The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-02-04
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
Omaha wants amint.

Omaha wants amint
Mason & Dixon's line is about 39a' north
latitude. ..
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is preparing for q
trip to Europe. #. agE
The English postofice authorities have
Just given an order for 10000 telephones.
The population of Alaska is said to be
about $4,000, only 800 Of which number are
white. ..s Il
Gath saws "Bob is going to lecture
against God in Australia this year and make
ducats."
-yennor, the weather prophet, used to be
a workman in an axe factory at Ballston,
New York.
General Grant was elected President OF
the Worlds Fair Exposition. He accepted
the position.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says he has
just declined an offer Of $4,000 to lecture
for one year.
The Boise county placer claims, near
Idaho City, Idaho,a ARE reportedto yield annu-
ally sl5O, 900 to 100000.
..g--loIones neoswsss. ngrnv,, nwAe 'aeun-
at the funeral OF his sister and could not de-
liver the Grafton expected.
The gray trotting gelding, Dan Wood,
owned by Mr.. Alexander Dearborn, Of Bos-
ton. and valued at $4,000, is dead.
The Legislature of Nevada is going to
demand the examination of Sanford, WHO
tells them It is none of their business.
The Constitution of Florida provides
that after 1880 the Legislature shall pass
law making an educational qualification for
voters.
The Safe Deposit Company of San Fran
cisco has laid down an iron safe weighing
SOC, 900 pounds. 1t is believed to be the lar
gest in the world.
A Philadelphia clergyman who is agreat
athlete and lover of sports forgot himself
once and said: : "Here endeth the first in
nings; let us pray"
General Hazen Is cousin Of Mrs.
General Garfield, their mothers being sisters.
These sisters were daughters Of Vermont
| Methodist clergyman.
An old inhabitant states that the famous
deep snow of 1880 was four feet on level
and for three weeks the mercury was never
less than 15' below zero.
A stop-cylinder press has just been pnr-
chased by the American Bible Society for Its
use, upon which an entire copy of the Bible
can be printed every minute.
Mr.. Garfield has kept diary for the past
twenty years. 1t will be good thing to re-
fer to occasionally when politicians come
mousing around after Office.
The four largest States in the Union
| New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois
| --polled at the last election rather more than
one-third of the total vote.
Eugene Schuyler, while writing the
"Life Of Peter the Great, !" had access TO the
unpublished papers in the archives at Mos.
COW, ST. Petersburg, Paris and Prague. rs
The needle gun Is the invention Of .
Russian locksmith, who was nineteen years
old when the battle Of Jena was fought.
Lewis III. Redfeld, the Oldest editor In
New York-outranking Thurlow Weed by
some lnonths-celebrated his S7th birthday
!, al Syracuse by giving dinner to the press q
+fhat city. -
, A bill has been htfoduceu msss
/ of Indiana which is designed TO prevent th'
marriage of persons where either is habit
ual drunkard, or is weak minded, or has thu
faint OF hereditary insanity.
MIR. Blaine, when Speaker Of the Hous'
, of the House Of Representatives, used =
break several gavels at each session. Vice
President Wheeler, when President OF tn
Senate, has never broken gavel.
There is all old law still on the statut
books of Connecticut which declares tina
, "every horse used in any horserace, and O
. which any wager is laid or any purse or rstak
r name, shall be forfeited to the State"
J.. An English paper records the fact tha
2 Bancroft, the historian, wears stovepip
: hat and a red necktie. If he would only q
e a plug of navy tobacco and put his pants
! his boots, George would be "one Of ii
g boys"
: The Inter Ocean of Chicago has lease
C for several years a private wire from Wasl
s ington to Chicago, and now its Washingto
9 news is sent directly by a operator in Was
e ington to a reporter iu the Office of the pap'
l. in Chicago.
!, There Is well on the line Of the Mort
ern Pacific Railroad, situated about % mil
: from Ainsworth, which is 127 feet deep. II
: singularity about it is that it Is frozen. n
't only is there ice in the well, but 1t is SO ha
'e that fine force pump driven into it W
u broken.
Emperor William, on his seventie
birthday, told his physician that he wou
make him count il he brought him safe
to his eightieth. He kept the promise al
made another, namely, that he would ma
" !. the doctor prince If he brought him to
!, ninetieth birthday. +.
!. Our Christmas tree comes from O.
- many; our Santa Claus from Holland; I
otOChiiS hoh TiohSC Va AS0i6aa
l. while the "Merry Christmas and a Hap
New Year" was the old English greeti
n shouted from window to street and fri
ia street back to window +" in the long, 10
es ago.,
IN Mr.. John G. Whittier wrote pleass
IN letter to some children ut Wheeling, w,
q. Va, who informed him that they had nam
u their literary society for him and wot
's- commemorate his birthday. 81 accept
en- gratefully he wrote, "and shall always
ht member with pleasure that have friends
d, the banks Of the Ohio who find In my m
90 IN incentive to literary labor and recreatit
cr- and the enjoyment Of what Milton calls q
still air Of delightful studies.'p
"A commonplace ife,n we say and sigh,
no But why should we sigh ~ we say?
his The commonplace sun in the commonpl
M sky,
Makes up the commonplace day.