The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-03-05
NEW NoR-'WESTERS.
--lngot copper is higher than it has bee
for seven years.

. for seven years.
: "A match loses its head when it comes
to the scratch.
A monument is to be erected in West
Minister Abbey to Prince Louis Napoleon.
, "A captain of the Russian army receives
! 5000 per year and finds his own mustache.
Nearly three Hundred thousand persons
are employed on British aud Irish rail-
, roads.
The most comfortable hat that a man
Can wear this cold weather is one that is q
little stove.
In Utah, during the past two years, the
executive pardon was extended to twenty
seven prisoners.
-Ex-AssIstant Secretary of State Sew
ard will speud the rest of the winter ~
Florida. He is in ill health.
The intense cold has, it is tho1gi h.
destroyed the peach crop Of 1880 IN the
Walla Walla and contiguous valleys.
The French papers call the snow " the
devil in white" They see the devil in ev-
erything that isn't strictly Psrsian.
Ernest Renan laughs at the Alexan-
drins discoveries, aud regards the alleged
Masonic discoveries as an elaborate joke.
The Salem -four mills are the largest in
Oregon. They have twelve run of burrs,
and turn out go barrels OF flour in twenty
four hours.
The silver bill has one advantage over
tue greenback, and that is that it cannot
be altered or raised into ten by the most
expert forger.
| They now say of a liar " He can tire
out fact quicker than any newspaper wri-
ter living by simply harnessing it to his
imagination"
Ben Hill has written letter ia which
he says if General Grant is candidate for
the Presidency this year he will not carry
Southern State.
The family quarrel among the Demo-
Gratis of Georgia is about as good 4 thing
as the leaders of the independent move
msnt could ask for.
Fresh eggs have a lime-like appearance
while stale eggs are glossy and smooth of
shell, but none Of this appears in the dish |
known as scrambled eggs.
Oshkosh, WIS.,. has the largest match |
factory in the world. 1t cut up 2,000 600 |
feet of logs into matches and used $500, 600 |
nj sNar Il
The great ferry boat for the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, built at San
Francisco, is 424 feet long and 11G feet
wide. The wheels are thirty feet in diam
eter.
General Hancock is growing gray
around the temples and his mustache has
also begun to change color. Nevertheless
he appears to be the embodiment OF health
and manly vigor.
-Beechar has coined new phrase
Heavenly drunkenness which he an.
plies to person who has .'too mnch relg-
ligion." Mr.. Beecher himself is not that
kiEd of drunkard.
--tienerai William b. Franklin's name
has been brought forward as a candid lte
for appointment as manager of the Sol
diers' Home at Washington, in place of
General B. +. Butler.
1t is announced that Mr.. James G.
FAIR, who is millionaire resident of San
Francisco, will contest Mr.. Sharen's return
from Nevada to the UHitcd States Senate.
MIR. Fair is TO be run by the Democrats.
The ex Empress Eugene has ordered
of the sculptor Boehm a marble group of
life size representing the Prince Imperial
lying dead on the ground, partly wrapped
in his cloak, while an angel is GROWING
him.
-KrHpp turns out 300 cannon of the '
largest calibre every month, and often
doubles that 900 in two years.
He has fattened on war. In 1910 the firm
employed 10 men in 1S43, 1000. To-day
many thousands of operatives draw wages Z
from him.
Aaron Barnes, - veteran soldier of In I
dependence, Iowa, said he would ''die first" ,
before going to the roorhouse. He went |
TO bis lonely cabin, just out of the village, I
and was not seen for week. Then a PEN /
sion agent, who walked out to tell him that I
his claim of $1,000 for pension money had q
been allowed him, found him dead-starved !
10 death. +
The Philadelphia Times prints what 1t !,
r+o IN, ho nf 1
bill in the handwriting of Abraham Lin n
coin to compensate any State which should n
Abolish slavery by paying to it 6 per cent. o
bonds TO the value Of the slaves thus freed. r
Il was provided that if any State should n
sfterward re-establish slavery these bonds n
It usce be null and void in whosever bands Q
hey might be. The bill bore date July B
"A. 1862 ii
"A Zulu youth cannot marry a girl un- il
IL he has whipped all her brothers and
,iven her father fall. IL demanded in ad-
iition. This makes a courtship more ex-
iting than chocolate caramels or gum :,
lrops but the Zulu maiden who has four
'rothers weighing $50 pounds each. and
Measuring 80 inches around the waist, gen. :
rally dies an old maid while tho girl :
whose brothers are weak and sickly, and |
vhose father is sleeping beneath the dali
les, is overrnn with proposals. It isa !
queer custom. :,
The Cheyenne Leader has created ii
g sensation by its charges against Gov =
rnor Hoyt, of Wyoming Territory. The j,
leader charges him openly with being q
bertine and gross sensualist, claims that q
c is excluded from the residences of the !,
sading business men OF cheyenne, be- 4
ause OF the fears Of insults to their wives. :,
nd renounts numerous alleged liassns I,
. that community, although he has preach o.
sermons there. The Leader alleges !.
hat his immoralities have made him an =,
bject Of contempt and disgust in wyo- :,
ming. !,
"a singular monument Is to be seen at u
imston, Ga. Its plain, hewn granite q,