The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-22
N oteS Of the Day.

| Red hair is coming into fashion, which will
be victory for the female brick tops.
The ordinary sleeping car costs to build
about $4,000, and earns upon an average
| 81 900 a month.
EX-Presdent Hayes is reported to be Ell
gagged in writing a history of his Admins.
! traion.
"Papa, how do editors get in free at all the
shows" "Well, sonny, as a general rule
they give s. worth of advertising for a TWEEN,
| ty-hve cent ticket"
Mr.. NJ. II. DeYoung turned his back upon
San Francisco as soon as the verdict of &C
| quittal in the kalloch case became known to
him. lie is now in Washington.
Dominick Booker, a negro waiter, OF
Louisville, Ky, the first of his race to at
tempt trip TO the arctic regions, will 90 out
on the Mary aud Helen, with Lieutenant
Berry.
The Boston Ucrdid advertises its prosper
ty and lberalty by giving $1,000 toward
the proposed S20O,OO0 capital stock of the
International Cotton Exhibition at Atlanta,
Georgia.
At the performance on one occasion of
"Uncle Toms Cabin" in Portland, the poor
black woman Oh the auction block was being
bid for by Lcgree for 5000. The late Ma
thaniel Deering startled the audience by leap
ing from his box and bidding $4,000.
The cynical Springfield Republican saws
Trick dogs are sometimes trained to roll over
in the dirt for an extra bone or two. The
Senate of the United States appears to have
picked up the same habit when the majority
is shown little patronage within reach.
A drunken printer leaned up against the
Egyptian obelisk the other night, and struck
match OH the stone TO light a cigar. A mo-
ment later he yelled out to a policeman ::
"Sling the cap case; Greeley's been writin'
some heads for the telegraph column"
Michigan is justly proud of the fact that
at the end Of the fiscal year, September 30,
1850, there was enough money in her treas
ury to pay all demands and leave surplus of
S2G5,93Y. Such a condition of finances was
never before known in the history of the
State.
The fuel of the future is likely to be pc
troleum. The Nautical Gazette predicts that
in few years it will supercede coal on
ocean steamers, being cheaper and far more
easily handled. One man could feed the
boiler with oil where forty-five are now re-
quired to shovel coal and rake the CRATES.
American kilograms appear to reach Greece
wrong side up, with care. An Athens news
paper recently printed the following as a list
of our Cabinet officers: Secretary of State,
Blame; Treasury, Nindom; Navy, KENT
Interior, Verkoved; Postmaster-G General,
Reames; Attorney-General, Hacvragh; War
Secretary, Lincoln"
These criticisms by the San Jose FOoflight
on the purchase of the ship Mary and Helen,
by the Government, are simply outrageous:
"PrObably the purchasers modesty was too
great to permit him to examine Mary and
Helen's knees, but why in thunder didn't he
look at her staunchions ? Well bet six bits
he didn't even feel of her ribs. Perhaps he
will plead that her STAYS prevented him"
"The -Four Johns of History" is the title
of a lecture recently delivered by Bishop
Fallows, of the Reformed Episcopal Church
The Johns mentioned by the good Bishop
are John Calvin, John of Barneveldt, John
Knox and John Wesley. Numerous name
sakes Of All illustrious character, as well as
the people OF the plantations Of Virginia,
may regret to learn that at least one histori-
cal John was omitted from the list.
The names of some of the most celebrated
liars which history has ever known have
been handed down TO us, but the author Of
the following snake story is unknown: Two
snakeS-one black runner, the other black
viper, each about three feet lOng-were found
in the swamp back Of the West Maryland
depot, at Mechanicstown, in the following
predicament: The black snake had caught
and began swallowing, tail first, the viper;
the viper retaliating, curved around and be-
gan to swallow the viper, tail first, and when
found each had swallowed the other up to
the head, there being nothing but wo heads
projecting from the mouth of the other.
A man who has had much experience in
horses, says: "Whenever nervous |
men notice their horse directing his ear TO any
point whatever, or indicating the slightest |
disposition TO become afraid, let him, instead |
Of pulling the rein to bring the horse toward |
the object causing its nervousness, pull it on |
the other side. This will instantly divert |
The attention Of the horse from the object |
which is exciting his suspicion, and in nine
ty-nine case out of a hundred the horse will |
pay no more attention to the objeQt, from !
which he will fly away if forcibly driven to
it by pulling on the wrong rein. The prac-
ice most persons have of forcing horse up
70 the object frightening it is dangerous and
useless