The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
NEW NOE -wEsTERs.
General Grant has insured his life TOT
S1OO OOO

-General Grant has insured his life for
100000.
BLUE cranes - niue feet spread - are
killed In Arizona and eaten as Colorado tur-
keys. !"
Governor Colqnitt, of Georgia, resem- ,
bles in appearance Henry Ward Beecher.
The reduction of the public debt this ;
wear is put down at $125, 100000. A
There Is stored in the United States i
Treasury, in gold and silver coin and bullion, d
the sum of 164,o0o,OOo. /
John Muirthe naturalist of the Corwin,
saws that he believes the Jeannette will re s
mort on the Atlantic side of the continent {
next year.
S. w. Phoenix, who died recently in
New York, once spent $4,000 in publishing
a genealogical work for private cIrcuia-
ton.
The English Old Testament Company
have flushed their list session. The second
revision of Isaiah was carried as far as XIV,
IA.
A grocer had pound Of sugar returned
with a note saying: "Too much sand for
table use, aud not enough for building puf-
poses"
Judge Folger, the new Secretary OF the
Treasury, Was born in an old-fash'oheo
wooden house in Nantucket. His ancestors
were men of education-some Of them men
! of remarkable Learning and se'eutihc and
| mechanical skill. Abiah Folger, an aunt.
| many times removed, of the new Secretary,
was the mother of Benjamin Franklin.
Sitting Bull recently served as mate on
board the Key West at Fort Buford. Inc
| crew deserted the boat at that point ana
Sitting Bull volunteered to unload 1t. lie
wore the mates cap and also directed the
work.
General Poe, OF General Sherman's
staff, says he still has on bis sword handle
the black Grape he placed there when mourn
ing was ordered after President Lincolns
assassination, and means TO always keep 1t
there.
The wool clip Of the world has increased
five times since 1880, when it was about
sc, ,OO0, GOO pounds in weight. In 1878, the
laes, vear for which there are complete hg-
, ures, The ,o.al was IL $50, 100000 pounds.
= DIR. }. B. Meyer, an Austrian editor,
, who is visiting this country, was asked what
, he thought was the greatest feature oil Amer
lean Journalism. He replied: "Certaniy
e The advertisements; the editorials also are
d graudly Incompatible ~
The lies that were laid down for the
temporary railroad 'yack 70 Eloeron, al
v Long Branch, for the transfer Of President
II Garfield to the cottage, we're constructed IN
:. TO log cabin by o. d. Byron on his resi-
s dence grounds. 1t Is relic.
y That mask was fortunately taken from
10 Abraham Lincoln's living face is known u
but a small part of the public. An engrav
= ing from this mask will be published for th'
D first time iu The Century for December
V This engraving has been pronounced one
~ the best likenesses of Lincoln extant.
=, A. The app'oarh,og cosonation Of th
= Gar and Cza,ioa The jvo.y throne OF Con
!. s,antine, the last Empe, or Of Cons antinopl'
!. Is 10 be used. The Cza ina is 10 occupy
:. throne adorned with S76 diamonds and n
"a bies and I,223 sapphires, tutquoises an
pearls of the first wster.
,;o An important undertaking has been SUI
sested by The opening of tbe st. Goabal
fl Railroad. 1t is proposed 10 connect II
ed Ad,iatic with the Laso Masgiore oy asy
nv tenn OF canals of which be termini will
,er at Venice and Magadipo. This project pr
sents neither fuancia! nor engineering dif
as cuhies, and It will p. obably be actually
ler compiis ned.
ice Education /. the knowledge OF how
me nae the whole of ones self. Men are Off
ray like knives with many blades; .hey kne
in how to open one and only one; all she n
my are buried in the handle, and they are
ne, better than they would have been If they b
me been made with but one blade. Many m
oor use but one or two faculties out Of the sec
ifts with which they are endowed. man is
b a ucated who knows how to make TOOL
uld every faculty-how to open il, how to ks
it sharp, aud how TO apply 1t 10 all prad'
my purposes.-Henry Ward Beecher.
all -Wasbiogron Dyins's home of sannys
cry. remains, within and without, just as he
tne IL. The house is small, but snug and &C
pom modious, and his study is veiy aereea
was room, with the morning sun upon IL. WI
''ng he settled there the situation was delia
.od- e,,,v o,,a, and secluded. but to-day
ocx triple track Of railroad just below The
on which the cottage Is perched, invol
yh copsjde, able noise of traific, and, what
un- worse, screaming steam whistles.
all place, which is in very nice oider, is TEN
the ed iu summer by the two maiden daugb
cred of his brother.
'ome Joseph Wilson, who was we'll knowl
er in war times as lieutenant on the rebel CT
erfui ar Alabama, was killed on railroad
Tallahassee. Florida, afew days ago.
aged was on he Alabama at the time Of tie
,hed tion of the Kea,sarge and he was with
asute noted M. Greenough when she lost her
elfal off the North Carolina coast. Wilson
Mrs. Grsenough left blockade runner
N her yawl In order 10 slip between the Feo
Tears war vessels. The yawl was caps'zed
calls stol m, Mrs. Grcenough was drowned
Ills OF Wilson barely managed 70 swim ashore.
Baron Steuben, our friend in the \
night linton. was once telling the wife OF Gel
sked, Washington OF bis experience In tryi
sleep catch fish in the Hudson. "What XII
the fish did you take. Baron?" asked
'irdie, washington. zone was whale, my i
right he replied. "A whale In North nv
ayes, my lady. it was whale; was /
. soft he incurred Of one OF his aids. IAN
by be- Barsn.n ~ beg your pardon, my lad,
lullaby the English tongue is hard TO underst
;inglin The company assembled enjoyed the
40 was greatly. and none more than the Baron
being self when he learned what "whale" N
ow 70 p.,, Morrhv the celebrated chess