The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-08
new NOR. .wEsTEas.
Senator Malone is said to be the posses
sor Of s., 100000.

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sor Of -, 100000. H
| Mr.. Evarts will sail for France April I'd.
None Of his family will 90 with him.
You may bepoor,you may be unknown,
you may never reach distinction. Still, yon
can shut the door.
Mayor Beatty, of Washington, N. j.,
has for two years past given his official sala-
ry to be distributed among the poor Of that
city.
The total area of lands available for
wheat culture in the United States Is 470,'
0O0, 900 acres. Our entire wheat crop of the
past year would not supply seed enough TO
SOW so vast an area of wheat land. -
| An Irish laborer in a coal yard struck
for higher wages and was discharged.
"Well," said he, "Pve learned sonnet hing
from the boss while worked for him thai
didn't know before, and that is that ton Is
1,70O pounds"
The President wears a full beard and
must ache and inclines to badness; Secreta-
ries Hunt and Blaine are gray haired; Mr.
MacVeash parts his hair in the middle and
has q handsome mustache and Secretary
Lincoln has fine short beard slightly part
| ed.
Daniel O'Leary staLds feet 8. inches
inches in heigbth and weighs 140 pounds.
Charles Rowell is feetsix inches In heighth
and weighs $50 pounds. James Albert is
over feet y. inches and weighs 145 pounds.
Henry Vaughn stands feet eleven inches In
heshth and weighs $50 pounds.
w. ii. Hunt, the new Secretary of the
Navy, does not believe in providing fat
places for his relatives. His nephew tele-
graphed hlm from Vallejo the other day ask
ingto be relieved from going to sea on the
Alaska, on which ship he was all ensign.
The Secretary telesraphed back: $50 to
sea OH your ship"
Mr.. John Parnell, brother Of the Irish
agitator, has an immense peach orchard in
Alabama which has yielded him $4,000
worth Of peaches. Mr.. Parnell came to this
country about ten years ago and, buying an
old cotton farm, gradually transformed it in
to this orchard. He Is getting very wealthy,
Il is said, and is always the first to have early
p .aches in the market and receives large
prices.
An expert tells the Minneapolis Tribune
that when the mills now in process of erec-
tion in that city are finished and running
which will probably be as early as May 1, It's
daily capacity will be 24,525 barrels. Two
of the leading firms have capacity for $500
barrels per day each, and third firm have
capacity for 1000 barrels per day, being
total of l7,000 barreL per day for three
firms.
The following is given by an exchange
- sure cure for felon: Cut the end off
lemon or lime, insert the finger In the lime
or lemon and the pain will cease; keep 10
on three or four days and cure Is effected.
This Is cheap, sure and permanent and much
better thar the barbarous lancet method. II
has been used years for this, but is not gem
orally known.
--Notwithst anding the law Of some Of the
Territories prohibiting the killing Of buffalo
for the hides alone, it Is estimated that the
ctrcasses Of 10000 of those animals were
LIFT to decay on the broad prairies of the
West this past winter. This is considered q
shameful waste Of food, and is likely to lead
to the rapid determination of the buffalo
Exchange.
Some malicious person in Washington
suggests that President Garfield publish .
list of the names of Office seekers and their
hackers. This would be entertaining read
ing, but II the President were to announce
his purpose to act In accordance with the
suggestion, Washington would soon As much
like deserted village as Mentor is.-Neao
York Tribune.
"A newspaper is awindow through which
men look out upon the world. Without a
newspaper man is shut up in small SOON
and knows little or nothing of what Is going
ON outside Of himself. In our day news
paper will keep sensible man in sympathy
with the worlds current history. 1t is an
unfolding encyclopaedia, an unbound book
forever issuing and never finished.
Lovers of outdoor sports will be inter
ested In the announcement Of new feature
In horse-racing which is TO be introduced by
The new Louisiana Jockey Club at their
spring meeting In April. Some Of the races
are to be run at night, the course
being illuminated by electric lamps, forty of
which are to be provided for that purpose. Il
is claimed that this plan will be Of ereal
value at turf meetings during the summer.
as it will give the horses, as well as jockeys
and spect atnrs, the benefit Of the cool cir Of
the evening.
The report of DR.. Smith, stationed with
the troops at Fort Clark, Texas, shows that
there is quite difference in taste between
the white and negro troops at that place. The
troops are furnished with certain rations.
IL they do not care for these they can sell
them and purchase other groceries and sup
plies In their stead. The doctor finds that
the negroes sold most Of their coffee and
salt, whence it might be inferred that they
did not appreciate these articles. On the
other hand, the white troops sold their pork
and bacon and pepper. A curious circum
stance was that the negro soldier consumes
twice as much sugar IS white one; still
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