoundland dog yet
,iscovered lives 1t Haverill, Mass. He
neets the newsboy At the gate evsry morn
ne and carries his masters paper into the
,ouse /: that ia, hs did 30 till the other
,ay. whom his master stopped taking the
,apsr. Tho next morning the dog noticed
be boy passing on the other aide without
eavius the newspaper, and went over and
ook tho whole bundle from him and car
i'd them into tho house.
The ex-confsderass General Joseph y.