The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-10-21
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
The clergy are as like as peas.-Emerson.
The Emperor William is growing deaf.

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developed.
An Irish member of Parliament once
said that " man can't stand on nothing UNI
less he's bird" .s..
Paper betting is now being used in Ja-
pan, and Is said to bave been found stronger
than leather betting.
This Is the first time in many years that
the fish In the Wabash river have been able
to sleep in dry bed.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world,
and war that has no ideas behind it is sim
ply brutality Garfield.
In penetrating the earth Professor Everit
finds that the rise In temperature is more
rapid In the older and harder rocks.
The inventor of the screw propeller was
the celebrated artist Leonardo di Vinci, and
he first applied it to aerial navigation.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, always
charming, witty, and active, feels his seven
ty-two years only in slight deafness.
The Northern Pacific railroad company
has let contract to Williams and Upham to
build dock at Superior that will cost S6O,-
900.
The fond regrets of the people for their
murdered President know no stop. Even his
bad poetry is going the rounds Of the press
again.
-Abernethy used to say that "of the large
quantities of food q man swallows, one
fourth supports him and the rest he keeps at
| his risk"
The water of the sacred well of Mecca,
which has been analyzed, Is so impure as to
be nothing more nor less than "bottied
cholera"
| Occasion may be the bugle call that
| summons an army to battle, but the blast OF
tories.-Gdrfeid.
| An act of bad faith on the part of a state
or municipal corporation, like poison In the
blood, will transmit its curse to succeeding
enerations.-Gdrfeld.
Mental pleasures never cloy. Unlike
those of the body, they are increased by rep
etition, approved Of by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.
| Some Boston families will not allow
their children to read the Old Testament. II
they would forbid them also to read the New,
| they would have the finest scheme on record
for making the Bible interesting to the young.
The rumor-mongers seem determined to
| place the Northern Pacific railroad In the at
| titude of an absorber of the Ontonagon aud
Brule River, the Marquette, Houghton and
| Ontonagon, and the Detroit, Macklnac and
Marquette railway lines.
A negro went homs from Georgia
| campmeeting in q state Of ecstacy, declared
that he was going to heaven by way of atall
tree that grew I'm the dooryard, climbed to a
| height of seventy feet, and then undertook
to fly the rest of the journey. The fall killed
him.
| "A writer on q metropolitan newspaper
says " men who are never hungry know moth
ing of the worst temptation of life. More
people are saved from crime by potatoes than
by principles. The cause of virtue In null
titude of instances Is plenty Of pork and
beans"
Sheet zinc Is being largely used in Ger
many for ceilings, especially where the beams
for the upper floor are made Of iron. The
use of wood Is entirely dispensed with, and
excellent decorative effects are produced by
stamping, painting, and gliding or bronzing
portion of the ornaments.
A st. Louis paper cries ont: "When a
Chicago preacher wants new church all his
own and big congregation, he has himself
NJ COnN1CJtu VI uCECSy. ~ lOOho - ~ NhiSosN
would have more religions than any city In
the world, If it keeps on at It's present pace
for quarter of century longer"
Rev. John Nelson, who was invited by
the Yorktown Congressional Commission tc
open the proceedings with prayer on the 10TH
Of October. the day Of the laying of the cor
ner-stone Of the Yorktown monument, Is .
grandson Of Governor Nelson, who gave the
famous order to fire on his own house.
Fred Hunt, of Lansing, Michigan, was
tried the other day by jury on charge of non
compliance with the law requiring that bill
lard tables shall not be kept In the same or
In an adjoining room where spirituous, mall
or fermented liquors are sold. Hunt ha:
I placed two partitions between his bar and
billiard room, about four feet apart, and the
jury decided that he had complied with tn,
law.
If you have but q single Bartlett pear
the proper thing to do Is to cut off the big enc
and give it to your friend, keeping only tht
stem end for yourself. This looks like q gen
erous act, and your friend will appreciate
your disinterested kindness, and besides, tn,
small end of the Bartlett contains all th'
: lusciousness Of the pear, while the big ent
, Is dry and pumpkiny. How true is 1t that
|, good act never goes unrewarded!
: The Albany Journal narrates this prett.
, little incident: A pathetic incident was re
: lated TO us this morning bearing upon tn
great sorrow that fills ell hearts. Yesterda.
: afternoon little girl was going along Pear
} street, accompanied by her mother. He
. ewes were filled with wonder as she behel,
the emblems of mourning displayed from al
the buildings, and, turning to her mother
she inquired with face full Of sorrow: :"
everybody dead, mammal"
Sammy Dobyus, Floyd Courthouse ju
venile, saw his pa coming up the street an
showed his lighted cigarette In his coat pocke
, to keep company with half-pound packag
of powder. Then Sammy lay down in gut
ter and yelled, and q crowd gathered aroun
and Sammy was carried home minus coat an
, breeches, and the doctor remarked, while b
applied cooling lotion to Sammy's side
s.Anybody but boy would have been blow
to pieces. ."--Richmond Wing.
Prom Mary, the Little Missionary
Mary's Uncle Charles came to see her an
: gave her bright gold dollar. Then Mar
said Now / will buy some candy and som
! chewing gum and . picked lime, and Civ
Sarah Jones two cents and the poor woma
with the little baby three cents But a
Sleek, that good man, heard her and b
| | groaned and said MARY, remember the Pot
!. tawatamies!' So she gave her dollar to goo
, Mr.. Sleek for the Pottawattamies, and whe
he took 1t he was kind enough to say that b
wished the Pottswaftamies might get IL. An
7 Mary was made life member of Mr.. Sleek
/ society. Was not thst better than pickle
!. lime !n-Tdnity Fair Jureniie Library.
! The Journal cf Science says that in ords
! to account for the mysterious disappearance
|, Of persons, now 80 common, French write
suggests the existence Of . disease not "
!. recognized, which, without any previou
| warning. suddenly resolves the patient int
. vapor. He even processes to have witnesse
', the disappearance Of > friend with whom
was walking. A very simple considerable
: overturns this hypothesis. We can hardl
/ assume that the disease causes the sudde
\ vaporixati0n Of clothing, boots, keys, knive
money. trinkets, and all that the patient be
about him q the time Of his disappearance
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