The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-02-27
NEW Noa-'wzsTzss.

Aristotle, Davy, Dalton and scheel'
were druggists.
The United States last year sent II
Europe 900, 600.
Grants first military order is in ths
possession OF Lieutenant Dawson, of 0na
hl.
FLORIDA is for Sherman, and the dele
gates will 60 to Chicago instructed fol
him.
"A hypocrite is man who tries to be
pious and can't, with a preponderence ol
cant.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
MED new trial to Cox, who murdered Col
Alston.
The Colorado papers claim that 1907
0000 votes will be cast in that State at tine
next election.
General Grant has been invited by the
Council of New Orleans to visit that city on
his return from Mexico.
Waiting to get your reward in Heaven
for restoring lost pocketbook on earth
never catches man twice.
George w. Smiley, of San Francisco
has been elected to the position of Char
man Of the new Mining Board in New
York.
The University Of Missouri, at Colum
bia, has splendid new telescope and is to
have new observatory immediately to
contain it.
A witness in Court was asked if a par
ty to the suit was truthful man. "No."
he answered; "he'd rather lie at sixty
days than tell the truth for cash."
The pilots in New York harbor earn
an average income of $4,000 a year. 1t
costs more to bring large steamer across
Sandy HOOK bar than to hire captain for
the remainder of the voyage.
If we blow a fire it burns more fierce.
ly, but if we blow candle it goes out.
These two facts taken together are a fa-
miiiar illustration of the influence of tenn
perature upon chemical affinity.
Colonel ingersoll tells the Chicago pa
pers that the Pennsylvania Convention
has shown Grant in his true light. First,
be is candidate /; second, he is on level
with any other aspirant for the Presidency.
1T is proposed In Jefferson county Mo,
10 erect a monument to the memory of
Hiram Smith, the Hero" who " volunta-
rily took the place OF bis friend aud was
shot to death by order of John McNeill, on
the 18th Of October. 1862, at Palmyra"
-Fasten a short piece of a log chain,
sas five or SIX links, by means Of light
strap, just above the knee, in the stable, of
course, and see how quick the paving
horse will leave off the habit. In most
Eases a few days will be sufficient TO effec. a
sure
Baron Stiffel, the Russian Nihilist,
who NJ now in the Denver, COL. jail, charged
With larceny, claims that his purpose in
'isiting this country was to purchase ten
thousand acres of land upon which Nihil-
SITS unwilling 60 sacrifice themselves could
Iettle.
Did you ever notice a poor chap who
stands in the first picture of the almanac
With the fish and sheep, and scorpions and
pulls and twins, etc., around him Did
Tou ever notice that he was naked and had
,othing in bis stomach? Well, that fellow
ised to edit paper.
The Sandwich Island alphabet has 10
etters, the Burmese 81, the Hebrew. Syri-
lc and Samaritan % each the French 3d.
he Greek 90, the Latin IS, the German,
Dutch and English 26 each; the Spanish 81,
he Arabic 2S, the Persian 80, the Russian
II, the Sanscrit so, the Ethiopic 202.
Three immense wagons to be used in
the mines of Colorado are being made in
Chicago. The back wheels are SIX feet
.hree inches in diameter, and the tire is
i've inches wide. The wagons, including
box, are nine feet high. They are each to
Dc drawn by twenty yoke of oxen, and are
capable OF carrying ten tons each.
Fred Douglass says of his old master
Who died ut st. Michaers, on the Eastern
Shore, the other day 7" Captain Aud was
IN upright, temperate, pious and conscien-
;ious man." He was in his seth year.
Douglass ran away from bis master forty
i've years ago. 1t was the intention of the
,minent colored orator to attend the funer-
al of Captain Auld at St. Michael's yes
erday. but he was unable to do so because
Of illhealth.
The railroad detectives say that Gra-
lam, who embezzled over $40, 200 at Og-
len, had preparation which would erase
igures and then make them come back
.gain whenever he liked. When he was
freight bills he would obiterate
he figures and put in others, afterwards
the original ones. He kept this
up for five or six years.
A gentleman who has had experience
a the matter says that a sure way to pre-
rent rabbits from gpawing the bark of
rees is to put little rabbits blood on the
.runk Of the trees two or THREE times year.
rhe Riverside Press also gives this remedy:
= Take beef liver. chop it up fiue and nix
With two pals of water. Wash the trunk
,f the tree up as high as the rabbit can
-eash with this bloody water. The scent
will keep off rabbits for weeks or months
1t least we have found it an effective REM
sdy.
--General Grant would carry one acre
,f the country at least. A canvass of the
Presidential sentiment among the students
It Yale College having been taken the
other day, it was found that Grant was the
favorite with 2l3 votes, Sherman next with
pos, Blaine third with 163 and Bayard
fourth vith SO. The whole number of
votes cast was s24, OF these 56i beirg Re-
publican. Tilden, though the only Yale
man in the list, received only 10 votes.
Secretary of the Navy Thompson dis
likes to have his authority questioned, as
the following incident proves A naval
officer OF some prominence who felt hins-
self aggrieved that he should have been