The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.


York city for fifty cents gallon.
Cleveland happened to have thorough
fare named Guiteau street. The name has
| been changed to Abram street.
Politeness is like an air cushion--there
may be nothing solid in it, but IL eases the
jolts Of the world wonderfully.
Lieutenant Frederick Scwhwatka, the
Arctic explorer, has been appointed on the.
staff of General Miles, with headquarters at
Vancouver.
According to DR.. X. Won Fritsch, the cause
of earthquakes does not exist at depth
greater than ten or fifteen miles below the
surface of the earth. = &C.,.
George Strong, former editor of the Port
land Oregonian, was recently lost in the
mountains in Lane county, Oregon, and is
thought to have persisted.
Business is business: When a Chicago
preacher wants a new church all his own;
and big congregation, he has himself con-
victed of heresy.-St. Louis Post-Dispdtch.
They asked him If he was the best man at
the wedding. "Nc," he said, az don't
know as / was the best, but, be jabers, |
was as good as any of 'em !"-Boston Post.
1t is said that Arthur is the best practical
business man who ever filled the presidential
office, and the commercial and financial
classes are congratulatIng themselves upon
the fact.
An American hotel, on grand scale, is to
be built and run in Paris. The diamond of
the head clerk is to be a five hundred dollar
stone, and this will furnish an index to the
plan of the house.
The whisky distillers of the United St ates
are determined to make an effort next win
ter to get Congress to reduce the tax on
whisky from 90 to so cents per gallon.
They will have powerful lobby in Wash
ington.
1t is reported that this years wheat crop in
Canada has never been surpassed in quantity
or quality. The surplus will be about T.
100000 bushels, which is nearly half a mil
lion more than last year and nearly double
what it was in 1878 and 1879.
last week Thomas A. Edison was awarded
twenty-five patents, making in all 200 pat
ents granted to him, and also has over 100
more awaiting the decision of the Commits.
sioner. OF the twenty-five granted to him
last week, twenty related to his system of
electric lighting.
A number of Kansas retail merchants have
signed an agreement to buy no goods through
drummers. "In some respects the system
is a convenience" they say in a circular sent
to Chicago and st. Louis firms; "but your
agents occupy too much of our time and are
too little disposed to take no for ain answer.
We find that they force themselves and their
goods on us, and have decided to make a
stand against them" "
"Dang It," said Gallagher to Ragbag
"what do you want to tell such bowling
awful lies for? You were giving yourself
dead away. Nobody believed you. You'll
get the name of being the biggest liar in the
CITY," "Do you really think SOP" asked
Ragbag. "Think so! l know 1t !" @Oh,
rapture! That's what want. I'm working
to get the job of selling lot of mining
stock in the rural districts. "-Boston Post.
An exchange says the daily expenditure of
brakemen throughout the country is ten,
and that the number Of wounded is not
much less than thirty. Our railroads. Kin
$500 brakemen every year. We put down
the killed and wounded at $4,000. Most of
these disasters occur on freight trains, on
which 1t is estimated that only twenty-five
per cent. of the men die a natural death.
.,-- -..-.sss-..s- L. tnati AFTER ne gets
on the road is about ten years.
J: A. Wales, youngsh fellow, whose 81.
A. W." is familiar in some of the broader
work in Puck, is about to become the lead
ing draughtsman on an illustrated satrical
society weekly in New York called the
Judge. Wales began seven or eight years
ago on Frank Lestie,s, and there, as well as
on Puck, his ability in catching a striking
likeness has been more remarkable than his
humor, which is little broad and has a
good deal of the bludgeon about it.
Iowa has So, 700, 62l.15 invested in public
buildings for various purposes. The cost is
distributed as follows: New capitol, 81,
100000; agricultural college, 1851 ,396.55;
deaf and dumb asylum, 500, 1870; fish
hatchery, $l9,3j0.6O; insane hospital at
Mount Pleasant, s64O, 45O.45; insane hospital
at Independence, STA, 237.27; normal school
at Cedar Falls, $1,000; Anamosa peniten-
tiary, $154,771.07; Fort Madison penteni-
Tertiary, $222, 2O3.11; reform schools, Sl45
10S.45; orphans home at Davenport, $780,
755; State university, s64,9S7.45.