The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-08-19
NEW Noa'.wEsTEss.

A shot that hits Is better than q broad
side that misses.
AN Indiana man is reported as having
two hearts. We hope they beat as one.
According to DIR. Gunther there are
Z 900 species Of fish known to men Of sci
ence.
-Calumny spreads like an oil spot we
endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark re-
mains.
The Shah of Persia invites criticism,
and when II goes against him he cuts of the
critics head.
Hot Springs, Ark, is a cheerful place to
stop at, there being only 1000 invslids under
treatment there.
-"Wilt" for wiiher is the latest American
ism which the English have fallen in love
with aud adopted.
Joseph Cook Is now in Germany. From
the Continent he goes TO Australia and
thence returns home.
Minister CEristiancy's divorce suit has
cost him $24,0 900 In counsel fees and alimony
and he is not done yet.
A thirst for knowledge Is shown when
three or four men are waiting by turn to
read barkeepers morning paper.
-"There is no use In blinking the fact" !"
says the Springfield Republican, 90 King Kala-
kaua Is a disgrace even TO the Sandwich Is
lands"
1t Is proposed i'm New Hampshire TO cele-
brate the Tooth anniversary Of Daniel Web
ster's birth, which falls on the 18th of Jauu-
airy next.
George Francis Train writes as many as
six postal cards per day To Guiteau. The
Boston Post does't wonder Guiteau is sorry
he did It..
Mississippi holds ward caucuses and coun-
ty cow entions with the thermometer stand
ing at 1929 In tfie shade. What won't men
do for politics?
When the Emperor of China travels in
public it is said that 100 men dressed just
like him travel with him, so that his identity
cannot be discovered.
Sitting Bull is having as happy a time
as if he were In the happy hunting grounds.
He boards at a S. y day house aud sells his
photographs at So apiece. ..
kentucky produces big crops of pretty
women, fast horses and good whiskey, and 1t
will be pretty hard to convince the average
man that Kentucky isn't good State to live
in.
Col. Grayson, Of Iowa, who passed
through eighteen battles i'm the late war, was
killed the other day by sucking bean down
his windpipe. Fate won't permit all men to
die like heroes.
President Garfield's two elder sons will
not be obliged to go through the Williams
College entrance examination next month.
They will enter on a certificate from their
tutor.
.co-be, chief Of the Shoshone Indians
Of Nevada. drives a spanking pair Of trotters
attached to handsome carriage. He has
made some successful ventures IN mining
and Is an extensive breeder Of cattle.
The winds were whispering low and the
sentinel stars had set their watch i'm the sky
as she leaned from her chamber window aud
tenderly asked: is that you, Henry?"
"C0ursb 'tiz /; pretty oman dozen know 'er
husband when sh' seezim."
-"The King can do no wrong" The way
emigration Is going on In Europe, It will not
be long before no one can doubt the truth Of
the above maxim. The King won't have
anything to do wrong TO.
MIR. Edwards Plerrepont declares that he
never published the Stanton dispatches re-
Gently printed that they have never been
copied or published with his knowledge,
sanction or consent, nor where they obtained
In any manner through him. Who did give
them out has not yet been explained.
An old soldier named Capachel, at Mon
roe, N. Y, has just coughed up piece Of
his army coat which was carried into his
lungs by ball sixteen years ago. This sol
dier is reported to enjoy uniform good
health.
Kentucky Is feeling one OF the effects Of
failing 10 punish desperadoes. Her strongest
inducements fail to attract immigration from
the Old World. The Germans, particularly,
have bad opinion of the State aud refuse to
seek homes there.
The father Of Bishop Coke, Of New
York, wrote his name Cox, and said his son
added the sc" to stand for Episcopal. He
was a staunch, blue Presbyterian, and when
asked to the ceremony Of "laying Oh Of
hands on the occasion Of his sons promo
tion to the bishopric, he declined TO 60, say
ing: "If there had been more laying on Of
hands when my son was Q boy there would
be no necessity for such infection now"
The Scientific american says that by far
the largest masonary arch in this country
and In the world Is that which carries the
Washington Aqueduct over Cabin John
Creek. IL has span Of 220 feet; IL Is
l0l feet high, and is 20 feet wide, and il
forms an arc Of circle having q radius of
134, 4,2S5 feet. The engineer in charge Of the
aqueduct was General NJ. G. Melgs. The
work was begun in 1853 and finished In 1853.
--If that fellow Grove meant business,
why did he not keep his alleged internal ma
chine at home and ship Peoria distillery to
England? The death Of thirteen out of
eighteen unfortunate victims of the distil-
lery explosion Of last Saturday makes a
record far ahead Of the most successful
efforts Of the Nihilists.--P Philadelphia Times.
"A compound Is described for the prepar-
alton Of what are termed safety envelopes.
That part Of the envelope covered by the
Zap Is treated with q solution Of chronic
acid, ammonia, sulphuric acid, sulphate Of
copper and tine white paper. The flap itself
Is coated with q solution Of isinglass in
acetic acid, and wnen this Is moistened and
pressed down on the under part Of the en-
velope, solid cement is formed, entirely iu-
soluble In acids, alkalies, no. or csld water,
steam, etc.
The Springfield Republican intimates
that IL would be satisfied with the West
Point and Annapolis system Of appointment,
and Is coming to the conclusion that cit is
probable. almost cert ain, that the best prac.
tibal reform Of the civil service lies some
where between the theories Of the reform
ers' aud the lswless loot Of the spoIls sys-
ten."
IN. Flammarion Is inclined to the belief
that comets tails are not material and are
.atber some sort Of excitation (caused by
electricity or otherwise) Of the ether. The
transparencies Of the tails goes 10 support
this view. He calculates also that the tail
Of the conset Of i643, ut the distance Of the
sun from the earth, must have swept space
with velocity Of "a 900, 900 metres per sec
ond. Any molecule Of matter flying at such
rate would not remain single instant de-
pendent on solar attraction and would not 90
In closed orbit.
"A warning to people who want to get
married! In Sweden out Of 600 suicides
there were sixteen men and twenty-four
women who killed themselves on account of
c0njugal troubles; In Norway twenty-one
men ard twelve women; in Prussia, forty
eight men and fiffy-one women; In Saxony.
twenty-six men and twenty-nine women; in
Italy, seventy five Hien and seventy-six wo-
men, and In France 1873 men and l64 women.
Yet folks will 60 on getting married just the
samei