The new North-west., 1881-10-07
NEW NoR'-wESTERS.


Cutting inkstands out of coal is a new
industry.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the
vampire, blasts the living.
Thirteen lean people commit suicide to
one fat one. Flesh up and save your life.
President Arthur has two sons, 8 and Is
years OF age. His wife died a few years
ago. ' Egg '.s. @tg
Senator Ben Hill has undergone Sec
ond operation upon his tongue for the re-
moval of fungoid growth.
The estate of Charles De Young, who
was killed by young Kalloch in San Fran
cisco, amounts to $77,705.l6.
Mr.. Austin Corbin has purchased a
portable house In Brooklyn and ordered that
it be sent to his daughter, who is travelling
in Europe. f
-Viscount d d'Estenburg has bought himself
dukedom for the ridiculously small sum Of
$4,000 francs. He is the husband of the lste
Sewing Machine Singers widow. D..
Bismarck is growing fat. In 1874 he
weighed POT pounds; in 1876, 2l9; in 1871,
230; Ia 1878, 243; in 1879, 245; in 1880,
A row of gun-cotton reaching from
Edinburg to London, 1t is said, could be fired
in two minutes; so rapid is the transmission
OF detonation from one part TO another.
The Paris carpenters have struck for an
increase of wages. Two years ago they
struck for an increase which raised their
salary to SLIGO day. Now they demand 50
q day of ten hours in summer and eight
in winter.
To the current paragraph that Secretary
Kirkwood "smokes too much," the Cedar
Rapids Times SAYS "Take away the cigar,
which Washington etiquette requires, and
give him the old cob pipe he smoked at
home and he'll soon be as frisky as boy.
Edison has among his exhibits at the
electric show at Paris a one-hotse power en-
giue operating nine improved lamps, each of
which Is to burn nine months. Edison also
proposes TO show his autographc system of
telegraphy, by which he produces by tele-
graph fac.similies of handwriting.
A newspaper agent being told by an old
lady that it was no use to subscribe for the
papers, as Mother Shpton said the world was
coming 10 an end this year, said: "But
won't you want to read an account Of the
WHOIt ahdlT rs suOH dS IL 10 ONCIF L uds
| will," answered the lady; and she sub
scribed.
"A New Jersey widow couldn't earn six
dollars week at the washtub. She became
a clairvoyant, and her income increased TO
sixty. 1t just shows that a man begrudges
the quarter he pays for washing his shit,
while he will cheerfully give dollar to stick
his nose into the osher world before the
show begins.
In oldeu times, as John F. Watson tells
us, when tea was first introduced into Salem,
1t was customary 10 boil il in an iron kettle;
Thea 10 strain off the liquor, and then having
placed the boiled leaves in dish, to butter
them and eat them as one might eat salad,
washing them down with the decoction or
fluid which we now drink as tea, without
either sugar or milk.
One of the great trials which the builder
has to endure Is the saltpeteripg" of The
biackwo-k, or the white streaks which too
often disfigure the fronts Of b,ick buildings.
II Is worth nothing that this can usually be
prevented by adding oil % the mortar at The
rate of gallon 10 the cask OF lime. Linseed
oil Is generally used, but any kind will do
which does not contain salt.
General Niles, of Michigan, has vala-
able relic in pair OF drumsticks with n
wonderful history. They were found by The
side of dead English drummer after the
battle OF Saratoga in 1777. They were handed
70 a Continental drummer, who used them
during the remainder of the Revolutionary
war. A son of the Amer lean drummer used
them in the war of 1872, aud was with Cen
eral Jackson at New Orleans. A grandson
used the sticks iu the Mexican war, and a
great grandson carried them at the head of
the famous ilon brigade in the grand review
at Washington, when johnnie came march
ing home at the close of the rebellion.